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Taking place over Saturday and Sunday, it will challenge entrants cross 118 miles (190km) in sections involving to running, cycling and kayaking.
It includes stages on Benbecula, North Uist and South Uist.
The Heb is a revamped version of The Hebridean Challenge, a multi-sports, multi-day race last held in 2009.
Messages sent to phones and posted on social media also said the government's enemies were welcome to attend the game on Thursday at the Hamdania Stadium.
Rebels in the besieged east of the city were offered safe passage.
Government forces have been bombarding eastern Aleppo for weeks and recently rolled back a rebel offensive.
The rebels have in turn been shelling the government-held west of the city.
Some 275,000 people live under siege in the east, with dwindling supplies of food and medicine.
"Oh fighters in Aleppo's eastern neighbourhoods," read one of the invitations sent out by SMS, "Aleppo Governorate invites you to attend and participate in a friendly football match, as a goodwill initiative in the context of national reconciliation."
Anyone wishing to play or attend should come "via pre-arranged routes", the message adds.
While the rebels' response was not immediately known, they have previously rejected government offers of safe passage out of the city.
The Hamdania area of the city has itself seen fierce fighting.
The game against Chris Hughton's side was called off ahead of kick-off due to thick fog on the English south coast.
Many Bluebirds fans had made the 200-mile trip to Brighton but Blackwell said it was correct to call it off.
"There are no complaints from us whatsoever," Neil Warnock's assistant told BBC Radio Wales.
"Fans pay good money, but to only be able to see half a pitch isn't right. Without doubt it was the right decision.
"They gave it every chance. It was a 28,000 sell-out so they were desperate to get the fans here and wanted to get the game on and they gave it as long as they can. It's just unfortunate."
The Bluebirds now play Aston Villa in their next fixture on Monday, 2 January.
Blackwell said the Brighton postponement gave Cardiff a bit more time to now focus on that Villa encounter.
Cardiff defender Lee Peltier has a thigh problem and midfielder, Peter Whittingham, has a calf strain which would have definitely ruled them out of the Brighton game but the pair could now be fit to face Villa.
"We have a few more days preparation for Villa now," Blackwell added.
"I don't think we're far away, I really don't, and we were looking forward to this game.
"What I'm pleased with since we've been here is that we're always in games, but we'd like to see us finish games off now and that's the next step to make sure we do that."
The Shenzhen Connect was supposed to be launched more than a year ago but was postponed due to market volatility.
It is now expected to go live by the end of the year.
The move comes as China looks to open up its $6.5 trillion (£5 trillion) equity markets to foreign investors.
Beijing has also been pushing to have its bourses included in global index providers MSCI but their bid was last rejected in June.
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang was quoted as saying the scheme "marks another steady step towards building a law-regulated capital market with international features".
The overall quota limits for the link between Hong Kong and Shanghai's stock exchange, which was launched in late 2014, was also lifted. Daily quota limits, however, remain in place.
The approval of the Shenzhen Stock Connect scheme may boost market sentiment, Julian Evans-Pritchard, China economist at Capital Economics said.
"It is a welcome signal that policymakers are keen to press on with financial reform as concerns over market volatility and capital outflows fade," he wrote in a report.
"But limited appetite overseas for mainland equities means the direct impact on equity valuations and capital flows will be small."
Hong Kong is the world's second-busiest bourse and has benefited from the Stock Connect scheme as mainland investors look to buy overseas assets to counter the weakening Chinese yuan currency.
Meanwhile, Shenzhen is Asia's busiest exchange with monthly turnover of more than $1 trillion, according to the World Federation of Exchanges data.
But some investors believe the new link won't see huge demand due to the high valuations of mainland stocks.
"In the short term, I very much doubt this will drive significant flows into Shenzhen shares as a lot of stocks are expensive," Caroline Yu Maurer, head of Greater China equities at BNP Paribas Investment Partners said.
The quota usage for the Shanghai to Hong Kong Stock Connect was more than 80% when southbound while the northbound quota used was around 50%.
Investors have been nervous about investing in Chinese stocks after the market crashed last summer and the government intervened by spending billions to prop it up.
Mainland Chinese shares have fallen around 12% so far this year while Hong Kong is flat.
Here are six talking points from "Hollywood's biggest party", for anyone who traded tuning in for an early night:
A race row erupted over a fictitious film.
The problem: Golden Globes pre-show host Jenna Bush Hager - daughter of George W Bush - scrambled the names of the films Hidden Figures and Fences to produce the not-actually-existent "Hidden Fences".
Both films feature black actors in stand-out performances, which angry Twitter users blamed for the confusion.
The blooper emerged on the red carpet as Bush Hager spoke to Pharrell Williams, who was tipped for Best Original Score.
"So you're nominated for Hidden Fences!" Bush Hager declared, leaving the singer cringing.
Fences is a 1950s-set family drama, starring Denzel Washington as a thwarted former baseball player, while Hidden Figures is a space-race story about three black women working for Nasa in the early 1960s.
Actor Michael Keaton then repeated the gaffe while presenting the award for Best Supporting Actress. Specifically, while announcing Octavia Spencer of Hidden Figures as a nominee.
Who won? Viola Davis, of Fences.
Who lost: Bush Hager and Keaton, as their milder critics laughed, and leading African American magazine Ebony tweeted their disapproval.
While Ryan Gosling waltzed away with the Best Actor gong for La La Land, his namesake, Mr Reynolds, wasn't left empty-handed.
The Deadpool star was caught on camera locking lips with Spiderman actor Andrew Garfield - to the joy of Reynolds' laughing wife, Blake Lively.
The moment - dubbed "Spideypool" - went viral on Twitter as fans swooned.
Reynolds may have been sharing the love in case the loss was a tough one for his pal: Gosling's La La Land co-star is Garfield's ex-girlfriend, Emma Stone, from whom he split in 2015.
Speaking of Stone, the luminous redhead was left distinctly rosy-cheeked after her La La Land gaffer's Best Director win.
Damien Chazelle turned to kiss his girlfriend just as Stone - clearly thrilled for him - leapt up for a hug, creating an awkward menage-a-trois.
The actress, who later scooped her own pricey paperweight for La La Land, looked mortified and appeared to say, "That was weird, I'm sorry!"
A beaming Chazelle quickly reassured her en route to the stage, but viewers branded it 2017's most awkward embrace to date.
Westworld star Evan Rachel Wood used her Globes platform to make an empowering fashion statement by showing up in a stylish tux.
The actress said her custom-made Joseph Altuzarra suit was a hat-tip to David Bowie, on what would have been his 70th birthday.
Fellow stars Octavia Spencer and Kathryn Hahn also chose to ditch ballgowns for tuxedos.
Wood summed up the point, saying: "I've been to the Globes six times. I've worn a dress every time. And I love dresses, I'm not trying to protest dresses.
"But, I want to make sure that young girls and women know they aren't a requirement and that you don't have to wear one if you don't want to. To just be yourself because your worth is more than that."
Brad Pitt is hardly the first man in Hollywood to face a hostile divorce, but his surprise Globes appearance drew loud applause - and a big cheer from his Ocean's 11 co-star Matt Damon.
The 53-year-old introduced a clip from Moonlight, whose director Barry Jenkins went on to win the Best Motion Picture - Drama category.
Pitt has been embroiled in a messy split from his estranged wife, Angelina Jolie, which has seen her claim custody of their six children.
The Allied actor looked noticeably slimmer as he discussed Moonlight, which he helped produce.
"It's born of the courage of a group of actors willing to strip to their souls and express their humanism, inside mistake and misstep and misdeed," he said of the film.
"It is Barry Jenkins' profound belief that we all stand at the threshold of change and forgiveness, where we only grant acceptance and love to ourselves."
Being stuck on stage and finding you haven't learned your lines is a common recurring nightmare.
Globes host Jimmy Fallon experienced a real-life version, thanks to a technical glitch knocking out his teleprompter.
The comedian was left without a script, and duly improvised:
"I can think of something - cut to Justin Timberlake, please and he'll just wink at me or something, this is great. You know what, I'll make up this monologue.
"....Already you have your Golden Globes moment!"
Nice pitch Jimmy, but from where we're sitting you were just one of many nominees...
Uncapped Deeney, 28, who signed a new five-year deal in the summer, has scored in successive victories over West Ham and Manchester United.
Italian Mazzarri said: "Of course he is international level."
England manager Sam Allardyce will announce his squad later this week for the World Cup qualifiers against Malta and Slovenia.
Allardyce needs a replacement for Tottenham striker Harry Kane, who is facing a lengthy spell out after he injured his ankle this month.
Speaking through an interpreter, Mazzarri added: "I would be proud and really happy if Deeney went to the national team.
"He has improved physically and he is much fitter now. He is a strong striker - he just needs to look after his fitness.
"I respect the England manager and his decision, and I am biased as he is one of my players.
"The FA can call me with the help of an interpreter, but they haven't called up until now."
England, who opened their 2016 World Cup campaign with victory in Slovakia, host Malta at Wembley on Saturday, 8 October, then travel to Slovenia the following Tuesday.
The 25-year-old, capped seven times by Ivory Coast, made 70 appearances for the Ligue 1 side after joining from Evian in January 2014.
Djedje reportedly turned down interest from Germany to become the Premier League club's fifth summer addition.
He follows the signings of Jerome Sinclair, Christian Kabasele, Isaac Success and Juan Camilo Zuniga.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.
The Wales wing crossed for the second time in a week as Blues opened a five point lead at the top of Pool Four in the European Challenge Cup.
Cuthbert was the subject of social media criticism for his Wales performances, but Wilson backed him.
"I thought he had a really good game and great to hear the crowd cheer him when he left the pitch," he said.
"I've always said he's a quality player, but as you know people will jump on him if he has half a bad game."
Wilson said the 28-3 win over the English Premiership side was important for his squad after they had lost four of their last five matches which had seen the Blues slip to seventh place in the Pro12 table.
"Teams go through rough patches and to beat Bath at home in Europe is a great thing to get under our belt," Wilson added.
"It's a start, but we need to keep working hard and we've got a tough turnaround now to go to Bath and I'm sure they'll load up now with some big guns who didn't play today and we'll be up for that challenge."
The Blues travel to the Recreation Ground on Thursday, December 15, when players like Wales number eight Taulupe Faletau and England fly-half George Ford will come into the equation for selection for Bath.
Lt Gen Stephen Townsend said the US had carried out air strikes in that part of Iraq on that day.
He said there was "at least a fair chance" the US was responsible, in "an unintentional accident of war."
But he said it was also possible that so-called Islamic State (IS) had rigged the building with explosives.
A house in Mosul's western Jadida district was reportedly hit by an air strike targeting IS snipers and equipment.
Witnesses said IS had previously forced at least 140 civilians into the house to be used as human shields, and had booby-trapped the building.
The US army chief of staff, visiting Baghdad, echoed Gen Townsend's remarks, saying an investigation would create "some degree of certainty".
"It is very possible that Daesh blew up that building to blame it on the coalition in order to cause a delay in the offensive into Mosul and cause a delay in the use of coalition airstrikes," Gen Mark Milley said, using an alternative name for IS.
But he also admitted: "It is possible the coalition air strike did it."
The Iraqi military has denied the loss of life was caused by a coalition air strike, saying it found "no sign" of a strike and instead found "a huge detonated booby-trapped vehicle" nearby.
Amnesty International has released a report accusing the coalition of failing to take adequate precautions to prevent civilian deaths.
The human rights group said it had evidence of an "alarming pattern" of air strikes on Mosul which "destroyed whole houses with entire families inside".
The UN's human rights chief has called for a review of tactics used by the coalition for the same reason.
Zeid Raad Al Hussein said bodies were being found in buildings where IS had reportedly held people as human shields and were later targeted in air strikes.
He urged the coalition to avoid such "traps" and abide by international law.
But the US authorities insist the rules of engagement have not changed and there has been no drop in standards.
"Although our partners and the coalition have made mistakes that harmed civilians, we have never targeted them - not once," Lt Gen Townsend said.
The battle to recapture the city began five months ago, and the eastern part has been retaken in that time. But west Mosul remains the scene of chaotic fighting at street level.
More than 286,000 civilians living in the city have fled their homes during the fighting but many more have followed the Iraqi government's repeated instructions to stay put until they are reached by troops.
According to information verified by the UN, at least 307 people were killed and another 273 injured between 17 February, when the government launched an assault on the western half of Mosul, and 22 March.
There have also been reports of IS snipers shooting at civilians attempting to flee IS-held areas towards advancing coalition troops.
"[IS]'s strategy of using children, men and women to shield themselves from attack is cowardly and disgraceful. It breaches the most basic standards of human dignity and morality," said Mr Zeid.
"And shooting civilians in the back as they flee for their lives is an act of monstrous depravity."
Caf pledged support to the Bahraini on Friday while overlooking the candidacy of Africa's only entrant, Tokyo Sexwale of South Africa.
Bility, a onetime candidate in the Fifa race himself before being excluded on eligibility grounds, says he is backing Prince Ali of Jordan.
I have been in contact with 26 African FA presidents and none will vote for Sheikh Salman
"I have been in contact with 26 African FA presidents and none will vote for Sheikh Salman," Bility told BBC Sport.
The continent is seen as a key campaigning ground since Africa's 54 members represents the largest regional voting block of Fifa's 209 member associations.
But Caf cannot vote as a whole - each member nation will vote individually in a secret ballot.
In a statement, Bility called for the importance of getting the vote right to succeed outgoing President Sepp Blatter, currently barred by Fifa on corruption charges that he denies, in the 26 February vote.
In addition to Prince Ali, Sheikh Salman and Sexwale, Frenchman Jerome Champagne and Swiss Gianni Infantino are also standing.
Fifa is currently going through the worst corruption scandal in its 112-year history.
"We are attempting to restore integrity and change Fifa for the good of the game," Bility said in a letter to African FA presidents.
"It is for that purpose - to right the wrongs and to offer our organisation a real chance for the change we seek - that I have decided to endorse the candidacy of Prince Ali of Jordan.
"Prince Ali's action is clear and based on principled leadership. I trust him and urge you to do the same," he added.
Prince Ali was the sole challenger to Sepp Blatter in last year's elections but conceded defeat ahead of a second round of voting after losing the first round 133-73.
Despite not having Caf's backing, Sexwale told various news outlets - including the BBC - that he still plans to stand in the Zurich election.
"The elections of the Fifa candidate on the 26th of this month goes ahead, and I am a candidate." Sexwale told BBC Sport.
"It goes ahead because I have been sent by my own association from South Africa and I am also representing the aspirations of many associations across the world who have nominated me to be a candidate, as well as many other people who are ready to vote when we reach Zurich" Sexwale added.
Last month, Caf signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Asian Football Confederation - over which Sheikh Salman presides - with Sheikh Salman earning criticism from Prince Ali.
Prince Ali complained about the agreement and its timing to Fifa, who replied last week to say it saw nothing wrong with the deal.
The residents, including a disabled 95-year-old woman, spent more than six hours in the tank as the fire prevented them from being rescued.
"If it wasn't for this, we would all have died," one of the survivors said.
The fires, which police believe were started by lightning, killed 63 people, many of them dying in their cars.
The latest of the victims was identified as a 40-year-old firefighter who died in hospital.
Residents in some areas of central Portugal were still being evacuated as more than 1,000 firefighters tackled the blaze, which continued to rage on several fronts on Monday despite light rain.
Maria do Céu Silva was hailed as a hero after using her house's water tank to rescue the residents of Nodeirinho, next to the IC8 motorway, which was badly hit by the fire.
The idea, Ms Silva said, came while she tried to save her disabled mother.
"My husband told me to put her in the van but she couldn't get in by herself so she told me: 'Let me die on the floor'," she told Correio da Manhã newspaper.
"With the help of my son we managed to take her here." Her 81-year-old father also survived by hiding in the tank.
The winds were so strong, she said, that roofs of the houses were blown out. "It was like a horror movie."
We found ourselves stranded in a village called Mó Grande, just off of the IC8 motorway; ourselves and others were directed there by an officer from the IC8.
As we drove up the mountain road you could see the flames jumping across from one side of the valley to the other. The accompanying wind threw branches at the car but you couldn't stop, you could feel the heat.
Eventually we reached the small village at a crossroads surrounded by fire. Locals and ourselves were crying, overwhelmed by the heat and speed of the fire. It was dark, so dark, among the flames.
The devastation was indescribable. People, bewildered, remains of homes burning uncontrollably, concrete posts exploding over roads.
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Next to the village, 30 bodies were found inside cars, with another 17 next to the vehicles, on the N-236 road, which leads on to the IC8 motorway. The N-236 was being described as the "road of death" in Portuguese media.
A few kilometres north of Nodeirinho, 11 people died in the village of Pobrais. Local reports said a third of the population had lost their lives, many as they tried to escape the fire. A survivor spoke of the roads being blocked and of no-one coming to their aid.
Maria de Fátima Nunes and her husband were driving on the motorway when their car was hit by the fire.
"My husband was burned on the arm," she told SIC Notícias. "I got burned too, on the chest."
"There was fire at the top of the pine trees and they were falling over the cars. The fire was coming from all sides. The cars crashed into each other trying to escape."
The couple who were in the car behind them, she said, did not manage to escape and died. "I shouted for the woman to get out of the car, but she didn't. Her husband did, but died there."
Officials said on Monday that 135 people had been injured by the fires, including more than a dozen firefighters.
The fires began on Saturday in the Pedrógão Grande region during an intense heatwave and rainless thunderstorms, with temperatures of more than 40C (104F) in some areas.
Meanwhile, outbreaks were reported in two more central regions, Castelo Branco and Coimbra. There was some rain on Monday and temperatures dropped slightly, but the situation was described by civil protection officials as worrying.
Prime Minister António Costa visited some of the affected areas and urged people to follow the evacuation calls.
"It's about taking a step away. Taking a couple of minutes to clear your head. There are just so many hats that we have to wear, I feel like that's something we can all relate to nowadays."
"We came up with the title first," she explains. "It just sounded like a good old country song and we went from there".
It tells the story of hard working small-town men and women, something which resonates with the 32-year-old, who was raised on her parents' farm in rural Oklahoma.
"When you never taking nothing and doing nothing but giving / It's hard to be a good wife and a good mom and a good Christian," she sings.
The lyrics lend themselves to her warm and controlled voice before she belts out the song's chorus: "I don't smoke, but sometimes I need a long drag / Yeah, I know that might sound bad but sometimes I need a smoke break."
Underwood has, like so many of her female country contemporaries, consistently maintained a wholesome public image. But with Smoke Break are we hearing a touch of rebellion?
"I do feel like people are watching me, especially coming off a show like American Idol. I definitely want to set a good example but I also try to live my life. We're all human and we all make mistakes."
She readily admits that the men in her line of work rarely come under the same scrutiny: "You have outlaw country singers who are expected to drink and get into a little bit of trouble every once in a while… but I really don't mind too much when I hear somebody say that they're glad their daughter listens to me. I think I do alright."
Underwood gave birth to her first child, Isaiah, in February, after marrying ice hockey player Mike Fisher in 2010.
She can already count their seven-month-old as a fan.
"He likes it when I sing I think. If he's playing with a toy and then some commercial that's got a song in comes on the TV, he'll immediately stop what he's doing and be glued to the screen."
Though she is happy to talk about motherhood, it's clear the singer does not want to be defined by her new family role: "A lot of people expected me to write an album full of mummy songs or lullabies but I'm still me."
But her son has "worked his way a little bit into the album... I feel like that's one more dimension that I have that I can write about."
Mainly though, Underwood is looking to tell great stories with her album - as its title Storyteller suggests.
"I want each track to be like listening to a mini movie through your speakers where you have to get to the end of the song to figure out how it all plays out."
Blown Away, Underwood's last album, won two Grammys and sold nearly 1.8 million copies in the US alone.
Musically, there's been an evolution, giving this record "a different overall feel, with a little more twang".
While superstar contemporaries like Taylor Swift have made a concerted decision to move away from their country roots to appeal to a wider top 40 radio audience, Underwood is aiming for a "a bit more of a traditional sound".
"I think early on there was a lot of talk with people that I worked with trying to push me more in that direction," she explains. "That's not me. That's just not what I grew up listening to. I can't see myself doing anything like that. I'm happy where I am."
The US's biggest music market is country and Underwood is its biggest female star, so its small wonder the artist - who has sold 58 million records worldwide - is content to keep her fans pleased.
"Country music fans are the most loyal fans anybody could hope for," she says. "You definitely have a greater chance of being able to make music longer - to find new things to write and sing about - and people will stay with you through it all."
Recently, there has been a resurgent interest in country music in the UK.
Dolly Parton was a hit at last year's Glastonbury festival; British country act The Shires recently charted in the UK top 10 and the country music concert series C2C, which Underwood is headlining this year, is selling out arenas nationwide.
Does she think that people outside the US have been relatively slow to accept country until now?
"Definitely. Even in the States it's always had some stereotypes attached to it," she admits, "But I want people everywhere to realise how relatable country music is to everyone."
She says that it's ability to connect is down to the song writing: "It's about life. They're real life lyrics. It's not just about dancing or your fancy car."
Ten years of success, and a Greatest Hits album already under the belt in her early thirties may beg the question as to what's left for Underwood to achieve.
"I take it one week at a time," she laughs. "My husband's hockey season starts back up so we'll be going through that as a family. If I look too far ahead I'm pretty overwhelmed."
Ultimately, the aim, she says, is simple.
"I just want to be able to keep making music that I love, and that I believe in."
Storyteller is released globally on 23 October.
Led by four horses, it set off from Cardiff Mail Centre on Penarth Road and made its way to the Pierhead Building in Cardiff Bay.
The coach driver, horn blower and grooms dressed in traditional Royal Mail costume.
They were joined by current Royal Mail employees, friends and family.
All proceeds from the parade will be donated to Royal Mail's chosen charity, the Stroke Association.
Caroline Rich, Cardiff Mail Centre manager, said: "We are proud to be celebrating our historic 500 years with a special procession in our capital city, demonstrating the pride we have in being part of this national network that connects consumers, companies and communities across the UK today."
Matthew, ranked 70 in the world, had been on the fringes of contention throughout the first three rounds.
But the 46-year-old was among those who suffered the most on a windy final day as she carded a six-over par 78.
That sent her down into a share of 13th, ultimately 10 shots off the pace set by winner Haru Nomura, of Japan.
Matthew birdied the eighth, but that was a rare bright spot amid five bogeys and a double bogey on the par-four 16th.
Nomura completed her final round in 73, but that was still good enough for her to win by four shots from South African Lee-Anne Pace.
But we're not quite there yet. It should become clearer in the coming weeks if the Scottish government are going to push for another vote on independence.
If they do, it's widely accepted they will need to obtain permission from Westminster - under Section 30 of the Scotland Act.
That's what happened in 2014 when David Cameron and Alex Salmond signed the Edinburgh Agreement.
It's clear the UK government doesn't want another referendum. It argues the question has already been asked; Scotland has already answered.
But what happens if the Scottish Parliament disagrees? (The SNP may be a minority government at Holyrood, but they will almost certainly get the backing of the Greens to pass legislation backing another referendum).
Sources say the UK government hasn't decided exactly what it will do if Nicola Sturgeon does call for a Section 30 order.
It will depend on what the request is.
Ministers in London are least likely to agree to an unconditional request to permanently transfer the power to hold a referendum. As one member of the government pointed out to me, that wasn't agreed by the Smith Commission on powers, which followed the 2014 vote.
What could be more palatable - emphasis on could - is a conditional transfer of the power.
Sources say there could be a negotiation process to iron out details, like the question voters will be asked and when. It could be lengthy.
But even then, Mrs May will have a lot to weigh up.
Some in the SNP - among them Mr Salmond - believe indyref2 would take place in Autumn 2018.
But that could well be a crunch period in the Brexit process, as UK ministers are focussed on trying to get a trade deal with Europe.
"It's the dominant issue for the UK government for the foreseeable future in a sense," says Professor Nicola McEwan from the Centre of Constitutional Change.
"We don't know how long the process of Brexit will take.
"Of course there is the triggering of Article 50, kick-starting a two-year negotiation process, but then there is a transition and there is an implementation. All of that will be huge."
In other words, ministers in London will have a lot of their plate already.
That pressure has led some to speculate permission for Holyrood to hold another independence vote could be conditional.
For example, the PM could grant the power to Holyrood as long as the referendum is held after Brexit talks are complete.
It could be argued that waiting until after Brexit would allow the Scottish people to decide their future knowing the details of any deal with the EU.
"The system is pretty overstretched [dealing with Brexit]", says the Conservative MP Bernard Jenkins. "The idea of agreeing to another referendum of independence in Scotland on top of all this just seems to me completely inconceivable. I don't think the prime minister would agree to that."
And there's the argument Scotland has already had its say on independence.
The Scottish Conservatives argue there's no appetite to reopen the debate - and they question whether the mandate for another vote exists. The SNP is adamant its does - pointing to their manifesto which says Scotland being taken out of the EU against its will is grounds for Holyrood to have the right to hold another referendum. But if the Conservatives think there's no mandate or public desire - could they just say no?
One of the considerations in answering that will be how rejecting Holyrood's request would be perceived in Scotland. What would the reaction be to the UK government - which of course has just one MP from a Scottish seat - rejecting a formal request from the Scottish Parliament?
"I think if the Scottish Parliament has voted for a referendum then it should get one," says the SNP MP Stephen Gethins, the party's Europe spokesman. "Don't forget, the Tories got their worst election result in Scotland since 1865 - it would be a very difficult basis for them to reject any approach."
The question in the headline won't be answered until when - or if - the UK government receives a request from ministers in Edinburgh.
The answer is unlikely to be straightforward.
The female bird was found injured in Tavistock, Devon, on 6 March.
The RSPB said the bird, which was found next to Milton Abbot Primary School, is still alive and being cared for by a local falconer.
In a blog, the charity said there had been four similar incidents, in Hampshire, Cumbria and Gloucestershire.
A Devon and Cornwall Police spokesman said: "The birds internationally have the same protected status as giant panda and tigers which shows how precious they are."
After an unsuccessful loan spell with Wolves, the 34-year-old rejoined Dale from Wigan on a short-term deal.
"You've got to give advice at times in the game when we could have done things better," he told BBC Radio Manchester.
"It's not naivety, it's youthfulness - they'll learn. You pass advice on and they take it and if they use it, it's fantastic."
Holt scored in Rochdale's 2-0 win against Sheffield United, his first goal in 19 competitive games, during which he has played for four clubs in a run stretching 15 months.
"Everyone can see I'm enjoying myself," he said. "It's been difficult, I haven't had much game time for the last few months.
"I've still got a career ahead of me and I want to keep playing football and keep enjoying it."
The former Norwich City and Aston Villa forward feels satisfied with his progression at Rochdale, despite being limited to substitute appearances since his return to Spotland.
"You always want to play and start games but that's a manager's prerogative to do what he feels, I haven't played 90 minutes for a long time due to injury," he added.
"We're doing it the right way, we're building it up. I'm doing what is needed to do and it's another step closer to where I want to be."
The CCTV stills were taken in Nottingham city centre, where Samantha Baldwin, from Newark, Nottinghamshire, was last seen on Monday.
The 40-year-old is believed to be with Louis Madge, 9, and Dylan Madge, 6.
Police said the case was being treated as abduction and confirmed Ms Baldwin did not have legal custody of the boys.
Police earlier revealed they had extended their search to Europe and were "open minded" about whether she had left the UK.
The CCTV images were captured in the waterfront area of Nottingham at about 11:00 BST on Monday and in Cheapside about 30 minutes later.
Supt Rich Fretwell said: "In light of the recently released footage, I would urge people to cast their minds back to Monday 27 March.
"Did you see a woman in a red coat walking in the city? We would like to hear from you if you did."
The family has connections to Lincolnshire and Manchester.
It is not known what clothes the boys, who also use the surname of Taylor, were wearing.
Two women, aged 62 and 36, have been released on bail after being arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender.
The victim was struck by the takeaway dish after it was hurled at her by a man in the early hours of Thursday in the city centre.
She dialled 999 to report the kebab attack and that she had then been assaulted.
But she rang back soon afterwards and told officers she did not want to make a complaint.
Greater Manchester Police had originally tweeted the incident, saying: "999s today include report of assault with a kebab at 3am on Whitworth St West."
An hour later police tweeted an 11 year-old had called 999 to complain his mother had taken a game controller off him "for being naughty" after he apparently hit his little sister on the head with it.
Mark Horton was targeted after swimmer Mack Horton, who won gold in the 400m freestyle on Saturday, said second-place Sun Yang, was a drugs cheat.
The Australian swimmer's Twitter account was bombarded with angry messages - as was the account of Mr Horton, of Watford, Hertfordshire.
"Luckily, I don't speak mandarin," he said.
"It made my weekend rather interesting."
The Olympic gold medallist also accused Yang, of China, of deliberately splashing him in a training session, saying: "I ignored him, I don't have time or respect for drug cheats."
In an interview after his win, Horton defended his comments, saying: "I used the words drug cheat because he tested positive.
"I just have a problem with athletes who have tested positive and are still competing."
He received a barrage of messages from Sun Yang fans, some of whom mistakenly typed "mark" instead of "mack".
Tweets to Mr Horton that can be repeated, include: "YOU SHOULD APOLOGISE TO SUN YANG YOU SHOULD LEARN TO RESPECT OTHERS!!!" and "Not only a liar and a loser in life but a coward who doesn't have the guts to admit what he say" [sic].
Mr Horton, who has not watched any of the Olympic swimming, tried to halt the messages on Sunday when he tweeted at the swimmer "@_mackhortn mate, just apologise! I'm getting abuse for something you said. #SunYang".
He also said: "For the record, I'm not the Australian swimmer who said something about a Chinese swimmer #sunyang".
Nevertheless, he received 1,000 mentions by other Twitter users on Sunday night alone, some of which were messages of sympathy and interview requests from British and Australian media.
He has since turned his notifications off.
"Back to the day job," he commented earlier.
Chinese swimming officials have demanded an apology over Horton's comments.
Sun served a three-month suspension in 2014 for testing positive for a banned substance but was cleared to compete.
Richard Brady, 33, accused Alistair Balfour, 68, of tampering with his car in a row in the Montgomerie Arms pub, in East Kilbride, on 8 June last year.
He punched Mr Balfour, causing him to fall backwards and hit his head on the floor. Mr Balfour died after suffering two skull fractures.
Brady was jailed after admitting a charge of culpable homicide.
Passing sentence at the High Court in Edinburgh, judge Lord Turnbull told Brady that he had no other option but to imprison him.
He added: "Your conduct resulted in a man losing his life. I must impose a sentence that reflects the seriousness of this offence."
Lord Turnbull also told Brady that if he had not pleaded guilty, he would have been jailed for six years.
A previous hearing at the High Court in Glasgow heard that Mr Balfour had been married for 47 years and had an extra-marital affair with Brady's mother, which ended in bad terms on Christmas Day 2012.
As a result of this, Brady and Mr Balfour fell out.
They reported each other to the police for vandalism and breach of the peace, but no action was taken because of insufficient evidence.
The court heard that Brady, who is from East Kilbride, entered the pub and accused Mr Balfour of putting sugar in the tank of his car.
He became aggressive and asked if they would take the matter outside.
As Mr Balfour put his hands in his pockets, Brady hit him with a single punch. He fell backwards and lay motionless on the floor.
The court heard that Mr Balfour suffered two fractures to his skull, bruising to his mouth and two black eyes. The cause of death was a head injury.
The 24-year-old scored 10 goals in 42 appearances last season as the Minstermen were relegated to the National League.
Former Sheffield Wednesday trainee Oliver will remain at Meadow Lane until 7 January 2017.
He has previously had spells at Lincoln City, Crewe Alexandra and Mansfield Town.
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Michael Femi Adenibi, 22, from Hackney, was sentenced for actual bodily harm and dangerous driving at Isleworth Crown Court.
PC Sue Thomson was tossed two metres into the air after being hit by the car in Hammersmith on 2 October.
She said she was "terrified" when she saw the vehicle approaching.
An unmarked police car blocked the path of Adenibi's vehicle on Shepherd's Bush Road, but when the officers got out Adenibi drove onto the pavement, hitting PC Thomson and knocking her unconscious.
She was off work for more than two months. In a victim impact statement, she said: "I couldn't hear anything or see anything, and all I could hear was a loud ringing in my ears. I was terrified. I thought that I had died."
Adenibi, of Pembury Close, Pembury Road, was arrested at the scene and was found to be driving without a valid licence and without vehicle insurance.
He had previously pleaded guilty to dangerous driving and was later found guilty of actual bodily harm.
The organisation, which is changing its name to Catalyst Inc, is also aiming to support 5,000 additional jobs.
It was founded in 1999 with public money.
It now operates as a non-profit foundation aimed at growing technology businesses.
Catalyst Inc operates from nine sites in Belfast, Londonderry and Letterkenny, County Donegal.
It plans to submit planning applications for three new buildings in the next six months.
Its tenants include international firms like Citi and Dow as well as locally-owned businesses employing a total of 2,600 people.
Norman Apsley, chief executive of Catalyst Inc, said: "The time was right to accelerate the generation and exploitation of knowledge."
"Everyone talks about the need to grow the economy and drive our expertise and skills in technology as it is applied to every business sector.
"What we have done at Catalyst Inc is to provide the right environment for that ambition to take hold and to prosper."
Tokyo's Nikkei 225 closed down 1.32% to 16,819.59 points as a stronger yen against the dollar hurt the country's big exporters for a second day.
Toyota and Honda shares finished the day down about 2%, while Mazda shed nearly 5%.
At the close of trade, Toyota reported a 4.7% rise in net income for the three months to December.
However, the firm's operating profit for the quarter fell by 5.3%, missing forecasts.
Australia's S&P/ASX 200 spent the day in negative territory and closed flat, down 0.08% to 16,819.59.
The country's big lenders had weighed on the market and analysts said traders were being cautious ahead of a US jobs report due out later.
Energy firms regained lost territory late in the day, however, with Woodside finishing up 0.41% and rival Santos up 2.2%. Mining giant BHP finished up close to 5%.
Official numbers released earlier showed Australia's retail sales had come in flat for the month of December - a 0.4% gain was expected. But analysts said the numbers still supported economic growth.
"December quarter real retail sales rose by 0.6%, which was less than expected, but similar to the last few quarters," said AMP Capital's head economist Shane Oliver.
"It implies that consumer spending has again helped support December quarter GDP growth," he added.
In Hong Kong, the Hang Seng was up 0.4% to 19,255.88 points in afternoon trade, while the mainland's benchmark Shanghai Composite closed down 0.63% to 2,763.49.
South Korea's Kospi index closed flat, up just 0.08% to 1,917.79.
They were found at the marina in Carrick-on-Shannon.
The couple, who were in their 30s, were reported missing on Friday morning.
The pair, who lived in Germany, were on holiday in the area. Gardaà (police) said that at this stage the deaths are being treated as accidental.
Helicopter mechanic Ryan Pate wrote the Facebook post while in Florida after arguing with employer Global Aerospace Logistics (Gal) over sick leave.
On returning to Abu Dhabi from Florida, he was arrested for breaking the country's strict cyber-slander laws.
His trial is due to start on 17 March and he could face up to five years in jail and a large fine if found guilty.
Mr Pate's dispute with his employer began in December last year when he sought to extend his holiday to see a doctor about a long-standing back injury. After being told he could not extend his leave, Mr Pate posted a rant about the Abu Dhabi-based firm on his Facebook page.
In the post, Mr Pate called Gal "backstabbers" and warned other contractors about working for the firm. He also complained about life in the UAE and used a racial slur against the region's people.
He returned to Abu Dhabi in order to resign but soon after arriving he was called by police who told him to report to a nearby police station. On attending he was shown screenshots of the Facebook message and told his employer had filed charges accusing him of breaking wide-ranging Emirates laws that ban slander.
The laws were introduced in late 2012 and make it an offence to use the net to mock or deride organisations and individuals.
This is the latest in a series of difficult cases for UAE authorities following the introduction of the country's 2012 Cyber-crimes law.
One involved the detention of a man who had filmed and uploaded a video of an Emirati government official attacking an Indian van driver. The attacker faced a fine of up to 10,000 dirhams (£1,800) and a year in jail. The uploader, charged with defamation for sharing a video of the attack, faced a possible penalty of two years in jail, and a 20,000 dirhams (£3,600) fine.
And whilst in this case many in the west may be surprised to see that someone could face imprisonment for what might be regarded as innocuous comments on Facebook about an employer, in Gulf culture, protection of reputation is seen as paramount, and enshrined by tough laws.
Now it has garnered international attention though, this new case poses yet another potentially embarrassing headache for the UAE government. However, the resolution of the road rage incident may offer a model. All charges were dropped, whilst the attacker lost his job.
Although Mr Pate will no doubt hope that he avoids the fate of another American who was caught up in the UAE's cyber-crimes law. Shezanne Cassim was convicted and spent a year in jail for uploading a satirical video to YouTube.
"I never even entertained the fact that I would wind up in prison out here for something I put on Facebook in the United States," said Mr Pate.
Gal has yet to respond to requests for comment about the incident.
However, news about Mr Pate's arrest has begun to spread online and some people have posted comments on Gal's Facebook page criticising the way it has treated him.
In addition, Mr Pate's cause has been taken up by his congressman David Jolly who has contacted the US State Department and the UAE attorney general seeking to get the case quashed.
"It is deeply troubling that Mr Pate now faces judicial proceedings over an action that was done legally in his home country," said Mr Jolly.
Mr Jolly is also pushing for a meeting with the US ambassador to the UAE to get help with the case. Mr Pate's fiancee has begun an online effort to raise funds to pay his legal fees.
The US State Department said the American embassy in the country has helped Mr Pate get medical attention and legal advice. Mr Pate was arrested on 16 February and spent about 10 days in jail. He has now been released on bail prior to the trial later this month.
"I just want to apologise to everybody I dragged into this," Mr Pate said in an interview with a US newspaper. "It is embarrassing, and I never meant for this to happen. I let my emotions get the better of me."
Set 158 to win, Somerset were in trouble at 47-5, but James Hildreth's unbeaten 45 and cameos from Roelof van der Merwe (36) and Craig Overton (35 not out) saw the hosts to 158-6.
Teenager Ollie Pope made 46 in Surrey's 157-6, who were once again missing Kevin Pietersen with a calf injury.
Somerset are second in the South Group, with Surrey two points behind.
Both teams have three matches remaining, with the top four in the group going through to the last eight later this month.
Felix Kjellberg features a lot of video games in his clips. These get a huge number of views, and therefore profit, from adverts.
Until now, if he wanted to play Nintendo games in his videos, Nintendo would get all the money.
The company now wants to share up to 70% of the revenue with users who feature their games.
So why is PewDiewPie unhappy?
Nintendo's new "Creators Program" includes users having to register with them, and agree to them collecting the ad revenues from their channels or specific videos.
YouTubers will only get a share of the advertising revenue if they're video is approved by Nintendo.
This has been seen by some as a way of Nintendo attempting to stop people making money from videos which criticise its games.
In a post on Tumblr, PewDiePie described the changes as a "slap in the face" for YouTube channels that focus purely on Nintendo games.
"The people who have helped and showed passion for Nintendo's community are the ones left in the dirt the most," he said.
Felix compares Nintendo with Mojang, which created Minecraft, and has no rules on users posting footage on YouTube: "This is why a tiny one man indie game like Minecraft could grow into a 2.5 billion dollar deal."
"That's 2.5 billion... Made possible, largely from the exposure it got from YouTube!"
He argues that most of the money made from advertising was because the viewers had subscribed to him, not Nintendo, and urges the company to think over its decision.
"I'll still play Nintendo games that I want to play on my channel as usual. I'm lucky to be in a situation where losing ad revenue on a few videos wont matter. However, many people on YouTube are not in that situation."
At first glance this change seems like good news for YouTubers, writes Newsbeat Technology Reporter Jonathan Blake.
The company had offered no share of its advertising revenue from YouTube, and now it's offering a large chunk to the people making the videos.
But the sticking point - and the reason PewDiePie and others are unhappy - is the approval.
For someone to earn money from a video featuring a Nintendo game, the company must review it and put a tick in a box saying it's happy.
If a video criticises a game or doesn't fit with Nintendo's PR strategy, they may choose not to approve it - meaning the YouTuber gets nothing.
Nintendo has chosen not to block videos it doesn't approve, it just won't let anyone else make money from them.
So in the end, it's about control.
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The new environment secretary, a leading figure in the campaign to leave the EU, said the referendum result should be "honoured in the right way".
The Tories no longer have a Commons majority with EU negotiations set to begin next week.
There have been calls for a cross-party commission to seek agreement.
In the Daily Telegraph, Former Conservative leader William Hague said a "change of style and substance" was now needed, suggesting a commission, also including business leaders and trade unions, to find areas of agreement.
Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has also called for a cross-party approach, and Labour's Yvette Cooper said a commission was needed to avoid Brexit being "caught up in the inevitable Hung Parliament political rows".
Theresa May set out the government's strategy last year and started the clock on the UK's final departure from the EU in March.
Downing Street has said there will be no changes to this approach, despite the Tories looking like they will have to rely on the Democratic Unionist Party - which backs Brexit but has specific demands including close trade with the EU - to stay in power.
Mr Gove noted that most votes at the election had been cast for either the Conservatives or Labour, who both support leaving the EU and ending freedom of movement, but added: "It is important to recognise we were not returned with a majority."
The government should "proceed with the maximum possible consensus", he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme, and "make sure that Remainers' concerns are part of our conversation".
Following reports of talks between some Remain-backing Conservative and Labour MPs, he rejected a "softening" of the government's approach, but said there were a "significant number of questions as we leave about the shape that we want our country to take".
But he played down Lord Hague's suggestion of a commission - "this idea is very much his copyright", he added.
Another ex-Tory leader, Iain Duncan Smith, dismissed suggestions of a change in the Conservatives' approach as "made-up nonsense".
He told the BBC the DUP had supported the government's strategy before the general election and "the vast majority of the Conservative Party believes this is a settled issue".
Aside from Brexit, it has also been reported that the DUP's opposition to some austerity measures could trigger a rethink in the government's economic strategy.
Asked about this, Mr Gove said ministers had to "reflect on what the election result told us about the way that people want to see the economy managed in the future".
He said there was a need to ensure public spending was kept at a sustainable level but stressed that "we also need to take account of legitimate public concerns about ensuring that we properly fund public services in the future".
The former education secretary, who clashed with Mrs May when both were ministers and was then sacked by her when she arrived in Downing Street, declared himself a "huge fan" of the PM.
He also rejected criticism of his environmental credentials by some campaigners, saying he had spoken in 2006 in favour of a bill making it easier to fight climate change and attributing his later voting record to having been following the whip in government.
"My own approach has always been to argue for strong action to deal with man-made climate change," he added.
The 21-year-old has made 42 appearances for Saints since his debut in 2014 and will not be able to play against them in the Super 8s.
He will replace Danny Tickle in the Tigers squad following the back-row's switch to Leigh Centurions.
Savelio could make his Castleford debut in Sunday's all-Yorkshire game against Wakefield Trinity Wildcats.
"Andre has always caused us trouble when we have played against him in the past and I'm sure he will fit neatly into the way that we play," head coach Daryl Powell told the club website.
Lt Gen Stephen Townsend told the BBC Iraqis needed to unite to ensure IS was defeated across the rest of Iraq.
He also urged the government to reach out to the Sunni Arab minority.
"If we're to keep... ISIS 2.0 from emerging, the Iraqi government is going to have to do something pretty significantly different," he said.
"They're going to have to reach out and reconcile with the Sunni population, and make them feel like their government in Baghdad represents them."
IS (also known as ISIS) seized control of much of northern and western Iraq three years ago after exploiting widespread Sunni anger at the sectarian policies of the country's Shia Arab-led government.
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, who has promised to bridge the gap between the two Muslim communities, formally declared victory over IS in Mosul on Monday.
Standing alongside troops at a base in the city, he announced "the end and the failure and the collapse of the terrorist state of falsehood and terrorism ".
The US-led Coalition that provided air and ground support to Iraqi security forces confirmed they had Mosul "firmly under their control" but noted that areas of the Old City still had to be cleared of bombs and possible IS fighters in hiding.
Later, US President Donald Trump sent his congratulations to his Iraqi counterpart, saying Mosul had been "liberated from its long nightmare under the rule of ISIS".
"We mourn the thousands of Iraqis brutally killed by ISIS and the millions of Iraqis who suffered," he added, promising to seek the "total destruction" of the jihadists.
On Tuesday, UN special representative Jan Kubis said the "historic" victory provided an "outstanding opportunity for Iraq to rise again strong and united".
But he warned that reconstruction work had to run parallel to a "robust political process to conduct elections and achieve national and societal reconciliation and rebuild the social fabric".
"The peace... must be based on solid foundations of unity, co-operation, justice, tolerance and co-existence starting at the societal, community and tribal levels to prevent falling back into the past and risk disastrous consequences," he added.
The battle for Mosul lasted almost nine months, left large areas in ruins, killed thousands of civilians and displaced more than 920,000 others.
The UN says that of the 54 residential districts in the western half of Mosul - where the Old City is located - 15 are heavily damaged and at least 23 moderately damaged.
In a report published on Tuesday, Amnesty International said Iraqi and coalition forces had used unnecessarily powerful weapons in Mosul and failed to take adequate measures to protect civilians.
A coalition spokesperson described the allegations as "irresponsible and an insult" to the troops who had died freeing civilians in Mosul from IS rule.
Amnesty also documented abuses by IS, including the use of human shields.
IS militants overran Mosul in June 2014, before seizing control of large parts of northern and western Iraq. The following month, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi made his first and only public appearance as IS leader at the city's Great Mosque of al-Nuri, and gave a speech proclaiming the creation of a "caliphate".
IS blew up the mosque last month as Iraqi troops prepared to retake it.
IS still controls territory in three areas of Iraq - around Hawija, 130km (80 miles) south-east of Mosul, around Tal Afar, 65km west, and from Ana to Al-Qaim in the Euphrates river valley, 250km to the south-west.
It also holds a string of towns along the Euphrates in Syria, including Albu Kamal and Mayadin, but its stronghold of Raqqa is besieged by US-backed fighters.
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The 420,000 sq ft interchange, next to Cardiff Central railway station, will also have private apartments as well as offices and shops.
Cardiff's bus station will be part of a Central Square redevelopment which will include BBC Wales' new headquarters.
"The gateway to our city is being transformed," said council leader Phil Bale.
The planning application was submitted after a 28-day public consultation period and the developers hope to know the outcome by the end of February 2017 after a 16-week scrutiny period by city planners.
Central Square developers Rightacres Property claim the Interchange will have an "airport-lounge" style concourse and a 600-bicycle hub.
Three young people from Brighton were killed fighting in Syria in 2014.
Ch Supt Nev Kemp said the measure was "extreme" and told the Brighton Argus it has sometimes been "very difficult".
However, the mother of one of the teenagers who died in Syria said removing his passport would not have stopped him going.
In April 2014, 18-year-old Abdullah Deghayes from Saltdean was killed in Syria and in October 2014 his brother Jaffar Deghayes, 17, also died in fighting.
Ibrahim Kamara, 19, from Brighton, is believed to have been killed in a US airstrike in September 2014.
His mother, Khadijah Kamara, said preventing extremism should start in primary school and doubted removing passports would work.
She said: "It's two-years exactly this month since my son died - I have not had an answer as to how he would've travelled with a passport that wasn't his.
"He travelled with two other boys... how come they were able to leave just like that, as easy as that?"
Ch Supt Kemp, from Sussex Police, said: "It is an extreme measure and it's one we've all felt a bit uncomfortable with.
"But it's balancing that against the need to protect people and to protect the individual."
He added: "There is a risk those people - if they do come back - come back even more radicalised, and that's a risk for anybody who potentially comes in contact with them."
Bishop Thomas served as the Provincial Assistant Bishop for 12 years, providing care for those opposed to Church in Wales women priests.
He stepped-down in 2008 when the post ceased.
The Bishop of Swansea and Brecon John Davies paid tribute to his colleague's "long and distinguished ministry".
"At heart David was, I believe, a parish priest with great love and care for the people committed to his care and oversight," said Bishop Davies.
The retired priest had only just returned from a holiday to mark his 50th wedding anniversary to his wife Rosemary.
He had celebrated the 20th anniversary of his ordination as a bishop in December at a service in St Mary's Priory Abergavenny, Monmouthshire.
Canon Mark Soady, Area Dean of Abergavenny, said: "He shall be sorely missed by the people of Abergavenny who had a great fondness for him.
"Our prayers are with Rosemary and the family at this time."
The 2009 world champion is substituting at McLaren for Fernando Alonso, who is racing in the Indianapolis 500.
Button said: "I am very relaxed. Very excited, actually. It is interesting coming back for one grand prix.
"It being Monaco is very special. I have won here. I lived here for 17 years. It is exciting but I don't feel any pressure."
McLaren have not scored any points this year and are last in the constructors' championship. Monaco represents their best chance of points so far.
Alonso put the car seventh on the grid in Barcelona two weeks ago, and the car should be even better suited to Monaco, where the lack of power from the Honda engine is less important in the overall performance of the car than at any other track this year.
"Everything in life is the same," Briton Button said. "You want to get the best out of yourself and the equipment and team you're working with.
"The car seemed to be working well in Barcelona. Fernando did a good job. It proves the car is good. I drove the car in the simulator, I drove the upgrade and if it all goes well we should be reasonably competitive."
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The cars have changed significantly since Button retired from F1 at the end of last season, with rule changes making them faster and more demanding - and also 20cm wider.
Button's first experience of the McLaren on a race track will be in first practice at Monaco on Thursday. He turned down the chance to test in Bahrain in April because he felt it would not have been productive.
"I thought would be absolutely useless for me to do, completely different circuit," he said.
"Preparation could have been better if I had had the opportunity to test the car at a proper test but that's not the way F1 works.
"Fitness won't be an issue. My neck will be a bit sore after Thursday but we have Friday off and Mikey 'Muscles' (Collier), my physio, is back for one weekend. It's a challenge and that's what we're all here for, isn't it?
"I have every bit of information possible and I have run through it for several days - how the car works, the way the tyres work.
"The tyres have been pretty tricky the last few years, they work differently but you work your way around it. A few things will be tricky but it is about putting the effort in and working around the issues.
"The only thing I am worried about is my neck, but apart from that it should be all right."
The scheme offered free access to a limited number of websites.
However, it was opposed by supporters of net neutrality, who argued data providers should not favour some online services over others.
The free content included selected local news and weather forecasts, the BBC, Wikipedia and some health sites.
"No service provider shall offer or charge discriminatory tariffs for data services on the basis of content," ruled the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India.
The body had been investigating whether any online content should be prioritised over others, or offered for free while others were not.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg said he would work to make Free Basics legal.
"While we're disappointed with today's decision," he wrote, "I want to personally communicate that we are committed to keep working to break down barriers to connectivity in India and around the world.
"Connecting India is an important goal we won't give up on, because more than a billion people in India don't have access to the internet. We know that connecting them can help lift people out of poverty, create millions of jobs and spread education opportunities."
The World Wide Web Foundation, founded by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the web, welcomed the regulator's decision.
"The message is clear: We can't create a two-tier Internet - one for the haves, and one for the have-nots," said programme manager Renata Avila.
"We must connect everyone to the full potential of the open Web.
"We call on companies and the government of India to work with citizens and civil society to explore new approaches to connect everyone as active users, whether through free data allowances, public access schemes or other innovative approaches."
Vikas Pandey, digital producer for the BBC in India, said there had been an intense publicity campaign on both sides of the debate, with Facebook taking out front page advertising in national newspapers to defend the scheme.
"The people who live in cities and are aggressive users of the internet said: 'You can't dictate the terms, give free internet to villagers and then tell them how to use it'," he said.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has maintained that it is "not sustainable to offer the whole internet for free".
The firm previously said it believed the project - which it launched in 2013 as Internet.org and was offered in 36 countries - had brought more than 19 million people online who would not otherwise have been able to afford access.
The teams will play three Tests and five one-day internationals, with the hosts hoping to stage the day-night contest at Auckland's Eden Park.
"We can't confirm it yet, it's something we're extremely interested in and working towards," said New Zealand Cricket's David White.
New Zealand lost to Australia in the first day-night Test in November 2015.
England and Wales Cricket Board chairman Colin Graves said earlier this month that England would host their own day-night Test, adding "we just have to decide when it is going to happen".
New Zealand drew the Test series 1-1 when they toured England in 2015, with the hosts winning the one-day series 3-2.
England also beat New Zealand to make the final of the World Twenty20 in March.
Amir, 23, received a five-year ban and served three months in prison for his part in a spot-fixing scam in 2010.
New Zealand Cricket chief executive David White described the incident as "inappropriate and disrespectful".
Playing the sound effect had "trivialised one of the biggest issues facing cricket", he added.
"I've contacted the Pakistan team management to apologise and to assure them there will be no repeat."
Veteran announcer Mark McLeod, who is contracted by New Zealand Cricket, played the sound during one of Amir's spells in a Twenty20 international at Wellington's Westpac Stadium on Friday.
Amir was convicted for delivering pre-arranged no balls at Lord's in a plot that also involved Mohammad Asif and captain Salman Butt.
He returned to the Pakistan national side for the first time since his ban in January and, in Friday's game, went wicketless as New Zealand won by 95 runs.
Reaction to his return has been mixed, with some spectators booing him.
The charity Surfers Against Sewage (SAS) said heavy rain caused untreated sewage to be discharged into the sea through many combined sewer overflows.
Campaigners claim South West Water's systems "aren't coping".
The company said it had made big improvements to bathing water quality.
Andy Cummins, of SAS, said there had been more incidents in Cornwall and Devon over the weekend than in the previous 10 weeks, including at Croyde, Perranporth and Newquay's Fistral beach.
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"The system is at breaking point," he said.
"If there is no rain it should be fine... however as soon as we do get some rain we are seeing these sewer overflows discharge."
Steve England, editor of surf magazine Carve, from St Agnes in Cornwall, said he was shocked on Sunday, and urged the water company to "get its act together".
"I had to take the decision not to go surfing. I could not take my daughter or son in the sea in the knowledge that South West Water had been discharging raw sewage to my local beach," he said.
He had received alerts from Surfers Against Sewage's Safer Seas Service.
A South West Water spokesman said it had spent more than £2bn transforming bathing water in the south west and was planning further work.
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A statement added: "Combined sewer overflows have prevented customers' homes, gardens and businesses flooding with sewage... The discharge is very diluted and the impact is temporary."
The firm said the issues reported over the weekend had been cleared, apart from problems at Readymoney Cove and Par in Cornwall, which were under investigation.
Dylan Archer, 42, and Richard Smith, 26, were killed when a vintage Hawker Hunter jet crashed into the busy A27 at about 13:20 BST on 22 August.
The pair had been heading for a cycle trip on the South Downs Way when the crash happened.
The A27 has now partially reopened with a 40mph speed limit imposed, as investigations continue.
Mr Archer, the director of a Brighton IT company, leaves behind his partner Alice and their two sons, aged 15 and 12.
In a statement, his family said his "dry humour and generous nature will be greatly missed by all who knew him".
Mr Smith had worked in a bicycle shop in Cosham, Portsmouth, Hampshire, his family said.
Two years ago he moved to Hove where he worked in marketing and web development.
His family said: "Richard's passions in life were for his family, friends and his beloved bikes. His boundless enthusiasm was infectious.
"He was a truly wonderful, caring and loving person."
Victoria Marie Peck, Mr Smith's girlfriend, posted on Facebook: "I still can't put into words just how much he meant to me. He was the first person I saw in the morning and the last person I saw at night.
"It is hard to feel such pain and not be able to turn to the one person who could always make me feel better. He was my everything."
Earlier Giovanna Chirico, the fiancée of victim Mark Trussler, paid tribute to him.
She said he had taken his motorbike to Shoreham as he wanted to see the last flight of the Vulcan.
"It was a nice day and I texted him when the flight was due," she said.
"He replied saying I should get the kids ready so we could take them out to lunch on his return. I said I loved him and he replied 'I love you too, forever.'
"I didn't hear from him again."
His daughter, Samantha Hollis, said: "My dad was my best friend and the best father anyone could ask for.
"I will painfully miss him every day. I am very proud to be his daughter; he was loved by so many."
Mr Trussler, 54, leaves behind six children - Samantha, Kaitlin, Luke, 12, Mia, 10, Sophia, three, and two-year-old Alicia.
Reverend Ann Waizeneker of St Mary de Haura Church in Shoreham said many people in the town were still in shock.
"We've seen a constant stream of people through the church this week, signing the book of condolence, lighting a candle, and sitting quietly and saying a quiet prayer," she said.
"There's a great sense of love around at the moment."
On Saturday, a minute's silence was held near the site to mark one week since the air show disaster.
Hundreds of mourners gathered on a wooden toll bridge overlooking the crash site on Saturday to hold a minute's silence at the exact time the plane plummeted into traffic one week before.
Later, large crowds gathered for a candlelit vigil on the nearby the Adur Ferry Bridge to create a "bridge of light".
The West Sussex coroner, Penelope Schofield, has said all 11 victims have now been formally identified and their families informed.
Inquests into the deaths of the 11 victims will be opened and adjourned on Wednesday at County Hall North in Horsham, where all the names of those killed will be officially released.
Sussex Police said it has no reason to believe anyone else had died.
Following the crash and resulting fireball, specialists - including forensic archaeologists, anthropologists, odontologists and pathologists - had to examine DNA, teeth and human remains to discover who died.
The wreckage of the plane has been sent to Farnborough in Hampshire where the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) are trying to determine the cause of the disaster.
Their initial findings are expected to be published in the next few days.
Two lanes have been opened on the eastbound carriageway towards Brighton, together with one lane on the westbound carriageway.
A 40mph speed limit has been imposed while investigators continue to work in the area.
The pilot, Andy Hill, remains in a critical but stable condition in an unnamed specialist hospital.
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One of its fighters carried out the suicide attack on the Coptic Christian cathedral, the group said in a statement.
Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi had earlier named the attacker as Shafik Mahmoud Mohamed Mostafa, 22.
Mr Sisi said the attack caused "pain to all Egyptians".
IS named the attacker as Abu Abdallah al-Masri.
President Sisi used his address at a service for victims on Monday to urge the government to amend the country's terrorism laws, which he said were "restricting the judicial system" in its battle to prevent such attacks.
He also declared three days of national mourning for the victims of the blast.
The Christian minority in Egypt has frequently been targeted by Islamist militants.
Egypt has seen a wave of attacks by militants since 2013, when the military overthrew President Mohammed Morsi, an elected leader who backed the Muslim Brotherhood, and launched a crackdown against Islamists.
Some of Mr Morsi's supporters blamed Christians for supporting the overthrow.
Instead, it has decided the Chagossians will be offered compensation worth £40m over the next 10 years.
The government also confirmed that the UK would allow the US to keep its military base in the islands in the British Indian Ocean Territory.
Campaigners said they were "disappointed" with the decision.
Families were forced to leave the British overseas territory by the government between 1967 and 1973 when it was leased to the US to build an airbase at Diego Garcia.
Foreign Office minister Baroness Anelay told MPs the government had decided against resettlement on the grounds of "feasibility, defence and security interests and the cost to the British taxpayer".
She said it had "taken care" in coming to its final decision on resettlement and would instead seek to support improvements to the livelihoods of the islanders in their current communities.
The Chagos Refugees Group, which is fighting for the right of the islanders to be allowed to return, said it was "disappointed" with the decision.
Campaigner Sabrina Jean told the BBC: "We will continue our fight any way we can by lobbying here in the UK and the US to see what help and support we can have.
"For me the British government has always done wrong things to the Chagossian community but now it's time to see what we can do to let them correct the wrong they have done to us.
"Everyone has the right to live on their island but why not us?"
There is a 3,000-strong community of Chagossians who live in Crawley, West Sussex, near to Gatwick airport.
The government said in coming to the decision it had considered carefully the practicalities of setting up a small remote community on low-lying islands.
It said the possible challenges were "significant" and included the need to set up modern public services, the limited healthcare and education that would be available and a lack of jobs.
Allen Vincatassin, president of the provisional government of Diego Garcia and Chagos Islands, said he wanted to work with the government regarding the £40m package.
He said: "This money is going to be spent on training and also how to alleviate poverty in certain communities. We will need discuss further how this money will be spent to change the lives of our people.
"This should have been given to us years ago. But in no way will we will be accepting this as an exchange of our right to return."
Television presenter Ben Fogle, who is patron of the UK Chagos Support Association, described the decision as a "dark day" in Britain's history.
In 2015, he insisted he would charter a boat and take exiled islanders back to their homeland if the government refused to support the resettlement.
Reacting to the latest decision, he said: "It's another heartbreaking day for the Chagossian community, who have repeatedly been betrayed and abused by their own government.
"That even now, with so many reasons to support their return, the government has failed to do the right thing, makes this a dark day in our country's history."
The government's decision is the latest in a long legal battle regarding the islanders' right to return back to the islands.
In 2000, the High Court ruled they could return to 65 islands but not to Diego Garcia. The decision was nullified four years later by the government, using royal prerogative.
Then in 2007, the court overturned that order and rejected the government's argument that the royal prerogative was immune from scrutiny.
However, the following year the government won an appeal, with the House of Lords ruling the exiles could not return.
This decision was upheld by the Supreme Court in June.
Pools have won two of the past three games, and moved eight points clear of the relegation places after Tuesday's draw at Newport County.
Hignett, 46, has lost only one of his five matches in charge since replacing Ronnie Moore in mid-February.
"The lads can't have any complaints at the moment," he told BBC Tees.
"They've just got to bide their time, be patient, but make sure when their time comes they're ready."
Form has dictated team selection, although Hignett admits the situation has provided him with welcome quandaries as players look to impress.
"They've all showed me something that I like," the former Middlesbrough, Barnsley and Crewe midfielder added.
"I'm the manager I have to make decisions, we're on a really good run and the lads who have the shirts now, have them and it's up to them to keep them.
"The other lads have to train well and play well when they get the chance."
Eloise Aimee Parry, 21, from Shrewsbury, died in hospital on 12 April after becoming unwell.
Police said the tablets were being tested, but are believed to contain dinitrophenol, known as DNP, which is a highly toxic industrial chemical.
Her mother Fiona Parry said there was "no great panic" until a toxicology report revealed "how dire her situation was" because there was "no antidote".
She said her daughter, who was a student at Glyndwr University, had walked into A&E.
"The drug was in her system, there was no antidote, two tablets was a lethal dose - and she had taken eight," she said.
"As the drug kicked in and started to make her metabolism soar, they attempted to cool her down, but they were fighting an uphill battle.
"She had taken so much DNP that the consequences were inevitable."
Ms Parry said her daughter would be "missed by everyone who knew her".
A coroner's report will establish the exact cause of Ms Parry's death and police have warned others about buying diet pills online.
"We are undoubtedly concerned over the origin and sale of these pills and are working with partner agencies to establish where they were bought from and how they were advertised," Ch Insp Jennifer Mattinson said.
"We urge the public to be incredibly careful when purchasing medicine or supplements over the internet.
"Substances from unregistered websites could put your health at risk as they could be extremely harmful, out-of-date or fake," she said.
The Food Standards Agency has previously advised people not to take any tablets or powders containing DNP, which it said was not fit for human consumption.
A delayed annual report on Turkish prospects for EU membership says there have been serious setbacks in the past two years on freedom of expression.
It also says the independence of the judiciary had been undermined and that new laws run against EU standards.
The report's publication comes at a time when the EU needs Turkey's help in trying to control the refugee crisis.
It also follows parliamentary elections in which President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's Justice and Development Party (AKP) regained the majority it lost in June.
Responding to the report, Turkey's ministry for EU affairs called the comments "unfair and excessive", adding that they do not "duly reflect Turkey's reforms in these fields".
"Such comments overlook the balance between freedom and security which is a must for democracies where rules of law prevails," it added.
President Erdogan has stressed his support for a constitution centred on a strong presidency - something he says will be achieved in the next four years.
The report had been pushed back by several weeks because sensitive negotiations on the refugee crisis were taking place with leading Turkish officials, including the president, shortly before the 1 November elections.
The BBC's Chris Morris in Brussels says the Commission's report seems to pull few punches.
Although Mr Erdogan himself is not named in the report's key findings, there are fairly direct criticisms of Turkey's powerful president, our correspondent reports.
After several years of progress on freedom of expression, the report warns of "serious backsliding" over the past two years.
"Ongoing and new criminal cases against journalists, writers or social media users, intimidation of journalists and media outlets as well as the authorities' actions curtailing freedom of media are of considerable concern," it says.
Changes to Turkey's internet law, allowing the authorities to block websites without a court order, were a significant step back from European standards, it adds.
The report says there has also been a severe deterioration of its security situation and that it is imperative that peace talks resume with the rebel Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), designated a terrorist group by the Turkish government and the EU.
Hundreds have been killed in fighting between Turkish security forces and PKK fighters in the country's east and south-east since a ceasefire collapsed in July.
Since the election, Mr Erdogan has pushed forward with plans to "liquidate" the PKK and to hold a referendum on a new constitution with increased presidential powers.
However, the AKP, with 317 seats in the 550-seat parliament is short of the 330 seats needed to hold a referendum.
The European Commission warns that the escalation in violence has given rise serious concerns over human rights violations, and that anti-terrorism measures taken in that context need to be proportionate.
It also says that the independence of the judiciary and the principle of separation of powers have been undermined since 2014, with judges and prosecutors placed under strong political pressure. The government's active pursuit of shadowy forces known as "deep state" is highlighted.
The influence by the executive in the investigation and prosecution of high-profile corruption cases continues to constitute a major concern for the Commission, which considers Turkey's track record inadequate in the fight against corruption.
Turkey applied for EU membership in 1987 and accession negotiations began in 2005, but only one of the 33 "negotiation chapters" has since been completed.
Duncan Tomlin, 32, from Oxfordshire, was restrained on 26 July 2014 and put in a police van in Ryecroft, Haywards Heath, where he became unresponsive.
He was taken out of the van and given CPR, but died later in hospital.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) said it had passed files on the sergeant and four PCs to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).
It added that there may also be a case to answer for gross misconduct against the five officers.
IPCC commissioner Jennifer Izekor said it would await a CPS decision and would in the meantime "engage in discussions with Sussex Police about the gross misconduct recommendations".
The father of Mr Tomlin, who was living in Burgess Hill at the time, welcomed the decision to refer the case and said the five officers should now be suspended.
"We consider that it is vital for ensuring continuing public trust in the police that these officers are not allowed to remain on any form of active duty whilst the CPS consider if charges should be brought," Paul Tomlin said.
"We call on the chief constable of Sussex Police to now suspend all five officers concerned."
A Sussex Police spokesman said: "This remains an ongoing IPCC investigation and we are unable to comment on the specifics of the incident in Haywards Heath.
"Our thoughts and condolences remain with Mr Tomlin's family and friends.
"We are working closely with the IPCC in support of their investigation and we await the decision of the Crown Prosecution Service as to whether any charges will be brought against the officers."
The girl was walking with her mother before she was snatched, at Morrisons in Blackburn, Lancashire, at about 15:00 on Thursday.
The man initially carried her away down a travelator but then put her down and she was able to run back to her mother.
A 44-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of child abduction after the incident at the Railway Road store.
Det Insp Tim McDermott, of Lancashire Police, said the incident was "distressing" for the family and the motives for what happened were "unclear".
Some panels landed on the fourth storey of John Lewis and others on Station Street, which police then shut.
No-one was hurt and there was no damage to property on the street below the department store, a West Midlands Fire Service spokeswoman said.
A spokesman for Grand Central said "adverse weather conditions" meant the tiles had become loose.
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Dave Ladkin photographed workers at the top of the building shortly after the panels came off and questioned whether strong winds or poor construction was to blame.
Grand Central shopping centre sits above New Street Station and opened in September, several days after passengers began using the redesigned railway concourse.
It cost about £750m to redesign the railway station and construct the shopping complex in place of the old Pallasades Centre.
In a statement, Grand Central said: "Due to recent adverse weather conditions, a small number of tiles from the roof of Grand Central Birmingham became loose.
"Although no-one was hurt, for precautionary measures, Station Road was temporarily closed while contractors on-site made safe the area to ensure that no further damage occurs."
The 28-year-old, capped six times by his country, made 50 appearances for Darmstadt after joining in 2015.
But the midfielder was unable to stop his side from being relegated from Germany's top flight this season and has moved Norwich on a three-year deal.
He will officially join on Friday, subject to governing bodies' approval.
Norwich head coach Daniel Farke, who himself moved from Germany to Carrow Road in May, told the club website: "I've followed Mario's path for several years.
"He's a really smart technical player with a brilliant left foot. He will bring a lot of quality passing and special creativity to the team.
"In addition to that, he's a really good character and a very nice guy who will fit into Norwich. I'm really looking forward to working with him."
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BBC News looks at some of the highlights along the way and gauges reaction from people along the route.
The first stage on 5 July departs from Leeds Town Hall, a suitably imposing symbol of Victorian civic confidence to send the cyclists on their way.
Keith Wakefield, leader of Leeds City Council, said: "I've never had so many people contact me to say how unbelievable this is for them in their lifetime being able to see one of the biggest sporting events in the world."
From there the cyclists make their way a few miles north to Harewood House, a grand 18th Century country house whose grounds, designed by landscape architect Capability Brown, are now more widely known as the location for ITV's long-running soap Emmerdale.
Tour de France officials were entertained at Harewood during Yorkshire's bid to host the event.
Mike Schafer, chief executive of the Harewood House Trust, said: "We will work hard to help showcase the beautiful county of Yorkshire to the world - this is an opportunity for us all and we look forward to July 2014."
The route then takes in the market town of Ilkley, whose cycling club has more than 1,000 members and claims to be the fastest growing in the UK.
Katherine Church, a member of Ilkley Cycling Club, said the town was an "obvious choice".
"It's just beautiful. The roads are amazing, the climbs are incredible, the scenery is spectacular, there's lots of different challenges. It's just going to be brilliant."
Keighley and Ilkley MP Kris Hopkins said: "I have no doubt that it will also encourage people of all ages to dust off their bikes, pull on their helmets and get pedalling."
Moving into the Yorkshire Dales National Park, the Tour will pass through the villages of Rylstone, home to the Calendar Girls, Kilnsey with its spectacular limestone crag and Aysgarth, close to the stunning Aysgarth Falls.
Councillor John Weighell from North Yorkshire County Council said: "I'm absolutely thrilled to see the Tour take in some of the most stunning scenery in the Yorkshire Dales.
"Just to have the Tour for almost a full day is wonderful news for the economy and for tourism in North Yorkshire."
The first day ends at the spa town of Harrogate where the weary competitors may be tempted to revive their spirits at the refurbished Turkish Baths or with a cuppa at the famous Betty's tea rooms.
Betty's spokeswoman Paula Kaye said: "We are extremely excited about the news that the sprint finale of the first day of Le Grand Depart will be in Harrogate."
Day two of the 101st Tour gets under starters orders at York racecourse.
Clerk of the course William Derby said: "In our history we have hosted the Queen, the Pope, Royal Ascot, The St Leger, the Olympic Torch and now the Tour is coming to the city, it's exciting news.
"We know that a season at York Races generates £58m for the local economy so can understand how an event like the Tour could well generate double that amount for the region over the weekend alone."
On its way south the route then wends its way through the Pennines, taking in Haworth, known worldwide as the home of the Bronte sisters, and Holmfirth, the filming location for BBC sitcom Last Of The Summer Wine.
The Pennine leg includes the challenging ascent of Holme Moss, a moor rising to 524m (1,719ft) just within the Peak District national park.
Matthew Dixon, a member of nearby Bradfield Parish Council, said: "Bradfield and the surrounding areas has stunning countryside that will provide a breathtaking backdrop to the Tour de France. Village folk are already very excited at the prospect."
Stage two will end in Sheffield where Marco Mori, from La Squadra cycling club, said: "It's fantastic news, especially for those who've been involved in cycling all their lives.
"There's a lot to look forward to, and even beforehand the teams will be over here checking out the route - we'll be seeing team riders, team cars."
From Yorkshire the Tour moves to the east of England with the third stage beginning in Cambridge on Monday 7 July.
The city, famous for its university, is also a hub of science and technology and is often referred to as the cycling capital of the UK.
Councillor Martin Curtis, Cambridgeshire's "cycling champion", said: "For me, this news cements Cambridgeshire's reputation as a place which has cycling in its DNA, with thousands of people getting on their bikes every day."
Colin Bedford, who runs March Veteran and Vintage Cycle Club in the city, said: "Our club has been involved in three Tours de Britain and fingers crossed we might be asked to put on a display to entertain the crowd for the Tour de France, which honestly would be the bee's knees."
It is then on to the relative tranquillity of Epping Forest, where Chris Whitbread, leader of Epping Forest District Council, said riders could enjoy "many historic gems" before heading to the capital.
"I would love for them to come to my home town of Epping obviously, but there's the forest, of course and Waltham Abbey," he said.
In London, the route takes in the Olympic Park and a final sprint to The Mall.
The HBO sci-fi series has 22 nominations in total, while comedy show Saturday Night Live also has 22.
Stranger Things and Feud: Bette and Joan are up for 18 each, followed by comedy Veep with 17.
Among the other British nominees, Ewan McGregor, Riz Ahmed and Matthew Rhys have two nominations each.
Other big names on the list include Oscar winner Viola Davis, who is nominated for How To Get Away With Murder, and Nicole Kidman and Reese Witherspoon - both for Big Little Lies.
Susan Sarandon and Jessica Lange, who played Bette Davis and Joan Crawford respectively in Feud: Bette and Joan, both get nods.
There's a posthumous nomination for Carrie Fisher for her guest role in Channel 4 comedy Catastrophe.
Benedict Cumberbatch is nominated for Sherlock: The Lying Detective.
His competition for best lead actor in a limited series or movie includes Robert De Niro, who's shortlisted for playing fraudster Bernie Madoff in The Wizard of Lies.
The Crown and The Handmaid's Tale - which had been expected to be among the top drama contenders - both have 13 nominations.
They include nods for their female stars Claire Foy and Elisabeth Moss, both nominated in the best lead actress category.
Thandie Newton is up for best supporting actress in a drama series for playing a robotic brothel madam in Westworld, which is based on Michael Crichton's 1973 film of the same name.
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Five of the seven nominations for best drama series have gone to new shows, including NBC's This Is Us, which is the first show from a major broadcast network to be in that category since 2011.
The new season of HBO's Game of Thrones isn't nominated because it is starting too late to be eligible this year.
Despite that, HBO had the highest overall tally with 110 nominations, followed by Netflix with 91 and NBC with 60.
The winners will be announced at a ceremony hosted by Stephen Colbert on 17 September.
The full nominations are on the Emmys website.
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Counties are allowed to field two overseas players in Twenty20 games, with up to four registered for that competition, although only two can be registered at any one time, and registrations must be for a minimum of 10 days.
Only one overseas player is permitted in the County Championship and One-Day Cup competitions.
Kolpak contracts are signed by foreign players, using a European Court ruling to avoid counting against the quota of one overseas player per club.
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Other news: The county have announced a new coaching set-up, with ex-captain Kim Barnett as director of cricket, supported by Twenty20 specialist coach John Wright, first XI support coach Steve Stubbings and development coach Mal Loye. AJ Harris has left his post as academy director, while seamer Tony Palladino has taken a player-coach role. Durston's departure leaves a vacancy as limited-overs captain.
Other news: Durham were relegated to Division Two over financial issues but have agreed a £3.74m rescue package with the local council. Keaton Jennings has become One-Day captain following Stoneman's departure, with Paul Collingwood continuing to lead in the Championship and T20 Blast.
Other news: Ravi Bopara has relinquished the limited-overs captaincy, with Ryan ten Doeschate now leading in all formats.
Possible signings: Hampshire are reportedly interested in Worcestershire all-rounder Moeen Ali, who will be out of contract at the end of the summer, though Warwickshire are favourites for his signature and Middlesex are also rumoured to be interested.
Other news: Hampshire were reprieved from relegation because of Durham's financial problems. Craig White has replaced Dale Benkenstein as head coach. Overseas signing Bailey will skipper the County Championship side once he arrives in May, with club captain James Vince still leading in limited-overs cricket.
Possible signings: Kent have been linked with New Zealand pace bowler Adam Milne as a Twenty20 overseas signing, after a move for fellow seamer Duanne Olivier was reportedly blocked by Cricket South Africa.
Other news: Head coach Jimmy Adams has stepped down and been replaced by his assistant Matt Walker, who will be assisted by ex-South Africa paceman Allan Donald - although former Yorkshire coach Jason Gillespie will fill the assistant coach role on an interim basis while Donald awaits a UK visa. Min Patel and Jason Weaver have been appointed second XI coach and high performance director respectively, replacing Simon Willis who has taken a role with Sri Lanka.
Other news: Director of cricket Ashley Giles has left to return to Warwickshire. He has been replaced by his former coach and ex-captain Glen Chapple as head coach, assisted by Mark Chilton. Cricket Australia have blocked all-rounder James Faulkner returning to Old Trafford as an overseas player for Twenty20 cricket.
Other news: Elite performance director Andrew McDonald has left the county, to be replaced by assistant Pierre de Bruyn. Former Derbyshire elite performance director Graeme Welch will be his assistant, with former batsman John Sadler as 2nd XI coach. Clint McKay has taken over as limited-overs captain from Mark Pettini.
Possible signings: Middlesex are reportedly interested in Worcestershire all-rounder Moeen Ali, who will be out of contract at the end of the summer, though Warwickshire are favourites for his signature and Hampshire are also rumoured to be interested.
Other news: Ex-New Zealand captain Daniel Vettori has joined as Twenty20 head coach, with McCullum replacing Dawid Malan as T20 captain.
Other news: Ex-England batsman James Taylor has joined as a coaching consultant, with former Northants captain David Sales taking a part-time coaching role.
Future departures: Championship captain Chris Read will retire from cricket at the end of the season.
Other news: Former England head coach Peter Moores, who has worked as a coaching consultant at Trent Bridge since June 2015, will took over as head coach from 1 October. He will work alongside director of cricket Mick Newell, with Paul Franks as assistant head coach and Ant Botha as assistant coach.
Possible signings: Director of cricket Matthew Maynard has hinted that he wants an overseas signing who would be available for the entire T20 Blast campaign, rather than re-signing Chris Gayle for a third stint.
Other news: Rogers will return as a batting coach and player mentor for the first half of the season. Tom Abell has succeeded Rogers as Somerset's County Championship captain.
Possible signings: Ex-Leicestershire batsman Angus Robson has joined on what the county describes as "a season-long trial" in which he will be registered to play for the 2nd XI and in the Sussex Premier League, as he looks to earn a full contract.
Other news: Ed Joyce will only play part of the County Championship season after signing a central contract with Cricket Ireland. Former captain Mike Yardy has been appointed batting coach. Chief executive Zac Toumazi left the club at the end of 2016 and has been replaced by former England rugby union international Rob Andrew.
Possible signings: Worcestershire all-rounder Moeen Ali, who will be out of contract at the end of the summer, has been heavily linked with a return to Warwickshire, though Middlesex and Hampshire are also reportedly interested.
Other news: Ashley Giles has returned to Edgbaston from Lancashire as sport director, replacing Dougie Brown, while Jim Troughton has moved up from assistant coach to become first-team coach.
Possible signings: The county may bring in a short-term overseas replacement while Hastings is with Australia's Champions Trophy squad in June.
Possible departures: England all-rounder Moeen Ali, who has two seasons to run on his contract, which runs out at the end of the 2018 season, has been heavily linked with a return to Warwickshire, although Middlesex and Hampshire are also reportedly interested.
Other news: Joe Leach has replaced Daryl Mitchell as captain. The county had indicated that they would seek a replacement for Hastings for the first half of the season after he suffered a knee injury, but he has reported fit for the start of the campaign.
Future departures: Seamer Ryan Sidebottom will retire at the end of the 2017 season.
Other news: First XI coach Jason Gillespie left at the end of the 2016 season and has been replaced by club captain Andrew Gale. Gary Ballance has been named captain in all three formats of the game, meaning Alex Lees also steps down as limited-overs captain.
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Rostami, 25, lifted 217kg with his last attempt in the clean and jerk to break his own world record and beat China's Tao Tian.
Tian equalled Rostami's clean and jerk lift, missing out on gold by just one kilogram.
Gabriel Sincraian of Romania won bronze, lifting a combined 390kg.
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The 25-year-old played eight games for the Raiders in 2016, who lost in last weekend's play-offs last four.
He returns for a second spell in Super League, having played 10 games for Catalans Dragons in 2014.
"Sam will bring a wealth of experience and a good kicking game," said Wildcats head coach Chris Chester.
"He is a great signing for the club, a big coup and a number of Super League clubs were chasing his signature."
Williams discussed Chester's methods with Raiders teammate Josh Hodgson, who played under the Trinity coach at former club Hull KR.
"I have heard good things from Josh on his coaching and I am now excited to be a part of it and am looking forward to what the future holds," he added.
Dairy farmers have warned they will go out of business if they do not receive higher prices for their milk.
The price paid to farmers is about 19p a litre but they say they need about 27p a litre to break even.
Ms O'Neill said she would continue to lobby Europe to address the issue.
She will lead a delegation in the coming weeks to meet the EU farm commissioner Phil Hogan.
He has, so far, resisted calls for the EU to raise the milk "intervention price".
"What we need to see is intervention at a European level, particularly in relation to price intervention that would allow the market to bottom out which would allow us then to start to build again," Ms O'Neill said.
"Phil Hogan can continue to live in an ivory tower if he wishes but this is a global problem. It's not just a problem for farmers in Northern Ireland, it's a problem right across the board on a European level."
UUP MEP Jim Nicholson has brought a report before the European agriculture committee which was endorsed by members and will be voted on by parliament.
In the report, Mr Nicholson calls for the intervention price of milk to be raised - that is the base price that the EU pays, regardless of market conditions.
"So far, the door has been slammed in our face by saying yes, there is a problem. But it's not a crisis so we have got to continue that battle and that is what I will do," he said.
Ms O'Neill said her staff had been working with farmers in Northern Ireland to address "cash flow pressures".
"They've been working right throughout the spring and the summer around looking at training events, looking at specific issues around cost control, benchmarking, business management, so helping farmers with practical things on the ground and what they can do in relation to their own costs," she said.
"I would encourage all farmers who are in difficulty to speak to dairy advisors."
The Stormont agriculture committee is being recalled on Thursday to discuss the crisis, and farmers are planning a protest.
DUP MLA Edwin Poots, who sits on the committee, said the dairy industry was traditionally a sector which had "steady prices" and "reasonable profit".
"Over the course of this past number of years, we've had huge fluctuations in prices and the dip, on this occasion, has been extremely long and extremely deep and farmers are being hit like never before," he said.
"Dairy farmers, traditionally, have borrowed much more extensively from the banks and consequently there is a significant danger should nothing be done to actually support the dairy industry at this time.
"As a result of that, many farmers, without assistance, will end up going bankrupt and we'll see considerable numbers of farms in our newspapers up for sale by the latter end of this year."
John Henning from Danske Bank said "inevitably" there was "more pain to come" for dairy farmers.
"We're making those phone calls, we're calling out to see those dairy farmers to identify where there are cash flow difficulties and working with those farmers to help get them through the current difficulties," he said.
"We've developed the dairy support package to help those farming customers through the inevitable cash flow difficulties which will follow the current milk price.
"Analysts are generally positive about the longer term outlook for the dairy sector and we share that optimism, but increasingly the industry recognises that agriculture is really operating in a global environment."
There are more than 2,500 dairy farms in Northern Ireland.
English Heritage has hidden 1,066 arrows at castles, forts, stone circles and stately homes.
Finders win one of 1,066 prizes - one is a sleepover at Dover Castle.
The search started with an arrow placed on the battlefield in Sussex on "the very site where William beat Harold", chief executive Kate Mavor said.
The hunt continues until all the arrows, which also have red feathers and a unique code, have been found.
Ms Mavor said: "1066 is the most famous date in English history and the Battle of Hastings was arguably the most important battle in our history, the results of which had consequences for every corner of England."
Other prizes include a private tour of Stonehenge and tickets to English Heritage's re-enactment of the Battle of Hastings in October.
The battle, which happened on 14 October 1066, is being marked with a series of events including recreating the march of King Harold's army from Yorkshire down to Battle, near Hastings, and his clash with the Normans.
The conflict saw the deaths of the country's last Anglo Saxon king, Harold Godwinson, and much of England's nobility and enabled William, Duke of Normandy, to claim the English throne.
This year, English Heritage will also open up the roof of the Great Gatehouse at the abbey founded at Battle by William of Normandy, who went on to be known as William the Conqueror.
Ex-Forest striker Holt played with the 21-year-old at Hibernian last season.
Cummings scored 23 goals in 39 appearances as Hibs won the Scottish Championship title.
Holt told BBC Radio Nottingham: "He gets in fantastic positions. Nine out of 10 times, when he gets an opportunity you'll back him to score."
Cummings has joined the Championship side on a three-year deal for an undisclosed fee and Holt expects him to transfer his talents to England's second tier..
"He's a goalscorer," Holt added. "When the ball comes in the box he comes alive.
"He has scored bagfuls. He has stuff to work on but he is only young.
"He has worked a lot more on taking the ball and bringing the team up the pitch. That's where he will get better and better. And if he can add to what he can do then he has a good career ahead of him."
"He needs to test himself again. It's a great move. That club is a sleeping giant and if he can do what I know he can do then the fans will like him.
"I knew Forest was on the radar for him. It's a club that was fantastic for me. I loved it but it needs to be pushing get to the Premier League. Bringing in players who are hungry can only be good for the club.
"He scores goals for fun. Fans will have to give him a bit of breathing space because of where he has come from, but I am sure when he does find his feet the fans will take to him."
The Dragons are already guaranteed a place in the last eight, but a win would secure top spot in Pool Two and a home quarter-final tie.
Sale, two points behind in the table, can also win the pool with a victory.
"We've got an opportunity to go through as one of the top teams and that's our aim," said Jones.
"We want to keep that momentum going so let's have a go. We've got everything to gain and nothing to lose."
Dragons beat Sale 30-12 in the opening pool game, capitalising on the English clubs' decision to field a weakened team at Rodney Parade.
The Sharks have won every game since, and will be favourites to win the return leg that will secure top spot. If they lose, they could still make it through as one of the three best-runners up.
"They will be a full tilt. It's important to them that they get through to the last eight," added Jones, who spent seven years as a coach at Sale.
"They've got one foot in the quarter-final so they'll be going all-out to win and we'll be doing everything we can to quality top.
"I'd like them to qualify as well being a former club, but for us we want to be as high as we can."
Dragons prop Shaun Knight was at Gloucester last season when they won the Challenge Cup, but was not in the squad for the final when they beat Edinburgh.
"It's nice going into the game knowing we've got a quarter-final, but the best chance to play in the semi-final, is a home game," he said.
"The Sale game is a must-win game because of that, irrespective of other results.
"We had a good victory over Sale at Rodney Parade, this will be a tougher test, but they are always tough."
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Team-mate Kristian Thomas posted 15.0 early on in Switzerland but was beaten into second when Wilson scored 15.3 on the last routine.
City of Leeds gymnast Wilson said: "That feeling was incredible. You train your whole life for moments like that."
On Saturday, GB won silver in the team final in Bern behind Russia and ahead of the hosts Switzerland.
Wilson and Thomas had scored 15.033 to go through to the high bar final as joint-best qualifiers.
Thomas, up second, had watched several gymnasts stutter before Wilson came through at the end to snatch gold with a near-flawless routine.
Wilson added: "All the better to do it alongside Kristian, who's helped me so much the last two years on the senior circuit.
"I'd hit that routine twice very well this week so I knew I could do it.
"I felt the nerves today, definitely, but I got through it and I can't be happier."
For Thomas, it was a happier ending to a frustrating day having finished fourth earlier in both floor and vault finals.
There was an uncharacteristic error from Louis Smith on the pommel as the world silver medallist's hand slipped and he fell off the apparatus to also finish fourth.
In other finals, Courtney Tulloch gave another fine showing on rings to come joint fourth, while Dan Purvis was eighth on the floor.
The event is the last major competition before the Rio Olympics team selection is announced on 12 July.
Public Health England (PHE) said the confirmed case of psittacosis, which is normally an infection of birds, can cause severe health issues in humans.
The birds were taken to a pet shop when the owner was unable to look after them.
Symptoms in humans include fever, chills, cough, fatigue, muscle and chest, pain, loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea.
Other symptoms include headaches, sweating and abnormal intolerance to light.
Sick birds may show signs of sleepiness, shivering, weight loss, breathing difficulties and diarrhoea but not all will show these signs.
PHE said psittacosis is caused by the bacterium chlamydophila psittaci and spread either by airborne transmission or by handling infected birds.
It is found particularly in parrots, parakeets, budgerigars and cockatiels but can affect other birds and some poultry.
As a precaution, people with concerns relating to birds they have purchased between 28 May and 3 June are advised to contact their vet to discuss their birds' health.
Between 25 and 50 cases of psittacosis are laboratory confirmed in England and Wales each year.
But Mike Wade, from PHE, said instances of people suffering severe illness as a result of infection from this bacteria are rare.
He said in humans symptoms usually appear after 10 days but can take up to 30 days to present themselves.
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Many sides are fighting each other, but one group, called Islamic State, has shocked the world by using extreme violence against anyone who doesn't agree with their views.
It is fighting to gain more power in Syria, and has now taken control of the ancient city of Palmyra.
Rising out of the desert, the site contains the ruins of a great city, which Unesco and others consider one of the most important cultural centres of the ancient world.
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Boparan Private Office said it would secure the jobs of 2,000 workers in Norfolk and Suffolk when it acquired the company in 2016.
Unite union officer Steve Harley said employees "feel betrayed".
Bernard Matthews said it would "focus on what we're best at" by closing chicken production at its Norfolk headquarters in Great Witchingham.
Jobs were also lost in a restructure of its head office.
Food tycoon Ranjit Boparan bought Bernard Matthews from investment company Rutland Partners in September.
Shortly after the purchase, Unite, which represents 550 people at Great Witchingham and Holton in Suffolk, said it received assurances Boparan Private Office would process chickens as well as turkeys.
Mr Harley said his members now "felt very let down".
A Bernard Matthews spokesman said the company avoided some job losses by redeploying people within the business.
He added: "These changes will enable the business to focus on what we're best at and allow us to make things happen with agility and pace."
Cardiff forward Warburton is out with the shoulder injury that has sidelined him since he suffered it against Ospreys on 30 April.
Gloucester's Ross Moriarty will win his sixth cap at blindside flanker, with Lydiate switching to openside.
Lock Alun Wyn Jones features after a heel injury, but prop Paul James has failed to recover from a calf injury.
Fellow prop Samson Lee and centre Scott Williams are fit after missing the end of the Pro12 season.
Sunday's game is a warm-up for Wales' three Tests against world champions New Zealand in June, a tour for which Warburton has been named captain.
Lydiate captained Wales in their 67-14 win over Italy in their final game of the Six Nations in March.
"Dan led us exceptionally well in our last match so deserves to continue with those duties this weekend," said head coach Warren Gatland.
"When you look at the summer series ahead, this is a really important match for the squad.
"It will be an important hit-out for both teams and as ever it will be an important Test match as it's England v Wales at Twickenham."
British and Irish Lions second-row Jones and loose-head James both missed Ospreys' Pro12 run-in, with James having eye surgery in April.
Tight-head Lee missed Scarlets' final game of the season after suffering a head blow in the Judgement Day win over Newport Gwent Dragons, while team-mate Williams was also absent with a hamstring injury.
Gatland's side are without prop Tomas Francis at Twickenham as he plays for Exeter in the Premiership final 24 hours earlier, while Bristol back Matthew Morgan will also be missing as he recovers from the Championship play-off final second leg against Doncaster on Wednesday.
France-based players Jonathan Davies and Luke Charteris are unavailable too as they feature in the Top 14.
Northampton forward Teimana Harrison will make his England debut, starting at blindside flanker.
Prop Ellis Genge, hooker Tommy Taylor and centre Ollie Devoto are in line for debuts from the bench.
Players from Premiership finalists Saracens and Exeter are not included.
Wales team to face England: Liam Williams (Scarlets), George North (Northampton Saints), Scott Williams (Scarlets), Jamie Roberts (Harlequins), Hallam Amos (Newport Gwent Dragons), Dan Biggar (Ospreys), Rhys Webb (Ospreys); Rob Evans (Scarlets), Scott Baldwin (Ospreys), Samson Lee (Scarlets), Jake Ball (Scarlets), Alun Wyn Jones (Ospreys), Ross Moriarty (Gloucester), Dan Lydiate (Ospreys, captain), Taulupe Faletau (Newport Gwent Dragons)
Replacements: Kristian Dacey (Cardiff Blues), Gethin Jenkins (Cardiff Blues), Rhodri Jones (Scarlets), Josh Turnbull (Cardiff Blues), James King (Ospreys), Lloyd Williams (Cardiff Blues), Rhys Priestland (Bath), Gareth Anscombe (Cardiff Blues)
Bow Group chairman Benjamin Harris-Quinney warned of "sleepwalking into a Labour government" without the tactic.
But his comments were disowned by all of the Bow Group's patrons, including Conservative grandees Lords Howe, Heseltine, Howard and Lamont.
They said people should vote Conservative "in all situations".
Polls suggest a hung Parliament is likely after 7 May, and Mr Harris-Quinney, whose comments were first reported in the Daily Telegraph, said he would prefer a Conservative majority.
But he said "few in the Conservative Party will acknowledge the reality that this is now very unlikely to happen, and without that acknowledgement we are sleep-walking into a Labour government".
He added: "We recognise the need to keep Ed Miliband out of Number 10, and the best way to do this is for Conservative voters to lend their votes to UKIP, who are best placed to beat Labour in many areas."
The Bow Group describes itself as "the United Kingdom's oldest conservative think tank" and "firmly housed in the Conservative family".
UKIP leader Nigel Farage welcomed Mr Harris-Quinney's endorsement.
But all of the Bow Group's patrons - which include former deputy prime minister Lord Heseltine, ex-Conservative leader Lord Howard and ex-chancellor Lord Lamont - distanced themselves from Mr Harris-Quinney's comments.
In a joint statement they said: "As patrons of the Bow Group we believe that this country's best interests are served by voting Conservative in all situations.
"Ben Harris-Quinney does not speak for us or represent our views."
Mr Harris-Quinney was challenged over his credentials during BBC Two's Daily Politics programme, and he rejected the notion that he was only speaking for himself when he called for Tory voters to vote tactically for UKIP.
The think tank chairman, who said he was not a member of the Conservative Party, insisted that the paper was the product of a work of a number of people in the Bow Group, something which he said was customary.
But appearing on the same programme, Lord Heseltine asked, "who is this guy?", adding that he was "of no account".
"The Bow Group must have its own examination of how this guy, who is not a member of the Conservative Party, who is actively campaigning in a way that is incompatible with Conservative policy, has been able to produce this document," he said.
Meanwhile, the Independent newspaper has backed the continuation of the Conservative-Lib Dem coalition in its editorial.
The paper said a minority Labour administration reliant on the support of the SNP would be "a disaster for the country" and added: "For all its faults, another Lib-Con coalition would both prolong recovery and give our kingdom a better chance of continued existence."
The London-based Evening Standard newspaper also declared its hand, coming out in support of the Conservatives who would be "best" for the capital.
The veteran Nasa astronaut is the first woman to have commanded the ISS and already holds the record for the longest time spent in space by a woman.
This time - turning 57 while on mission - she is the oldest woman in space.
She blasted off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Friday.
On board the Soyuz rocket with her are Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky and French newcomer Thomas Pesquet.
They are expected to arrive at the ISS on Saturday, joining an American and two Russians already aboard. They will carry out a range of scientific investigations until May 2017.
Iowa-born Peggy Whitson, who has an advanced degree in biochemistry, worked for Nasa in several prominent medical science and research positions before being selected, in 1996, as an astronaut candidate.
She first went into space in 2002 and became the first woman to command the ISS in 2007. She will break records again when she takes charge of the orbiting lab for a second time in February.
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By the time her mission ends, she will have spent more time in space than any other US astronaut, surpassing the 534-day record set by Jeff Williams.
"The most important thing about the station is the friendships and the work we accomplish there," she told a news conference before the launch at 02:20 local time on Friday morning (20:20 GMT on Thursday).
Four officers were named as part of the inquiry after police broke new regulations while trying to discover the identity of journalists' sources.
The deputy chief constable told the justice committee he would not invite them due to "critical legal issues".
Assistant Chief Constable Ruaraidh Nicolson will appear instead.
He will be questioned by MSPs on 12 January.
Deputy Chief Constable Neil Richardson previously told the committee that officers had "misinterpreted" a 22-day-old code of conduct over intercepting communications due to a "misjudgement".
A watchdog said Police Scotland's "failures" in the case "could properly be viewed as reckless".
Following the last meeting of the justice committee on the issue, four officers were named as being part of the inquiry and invited to give evidence - Det Supt David Donaldson, Det Insp Joanne Grant, Det Supt Brenda Smith, and Ch Supt Clark Cuzen.
However, Mr Richardson wrote to the committee saying "there clearly remain some critical legal issues, and particularly those touching on matters of competence, which are not yet fully resolved".
He said "while such matters remain unresolved and outstanding" he did not feel he was properly in a position to forward the committee's invitation to the four named officers, suggesting that Mr Nicolson appear instead.
Deputy convener Elaine Murray wrote back to Mr Richardson voicing disappointment, saying the committee would consider what further steps to take.
The investigation was sparked after the Interception of Communications Commissioner ruled that Police Scotland had obtained communications data without judicial approval on five occasions.
Sir Stanley Burnton said the "failures", made while police were trying to determine a journalist's source or an intermediary, could be viewed as "reckless".
The review is understood to relate to the murder of Emma Caldwell in 2005, after a re-investigation of the case was ordered in May 2015.
Police Scotland said "robust and rigorous steps" had been taken to comply with requirements in future.
During his evidence session in December, Mr Richardson named Mr Donaldson as an "extremely experienced officer" who had "misinterpreted" the new code of conduct, which had been in place for 22 days.
He said the "very aggressive" pace of change in bringing in the new guidance could have been a factor in the "error" subsequently made.
The policeman also hit out at some press coverage of the case, saying he had been portrayed as an "archetypal villain" and saying police had been unable to respond to many stories due to the live murder inquiry.
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"We have submitted a realistic plan for Greece to exit the crisis," he said.
Mr Tsipras said the plan included "concessions that will be difficult".
His statement follows talks in Berlin attended by the heads of both the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank.
International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde and ECB president Mario Draghi's presence at the meeting between German Chancellor Angela Merkel and France's Francois Hollande underlined the seriousness of the talks.
Reports suggest the meeting was aimed at coming up with a "final proposal" to issue to Athens.
But Mr Tsipras, who was not included in the meeting, said he had not yet been contacted by the IMF and European officials.
"We are not waiting for them to submit a proposal, Greece is submitting a plan - it is now clear that the decision on whether they want to adjust to realism... the decision rests with the political leadership of Europe," he added.
A €300m (£216m) payment from Greece to the IMF is due on Friday.
There are fears Greece does not have the necessary funds to pay and could default on the debt, ultimately leading to its exit from the eurozone.
Friday's payment is the first of four totalling €1.5bn that Greece is due to pay to the IMF in June, and it is understood that the payments could be all bundled together and repaid in a single transaction at the end of the month.
If Greece decides to repay the funds in this way, it would have to notify the IMF, but it has not yet done so.
The country remains in a four-month long deadlock with international creditors over the release of €7.2bn in remaining bailout funds.
European lenders as well as the IMF are pushing for greater austerity reforms in return for the cash, which the Greek government has so far refused to make.
Germany's Vice-Chancellor, Sigmar Gabriel, said he supported efforts by the French and German governments to reach a deal in negotiations about Athens' massive debts, warning Greece's exit from the eurozone would have "gigantic consequences".
"The political consequences of a Greek bankruptcy in the eurozone would of course be gigantic. I think a lot of people have the impression that we're better off without Greece in the eurozone.
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"If we're talking about an ultimatum... which is not within the framework of the popular mandate, it is obvious that the government cannot co-sign and accept it," Mr Filis told Antenna TV.
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Ryan Craig, of Ashmount Gardens in Lisburn, admitted causing grievous bodily harm to Scott Vineer in 2012.
The 20-year-old will spend five years in prison with the remaining five years on supervised licence upon his release.
Mr Vineer was found with severe brain and head injuries near a disused warehouse in Lisburn after the attack.
His family were told at the time that he was unlikely to survive.
The judge at Craigavon Crown Court told Craig that Mr Vineer would "never be released from the imprisonment you subjected him to".
After the sentencing on Wednesday, Mr Vineer said: "I'm scared of what will happen when he gets out."
He added that he was "halfway between annoyed and relieved" with the sentence.
Craig was due to go on trial for attempted murder in June, but he pleaded guilty to the lesser charge.
Mr Vineer was 17 at the time of the attack and spent three months in a coma.
He returned home from hospital six months after the attack.
Mr Vineer's mother, Helen-Louise Doney, said that when she arrived at the hospital a doctor told her she should "be prepared to say our goodbyes".
She said she was disappointed that Craig did not get a 15-year sentence.
"He knew what he was doing, he knew it was wrong. He deliberately kept details away from anyone that could help Scott," Mrs Doney said.
"He should've been given the maximum, as far as we're concerned."
During sentencing, the judge said Mr Vineer has still has "significant, ongoing physical limitations" three years after the attack.
He added that while it had to be accepted that Craig did not inflict the "major injuries", he was a "willing participant" in the assault.
Craig had "clearly and deliberately involved himself" in the attack, the judge added.
Craig's barrister said his client was remorseful for what he had done.
But the judge said Craig's criminal behaviour since the assault, including a petrol bomb attack on police, would suggest otherwise.
Mr Vineer, who was best man at his mother and stepfather's wedding in August, said he is determined to live a normal life.
He said he plans to leave home in the coming years so that he can live independently.
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A 10-year sentence for a County Antrim man who attacked an autistic teenager and left him with brain damage is too lenient, his victim has said.
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Politician Elio Di Rupo said the eight parties in the talks had agreed on moves to resolve key sticking points.
They included the division of power between French- and Dutch-speaking communities, he said.
The country has been without an elected government for 15 months. Disagreement centres on electoral boundaries in the linguistically divided Brussels region.
"The eight parties have together succeeded in overcoming the obstacles which have created difficulties these last few days," Mr Di Rupo said in a statement.
Belgium's political crisis worsened on Tuesday when caretaker Prime Minister Yves Leterme announced he was leaving to take up a new job in Paris.
King Albert II cut short a holiday in France to fly back to Brussels following the news.
The king had appointed Mr Di Rupo, leader of Belgium's second-biggest party the French-speaking Socialist Party, to negotiate a coalition deal.
On Wednesday Mr Di Rupo said that negotiations faced imminent collapse and warned: "The future of the country is at stake."
But after further intense talks on Wednesday he was finally able to announce a breakthrough.
He said the parties had agreed on solutions to sticking points including a dispute over Bruxelles-Hal-Vilvorde (BHV), a district covering the capital and the suburbs.
BHV is the only district officially bilingual rather than French- or Dutch-speaking.
"Even if the work is far from being finished and numerous debates have to be have to be worked out, the steps taken today... constitute an important step," the statement added.
Financial markets and rating agencies are pressing the country to create an effective government capable of carrying out structural reforms and reducing debt.
Mr Leterme announced he would leave by the end of this year to take up a post at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
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The mediator trying to form a government in Belgium has announced a breakthrough after tense negotiations.
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The 71-year-old explorer told The Times newspaper: "You have to look at what's been done, and find out what's not been done in the area."
Sir Ranulph has been exploring the Earth for more than 40 years.
He told the newspaper there could be new discoveries to be made by "revisiting areas already discovered".
There are some places on Earth that are so difficult to get to that they're still virtually unexplored.
There are 16,000 species of tree in the Amazon jungle, a vast rainforest that spans nine countries in South America.
Parts of the rainforest remain untouched and there are still native tribes living there undisturbed.
It's possible that plants or animals living there could have undiscovered benefits to human beings.
Sir Ranulph told The Times: "If you're going to cross Brazilian jungle, why not take medical botanists who can look at strange plants and see if they have medical functions?"
Water covers almost three quarters of the planet, but the depths of our oceans are still largely unexplored.
About 95% of the deep sea remains unseen by human eyes.
It wasn't until 2012 that humans completed the first mission to the bottom of the Mariana Trench - the deepest known point of the Earth's sea bed.
Film director James Cameron took a special submarine to Earth's deepest point and filmed what he saw.
It's a dangerous and difficult place to explore because the enormous weight of the sea water above presses down on any submarines below.
Antarctica is not the largest continent on Earth - it's smaller than Asia, Africa, North America and South America - but it's one of the least explored.
It's the coldest, driest, and windiest continent and is considered a desert because so little rain falls there.
There are no permanent human residents because the bitter cold makes it impractical to live there, but scientists do visit to conduct experiments in the unique environment.
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Adventurer Sir Ranulph Fiennes says budding explorers need to roam the world with "fresh angle and purpose".
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CCTV cameras caught Pardeep Kaur walking towards a bridge over the M4 in Hayes and being followed by a "stooped man" on 17 October last year.
Ms Kaur's body was found in undergrowth near Harlington Bridge nearly a week after she was reported missing.
Vadims Ruskuls, 25, who was sleeping rough under the bridge, denies murder.
Ms Kaur was snatched while on her way to work at the Sheraton Skyline Hotel in Harlington, Middlesex.
On the footage, presented to the Old Bailey, Ms Kaur and the figure, who is seen staggering in the street, disappear from view behind a bush at 06:33 BST.
Twenty-five minutes later, an indistinct figure is seen dragging her body back down the path and behind a pillar under the bridge.
PC Victoria Wellsted told the court no-one else was seen in the area in the 25-minute gap between Ms Kaur and the suspect walking out of view.
She told the jury the poor quality of the film meant it was impossible to tell from the footage if the person seen dragging the body was a man or woman.
However, she said there were "certain similarities" between the man seen following Ms Kaur in the images and Mr Ruskuls.
The trial continues.
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The FTSE 100 was down 33.96 at 7006.96
The biggest riser was Associated British Foods (ABH), up more than 3% after investment bank Goldman Sachs changed its rating on the stock from "sell" to "buy".
Pump maker Weir Group gained 3% on positive news from North America's shale gas producers.
An upgrade by broker Credit Suisse also helped boost Weir's share price.
The broker said the stock's 17% "underperformance" over the year-to-date made it an attractive option for investors.
Another 3% riser was mining company Fresnillo, as it recovered some earlier losses over the week.
Among the FTSE 100's biggest fallers were supermarket Morrisons, down 3% and International Consolidated Airlines also down almost 3% despite the Irish parliament - as expected - approving its plan to take over Aer Lingus.
On the currency markets, the pound was down on earlier weak UK economic growth data, although it trimmed losses. It ended down 0.27% against the dollar at $1.5273, and down 0.51% against the euro at €1.3954.
However, the investment would be for an assembly line with the capacity to produce 250,000 engines a year.
That is a third of the number of engines produced now.
To win the investment there would need to be a change to working conditions to make it more competitive, according to a letter to workers seen by the BBC.
A final decision will be made by Ford in Detroit in July.
Meanwhile, Ford has announced that it is opening a new plant in India.
The Gujarat plant will have an initial annual capacity of 240,000 vehicles and 270,000 engines.
Ford's UK headquarters will not confirm that the Bridgend recommendation has been made nor that workers have been given a letter outlining the proposals.
Ford Bridgend currently makes 250,000 engines a year for Jaguar Land Rover which will end in 2018.
Its also makes 500,000 petrol engines a year for its own cars but production of that generation of engine is expected to come to and end in the next few years.
The Welsh government has confirmed that it has been talking to Ford about a £15m financial package to help it attract the investment to build the next generation of engines.
The Ford Bridgend plant opened in 1980 and has fought fierce competition to win successive investments in the past worth more than £2.8bn.
The company says its presence supports around 10,000 jobs in south Wales.
It makes petrol engines for Ford, Jaguar Land Rover and up until the end of this month Volvo.
Work on the new 1.5-litre EcoBoost petrol engine started last year alongside the larger 1.6-litre version.
Back in 2013, the company said it produced 3,400 engines a day or one every 24 seconds off the busiest line.
It exports to Spain, Sweden, Germany, Russia, Belgium and the USA.
The new Dragon petrol engine from around 2018 will replace what is currently being produced.
Bridgend is in effect competing with Ford's other engine plants in Valencia in Spain, Cologne in Germany and Craiova in Romania to make the new design engines.
More than 200,000 homes are still affected after the discovery of a parasite at a treatment works left residents boiling water since 6 August.
Tap water in 80,000 homes was declared safe to drink on Thursday.
Parts of Blackpool, Chorley and Preston have been given the all-clear.
Gary Dixon, customer services director for United Utilities, said: "We hope to get the warning lifted for the rest of our customers by the end of the coming week."
If people have been using their water supply regularly there was no need to flush their system, he added.
Water was treated with ultraviolet light to kill the microbial parasite cryptosporidium, and United Utilities said it had assessed hundreds of test results after discussions with Public Health England.
The water company has faced criticism about the length of time it has taken to lift the restrictions.
It has promised automatic compensation for those affected, although it has not said how much.
Public Health England said there had been no confirmed cases of sickness linked to the water supply.
Former Director of Public Health in the North West, Prof John Ashton, told BBC Radio Lancashire: "When this started, United Utilities said it would be all sorted within a few days.
"One of the concerns that I have is that the duty to the shareholders is of more concern to them than the duty to the public, so there are questions to be asked about how they've handled this incident.
"We need a proper picture of where the problems are and we have a right to know.
"It's a fundamental public health necessity to have safe drinking water in your house."
A statement on the United Utilities website said: "We are now able to lift the boil water advice in [several] postcode areas.
"For those still subject to the boil water advice, please continue to boil your water for drinking, brushing teeth and food preparation until we let you know you can stop."
It also advised people to check for their postcode on the website or ring the company helpline on 0800 9127241.
The 302ft (92m) long aircraft, which is part plane and part airship, nosedived after a test flight at Cardington Airfield in Bedfordshire on 24 August.
The Air Accidents Investigation Branch said the line was hanging free after a first landing attempt had failed.
No-one was injured in the accident.
At the time of the incident, Airlander's developer, Hybrid Air Vehicles (HAV), said the craft had "experienced a heavy landing and the front of the flight deck sustained some damage".
The crew, however, were "safe and well".
The AAIB report into the incident stated that ground crew had told Airlander's pilot the mooring line was about 50ft (15m) long, but it was in fact 155ft (47m).
The rope became entangled in power lines near the airfield as the pilot attempted a second landing.
"The encounter contributed to a high final approach", investigators said.
The craft was about 180ft (55m) over the landing site and was "reluctant to descend naturally".
The pilot attempted to manoeuvre the aircraft to a nose-down position to bring its mooring line within reach of the ground crew but it "suddenly pitched further down to about 18 degrees and started to descend," the report stated.
"There was insufficient height in which to affect a full recovery and the aircraft struck the ground."
Repairs were carried out on the cockpit and earlier this week HAV said these were complete and Airlander was undergoing "an extensive test phase prior to its next flight".
A new landing system, which will allow it to return to ground from a greater range of angles, and a redesign to allow easier recovery of the mooring line, are among changes that have been made since the crash, the company said.
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Wilson, 30, allegedly made illegal contact with Kruis in the second half of his side's 30-10 defeat on Friday.
Kruis, 26, has been cited for biting Wilson during the same incident.
The pair, who were both in England's 2015 World Cup squad, will face a Rugby Football Union panel on Tuesday.
Kruis was an ever-present during England's Six Nations Grand Slam-winning campaign this year, but Wilson is yet to feature under new head coach Eddie Jones.
Hosts Bath had England back Anthony Watson sent off for a dangerous tackle on Saracens full-back Alex Goode during Friday's match at The Rec.
The Blue, Black and Whites, who also had scrum-half Chris Cook sin-binned, are investigating reports one of their supporters entered the referee's room to confront the match officials after the game.
Saracens wing Chris Ashton, playing for the first time since a 10-week ban for making contact with the eyes of Ulster's Luke Marshall, scored two tries.
True, Sir John Major is not the only former Tory leader familiar with being pressured, perhaps held hostage by the Eurosceptics in his party. Or indeed, the only Conservative leader ever to have been challenged by his party's preponderance to "bang on" (to use David Cameron's phrase) about Europe.
But arguably his experiences as the leader during bruising encounters with the "bastards" mean his words of warning might hold some value for the current prime minister.
For Theresa May, also an unflashy leader who was propelled to No 10 by a surprising political moment, Europe will be defining in a way no others could even have anticipated.
In Sir John's carefully calibrated speech tonight, there are plenty of messages for her, some of which may be welcome, some not.
First off, having campaigned to stay in the European Union, with sober warnings particularly about the consequences for the Northern Irish peace process, it's no surprise that Sir John says that in his view, Brexit will be a "historic mistake".
It is notable, although again not surprising, that he cautions that the UK will be a diminished diplomatic force in the world after we walk away from the EU, with a warning too that we will be less useful to our most important ally the US as a consequence.
Also, even as the PM who lived through the Commons trauma of trying to deliver the Maastricht Treaty, it is logical that he calls for Parliament to have a full role in shaping the negotiations over our place in Europe.
What may be harder for No 10 to dismiss is Sir John's obvious political concerns about how the public are being treated in the months after the referendum decision.
Despite insisting he has no desire to be in politics now, he makes very pointed criticism of the atmosphere around the debate, warning that voters are essentially being misled saying: "People have been led to expect a future that seems to be unreal and over-optimistic.
"Obstacles are brushed aside as of no consequence, whilst opportunities are inflated beyond any reasonable expectation of delivery."
In his first public comments since the vote, the former prime minister is offering what he describes as a "reality check".
And he sounds alarm bells too about the tone of the debate, saying Brexit's "cheerleaders" have shown "contempt" to Remainers, shouting down dissent "against our traditions of tolerance".
While he is not seeking to be unhelpful to the government, Sir John plainly has doubts about Number 10's handling of the process so far - the "rosy confidence" being offered to the British people.
And in the depths of his speech there is another warning for Theresa May about the Tory MPs she has worked so hard to keep on side - "today they may be allies of the prime minister, the risk is that tomorrow they may not".
Might Theresa May face her own "bastards" one day?
In recent weeks, with Theresa May determined to keep the Tory party together, and Labour struggling to stay united, the momentum has most certainly been with those celebrating our journey toward the exit door.
Ministers, even those who were ardent Remainers, privately sound increasingly optimistic about the prospects of doing a deal. But Sir John Major is not alone in having fundamental concerns. And his voice is harder for the government to dismiss, as they did Tony Blair a couple of weeks ago.
One senior figure even told me some of the talks behind closed doors have been a shambles, and raised concern that the government, all of us, are a long way from understanding the full implications of the decision.
Yet with almost the only political pressure on her coming from the right, Theresa May has decided to emphasise the opportunity, not the risks. The government is well aware that things could go wrong, but one minister told me "we all have to discover the reality together, when the rubber hits the road".
Robert Christie died on 7 June 2014 after the accident on a family friend's farm on Ballynaloob Road in Dunloy.
His father, Robert Christie senior, was left critically ill but made a partial recovery.
The coroner extended her deepest sympathy to the child's parents.
She said the death had again brought to the fore the risks arising with slurry tanks.
"I hope by highlighting this tragedy no other family will have to endure what they have had to go through with the death of poor Robert," the coroner said.
Robert Christie Snr told the inquest he and his son, who was known as Bob, had gone to crush grain at a neighbour's farm that Saturday morning.
The farmer, Robert Brownlow had asked Mr Christie if he would assist him with attaching the slurry pump in the shed.
Mr Brownlow said this was a normal procedure but that due to his age and health he was no longer "able to do it myself".
"I knew there was a danger, but there had been no problems doing it in the past," he said.
Mr Christie said he lifted the covers in the shed and reversed the tractor in.
"I attached the pump and saw Bob had got into the tractor cabin with me," he said.
"With the tractor straddling the two slats I turned on the pump and sadly that was my last memory of that day."
The father and son were found collapsed on the floor of the shed about four feet apart about 30 minutes later by Mr Brownlow who called for help.
A postman who was in the area at the time moved Bob from the shed into the house.
Despite extensive efforts by neighbours and emergency services he showed no signs of life.
He was airlifted to hospital in Belfast but medical staff were unable to resuscitate him.
In his report, David Lowe from the Health and Safety Executive said it was likely that both father and son lost consciousness at speed.
He told the inquest that he believed Mr Christie, in seeing his son in difficulty, went in closer to the tank to help.
"Precautions must be followed when dealing with slurry and in this case many of them were, Mr Lowe said.
"The slurry tank was particularly full and the initial stages of agitation (where the gases are mixed) the gases are the most potent."
The HSENI guidelines recommend that once the pump is started you remain out of the area for at least 30 minutes.
"Also there was very little movement in the air that day which left limited ventilation and led to this catastrophe," Mr Lowe added.
They were fatally injured in Mottram, Tameside, on 18 September.
PC Nicola Hughes lived in Diggle, Oldham with her mother.
She joined Greater Manchester Police (GMP) in 2009, serving all three years with the Tameside division.
Her mother Susan said she died "doing the job she loved".
In a statement, she said: "We cannot express how we feel... except to say we have always been exceedingly proud of Nicola and always will be.
"She knew she was loved by us all and we shall all miss her dreadfully.
"Nicola always wanted to make a difference and, in doing so, she made such a big difference to everyone she knew. She cared about everyone and especially her colleagues."
She was described by colleagues as "very bubbly, loved life and socialising".
Her colleagues said: "She was a chatterbox and was always smiling, even after a night shift when everyone else was a bit grumpy.
"She was a good listener and couldn't do enough for people, she was a lovely friend and a great bobby."
Her former high school, Saddleworth School in Uppermill, said it was a sad day for the school and the wider community.
A spokesman said: "Saddleworth School is shocked and appalled by the news that a former pupil Nicola Hughes lost her life.
"Our thoughts go out to Nicola's family and to the family of her colleague Fiona Bone.
"The school works closely with GMP and many colleagues have strong links with the force."
She leaves behind a mother, father Bryn, and younger brother Sam.
PC Fiona Bone, who was planning a civil partnership, had served with Greater Manchester Police for five years, starting out as a special constable.
She lived in Sale with her partner Clare and her five-year-old daughter.
Her family said she "enjoyed life to the full".
In a statement, they said: "Our family has lost a wonderful daughter, sister, partner and parent to Jessie."
Shan Fisher, from Port Erin, Isle of Man, was one of her best friends and had planned to be her wedding photographer.
He said he received an email from her asking if he was still able to do it two days before her death.
"She was going to try her wedding dress soon. She was very excited and totally in love with her partner and looking forward to sharing her life with her partner."
Manx Home Affairs Minister Juan Watterson, who was a school-friend of PC Bone, paid tribute to "her caring heart".
"She was a fantastic character and to know her was to like her," he said.
"Fiona was a lively person, with a trademark smile.
"She was all about people and the community so I think she'll be a huge loss not just to her family but to the community which she served."
Brian James Boyle, of Port St Mary, Isle of Man, has been a friend of hers for 15 years. He described her as a "very lovable, friendly person" who "never had a bad word to say about anyone".
"She called the island home and always came back to spend Christmas with her family, we always celebrated her birthday, which was on New Year's Eve, together.
"She loved her job 100%, it was a real thrill for her."
Another school-friend, Alex Keenan, also from Port St Mary, said she had visited her in Manchester and she was very positive about her life.
"Her job was interesting and challenging. She was looking forward to getting married and settling down. She was happier than I had seen her for ages."
Colleagues of PC Bone said: "She was an excellent bobby and cared about her job and the community she served."
The Chief Constable of Greater Manchester, Sir Peter Fahy, said she was a "calm, gentle woman".
"When she first joined the shift, she was quite quiet and reserved," he said.
"However she came out of her shell and had a great sense of humour and always enjoyed a good laugh.
"She was so happy with her partner and they were in the middle of planning their wedding. Indeed her partner only spoke to her [that] morning about the wedding invites and fellow officers gave her advice about how to make them on the computer.
"Her fellow officers said they loved being partnered up with her because she was always calm, collected and professional, and could diffuse situations with her calm, gentle way."
Miss Bone was born in Norwich but later moved with her family to Moray in Scotland. She went to Hopeman Primary School in Elgin and then attended Lossiemouth High School in Lossiemouth.
Moray Council Convener Stewart Cree, a former chief superintendent with Grampian Police, said: "Her death in the line of duty will be felt deeply by the people of Moray. Given my police background, I have particularly sympathy for her family and colleagues in these tragic circumstances."
Her family returned to England before moving from Castle Donington, Leicestershire, to the Isle of Man in 1997, where they still live.
In the September, Miss Bone enrolled at Castle Rushen High School sixth form.
Head teacher Andrew Cole said she was "pleasant and courteous and enjoyed good relationships with everyone she came into contact with".
Mr Cole said her form tutor at the time, Arthur Fife, described her as having a "great sense of responsibility and was totally reliable".
These were qualities, he said, that "no doubt supported her in being such a good police officer".
When she finished her A-levels in English, computer studies and general studies in July 1999, she went to the University of Central Lancashire in Preston to read AV Media and Film Studies. She graduated in 2002.
Miss Bone leaves behind her partner Clare and her daughter Jessie, mother June, father Paul and sister Vicky.
The grant will increase accessibility, with new visitor facilities being installed, said the HLF. The site's heritage will also be conserved.
An independent charity, Historic Royal Palaces (HRP), is to lead the new project.
A range of opportunities for learning and skills development will also be provided.
"This unique heritage attraction will become a must-see attraction, allowing visitors to learn more about its fascinating history, enjoy a leisurely stroll through the beautiful gardens or tour the historic state rooms," said Anna Carragher, HLF's chairwoman in Northern Ireland.
The project will see work carried out to conserve the historic features of the walled garden, including its original quadrant layout and central pool.
The fund said the Lost Garden, which had become overgrown and difficult to access, would be reinstated, with new paths, bridges and trails installed to allow visitors to fully explore the extensive grounds.
New visitor facilities including ticketing and a retail space will be created, and the stable yard will be used to house a dedicated learning centre for families, schools and youth and community groups.
Visitors to the castle will be able to tour the state rooms, including the throne room, drawing room and staircase hall.
They will learn more about their use as a venue for royal visits, political discussions and entertaining as well as getting an insight into life for those living and working in the "back-of-house" areas.
A volunteer programme is to provide opportunities for learning and development, "with the gardens becoming a hub for horticulture and heritage skills".
The fund said training will also be provided for a number of roles.
Patricia Corbett, head of Hillsborough Castle, said she was "delighted that the HLF has chosen to support our exciting plans".
"This major project will enable us to open up this fascinating and beautiful historic site to the widest possible audience," she added.
"Work to create the new facilities is already well under way and we look forward to welcoming many more visitors to Hillsborough Castle in years to come."
The only road leading to Great Western beach in Newquay was closed in February 2015 but will finally reopen on Thursday in time for Easter.
During the work it became clear the sheer cliff face needed to be secured and abseilers were brought in.
Cornwall Council said the "extremely challenging" work cost between £600,000 and £700,000.
The 8lb (3.6kg) Double Gloucester is chased 200 yards down the 1:2 gradient Cooper's Hill at Brockworth every year.
Chris Anderson, 28, won the first two downhill races - his 16th and 17th Cheese Rolling victories in total.
"It's brilliant, I'm really happy," said the soldier from Brockworth who serves with 1 Rifles.
"My friend Izzy John sadly passed away recently so this is for him and his family. He won it multiple times," he said.
"Cheese rolling is really important to Brockworth. It got cancelled in 2010 and the organisers this year have done a brilliant job and I'm really happy to win it for the community."
Competitors travelled from across the world to take part in the races with TV crews from across Europe also in attendance.
Warning signs are put up around the site warning spectators and competitors that they are attending entirely at their own risk.
In 2010 the official event was cancelled over safety fears when more than 15,000 people turned up the previous year to watch the competition.
Since then it has been held unofficially with roads closed up to 2.5 miles (4km) around the slope.
But as global landmarks and Facebook feeds turned into a bunting of Tricolores, some were left asking; what about the more than 60 people who perished in suicide attacks in Beirut and Baghdad just days before? What about the people of Syria, for whom the threat of death by bullet or blast, rebels or regime is part of everyday life?
The Paris attack was shocking and devastating. At the same time, it was a single event in an ongoing conflict which has become centred on Syria and Iraq but is being waged across the globe.
BBC Monitoring has used world media reporting on deaths involving at least one identifiable jihadist group to build a sense of the toll that conflict with Sunni Islamist extremists is taking. Our analysis considered events between the downing of the Russian airliner over Sinai on 31 October and the attack on the Radisson hotel in Bamako, Mali on 22 November.
As well as jihadist attacks, we also looked at reported casualties from operations carried out against such groups.
Obtaining reliable casualty figures from conflict zones in is near impossible, as is determining the groups responsible for every attack. But BBC Monitoring's access to a broad range of global media sources allows us to get a sense of the scale of the bloodshed. The figures we quote do not represent a comprehensive account of the human cost of this conflict, but are intended to help place the Paris attacks into a global context.
During the period, 707 deaths from identifiable attacks by jihadists were recorded.
Suicide or car bombings in Baghdad are an almost daily occurrence. The data show 59 recorded deaths from these incidents, 26 of which occurred on the same day as the Paris attacks.
At least 546 deaths were directly attributable to attacks by IS and its affiliates, including Nigeria's Boko Haram and Wilayat Sina, who claimed responsibility for the Russian plane bombing. The actual figure is likely to be considerably higher, given the paucity of reliable reporting from areas under IS control, and a large number of attacks which are suspected, but not verifiably attributable to the group.
The Nigerian IS-affiliate known as Boko Haram, which last year killed more people than its parent outfit in Syria, staged at least eight attacks in Nigeria, Cameroon and Chad, killing more than 75 people, mostly civilians.
Attacks attributed to al-Qaeda and its affiliates accounted for at least 135 deaths in Africa, Asia and the Middle East, including the Bamako hotel siege.
Al-Shabab were the most prolific al-Qaeda affiliate, carrying out at least 17 attacks and killing more than 90 people, including civilians, soldiers and government officials. Several members lost their lives as a result of an internal dispute over whether the group should switch allegiance to Islamic State.
France's response to the Paris attacks was to intensify operations against IS targets. This was in addition to air strikes being carried out by a US-led coalition and Russia, and ground operations conducted by forces in Iraq and Syria. Military operations are also being conducted against Boko Haram in West Africa and the Taliban in South Asia.
Our research shows that well more than 1,000 jihadists were killed during the period, but additional data indicate more than 80 civilian deaths in such operations, although this is difficult to verify. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says 400 civilians were killed by Russian strikes alone between September and November.
Last year, BBC Monitoring, World Service and Kings College London collaborated on a project to count the number of deaths resulting from jihadist attacks over a 30-day period.
The data showed that the perceived decline of jihadist violence in the wake of Osama Bin-Laden's death was an illusion. In fact, the threat had increased, as exemplified by the spectacular rise of IS.
A total of 664 jihadist attacks and 5,042 deaths were recorded for the month of November 2014. This year's snapshot suggests that the phenomenon still shows no sign of abating. Iraq, Syria, Nigeria and Afghanistan remain the most dangerous countries, but their neighbours are also now increasingly at risk.
Muslims remain by far the biggest victims of terrorist attacks.
And the high profile attacks on Paris and the Russian airliner show that citizens of nations involved in operations against jihadist groups continue to be targeted.
BBC Monitoring reports and analyses news from TV, radio, web and print media around the world. You can follow BBC Monitoring on Twitter and Facebook.
Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) was rated as "inadequate" in February 2015 when the Care Quality Commission (CQC) reported it was "not a safe... service".
Its overall rating has since risen to "requires improvement".
The trust said it would continue to make improvements.
However, the trust is still rated as "inadequate" for safety, which the Campaign to Save Mental Health Services in Norfolk and Suffolk described as "worrying".
Last year's CQC report expressed concerns about a lack of beds and said "urgent action" was needed.
If found insufficient staffing levels to safely meet patients' needs, inadequate arrangements for medication management and concerns regarding seclusion and restraint practice
Despite collection of data by the trust "there was little evidence of the use of intelligence and data to inform performance".
The lack of beds "meant that people did not always receive the right care at the right time and sometimes people were moved, discharged early or managed within an inappropriate service".
But following a new inspection, England's chief inspector of hospitals Prof Sir Mike Richards recommended to NHS Improvement (NHSI) that special measures now be removed.
He said: "Our return to Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust showed significant improvement had taken place… The trust's staff and leadership should be proud of their achievement so far…"
"The trust leadership knows what it must do now to ensure those changes take place."
Michael Scott, chief executive of the trust, said the announcement was "great news", adding: "It is a real testament to all of the hard work and commitment of our staff, and it's reassuring for our patients.
To have made this positive shift in just over a year and a half is a real achievement and we are incredibly proud of the progress we have made together in all parts of our trust."
NHSI said: "Today's removal of the trust from special measures reflects significant improvement at the trust and a confidence in the leadership."
A spokesman for the Campaign to Save Mental Health Services in Norfolk and Suffolk said: "It is worrying, 18 months after NSFT's failure, that the CQC inspectors have found that NSFT still lacks the leadership, beds, doctors and other staff to deliver safe mental health services.
"The CQC shares our concern about the alarmingly high number of patient deaths which have continued to rise during NSFT's time in special measures. MPs, health commissioners and NHS England must, as a matter of great urgency, ensure that NSFT has the leadership and resources to stop the dramatic rise in patient deaths and deliver safe and comprehensive mental health services in Norfolk and Suffolk."
Cumbria Police received reports a man was planning to attack people at the event at the New Empire on Dalton Road, Barrow, on Friday night .
People were urged to consider staying at home as a precaution, but the venue made a statement on Facebook saying the evening would go ahead as planned.
A 19-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of threats to kill.
Struan McCulloch obtained one Higher in S4 and four more in S5 but his application to study law at Edinburgh University was rejected.
The feedback he was given stated that he was at a disadvantage against candidates who obtained five Highers in one go in S5.
Edinburgh University said it would not comment on individual cases.
But it strongly denied that five Highers in one year were always necessary to be offered a place studying law.
One education expert said he was surprised this happened to someone who got a Higher early.
The expert did not want to comment on Mr McCulloch's personal story.
But he said that while he understood why obtaining five Highers in S5 might be part of the selection process for the most-competitive courses, it seemed unfortunate to apparently disadvantage someone who obtained a Higher earlier than normal.
He said: "Perhaps in cases similar to this, five Highers 'by' fifth year rather than five 'in' fifth year would be fairer."
The University of Edinburgh said its commitment to widening access to higher education meant some candidates who had obtained four Highers with grades ABBB were offered places.
Mr McCulloch's experience also highlights how important it is for potential candidates all across Scotland to find out about the likely competitive entry requirements for university courses as early as possible.
At some schools it is exceptional to study for five Highers in S5. If this might be necessary for a particular university course, the best advice is to discuss the matter with the school early.
The story also highlights the risk that efforts to help more young people from disadvantaged backgrounds go to university could inadvertently make it even harder for others to get in.
Mr McCulloch, 18, who is currently in his sixth year at Millburn Academy in Inverness, obtained an A Grade Higher in physical education in S4. He went on to obtain 4 more A Grade Highers, all in academic subjects, in S5.
There were about 25 applicants for every place on the law course available to Scottish and EU applicants whose fees are paid by the Scottish government.
He received a lengthy e-mail offering him feedback on why his application had been unsuccessful.
It included this passage: "During the selection process we review every aspect of the application: the personal statement; the academic reference; the past academic performance; any predicted grades and the context in which these grades were achieved.
"Due to the tight restriction on places it is not possible to make offers to all applicants who achieve the minimum entry qualifications and, in the majority of cases, successful applicants are those who have achieved considerably above the minimum requirement.
"This year, competition for places in Law programmes was exceptionally high and the majority of offers made were unconditional offers to applicants who had already achieved AAAAA in one sitting of SQA Highers. Unfortunately, even though you achieved AAAAA by S5, the fact that you did not take all five Highers in one sitting made your application less competitive than those applicants who had."
A spokesman for the University of Edinburgh could not comment on Mr McCulloch's experience but said: "We are committed to admitting the very best students, regardless of social, cultural and educational backgrounds.
"All applications are given careful individual consideration and a holistic decision is made with regard to the individual's academic achievements and potential, taking into account the context and circumstances in which these were achieved.
"Our approach to widening participation and contextual admissions, means that some eligible applicants receive an offer at our minimum entry requirement, which is ABBB at Higher for entry to law.
"However, where applicants are not eligible for a contextual offer at our minimum, due to increasing demand for a limited number of places, unfortunately we have to disappoint some very strong applicants."
Although some might question the relevance of Higher PE to a law degree, there was no suggestion that Mr McCulloch's choice of Higher subjects was a factor in the university's decision. The only prerequisite subject was Higher English.
The Scottish government expects all universities to increase the proportion of students who come from the most deprived postcode areas.
Universities stress they support the government's aim.
However some within universities have warned that unless the total number of places available to students also increases at a similar rate, there is a greater risk of more good applicants like Mr McCulloch who are merely "not disadvantaged" being left disappointed.
Mr McCulloch has since been offered places at other universities.
But media freedom is threatened by "physical attacks on news media, jamming of radio broadcasts, abusive prosecutions and the jailing of journalists", Reporters Without Borders said ahead of polls in 2012.
Self-censorship arises from laws which ban reports that discredit the state, incite disorder or spread "false news". Nevertheless, private media often criticise the government.
Radio is an influential medium. Commercial and community stations have mushroomed.
There are nearly 20 daily newspapers. Foreign publications circulate freely and multichannel pay TV is readily available. BBC World Service (105.6 MHz) and Radio France Internationale are available on FM in Dakar.
By December 2011 there were just under two million internet users (Internetworldstats.com). Access is unrestricted.
Isabella Sorley, 24, was sentenced to 12 weeks in jail in January for sending menacing tweets towards the feminist campaigner, Caroline Criado-Perez.
In one of the tweets she threatened to do worse things than rape her.
Sorley told us she'd never met a victim of trolling - so we took her to meet Natalie.
The 18-year-old was at one stage bullied so mercilessly on social media sites, she says she felt suicidal.
If you have been affected by bullying, help is available from BBC Advice.
Natalie, from Stratford-upon-Avon, was nervous about coming face-to-face with a troll but she was keen to find out what kind of person sends abuse online.
"I'd say I'm quite a nice person," Sorley tells her.
"If you're such a good person," asks Natalie. "Why did you send tweets - including 'Go kill yourself', 'Rape?! I'd do a lot worse things than rape you!!' and 'just got out of prison and would happily do more time to see you buried'?"
"I'd been on an incredibly heavy night out," says Sorley. "It was 80p a drink. So, take 20 quid, you're going to be smashed.
"I can't completely blame alcohol but it's definitely got a part to play in it. I'm a follower, not a leader, and I saw a lot of people were sending those tweets.
"To say that I'd do worse things than rape is utterly appalling, it's disgusting.
"I've questioned myself - is there something wrong with my mental state?" she says.
"Did you feel powerful when you sent those tweets?" asks Natalie.
"I spent six weeks of my life in a prison cell trying to figure out why I sent those tweets and how it made me feel," says Sorley.
"I guess I'd be lying if I said you didn't kind of have the upper hand against the victim. But I didn't do it for a reaction.
"It's the sort of stuff I'm prone to say when drunk and social media allowed me to use my vile mouth in a different outlet."
Natalie isn't satisfied with that and says: "When you're drunk you can still control your actions towards other people."
Sorley, from Newcastle, replies: "I don't want to put all the blame on alcohol as ultimately I've got my own mind, but it definitely distorted my brain.
"When I woke up I realised what I'd said was completely out of order."
After she was charged, Sorley sent another barrage of tweets including: "You're on Twitter then you should expect some sort of abuse."
She also wrote: "You can't handle letters on a page. Letters have never done any harm."
Natalie says: "A couple of words to me meant everything. I was thinking of suicide because of letters on a page that apparently don't mean anything."
Sorley admits the tweets were "lacking empathy".
She adds: "It was just my ill-judged opinion of the situation at the time".
The reality of what she had done sunk in during the court case, she says.
Sorley has never met Caroline Criado-Perez and there's a restraining order in place meaning she can't make contact.
But Newsbeat spoke to Caroline about her ordeal
The 30-year-old became a focus for internet bullies last year, after successfully winning a campaign to get the Bank of England to keep female historical figures on bank notes.
"For about two months I was getting threats coming in pretty much every minute," she says. "People were telling me they were going to gang rape me.
"They found an address that was connected to me and they posted it all over the internet and they said that they were going to hunt me down and kill me.
"I was obviously absolutely terrified. I couldn't sleep, I couldn't eat, I couldn't get any work done.
"It's made me a lot more anxious as a person, a lot more worried about the reaction to what I'm going to say - you can't escape unscathed from that level of prolonged fear and hatred."
Three people have now been given prison sentences for the abuse they directed at Caroline and she says she "feels luckier than most victims of online abuse" because she got "some justice".
But she says: "What we actually need to do is to stop people wanting to say this stuff in the first place. And that's going to come from education and changing how society works."
As for Sorley, Caroline says: "It doesn't really make a huge difference to what happened to me, what she goes on to do. I'm pleased if she can use this experience to teach other people not to do this."
Since coming out of prison in February, Sorley has been convicted for battery, assault and being drunk and disorderly. She's also been back to prison.
She says all of these convictions are down to alcohol and now she's given up drinking and wants to warn young people of the dangers of trolling.
"I want to warn people about what happened to me, and hopefully through being known as a Twitter troll, I can help kids in the future not muck up their life the way I mucked up mine," she says.
Natalie wants Sorley to know how it feels to be on the receiving end of online abuse.
"People were telling me to go and kill myself, I should get cancer, I'm ugly, I'm a terrorist, and they're going to kill me," says Natalie.
"I'd sit at home shaking like a leaf. Terrified of everybody I meet, everything. And that's because of what people like you did."
She tells Sorley she wants her to "vow you'll never do anything like this again ever".
Sorley says she'll never send menacing tweets again, adding: "That ten minutes of my life when I sent those tweets will now define me. Always."
So what did the women think of each other?
Natalie says that after her initial fears about meeting Sorley, she was pleased to have had the opportunity to try to understand what a convicted troll is thinking.
Sorley says: "It was emotional seeing it from the other side. I've never actually had to listen to someone who has dealt with cyber bullying."
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Wales will also face Oceania's top team and the second best nation from the Americas at the tournament.
Gatland will prepare Wales after returning from guiding the 2017 British and Irish Lions in New Zealand.
He expects Fiji to take the Oceania 1 spot and told the Welsh Rugby Union: "I think we're pretty happy with the draw."
Tonga and Samoa are also competing with Fiji for the Oceania 1 place while either United States or Canada are likely to take the Americas 2 place in Pool D.
I'd have thought that for Warren Gatland and his coaching staff, the target will be to win the World Cup
Wales have beaten the Wallabies only once at a World Cup, to take third place at the inaugural 1987 event.
Australia triumphed over Wales in 1991, 1999 and beat Wales to third place in 2011 before also going on to beat Gatland's side at the 2015 tournament.
Wales reached the 2015 quarter-finals where they lost to South Africa after beating England, Fiji, Uruguay at the pool stage.
Wales have also not beaten Australia since 2008, losing 12 consecutive times against them since.
The two teams will also face each other again in November, 2017 when Gatland's side will also face Georgia in Cardiff.
Gatland added: "We get Australia again (in 2019). It looks like it could be Fiji - a couple of teams from 2015.
"I think we're pretty happy with the draw.
"I mean every group's going to have some tough teams in it, but from a Welsh perspective you've got to be happy with how it's turned out.
Australia will be favourites in the group, but Wales can do well there and we have to be optimistic
"It's going to be tough. It's going to be competitive, but that's what you want."
Australia wing legend David Campese told BBC Wales Sport: "I suppose Australia would rather be playing Wales than playing the All Blacks in a pool game.
"I think mentally we've got the edge over them at the moment, but anything can happen."
England face France and Argentina in 2019 in a pool already viewed as the tournament's 'group of death' while holders New Zealand will take on the Springboks and Italy.
The 12 teams who automatically qualified by finishing in the top three of their groups in 2015 have been drawn.
The eight remaining teams have had their slots allocated and will be determined by the qualification process that ends in 2018.
The World Cup runs from 20 September to 2 November 2019.
Pool A: Ireland, Scotland, Japan, Europe 1, play-off winner (Europe 2 v Oceania 3)
Pool B: New Zealand, South Africa, Italy, Africa 1, repechage winner
Pool C: England, France, Argentina, Americas 1, Oceania 2
Pool D: Australia, Wales, Georgia, Oceania 1, Americas 2
Nick Morley defrauded up to 35 people while running NM Jags and was called "thoroughly dishonest" and a "practised fraudster".
Most of the victims duped into the sale-or-return scam were Jaguar owners, Bristol Crown Court heard.
He was jailed for five years and eight months and banned from holding the directorship of a company for 10 years.
Dave Trotter, of Avon and Somerset Police, said: "People would advertise their cars in various publications, such as Autotrader, which are these days done online.
"There'd be a member of staff within the business who would then contact the seller saying 'we can sell your car for you and get you a better return' and 'we can take the hassle away from you'.
"And all they end up getting is double hassle because regularly there'd be no payment or a battle to get any payment."
Fraud victim Roger Aldridge agreed a £15,000 sale price for his Sports Jaguar.
He said: "I made a mistake in trusting him. I was taken in by a good website. I talked to his employees and they all seemed to know what they were talking about."
One of Morley's employees, Michael Horton, was also convicted for his part in the fraud and is awaiting sentence.
Morley, from Bristol, ran NM Jags dealerships across Bristol at Temple Cloud, Hartcliffe Way, Whitchurch and in Weston-super-Mare and had a turnover of between £5-6m.
The happened in Chapel Street, Belper, on Saturday afternoon.
Police said the teenager was punched and kicked by the gang and when she tried to run away, cigarettes were stubbed out on her face.
Five girls, aged between 13 and 15, were arrested over the attack. They have all been released on bail.
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Discarded electrical goods are the fastest growing form of waste, with TVs making up the biggest element - and that's a huge headache for councils that have to deal with it.
Two entrants made it through to the British awards to be held in Manchester in September.
The public vote winner was urban seafood seller ShrimpWreck, while fried chicken specialist The Buffalo Truck was crowned champion by a panel of top chefs.
In 1964, Bruno Steinhoff seized on an opportunity to import cheap furniture made in what was then East Germany and sell it in the more cash-rich West. When the Berlin Wall came down in 1989, he was able to buy up the factories in East Germany that were supplying the furniture.
At the same time, his friend, Claas Daun, was busy making a business out of turning around companies that had serious problems. Mr Daun, a tax lawyer by training, had had some dealings in South Africa, starting in 1993, when he bought the troubled South African retailer, Victoria Lewis.
Working alongside Mr Daun, as his chief executive, was a young chartered accountant named Markus Jooste. It was Mr Jooste who convinced Mr Daun to merge his South African assets with Mr Steinhoff's business interests in Europe in 1998.
A few months later the new entity acquired the furniture maker, Pat Cornick. It was the first of many acquisitions which have swelled the company into the business it is today.
What really cemented Steinhoff as a major player in global retail was the 2011 acquisition of the French homeware retailer, Conforama. This brought six new countries under the group's umbrella.
Once thought of as the "Ikea of Africa", nowadays the group trades in homeware and general merchandise in Europe, Australia, Africa (especially South Africa) and the United Kingdom.
It has been involved in two high-profile takeover battles in Europe - both of which it ultimately lost. In the UK, it tried to outbid Sainsbury's for Argos owner Home Retail Group. Shortly after that failed, Steinhoff put in a bid for the French electronics retailer Darty - losing out in the end to French books and music store Fnac.
In addition to this, Steinhoff International counts the South African franchise of the car rental company Hertz in its stable, as well as a host of real estate properties across the world.
Markus Joost, a keen racehorse owner, owns about 3% of the company and is said to be worth in the region of $700m (£530m). One of the major shareholders in Steinhoff is Christo Weise, the South African retail billionaire ranked by Forbes as the second-richest man in Africa.
The group now has 6,500 outlets in 30 countries, 22 manufacturing facilities and 40 retail brands, including Bensons for Beds and Harveys in the UK, Conforama in Europe, Pep and Ackermans in South Africa and Snooze in Australia. Steinhoff derives about 60% of its earnings in Europe and 34% in Africa.
In an effort to fund its continuing expansion plans in Europe, the company moved its primary stock market listing from Johannesburg to Frankfurt in December last year.
Steinhoff's relentless expansion by acquisitions has provided a solid basis for profit growth as well. In its latest set of results, operating profit had jumped 46% to €1.1bn (£916m; $1.2bn) in the nine months to March, compared with the same period the year before.
The Commons Standards Committee found the MP had committed a "serious" breach of parliamentary rules.
Mr Cox said he had not intended to hide the payments for legal work, but had instead missed the deadline to declare.
The Torridge and West Devon MP also stepped down from the Standards Committee.
Mr Cox received 11 payments totalling more than £400,000 between January and August last year, but he did not declare them until the end of September - breaching the 28-day deadline.
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He blamed the ill-health retirement of the head clerk at his chambers for the "oversight".
He failed to notice the problem earlier because he had spent the summer recess launching "an entirely new international law chambers based in Mauritius and Dubai", he said.
The Commons Standards Committee report said it accepted Mr Cox had no intention to hide the payments.
"Nevertheless, as the commissioner notes, the number of payments and the sums involved in the late registration are significant - and Mr Cox was in a position which should have ensured that he was more familiar with the rules and the relevant principles of public life in this area than other Members might be," it said.
Police were called at about 10:30 BST to The Avenue in Hampton, near a Sainsbury's branch.
Three women were found injured at the store's car park, while the fourth woman was found at a property nearby.
A man in his 60s has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder.
London Ambulance Service (LAS) said the women were treated at the scene for stab wounds to the chest, legs and back.
One of the victims was taken to a major trauma centre by an air ambulance while three others were taken by road to a south London hospital as "priority".
A woman working at the nearby Hampton Pub, who did not want to be named, said the attacker "appeared to be out of it" and was targeting women in the "completely unprovoked" attack.
"He only went for the women.
"The man ran through and started attacking them. It didn't seem like they knew him it was completely unprovoked.
"If it had been ten or 20 minutes earlier there would have been children there because it's right outside a primary school."
The witness said one of the injured women was a local resident and raised the alarm.
"The woman who was badly stabbed in the back made it up to the police station and raised the alarm," she said.
Sally Caddle, manager of the YMCA youth centre which is based near the scene of the attacks, told BBC News: "I heard a scream and ran out to the car park to see what was happening and heard a young lady saying she'd been stabbed.
"I went to stem the bleeding that was coming from her back. I helped a second woman as well who'd had an injury.
"One of the Sainsbury's staff came out of the store to assist and quite shortly the emergency services arrived."
Ben Brady, a nearby business owner, went outside after hearing a "commotion".
"We are based next to the community police centre and I saw some passerby helping a lady there who had been stabbed.
"They laid her down on floor and she seemed to be trying to catch her breath but couldn't. Then I kept hearing people shouting that there was someone in the car park with a knife, so I ran over there to see if I could help out or stop him from attacking anyone else.
"I then saw another two ladies at the back of their car. They both were suffering stab wounds to their sides and back and they were screaming and pointing 'he's over there he's over there'... After stabbing the ladies, he was just walking down the road waving the knife around."
The Sierra Leone Football Association (SLFA) is not currently organising a domestic league however it is running an FA Cup that only a handful fans watched over the weekend, despite entry being free.
Just a week earlier the biggest crowd for a domestic in more than 20 years saw Mountain City beat Fullah Town 1-0 in the non-league final at the Siaka Stevens stadium in Freetown.
Indeed the match attracted more fans than some of Sierra Leone's recent international matches in Freetown.
Even a breakaway league organised by 11 out of 14 premier league clubs that ended a few months ago failed to attract large crowds in Freetown.
The community tournament was organised by Freetown-based Central One Football Association (Cofa), an affiliate body to West Area Football Association (Wafa) which is a member of the SLFA.
The majority of players from Freetown's 11 top-flight clubs played in the community league including several internationals among them goalkeeper Unisa Koroma for Mountain City.
The match also boasted big-names coaches with Charlie Wright leading Mountain City and Amidu Karim in charge of Fullah Town.
The duo are usually assistant coach and head coach respectively at Kallon FC.
Replica shirts of the two finalists were sold out and the SLFA provided Fifa-standard referees for the final to show their support for the competition.
Blamoh Robert, the secretary general of premier league club Kallon FC (owned by former Leone Star Mohamed Kallon), says the SLFA should take note.
"This is a big slap in the face to the SLFA and its members in Freetown as Cofa has succeeded where we have failed," Roberts told BBC Sport.
"The SLFA and Wafa has brought football to standstill in the western area because of pride and ego.
"This is as a result of the impasse within the SLFA. This should teach us that we must play football no matter the situation.
"The SLFA should not be learning from Cofa, it should be the other way round."
The head of competitions of the SLFA Sorie Ibrahim Sesay disagrees that it reflects badly on them but admits that their FA Cup is struggling to attract crowds in Freetown.
"It's a fact the Cofa final attracted a big crowd but it's not a slap against us because we're organising the FA Cup despite the challenges we are facing," Sesay told BBC Sport.
"One of the challenges is that the ongoing national FA Cup is struggling to draw crowds in Freetown and it's because of infighting within the football family.
"Sierra Leoneans like football and I believe if we stop fighting and unite as a family we'll organise better domestic competitions and crowds will return to watch our matches."
The problems within Sierra Leone football and the recent Ebola outbreak means that there has been just one league season and two FA Cups since 2013.
The ongoing FA Cup has reached the last 32 but is being played without six premier league clubs.
The missing teams were also part of the 11 sides that took part in a breakaway league earlier this year and had vowed not to play in any competition organised by the current SLFA administration.
It is still not clear whether two other premier clubs, Freetown City FC and Mighty Blackpool, will take part in the current FA Cup.
Friday was tough for Hamilton, who was unhappy with his car and missed half a session with a technical problem.
His issues continued before qualifying on Saturday - he locked his brakes and missed Turn Seven on his fastest lap and ended up eighth fastest.
Rosberg was just 0.059 seconds ahead of Verstappen.
Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen was third fastest, but 0.508secs off the pace and just 0.043secs ahead of the second Red Bull of Daniel Ricciardo.
Sebastian Vettel complained of a lack of rear-end grip as he ended up fifth fastest and 0.752secs behind Rosberg.
The four-time champion was not the only big name to struggle. Jenson Button was in all sorts of trouble in his McLaren, down in 16th place - four places but a massive 1.1secs slower than team-mate Fernando Alonso.
Verstappen's pace, set on a beautifully fluid lap by the Dutchman around the challenging Marina Bay Circuit, suggests Red Bull could - as expected - be a major threat to Mercedes' pace when qualifying starts at 14:00 BST.
Red Bull team principal Christian Horner said: "We know they always have a bit up their sleeve when they turn things up for qually, but it was a pretty decent session. Daniel lost a bit of time behind Ocon so his time wasn't representative."
Asked if Red Bull could take pole position, Horner said: "I doubt it. Lewis locked his front and flat-spotted so we didn't see his true pace and Rosberg looks like he has 0.1-0.2secs in there but we will see what happens."
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He urged the international community to address the "immense humanitarian tragedy" in both countries.
The Pope also called for peace in the Holy Land, Ukraine, Libya, Yemen, Nigeria, Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
And he once again referred to the persecution of Christians in many countries.
Addressing the faithful in a rain-drenched St Peter's Square, the Pope said: "We ask Jesus, the victor over death, to lighten the sufferings of our many brothers and sisters who are persecuted for his name, and of all those who suffer injustice as a result of ongoing conflicts and violence.
"We ask for peace, above all, for Syria and Iraq, that the roar of arms may cease and that peaceful relations may be restored among the various groups which make up those beloved countries.
"May the international community not stand by before the immense humanitarian tragedy unfolding in these countries and the drama of the numerous refugees."
He also said his thoughts and prayers were with the young people killed in last Thursday's massacre at Garissa University College in Kenya.
Referring to the outline agreement on Iran's nuclear programme recently reached in the Swiss city of Lausanne, he expressed hope that it might be "a definitive step toward a more secure and fraternal world".
The Pope concluded his address by saying: "We ask for peace and freedom for the many men and women subject to old and new forms of enslavement on the part of criminal individuals and groups.
"Peace and liberty for the victims of drug dealers, who are often allied with the powers who ought to defend peace and harmony in the human family. And we ask peace for this world subjected to arms dealers."
Two days ago, during a Good Friday service in Rome, the Pope condemned what he termed the "complicit silence" about the killing of Christians.
The service came a day after almost 150 people were killed in the attack on the Kenyan university by Islamist militants who are said to have singled out Christians as their victims.
The latest National Rail Passenger Satisfaction (NRPS) figures showed that 83% of those surveyed said they were satisfied with their ScotRail journey.
This was four percentage points lower than the previous survey last June, and seven points lower than a year ago.
The figure for the UK as a whole in the most recent survey was 81%.
The fieldwork for the survey, carried out by Transport Focus, was conducted between September and November 2016.
Transport Minister Humza Yousaf said he was "disappointed" by the survey results, but said ScotRail's improvement plan was "delivering some results".
It was the first to be carried out following the five month closure of the upper platforms at Queen Street Station and last summer's industrial action by RMT union members.
ScotRail Alliance Managing Director Phil Verster - who announced last week that he will be leaving his post - said the rail operator was disappointed that its satisfaction figures had not increased.
Mr Verster added: "However, they come on the back of a difficult year for our customers. Operating a busy and complicated network is challenging at the best of times - and we are doing so during one of the largest investments in modernisation since Scotland's railway was built in Victorian times.
"There is no alternative, though, to doing the work.
"The decision to invest in the railway's future has been put off too many times and it is in the best long term interests of passengers that we get on and do it. It is then our job to do whatever we can to keep people moving during this work and to better communicate when things go wrong and explain why they go wrong."
The work at Queen Street followed on from a similar project at Winchburgh Tunnel, and is part of the multi-billion pound investment in Scotland's railway network.
It also includes the electrification of the line between Glasgow and Edinburgh, similar work on the Shotts line, electrification of the line between Stirling, Dunblane and Alloa and a major upgrade of the line between Aberdeen and Inverness.
There were also several large-scale incidents during the survey period - including a major one at Princes Street Gardens in Edinburgh that caused widespread disruption.
Transport Focus chief executive Anthony Smith said: "The results around the country are disappointing. Scottish passengers and those travelling in peak hours in London and the south east are bearing the brunt of poor performance.
"The timetable on parts of the London and South East's railway can be a work of fiction which passengers cannot rely on. As passenger numbers rise, parts of the rail network will remain brittle until welcome improvements are in place and working."
Last November, Transport Minister Humza Yousaf apologised to ScotRail passengers following criticism of ScotRail's reliability since Abellio took over the contract in April 2015.
Mr Yousaf, who also suggested rail services could be taken into the public sector in the future, had previously ordered ScotRail to draw up an improvement plan, which was published in full on 29 November.
Figures published earlier this month showed the reliability of ScotRail trains significantly improved in the weeks after the improvement plan was published.
The PPM data showed 89.7% of trains arrived within five minutes of schedule in the four weeks to 7 January. This was a 6% rise on the previous four weeks, and a 2.8% improvement on the same period last year.
But ScotRail's annual performance was 90% - below the 91.3% target set in Abellio's contract for the franchise.
Mr Yousaf was questioned by MSPs about the latest figures at Holyrood.
He said he was "disappointed" by the results, but insisted progress had been made during "an exciting and challenging period for rail in Scotland".
He said: "Let me be clear, ScotRail is not yet performing at the level I would like it to. However, let's also be clear, neither is the situation the apocalyptic scenario often painted by our opponents."
Scottish Conservative MSP Liam Kerr said it was right Mr Yousaf came to the chamber in the wake of the change of management at ScotRail, saying the government had "driven Mr Verster from his post".
He said the government had been responsible for "ill-thought-through announcements regarding public sector bids and the future of the franchise", "uncosted raids" on funds and "the situation on the ground deteriorating" for commuters, asking if new boss Alex Hynes would be given the government's full support.
Mr Yousaf replied that he would not take lectures from a Tory on rail services, adding that he did not recognise the Scottish rail service described. He added that the government would back Mr Hynes, and hoped all MSPs would.
Labour's Neil Bibby said passengers were fed up with the level of delays, cancellations and skipped stops, asking if Mr Yousaf would take responsibility if targets were not hit.
The minister replied that "it must be very depressing to live in the mind of Neil Bibby, where everything seems to be going wrong", insisting there had been improvements in services.
The British world champion, who trails the German by 36 points in the championship after three races, was just 0.068 seconds ahead of Rosberg.
Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel, who has a five-place grid penalty, was third, but 0.604secs adrift of the Mercedes.
Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen was fourth, ahead of Williams' Felipe Massa.
Qualifying is live on the BBC Sport website and 5 live Sports Extra at 13:00 BST.
Hamilton is determined to win this race and narrow the gap Rosberg has built up with three straight wins and a difficult start to the season for the 31-year-old.
If anything, Rosberg was the more consistent of the two drivers during a fascinating session in which the low abrasiveness of the Sochi track enabled drivers to keep pushing hard on the tyres for several laps, an unusual phenomenon with these high-degradation Pirelli tyres.
Hamilton had a number of runs in which he was quickest of all in one or two sectors, but made errors in another.
But he saved the best for last, jumping to the top of the timesheet with his final fastest lap.
Mercedes appear comfortably clear of Ferrari - and their biggest threat for a win, if they have one, has effectively been removed with Vettel's penalty.
Williams, who have had a difficult start to the season, have had an encouraging weekend so far, with Massa's team-mate Valtteri Bottas in sixth ahead of the Toro Rosso of Max Verstappen.
Jenson Button - who is very strong on the Sochi street track - raised McLaren hopes of getting into the final qualifying session for the first time in their new Honda era with the eighth fastest time, four places and 0.4secs ahead of his two-time champion team-mate Fernando Alonso.
The two McLarens were separated by the second Toro Rosso of Carlos Sainz, Force India's Sergio Perez, who had a spin at Turn 13 early in the session, and Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo, who did his fastest lap out of sequence earlier in the session.
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Cambridge has only the ninth most privately educated intake, the Higher Education Statistics Agency figures show.
Among mainstream universities, Oxford has the fewest state school pupils.
The figures show the overall proportion of state school pupils entering UK universities has reached a record high.
Dr Sam Lucy, Cambridge's director of admissions, said her university was a "diverse place and nothing like the rumours or typical media stories".
"Myths persist, but staff and students are breaking through them," said Dr Lucy.
She said the proportion of state sector entrants at Cambridge had risen from 54% to about 62% in a decade.
The figures reveal there are now more state-educated pupils at Cambridge - 61.9% - than Bristol, with 61.4%.
In response, the University of Bristol has already announced far-reaching plans to assist applicants from poorer backgrounds or who have been at underachieving schools.
Bristol will make offers two grades lower than the standard offer for applicants who have been at schools in the lowest-achieving 40% for A-level results.
The university's pro vice-chancellor, Prof Judith Squires, says its outreach efforts are already making a "hugely encouraging" impact, with the state school intake for this year rising to 64.7%.
The overall UK figures, for young, full-time entrants in 2015-16, show a new high watermark for the state school university intake - nudging upwards from 89.8% to 89.9%.
It shows a slow, steady rise of state pupils, up from 87.4% a decade before.
But many of the most competitive universities still have high levels of privately educated students.
These include specialist institutions such as the Royal Agricultural University and the Royal Academy of Music - both of which have less than half of their students from state schools.
Oxford University has 55.7% of pupils from state schools - although these figures do not include the most recent intake from autumn 2016, which saw an increase.
St Andrews has 56.7% of state pupils and Durham 60.5%.
In contrast, Liverpool Hope and the University of Bolton had more than 99% of their intakes from state schools.
There are differences across the UK - with Scottish universities on average taking a slightly lower proportion of state school pupils (87%) than universities in England (89.8%).
Wales has more state school pupils at 92.8%, but by far the highest level of state pupils is in Northern Ireland's universities, where the intake is overwhelmingly state educated, at 99.2%.
Independent schools teach around 6.5% pupils in the UK, but the proportion rises to about 18% over the age of 16, according to the Independent Schools Council.
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Lord Chris Patten said it would be "difficult for the UK government to show neutrality" when it has done a close political deal with the DUP.
The parties agreed a £1bn deal on Monday, meaning DUP MPs will support the Conservatives in key Commons votes.
Lord Patten added that, in the short term, Sinn Féin may want to be "part of the action" when the money comes.
The former governor of Hong Kong had been critical of a potential DUP-Tory deal, before it was settled.
He told ITV's Peston on Sunday the DUP was a "toxic brand". "There is a danger of us looking like a 'nasty party' again. Their values are not ours," he added.
Speaking to BBC's Stephen Nolan Show, he explained these comments further.
"British newspapers are going to start, and have already begun, a forensic investigation of the background of DUP members and the extent to which some of them have histories with paramilitary activities." he said.
"I don't think that's good for Northern Ireland."
The DUP has made clear it condemns all paramilitary violence.
Lord Patten then pointed to the DUP's socially conservative views. "It won't surprise you to know that I disagree with the DUP's social attitudes," he said.
Again, papers have started to pick over those views and it's not good for the DUP or its image.
"I love Northern Ireland and I think, like other parts of the country, it could do with more public spending - but it already gets more than other parts of the country.
"Northern Ireland and its citizens know as well as I do, that a bung is a bung is a bung.
"What will happen now, is every time anyone wants a pay rise, for example, when nurses in England are told they can't have a pay increase - people will point to this deal with the DUP."
"You do deals to govern everyone fairly and I don't think this deal was necessary."
"Would the DUP really have got rid of a Conservative government with the risk of Mr Corbyn, who has a certain relationship with Republican Sinn Féin, being the next prime minister? I rather doubt it".
The boy, who technically is not allowed to even join the site for another three years, discovered a bug that allowed him to delete comments made by other users.
The issue was "quickly" fixed after being discovered, said Facebook, which owns Instagram.
Jani was paid soon after - making him the youngest ever recipient of the firm's "bug bounty" prize.
After discovering the flaw in February, he emailed Facebook.
Security engineers at the company set up a test account for Jani to prove his theory - which he did.
The boy, from Helsinki, told Finnish newspaper Iltalehti he planned to use the money to buy a new bike, football equipment and computers for his brothers.
Facebook told the BBC it had paid $4.3m to bug bounty recipients since 2011.
Many companies offer a financial incentive for security professionals - and young children, evidently - to share flaws with the company, rather than selling them on the black market.
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The annual report from net giant Cisco suggests that mobile phone operating systems are becoming increasingly popular with hi-tech criminals.
It predicts 2011 will see a significant number of attacks directed at smartphones, mobile software and users.
Despite this, the vast majority of current viruses are aimed at Windows and programs that run on it.
The trend towards mobile malware took a significant turn in late 2009, says Cisco with the appearance of a virus called Zitmo. This was a mobile version of the Zeus Windows trojan that has proved hugely popular with criminals keen to steal logins to online bank accounts.
Also, wrote Patrick Peterson, senior security researcher at Cisco, improved Windows security made it harder for hi-tech criminals to find new ways to attack PCs.
A growing target, said the report, were Apple products such as the iPhone. Statistics gathered by Cisco suggest a growing number of vulnerabilities are being found in Apple operating systems.
Cisco said Apple's close oversight of what can run on its phones was limiting the effectiveness of attacks but many people were "jailbreaking" their phones putting them at risk from unofficial apps that have malicious elements buried within them.
Apple was not alone among mobile operating systems attracting attention, said the report, attacks were also starting to focus on Google's Android software.
Mr Peterson said Cisco had seen lots of research and development by criminal groups as they focus on mobiles and work out the best way to attack portable gadgets.
Evidence of this was seen in the localised and targeted phishing scams sent out to mobiles as criminals seek to trick groups of users into handing over passwords.
Trojans aimed at Android that booby trap apps that run on phones or bury premium rate links in ads were also starting to turn up. For instance, in late December 2010 the Geinimi trojan for Android was found that can steal almost any of the data on a handset.
"The relative youth of the Android OS, including its apps and ecosystem, combined with the sheer number of users will make this a very attractive platform for exploitation," Scott Olechowski, threat research manager at Cisco.
A £40m sports centre and 560 flats are planned for the site of the 1930s King Alfred Centre in Hove.
Under the proposals, the current building will be demolished and replaced by a number of structures including an 18-storey flat block.
Computer-generated images of the structures were revealed on Tuesday.
"Our proposals incorporate world-class leisure and community facilities set to benefit local residents, together with outstanding new mixed tenure residential properties in this enviable location on the Hove seafront," said Duncan Innes, from developer Crest Nicholson.
The scheme, which will include 20% "affordable housing", will be subject to further design development, public consultation and planning permission.
About £8m of council money will go towards the sports centre, which will include three swimming pools - one with changeable depths, a 120-station gym, a sports hall with space for eight badminton courts, three-rink indoor bowls, a sauna and a cafe.
Brighton and Hove City Council leader Warren Morgan said it was "vital that we move forward with the much-needed and unavoidable replacement of the ninety-year old facility".
The glass-fronted structure, sandwiched between the Victorian buildings of St Antony's College, was designed by architect Zaha Hadid.
At Tuesday's opening, Sheikha Mozah bint Nasser of Qatar spoke of growing Islamophobia and the "fear of real, living Muslims" in Europe.
The event was attended by dignitaries, academics and ambassadors.
The Investcorp Building occupies college grounds on Woodstock Road.
It doubles the space for the centre's library and archive and includes a 118-seat lecture theatre, freeing up space in the college's existing buildings.
Founded in 1957, the Middle East Centre at St Antony's College holds Oxford University's primary collection on the modern Middle East.
It is Oxford's facility for research and teaching on the Arab world, Iran, Israel and Turkey from the 19th century to the present day.
Patrick Hutton, 71, was convicted of four assaults on his wife, one on his son and one on his daughter between March 1965 and December 1984.
Livingston Sheriff Court heard Hutton still maintained his innocence.
The sheriff said he used his "feet and fists" on those he should have shown "love and protection".
At an earlier trial, Hutton, from Longridge, West Lothian, had denied a total of 16 charges, of which he was convicted of six following a four-week trial.
Sheriff Peter Hammond imposed concurrent sentences on each of the charges, amounting to a total of two years.
He told Hutton: "You were for many years an experienced boxer and a fit man and you used your feet and fists on vulnerable members of your family as a means of discipline, control and subjugation of them.
"These are serious offences involving ill treatment and violence towards members of your family who should have been entitled to expect your love and protection as a father and a husband."
During the trial, Hutton's wife Rachel, 70, said her husband - who trained at a local boxing club and practiced judo - was a powerful man, nearly 6ft tall and weighing 14 stones, when he physically abused her.
She said the violence began when she was aged just 20 and escalated over the years to include assaults on her children as well.
The mother-of-four told how the attacks often came when they got home after nights out in a social club near where they lived.
She said she had to stare at the floor in pubs and clubs because her husband would accuse her of looking at other men and of being unfaithful to him.
Son John, 50, told how he was left to feed chickens at his dad's coal yard when his parents went on holiday.
He threw the entire sack of grain into the chicken run because he was scared of the birds and they all died from overeating.
As punishment his father gave him a beating and locked him in the chicken shed with the dead birds.
Defence counsel Tony Lenihan said that Hutton still maintained his innocence and he stressed that the pensioner kept very poor health and had mobility problems.
Sheriff Hammond told Hutton: "I accept that you're an elderly man with a declining state of health. You can take it that - but for your health issues - the sentences would have been significantly longer."
A court found in December last year the Chinpo Shipping Company was in breach of the UN sanctions on North Korea.
The company paid a Panamanian shipping agent $72,000 (£50,000) for the passage of North Korean ship the Chong Chon Gang through the Panama Canal.
The arms shipment was hidden under more than 10,000 tonnes of sugar.
The Chong Chon Gang was stopped while navigating the Panama Canal, by officials who suspected it was being used to smuggle drugs.
Cuba said it had shipped the weaponry to North Korea for repair. It did not explain why it was hidden under a cargo of sugar.
Chinpo was also fined S$100,000 for operating a remittance business without a license, for performing hundreds of remittances, worth tens of millions of dollars, on behalf of North Korean entities.
During the trial, the prosecution said the company often did not provide relevant names or documents when carrying out transactions, in a bid to obscure the counterparties involved.
The arms included disassembled radar systems, missiles, MiG fighter jets and engines, many of which dated from the Soviet era - something the shipping company attempted to use in its defence, arguing they were "obsolete".
The defence also claimed the aircraft were intended for training, not battlefield use, although training weapons are also covered by the sanctions
Chinpo director Tan Cheng Hoe, also cited what he said were his well-known connections to North Korea, stretching back decades, as evidence that he and his company were not trying to hide their dealings with Pyongyang, dubbed "proliferation finance" by experts.
He claimed that omitting such details was a common way to speed up money transfer times.
Both Singapore-based Chinpo Shipping and Pyongyang-based Ocean Maritime Management (OMM), which operated the seized ship, have been named by the UN as entities involved in shipping North Korean arms.
Under United Nations sanctions, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), as it is formally known, is banned from weapons exports and the import of all but small arms.
The Panama incident was the largest seizure of arms going to or from North Korea since the UN began its current sanctions on the country in 2006, said the Singapore District Court judge.
Japanese public broadcaster NHK reported the overspend on its website.
It said the huge rise had been caused by unexpected payments for building lanes on highways, as well as rising material costs and personnel expenses.
Next year's Olympics in Rio has a budget of £2.38bn while London 2012 cost £8.77bn in total.
However, if the cost of the Tokyo Olympics was to reach £9.98bn, it would still be considerably less than the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, which was estimated to have cost £31bn ($51bn).
The initial cost of the 2020 Games was estimated at £1.6bn (300bn yen).
NHK said the figure was optimistic and the Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee was expected to show a shortfall of £5.54bn (1 trillion yen).
Total costs for staging the Games will be shared by the committee, the Tokyo government and national government.
Lake Poopo used to be about 1,000 square kilometres big but it's been shrinking for several years and in December it completely evaporated.
It's bad news for wildlife, like fish and birds, who live in the area and depend on the lake for food.
More than 100 families have had to leave their homes in the last three years.
The lake has dried up before, and reappeared later on, but scientists have warned that recovery might not be possible this time.
No one knows for sure why the lake has disappeared, but repeated droughts caused by the El Nino weather phenomenon is thought to be an important factor.
Another reason could be that water from the rivers that feed into the lake has been diverted for mining and farming, meaning that less water reaches the lake itself.
The hosts are renowned for their fast-paced off-loading game, while Sarries are more known for their powerful pack and rock-like defence.
But Quins have been below their best this season and Sarries are scoring tries for fun, so predicting who will come out on top is a tricky business.
The big London derby used to be Quins v Wasps but because of Sarries' success and Wasps' demise, this contest is now the biggy in the capital.
Saturday's match is what makes rugby so delicious because we have certain expectations of both teams - Quins the off-loaders, Sarries the power-based outfit.
Leaders Sarries do look very impressive at the moment. They have squad strength that allows them to chop and change their team without weakening it too much.
Hosts Quins have got all big guns on display and will want to make a statement at the Stoop - losing isn't on the menu.
Sarries victory last weekend against Bath wasn't a surprise but the manner in which they dispatched an in-form team was very impressive.
They dominated Bath and had the game sewn up by half-time, with wing David Strettle's second try on 40 minutes clinching the bonus point.
They've started to score tries, which will be a worry for other teams but a breath of fresh air for neutrals, and if that trend continues they will be unstoppable because their defence is as stingy as always.
All teams know that it's Sarries' imposing pack that lays down the foundation for all their victories.
The Vunipola brothers catch your eye not just by their individual size but their sheer lust and appetite to carry a rugby ball and obliterate anyone who has the temerity to try and stop them.
Billy, the younger, is playing at number eight so we will definitely see him picking up from the base of the scrum and more than likely carrying Danny Care a few yards, as well as the ball.
The Sarries pack is well drilled in the set piece and generally have a good say at the breakdown, I'll be very interested to see if Quins bosses Conor O'Shea and John Kingston have come up with a plan to get some parity in that department.
Quins need this win to demonstrate they aren't a one trick wonder after winning the title a couple of seasons ago by playing some really dynamic, ambitious rugby.
Last season, when they were defending their title, they faded away at the end with little impact and that's not good, they need to re-establish themselves and a win against Sarries would be a big statement of intent - both teams know it.
You have to admire Sarries' doggedness and hard-nosed approach but I now get the feeling they understand the importance of scoring tries.
Friday
Northampton to beat Sale
Saturday
Bath to beat London Irish
London Wasps to beat Worcester
Harlequins to beat Saracens
Sunday
Exeter to beat Leicester
Newcastle to lose to Gloucester
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As silly as that might sound, I assure you it's not. I think the tacticians at Sarries really believed that not conceding tries would win them title after title, but that's not true.
You have to have the X-factor and defence doesn't supply that - scoring tries does.
Fly-half Owen Farrell is still young at 22 but now established, with 17 Tests for England under his belt, and his kicking will have a big say in this game, particularly if the weather is inclement (although the forecast looks good for Saturday).
Full-back Alex Goode has come back from injury and, against Bath, showed more in attack than he has done playing international rugby. I for one would like to see more of the same please.
Another industrious performance by Chris Ashton will tell his doubters he's prepared to work harder than before and not just wait to score tries.
His defence still needs improving though and make no mistake, scoring tries is what he's all about. One try from three games isn't great.
Last season Quins failed to hit the heights they managed in 2012. They are definite title contenders this time around but this match has to be one that will have a significant bearing on their self-confidence.
Defeat at home would make them ask whether they are good enough.
Quins suffered as a team last season, just like individuals sometimes suffer after a great first season. Backing up is hard and Quins went through second-season syndrome. Dealing with that is second nature to an experienced side like champions Leicester.
Yes, Quins are genuine title contenders, but you can't just talk about it, you have to prove it on the pitch as well.
This could be Chris Robshaw's time to make a statement and show he is still the reigning champion in England when it comes to open-side flankers.
Playing against this Sarries pack is certainly going to test his skills and to dominate won't be easy for the man who captained England last season.
It would be great to see a demonstration like David Pocock produced against South Africa when Australia played the Boks in the quarter-final of the 2011 World Cup.
That's probably asking too much, although I feel he needs a great game like that to stop the questions being asked about his place in the England team.
As always, kicking will have a big say and currently Farrell is at 83% with Nick Evans on 67% from the tee - that tells the story in that department.
Quins fly-half Evans is a fine player but has yet to find his mojo this season. I feel he has too much class not to have an impact but nothing short of his best will be good enough against Farrell and Sarries.
Scrum-half will see a big contest between Richard Wigglesworth and Care. I thought Care was very unlucky not to start as England's number one last season - he was the form nine - but Ben Youngs stepped up well.
Wigglesworth and Care have had similar game time this season and their carries and metres run stats may reflect their team's gameplan - Care has had 24 carries and made 186m running with the ball while Wigglesworth has 15 carries and 36m!
The battle of the full-backs - Mike Brown v Goode - is another intriguing match-up . Goode has to show us his attacking ability more, otherwise I don't see the point of him playing instead of Brown or Ben Foden for England.
A full-back should be picked because of his attacking qualities more than just his ability to kick the ball out of his own half.
And then there's Joe Marler v Mako Vunipola at loose-head, where Mako has to be ahead after his brilliant Lions tour.
The only way I see Marler getting his nose in front is if he improves his scrummaging, which isn't Mako's forte.
When it comes to carrying the ball in the loose you'd be hard pressed to find a better prop in the world than Mako, he rules that department.
Sarries have a chance to really shine and show the rest (who rightly don't matter to them) that they have the ability to win games not just by kicking, defending and scoring three points at a time, but by scoring good, well-worked smart tries.
If Quins are to win they have to unearth a thunderous performance, which I think people doubt they have in them.
However, I believe Quins will find the performance to beat Sarries, they're a good team and when their off-loading game clicks they're still a massive force in the English domestic league.
Having said that, if it rains I believe Sarries will win, so Quins will be hoping London is enjoying a glorious Indian summer come Saturday.
Only Sinn Féin had held the education post until now.
But Peter Weir will be aware of many of the pressing issues he faces, as he recently chaired Stormont's education committee.
With Simon Hamilton responsible for universities as part of his economy brief, the DUP now oversee every aspect of education - from pre-school through to higher education.
In the run up to the assembly election, the party produced a policy document specifically on education which set out their priorities.
While they firmly back academic selection, it is unlikely that they will attempt to reintroduce a Northern Ireland-wide test.
Instead, it is likely that it will become easier for primary schools to teach to - and facilitate - the current Association of Quality Education and Post Primary Transfer Consortium-run tests.
However, the new minister may press both bodies to find a common test rather than continue to run separate ones.
The big problem facing Mr Weir will be money.
The education budget has fallen, while costs are rising.
Many school leaders warn that they are facing deficits which could lead, in the worst cases, to staff and subject cuts and higher class sizes.
The DUP have said that they support more money going directly to schools, so principals may have more say on what their budget is spent on - if not more funding overall.
In addition, the new minister may take a fresh look at the area planning process.
That aims to ensure that the size of schools and where they are located meets the needs of pupils.
A number of reports have said that we have too many schools in Northern Ireland.
Closing or merging a number of those deemed unsustainable would undoubtedly help save money, but, in practice, any move to do that inevitably meets strong local opposition.
The DUP also broadly backed the "shared education" approach favoured by previous minister John O'Dowd, where individual schools from different backgrounds collaborated while maintaining their own independence and ethos.
So it is unlikely that the integrated sector, which educates about 7% of pupils, will grow significantly in the coming years.
One change that the DUP has committed to is to change the GCSE-grading system to bring it in line with changes taking place in England.
That means that pupils in Northern Ireland will soon get grades from 1-9 rather than A*-G when they get their GCSE results, and should mean schools can re-introduce exams set by English examining boards.
Mr Weir's appointment has been broadly welcomed by representatives from a range of sectors, who believe that he is well aware of the challenges they face.
However, those in the Irish medium sector may be a little nervous about a DUP minister committed to tackling what the party criticised as "preferential treatment" when it came to money for new school buildings.
The Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP told the Observer that difficulties in arranging social care for patients was having a major impact on hospitals.
Raising National Insurance "offers one of the simplest ways forward", he said.
The Department of Health said its plan to introduce a cap on care costs in England in 2020 had not changed.
Mr Poulter stepped down from his Department of Health post last year and now works as an MP and a part-time doctor in the NHS.
He told the Observer: "On the hospital wards I often see people who are medically fit to go home, but who are forced to stay in hospital because of difficulties arranging their social care package, or because of a lack of appropriate housing...
"A long-term plan to ensure a properly funded and sustainable health and social care system is urgently required."
The government's policy to limit care costs to £72,000 for the over-65s and younger adults with disabilities were delayed from last April after councils, which provide the facilities, wrote to ministers citing "enormous pressures".
But Dr Poulter, who had been charged with steering the plan through Parliament, suggested the flagship policy now has little chance of being implemented because of increasing costs.
He said a "health and care tax - perhaps introduced through raising national insurance" would provide a guaranteed income stream and "allow a legitimate debate about what is an appropriate level of taxation required to ensure a sustainable funding settlement".
A 1p in the pound hike in both employee and employer National Insurance contributions was used by Labour in its 2002 budget to pay for a £40bn rise in NHS spending over five years.
Dr Poulter's comments come after it was revealed plans are being drawn up that could see cuts to NHS services across England to meet £22bn in efficiency savings by 2020-21.
The Department of Health said it had protected the NHS in England by giving it an extra £10bn and any changes would involve reorganising local services to improve patient care.
Addressing Mr Poulter's comments, a DoH spokeswoman said: "This government is committed to ensuring that those in old age can access care that is both affordable and dignified.
"The position on the care cost cap hasn't changed. Last year, a new timetable was set out with the introduction of the cap in 2020 and we are now working with the insurance industry and others to make sure we can introduce these reforms."
But Richard Murray, of the King's Fund think tank, said tackling the "growing crisis" in social care would be a key test of Prime Minister Theresa May's vow to lead a nation that works for everyone, not just the privileged.
He said: "England remains one of the few major advanced countries that has not reformed the way it funds long-term care in response to the needs of an ageing population.
"A frank and open debate is needed on how to fund health and social care on a sustainable basis into the future, recognising that a long-term strategy will exceed the lifetime of a single Parliament."
When the markets opened on Friday in the wake of Britain's decision to leave the European Union, the FTSE 100 plunged hundreds of points in minutes, wiping billions off the value of banks, homebuilders and retailers in particular.
There were similar sell-offs in European, US and Asian markets - a $2 trillion (£1.5tn) haemorrhaging.
Although the FTSE recovered some of those losses by the end of the day, it still ended down more than 3% - a huge fall ordinarily.
Sterling experienced its biggest fall for decades, at one point down more than 11% against the dollar.
For a few hours, it seemed like the sky was falling in.
The market turmoil triggered a "flight to safety", as investors looked for calmer waters elsewhere.
But where are these safer investments?
The precious metal has traditionally been the comfort blanket of choice, with investors clinging to its reassuring solidity and comparative rarity - only about 165,000 tonnes of the stuff has ever been mined.
Throughout human history gold has been synonymous with wealth and luxury - a tangible repository of value - and for hundreds of years was used as a currency in its own right.
Major economies even pegged their currencies to the gold standard, because the metal was seen to be such a stable store of value. The Bank of England gave up on the gold standard in 1931, but the US didn't completely give it up until 1971.
So it is not surprising that gold rose nearly 5% to more than $1,310 an ounce on Friday and has risen 12% over the year to date.
Governments raise money from investors by offering to pay a guaranteed level of interest on bonds - effectively IOUs that must be repaid after a set period, which can be months or decades depending on the type of bond.
In the UK these government bonds are called gilts; in many other countries they're called Treasuries.
This type of investment is deemed to be relatively safe because there's less chance of a country going bust than there is of a company going bust.
Bonds can be bought and sold on the open market and so their price fluctuates according to supply and demand, but the annual rate of interest remains the same. So as more people pile into them looking for safety, prices rise, but the yield - the actual amount of interest you receive - falls.
But that's still better than losing lots of money in shares that are tanking on the markets. The price for safety is usually a lower investment return.
So after the Brexit vote, the US 10-year Treasury bond yield fell to 1.56% while the UK 10-year gilt fell to a record low of 1.02% at one point. It was only the prospect of Bank of England intervention that helped the yield recover to 1.09%.
The British pound took a kicking on Friday - down nearly 8% against the US dollar, nearly 6% against the euro, and a thumping 11% against the Japanese yen - as currency traders dumped sterling and bought other currencies fearing the economic turmoil that might follow the Brexit decision.
While other currencies may seem like a safer investment, governments can intervene in a number of ways to stop their own currencies from growing too strong or too weak. Raising interest rates is one such measure, which means investors earn more interest on their cash, thereby attracting more investment in that currency.
After investors started buying Swiss francs, pushing the currency up 6.6% against sterling on Friday, the Swiss National Bank intervened immediately, effectively flooding the market with its own currency to manage demand. It didn't want its exporters to suffer from a strong franc.
So if you're searching for safer investments, currency speculation is unlikely to help you sleep much better at night.
Many investors simply sell up and go to cash until a clear picture emerges.
While interest rates are at historic lows - the Bank of England has held the base rate at 0.5% since March 2009 - inflation is also very low at around 0.3%. So investors may be earning miserable rates of interest on cash, but at least high inflation isn't gnawing away at the buying power of that cash.
Of course, selling up has its own risks. You crystallise any losses on your investments and incur dealing charges as well.
But if you think there is more turmoil to come in the markets, stemming your losses may seem like the safest option.
When there is a general sell-off in equities (company shares), some sectors are hit harder than others. Housebuilders, for example, took the worst of it in the UK, with Taylor Wimpey crashing 29%, and Barratt, Berkeley and Bellway all falling more than 20%.
Investors assumed a slowdown in economic activity post-Brexit would affect UK construction companies the most.
But other sectors, like mining, bucked the trend as investors sought safety in gold and a weakening pound worked in their favour, given that their earnings are quoted in dollars. Randgold Resources, which operates mainly in Africa, was up 14% on Friday, for example.
Globally spread companies that make a lot of sales abroad, like Unilever, GlaxoSmithKline and Rolls-Royce, for example, are also considered good stocks to cling to in choppy waters.
The Football Association of Malawi (FAM) president Walter Nyamilandu said Mtawali beat off competition from four other coaches in interviews held on Thursday.
Both Mtawali and Ramadhan have signed a one year contract with the option of an extension.
I think I am going to bring a different dimension to the national team using my previous successful career as a player
51 year old Mtawali, a former Malawi midfielder, had been temporary coach of the team following the sacking of Young Chimodzi who was dismissed following the Flames' home defeat to Zimbabwe in their opening qualifying match in Group L for the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations.
It will be the first time that Mtawali has taken charge of a national team at senior level having previously been Malawi's Under-20 coach.
He believes his experience as a player and now coach is enough to see Malawi move forward.
"It is a challenge that I have been looking for," Mtawali said following his appointment.
"I think I am going to bring a different dimension to the national team using my previous successful career as a player.
"We need to instil the tactical discipline in each and every player because what is important is to see Malawi achieving success."
Nyamilandu told reporters Malawi are choosing a different option this time around.
"The two coaches have not been tried and tested with The Flames and from what we have observed , they are different from the other breed of coaches that we have tried before in the sense that they are very innovative, very creative and also they are ready to take risks," said Nyamilandu.
The FAM president said he hoped the two coaches would start the process of rebuilding Malawi so as to see the team go back to winning ways.
"We have lost our style of play over the years and Ernest and Ramadhan represent that missing link.
"They are both tactically minded because modern football is very scientific and we think they can bring in the high standard of play that we are lacking so that we can have the competitive edge" Nyamilandu added.
Mtawali and Ramadhan's immediate challenges will be in the 2017 Nations Cup qualifiers.
Malawi next play Swaziland early next month in their second group match before starting their World Cup campaign away to Tanzania in September.
In a TV address, she said she would draft a bill to set up a new body.
Ms Fernandez said the intelligence services had kept much of the same structure they had during the military government, which ended in 1983.
The move comes after the mysterious death of prosecutor Alberto Nisman - hours before he had been due to testify against senior government officials.
He had been investigating the bombing of a Jewish centre in the capital in 1994 which left 85 people dead.
Mr Nisman, 51, had accused several senior government figures - including President Fernandez and Foreign Minister Hector Timerman - of involvement in a plot to cover up Iran's alleged role in the bombing.
"I have prepared a bill to reform the intelligence service," President Fernandez said, adding that she wanted the proposal to be discussed at an urgent session of Congress.
"The plan is to dissolve the Intelligence Secretariat and create a Federal Intelligence Agency," she said that a new leadership should be chosen by a president but would be subject to a Senate approval.
"Combating impunity has been a priority of my government," she added.
Mr Nisman was found dead on 18 January in his flat in Buenos Aires. A gun was also discovered there.
Investigators initially said they believed he had committed suicide, but later said they could not rule out homicide or "induced suicide".
Ms Fernandez has said she is convinced Mr Nisman's death was not suicide.
The audience at Brynmawr, Blaenau Gwent, sat through five screenings of the 1993 Bill Murray film, starting on Friday evening.
They bought tickets for every showing - and sat through the same trailers and adverts.
The event at the town's The Market Hall was in aid of a children's hospice.
Organisers say it is no coincidence that the film tells the story of a TV reporter who becomes trapped in time.
He relives the same day over and over, while visiting the Pennsylvania town of Punxsutawney, in the United States, during its annual Groundhog Day celebrations.
Peter Watkins-Hughes, project manager at The Market Hall, said they wanted the audience to "try to live Groundhog Day".
"They've got to buy their tickets, take their seat, watch the film, come out and then buy another ticket, take their seats and then come out again," he said before the record attempt.
Between 22:00 BST on Friday and 08:00 on Saturday, the audience of up to 212 people endured the film being replayed five times.
Organisers said they had been in touch with officials at Guinness World Records, who told them they would hold the world record for the event - even if in Mr Watkins-Hughes own words, it is "bonkers".
Anthony Foxx said a taskforce had been set up to examine creating a record of drones and their users.
The move comes after several reported incidents of drones hindering emergency services' efforts in fighting fires and other dangers.
The problem is seen as particularly pressing as the number of drones given as Christmas presents this year is expected to soar.
The task force will issue a report on how the database will be implemented late next month.
Crucially, it will look at what kind of drones should be exempt from the database, such as those bought as toys.
"We feel the level of urgency here is sufficient for us to move as quickly as we possibly can," Mr Foxx said.
He added in a statement: "Registering unmanned aircraft will help build a culture of accountability and responsibility, especially with new users who have no experience operating in the U.S. aviation system. It will help protect public safety in the air and on the ground."
The National Press Photographers' Association (NPPA), which has campaigned against the implementation of some drone laws, agreed with a database in principle, but questioned how effective it would be in preventing unsafe drone use.
"The fact is that for the most part, when there are sightings, they don't actually get to recover the drone itself," NPPA lawyer Mickey Osterreicher told BBC News.
"So what would registering the drone accomplish?"
He added that further rules would not prevent bad drone use, drawing comparisons to people who drive cars without a licence or insurance: "You really can't legislate against stupidity."
The plans have the support of several other groups in the aviation industry, including the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI), which will help the task force to come up with recommendations.
The group said: "Because safe operations are essential for all users of the national airspace, AUVSI is also looking forward to continuing its work with the FAA and other supporters of the 'Know Before You Fly' campaign to educate newcomers to UAS technology about where they should and shouldn't fly."
Drone safety has been of prime concern to US authorities as emergency services repeatedly cite examples of drones hampering their work.
California governor Jerry Brown recently shot down a proposed law to make it easier for emergency services to disable drones flying near disaster areas by using electronic jamming.
That bill gained support after fire fighters had to down helicopters that were trying to extinguish devestating wildfires in northern California.
The bill was opposed by several groups representing drone users' interests, including the NPPA.
In a letter to the governor, the NPPA argued that it would make it too difficult for media to legally cover stories by using drones.
After dismissing the proposed law, Mr Brown said he agreed with those who felt it could open a legal minefield for hobbyist drone owners acting within existing laws.
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Hustings, ballot boxes, election broadcasts, the leaders of two mighty parties battling it out for the "keys to Number 10". Why does so much about the general election seem to belong to a bygone era? Brian Wheeler has been taking a look.
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"Do we really think this is the time in which to put into play our very membership of the European Union, the largest commercial market and most developed political union in the world? And the one on our doorstep?" - Former Prime Minister Tony Blair.
"The election isn't just a choice between parties; it's a choice between two different types of United Kingdom. One that lives within its means, or one that heaps more debt on our children. We've got just one month to make sure people choose the right path" - Prime Minister David Cameron.
"We will give whatever they need - it might be more than £8bn, it might be less"- Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt on funding for the NHS in England.
"The Citizens' Income, the commitment to that, is in this manifesto - but we've seen the difficulties that Iain Duncan Smith has got into in introducing Universal Credit, so we're saying it would take more than the term of one parliament to actually introduce this" - Green leader Natalie Bennett.
"Gone are the days of compassionate conservatism. Now they promise to cut and cut and cut. Not because they have to, but because they want to" - Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg
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Smith, 23, who has scored 25 tries in 69 games for Quins, helped them win the Premiership title in 2012.
"I've enjoyed my time at Harlequins, making this a tough decision," he said.
The opportunity to develop as a rugby player and take on this exciting challenge is one I am looking forward to getting stuck into
"But when I spoke to Worcester's director of rugby Dean Ryan, it was clear to me that I wanted to be a part of his vision at Worcester."
Smith, who spent five years at The Stoop, has been a regular feature in the Heineken Cup over the last three years and is already casting an eye towards next season at Sixways.
"The opportunity to develop as a rugby player and take on this exciting challenge is one I am looking forward to getting stuck into."
Smith's capture comes just over a week after Ryan Lamb arrived at the club from Leicester, bringing the number of new players signed by Ryan since the season began to nine.
Warriors are still stranded at the bottom of the Premiership table, without a league win all season.
But their encouraging performances over their last two matches has prop Rob O'Donnell believing a first Premiership win is imminent.
After being pipped by reigning champions Leicester Tigers by a single point on 7 February, Warriors slipped to a 30-14 defeat by Northampton on Saturday.
"It's bound to come," O'Donnell told BBC Hereford & Worcester.
"You put those two performances together and compare them to earlier in the season, they're worlds apart."
Saturday's game at Saints - runners up to Leicester in the Premiership final in 2013 - turned on the sending off of Warriors captain Jonathan Thomas for aiming a punch at Northampton forward Sam Dickenson, who was himself sin-binned after the incident.
Thomas will now appear at a Rugby Football Union disciplinary panel on Wednesday.
O'Donnell, who was an unused replacement against Saints, said the the team are not focusing on the incident.
"Not much has been said about that [in the dressing room], we're just taking the positives out of the game," he said.
"The game last week [against Leicester] gave us a massive confidence boost and we've come to another top-of-the-table team and tried to do the same.
"Obviously the turning point was the sending off and it got away from us a little bit."
Despite the odds, former Sale forward O'Donnell says they are not viewing survival as a lost cause.
"It feels like everything is starting to click and it feels like we've got something to fight for," he said.
"We all want to stay up and we all care deeply."
Mr Robinson, 66, underwent a procedure at Belfast's Royal Victoria Hospital (RVH) after becoming ill on Monday morning.
The Democratic Unionist Party leader said on Twitter: "Happy to be discharged and back home.
Thanks to the wonderful RVH cardiac team - everyone a star."
He added: "Many thanks to all who sent messages of support and encouragement in the last week. Your thoughts & prayers have been really appreciated."
The 25-year-old, who was diagnosed with nodular sclerosing Hodgkin lymphoma in October, announced on Twitter that he was in "complete remission".
Thompson has undergone a six-month course of chemotherapy.
The former Rochdale midfielder, who has spent the past two seasons at Tranmere, is now targeting a quick return to first-team football.
Speaking to BBC Late Kick Off in March, Thompson revealed he had received support from other sporting cancer survivors following his diagnosis, which was made after he complained of increased fatigue and illness.
Among them was tennis player Ross Hutchins, who successfully beat Hodgkin lymphoma in 2013.
While undergoing treatment, Thompson has raised more than £16,000 for Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research as part of the "Grow 4 Joe" campaign, with team-mates and footballers from other clubs pledging to grow their hair in the closing weeks of last season.
UKube-1 is a cubesat, packing six payloads into a space not much bigger than a shoebox.
Its experiments include a study of space weather and a project to let school pupils interact with the satellite.
It was commissioned by the UK Space Agency and built by Glasgow company Clyde Space.
The firm has a big share of the market for cubesat components and already has orders for another two complete satellites.
It says it is planning to mass-manufacture hundreds or even thousands more.
Strictly speaking it is not Mission Control Maryhill but it is not far from it.
The headquarters of Clyde Space is up a flight of stairs in a neat but unassuming building at Kelvin Science Park in Glasgow's West End.
They will not be running the mission from here but this is where they built the first Scottish satellite.
The basic cubesat concept is a cube ten by ten by ten centimetres. That's a litre into which, thanks to microelectronics, you can squeeze a lot of science.
The design of UKube-1 is based on three such boxes. It is what they call a 3U cubesat. Three litres of payload.
Clyde Space say this is the most advanced small satellite of its kind in the world and - they hope - the first of many. Because the economics of spaceflight are in their favour.
A cubesat could cost you around $250,000. Not the sort of thing you could buy out of the housekeeping money but in the satellite business it is close to peanuts.
The low weight means launch costs are also relatively low.
Universities, research institutes and - increasingly - businesses are seeing them as affordable options for getting experiments and services into Earth orbit.
A low orbit means some other cubesats will burn up on re-entry after just a few years. But it should not cost too much to replace - and that is where Clyde Space foresee a huge growth area.
They think cubesats will become a mass market, with some companies ordering hundreds at a time. Clyde Space think they could become the first mass manufacturer of small satellites with thousands of orders on their books.
But they are walking before they run. The publicity surrounding UKube-1 has helped them win orders for two more complete satellites. The business of building components and subsystems for cubesats has also continued to grow.
Turnover has doubled in a year. Staff numbers have increased by 50%. This is just part of a burgeoning Scottish space industry which many Scots don't yet realise exists.
A successful launch and deployment could change all that.
UKube-1 was launched aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
It was the Soyuz which lifted many Soviet space pioneers to orbit when Baikonur was still part of the USSR. Its 21st century incarnation continues to combine reliability with relatively low cost.
UKube-1 is one of eight large and small satellites aboard for this launch, further underlining the economic arguments for both the cubesat concept and Soyuz.
Baikonur occupies a hallowed place in the history of spaceflight. Sputnik 1, Earth's first artificial satellite, lifted off from there. So did Yuri Gagarin, the first human in space.
The launch of Scotland's first satellite is admittedly a smaller milestone. But in Maryhill they'll be watching just as intently as those first satellite builders.
I'll dare to suggest that that might have rather less to do with the product than with the marketers and advertisers, who have, for decades, consistently shared the brand's sense of humour with its customers.
So when it seemed Irn Bru's Cumbernauld-based owner, AG Barr, was being merged with Britvic, great was the sense of loss that Scotland was losing its Mcfizz and heading down the M1 to an operational base in a soulless part of Hertfordshire, where nothing of note has ever been made from girrrders.
AG Barr was to be one third of the merged entity, reflecting Britvic's bigger market capitalisation, and in turn, its reach through distribution of Pepsi (which it bottles), Tango, Robinson's and Fruit Shoot.
So it was feared that we faced a familiar tale - another Scottish business institution was being lost to corporate power far, far away.
Well, it doesn't look that way now. Barr's chief executive Roger White was taking charge of the new company. And judging by events following the announcement of the agreed merger last September, this now looks like a merger that was more of a takeover by AG Barr.
That would help explain why Britvic, under new leadership, is showing every sign of walking away from merger.
To fill you in, it can do so because the Office of Fair Trading stepped in, and referred the proposed merger to the Competition Commission. It has taken several months to investigate the soft drinks market in a lot of detail, trying to figure out whether the combined entity would be sufficiently big and powerful to skew the market, forcing up the price of Irn Bru in particular.
Its answer, issued on Tuesday morning, is "no, it wouldn't", though it may be more nuanced when we see the full report.
In the meantime, the terms of the proposed merger lapsed in February. The City rules say a new deal can't be proposed until the Competition Commission's final report has been issued, which has to happen by the end of July.
AG Barr still sees the industrial and financial logic of going ahead with the "merger". And of course, it won't want that to be on a basis that leaves its shareholders worse off than the deal struck last year.
Britvic sees things differently. It says things have changed. It's under new management. The savings it told shareholders it could expect as recently as February are no longer to be found (or perhaps they're being found by other means). And it's got a new strategy with international expansion in mind, much of it built around Fruit Shoot, with deals to distribute in more American states and across the parched plains of India.
What it's not quite spelling out is that it's in less of a hole than it was. Following several disappointing years, it lost around £25m from a recall of its Fruit Shoot drinks, and that was just financially. Reputationally, it was costly too.
In short, the chairman says: "The company is in a different place to last summer." Its shares have been performing better than Barr's. And it's not going to have terms dictated by a Scottish company with only half of Britvic's £1.2bn market capitalisation, and a sixth of its workforce.
Both sides say they can walk away. That would suit the Barr's workforce, which has, understandably, been nervously eyeing the cost-savings the merger was supposed to deliver.
Either way, Britvic workers face a tough cost-cutting programme under the new boss's plans. Simon Litherland wants to take £30m out of his cost base within three years - starting with more than 300 job cuts through closing two production plants, in Chelmsford and Huddersfield, and a Belfast warehouse.
If they do go separate ways, AG Barr would surely continue its expansion into the English market. It's soon to open a production plant in Milton Keynes, and it's done well with its premium Rubicon brand, which has an established reach into ethnic minority markets.
While Britvic is unlikely to be on the acquisition trail so long as its debts weigh it down, analysts are wondering out loud if AG Barr could be interested in the soft drinks that Big Pharma company GSK is thinking of putting on the market, or at least "strategically reviewing". That includes the veterans Lucozade and Ribena, which would mix with Irn Bru to produce a very different type of cocktail.
The people have now decided that they don't want her as their president. Ms Le Pen lost this election comprehensively. But at her campaign headquarters, she and her supporters chose to define success in a different way. The National Front is a movement which measures its progress over decades.
The party began in 1972 as a fringe, extremist group; for years, it was ignored or boycotted by much of the rest of the country. Its founder Jean-Marie Le Pen influenced the national debate, but was incapable of winning power.
In the 2002 presidential run-off, Mr Le Pen's progress was blocked by a so-called Republican Front - the decision by all mainstream parties to stick together and back Mr Le Pen's opponent, President Jacques Chirac.
Fifteen years on, Marine Le Pen has fractured the front, which once united against her father. In winning more than 30% of the run-off vote, she has taken a significant step towards her goal of making her movement respectable and electable.
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In 2002, Jean-Marie Le Pen's opponents refused to appear on stage with him - for fear of legitimising him as a politician. In 2017, Marine Le Pen took part in debates, and came across as an accepted member of the political class.
Her run-off endorsement by a small party candidate - Nicolas Dupont-Aignan - gave her further legitimacy. But all this only took her so far in this election.
Marine Le Pen may now try to broaden her party's approach. In her concession speech, she announced plans to form a new political movement, in alliance with Mr Dupont-Aignan and others.
She'll even re-name her party, on the assumption that the National Front's name is an obstacle to winning over more voters.
Ms Le Pen also insisted that hers was now the main opposition force in the country. That may be true in the very short term. France's mainstream right-wing and left-wing parties are still trying to work out how to recover from their respective first round defeats in this election.
But the far right politician faces serious problems ahead. Her widely criticised performance during the run-off debate calls into question her ability to win over a greater share of the electorate in the future.
Investigations into alleged financial misconduct relating to the way she runs her European parliamentary office may continue to cause her problems.
What's more, Marine Le Pen's party only has two MPs in the French National Assembly (out of a total membership of 577).
She'll have a chance to improve this in parliamentary elections in June. But it is a meagre base from which to build a true opposition force.
One of the party's two sitting MPs is her own niece, 27-year-old Marion Marechal-Le Pen.
Ms Marechal-Le Pen is increasingly popular within the party, and takes a more hardline position than her aunt. It's conceivable that the younger Le Pen may seek to make a future challenge for the leadership (for a movement which has its roots in the idea of a Republican France, the National Front continues to display quasi-dynastic/monarchical tendencies).
At the party's campaign headquarters on election night, supporters carried blue-coloured roses, Marine Le Pen's favoured symbol.
The heavily defeated candidate even danced to I Love Rock and Roll (incidentally demonstrating that whatever presentational skills she possesses do not immediately transfer to the disco floor).
It may have been a strange way for a beaten presidential hopeful to spend the night, but this party has long term plans. Supporters will save their blue roses for 2022.
The man, named locally as Gareth Crowe, was on an elephant trek with his teenage daughter when he was thrown by the animal, according to local press.
The Bangkok Post said the 36-year-old was trampled on and wounded by the elephant's tusk on Monday afternoon.
The Foreign Office said it was aware of the incident and was offering consular assistance to the man's family.
A spokesman said: "We are offering support to the family of a British national who has sadly died following an incident in Koh Samui, Thailand, and are making contact with the local authorities to seek further information."
The man's daughter is understood to have been treated in hospital.
Jonathan Head, the BBC's South Asia correspondent, told Good Morning Scotland: "From what the police are telling us this elephant was stressed, perhaps it was hot, it may also have been on heat and that's always a problem with male elephants - it has to be looked at very carefully by their handlers.
"The mahout - the elephant handler - was clearly having some trouble controlling the elephant and they have a sort of iron spike that they use - it looks rather brutal - but they use it to strike the elephant's head, not usually very hard, but at least to let it know what to do.
"He was struggling a bit with that, so there were indications that things were wrong.
"The mahout appears to have got off the elephant to take photographs of Mr Crowe and his daughter and at that point the elephant lost its temper, it attacked the mahout and threw the two tourists off its back.
"I think they were both injured, it's quite high up on an elephant - and then it attacked Mr Crowe on the ground, where he was apparently gored and trampled, his daughter is fine, she's in hospital now, she was slightly injured."
There are estimated to have been around about a dozen incidents similar to this over the past 15 years.
A black Vauxhall Corsa and a blue Toyota truck were involved in the collision on the A947 just north of Fyvie at about 07:20.
The 17-year-old driver of the Corsa was airlifted to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary while the 27-year-old Toyota driver was taken to the same hospital by road.
Police Scotland want to trace witnesses including the driver of a blue BMW who was travelling southwards.
Sgt Rob Warnock, from the Inverurie Road Policing Unit, said: "Enquiries into the circumstances of the incident are at an early stage and I am appealing to anyone who witnessed the incident or saw either the black Vauxhall Corsa or blue Toyota Hilux crew cab prior to the incident to contact police.
"In particular we would like to speak to the driver of a blue BMW vehicle which had been travelling southwards at the time of the collision. This vehicle was seen overtaking just prior to Fyvie.
"The occupant may have information which could help the investigation and I would appeal for them or anyone who saw this vehicle to contact us."
Turkmenistan says it will have up to 40bn cubic metres (1,412bn cu ft) of spare gas annually, "so European countries need not worry".
The pledge came from Turkmen Deputy PM Baymyrad Hojamuhamedov on Friday.
Uncertainty about Nabucco's gas supply has been delaying the project.
The 3,300km (2,046-mile) pipeline is expected to pump up to 31bn cubic metres of gas annually from the Caspian region and Middle East across Turkey and into Europe.
In July 2009 Turkey, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary and Austria signed an agreement to build the long-planned pipeline.
Turkmenistan's announcement came at an international energy conference in the ex-Soviet republic's capital, Ashgabat.
Mr Hojamuhamedov said Turkmenistan had support from its Caspian neighbours for building a pipeline under the Caspian Sea, to connect up to the Nabucco pipeline.
He said delivering gas to Europe was part of Turkmenistan's plan to diversify its export markets. It already sells gas to Iran, China and Russia.
Nabucco is expected to cost about 7.9bn euros (£6.7bn) and is projected to come on stream by the end of 2014, Reuters news agency reports.
Russia is forging ahead with South Stream, a pipeline that will run from southern Russia under the Black Sea to Bulgaria. It is seen as a major rival to Nabucco.
The EU relies on Russia for a quarter of its total gas supplies. Seven countries in the 27-nation bloc are almost totally dependent on Russian gas.
Wiggins clocked 51 minutes, 24 seconds on the 41.5km route from Arc et Senans to Besancon, 35 seconds faster than compatriot and team-mate Chris Froome.
It was the 32-year-old triple Olympic champion's first stage win on the Tour.
"It is a fantastic day for British cycling. I never thought I would see a stage like this. A one-two on the stage podium. Bradley Wiggins just kept going and he is great at time-trialling. He will have had all the information given to him and he has had a perfect session. Cadel Evans had a poor start and tried to chip away at the deficit but never looked like recovering it."
Defending champion Cadel Evans remains second overall but is now one minute and 53 seconds behind Wiggins.
The Australian had begun the day only 10 seconds adrift but ended up fighting to stay ahead of Froome in the General Classification, after the Team Sky rider's impressive performance saw him move up to third, a further 14 seconds back.
Tuesday is the first rest day, with the Tour heading for the mountains on Wednesday.
Wiggins, who assumed the overall lead on Saturday, said: "Time-trialling is what I do best. I know exactly the routine what I need to do. I felt great from the first pedal stroke and I knew I was in for a good one.
"This is what we have trained for. The graft during the winter, missing the kids' birthdays having been at training camps - this is what it is for. To get the stage win is fantastic."
Froome, the winner of stage seven, added: "There is no tactics in something like today. This is by far the hardest event in cycling. You just have to go as fast as you can and turn yourself inside out to get the best time.
"It is good to know you are on track for a good time, but you have to be careful you do not overcook it so it is a fine line to gauge that effort.
Bradley Wiggins becomes the 11th Briton to win a Tour de France stage
"I am really happy with today and I went hard at it. That is all I can do. I know I haven't won so there are no big celebrations, but there will be for Bradley."
Fourt-time world time trial champion Fabian Cancellara had laid down the early marker but Froome eclipsed his time and Wiggins went even faster.
As race leader, Wiggins was last of the 178 riders to roll down the start ramp and he immediately began to take time out of his rivals.
At the first time check, after 16.5km, Wiggins clocked the fastest time of 21:05, which was 1:02 quicker than Evans.
Wiggins maintained his electric pace through the second time check, at 31.5km, reaching it in 39:02 and opening out his advantage on Evans to 1:19.
He did not relax in the final 10km of the race, and ended the day with a commanding overall lead.
Fellow British rider David Millar (Garmin-Sharp) was 36th in 55:38, with Steve Cummings (BMC Racing) 39th, nine seconds further adrift.
Wiggins' Team Sky team-mate Mark Cavendish, the world road race champion, was 6:27 behind with a time of 1:00.07.
1. Bradley Wiggins (Britain/Team Sky) 51:24"
2. Chris Froome (Britain/Team Sky) +35"
3. Fabian Cancellara (Switzerland/RadioShack) +57"
4. Tejay Van Garderen (United States/BMC Racing) +1:06"
5. Sylvain Chavanel (France/Omega Pharma - Quick-Step) +1:24"
6. Cadel Evans (Australia/BMC Racing) +1:43"
7. Peter Velits (Slovakia/Omega Pharma - Quick-Step) +1:59"
8. Vincenzo Nibali (Italy/Liquigas) +2:07"
9. Denis Menchov (Russia/Katusha) +2:08"
10. Andreas Kloeden (Germany/RadioShack) +2:09"
1. Bradley Wiggins (Britain/Team Sky) 39:09:20"
2. Cadel Evans (Australia/BMC Racing) +1:53"
3. Chris Froome (Britain/Team Sky) +2:07"
4. Vincenzo Nibali (Italy/Liquigas) +2:23"
5. Denis Menchov (Russia/Katusha) +3:02"
She says he made her feel "incredibly uncomfortable" and was breathing down her neck, while pacing behind her.
Politico magazine called the exchange "the ugliest debate ever seen".
Both candidates traded insults during the bitter 2016 campaign, and Mr Trump still uses the nickname "Crooked Hillary".
Reading an extract from her forthcoming title What Happened on news network MSNBC on Wednesday, Mrs Clinton said she did not know how to react as the pair took to the stage for their second debate last October.
"Do you stay calm, keep smiling, and carry on as if he weren't repeatedly invading your space? Or do you turn, look him in the eye and say loudly and clearly: 'Back up you creep, get away from me. I know you love to intimidate women, but you can't intimidate me, so back up.'"
The debate took place just days after a 2005 recording was publicised, in which Mr Trump bragged of grabbing women by their genitals and getting away with it because of his status.
After an uproar, he apologised and dismissed the conversation as "locker-room talk".
In her forthcoming book, Mrs Clinton says this made her feel even more uncomfortable on the night.
"This is not OK, I thought," she writes. "It was the second presidential debate and Donald Trump was looming behind me. Two days before, the world heard him brag about groping women.
"Now we were on a small stage and no matter where I walked, he followed me closely, staring at me, making faces."
She says she chose to respond by gripping her microphone tightly, but she sometimes wonders if she should have told him to back off. "It certainly would have been better TV," she says.
"I kept my cool, aided by a lifetime of dealing with difficult men trying to throw me off [...] Maybe I have overlearned the lesson of staying calm, biting my tongue, digging my fingernails into a clenched fist, smiling all the while, determined to present a composed face to the world."
Ms Rousseff has repeatedly described the impeachment process as a political coup by her rivals to oust her.
She is accused of manipulating budget figures ahead of her re-election in 2014, but has denied any wrongdoing.
Mercosur has a provision which can be triggered if the elected government of a member state is overthrown.
It could lead to a series of sanctions by the bloc against the country, including trade benefits.
"I would appeal to the democracy clause if there were, from now on, a rupture of what I consider democratic process," she told reporters in New York.
Observers said this was another indication that she would fight the impeachment process with all tools available to her.
Ms Rousseff repeated that she did not face corruption allegations and said foreign leaders had expressed solidarity.
Earlier this week, the lower house of Brazil's Congress comfortably approved to start impeachment proceedings against her.
The motion will now go to the upper house, the Senate, which is expected to suspend Ms Rousseff next month while it holds a formal trial.
Local media reports suggest that most of the 81 senators are likely to vote to consider her impeachment.
Ms Rousseff and her supporters have repeatedly said there is no legal basis in the process.
She is accused of juggling accounts to make her government's economic performance appear better than it was, ahead of her election campaign.
The president has defended her government's fiscal manoeuvres as common practice in Brazil.
Earlier, in a speech to the UN during the signing of the Paris Agreement on climate change, Ms Rousseff had a softer tone, in which she avoided the word "coup."
"I cannot conclude my remarks without mentioning the grave moment Brazil is currently undergoing," she said.
"I have no doubt our people will be capable of preventing any setbacks."
If she is impeached, Vice-President Michel Temer would take over as interim president.
Ms Rousseff has accused him of being one of the ringleaders of the "coup" attempt against her.
In an interview to the New York Times, Mr Temer said: "I'm very worried about the president's intention to say that Brazil is some minor republic where coups are carried out."
Senate vote on trial: A simple majority is enough to suspend her for up to 180 days while she is put on trial. Vice-President Michel Temer would step in during this period.
Impeachment vote: For Ms Rousseff to be removed from office permanently, two-thirds of the Senate would have to vote in favour. Mr Temer would remain president for an interim period should this happen.
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Mark McGuigan pulled a second-half goal back for Stranraer, but Brad McKay headed in before El Bakhtaoui and Cardle bagged their doubles.
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New analysis from the Office for National Statistics showed they came after six London boroughs, plus Milton Keynes and Berkshire.
The 2015 measure of Gross Value Added (GVA) showed Edinburgh growing at 4.5%, the fastest pace of any UK city other than Belfast.
GVA is a calculation of economic output similar to Gross Domestic Product.
However, neighbouring East Lothian and Midlothian were among those 10 local areas with the UK's lowest GVA, along with East and North Ayrshire.
While Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire, combined, had the 10th highest GVA in the UK, it had the third highest level of decline, after Central Bedfordshire and West Northamptonshire.
The north east economy declined 2.5% in the first full year of the downturn in the oil and gas sector.
The figures compare statistically comparable areas known as NUTS - Nomenclature of Units for Territorial Statistics.
GVA per head was at nearly £300,000 in the City of London, reflecting its measure of financial commuters' economic impact. The measure was just under £37,000 in Edinburgh and also in north east Scotland.
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Across the UK, GVA per head was calculated to have grown 2.1% during 2015, to £25,350.
At the level of nations and regions, Scotland was on £23,700, having grown 1.8% during the year.
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This compared with about a fifth of male undergraduates, the YouGov survey of 1,061 students found.
Overall, some 27% of the students said they had a mental health problem. This rose to 45% among lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students.
Universities UK said institutions were working hard to develop good services that linked in with the NHS.
Of those students who said they had a mental health problem:
In May, statistics published by the ONS showed student suicides had risen to their highest level since numbers were first recorded in 2007.
These figures - for 2014 - showed there were 130 suicides in England and Wales among full-time students aged 18 or above. Of those, 97 deaths were for male students and 33 were females.
There has been concern about the level of mental health support services provided by universities.
But the survey showed students were broadly aware of the mental health services offered by their universities.
Anyone affected by mental health issues can contact a number of organisations, such as:
Some 18% of students had already made contact with university mental health services, and, of those who had, nearly nine out of 10 had seen a counsellor.
Of those surveyed, 30% of males and 27% of females said they would not feel comfortable in talking about their mental illness with friends or family.
Chief executive of Universities UK Nicola Dandridge said universities took student mental health "very seriously".
"For some students, an unfamiliar higher education environment can be stressful, particularly for those who already have an underlying illness.
"Some students are reluctant to disclose their difficulties, which can also present a challenge for universities seeking to support them."
But she added that the development of policies and anti-stigma campaigns was beginning to address these issues.
"The challenge for universities is to build on the support services and external links that exist already, enabling referral to the NHS where necessary," she said.
"It is important to remember that university wellbeing services, however excellent, cannot replace the specialised care that the NHS provides for students with mental illnesses."
Universities UK also said it had issued guidance to all universities last year with advice on dealing with students with mental health issues.
Father-of-two James Edwards was rescued by colleagues and members of Torridon MRT in the Fisherfield Forest mountains, in Wester Ross, on Saturday.
He was airlifted to hospital by a coastguard helicopter.
Dundonnell MRT said the thoughts of the team were with Mr Edward's wife and their two young sons.
The team said: "This was an immensely difficult rescue for us as a team as the casualty was a fellow team member, James Edwards.
"We are all completely numbed by this outcome."
Dundonnell MRT provides rescue cover for an area of more than 2,600 sq miles (6,733 sq km), and includes 41 mountains of Munro height.
Prestayn fans raised £53,000 for the Cymru Alliance champions and now they have been granted an FAW domestic licence.
The Welsh Football League Division One leaders Barry Town United were awarded the licence for a second season.
The former WPL winners will return to the top tier for the first time since 2004 if they finish in the top two.
Also at the Football Association of Wales licensing meeting, all existing WPL clubs were awarded the Domestic Licence, but Rhyl and Airbus UK Broughton were refused the UEFA Licence.
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Omagbemi's contract expired at the end of their triumphant 2016 Women's Africa Cup of Nations campaign in Cameroon.
Despite being one of the 10 names on Fifa's list for Women's Coach of the year, Omagbemi's name does not appear on a shortlist published by the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) for various positions in the national teams.
I actually reapplied for the job even though I felt I had done enough to continue as coach of the Super Falcons
"I'm shocked and surprised that I was not even considered again or shortlisted for the role," Omagbemi told BBC Sport from her base in the United States.
"I actually reapplied for the job even though I felt I had done enough to continue as coach of the Super Falcons.
"I feel honoured to have served my country as coach and I thank the NFF for that great opportunity, I have absolutely nothing against the federation or anyone there.
"I must also thank the players, my backroom staff and everyone in Nigeria for the support, which helped us immensely to achieve the targets given to us," Omagbemi added.
BBC Sport understands that top NFF officials were left upset by Omagbemi's failure to submit her tournament report at the end of the biennial African Women's Nations Cup in Cameroon last year, as clearly stipulated in her contract.
The NFF's hierarchy also questioned Omagbemi's managerial conduct during the Super Falcon's protest over unpaid win bonuses.
But Omagbemi has refused to be drawn into a war of words with her former employers over her controversial exit.
"If that's the path they want to follow, I can only wish them all the best and the country more success," Omagbemi said.
The former international, who played in four Fifa Women's World Cups, went several months without pay during 2016.
Despite suffering the death of her father prior to the tournament in Cameroon, Omagbemi became the first woman to win the competition as both player and coach.
She then made her swift journey to Warri, southern Nigeria, for the burial of her father, away from the bonus protest by her team which marred the country's triumph.
Six months after her success at the Women's Africa Cup of Nations, she also lost her teenage son in tragic circumstances in Warri.
"I've had to deal with a lot since the end of that tournament in Cameroon, but that's life," said Omagbemi.
Omagbemi was hoping to follow in the footsteps of her predecessors Eucharia Uche and Edwin Okon, who both won the Women's African title and then led the team to the 2011 and 2015 Women's World Cup respectively.
Nigeria have dominated women's football in Africa having been crowned champions a total of eight times with Equatorial Guinea the only other nation to have won the continental title.
The qualifying round for the 2018 Women's Africa Cup of Nations in Ghana has been scheduled for February 2018.
Nigeria are the only African team to have played in all Fifa Women's World Cup tournaments since 1991.
But they have failed to translate their continental dominance on the world stage, as their best performance came in the USA in 1999 when they reached the quarter-finals.
Traffickers abandoned the group, which included women and children, without water and food, it added.
One migrant died after being taken to a relief centre, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said.
African migrants travel through the desert to reach Libya before crossing the Mediterranean Sea to get to Europe.
However, the journey through the desert is perilous as the migrants are crammed into pick-up trucks and have little food or water.
More than 40 people died of thirst in the Sahara Desert about a fortnight ago after their truck broke down.
And last June, the bodies of 34 migrants, including 20 children, were found in the Sahara Desert near Niger's border with Algeria.
The rescued migrants, who included at least 30 women and babies, were being looked after at a facility in the garrison town of Dirkou in northern Niger, the IOM said.
"Usually what happens in such situations is that smugglers try to exploit them," IOM head of mission Giuseppe Loprete told BBC Focus on Africa.
"They ask for more money when they are in the middle of the desert. If they don't pay, they are abandoned."
He said the migrants - most of whom were from Nigeria, Ghana, Senegal and Burkina Faso - were saved because they were abandoned near a well.
The harsh Sahara: By Martin Patience, BBC News, Nigeria
The unforgiving conditions of the Sahara Desert mean that a broken down vehicle is often a death sentence for migrants.
Niger serves as a transit point for West Africans hoping to reach Europe to start a better life.
Every year, tens of thousands of migrants cross the Sahara to reach Libya. From the Libyan coast they board rickety boats to ferry them to Europe.
Many drown in the Mediterranean but, perhaps, less well known, are the dangers they face while crossing the Sahara.
It's not known how many deaths there are every year - as it's a vast, ungoverned region. But many migrants die of thirst, while others are robbed and attacked by criminal gangs and security forces.
'My sister drowned getting to Europe'
Scotland and Ireland are in Pool A, along with the hosts.
Wales will face Australia in a repeat of the 2015 tournament, at which both beat hosts England to qualify from the group stage. Georgia join them in Pool D.
Defending champions New Zealand will take on South Africa and Italy in Pool B.
The 2019 World Cup runs from 20 September to 2 November.
"It's massively exciting, a unique country and unique culture," said England head coach Eddie Jones, who led Japan at the last World Cup.
England will face Argentina in two Tests in June - both of which will be broadcast live on the BBC - and Jones will use the series to "practise a little bit" against the Pumas.
Speaking of England's other pool opponent, the Australian added: "France have really improved over the past two years and are certainly a dangerous team."
England failed to advance from their "group of hell" in 2015, becoming the first hosts to exit before the knockout stage.
The 12 teams who automatically qualified by finishing in the top three of their groups at the last World Cup have been drawn.
The eight remaining teams have had their slots allocated and will be determined by the qualification process that ends in 2018.
England have also drawn the top North and South America qualifier (either USA or Canada), as well as the second-best Oceania qualifier, which will be one of Fiji, Samoa or Tonga.
Pool A: Ireland, Scotland, Japan, Europe 1, play-off winner (Europe 2 v Oceania 3)
Pool B: New Zealand, South Africa, Italy, Africa 1, repechage winner
Pool C: England, France, Argentina, Americas 1, Oceania 2
Pool D: Australia, Wales, Georgia, Oceania 1, Americas 2
England head coach Eddie Jones: "We want to win the World Cup in 2019, and to win it, we need to be ready to play and beat anyone.
"Our pool will be highly competitive and full of intensity, as a World Cup group should be. History shows you need to win seven games to win the tournament and we will greatly respect every team we play."
Scotland head coach Gregor Townsend: "Obviously there's an excitement playing the host nation, and it probably guarantees a sell-out game in that fixture. I'm sure there will be a lot of buzz around Japan around the group we're involved in.
"Whether it's better for us or Ireland that we know each other so well, we will find out in a couple of years' time."
Ireland vice-captain Jamie Heaslip: "Getting to avoid South Africa, France and Wales is a big thing for us.
"We're happy with it, there are some tougher groups, but you've seen what Japan have done in the past 18 months and Scotland we've struggled with as well."
Wales head coach Warren Gatland: "We've got Australia and it looks like we could get Fiji again, so a couple of teams from 2015, but we're happy with the draw.
"It's going to be tough and competitive, but that's what you want."
World Rugby has confirmed the structure for the knockout stages of the 2015 tournament will remain in place in 2019. That means:
Teams who played each other in the pool stages cannot meet again in the semi-finals.
So England and Wales could meet in the quarter-finals, with the winner potentially facing a semi-final against New Zealand.
The All Blacks could face either Ireland or Scotland in the quarter-finals.
The Welsh county are two points behind Gloucestershire after losing to them on Sunday but have a better run-rate.
"It's a position we'd take if someone had offered it at the start of the competition," said Glamorgan head coach Robert Croft.
Glamorgan won the first match between the two sides in 2016 by five wickets in Cardiff.
"We recognise the meat of the tournament is ahead of us and we're grateful for what we've achieved so far, but it doesn't mean a whole heap until we finish the job off," added Croft.
Hampshire, currently with just one win from eight completed matches, have captain James Vince away on England Test duty, while opener Michael Carberry faces further tests on a mystery illness.
The home side go into the match straight from a drawn Championship fixture away to Warwickshire, while they face Sussex in Hove in the T20 on Friday.
Glamorgan are likely to be unchanged, with batsman-wicket-keeper Chris Cooke still being assessed after injections to try to solve a back problem.
Hampshire (from): Weatherley, Alsop, Wheater, Dawson, Ervine (capt), Afridi, Goodwin, McManus, Andrew, Wheal, Best, Taylor, Griffiths.
Glamorgan (from): Lloyd, Wallace, Ingram, Rudolph, Donald, Wagg, Meschede, van der Gugten, Cosker, Hogan, Tait, Morgan.
The Ligue 1 side received special dispensation from the French league to appoint the Italian, as he reached the manager's age limit of 65 last year.
Ranieri guided the Foxes to the Premier League title in 2015-16 when the club defied odds of up to 5,000-1.
But he was sacked in February with the club battling relegation after a run of five league losses in a row.
Ranieri succeeds Sergio Conceicao after the former Portugal winger left Nantes in order to take over at Porto.
Conceicao, 42, took charge of the Ligue 1 side in December 2016 and immediately oversaw four straight wins in the league as they finished seventh in France's top tier.
Ranieri has experience of working in France, overseeing Monaco's promotion to Ligue 1 in 2012-13 and then guiding them to second place behind Paris St-Germain the following season before being released.
Nantes will be Ranieri's 17th job in a managerial career that has spanned 31 years and has included all the major Italian clubs except AC Milan.
Atletico Madrid, Chelsea and Valencia twice are the other clubs he has managed outside Italy during that time.
His league win with Leicester - which came after a dismal spell in charge of Greece - remains his only top-flight title.
Nantes have won the French title eight times but have not done so since 2001, which was their last major honour.
The Irishman shot a final round 65 for a 23-under-par score, finishing ahead of defending champion Andy Sullivan.
It was his first European Tour win since the 2008 US PGA Championship.
Harrington said: "It's a big win. I tried to be really aggressive. The golf course really suited me and I just tried to go after every pin I could."
A third birdie of the week for Harrington on the penultimate hole followed by a par on the last held off the challenge of Sullivan, who was attempting to become the first man to successfully defend the title at the Victoria Clube de Golfe in Vilamoura.
"I have a pretty good short game that was on form this week. No matter where I hit it, I felt like I could get it up and down," added Harrington, whose tally of Tour victories now stands at 15, level with Thomas Bjorn at 15th on the all-time list.
The semi-retired Anders Hansen and Finland's Mikko Korhonen were two shots behind and tied for third.
Mark Wallace (69 not out) and David Lloyd (49) added 125 for the first wicket at Richmond.
Middlesex were rescued by fifties from Eoin Morgan and Ryan Higgins after a dreadful start, losing their first five wickets for 39 inside eight overs.
Shaun Tait, Timm van der Gugten and Michael Hogan all claimed two wickets.
The result - combined with Gloucestershire's three-run defeat by Kent - means the Welsh side rise above Gloucestershire in the table because of their superior run rate.
The Glamorgan seamers all bowled economically in the first half of the innings, with Craig Meschede conceding just 19 in his four overs.
But England limited-overs captain Morgan led the recovery with 58, and Higgins reached a career-best 57 not out.
It seemed to have given Middlesex a chance, but the Welsh openers soon got ahead of the run-rate.
Wallace, who returned to the team because of a back injury to Chris Cooke, equalled his career-best 69 not out before Colin Ingram finished the match with three consecutive sixes.
Glamorgan now face second-placed Gloucestershire in Cardiff on Sunday, 10 July, while Middlesex return to Championship action away to Somerset on the same day.
Glamorgan top-scorer Mark Wallace told BBC Wales Sport:
"I've really enjoyed the last couple of games, it's amazing how much you really miss it being out of the side and coming back was brilliant, thankfully I've got a few runs, but it's about a squad effort.
"You've got to get a round in when you get your highest score and technically I haven't got it so that's saved me a few quid with London prices - the way Colin Ingram came in and smacked it, he's unbelievable.
"It's a pleasure batting with David Lloyd at the moment, he's in unbelievable form and he was a bit unlucky not to get in the England A squad.
"Gloucestershire have played some good one-day cricket this season and last, when they won the one-day competition, but hopefully there'll be a big crowd in Cardiff for a local derby and we'll carry on our form."
Williams, 32, has scored 13 tries in 67 appearances during four years with Ulster.
The New Zealander has also played for Auckland Blues, Munster and Aironi.
"I'm excited about what Cardiff Blues are looking to achieve, both on and off the field in the coming years," Williams said.
Cardiff Blues head coach Danny Wilson said Williams has been one of the "standout performers" in the Pro12 during the last few seasons.
"I spoke to Danny at length about the region and his plans," added Williams. "I'm now looking forward to using my experience to help the team and getting stuck in.
"I've enjoyed my time in Belfast and it's been a successful time at Ulster - I'll be giving everything until the end of this season for the team."
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Williams, older brother of Chiefs wing Tim Nanai-Williams and cousin of All Black Sonny Bill Williams, made 37 appearances for Auckland Blues in Super Rugby.
Having also represented North Harbour, Williams joined Munster in 2008 and helped them secure the Celtic League title in his debut season.
He later moved to Italian outfit Aironi, where he scored 10 tries in 31 league games, before linking up with Ulster in 2012.
Auckland-born Williams was a fans' favourite at Ravenhill and was named the Pro12 player of the 2012-13 season.
Wilson said: "He is an extremely physical and uncompromising forward who will give us real edge and bring a real winning mentality with him.
"Nick is undoubtedly a strong ball carrier who is involved in big collisions in both attack and defence."
Last season, Williams was given an eight-week ban for striking Rhys Patchell during Ulster's home win over the Blues.
Patchell will join Welsh rivals Scarlets at the end of the season.
British Transport Police said the collision, at Frampton Mansell near Stroud, happened on Sunday evening.
A 37-year-old man, thought to be from Stroud, was treated by paramedics at the scene but later died. The incident is not being treated as suspicious.
The Rail Accident Investigation Branch and Office of Rail Regulation have been informed of the death.
A police spokesman said the man was on a "scrambling motorbike" when he was hit by the train which was travelling from Swindon to Gloucester.
"None of the 40 passengers on board the service was injured," he added.
"Officers are currently working to establish the full circumstances surrounding the collision and formally identify the man who died."
The analysis of NHS plans by the British Medical Association also warned the changes were being rushed through without the evidence they will work.
The proposals have been put forward by local managers seeking to make savings under the direction of NHS England.
Bosses have argued services in the community will be boosted in return.
Under the so-called "sustainability and transformation programme" (STP), England has been divided into 44 areas and each asked to come up with its own proposals.
After analysing local plans, the BMA found:
As the STP areas cover quite wider geographies with several hospitals, a cut may not mean everyone sees their nearest hospital affected.
It could, for example, have an impact on the hospital in the next county or town. But the BMA argues everyone will be affected as a closure in one part of the area means a knock-on for other sites in the patch.
A separate exercise, involving freedom of information requests which half of STPs answered, found more than 150 new jobs had been created to run them, at a cost of £8.5m a year. Another £1m was being spent on agency staff and consultants, the BMA said.
BMA leader Dr Mark Porter said the money was being "wasted" and the changes "rushed through without appropriate evidence".
But NHS England rejected the criticism. It argues changes will only take place when there is a viable plan to improve care elsewhere whether through centralising care at a nearby hospital or extending community services, such as with longer GP opening.
The STP process was launched at the start of 2016 with a view to identifying some of the £22bn of savings that are needed by 2020.
NHS England has said by doing more in the community or centralising specialist hospital care, such as stroke services, you can make services more efficient.
Public consultations on the most major changes are expected to get under way later this year.
A spokesman for NHS England said: "Rather than just commenting from the sidelines, local health and care leaders and clinicians are coming together to actually try and solve some deep-seated problems by identifying practical ways to improve services."
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Kathleen, from west Belfast, wants to be a professional dancer.
"It means everything to me," she says.
"My whole life revolves around dancing. I'd be training about four hours a day - contemporary dance and jazz dance - and then I would do a ballet class based on technique and flexibility, Monday to Friday.
"Two years ago I moved school to do an A Level in dance."
But Kathleen thinks she misses out on the opportunities that young dance hopefuls in London and other English cities would have - the chance to train with working dancers, and professional-level classes on the doorstep.
Now that she's looking outside of Northern Ireland for dance school places, she finds her rivals have certain advantages.
She says: "I had an experience when I was in an audition where all of the girls were trained from young ages in big schools such as the Royal Ballet.
"It's tough competition and I think it's very hard for somebody from here to go over and try to get in.
"You need training from when you wake up to when you go to sleep. You need a proper school that's going to train you for big conservatoire schools and unfortunately we haven't got that here."
Many young dancers and their families are put off by the high cost of specialist clothing.
Students from Northern Ireland also need to stump up the money for flights and hotels when they pin their hopes on a dance career and start doing auditions.
Some ballet teachers in Belfast have taken matters into their own hands and are bringing top-level tuition from London to Belfast in a yearly master class series.
It is here that Kathleen is learning from a new teacher - stretching her limbs and her abilities.
Rana O'Brien was a professional ballerina in her youth in Turkey.
When she moved to Northern Ireland she saw the challenges young people faced and wanted to do something about them.
She says she hopes to bridge the gap for as many talented dancers as possible and set up a youth ballet company.
"It's a big gap and there's so little being done," she says.
"I think it's very unfair to restrict ballet only to those who can afford it. Mother nature doesn't decide which income level the talent goes to.
"I teach in west Belfast and there are lots and lots of talented girls there. They deserve it, they have the talent, commitment, passion but they can't afford it and that's not on.
"We have a long way to go but we're determined. We will get there.
"Talent is important. It's the wealth of a community. The wealth of Northern Ireland is the talent it has."
Ms Dugdale told the Daily Record she was "utterly thrilled" after getting engaged during a trip to Mallorca.
The couple have been in a relationship since 2008 but Ms Dugdale, 34, only publicly revealed she was gay four months ago.
She said: "I'm utterly thrilled to be marrying the love of my life and we can't wait to start planning."
Ms Dugdale added: "We hope this news brings a smile to peoples' faces and we'll certainly be toasting all those campaigners and activists who made marriage equality possible."
The Local Government Association originally predicted 100,000 posts would go in England and Wales as a result of October's Spending Review.
But it has revised this view after studying the impact of town hall budget cuts planned for this year.
The government said the claim was not based on credible research.
"I have seen better figures put together on the back of fag packet," said Communities Secretary Eric Pickles.
"This is not original research. This is a collection of press releases and the Local Government Association doesn't know what the level of the cuts are going to be or how they are going to be delivered."
Mr Pickles threatened further exposure of top salaries at local councils if "they decide to attack the vulnerable" when they carried out budget cuts.
"If they decide to protect frontline services and take out middle management and merge services and work with others then the public should see virtually no difference," he told the BBC News Channel.
LGA chief executive John Ransford last week took a ??200,000 pay cut following pressure from the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG).
A DCLG source denied Mr Pickles was at war with the LGA - or that it was under threat of being axed, as other quangos have been.
But he said the organisation was "scaremongering" over the job cut figures and although they could not rule out some redundancies most councils should be able to make the savings without harming frontline services.
He also dismissed claims by Mr Pickles' Labour shadow Caroline Flint that he had made a last ditch appeal to the Treasury for more cash to soften the impact of the cuts to local council budgets.
Ms Flint told BBC News Mr Pickles' department needed "to do something fast because local authorities up and down the country have something like four months to meet these cuts".
"And in doing so," she added, "I think they're risking services, being forced to risk services, but make some very terrible decisions that will have a huge impact for years the come.
"They aren't fair the way they're putting these cuts out and they're having an enormous impact on the welfare of communities across our country."
Chancellor George Osborne reduced funding for local authorities by 7.1% from April 2011 in his spending review.
The LGA argues that making too many of the cuts have been "front-loaded" into the first of the four years covered by the Spending Review.
LGA Chairman Baroness Eaton said: "Local councils knew the cuts were coming and had planned prudently to reduce spending over the coming years. We cut more than ??1bn from our budgets in the middle of this year, rolled up our sleeves and got on with the job.
"But the unexpected severity of the cuts that will have to be made next year will put many councils in an unprecedented and difficult position."
She warned there would be "tough choices" on staffing, adding: "No council cuts jobs lightly, but many are being left with no choice...
"Local government will have to make cuts next year of around ??2bn more than we anticipated just a month ago. This stifles the opportunities for innovation and means town halls will be forced to cut further and deeper next year than they first thought.
"In order to protect frontline services, the government must ensure that councils have the flexibility needed to manage changes to grant funding that are heavily loaded at the beginning of the four-year settlement period. Grants that have yet to be finalised must be set at levels that help councils, rather than making a difficult situation even worse."
The local government finance settlement is due shortly and will be announced in a statement to Parliament.
The earthquake struck in Afghanistan, close to its border with Tajikistan, at 10:28 GMT, according to the US Geological Survey (USGS).
The tremor was felt in Kabul, Islamabad, Lahore and Delhi, forcing residents to leave their homes.
In October 2015, a magnitude-7.5 quake in the same border area killed close to 300 people.
Read more: A history of deadly earthquakes
The latest quake, in the sparsely-populated Hindu Kush mountains, struck at a depth of 210km, the USGS reported. It was the same depth as the 2015 quake.
At least one person died in Pakistan's Swat region, with another 30 injured, emergency officials said.
There were no reports of significant damage, but a spokesman for Pakistan's National Disaster Management Authority said there was a high risk of landslides.
In Delhi, far from the epicentre, the metro train system was temporarily halted. The BBC's Sanjoy Majumder said a number of aftershocks were felt in the Indian capital.
Post-quake landslides were a potential threat, said Ahmad Kamal, a spokesman at India's National Disaster Management Authority.
The USGS says the earthquake took place in "one of the most seismically hazardous regions on earth".
The Hindu Kush mountains sit on the corner of the Indian plate, rather than being at the front line of the continental collision, where the Himalayas are thrust upwards as India disappears beneath Eurasia at a rate of 40-50mm (2ins) per year.
It is in this rugged region that the sideways slip between India and Afghanistan meets the head-on impact of the Himalayan fault line. There are many small, interacting faults and forces pushing in different directions.
Pakistan's Dawn newspaper reported on Saturday that the region had been shaken by a series of strong quakes centred on Hindu Kush in recent days.
Hamza Nadeem, 19, felt the earthquake in his home in Sialkot, eastern Pakistan.
"I felt the ceiling fan rattle, then the whole house felt like it was shaking," he told the BBC. "We all ran outside.
"It lasted for about one and a half minutes - nothing broke, there was no damage but it was a frightening experience. We all just stood there and prayed."
Pte James Farrell, 18, said he was only trying to warn Rifleman Curtis Horbury during the incident at Catterick Garrison, in North Yorkshire.
But a court martial last month in Colchester heard the blow was aimed at his colleague's head.
Farrell, from Halifax, West Yorkshire, was convicted of attempted murder.
The court heard claims that Mr Horbury was the "ringleader" of a gang of trainees who were bullying Farrell, which had culminated in the attack on 13 November.
Farrell said he had no intention of hitting him with the knife and just wanted to scare him to make him leave him alone.
He said on the night in question he was verbally bullied and went out to a smoking area to calm down, but "lost it" when he came back and saw Mr Horbury "smirking" at him.
The court heard "it was only by chance" Mr Horbury was not killed. He managed to dodge the blow by rolling out of the way.
Sentencing Farrell at Colchester Garrison, Vice-Judge Advocate General Michael Hunter told him: "You reacted in the way you did because you were being verbally bullied and because you couldn't take it."
Describing it as an "unusual" case in which nobody was injured, he said: "Following that blow, instead of retrieving the knife and continuing your actions you took no further action.
"You did nothing. This, we find, is because although you had clearly intended to kill, you at that point realised the enormity of what you had just intended to do."
The bullying allegations are now the subject of an ongoing independent investigation by the Royal Military Police.
Farrell, who was with the 2nd Infantry Training Battalion, also admitted possessing 42 rounds of live ammunition and 30 rounds of blank ammunition.
He was sentenced to six years and four months for all offences.
A BBC Wales survey has found a number of councils now leave the decision on extra servings to schools or caterers.
Powys bans pudding as seconds, Cardiff schools are urged to offer only extra bread, and Ceredigion extras are small, bringing complaints from hungry pupils.
But the Welsh government says it would never want children left hungry, and it will issue new guidance next year.
School meal policy varies in many areas of Wales, and here are some examples. For more detail, see the table at the foot of this article.
BBC Wales asked education authorities about school meals, and 18 of the 22 responded. But while all said children are still allowed to ask for seconds, they may get a different response depending on where they live.
Powys Council says its cooks must use their "discretion" when offering extra food, and while its schools are allowed to serve any leftover vegetables and bread, puddings as seconds are off the menu. Powys also says catering managers advise cooks and rely on their "discretion and understanding".
But some pupils and parents have complained about these restrictions, which follow the adoption of the Welsh government's Appetite for Life programme, which aims to raise nutritional standards and help tackle childhood obesity.
There have also been complaints about the size of portions for primary school pupils. They have protested that 10-11-year-olds will need more food than a four-year-old.
Figures from earlier this year show more than 28% of five-year-olds in Wales are overweight, with 12.5% of children classed as obese. Wales has a bigger problem than either England or Scotland.
The standards have been in force in primary schools since September 2012, and were introduced across secondary schools at the start of this term.
One Welsh assembly member from Powys is so concerned he carried out his own survey of the county's primary schools. Russell George says only one school which responded to his letter said it was satisfied with the current meals policy.
Mr George says most schools also have concerns about portion size, "with many older children complaining that they remained hungry following their school meal".
The Montgomeryshire Conservative AM says one school did its own survey of parents: 67% said portions were too small, almost all - 93% - wanted their children to have seconds, and 10% stopped using school meals because of portion sizes.
Mr George is urging a "common sense" approach to meals in primary schools.
Education Minister Huw Lewis has echoed those words and wants "a large dose of common sense" to be used in interpreting the guidelines.
He told AMs last month the guidelines are flexible and "offer a proper nutritional balance for our young people, and that is something that we have been working towards for a long time, and now we have it. So, the guidelines matter but so does common sense".
In response to BBC Wales' findings, a Welsh government spokesperson said: "We would never want to see children having school meals going hungry.
"We have provided schools with suggested portion sizes which cater for changing nutritional requirements as children get older. So, for example, a child in year 6 would have a larger portion than a child in reception."
"Local authorities and many schools have worked hard over the years to improve the quality of food and drink provided in schools, in line with the Appetite for Life recommended standards.
"However, in the absence of legislation, there has been a variable rollout across schools. As a consequence, not all schools were achieving the recommended standards. The Healthy Eating in Schools Regulations now require compliance by schools; giving children and young people a healthy balance of food and drink throughout the entire school day.
"Statutory guidance on the Healthy Eating in Schools Regulations is currently being prepared and will be issued in the new year."
Northern Lights will showcase the work of designers who have chosen to stay in Scotland to build their careers.
Products on show range from hand-crafted wooden furniture to ceramic jewellery.
Organisers said the show would highlight the "increasing confidence" designers felt in basing their businesses in Scotland.
Product and furniture designer Scott Jarvie said: "London Design Festival will be the centre of the design universe in September, so I'm thrilled to be part of the V&A Dundee show, exhibiting alongside leading lights in contemporary Scottish design.
"The V&A in London has been a great inspiration and influence on my work as a designer, since being captivated by the place as a child. "
The London Design Festival was first staged in 2003 and includes more than 400 events and exhibitions.
Philip Long, director of V&A Dundee, said: "We are delighted with the calibre, ambition and volume of submissions we received to exhibit as part of Northern Lights.
"London Design Festival allows us to highlight these most exciting contemporary product designers, showcase their ideas and ingenuity, and give them an opportunity, whether they are an established or emerging designer, to raise their profile internationally."
The full list of designers and companies taking part in Northern Lights is:
The show runs from 17 to 25 September at the Victoria and Albert Museum in South Kensington.
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Farah, who won 10,000m gold on the opening day, will attempt to secure Britain's second medal of the championships when he runs in the 5,000m final.
Jamaican superstar Bolt is aiming to end his glittering career with gold in the 4x100m relay, having had to settle for bronze in the 100m last Saturday.
Here's our guide to the key events and coverage times.
*All times listed are BST. The BBC is not responsible for any changes to event start times.
Seven gold medals: Women's high jump, women's 100m hurdles, men's javelin, men's 5,000m, men's decathlon, women's and men's 4x100m relay
BBC coverage: 09:30-12:00 & 18:30-22:10 BBC One; 09:30-22:00 BBC Connected TV and online (uninterrupted coverage); 12:00-12:30 BBC Two; 12:30-13:30 BBC Red Button; 20:00-22:30 BBC Radio 5 live
Main events:
19:05 - Women's high jump final: Russian Maria Lasitskene, competing as an independent athlete, won gold in Beijing two years ago and boasts the top 10 jumps of 2017. The 24-year-old has won her past 22 competitions and is the clear favourite. Among the chasing pack are two British heptathletes by trade - Morgan Lake and Katarina Johnson-Thompson.
20:05 - Women's 100m hurdles final: Kendra Harrison, one of four Americans in the final, broke a 28-year-old world record in this stadium 12 months ago at the Anniversary Games, but she only scraped into the final. London 2012 champion Sally Pearson looks in good form and could stop the United States from a clean sweep. Jamaica's Danielle Williams, the reigning world champion, crashed out in the semi-finals.
20:20 - Men's 5,000m final: The final championship track race of Farah's illustrious career. Victory here would be a fourth consecutive 5,000m win at the World Championships, but is he tired after his 10,000m heroics? Precocious 17-year-old Seleman Barega and Ethiopian team-mates Yomif Kejelcha and Muktar Edris, plus Kenya-born American Paul Chelimo, look to be his main threats. Fellow Briton Andrew Butchart, sixth in Rio last summer, also starts.
21:30 & 21:50 - Women's and men's 4x100m finals respectively: Hot on the heels of Farah's farewell comes Bolt's send-off as he competes for Jamaica, looking for a 12th world title to go with his eight Olympic golds. The American team are always strong - and could help Justin Gatlin to a second gold to follow his 100m triumph. The GB team, including Adam Gemili, will look to deny both victory - as long as they all make it through the heats at 10:55. Meanwhile, the British women's team will attempt to repeat their Rio 2016 bronze medal.
Morning session (GB athletes in brackets):
10:00 - 110m hurdles decathlon (Ashley Bryant)
10:35 - Women's 4x100m relay qualifying (GB in heat one)
10:55 - Men's 4x100m relay qualifying (GB in heat one)
11:00 - Discus throw decathlon (Ashley Bryant)
11:20 - Women's 4x400m relay qualifying (GB in heat one)
11:50 - Men's 4x400m relay qualifying (GB in heat two)
12:20 - Discus throw decathlon (Ashley Bryant)
14:15 - Pole vault decathlon (Ashley Bryant)
Evening session:
17:30 - Men's javelin decathlon (Ashley Bryant)
18:55 - Men's javelin decathlon (Ashley Bryant)
19:05 - Women's high jump final (Katarina Johnson-Thompson & Morgan Lake)
20:05 - Women's 100m hurdles final
20:15 - Men's javelin final
20:20 - Men's 5,000m final (Mo Farah & Andrew Butchart)
20:45 - Men's 1500m decathlon (Ashley Bryant)
21:30 - Women's 4x100m relay final (line-up TBC)
21:50 - Men's 4x100m relay, final (line-up TBC)
The final day sees 11 gold medals decided: Men's and women's 20km race walks, men's and women's 50km race walks, men's high jump, women's discus, women's 5,000m, women's 800m, men's 1500m, women's and men's 4x400m relay
BBC coverage: 07:40-16:15 BBC Red Button; 13:00-16:30 & 18:30-20:00 BBC Two; 18:30-22:00 Connected TV & online; 20:00-22:00 BBC One; 19:30-22:00 BBC Radio 5 live
Main events:
14:20 - Men's 20km race walk: Britain's Tom Bosworth finished a surprise sixth in Rio last summer. After setting a mile world best in this stadium a month ago, can he make the podium?
19:35 - Women's 5,000m: Laura Muir is hoping to improve on her fourth in the 1500m while Eilish McColgan also takes part. Great Britain's best performance in this event is Paula Radcliffe's fourth in 1997.
20:10 - Women's 800m final: South African two-time Olympic champion Caster Semenya has not lost an 800m race since 2015. She recently lowered her own national record with a stunning Monaco Diamond League victory. Britain's trio went out in the semi-finals.
20:55 & 21:15 - Women's and men's 4x400m relay finals respectively: Rio 2016 bronze medallists Great Britain bid to repeat that success in the women's event. The men, who finished third in Beijing two years ago, will hope for better luck than in Brazil last summer, when they were disqualified in the heats.
Morning session:
07:55 - Men's and women's 50km race walks
12:20 - Women's 20km race walk
14:20 - Men's 20km race walk
Evening session:
19:00 - Men's high jump final (Robbie Grabarz)
19:10 - Women's discus final
19:35 - Women's 5,000m final (Laura Muir & Eilish McColgan)
20:10 - Women's 800m final (Lynsey Sharp)
20:30 - Men's 1500m final (Chris O'Hare)
20:55 - Women's 4x400m relay final (line-up TBC)
21:15 - Men's 4x400m relay final (line-up TBC)
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The timing of the riots raises the question of whether they are part of the same trend.
If they are, that could send a chill wind through governments elsewhere in the Arab world, where people have many of the same grievances.
George Joffe, a specialist in North African affairs at Cambridge University, sees certain shared characteristics, but no common cause.
"Both countries' governments are extremely insensitive to popular sentiment, both countries have seen a dramatic rise in food prices," he said.
"But [the riots] are not related, in that they started for very different reasons. I don't see a link."
"It's simply the case that in both countries, people lead miserable lives," he added.
The main thing the two cases have in common is demography.
In both Algeria and Tunisia, high birth-rates have led to an explosion in the number of young people of job-seeking age.
At the same time, the economies of both countries - while outpacing growth in developing economies in the past few years - have not grown fast enough to meet the demand for jobs.
Algeria and Tunisia also shared the method people used to express their unhappiness: young people taking to the streets, throwing petrol bombs and stones at police, and ransacking buildings.
This may be because in both countries there is only limited political discourse and no vibrant opposition through which people can channel their grievances.
But here the two sets of protests diverge.
In Algeria, it was a limited flare-up of built-up frustration about tough living conditions with no far-reaching political implications.
In Tunisia, the unrest is turning into a challenge to the rule of President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali.
"It's the first time there's been a major disturbance of this kind in Tunisia, and it's a warning to the president of the danger of creating a totally unnecessary dictatorship," said Mr Joffe.
"He needs to think very carefully about how he proceeds with his policies from here," he added.
In Tunisia, the protests' initial focus was youth unemployment and police heavy-handedness, but animosity towards Ben Ali, who has run the country since 1987, has turned into a constant theme.
A video circulating on social media websites used by opponents of the Tunisian government on Monday showed a group of men trying to set fire to a poster of Ben Ali - similar to the ones which hang in every shop and public building in Tunisia.
Discussion threads about Tunisia on Twitter, another social networking tool, are full of rhetoric aimed at the president.
"Ben Ali, do you see the wave that will sweep you away?" said one post. "Ben Ali must be held accountable," said another.
A third post said: "Let us turn the protests/uprising in Tunisia into the first socio-political revolution powered by social networks."
Next door in Algeria, very few of the rioters articulated any political demands; they were just angry about sharp rises in the price of sugar and cooking oil.
The government, with deep pockets from the export of oil and gas, quickly said it would curb price rises, and since then the rioting has tapered off.
Algeria has already had its "people power revolution" - the year after Ben Ali took office.
Then, days of intense rioting in the capital led the authorities to loosen controls on society and the economy, allowing private newspapers and multi-party elections for the first time.
That flowering of freedom quickly degenerated into a conflict between security forces and Islamist rebels which killed 200,000 people, according to some estimates, from which Algeria is still emerging.
After that experience, few Algerians have any appetite for any more political transformations.
By contrast, Tunisia has been a model of stability and has only had two heads of state since independence from France.
Some of the young Tunisians clashing with police over the past few days feel it is their turn to try a revolution.
The boat lost contact after departing the eastern state of Sabah on Saturday.
The Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency said search and rescue efforts were being hampered by bad weather.
The incident coincides with the first day of China's week-long Lunar New Year celebration, which is also marked by ethnic Chinese in Malaysia.
The catamaran boat left Kota Kinabalu on Saturday at 09:00 local time (01:00 GMT) and was heading towards Pulau Mengalum, a popular tourist island 60km (37 miles) west of the city.
The Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency said it received a distress call from the boat but contact was lost soon after.
"I, like all the relatives of those on board, am hoping for progress in the search and rescue operation," the tourism minister for Sabah state, Masidi Manun, told the AFP news agency.
The search area covers 400 nautical square miles between Kota Kinabalu and Pulau Mengalum, according to the New Strait Times.
Storms are common in the area at this time of year.
Three crew members were on board the vessel, alongside the 31 passengers.
Chloe Orr was taken from the address in Nithside Avenue to Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary where she was pronounced dead a short time later.
Police were called to the address at about 22:20 on Friday.
A post-mortem examination will be carried out to establish the cause of death, however there are not believed to be any suspicious circumstances.
An official in the office of French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius told the AFP news agency the draft would be presented to ministers at 10:30 GMT.
No details of the proposed agreement have been released so far.
The tentative deal was reached nearly 16 hours after the talks had been scheduled to close.
"We have a text to present," the official said, adding that the draft would be now translated into the UN's six official languages.
Analysts say that this is not a done deal - ratification will only take place if there are no objections raised at Saturday morning's ministerial meeting, and even this is unlikely to come before afternoon in the French capital.
Mr Fabius, who has presided over the talks, had said earlier that the "conditions were never better" for a strong and ambitious agreement.
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Significant progress had been reported on a range of issues, with evidence of real compromise between the parties, the BBC's environment correspondent Matt McGrath in Paris reported earlier.
He added that countries supported a temperature goal of 2C but agreed to make their best efforts to keep the warming rise to 1.5C. However, the language on cutting emissions in the long term was criticised for significantly watering down ambition.
The question of different demands on different countries, depending on their wealth and level of development - called "differentiation" at the talks - was said to be the root cause of the difficulties.
Another major difficulty was transparency - richer countries want a single system of measuring, reporting and verifying the commitments countries make as part of this agreement.
It is said to be crucial to the US, which wants to ensure that China is subject to the same sort of oversight as it is. China and India are not keen on this type of oversight.
One positive note came with the announcement that Brazil was willing to join the so-called "high-ambition coalition" of countries including the EU, the US and 79 countries. The alliance said it would push for an ambitious and legally binding deal with a strong review mechanism.
US President Barack Obama spoke to his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping by phone on Friday, with both leaders saying they were committed to an "ambitious" deal.
"Both leaders agreed that the Paris conference presents a crucial opportunity to galvanise global efforts to meet the climate change challenge," a White House statement said.
"They committed that their negotiating teams in Paris would continue to work closely together and with others to realise the vision of an ambitious climate agreement."
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It is the fourth year the fixture has been marked as a "bubble match" - meaning supporters will be kept apart.
Police urged those going to the National League game at the Racecourse Ground to be "on their best behaviour" so future games can be "normalised".
The system will be the same for January's return fixture in Chester.
Police have said they will consider allowing independent travel again if there are two incident-free fixtures with no damage to stadiums.
North Wales police and crime commissioner Arfon Jones said: "I would urge fans of both Wrexham and Chester City to be on their best behaviour and ensure that the rivalry remains good-natured.
"That is the best way to guarantee that matches between the two clubs can take place with 15:00 kick-off times and independent travel to and from games."
A spokesperson said he had not been allowed to ask questions about Irish language issues during the BBC's election debates.
A petition was handed to the reception.
In response, the BBC said it produces multi-platform Irish language content.
Spokesperson Cónall Ó Corra said: "I was on two programmes for the BBC in the last fortnight in regards to the elections.
"I was asking a question in regards to the Irish language. The first time I asked a question on the Good Friday Agreement Generation programme I was allowed to ask my question. After that I was cut short. I was not allowed to retaliate with a point."
Mr Ó Corra said he also attended the BBC's Leader's debate last Tuesday evening.
"I intended to ask a question about the DUP's proposal to stop 'squandering money' on Irish schools, and I was cut short.
"Apparently my question was not deemed worthy enough to ask. My question was cut short because of a lack of time, but there were two full questions asked after that.
"So we're here today to show our disgust and how we feel that the BBC has censored us," he added.
A BBC spokesperson said: "BBC Northern Ireland produces a range of Irish language content across television, radio and online.
"This reflects commitments detailed in the BBC's current charter arrangements.
"Our Irish language programming benefits from creative collaborations with different organisations, including Northern Ireland Screen and other broadcasters."
After resuming on 34 from the overnight score of 95-3, Clarke was helped by George Rhodes (45) in a 131-run stand.
Backed by 57 not out from captain Joe Leach, he eventually finished on 142 out of the hosts' total of 336, paceman Matt Coles claiming 6-84.
Josh Tongue then took two wickets but Joe Denly helped Kent rally to 120-3.
From 64-3, Denly (67 not out) has so far put on 56 with Joe Weatherley (20 not out) to earn Kent a 44-run lead.
Weatherley's first target will be becoming the fourth Joe in this match to pass 50, following Clarke, Leach and Denly's earlier efforts.
Worcestershire batsman Joe Clarke told BBC Hereford & Worcester:
"It is a relief, if anything. I've struggled really. I've been wanting to get big scores all season and it hasn't quite happened for me.
"I've been getting starts and not being able to go on. I've felt in good nick all year. It's just been one of those things. I've kept getting to 20 and 30 and giving it away. It was nice to go on and get a hundred.
"There is a bit in the pitch with the new ball. There is carry in it for the bowlers. It's just once it get past 20 overs, it gets a bit slower and if you can get in, you can score runs."
Kent head coach Matt Walker told BBC Radio Kent:
"It is a better position than we were in about an hour before stumps. We fought pretty hard during the course of the day.
"As was the case in our innings there were patches when they scored quite freely and then us clawing it back and bowling in good patches and then wickets coming in a bit of a cluster.
"We didn't want to lose three wickets this evening. We hoped one, maybe a maximum of two, but the two Joes played really well at the end and stuck in."
A family statement announced the Canadian singer's death "with great sadness... after a prolonged struggle with Alzheimer's disease".
Vickers' career spanned three decades and saw him sing some of opera's most challenging roles.
His distinctive voice was described by one reviewer as holding "100 colours and inflections".
His family paid tribute to "his ringing laughter, warmth, and generous spirit".
Born in rural Saskatchewan in 1926, Vickers was described as "a deeply religious and private man".
At 24, he won a scholarship to the The Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, where he studied for five years.
He was invited to audition for London's Royal Opera House in 1956, where he made his debut the following year.
Motivation
In 1958, he debuted at the Bayreuth Festival as Siegmund in Wagner's Die Walkuere (The Valkyrie), which launched his international career and become one of his signature roles.
The same year he starred opposite Maria Callas' Medea at Covent Garden.
He achieved his greatest fame in the 1960s, as part of the Metropolitan Opera in New York, with his critically acclaimed performances of Tristan in Wagner's Tristan and Isolde and the eponymous Peter Grimes.
"The meeting of character and singer," critic Leighton Kerner said of Vickers' Grimes, "has proved to be one of the mightiest collisions in 20th century opera".
Vickers claimed that his approach "hung on the music, absolutely - everything I do as an actor I find a motivation for in the music".
His deep faith - he was once dubbed "God's voice" - saw him refuse to perform some roles on moral grounds, specifically, Tannhauser.
A recipient of many honours and awards, including two Grammys and a Companion of the Order of Canada, Vickers announced his retirement in 1988.
He leaves a sister, five children, eleven grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Salford winger Justin Carney was sent off for dissent before half-time.
But Greg Johnson crossed twice to help the Super League club to victory against their third-tier opponents.
Debutant Ryan Brierley scored one of Toronto's four tries having joined from Huddersfield in midweek, but their first Challenge Cup campaign is over.
It was the first competitive defeat that the Wolfpack, who have won all five of their League 1 matches in 2017, had suffered.
Kris Welham's try put the hosts in front but Liam Kay and Quentin Laulu-Togagae replied, and Brierley touched down for a debut score in between Johnson's double for Salford.
Michael Dobson and Gareth O'Brien, who also landed a second-half drop-goal, were the home side's other scorers, while Fuifui Moimoi crossed late on for Toronto.
Salford coach Ian Watson: "We knew it was going to be a massive game on the back of a very tough Easter period for us. They came here and had a real dig.
"In the first half they caused us a few problems but we fixed it up in the second half, defensively we were a lot better. Losing Justin didn't help, the boys had to dig a bit harder."
Toronto coach Paul Rowley: "The sending-off probably wasn't a good thing for us. It obviously altered our mind set and we stopped playing in the second half.
"I thought we were really good in the first half, we scored some good tries and had two disallowed but it was a game of two halves and probably the old head of Dobson managed the game better in the second half.
"We are bold and brave in our play and to go away from that is disappointing."
Salford: O'Brien; Johnson, Jones, Welham, J Carney; Lui, Dobson; Mossop, Wood, Tasi, Griffin, Murdoch-Masila, Flanagan.
Replacements: Bibby, Kopczak, Krasniqi, Walne.
Toronto Wolfpack: Wallace; Laulu-Togagae, Hall, Moimoi, Kay; Worthington, Pownall; Jacks, Beswick, Penkywicz, Bailey, Brierley, Laithwaite.
Replacements: Whiting, Sidlow, Bussey, Wheeler.
Referee: Jack Smith
The home side led 11-0 at half-time after a try from Nathan Williams and two penalties from Will Hooley.
Hooley kicked two more penalties after the break along with tries for Tom Collins and Ed Siggery as Moseley eased their way to survival.
The defeat ends Albion's 13-year stay in the second tier of English rugby after winning promotion in 2002.
Albion's cause was not helped with player-coach Rhys Oakley suffering a broken leg and fellow back-row Iain Grieve suffering a concussion.
"It's hugely disappointing," director of rugby Graham Dawe told BBC Radio Devon.
"I thought we put a good effort in and there were good parts of the game, but there were too many unforced errors in the first half.
"The task from here is to put some pride in the shirt next week against Doncaster."
The loss will also seriously affect funding at the financially-stricken club, which
The will lose its central funding from the Rugby Football Union, which is due to
Evans, 26, finished sixth in the race and ended the season seventh overall.
His current deal will soon expire and M-Sport boss Malcolm Wilson has yet to make a decision on next year's line-up.
"We've learnt a lot during the course of this year," Evans said. "It would be a shame not to put all that learning into use next year."
World champion Sebastien Ogier won the Wales Rally GB for a third successive year, 26 seconds ahead of Northern Ireland's Kris Meeke.
Evans, with co-driver Daniel Barritt, had finished a career-best second in his Ford Fiesta in the French round in October. That was his second podium of the season after a third place in Argentina.
The Dolgellau-born driver had targeted a podium in Wales but a puncture on day one affected his chances and he finished out of contention in sixth place.
"I think, overall, it was a strong result but it was a shame for the puncture on Friday or else it would have been a comfortable fourth," Evans added.
"But we all know rallying is a game of ifs and buts. It's been on okay weekend for us."
The teenager was discovered at a property on Byron Avenue in Campsall, near Doncaster, on Thursday evening.
A joint investigation into the circumstances surrounding the fire is ongoing between South Yorkshire Police and South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue.
Police said the boy's family had asked for their privacy to be respected at what was a difficult time.
The emergency services were called to the house at about 20:30 BST on Thursday as neighbours tried to tackle the fire.
Jack Sheldon's body was found after the fire service had extinguished the blaze.
A number of floral tributes have been left near the property on Byron Avenue.
2 December 2016 Last updated at 15:17 GMT
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But on his way home from the Gillette Stadium with his wife, Wilfork saw a jeep roll over with a woman inside.
"The only thing I thought about was seeing somebody in there and getting them to safety," he said.
''It was something that we saw and we knew she needed help and we helped.''
Wilfork, who weighs 23st 3lb (146.1kg), reached into the jeep and pulled the woman out with one hand.
The 38-year-old woman was subsequently charged with driving under the influence of alcohol and negligent operation of a motor vehicle.
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The National Football Museum resides in a distinctive sloped building in the centre of Manchester. However, thrill-seekers could soon be taking the plunge down the six-storey sloping glass building before landing on a giant crash pad in Exchange Square, writes the Manchester Evening News.
It is billed as the largest "urban slide" of its kind anywhere in the world and a joint venture between the museum and French events company La Proofi!, a name which may, or may not, be a hint to readers.
Birmingham was once home to a much-lamented statue of King Kong, but the Birmingham Mail writes there could soon be a 100ft-tall replacement directly outside the city's new library.
Proposals for the giant structure - set to become "the Midlands' version of the Angel of the North" - are said to have gone on show.
Football fans were shocked to see Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp and Everton boss Roberto Martinez in a dance-off battle at HMV, according to the Liverpool Echo.
A video on the newspaper's website captured the moment high-street shoppers were left looking on in disbelief.
In Swindon, May Day is set to be a magical experience this year with plans for a huge maypole in the centre of the town's "world famous" Magic Roundabout.
The busy island will not be entirely closed to traffic. However, children from local primary schools will still be invited to dance around it holding traditional streamers, the Swindon Advertiser writes.
Gyllyngvase Beach in Falmouth is reported to be having under-sand heating installed to make it an all-year-round holiday destination.
The Falmouth Packet says the pilot scheme begins on 1 April and includes the installation of two large commercial gas boilers, 30 heating outlets and metres of under floor heating pipework installed.
In Cornwall, workers at The Lost Gardens of Heligan say they have managed to crossbreed a Devon and Cornwall Longwool sheep with a Tamworth pig, according to the Cornish Guardian.
The new heritage hybrid is reported to have been named a "Shig" with qualities including being "docile, friendly, with an approachable manner" as well as possessing a woollen coat.
Stoke-on-Trent's Westport Lake is to be transformed into Europe's first all-weather ice-rink, says the Stoke Sentinel.
After top secret negotiations, the paper reports Nordic refrigeration giant Slushimushi has agreed to freeze the 0.8 mile circumference lake with a small area left free at one side for ducks and other wildlife.
In Bolton, a bakery has announced the launch of a new left-handed sandwich, for those who currently struggle to hold their lunch with sufficient agility.
Gemma Hall told the Bolton News: "As a left handed person myself I'm only too aware of the pitfalls of living in a right-handed world."
In Bristol, 20mph speed limits are already annoying drivers, but they could soon be forced to drive at just 10mph.
Planners were reported by the Bristol Post to be reviewing next generation road safety options now that all the city's 20mph zones have been phased in.
Senior civil servant Dr Andrew McCormick was giving evidence to the Economy Committee.
He was speaking ahead of a vote on plans to reduce subsidy rates for those in the Renewable Heat Incentive scheme.
He said proposed changes to the botched scheme are the best way to "stop the haemorrhage of funds" from it.
The Renewable Heat Incentive scheme was an attempt by the Northern Ireland Executive to help to increase consumption of heat from renewable sources.
However, businesses were receiving more in subsidies than they were paying for renewable fuel and the scheme became majorly oversubscribed.
The fallout from the scandal, which is approximately £490m over budget, resulted in the collapse of Stormont's institutions and the calling of snap elections on 2 March.
A vote on the plans to reduce subsidy rates is to take place on Monday afternoon.
Dr McCormick, the permanent secretary in the Department for the Economy, said the proposed changes were an "overwhelming strong option" to stop the flow of unregulated spending.
The proposals include a recommendation to replace the uncapped subsidy with a tiered one, which would reduce payments after a certain number of usage hours.
It would also introduce a usage cap after which no subsidy would be paid.
Dr McCormick confirmed that a special adviser, rather than officials, had come up with the plan.
The SPAD was not within the Department for the Economy, he added.
DUP SPAD John Robinson stood back from involvement in sorting out the RHI overspend after it emerged last week that his father-in-law was a recipient of the subsidy.
Mr McCormick said Mr Robinson had not been party to discussions about the proposed cost controls before or after Christmas and had not been involved in the decision to introduce the planned changes.
Meanwhile, businesses involved in the RHI scheme have received letters about plans to publish their names.
Those who had objected to their names being published had their applications for anonymity assessed on a case-by-case basis.
Some have now been told their names will be put into the public domain.
In the letter, they are told the "public interest overrides your objections" and the Department for the Economy would release the information on Wednesday.
Sinn Féin's Martin McGuinness resigned as deputy first minister earlier this month after DUP leader Arlene Foster refused to stand aside as first minster while an investigation was carried out into the RHI debacle.
As they hold a joint office, his resignation automatically put the DUP leader out of her job and prompted the calling of snap elections on 2 March.
David Niles, 29, said Tia's mother Natalie was distraught and he had not slept for four days.
Tia disappeared after leaving her grandmother's home in Croydon, south-east London, at about midday on Friday.
CCTV stills of Tia taken outside the nearby Co-op the day before have been issued by police.
On Tuesday evening, around 100 local people gathered at Croydon Rugby Club to search for Tia.
Club secretary Sue Randall said: "We were here last night with the police and they told us all to come back today.
"At the moment there's about 100 people but more came and went off to start the search."
She said people would search for "however long it takes".
Earlier, police began searching a local wood, Birchwood, which is less than a mile from Tia's grandmother Christine Sharp's home in New Addington.
A team of nine officers dressed in blue police baseball hats used long sticks to scour the undergrowth.
Police said there had been 55 reported sightings of the girl, but these were yet to be confirmed.
Wearing a T-shirt bearing Tia's image, Mr Niles said: "I just want to find my little girl.
"We're in bits, the whole country has helped us and is supporting us.
"I haven't slept in four days. Natalie (Tia's mother) is in bits."
He said he last saw Tia on Thursday morning at the family home in Mitcham before he headed to work.
"She was good as gold," Mr Niles said.
"I know I am not her real dad, but I have been there since day dot.
"When she left the house she shouted 'Bye' and 'See you by six'."
Tia's grandmother said she was pinning her hopes on new CCTV stills of Tia taken outside the Co-op in Featherbed Lane near her house at about 16:15 BST on the day before she went missing.
The girl was wearing similar clothes when she was last seen leaving her grandmother's house on Friday.
Speaking from her terrace house where a solitary candle burns outside in a glass holder, Mrs Sharp said: "We're hoping the pictures will jog someone's memory."
She thanked the community for supporting the family.
A campaign has also been launched on the social networking site Facebook, while The Sun newspaper has offered a £25,000 reward for information that will help police find Tia.
Police have scoured hours of CCTV footage but have not found any trace of Tia, who has never gone missing before.
She had been on her way to the Whitgift shopping centre, in Croydon, when she went missing.
On Monday, Tia's uncle David Sharp, 28, urged anyone who knew where his niece was to come forward.
Det Ch Insp Nick Scola, from the Met's Homicide and Serious Crime Command, said the youngster spent a lot of time at her grandmother's house and the last person to see Tia was her grandmother's partner, but on Tuesday Tia's stepfather said he was not sure about that.
Mr Scola said: "She [Tia] told her grandmother's partner she was going out.
"He was the last person to see her, that we are aware of at this time.
"We have recovered a number of items but we now know that they do not belong to Tia."
Police said Tia went there the previous day after travelling by tram, with her grandmother's partner meeting her half-way at East Croydon station.
Officers are particularly keen to hear from anyone in the Lindens area of New Addington who has information and appealed for any bus or tram drivers in the Croydon area who recognise Tia's description to contact them.
She is known to frequent the Croydon, Mitcham and Wimbledon areas.
Tia is described as white, 4ft 5in tall and slim, and was wearing FCUK glasses.
Chris Cooke's 80 off 67 balls and Graham Wagg's brutal 52 late on helped Glamorgan post 302-6.
Aneurin Donald and Will Bragg built the platform after captain Jacques Rudolph retired hurt after a blow on the arm.
Captain Luke Wright led the Sussex effort with 65 but lacked support as the visitors were bowled out for 218.
Glamorgan skipper Rudolph watched his batsmen accelerate in the sunshine, helped by a series of dropped catches, before heading to hospital for an X-ray which showed no break.
England all-rounder Chris Jordan and spinner Danny Briggs were the pick of a mixed-quality Sussex attack, before Glamorgan plundered 118 off the last 10 overs.
Sussex lost wickets too regularly early in their innings to mount a challenge, with a stunning caught-and-bowled by Craig Meschede to remove New Zealand batsman Ross Taylor highlighting the difference in the field between the sides.
Wright and Ben Brown put on 68 for the fifth wicket but when Wright was superbly caught by stand-in skipper Colin Ingram, it marked the realistic end of the visitors' challenge before Michael Hogan (4-41) finished off the tail.
Glamorgan have two wins from two in the South Group, while Sussex remain without a win in 50-over cricket since 2014.
Glamorgan acting captain Colin Ingram told BBC Wales Sport: "My coach at under-elevens used to say 'catches win matches' and that's obviously relevant. No-one drops catches on purpose but our catching was outstanding tonight.
"They definitely change momentum, every time they got a partnership going we took a good catch and dragged ourselves back into it.
"On this wicket, the new ball is definitely a threat and we negated that pretty well. Then the way Graham (Wagg) and Chris Cooke batted together, they built that outstanding partnership and gave us the momentum to kick on in the last 15 overs.
"Jacques is fine, basically it was a solid hit (on the arm) and a big bruise, and you lose feeling in the hand for a while, it's a stressful moment but he'll have to toughen up and get back out with us soon."
Sussex captain Luke Wright told BBC Sussex: "It hurts a hell of a lot, to be honest.
"It's very, very frustrating. Catches win matches and we put down five which were pretty simple. Credit to them, they took a couple of great catches that changed the game."
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The 15 men and one woman have been jointly charged with conspiracy to steal cigarettes worth £2,432,665 from airline catering firm Gate Gourmet.
They have all been released on bail to appear at Crawley magistrates on 6 May.
A further two people are still on bail as part of the investigation.
The 16, who are from Sussex, Surrey, Kent, Devon and Lincolnshire, were arrested during a series of raids in July 2013, and have been charged with conspiracy to steal from their employer and money laundering.
Chris Hughton's side are two points behind second-placed Middlesbrough.
Knockaert, who joined the Sussex club from Standard Liege in January, beat David Button with an angled shot.
Tomer Hemed expertly headed in Beram Kayal's right-wing cross, his first goal since 5 December, before Jamie Murphy added a third in stoppage time.
Brighton's 3-0 win over Brentford as it happened
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Bruno also had a first-half shot deflected onto the crossbar by Brentford centre-back Harlee Dean, as Brighton strolled towards a third successive win.
At the other end, with the score at 0-0, goalkeeper David Stockdale made a flying save to keep out Alan Judge's powerful first-time shot.
Knockaert set up both goals in a 2-1 win over Huddersfield on his home debut 13 days earlier and he was in fine form once more against the Bees, although he should have opened the scoring inside the second minute but poked wide from eight yards.
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Israel striker Hemed had started the season with five goals in his nine appearances for Brighton but, like his team-mates, had struggled for goals during a seven-match winless run in the league over the festive period.
That dip in form appears to be at an end, with Murphy's late goal on the counter-attack sealing Brighton's biggest win of the season.
They also said it was overcrowded and struggled to hold prisoners in safe and decent conditions, after an unannounced inspection in February this year.
A report said violence levels had more than doubled since those found during the last inspection in November 2013.
But HM Inspectorate of Prisons praised the category B jail's cleanliness and efforts to "get the basics right".
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The report stated "too many prisoners felt unsafe", and recorded 126 assaults and fights six months before the inspection, with some injuries requiring hospital treatment. Attacks on staff were also "relatively high", with 49 incidents logged.
It said the number of inmates at risk of suicide or self-harm was also high, with 256 incidents of self-harm in the same period, three times higher than at the last inspection. But the report suggested "a smaller number of prisoners with complex needs accounted for many of the incidents".
Inspectors said the Victorian prison "faced increased levels of violence, often related to the prevalence of drugs and the difficulty of managing the problem with reduced staff numbers".
Chief Inspector of Prisons Peter Clarke said it had "achieved some success" and the new governor and his team had "redoubled efforts to build on the institution's strengths."
Chief Executive of HM Prison & Probation Service Michael Spurr said HMP Lincoln's governor was working to "achieve further improvements" at the jail.
By putting a larger-than-normal sensor in a relatively small body, the firm aims to make it easier to take "ultra-high quality" photos than before.
Professionals say the X1D should help them to capture images that feel more filmic, which many clients prefer.
But until prices for the technology fall, medium-format photography may remain a niche activity.
The mirrorless designation refers to the fact that the camera does not use a mirror to bounce light through the viewfinder.
This means its owner does not look through the lens, but must rely instead on a small electronic display built into the viewfinder or a larger touchscreen below.
The "medium format" terminology indicates that the sensor measures 43.8mm by 32.9mm (1.7in by 1.3in). The Sony-made part captures 50 megapixels and is said to be capable of recording a wider range of brightness values than the norm.
That compares to 36mm by 24mm for "full-frame" cameras, and about 23mm by 15mm for APS-C cameras.
The camera costs £7,188 - including VAT - which is more than double the price of Canon's full-frame 5DS R, which has the same megapixel resolution.
"Medium-format cameras are better at capturing light because their sensors have bigger pixels, which means they won't produce as much image noise in low light conditions," explained Jon Devo, retailer Wex Photographic's blogger.
"This camera also has 14 stops of dynamic range, which means you will get a lot more detail in the image with better colours - it's a completely different league from what you would get with a DSLR.
"There have been other digital medium-format cameras, but you weren't able to wear them around your neck. This could make medium-format photography accessible to a lot more people."
Like many mirrorless cameras, the X1D uses a type of autofocus that relies on maximising the amount of contrast in the sensed image.
This tends to be a slower process than the phase-detect autofocus technique used by many DSLRs, which splits the view in two and alters the focus until they come together in order to determine distance to a subject.
That may make the new camera unsuitable for sports photographers, for example, but still appealing to those working in fashion or other situations in which the subject can be posed.
Once focus is attained, the camera can freeze the action at speeds of up to 0.002 of a second.
The new camera weighs 725g (1.6lb) without a lens attached, which is lighter than many DSLR models including Canon's 5DS R and Nikon's 36 megapixel D810.
However, with only 14 compatible Hasselblad lenses at launch, there is considerably less choice than for Canon, Nikon or Sony's rival systems.
One photographer said the company already had a strong reputation with professionals, but the weight of its previous digital medium-format cameras had discouraged their use outside studios.
"Hasselblad is the closest to film I've come on any digital camera I've tried," said Jessica Klingelfuss from Wallpaper magazine, who has had hands-on time with a prototype X1D.
"The colours and tones of light are rendered differently. There's kind of a creaminess, a softness - things can look more dreamy.
"With normal digital cameras you find they can't really render red properly, images can seem lacklustre.
"So, the price may sound high, but it's still more affordable than other Hasselblad cameras, and I think you'll find semi-professionals and avid amateurs who might buy it."
The union is accusing Southern railway of wanting to impose changes rather than reach an agreement.
The dispute is separate to a long-running row between Southern and the RMT union over changes to the role of conductors.
Aslef said Southern had "dug its heels in" over the changes.
Southern's drivers who are members of Aslef voted for walkouts by 87%.
The union has announced its drivers will strike on 13-14 December, again on 16 December, and between 9-14 January.
Mick Whelan, Aslef's general secretary, said: "Our trade dispute with the company is that there should be no introduction and/or extension of new driver-only operated routes on Southern without the agreement of Aslef.
"We have genuinely sought to reach a compromise with Southern. We have always been prepared to talk to the company and we have always been of the view that it should be possible to do a deal, but it takes two to tango and the company has not been prepared to negotiate," he said.
"They have dug in their heels and forced us to ballot our members."
This ups the ante in an already vitriolic dispute.
Up until now, Southern had managed to run about 60% of its trains on RMT strike days. Still incredibly annoying for customers but they could normally find a way of getting to work.
Now that just under 1,000 Aslef drivers are joining the fray, albeit on different days, it's hard to see how Southern will be able to run any kind of functioning train service when they walk out.
They're also stopping overtime, which is often vital to running the trains every day.
This dispute has become the defining battle for one of the most contentious issues on our railways, the increasing introduction of what's known as "driver-only-operation" or DOO, where the driver, rather than the guard, takes control of closing the doors.
The unions say it's a safety risk and an excuse to cut jobs in the long run, all to save money. The rail firms and the government argue that it's about modernising the railways, freeing up on-board staff to deal with customers. They also point out that the safety regulator, the ORR, says it's safe and that DOO is already commonplace on many lines.
What happens on Southern is likely to determine what happens on other rail franchises in the future.
Charles Horton, the chief executive of Southern's parent company Govia Thameslink, said: "Passengers will be rightly furious that these wholly unnecessary and unjustified strikes have been called in the run up to Christmas and in the New Year.
"It's perfectly safe for the driver to have sole responsibility for the operation of a modern train and that's how a third of the trains up and down the country - with the full agreement and support of Aslef - already operate today."
The RMT has been embroiled in a bitter dispute with Southern over changes to the role of conductors.
More stoppages are planned in the coming weeks, in the run-up to Christmas and over the new year.
Southern wants drivers, rather than conductors, to operate carriage doors at certain times.
London Underground drivers are to stage a 24-hour strike on 6 and 7 December, coinciding with a walkout by Southern rail guards.
Just 13% of state-funded school's teachers are currently from a BME background, compared to 27% of pupils.
Teaching union, the NASUWT says ethnic minority teachers "face discrimination and prejudice when applying for jobs".
The government says there has been an increasing number of BME teachers joining the profession in recent years.
Department for Education (DfE) figures for 2016 show that of 510,000 state-funded teachers, 68,000 were drawn from an ethnic minority background.
Analysing the data, BBC News found the number of BME teachers would need to double to accurately reflect the ethnic make-up of the state school pupil population in England.
Ethnic minority teachers say young people from a similar background have historically preferred to enter other professions such as medicine or science.
"Teaching was never on my radar when I was younger," says Tayyab Ditta, a teacher in Leeds.
"A lack of BME teachers meant I had no role models so I never envisaged becoming a teacher. I remember seeing people from my community who'd become successful doctors or engineers but I never saw someone who was a teacher and that is a barrier we need to break down."
Janet Sheriff is the only BME secondary school head teacher in Leeds, an area where nearly 30% of children are from an ethnic minority.
"This is an enormous challenge for the whole education system. It's vitally important that as our communities become more multicultural our schools reflect the areas where our children grow up," she said.
"I do feel that when schools appoint teachers, there is an unconscious bias where white teachers are often the preferred candidate."
Government figures show the proportion of BME teachers in England rose from 11.6% in 2012, to 13.4% in 2016.
Despite the increase, a recent report from the National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers (NASUWT) warned BME teachers still faced "deep-rooted, endemic and institutional racism".
Chris Keates, general secretary of the NASUWT, said: "BME teachers are, on average, paid less than their peers, commonly face discrimination and prejudice when applying for jobs.
"Schools and pupils are losing out on the talents and skills of BME teachers who are unable to advance their careers or who opt for a different profession due to the barriers being placed in their way. We cannot afford to continue to let this happen."
Analysing the government's data, BBC News found that only one local authority area in England has proportionally more teachers than pupils from an ethnic minority background.
In 2016, 4.7% of teachers in Halton, Cheshire, were BME compared to 4.5% of pupils.
The London borough of Westminster had the greatest imbalance with 37.9% of teachers being from an ethnic minority compared to 85% of pupils.
A spokesperson for the DfE said: "There has been a steady increase in the proportion of minority ethnic groups starting teacher training and in the teaching profession in recent years.
"We also provide a range of support to teachers from black and ethnic minority backgrounds such as the Leadership, Equality and Diversity Fund. This fund supports schools to increase the representation of BME teachers in senior leadership roles as well as providing coaching and mentoring for BME teachers."
Seen as "pragmatic conservative", Rafsanjani was a leading member of the Iran's religious establishment who gained popularity in later life among the country's moderates. He boasted of a long-standing relationship with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, while also calling publicly for greater freedoms for Iranians.
Rafsanjani was also one of Iran's richest men, and he maintained close links to Iranian industry and business throughout his life. In 2003 he was featured in the Millionaire Mullahs section of the Forbes Rich List.
He was dogged by accusations that he abused his political connections to amass a large personal fortune - allegations that he always denied. His wealth and leadership style earned him a nickname among Iranians - "Akbar Shah", or "Great King".
By 2002, he had fallen out of favour with conservative clerics, military commanders, and public, and he lost his seat in parliament. But the same year he was elected head of the Expediency Council, a powerful body that adjudicates disputes over legislation, and held the post until his death.
He ran again for the presidency in 2005 but lost to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. In 2013 he attempted to run again, registering for the ballot with just minutes to go, but he was barred from standing by Iran's electoral watchdog.
He went on to be openly critical of Mr Ahmadinejad and became a key supporter of his reform-minded successor, Hassan Rouhani.
Born in 1934 in south-eastern Iran to a family of farmers, Rafsanjani studied theology in the holy city of Qom with Ayatollah Khomeini, whose close follower he became. He was imprisoned several times under the Shah.
He was speaker in the Majlis (Iran's parliament) from 1980 to 1989. In the last year of the 1980-88 war with Iraq, Ayatollah Khomeini appointed him acting commander-in-chief of the armed forces.
He was seen as the main mover behind Iran's acceptance of the UN Security Council resolution which ended the war.
As president, Rafsanjani sought to encourage a rapprochement with the West and re-establish Iran as a regional power.
His influence in Lebanon helped to bring about the release of Western hostages there in the early 1990s.
Domestically, Rafsanjani pursued an economically liberal policy which critics said failed to deliver on social justice. He also opposed harsh Islamic penal codes and promoted better job prospects for women.
His financial policies aimed to move Iran from the state-controlled economy of the Iran-Iraq war years to a more market-based system.
Under Mr Ahmadinejad's presidency, from 2005 to 2013, he was a fierce critic of economic policies which he said seriously damaged Iran.
On the nuclear issue, he was in favour of negotiation with the West but warned his countrymen against "accepting bullying and imposition". Indeed, he warned Washington that its "threats" were futile.
In 2007, at Friday prayers, he spoke out against nuclear weapons and said he was disappointed that the US, which still has a nuclear arsenal, was trying to stop Iran from using nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.
In 2002, Mr Rafsanjani was appointed head of the powerful Expediency Council, which arbitrates in disputes between the Majlis and the Guardian Council which can block legislation.
In 2006, he was elected to the Assembly of Experts and a year later was voted leader of the body which appoints the supreme leader.
Hardliners within the Assembly of Experts were strongly opposed to Mr Rafsanjani's bid to remain as leader in elections in January 2009. He stood against Ayatollah Mohammad Taghi Mesbah Yazdi, a supporter of President Ahmadinejad, and won a convincing majority.
In the 2009 presidential election, he backed the reformist Mir-Hossein Mousavi, who stood against President Ahmadinejad but was defeated.
Following that election supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei distanced himself from Mr Rafsanjani and took away his title of Tehran's Friday prayer leader.
Rafsanjani also lost his position as the head of the Assembly of Experts. His son Mehdi and daughter Faezeh were temporarily imprisoned on what many saw as trumped-up charges to put pressure on their father.
He was attacked by the conservative and right-wing press for suggesting that he might register for the elections.
But among the country's moderates Mr Rafsanjani was seen as a master manipulator who had a foot in the door of the establishment and a hand in the affairs of the opposition, and who could, theoretically, create a more open and predicable political climate.
Unable to stand in 2013, Rafsanjani supported moderate candidate Hassan Rouhani and Mr Rouhani's win gave the former president an insider role in reform efforts, including the new president's push for nuclear talks with the US.
His sudden death will be seen as a major blow to Mr Rouhani, who is preparing himself for re-election in May. Mr Rouhani was the first top official to attend the hospital where Mr Rafsanjani died. Reports say Mr Rouhani was in tears, and a crowd gathered outside the hospital after the announcement.
Rafsanjani is survived by his wife, Effat Marashi, their sons Mohsen, Mehdi and Yasser, and daughters Fatemeh and Faezeh. Faezeh is a prominent women's rights activist and former MP.
Former Liverpool and Chelsea striker Fernando Torres opened the scoring with a lovely dinked finish.
Antoine Griezmann doubled the lead before right-back Juanfran made it 3-0.
Ruben Castro reduced the deficit before late goals by Griezmann and substitute Thomas Partey completed the rout and earned a fifth win in six league games.
The win leaves Diego Simeone's side six points behind leaders Barcelona, who are in action later in the day against third-placed Real Madrid.
Atletico's next game is away to Barca in the quarter-finals of the Champions League on Tuesday.
He works as a social media strategist at the US software firm Autodesk and is taking part in a company-led health challenge.
Staff teams equipped with pedometers are competing to see who can achieve the most steps over 100 days.
"Having that pedometer does illustrate quite clearly how active you are… and it makes you walk," Blake says.
And the benefits are immediate, says colleague Clay Helm, the firm's PR director: "I'm a lot more productive and less stressed. Sometimes your best ideas happen when you're away from technology."
They both enjoy the competitive nature of the scheme as it provides an added incentive to exercise.
"I'm an average person, not an athlete," says Clay, "but I don't want to let my team down… the team expects you to contribute and come up with results."
Autodesk is one of a growing number of companies spending on wearable technology to encourage its staff to lead a more active lifestyle.
It provides staff with a pedometer as part of its corporate wellness programme, taking the view that having healthier, more active workers is good for productivity.
Oil giant BP's North American business offers its staff Fitbit fitness trackers - wearable bands or clip-on devices that monitor your steps, calorie intake and sleep patterns.
And it's proving popular - BP distributed 24,500 of them to staff and dependent spouses in 2015 alone. No doubt the scheme's popularity is partly due to the fact that activity points earn staff discounts on their health insurance premiums.
Participants of the voluntary scheme aim to reach one, two or three million steps in a year. And BP believes its staff are fitter as a result.
The company tells the BBC that 81% reached the million step goal, "providing evidence that participants engage in physical activity year-round".
It's a growing trend.
In 2013, about 2,000 companies offered their employees fitness trackers, according to technology research company Gartner. In 2014, this rose to around 10,000.
By 2016, the firm predicts that most large companies - those with more than 500 employees - in both the US and Western Europe will offer fitness trackers with their programmes.
These are unlikely to be Apple smartwatches, however, as they are significantly more expensive than wearable devices from the likes of Jawbone, Fitbit, Garmin, Microsoft, Basis and others.
"A lot of companies view [these schemes] as giving them a competitive advantage," says Ryan Martin, wearable technology analyst at 451 Research.
"They can improve overall employee wellness through data collection. They're not just making workplaces better, but decreasing unplanned leaves of absence."
So far, this trend is being led by the US - partly because its healthcare system is built around health insurance - a perk often provided by employers to their staff.
The UK's publicly funded National Health Service means insurance and employee health are less intricately bound.
But think of the people you know who measure their steps, calories and sleep. Aren't they the ones who already go to the gym, eat healthily and generally lead an active life?
This is a problem that all these corporate fitness and wellness programmes come across. They want to reach the more sedentary part of the population - not just "the worried well".
Companies argue that the workplace is a good way to do this - with the less active types more likely to take part if their colleagues are already doing it.
Fitbit, which recently listed on the New York Stock Exchange, says various studies show about 20% engagement in general wellness programmes. It claims this figure rises to between 40% and more than 80% with a Fitbit programme.
The firm recommends that chief executives take up the challenge - leading by example - and suggests buying the "tallest, cheesiest trophy" to reward weekly winners.
Mr Ryan of 451 Research says that Fitbit rival Jawbone in particular wants to take a more holistic approach to fitness.
That is, it doesn't just want to measure activity, but prompt it, too - suggesting you get up from your desk and stretch your legs if the wearable gadget detects a long period of inactivity.
But what about the privacy issues surrounding sharing health data with your employer?
Autodesk's Clay and Blake say they don't mind, emphasising the voluntary nature of the scheme. And both BP and Autodesk say they only have access to aggregated data - not to any individual's particular details.
Gartner's Annette Zimmermann believes the workplace fitness tracking trend "is coming to Europe and the UK" but that "there will be different business models for each particular country."
"Our research shows that even if initially people are tentative about sharing [health data], they are willing to do so if they get something in return."
In other words, everyone has their price.
But US campaign group World Privacy Forum has specifically named wellness programmes as a problematic area.
It is concerned about companies potentially selling on data to marketing firms with the result that individuals could receive targeted advertising. The group recently asked the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to look at the issue.
The lobby group also wants a limit to the size of discounts offered on employee medical benefits, arguing that if the discount is too steep, poorer workers may feel compelled to take part - even though they may have valid reasons for not wanting to, such as pregnancy or religious objections.
Despite these concerns, workplace fitness tracker schemes look set to become more widespread, particularly if evidence grows that they help increase productivity and reduce sickness absence.
But ensuring they remain voluntary should keep privacy campaigners busy for years to come.
The Clevedon sea swimmers - come rain, shine or even snow - are continuing to keep a tradition alive that has been going on since the 1930s.
On an almost daily basis they don bright coloured swimming hats and battle the elements to swim in the sea at the Somerset resort before drying off and warming up with a cup of hot chocolate.
Sometimes they are only in the water for a matter of minutes, other days they will swim around the pier, depending on the tides and weather.
Now their morning outings have been captured by news and feature photographer Brad Wakefield, from Burnham-on-Sea.
Mr Wakefield, 26, said: "I have grown to love their attitude and sheer embrace of their surroundings.
"I have witnessed their pure dedication first hand, swimming through all weather as the seasons have changed from beautiful blue skies to painfully cold, snowy days."
The group of swimmers - aged 30 to 80 years old - swells in size from nine or ten in the winter to 20 or 30 in the summer.
Self-confessed as "totally mad", the "all year rounders", say the cold makes it all the more fun.
"I don't like swimming in swimming pools now, it's just too warm," former primary school teacher Dee Hamilton-Jones said.
"It all started with a conversation about swimming hats.
"I asked one of the members 'where did you get your swim hat?' and she said 'you must come down', but this was winter time and she said, 'don't start now, start in May', that's the best time to start."
Dee, 71, swims alongside her husband, 66-year-old Richard.
"The theory is, if you can cope with going in the British sea in the summer, the next day it only gets a little bit colder than the previous day," Mr Hamilton-Jones said.
"And if you keep going and keep going, you think, 'ok, it's December 31, but it can't be much colder than the day before'.
"It is absolutely wonderful. Somebody once said it's like having a high on oxygen."
The Clevedon Sea Swimming Photographic Exhibition will run from 9 March to 24 March at the Toll House Gallery on Clevedon Pier.
About 1,000 files accessed may include personal identity information of individuals who have made a complaint about an Abta-registered travel agent.
It says it is contacting those affected by the hack which happened on 27 February and has a dedicated helpline.
It has also alerted the police and the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO).
Part of the ICO's role is to help the public manage their personal data.
Abta chief executive Mark Tanzer said he would "personally like to apologise for the anxiety and concern" caused to Abta customers and members.
"It is extremely disappointing that our web server, managed for Abta through a third party web developer and hosting company, was compromised and we are taking every step we can to help those affected."
Mr Tanzer said the organisation was not aware of any of the information being shared beyond the infiltrator.
ABTA is the UK's largest travel association, representing travel agents and tour operators who sell £32bn of holidays and other travel arrangements each year, according to its website.
The organisation gives advice and guidance to holidaymakers, sets standards for travel firms and promotes responsible tourism in the UK and abroad.
It said the type of data which may have been accessed included:
Abta said the "vast majority" of the 43,000 people affected were those who had registered with email addresses and encrypted passwords or had filled in an online form with basic contact details.
It said there was "a very low exposure risk to identity theft or online fraud" with this kind of data.
It advised customers and ABTA members registered on the site to change their passwords as a "precautionary measure".
Abta said those who had uploaded contact details or documentation on the website should actively monitor their bank accounts, social media and email accounts, and "remain vigilant".
It has also offered people who may be affected a free-of-charge identity theft protection service.
It saw annual profits halve to $16.2bn, from $32.5bn in 2014.
Exxon Mobil's results come after rivals Chevron and BP both reported large losses for the fourth quarter.
Oil prices fell sharply on Tuesday, with Brent crude down 5.3% to $32.42.
Crude oil prices have dropped about 70% from the 2014 high of more than $100 a barrel.
Oil companies have been trying to cut costs and investments in new projects as they adjust to the sustained fall in prices.
Exxon says its capital spending will be about $23.2bn in 2016, a cut of 25% compared with 2015.
Upstream earnings, which means exploration and production, slumped to $857m in the fourth quarter compared with $4.6bn during the same time last year.
Lower commodity prices in the upstream section of the business were partly offset by higher downstream earnings.
Downstream earnings, which mean refined oil products, were $1.4bn, up $854m from the fourth quarter of 2014.
They are accused of not assisting a person in danger, leading to their death, spokesman Sofian Sliti said.
It comes after a UK judge said the Tunisian police response had been "at best shambolic and at worst cowardly".
The attack by student Seifeddine Rezgui killed 38 people, most of them British.
He opened fire on holidaymakers in the resort of Port El Kantaoui in an attack claimed by so-called Islamic State.
Police officers near the scene ran in the opposite direction to get more guns while he shot sunbathers and threw grenades, the British inquest heard.
Rezgui then went into the Imperial Hotel to kill more people. He was shot dead by police an hour after beginning his attack.
Six security guards from the Imperial Hotel are among those under investigation, Mr Sliti told Reuters.
So far 14 people have been arrested, 12 people are being investigated but are not in custody and seven more are on the run, Mr Sliti said.
The investigating judge ended his investigation last July and the case has been sent to Tunisia's criminal court but no trial date has yet been set, he said.
Warren Free, 42, died from head injuries in Spalding, Lincolnshire, in August 2014.
A Lincoln Crown Court jury found Jake Edwards, 18, two 15-year-old boys, a boy aged 17 and two 15-year-old girls not guilty of murder or manslaughter.
A 15-year-old boy was found guilty of perverting the course of justice.
Another boy, aged 17, admitted the same charge before the four-week trial.
Jurors reached the verdicts after a week of deliberations.
It was alleged Mr Free was subjected to a "vicious assault" involving a metal pole after confronting the group of youths in a nearby park over damage to his property.
He returned home after the attack, but died later from his injuries.
Defence lawyers argued the teens had acted either in self-defence, or were defending others in the group, while some were innocent bystanders.
They also told jurors pathologists who examined Mr Free's body were unable to determine exactly how and when he sustained the fatal blow to his head.
It could have been caused by a punch or kick, or from falling to the ground and hitting his head, they argued.
A post-mortem examination found he had multiple cuts and bruises and had suffered a brain injury.
The Chicago Sun-Times will instead rely on reporters to shoot photos and video, with freelancers also filling in.
The job cuts come as newspapers across the world struggle with declining advertising and subscription revenues.
The photographers' union vowed to fight the job cuts, which affect as many as 30 people.
Steve Buyansky, a photo editor for three of the smaller suburban subsidiary publications, said the photographers were "in shock".
In a statement, the newspaper said: "The Chicago Sun-Times continues to evolve with our digitally savvy customers, and as a result, we have had to restructure the way we manage multimedia, including photography, across the network.
"The Sun-Times business is changing rapidly and our audiences are consistently seeking more video content with their news.
"We have made great progress in meeting this demand and are focused on bolstering our reporting capabilities with video and other multimedia elements."
The Chicago newspaper is the eighth-largest daily paper in the US, according to industry tracker Alliance for Audited Media.
The media group went into bankruptcy under the direction of press baron Conrad Black. The paper and its 40 subsidiaries were purchased in 2011 by Michael Ferro, a wealthy Chicagoan.
The single currency strengthened 0.2% against the dollar as investors were reassured over the future stability of the European project.
The reaction was muted, however, as investors were expecting Mr Macron, a former investment banker and an economic liberal, to prevail.
He has proposed cutting corporation tax and changes to the labour market.
"Voters elected for Emmanuel Macron's pro-business policy proposals, which have the potential to unlock long-held-back investment and stimulate French markets," said Stephen Mitchell at London-based fund manager, Jupiter Asset Management.
His opponent in the race for the presidency, Marine Le Pen, is a critic of globalisation and had proposed withdrawing France from the single currency.
In contrast, Mr Macron, has campaigned for greater European integration.
Mr Macron, who was economy minister under Socialist President Francois Hollande, has tried to define himself as neither left nor right politically.
He has proposed a range of policies combining budget cuts and more labour market flexibility, with public investment and an extension of the welfare state.
However, his relative lack of political experience, and parliamentary elections in June, mean scope remains for market uncertainty.
"I see significant risks of an inexperienced politician and technocrat not being able to execute properly well-intended policies," said Stephen Jen, chief executive of Eurizon SLJ Capital, which is also London-based.
"We will see. It is important to give president Macron the benefit of the doubt."
Mr Winterkorn said he was "shocked" by recent events and that the firm needed a "fresh start".
He added that he was "not aware of any wrongdoing on my part" but was acting in the interest of the company.
VW has already said that it is setting aside €6.5bn (£4.7bn) to cover the costs of the scandal.
The world's biggest carmaker admitted last week that it deceived US regulators in exhaust emissions tests by installing a device to give more positive results.
The company said later that it affected 11 million vehicles worldwide.
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"I am clearing the way for a fresh start with my resignation," Mr Winterkorn said in his statement.
He said he was "stunned" at the scale of the misconduct in the group but that he was confident that VW would overcome this "grave crisis".
"The process of clarification and transparency must continue. This is the only way to win back trust," he continued.
In a separate statement, the supervisory board said they would announce Mr Winterkorn's successor at a board meeting on Friday, adding that it was "expecting further personnel consequences in the next days" as a result of its own investigations.
"The internal group investigations are continuing at a high tempo," it said.
"All participants in these proceedings that has resulted in unmeasurable harm for Volkswagen will be subject to the full consequences."
There has been speculation in German newspapers that Matthias Mueller would be named as the next chief executive. He is head of Porsche, which is part of the Volkswagen group of companies.
11 million
Vehicles affected worldwide
€6.5bn Set aside by VW
$18bn Potential fines
No. 1 Global carmaker in sales
The board also said that it would voluntarily submit a complaint to the state prosecutors.
"In the view of the Executive Committee criminal proceedings may be relevant due to the irregularities," its statement said.
German public prosecutors have already said they are considering an investigation, with US authorities also said to be planning criminal investigations.
Speaking to Radio 5 live Martin Leach, chairman of car industry consultancy Magma Group and former president and chief operating officer of Ford Europe, said the scandal was "not the work of a rogue engineer... so there would have been a number of people who knew of this device".
Mr Leach added: "Nobody knows just how bad this could get for Volkswagen."
Volkswagen shares have tumbled some 30% since the beginning of the week in response to the scandal, which has stunned investors.
"It has been a real shock. We are a long-term shareholder and we put a lot of emphasis on management credibility," said Gilles Guibout, a fund manager at AXA Investment Managers, which is the ninth biggest shareholder in VW.
He said that the departure of Mr Winterkorn "is an attempt to keep the fire under control", but added that it is not clear if "this will be enough".
While VW has set aside €6.5bn to cover potential costs of the scandal, Mr Guibout thinks the bill is more likely to be €10bn.
In addition, VW faces fines of up to $18bn by the regulator, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
In the UK half of cars sold have diesel engines and many drivers will be wondering if they can trust performance figures quoted when they bought their car.
Volkswagen is the only company to have admitted to cheating over emissions testing.
Its Jetta, Beetle, Golf and Audi A3 models in the US from 2009 to 2015, and the Passat from 2014-15, had the devices which produced doctored results.
The director of the RAC Foundation Steven Gooding, says the affair has been damaging, though he does not agree with predictions that diesels will now be labelled as dirty and are on the way out.
"It's a bit too early to be saying that this is the beginning of the end for the diesel engine.
"I think the key thing is we all need to be confident that the new diesels coming through - they're called the Euro6 Test diesels - are really performing as we need them to and as we expect them to," he said.
The dates and venues for the games have been confirmed with the preliminary round match between Monaghan and Fermanagh on Saturday, 20 May.
There will also be two games on the opening weekend with the Donegal v Antrim quarter-final a day later.
This reduces the championship from 10 to nine weeks with the decider to be played on Sunday, 16 July.
Tyrone are defending champions and Mickey Harte's side will take on derby rivals Derry at Celtic Park on Sunday, 28 May.
Mark Carney made the direct link between "weaker real income growth" and the process of leaving the European Union.
Brexit is likely to make people poorer, the governor of the Bank of England said.
Since the referendum the markets have sold off sterling, making the currency weaker and increasing inflation in the UK.
That means that price rises are now running ahead of wage growth and real incomes are falling again.
Mr Carney's speech at the Mansion House called for an "innovative, co-operative and responsible" approach to Brexit.
"Fragmentation is in no-one's interest," he argued when it came to the key relationship of financial services in particular.
Some might describe that as a plea for a "soft" Brexit - no cliff edge at the end of exit negotiations, rather a "slope" - as the chancellor has described it.
Speaking alongside the governor, Philip Hammond said that no-one voted for Brexit to become poorer.
He also made it clear that he wants to put the economy at the heart of the Brexit negotiations.
Rather than sovereignty or controlling immigration, which are the issues likely to motivate other colleagues in the Cabinet and certainly in the Conservative Party.
The tensions are clear.
The chancellor - strengthened since the general election - gave the greatest detail yet about what his approach might mean for our future relationship with the EU.
Yes, as he said at the weekend, the UK will be leaving the customs union.
But he made the case for a new form of customs agreement with "current border arrangements" - which presumably means agreeing to some form of EU oversight for some years following Britain's exit from the union.
It is nailing down this "transition" or "implementation" period which is important for many businesses.
Some will be relieved that both Mr Carney and Mr Hammond are calling for Britain to play a longer game when it comes to the Brexit process.
Others may fear that tying the UK formally to the EU after Britain leaves the union in March 2019 could mean, for a few years of transition at least, Brexit does not, quite, mean Brexit.
National Museums Scotland, which saw off a Dumfries and Galloway Council bid to display the haul, is trying to raise nearly £2m to cover the finder's fee.
NMS said it would be exhibiting part of the treasure until October.
However, it added it would hold further talks with the council about displaying some items in Kirkcudbright.
The treasure will be on display at the National Museum of Scotland from 16 June to 1 October.
It is on loan from the Queen's and Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer and will give visitors a first glimpse of the unique hoard discovered by a metal detectorist.
NMS director Dr Gordon Rintoul said: "We have offered to carry the responsibility of raising the necessary funding to acquire the hoard and resourcing its long term conservation, care and research requirements.
"We have also offered to lend a significant and representative proportion of the hoard to Dumfries and Galloway Council for long term display in Kirkcudbright Art Gallery.
"The fragile nature of many of the items means a rigorous process of review and delicate conservation work must be undertaken before the future display of individual items can be decided."
The whole collection could also go on display in south west Scotland - for a set period of time - following the conservation work.
However, the decision to award the collection to NMS has come in for further criticism in Dumfries and Galloway.
Kirkcudbright-based councillor Jane Maitland said the region had been treated "shabbily" and should have been given the whole collection for permanent display.
"There should be nothing at all to stand in the way of permitting us to display it proudly to the rest of the world and to reap the benefit," she said.
She said the "default position" should be for the whole hoard to be displayed in Dumfries and Galloway and described the decision to allocate it elsewhere as the "theft" of the region's archaeological treasures.
Sex education should be compulsory in all state secondary schools, the Local Government Association (LGA) believes.
It says pupils are not being prepared for adulthood and so are vulnerable to sexually transmitted infections.
Ministers say they are looking at how all pupils can have access to good SRE.
The LGA says age-appropriate SRE should be an essential part of the curriculum for all young people, stressing that parents should still have the choice to take their children out.
But without access to accurate information, pupils are not being adequately prepared for adulthood, the association warns.
It says official figures show there were 78,066 new diagnoses of sexually transmitted infections among 15 to 19-year-olds in England in 2015 and 141,060 among 20 to 24-year-olds.
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Local authorities, which have responsibility for public health, budget around £600m a year for sexual health, it added.
Source: Sex Education Forum
Sex education has been hotly debated in recent years with campaigners, as well as MPs, calling for more and better lessons for young people.
Currently, all secondary schools in England under local authority control have to teach SRE as part of the national curriculum.
But a loophole means academies and free schools - which are controlled by central government rather than local authorities - do not have to follow the national curriculum and are not, therefore, obliged to teach the subject.
In reality, most academies and free schools do provide SRE lessons, but the LGA says it wants to see universal rules "across the board".
Parents still have the right to withdraw their children from the lessons in all state schools in England.
Chair of the LGA's community wellbeing board Izzi Seccombe said the matter was a major health protection issue.
"The lack of compulsory sex and relationship education in academies and free schools is storing up problems for later on in life, creating a ticking sexual health time bomb, as we are seeing in those who have recently left school," Ms Seccombe said.
"The evidence suggests that when designed and delivered in the right way, SRE can have a really positive impact on a pupil's development."
Lisa Hallgarten from the Sex Education Forum said: "Children and young people have repeatedly told us that the SRE they receive under the current system is failing to prepare them adequately for adult life or to understand their bodies, sexual health or respectful relationships.
"The argument for compulsory SRE for all pupils in all schools has been won - the government must listen to the groundswell of support for SRE and make this a guaranteed part of the curriculum."
A spokesman for the Department for Education said: "High-quality education on sex and relationships is a vital part of preparing young people for success in adult life.
"It is compulsory in all maintained secondary schools and, as the education secretary said recently, we are looking at options to ensure all children have access to high-quality teaching in these subjects.
"We will update the House during the passage of the Children and Social Work Bill."
This Bill, which will set out new laws in relation to the welfare of children, is currently being debated by the House of Commons.
The seasonally adjusted figure is at its lowest level since a year after German reunification in 1990.
The head of the Federal Labour Office, Frank-Juergen Weise, said strong consumer consumption was helping to drive the downward trend.
A recent survey showed Germans are feeling more optimistic than at any point since October 2001.
The chief economist at the government-owned KfW Development Bank, Joerg Zeuner, said demand for staff was rising in almost every sector, although it was weaker in manufacturing.
Private consumption has overtaken exports as the main impetus behind Germany's growth.
The government is hoping household spending will help the economy to expand by 1.8% this year, but economists at Deutsche Bank have lowered their forecast to 1.6%, because of weaker-than-expected first-quarter growth.
The unidentified gunman was shot dead by police after roaming the streets with a rifle and a revolver in broad daylight on Saturday.
Officials have released few details but accounts by friends and witnesses suggest the victims were not connected.
The dead include two women relaxing outside an addiction recovery centre and a cyclist who begged for his life.
The gunman shot the cyclist first before moving on to kill the two women.
"His last words were 'Please God, no,'" said Teresa Willingham, a witness to the first shooting. "He was just at the wrong place at the wrong time."
The cyclist was left lying face down in the street with his bike, while the gunman walked approximately half a mile (0.8km) to a home for women recovering from addiction.
It was there that the two women were shot while relaxing on the porch of the home.
"He walked calmly and collectedly. His demeanour was like he was having a stroll in the park," said Matthew Abshire, who heard the shots and followed the gunman down the street.
Police confronted the man outside a nearby burger restaurant.
An eyewitness told a local television station that police instructed the gunman to drop his weapons, before they "shot at him a good 20 times".
A frustrating display looked set to end in a draw until Baines cracked in a deflected shot from 20 yards.
Rooney was quiet when playing up front but improved once he moved back behind the striker in the second half.
The second leg takes place in Ruzomberok next Thursday.
Everton were dominant in possession throughout but still needed Maarten Stekelenburg to make a crucial save and turn Jan Maslo's header on to the crossbar.
Ronald Koeman gave debuts to summer signings Cuco Martina, Michael Keane, Davy Klaassen and Sandro Ramirez but will need a better performance if they are to reach the play-off round in August and avoid a repeat of him not reaching the group stage with Southampton two years ago.
It is 13 years since the then-teenage Rooney left Everton for Manchester United for £27m, with his move back this summer causing almost as much discussion and debate as his departure.
Is he the same player who left? No. But will he prove to be a shrewd signing for Koeman? For free, you'd think so.
He will be judged against stiffer opposition than the side who finished third in the Slovakian Fortuna Liga last season, but he will also have to play better to even keep his place in a rejuvenated Everton side.
Rooney has spent much of the last few seasons in midfield but started in the centre of a front three, showing some neat touches but also reminders that his sharpest days are perhaps behind him.
He had the best chance of the opening half hour, but his touch was not great and he could not get any power behind a shot, and he and Everton greatly improved once Sandro came on in the second half.
With Sandro stretching the Ruzomberok defence, Rooney and Klaassen looked dangerous in pockets behind him. Finding the right position for Rooney may be Koeman's biggest challenge in the coming weeks.
"It's something I've been looking forward to for the last few weeks," Rooney said.
"It's obviously great to be at Goodison wearing the blue shirt, it was a great feeling.
"But it was an important game for us so I had to put my emotions to one side. I've done that now and can get down to focusing more on the football."
What is not in doubt is that Koeman is in the process of assembling the strongest squad at Goodison in years. Ross Barkley may be set to leave but Everton continue to be linked to Swansea midfielder Gylfi Sigurdsson as his replacement.
Even without Sigurdsson, Koeman now has plenty of attacking options to suggest losing Romelu Lukaku's 20+ goals a season may not be a disaster, although another out-and-out striker would be a shrewd addition before the end of August.
Sandro's arrival changed Everton's game, but Klaassen was the pick of the new signings on show, going close with a shot in the first half and a header in the second, all the time knitting together the best of Everton's play on a performance which was very much in pre-season mode.
But considering the injured Yannick Bolasie, Barkley, Ramiro Funes Mori and Seamus Coleman all missed out, £30m goalkeeper Jordan Pickford was on the bench with Sandro, Tom Davies, Gareth Barry, Phil Jagielka and Ademola Lookman and Aaron Lennon, and Muhamed Besic and James McCarthy were not involved at all, it is clear this is a Toffees squad packed with quality.
Whether it is good enough to challenge for a top-four place is another question, so perhaps winning the Europa League remains the best chance for Everton to qualify for the Champions League.
And for all the attacking talent on display, it was left-back Baines who found the breakthrough, scoring with a deflected shot from the edge of the area after a corner was only headed out to him.
Everton boss Ronald Koeman: "It's always difficult against these kind of teams who drop back. We are not 100% yet, it is pre-season and it is a good result. We would like to score more, we had chances but every clean sheet in European football is a good result.
"When Sandro came on Wayne Rooney had more freedom and we had pace up front which made the team better. We know that we would like another striker, you normally need two nines in the squad. I am really confident that we can bring in a good one to make us better.
"It is up to the board if we go back in for Sigurdsson, everyone knows our interest but I don't get involved in the finances."
Storm led 37-27 late in the third quarter before Bath mounted a comeback to secure a 47-44 victory.
Their win rounded off 'Super Saturday' which saw all eight Superleague teams start the season at one venue on the same day for the first time.
There were also wins for Hertfordshire Mavericks, Loughborough Lightning and Manchester Thunder.
After a shaky start, Storm worked patiently in attack and produced a run of six straight goals to lead 14-11 at the first break.
England international Eboni Beckford-Chambers produced a number of intercepts for Team Bath but Surrey's attacking combination of Rachel Dunn and Pamela Cookey proved too strong and they stretched their lead to 10.
Dunn continued to execute superb long-range shots, but Bath's defence rallied and superb feeds into goal shooter Chelsea Lewis drew her side level.
The scoreline moved back and forth in the final 10 minutes, before Bath completed the turnaround.
Last season's runners-up Hertfordshire Mavericks got their campaign off to the perfect start as they cruised to a 60-39 victory over Celtic Dragons in the first game of the day at Birmingham's Genting Arena.
Wales international Georgia Rowe spearheaded the Dragons' attack and was on the receiving end of some fine long balls from mid-court, but the Welsh side struggled to cope with the defensive power of Mavericks' captain Layla Guscoth.
Hertfordshire racked up the defensive turnovers in the second quarter and their smooth transition into attack created a 32-13 lead at half-time.
Dragons continued to fight in the second half with Fijian defender Episake Kahatoka disrupting Mavericks' flow, but 2015's beaten finalists showed their strength in depth to record an easy win.
Loughborough Lightning also made a winning start to their campaign as they overcame last season's semi-finalists Yorkshire Jets 65-34.
The Jets, who won both encounters last season, struggled against a Lightning side which contained six international players in their starting seven.
Lightning bolstered their squad over the summer, adding England internationals Ama Agbeze, Kadeen Corbin, Sasha Corbin and Jade Clarke to their ranks.
Ugandan shooter Peace Proscovia and player of the match Agbeze were in fine form as Loughborough raced into a 28-13 half-time lead.
Yorkshire captain Stacey Francis put up a fight in defence and produced some superb intercepts but her side were well beaten by an experienced Lightning outfit.
New Zealand international Liana Leota impressed as Manchester Thunder cruised to a 58-37 victory over Team Northumbria.
Leota, who has played 41 times for the Silver Fearns, produced a scintillating attacking display as the 2014 Superleague champions took a 28-22 half-time lead.
Lynsey Armitage impressed in the shooting circle on her debut for Northumbria and linked well with fellow newcomer and Jamaican ace Shanice Beckford.
But the introduction of England's Helen Housby in the second half added consistency to the Thunder attack and the former champions pulled away.
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Mark Cavendish won the 2013 event in front of 30,000 spectators in Glasgow, while fellow Manx cyclist Peter Kennaugh finished fourth.
The island's Chief Minister Allan Bell said a successful bid would "embed our reputation as the home of cycling".
He made the announcement at the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome in Glasgow during a tour of Commonwealth Games venues.
Cavendish and Kennaugh will spearhead the Manx team's campaign for medals at this summer's Games.
Bell added: "The Isle of Man has a rich history of producing modern-day elite riders whose level of performance has helped to inspire future generations.
The Manx public's interest in our sport and local participation has increased exponentially over the past five years
"We have a disproportionately high profile with the quality of cyclists coming from the island which is a real boost to our bid.
"Hosting Britain's showpiece road race will provide a further lasting legacy."
The Isle of Man has a rich cycling history having staged Britain's biggest festival for almost 70 years, between 1936 to 2003.
Isle of Man International Cycling Week attracted world-renowned competitors, including the Tour de France's most successful rider Eddy Merckx.
It is thought that the road race course will include some or all of the island's famous TT course and utilise the event's infrastructure.
In 2012 the championships attracted 10,000 spectators to Yorkshire and last year more than 30,000 watched the men's road race in Glasgow.
According to Isle of Man Tourism's bid, the event has the potential to attract more than 15,000 spectators to the island.
Chairman of the Isle of Man Cycling Association Richard Fletcher said the bid had been greeted with "excitement".
He added: "The Manx public's interest in our sport and local participation has increased exponentially over the past five years.
"As the sport's governing body in the island, the Isle of Man Cycling Association is wholly committed to the bid."
The British National Road Championships will return to Monmouthshire in Wales next year with Lincolnshire confirmed to host the 2015 event.
British Cycling has not yet formally opened applications.
It also has some impressive ice fields, although none it seems quite like those of the past.
Some 20,000 years ago the island's glaciers pushed out 50km and more from their current positions, reaching to the edge of the continental shelf.
The British Overseas Territory was in effect covered by a giant ice cap.
This realisation is reported in the current edition of the journal Nature Communications.
It is the result of investigations of the seafloor by a team of scientists from the UK, Germany and Australia.
"We were able to find a tracer of this ice cap - a ridge at the outer margin of the continental shelf that's larger than all others, pretty much; and it's fairly contiguous," explained Dr Alastair Graham from Exeter University.
"You see it to the west, to the north, to the east, and even to the south where we don't have much data. It's quite a surprise because many scientists had assumed any ice cap was quite small."
Dr Graham and his colleagues conducted sonar surveys around South Georgia using the British Antarctic Survey's (BAS) research vessel, the James Clark Ross, and Germany's RV, the Polarstern.
These ships mapped the long deep troughs cut by ancient glaciers. Evident in these channels are the countless, tell-tale markings of bulldozed sediments known as moraines.
But to fill out their picture, the researchers needed also to establish when these features were produced, and so they pulled up cores of seafloor material. Caught up in this mud and rock are the shelly remains of tiny animals that can be used to date the glacial deposits.
What emerges from all this study is a story of a rapidly changing ice-scape - one that has been incredibly sensitive to really quite small changes in temperature.
The investigation reveals that the giant ice cap was at its fullest extent at the height of the last ice age - about 19 to 26 thousand years ago.
Then, as the global climate warmed, the glaciers went into a fast retreat, pulling back to positions not far beyond the present coastline.
A pulse of cooling about 15,000 years ago saw them briefly push forward, before deglaciation took hold again.
"In the last 10,000 years the ice cap has wobbled back and forth, but never really gone out much beyond the fjords," Dr Graham told BBC News.
"And then in the 1950s, things seemed to go pear-shaped for South Georgia. The glaciers now are in a massive retreat, which could have quite serious implications for local ecosystems."
The Cumberland Trough - the seafloor scar left by a once mighty glacier
With so many of the glaciers today pulling back on to land, they no long provide as much crushed rock to the surrounding ocean as they once did.
This potentially could put new constraints on the bio-productivity of the region, said co-worker Prof Dominic Hodgson from BAS.
"As they erode, South Georgia and the other sub-antarctic islands put 'rock flour' in the ocean and that provides a supply of iron. Iron is the limiting nutrient," he explained.
"It gives rise to big blooms of plankton which then drive the ecosystem from the bottom up - from the plankton and zooplankton, to the krill, all the way up to the seals, birds and penguins. This is why you get this intense concentration of biota around South Georgia."
It is an interesting question, however, as to what all this wildlife did when South Georgia was covered by a huge ice cap. Many of its bird species, such as the albatrosses for example, nest in burrows and so need some clear, ice-free land to breed.
There are also some endemic animals - they exist nowhere else. For these creatures to have survived through the great glaciation there must have been gaps in the ice cap. The team is trying to establish where these refugia might have been.
Another spillover from the study is determining what the South Georgia experience tells us about higher latitudes, such as the Antarctic Peninsula.
The glaciated "finger" of land that juts up from the White Continent towards South America is already one of the fastest warming locations on Earth.
Scientists who try to model its future behaviour now have a new anchor point in their simulations thanks to this study.
"South Georgia shows us what the response is of an ice sheet to really very moderate changes in temperature, both in the ocean and the atmosphere," said Prof Hodgson.
"We can now take those responses and push them further south and get a very good idea of what might happen to the Antarctic Peninsula, and indeed any ice sheet that is close to its thermal limit."
The Bank of England is releasing its first £5 polymer note, but the Northern Bank was the first in the UK to issue a polymer fiver back in October 1999.
Two million special edition notes were made to mark the millennium; they featured an illustration of the Space Shuttle on one side.
The bank stopped issuing them in 2008 but, according to a spokesman, they are still "usable and exchangeable".
Internet auction sites are selling the £5 notes for as much as £125 each.
Two versions of the note were issued - the one put into general circulation has an MM serial number and was followed by a collector version with a Y2K prefix.
The Northern Bank took the name of its owner, Danske Bank, in 2012.
But when it issued its polymer note it was owned by the National Australia Group which issued plastic currency in other areas.
In Northern Ireland legislation exists to allow its local banks to print and manage their own supply of notes.
In 2005, the Northern Bank reprinted all of its bank notes shortly after £26.5m was stolen from its head office by the IRA.
The plastic fiver was the only type of note not replaced.
The new Bank of England fiver will be followed by a £10 polymer note in summer 2017 and the £20 note by 2020.
The paper £5 note will continue to be accepted until its legal tender status is withdrawn in May 2017.
The three Scottish issuing banks are also printing their next £5 and £10 notes on polymer. Clydesdale Bank will issue their polymer £5 on 27 September 2016, Bank of Scotland on 4 October and RBS in November.
Iceland lead Anna Signeul's Scots on goal difference - both have 18 points - in Group 1 and have a game in hand.
But seven of the eight runners-up will still qualify for Euro 2017.
"We reckon that 19 points will secure a place, but it depends on other groups," Fay told BBC Scotland after her side's 1-0 win over Belarus in Minsk.
The Scots had taken over at the top of their group for a couple of hours until Iceland recorded a thumping 8-0 win over bottom side Macedonia.
France, Germany and Switzerland have already qualified for the finals as group winners, but the winners in the other five - and the runners-up places - are still to be decided.
Scotland are already assured of at least a play-off place - with the two worst-placed runners-up facing an extra tie to decide who misses out.
"It is a really exciting qualification this time round because there's still a whole load of spots up for grabs on the last weekend in September," she said.
"We are well placed, but until the fat lady sings, we are not counting any chickens."
Scotland lost their 100% record in the group when they slumped to a 4-0 defeat at home to Iceland on Friday.
Fay believes that the Scots can gain revenge in September, but they would have to beat the side sitting one place above them in the world rankings by 5-0 to top the group if Iceland beat Belarus on 15 September.
"We've beaten Iceland before and I think it is the first time we have lost to them in a while," she said.
"But, in all honesty, if we are one of the group winners or one of the best six runners-up, I am not too fussed.
"It will be more about the performance against Iceland - we owe it to ourselves and we owe it to the country to put in a better performance."
A Jo Love goal after 15 minutes was enough for the Scots in Minsk against a side they thumped 7-0 at Fir Park in October.
"I guess people will see that score from October and think that 1-0 is not so great, but they had a different goalkeeper in and she made three, four, maybe more, fantastic saves," said Fay.
"We dominated possession, but I don't think we were ever in any danger of not winning the game and it was a very professional performance to secure the victory we needed."
Initial plans have already identified at least £12m of cuts across both forces.
Decisions about which functions will be merged or handed to external organisations will be made over the next 12 months, a statement said.
No announcement has been made about how many jobs could be lost.
A 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.
In 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."
Most changes will be to internal structures so "will not be noticeable to local people", the statement said.
Devon & 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.
"If we don't make these kind of savings and work this way it'll be another 800 people."
Nigel 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.
"Will this actually put resources thinner over the three counties and islands rather than making us more efficient?
"If it does make the savings, we will welcome this but our concern is it will lead to further job reductions."
Dorset 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."
There were around 900 Brownies amongst the crowd and Ms Bonfield recounts, "I'm saying to all these girls, 'Do you know about engineering, would you like to be an engineer, have you thought about engineering?'
"And in the whole day... probably five or six of them said yes. Every other one said no, just straight out no."
What surprised her most, she says, is that it wasn't that these eight and nine-year-old girls didn't know what engineering was. Simply that they had already switched off.
"So how much work does it take to change that?" asks Ms Bonfield. "I mean it's huge."
There's no shortage of data to back up her estimation of the scale of work required. The latest figures from the Office for National Statistics show that women make up around just 8% of engineers in the UK.
And this is at a time when the UK needs to produce thousands more engineers, so much so that the inventor, Sir James Dyson, is planning to open his own institute to address the skills shortage.
Further back in the chain that links school, university and then employment, other data show that 49% of state schools send no girls to study A-level physics. And of those students who are taking an A-level in the subject, only a fifth are girls - despite getting similar grades at GCSE as boys.
At the John Warner School in Hertfordshire, where you can take a GCSE in engineering, Dawn Bonfield's discoveries would come as no surprise to the girls in the GCSE and A-level groups. They are well aware of the stigma surrounding women and engineering. It seems even in the 21st Century it is still thought of as a job for a man.
"It starts at a young age... and that's just what we've grown up with," says Sophie, who did an engineering GCSE, but isn't continuing it to A-level, because of a timetable clash.
She puts it down partly to the fact that "girls are just put in the corner with a doll" - while boys play with trucks and cars - and partly down to the idea that manual labour is the preserve of men.
"It's only when you get to GCSE age that that option's offered to you, so a lot of people might still at that age be thinking, 'Oh well, I shouldn't be doing building or coding,' and stuff like that."
The girls at the John Warner School seem to defy some of these perceptions - 11 out of 13 of them said they would consider a career as an engineer. Nevertheless all of them are vastly outnumbered by boys in their different GCSE and A-level classes in engineering. And they're in the minority in physics and maths classes too.
Sexual stereotyping and not enough female role models are well documented as reasons why girls don't choose engineering. As are misconceptions about the job itself, which isn't always about getting your hands dirty.
Campaigns such as the Institution of Engineering and Technology's "#9PercentIsNotEnough" are trying to address this.
In addition, in one of the many recent reports concerned with the dearth of girls pursuing science, technology and engineering (Stem) subjects, the attitude of parents was also cited as an important factor in career choices. For girls, perhaps unsurprisingly, mothers were particularly influential.
"My mum was a bit iffy about it at first cos she was more like, 'Girls should do this and that and the other,' more like 'keep your posture up and be ladylike'," says GCSE student Hannah.
"But my dad used to build a lot of stuff and he got me into that. So after my mum saw how me and my dad interacted she said, 'Yeah, go for it' and she's kind of the one who supported me with this."
Educating parents, as well as the girls themselves and their teachers, is key believes Helen Macadam, a civil engineer who works on railway projects for the construction company Skanska.
"For me it's all about being more open and being more transparent and showing people, because what is [an] engineer? It covers so many different jobs, you can't even begin to describe it. And that's probably why it's so difficult to promote it," she says. "It's almost whatever job you want."
The UK has a particularly low percentage of female engineers, other European countries put the figure at around 20%. In the US it's 14%, according to a recent congressional estimate, but the same question preoccupies the profession on the other side of the Atlantic too.
"There's no silver bullet," says Lina Nilsson, a biomedical engineer who works for a medical equipment company. She, however, believes she might have found one answer. When she was the innovation director in the Blum Center for developing economies at the University of California, Berkeley, the department started offering a postgraduate course on solutions for low-income communities.
Half the students who enrolled in the first classes in the autumn of 2014 were women.
Ms Nilsson thinks it was the obvious, practical good that designing an affordable solution for clean drinking water, or medical diagnostic equipment for tropical diseases, would do, that drew women to the course.
"The rationale of why to do it, not how, is really powerful," she says. "It's engineering with a social impact. On traditional courses it becomes hidden, or assumed that young students know what the purpose of engineering is. In fact we only have a vague idea of what it is."
The UK is following suit. Several universities and colleges are finding new ways of teaching engineering that are aimed at pulling in a more diverse group of students.
Some courses are experimenting with dropping physics and maths A-level as a prerequisite for engineering. Others are offering courses, such as humanitarian engineering, which are popular with women.
But she has another solution to the engineering problem. "Maybe, if we didn't call it engineering, if we didn't say, 'Do you want to be an engineer?'" she suggests.
"If you just completely rebranded it and said, 'How would you feel about a career being a problem solver?' That immediately just sounds like something that you can apply to anything, that you could do in whatever context interests you."
The A-level students at the John Warner School would probably agree with her. They are aware that women are not stereotypically seen as problem solvers, but that's not their view.
"Women are good at fixing problems," Alice, Georgia and Cerys tell me. "Men are expected to do it and praised when they do do it, but women kind of do it naturally and it doesn't get really noticed."
Councillors backed proposals for the scheme on a plot owned by The Church Commissioners in Grovebury Road, Leighton Buzzard, last year.
Protesters said the church "should not be making money from destroying our precious town centre".
A Church Commissioners' spokesman said they took their obligations seriously.
The scheme, which includes a DIY unit, four other shops and a restaurant, was approved by Central Bedfordshire Council in February 2013.
But Friends of the Earth campaign coordinator Victoria Harvey believes it will lead to a "dead town centre which harms the community".
She said the plans "do not not provide anything new" but would "take a minimum of £2m in trade" from the town centre.
An application for a judicial review on these grounds was turned down and Ms Harvey has now gone to the Court of Appeal.
The London protest was to "put pressure on The Church Commissioners", Ms Harvey said.
"We are hoping the church takes its commitment to be sensitive to communities seriously and changes its mind," she added.
Church Commissioners, which raise money through an investment portfolio, said they respected the right to "stage a peaceful protest" but the planning and legal processes had been "thorough".
"The commissioners always take into account local interest and planning regulations and take seriously their obligation and right under the Charities Act to seek the best price possible while selling land or buildings," a spokesman said.
"The proposed development will .... provide a much-needed facility for the town, attract new inward investment and create a large number of jobs for local people."
Central Bedfordshire Council said "stringent" planning restrictions "strictly limited the kind of shops that can be opened there".
The 37-year-old departs after an injury-hit season in which he made only seven appearances for the club.
Antony Kay, 33, who helped to keep a club record number of clean sheets in winning promotion from League One in 2014-15, and Jordan Spence, 25, will not be given new deals.
Striker Nicky Maynard, 29, has not taken up the option to stay.
Manager Karl Robinson is to meet out-of contract Charlie Burns, 20, Carl Baker, 33, Cody Cropper, 23, and Alex Revell, 32, to discuss their futures.
Meanwhile, the club have taken up one-year extension options in the contracts of Ben Tilney and Giorgio Rasulo, both 19.
With 85% of the votes in, the ANC trails its main rival, the Democratic Alliance, in the cities of Port Elizabeth and Cape Town.
The two parties are in a close fight in Johannesburg and Pretoria.
But the ANC is still in the lead nationally.
Unemployment and corruption scandals surrounding President Jacob Zuma have tarnished the ANC's image.
Election results as they happened
"The ANC failed to enthuse their voters and give them a credible offer and that is what often happens to parties that have mismanaged the economy, mismanaged the city, but it also says that we are growing as a party," Democratic Alliance leader Mmusi Maimane told the BBC.
"We've been able to make an offer before South Africans that is compelling."
Mr Maimane earlier told 702 radio: "We call this the change election because we felt that it was a referendum on Jacob Zuma as a national figure, but we also had a referendum about the future of South Africa."
Final results are expected on Friday.
The municipal election result is probably the biggest wake-up call the governing African National Congress has received since it ushered in democracy in South Africa in 1994.
Clearly the ANC still commands huge support across the country but that support is waning. It can no longer take it for granted that the black majority will blindly follow it.
Its power and influence is in decline.
In-fighting, public squabbles and a host of corruption scandals have been slowly eating away at the reputation of a once glorious movement of the people.
The best example is in the Nelson Mandela Bay municipality where the ANC is lagging behind in a city (Port Elizabeth) which has a rich history of anti-apartheid struggle. The man poised to be the new mayor is the Democratic Alliance's Athol Trollip, who is white.
Twenty-two years after the end of apartheid, black people are now voting on issues and not on race. Mr Trollip, who speaks fluent Xhosa, would not be where he is if the vast majority of black people had not voted for him.
The ANC has won more than 60% of the vote at every election since the end of apartheid more than two decades ago.
With two-thirds of the votes counted on Thursday, the ANC had 53%, followed by 28% for the Democratic Alliance and 7% for the radical Economic Freedom Fighters.
The local elections are being seen as an indication of the mid-term popularity of President Zuma. Correspondents say a poor ANC performance could embolden Mr Zuma's rivals within the party to challenge him.
The next general elections are due in 2019 but Mr Zuma cannot stand for a third term as president.
South Africa's economy has also been one of the main issues for voters, with growth expected to be zero this year, and unemployment standing at 27%.
Protests demanding better housing and amenities have sprung up across South Africa.
Mr Zuma has also had to weather a corruption scandal, after being ordered to repay taxpayers' money spent on his private home.
Security was tight for the elections and the electoral commission said voting had passed off smoothly.
Typhoon Soudelor struck the south-east of the country in the Fujian province late on Saturday night, bringing heavy rain and gale force winds.
The tropical storm has already swept across island nation Taiwan, off the coast of China.
It ripped up trees and tore down billboards triggering a landslide in at least one village.
About two million households were left without electricity and at least five people are thought to have died.
Rail services and flights have been cancelled and all schools and offices are closed.
Ahead of Soudelour's arrival in Taiwan and China the authorities made thousands of people leave their homes for safety.
Although it has weakened, the typhoon is expected to continue moving across the south-eastern region of China in the coming hours.
Find out more about typhoons with our guide.
The 78-year-old recently returned for the former landlady's final episodes.
Her character, who had been suffering from cancer, was seen talking to the ghost of her friend, Pat Butcher, before talking some unidentified pills.
"I will go as I have lived," she said. "Straight back, head high, like a queen."
In a poignant final scene, Peggy hallucinated the return of her former love rival-turned-friend Pat, played by Pam St Clement, who passed away in the soap from cancer in 2012.
"I'm being eaten alive and it hurts and I can't wait," Peggy said.
"I don't want that to be me, I don't want to be that little old lady in the bed, with people saying, 'Remember her? Peggy Mitchell? She's all skin and bones.'"
After the credits rolled, the camera returned to the room, showing an empty glass of water, empty bottle of pills, an envelope addressed to her son, Phil, and a clock.
Dame Barbara joined the BBC One soap in 1994 and has been one of the show's best-loved matriarchs.
Magazine programme The One Show was live in Albert Square to mark her exit and a feature, Peggy Mitchell: Last Orders, debuted on the BBC iPlayer.
Picking up the role from the original Peggy Mitchell, Jo Warne, Dame Barbara went on to feature in some of the soap's best-loved moments.
As the Mitchell family matriarch, her biggest storylines have included her battle with breast cancer, her marriage to Frank Butcher, her feud and friendship with Pat Butcher and her marriage to Archie Mitchell, which resulted in the family losing The Queen Vic pub.
She played the role full-time until 2010 and has returned occasionally since for special appearances.
When her final departure was announced in January, Dame Barbara said Peggy was "a character close to my heart but I made the decision a while ago that I need to say goodbye to her once and for all".
"Otherwise, she will always be there, urging me to go back, and that is something I need to shut the door on."
Her final scenes have also seen Ross Kemp, who plays her son Grant Mitchell, return to the soap after a 10-year absence, to join his on-screen brother Phil, played by Steve McFadden.
Hilary St John Bower, who was an English teacher at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, was found dead on the Chinese mainland.
Police would not say if there was a "criminal element" in the death of Mr Bower, 60, who had been reported missing by his girlfriend.
The Foreign Office said it was providing support to the family.
A friend has been quoted as saying Mr Bower's disappearance, and possible murder, may have been linked to a lucrative property sale in China, the BBC's Hong Kong correspondent Juliana Liu said.
But police said they "cannot identify whether there is any criminal element".
Mr Bower's colleague Richard Charles told the South China Morning Post: "I do know that after buying at the bottom of the property market a good few years ago, he was expecting to be paid somewhere in the region of nine million Hong Kong dollars for a property he just sold in Shekou."
Shekou is an industrial zone of mainland China facing Hong Kong across Shenzhen Bay.
Investigators on the mainland told police in Hong Kong that Mr Bower was killed on the night he went missing.
Mr Bower was reported missing to Hong Kong police by his girlfriend on 30 March, the force said, and when investigators discovered he had travelled between the city and mainland China they contacted authorities there.
A Foreign Office spokeswoman said: "We are providing support to the family at this difficult time, and will remain in close contact with local authorities."
The English language teacher had worked at Hong Kong Polytechnic University since 1996.
A spokeswoman for Hong Kong Polytechnic University said: "The university will render all necessary support and assistance to Mr Bower's family, and offer counselling to colleagues and students in need."
The announcement came after the first high-level meeting between the neighbours since Saudi Arabia and three other states cut all links in June.
They accuse Qatar of aiding terrorists - a charge the emirate denies.
The closure of the Saudi border has forced Qatar to import food by sea and air for its population of 2.7 million.
Qatari pilgrims wishing to attend the Hajj will be able to pass through the Salwa border crossing without needing electronic permits, a statement on the official Saudi Press Agency said. They would also be welcome through Saudi Arabia's airports, it added.
Qatari Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani confirmed the development on a visit to Sweden on Thursday.
He said his government welcomed the measure but labelled both the ban and the backtrack as "politically motivated".
It was a "step forward", he said, adding that any resolution to the Qatar crisis needed "to be based on clear principles of respecting everyone's sovereignty and not interfering in others' affairs".
Last month, Saudi Arabia warned that Qatari pilgrims would face certain restrictions if they wanted to attend the Hajj. Qatar responded by accusing Riyadh of politicising the Hajj, and the UN special rapporteur on freedom of religion expressed concern at Saudi Arabia's measures.
But the Saudi change of heart came after a meeting between Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman Al Saud and Qatari Sheikh Abdullah bin Ali bin Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani.
Observers say that, despite this goodwill gesture, the dispute between Qatar and its neighbours, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates is far from over.
On Wednesday, Bahrain's state TV channel accused Qatar of plotting with the kingdom's main opposition grouping to stoke anti-government unrest in 2011.
Regional reaction by BBC Monitoring
Saudi media have been keen to highlight the news. One commentator speaking on Al-Arabiya TV said the whole Arab and Islamic world was "truly happy" with the decision.
UAE State Minister for Foreign Affairs Anwar Gargash tweeted in praise of Saudi Arabia and said that the "noise Qatar is making and its attempts to politicise Hajj should end after King Salman's generous, patient initiative".
However, the editor-in-chief of pro-government Qatari daily Al-Arab, Abdullah al-Athba, told Al Jazeera TV that the decision reflected Saudi Arabia's "return to the voice of reason", adding that it was stopping its use of "the Two Holy Mosques in politics".
A level three heatwave alert is in place for the east of England, where high daytime temperatures and warm, humid nights are forecast until Friday.
London and south-east England are on a level two alert, meaning heatwave conditions are also likely this week.
Public Health England urged people to be aware of the health risks of heat.
To stay safe, people should drink plenty of water, wear loose-fitting cotton clothing, and stay out of the sun between 11:00 and 15:00 BST, it said.
Temperatures of 30C have already been recorded in Cambridge, Writtle in Essex, and Heathrow on Tuesday.
Although there is no official definition of a "heatwave" in the UK, the term can be used to describe an extended period of hot weather relative to the expected conditions in an area at that time of year.
This is different to the Met Office's four heatwave alert levels, which trigger action from health professionals and emergency planners.
The criteria vary by region - for example, the daytime temperature threshold in north-east England is 28C, but in London it is 32C. The average threshold temperature is 30C by day and 15C overnight for at least two consecutive days.
Parts of the UK are currently at level three of four - four being a "national emergency" red alert, which is issued when a prolonged hot spell becomes severe.
Source: Met Office
Public Health England (PHE) also urged people to look out for older people, those with underlying health conditions and young children who may be particularly vulnerable as temperatures rise.
It also advised people to:
People should also take care and follow local safety advice if going swimming in open water to cool down, PHE added.
Six people died around the UK and Channel Islands coastline in a series of incidents last weekend.
How to stay safe at the beach
Dr Thom Waite, a consultant in public health medicine at PHE, said: "Each year we hear stories of people who have fallen seriously ill because, even though it's hotter, they may wear clothes which are too warm for hot weather, they may not drink enough or try to do too much."
He said as it was still the school holidays for many, and with a number of high-profile events planned for this weekend, people should "stay hydrated, look out for others and keep an eye on forecasts".
Wales and north England are also expected to experience warm temperatures this week, reaching highs of about 28C (78.8F) on Tuesday afternoon.
Met Office meteorologist Steve Willington said the warm and sunny conditions were expected to hold in the south-east of England until Friday.
However, Tuesday's high temperatures could give way to scattered thunder storms and showers pushing up from the south-west across the West Midlands towards Humberside from Wednesday evening and into Thursday.
Scotland and Northern Ireland are forecast to experience lower temperatures throughout the week, with cloud and some showers possible.
More unsettled weather is expected for the bank holiday weekend - although the Met Office said there was a chance for a brief return to warmer conditions early in the weekend across at least southern parts of the UK.
Jon Robertson's stunning strike levelled the scores on aggregate.
Penalties were almost not required when Alloa's Jordan Kirkpatrick hit the outside of a post with a free-kick in extra time.
But it was left to Calum Waters to score the winning spot-kick following two saves from goalkeeper Neil Parry.
It means that Alloa, who finished runners-up in League One, 10 points ahead of the Diamonds, will face the fourth-placed side in the final with promotion at stake.
Match ends, Alloa Athletic 1(4), Airdrieonians 0(3).
Penalty Shootout ends, Alloa Athletic 1(4), Airdrieonians 0(3).
Goal! Alloa Athletic 1(4), Airdrieonians 0(3). Calum Waters (Alloa Athletic) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the bottom right corner.
Goal! Alloa Athletic 1(3), Airdrieonians 0(3). Sean McIntosh (Airdrieonians) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top left corner.
Goal! Alloa Athletic 1(3), Airdrieonians 0(2). Andy Graham (Alloa Athletic) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top left corner.
Penalty saved! Kieran MacDonald (Airdrieonians) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, left footed shot saved in the bottom right corner.
Goal! Alloa Athletic 1(2), Airdrieonians 0(2). Jordan Kirkpatrick (Alloa Athletic) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top right corner.
Penalty saved! Iain Russell (Airdrieonians) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, right footed shot saved in the bottom left corner.
Penalty saved! Steven Hetherington (Alloa Athletic) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, right footed shot saved in the bottom right corner.
Goal! Alloa Athletic 1(1), Airdrieonians 0(2). Jack Leitch (Airdrieonians) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the bottom left corner.
Goal! Alloa Athletic 1(1), Airdrieonians 0(1). Scott Taggart (Alloa Athletic) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.
Goal! Alloa Athletic 1, Airdrieonians 0(1). Andy Ryan (Airdrieonians) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the bottom right corner.
Penalty Shootout begins Alloa Athletic 1, Airdrieonians 0.
Second Half Extra Time ends, Alloa Athletic 1, Airdrieonians 0.
Corner, Alloa Athletic. Conceded by Daniel Boateng.
Kyle Hutton (Airdrieonians) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Stefan McCluskey (Alloa Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Kyle Hutton (Airdrieonians).
Corner, Alloa Athletic. Conceded by Scott Stewart.
Attempt missed. Jordan Kirkpatrick (Alloa Athletic) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right from a direct free kick.
Dylan Mackin (Alloa Athletic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Daniel Boateng (Airdrieonians).
Adam Martin (Alloa Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Daniel Boateng (Airdrieonians).
Substitution, Airdrieonians. Murray Loudon replaces Ryan Conroy because of an injury.
Foul by Dylan Mackin (Alloa Athletic).
Joseph Gorman (Airdrieonians) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Steven Hetherington (Alloa Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Iain Russell (Airdrieonians).
Corner, Alloa Athletic. Conceded by Daniel Boateng.
Second Half Extra Time begins Alloa Athletic 1, Airdrieonians 0.
Substitution, Alloa Athletic. Adam Martin replaces Kevin Cawley.
First Half Extra Time ends, Alloa Athletic 1, Airdrieonians 0.
Attempt saved. Dylan Mackin (Alloa Athletic) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top right corner.
Corner, Alloa Athletic. Conceded by Rohan Ferguson.
Attempt missed. Iain Russell (Airdrieonians) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right.
Calum Waters (Alloa Athletic) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Calum Waters (Alloa Athletic).
Andy Ryan (Airdrieonians) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Frank McKeown (Alloa Athletic) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
It's been specially chosen because of its beauty, its farming and the inspiration it gives to artists and writers.
Being a World Heritage Site means that the area is officially recognised as being extremely important to the world's history and culture, and it is protected.
The place will become more famous so lots of people will visit it and learn about it. It can get more money to help look after it so that people can enjoy the site for many years to come.
There are over 1,000 World Heritage Sites around the world, with more still being added to list.
Thirty-one of these are in the UK, including Stonehenge.
There's a list of rules that a place should follow for it to become a World Heritage Site.
One of these is that a place must have an interesting story that shows how important it was in history.
For example, the Grand Canyon in Arizona, USA, tells us a lot about the history of the Earth and how it has developed over millions of years.
Another reason a place could become a World Heritage Site is if it is exceptionally beautiful, such as the Taj Mahal in India, which is famous for its amazing architecture.
A more unusual and less famous site is the Fagus shoe factory in Germany. It may not be as pretty as the Grand Canyon or the Taj Mahal, but it is important in the history of art and architecture so is a World Heritage Site as a result.
Yes, some places have been warned that if they don't look after their site properly, they could lose the World Heritage Site status.
One of these place is Liverpool. It's beautiful and historic waterfront was given Heritage status in 2004.
But some experts have warned that plans for new modern buildings to be used as homes and offices there, could change the way it looks so much that Unesco change their mind.
Liverpool says it wants to work with Unesco to find a compromise.
And not all old sites can say they are World Heritage Site.
For example, St Paul's Cathedral in London has no status, but the Tower of London does.
Wimbledon almost led after 10 minutes, when Andy Barcham's looping cross hit the post, before Jake Reeves' rebound was deflected narrowly over.
But Scunthorpe broke the deadlock on 23 minutes, when Hopper headed in Conor Townsend's inch-perfect cross on the overlap.
Wimbledon were reeling and Iron doubled their lead four minutes before the break when Darius Charles clipped Hopper's heels, Josh Morris coolly slotting home.
Dons manager Neal Ardley switched formation at half-time, bringing on Tom Elliott and Dean Parrett, and they combined on 62 minutes.
Elliott met Parrett's free-kick with a thundering header onto the crossbar before Charles converted the rebound six yards out.
Elliott then almost equalised minutes later, heading Barry Fuller's cross inches wide of the near post.
Scunthorpe could have ended the contest on 90 minutes, when Hopper blazed over with only goalkeeper Ryan Clarke to beat, but they withstood late pressure to sit second after three games.
Report supplied by Press Association.
Match ends, AFC Wimbledon 1, Scunthorpe United 2.
Second Half ends, AFC Wimbledon 1, Scunthorpe United 2.
Foul by Jake Reeves (AFC Wimbledon).
(Scunthorpe United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Tom Hopper (Scunthorpe United) left footed shot from the centre of the box is too high.
Attempt blocked. Dean Parrett (AFC Wimbledon) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Corner, Scunthorpe United. Conceded by Barry Fuller.
Attempt blocked. Josh Morris (Scunthorpe United) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.
Foul by Tyrone Barnett (AFC Wimbledon).
Tom Hopper (Scunthorpe United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Scunthorpe United. Charlie Goode replaces Hakeeb Adelakun.
Substitution, AFC Wimbledon. Dominic Poleon replaces Lyle Taylor because of an injury.
Delay in match (Scunthorpe United).
Attempt missed. Dean Parrett (AFC Wimbledon) left footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is high and wide to the left.
Attempt saved. Lyle Taylor (AFC Wimbledon) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
(AFC Wimbledon) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Tom Hopper (Scunthorpe United).
Corner, Scunthorpe United. Conceded by Dannie Bulman.
Attempt missed. Paul Robinson (AFC Wimbledon) header from the centre of the box misses to the left.
Corner, AFC Wimbledon. Conceded by Luke Daniels.
Attempt saved. Tom Elliott (AFC Wimbledon) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Substitution, Scunthorpe United. Sam Mantom replaces Kevin van Veen.
Foul by Lyle Taylor (AFC Wimbledon).
Murray Wallace (Scunthorpe United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner, AFC Wimbledon. Conceded by David Mirfin.
Tom Elliott (AFC Wimbledon) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Josh Morris (Scunthorpe United).
Darius Charles (AFC Wimbledon) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Josh Morris (Scunthorpe United).
Attempt saved. Tyrone Barnett (AFC Wimbledon) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt missed. Tom Elliott (AFC Wimbledon) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Attempt missed. Tyrone Barnett (AFC Wimbledon) left footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the left.
Goal! AFC Wimbledon 1, Scunthorpe United 2. Darius Charles (AFC Wimbledon) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner following a set piece situation.
Dean Parrett (AFC Wimbledon) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Neal Bishop (Scunthorpe United).
Attempt blocked. Tom Hopper (Scunthorpe United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt blocked. Tom Elliott (AFC Wimbledon) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Tom Elliott (AFC Wimbledon) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Neal Bishop (Scunthorpe United).
Attempt saved. Dean Parrett (AFC Wimbledon) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
He will give a written account and is not required to attend in person.
The retailer's former owner Dominic Chappell told MPs on Wednesday that he had tried to arrange a rescue deal with Mr Ashley, but that Sir Philip Green had stopped it happening.
However, Sir Philip, who gives evidence next week, said he was "unaware of any bid interest by Mike Ashley."
Coincidentally, Mr Ashley himself gave evidence at a committee hearing on his own company, Sports Direct, earlier this week.
Asked whether he had wanted to buy BHS he said, against the advice of his PR representative, "100% yes".
During Wednesday's BHS testimony, Mr Chappell told MPs that, just before BHS went into administration, he had arranged a rescue deal backed by the billionaire owner of the sports retailer.
He said that, on learning of this deal, "Philip went absolutely crazy, screaming and shouting down the phone that he didn't want to get involved with Mike Ashley".
The committee of MPs also wants to hear from other people connected to BHS's fortunes, including:
The Business, Innovation and Skills Committee and the Work and Pensions Committee are hearing evidence into the collapse of the 163-store group.
Duff & Phelps announced last month that BHS would be wound down with the loss of up to 11,000 jobs after efforts to find a buyer failed. The company's pension fund has a deficit of £571m.
BHS, which went into administration in April after the company ran out of money and could not pay suppliers, is holding closing down sales over the coming weeks.
On a fractious afternoon at Old Trafford, United were left frustrated by a series of unsuccessful penalty appeals, a string of saves by inspired Clarets keeper Tom Heaton and the woodwork.
Mourinho, who was incensed when Jon Flanagan was not punished for a challenge on Matteo Darmian inside the Burnley box, paid the price for allowing his frustration to boil over at half-time.
He sat in the main stand behind the dugout at the start of the second half but was quickly moved to the directors' box, with a go-between running up and down the stairs to pass on his instructions to his assistants.
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Herrera got his marching orders in the 68th minute, with referee Mark Clattenburg showing him a second yellow card for a challenge on Dean Marney, although the United player appeared to slip as he made the tackle.
That eased some of the pressure on Burnley, who had needed an inspired performance from Heaton to keep United at bay.
The former United keeper made a string of spectacular stops, with the pick of them being a Peter Schmeichel-style scissor save that saw him spread himself brilliantly at the back post to keep out a Zlatan Ibrahimovic volley.
When Heaton was beaten, United's frustrations continued with Juan Mata's shot hitting the outside of a post and Ibrahimovic's looping header coming back off the bar. They had 37 efforts at goal in total but none were successful.
United have won only one of their last seven league games and are now eight points behind Manchester City, Arsenal and Liverpool, who all won on Saturday.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic had more shots - 12 - than any other player against the Clarets but his fruitless run in front of goal continued.
Nothing summed up his current form more than the late chance he spurned when Paul Pogba found him unmarked at the back post, but he failed to find the target with the goal gaping.
The 35-year-old Swede has had more shots than any other Premier League player this season, with 57 in 10 games, but he has not scored in this competition in six games since his goal against Manchester City on 10 September, his worst run since his time with Inter Milan in 2007.
He has managed a goal in the Europa League but his record in all competitions is not much better, with just one goal in his last 10 games. The correlation between his form and United's is surely no coincidence.
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Heaton was the standout performer and he will rightly make the headlines with his saves.
But Burnley's whole team deserve credit for their defensive efforts in holding out against a siege that continued even when they faced 10 men.
The Clarets rarely threatened at the other end, with Johann Berg Gudmundsson's first-half strike their only effort to bring a save out of David de Gea.
They have only managed a total of four shots in their four away league games to date, but that statistic matters a lot less when they mount a rearguard action like this.
Only one candidate. The pocket of Clarets fans at Old Trafford chanted "England's number one" throughout the game in recognition of a brilliant performance by their goalkeeper.
United travel to Turkey to take on Fenerbahce in the Europa League on Thursday, then go to Wales to play Swansea on Sunday in their next Premier League game. Burnley are at home to Crystal Palace on Saturday.
Match ends, Manchester United 0, Burnley 0.
Second Half ends, Manchester United 0, Burnley 0.
Tom Heaton (Burnley) is shown the yellow card.
Attempt missed. Wayne Rooney (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Daley Blind following a set piece situation.
Dean Marney (Burnley) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Marouane Fellaini (Manchester United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Dean Marney (Burnley).
Attempt missed. Marcos Rojo (Manchester United) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Daley Blind.
Attempt missed. Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Manchester United) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is too high. Assisted by Paul Pogba with a cross.
Attempt missed. Luke Shaw (Manchester United) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Daley Blind following a corner.
Corner, Manchester United. Conceded by Michael Keane.
Corner, Manchester United. Conceded by Ben Mee.
Attempt blocked. Daley Blind (Manchester United) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Paul Pogba.
Hand ball by Jon Flanagan (Burnley).
Substitution, Burnley. George Boyd replaces Johann Berg Gudmundsson.
Paul Pogba (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Paul Pogba (Manchester United).
Matthew Lowton (Burnley) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Marcos Rojo (Manchester United).
Ashley Barnes (Burnley) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Manchester United. Memphis Depay replaces Marcus Rashford.
Corner, Manchester United. Conceded by Matthew Lowton.
Hand ball by Ashley Barnes (Burnley).
Attempt missed. Ashley Barnes (Burnley) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Johann Berg Gudmundsson with a cross.
Foul by Marouane Fellaini (Manchester United).
Ashley Barnes (Burnley) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Substitution, Manchester United. Wayne Rooney replaces Jesse Lingard.
Substitution, Manchester United. Marouane Fellaini replaces Juan Mata.
Attempt missed. Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Manchester United) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Jesse Lingard.
Attempt missed. Scott Arfield (Burnley) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Ashley Barnes with a headed pass.
Second yellow card to Ander Herrera (Manchester United) for a bad foul.
Foul by Ander Herrera (Manchester United).
Dean Marney (Burnley) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Paul Pogba (Manchester United) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Zlatan Ibrahimovic.
Attempt blocked. Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Manchester United) header from very close range is blocked. Assisted by Juan Mata with a cross.
Jon Flanagan (Burnley) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Ander Herrera (Manchester United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Jon Flanagan (Burnley).
Juan Mata (Manchester United) hits the right post with a left footed shot from the centre of the box following a corner.
Corner, Manchester United. Conceded by Michael Keane.
Sandwell Hospital in West Bromwich declared a "level 4" incident after a "very high" number of admissions.
Medical director Dr Roger Stedman said the hospital had decided to require trainee doctors due on shift to attend as normal during the strike.
The British Medical Association (BMA) said its members should continue with industrial action for the time being.
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In a statement, it said: "Junior doctors should continue with industrial action until NHS England has confirmed and the BMA has agreed - via the agreed escalation process - that a major unpredictable incident is taking place for a specific Trust.
"The BMA will notify members as soon as such an incident is in place."
The hospital is run by Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust.
It comes as the first strike by junior doctors in 40 years is under way in a row over a new contract.
About 100 picket lines have been put in place, with a large concentration in and around London.
Anne Rainsberry, national incident director for NHS England, said: "The local NHS is actively reviewing the situation to support the Trust. Nationally, we are continuing to work closely with our BMA colleagues to ensure patient safety."
The BBC has seen a letter sent to doctors in training from Dr Stedman dated 11 January which said: "Over the past few days there has been a surge in activity which has continued today.
"There are over 50 additional adult beds open with further medical outliers in surgery.
"There have not been enough discharges today to accommodate patients requiring admission.
"Tomorrow we will be running Sandwell General Hospital site as a Trust internal incident with all medical teams working to increase the numbers of discharges.
"I have reviewed the situation this afternoon and I believe that given the situation and staffing levels, it would be unsafe to deliver care to all our in-patients with a reduced workforce tomorrow."
A junior doctor who received the letter told the BBC: "Over the past few days, our medical director Dr Roger Stedman never outlined that this hospital was facing a major incident level 4 and to top it all off, he sent us a letter this morning at 08:15 GMT which was actually dated the 11 January
"If this was a major incident the trust has been facing as per the letter ''over the past few days'' why wait until now?"
"There are about 15 junior doctors here holding placards.
"They say they've had representatives inside the hospital, there are spare beds and they are happy it is safe, so they will be remaining on the picket line.
"The junior doctors have told me that 15 minutes before they went onto the picket they received an email ordering them to go back into work.
"They say that didn't follow the procedure agreed between the British Medical Association and NHS England.
"They are getting lots of drivers beeping their horns and support from passers by."
Former Ipswich Town and York City player Carson has won four senior caps for Northern Ireland.
Teenager Fallon, who joins the Blues on a permanent basis after a six-month loan at Windsor Park from Swansea, has represented NI at youth level.
NI pair Roy Carroll and Sammy Clingan were signed earlier this summer.
Healy is delighted with the latest arrivals at Windsor Park as he prepares for Saturday's league opener at Ballinamallard United.
"Josh is another quality signing - he has a great left foot and is strong on his right," Healy told the club website.
"He can also play in a number of positions in the attacking area.
"I hope Stephen can hit the ground running - he left Swansea and has a lot of ability going forward.
"I hope to add another one to the squad before the transfer window closes and hopefully it will be a good one."
Magpies great and BBC Sport pundit Alan Shearer told Match of the Day the club was "a mess from top to bottom" while besieged manager Steve McClaren admitted the display in the 3-1 loss was "going down material".
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Newcastle's elder statesman and former chairman Sir John Hall said McClaren should be sacked, saying: "It's probably time he goes. You've got to find someone to harness the team."
So other than that… why has this giant of a club found itself in the sort of crisis it attracts on a regular basis and facing relegation once more?
This is the age-old - and unfair - question aimed at the Toon Army.
Expectations should be high at Newcastle United. This is a one-club city with a huge stadium that is a landmark, bang in the middle of it, attracting 52,000 fanatical supporters on a regular basis.
This is a captive audience with a burning passion for the game and their football club - so, yes, expectations should not be played down.
Newcastle's fans do not expect too much, however. They simply expect to see a club given such backing to at least have a crack at winning trophies. Too much of the Mike Ashley regime has been about preserving Premier League status, with even the FA Cup regarded as an irrelevance until this season.
Newcastle have only had two top-10 finishes in the past six campaigns, with fifth place under Alan Pardew in 2011-12 almost looking like the glory era.
Since the start of last season, out of 66 Premier League games, Newcastle have only won 16 and lost 35. Expectation is certainly being built up.
Those vast crowds, of course, bring pressure - but no more than 76,000 watching at Old Trafford or 60,000 at Arsenal - and every Newcastle player knows they will be elevated to almost deity status should they give those supporters the success they crave.
Newcastle's fans are not expecting Premier League titles or Champions League successes - just more than the constant diet of mediocrity they have been fed.
In reality, the Toon Army has been patient. This is club that has not won a major trophy since the 1969 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup - a little expectation is excusable.
McClaren was handed a three-year contract in June - an appointment seemingly long in the making after Pardew left for Crystal Palace and John Carver held the fort, and one confirmed despite a dismal end to his tenure at Derby County when they failed to make the Championship play-offs despite strong financial backing.
It was an underwhelming move given McClaren's credibility problems in England since his disastrous spell in charge of the national side - but he talked big by insisting trophies and the top eight was his target.
The top eight looks a long way off with six wins and 16 defeats from 28 games, and the FA Cup run ending in the third round at Watford.
McClaren won a big reputation as a coach working alongside Sir Alex Ferguson at Manchester United, notably in the Treble season of 1998-99 - but his managerial career has been a mixed bag.
He won the League Cup at Middlesbrough in 2004 and Eredivisie with FC Twente in the Netherlands in 2009-10.
But he was a failure at Wolfsburg and in a second spell at Twente before fruitless times at Derby and this shocking stay at Newcastle. He also had a 112-day stay at Nottingham Forest in 2011, but that was ended by differences with the hierarchy as much as football matters.
Players who have worked under him speak in glowing terms of his ability on the training field - but such references are harder to find as a manager.
Martin Keown, who worked under McClaren when he was on England's coaching staff, said: "I thought he was an excellent coach - but no, not a manager for me."
He added McClaren looked like "a rabbit caught in the headlights" in his post-Bournemouth interview.
Where questions could be asked is whether McClaren is working with the players he really wants as, for many seasons, Newcastle chief scout Graham Carr has been a major player behind the scenes.
The bottom line, though, is that ultimate responsibility lies with McClaren and even his place on Newcastle's board - that rather unusual award that came with his appointment - will not save him if managing director Lee Charnley decides he must go.
And, given McClaren's demeanour, admission the club are heading down, and miserable results, it is surely when rather than if he goes.
Mike Ashley has long been regarded as a toxic presence at Newcastle United, described by fans as a member of the 'Cockney Mafia' running the club - but can he be blamed for this season's debacle?
Of course he agreed to McClaren's appointment but this was very much driven by Charnley, and Ashley even stepped down from the board last summer.
McClaren joined along with Charnley, chief scout Carr and club ambassador and former captain Bob Moncur.
Ashley also sanctioned that £80m spending spree, that started in the summer and continued in January with the arrival of England pair Jonjo Shelvey from Swansea City for £12m and Andros Townsend from Tottenham for a similar figure.
It has had little or no impact but while Ashley can be accused of many things, he cannot be accused of keeping his hand in his pocket this season.
On that final day last season, in a rare public statement, he insisted he would not sell Newcastle "at any price" until they won a trophy. It may be a long stay.
Ashley's problem, one that still exists today, is he is regarded as a malign figure by the Toon Army and has been almost since he bought Hall's 41.6% stake in the club in May 2007, taking full control later that year.
He won fans over by re-appointing the beloved Kevin Keegan as manager in January 2008, but Keegan left unhappy with the hierarchy eight months later and Ashley has never been well regarded since.
Ashley wanted to sell Newcastle as far back as September 2008 - issuing a 1,644-word statement explaining why - but is still there, locked in a loveless relationship with the fans that casts a constant cloud over the club.
He has backed Newcastle with cash this season but once more it has resulted in failure.
Newcastle, with its ground and potential, should be a huge going concern but it is heading towards the rocks, in this case the Championship.
Ashley insists he will be staying - but relegation may change his mind.
Carr, Newcastle's powerful 71-year-old chief scout, likes a low profile but has been pushed into the spotlight by the failure of the club's recent recruitment policy.
Carr signed an eight-year contract in June 2012 - reward for bringing the likes of Hatem Ben Arfa, Cheick Tiote, Yohan Cabaye, Papiss Cisse and Sylvain Marveaux to Tyneside.
The golden touch has since deserted the old campaigner, with players brought in this season lacking the leadership qualities and stomach for a Premier League relegation fight.
Newcastle, in search of goals on Saturday, did not even start with Aleksandar Mitrovic, bought for £14.5m from Anderlecht in the summer. And Florian Thauvin, signed from Marseille for £12m last August, was sent back on loan in January after looking out of his depth.
Georginio Wijnaldum, signed from PSV Eindhoven for £14.5m, has shone fitfully while Chancel Mbemba, an £8.4m capture from Anderlecht, has looked promising.
McClaren has talked up the fighting spirit of Shelvey and local boy Jack Colback but a succession of performances without fight do not support his words.
It is significant, however, that Carr's strategy of recruitment from abroad was ditched in January and he is now coming under fierce scrutiny.
And there is no promise in youth either. Shearer pointed out the lack of academy players coming through, confirmed by the fact Newcastle's Under-21 team is two places off the bottom in Premier League Division Two while they are ninth out of 12 in the under-18 table.
McClaren, in a brutally honest interview after the Bournemouth game, admitted Newcastle would be relegated on such form. It may just have been his farewell speech.
It was not the talk of a manager full of faith in his players and Ashley and his colleagues - with Charnley the main powerbroker - must have been dismayed at such a bleak bulletin being delivered by the man supposedly in charge of inspiring his players.
So results must change, self-evidently, but there is a growing case to change a manager who has looked anything but the "perfect fit" described by Charnley in the summer.
Recruitment has been beyond average and the production line from Newcastle's academy appears to have developed a bad case of rust.
And for a man whose task was outlined as that top-eight finish and who was "heavily incentivised to try and win a cup competition" the future looks bleak.
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Staff at the Nature Discovery Centre in Thatcham, Berkshire, removed most of the fish on Sunday after complaints from members of the public.
They said about 100 carp and perch died after an increase in algae reduced oxygen levels in the water.
A spokeswoman for the centre said it remained open despite "very difficult circumstances".
Dr Kate Dent, conservation director at the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust, said its priority was "maintaining safety and access".
She said: "The appearance of the lake and the dead fish has obviously been distressing.
"We believe the reduction in air temperature and breaking up of the bloom should help return the lake to normal very shortly."
Dr Dent added the smell was due to the "algal bloom" breaking down, dead fish they could not retrieve and a delay in the centre's commercial waste collection.
Leigh Bremner posted pictures of the dead fish on Twitter and said here was a "horrid smell this weekend".
The reserves will cover 3.1 million sq km of ocean, including the Coral Sea.
Restrictions will be placed on fishing and oil and gas exploration in the protected zone covering more than a third of Australia's waters.
Environment Minister Tony Burke, who made the announcement, will attend the earth summit in Brazil next week with Prime Minister Julia Gillard.
"It's time for the world to turn a corner on protection of our oceans," Mr Burke said. "And Australia today is leading that next step."
Australia has timed its announcement to coincide with the run-up to the Rio+20 Earth Summit - a global gathering of leaders from more than 130 nations to discuss protecting key parts of the environment, including the ocean, says the BBC's Duncan Kennedy.
The plans, which have been years in the making, will proceed after a final consultation process.
Last year, the Australian government announced plans to protect the marine life in the Coral Sea - an area of nearly 1 million sq km.
The sea - off the Queensland coast in northeastern Australia - is home to sharks and tuna, isolated tropical reefs and deep sea canyons. It is also the resting place of three US navy ships sunk in the Battle of the Coral Sea in 1942.
The network of marine reserve will also include the Great Barrier Reef, a Unesco World Heritage site.
The plan will see the numbers of marine reserves off the Australian coast increased from 27 to 60.
"What we've done is effectively create a national parks estate in the ocean,'' Mr Burke told Australian media.
However, activists and environmental protection groups are likely to be less than satisfied with the plans, having called for a complete ban on commercial fishing in the Coral Sea.
The fishing industry is set to receive hundreds of millions of dollars in compensation, reports say.
Some have also noted that oil and gas exploration continue to be allowed near some protected areas, particularly off western Australia.
The Australian Conservation Foundation said that although the plan didn't go as far as they would like, it was a major achievement in terms of ocean conservation.
Currently the world's largest marine reserve is a 545,000-sq-km area established by the UK around the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean.
Broadcasting watchdog Ofcom received two complaints about the jokes aired during a 24-hour show for Comic Relief.
They were made by guest Bobby Norris, from the reality TV show The Only Way Is Essex (Towie), on the show in March.
Ofcom said while "some of the jokes had the potential to offend" they were were "unlikely to have exceeded most listeners' expectations".
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Mr Norris made the quips after the hosts of the Radio 1 show told listeners he was there to say a "couple of sets of Essex girl jokes".
Mr Mills had told listeners: "I'd like to point out, before anyone complains, this is a person from Essex, living in Essex on a show (Towie) about Essex."
He added: "I'm enjoying this so much."
A BBC spokeswoman previously said that "no offence was intended by the jokes".
Some of the lines broadcast during the 15 March show which sparked the complaints included, "what's the first thing an Essex girl does in the morning? Goes home.".
The term "Essex girl", which first came into use in the early 1990s, is included in the Oxford English Dictionary, which defines it as "derogatory" and "a contemptuous term applied to a type of young woman, supposedly to be found in and around Essex, and variously characterised as unintelligent, promiscuous and materialistic".
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European subsidies to farmers through the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) should be processed by 30 June.
But European Commission sources said the government had asked for that date to be extended until 15 October.
Nicola Sturgeon had earlier refused to confirm whether an extension was being sought.
It is understood that the commission is still considering the request for an extension, with the Scottish government being encouraged to accelerate payments to farmers before next week's deadline.
The deadline was also extended to October last year after problems with the Scottish government's new £178m IT system caused delays to payments which left many Scottish farmers facing a cash flow crisis, according to industry leaders.
The Scottish government had been facing fines of between £40m and £125m for failing to meet last year's deadline before the extension was agreed.
At the time, the EU's commissioner for agriculture, Phil Hogan, stressed that the extension was an "exceptional measure" which reflected the difficulties some member states and devolved regions had experienced with the first year of payments under the new CAP.
Ms Sturgeon, who is due to address farming leaders at the Royal Highland Show on Friday, was pressed on this year's payments by Ms Davidson at first minister's questions.
The first minister said: "The government is extremely focused, led by (Rural Economy Secretary) Fergus Ewing, on making sure that payments are made, and that in the meantime there is a loan scheme available for farmers to ensure that we are taking care of their cash flow issues.
"We will endeavour to make payments on time, and we will continue to discuss with the European Commission any contingency arrangements we consider are required.
"Good progress has been made on making payments, both in terms of the 2015 round and also now in terms of the 2016 round."
Reforms to the CAP system saw the Single Farm Payment Scheme replaced by the new Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) in 2015.
The BPS is the main EU subsidy available to farmers in Scotland, with the money being allocated by the Scottish government.
The payments are designed to act as a safety net for farmers and crofters by supplementing their main business income.
19,674 different Scottish rural businesses received a total of about £650m in CAP payments last year.
Ms Sturgeon said the government had been dealing with a "small number of known defects" that had been holding up some claims, but said there were now being progressed.
The first minister added: "We are working to meet that deadline and we will continue to do so each and every day until that deadline."
But Ms Davidson said Ms Sturgeon had refused to answer her question about whether the government was going to need an extension to the deadline this year, so it could therefore be "assumed that the answer is yes".
Ms Davidson said 6,000 applications were still to be processed - about a third of the total for Scotland.
She said: "At the start of the year Nicola Sturgeon spoke directly to farmers at the National Farmers Union conference, and she said 'we understand the difficulties that late payments caused to you last year, we apologise for those difficulties and we are determined not to repeat them'.
"Another promise broken, why should rural Scotland ever trust you again?"
Ms Sturgeon responded: "We continue to deliver this scheme, and we continue to seek to deliver it by the deadlines.
"What we have done - which was a commitment I have directly to farmers - is put in place loan schemes so that farmers did get the cash that they depend on.
"So we will continue to deliver this scheme, we will continue to work hard to rectify any problems in the IT system and we will also continue to argue for the protection of CAP payments in the longer term."
Paceman Sheikh, 24, has added another year to his current two-year deal after signing from Derbyshire last July.
Second XI wicketkeeper/batsman Hill, also 24, has penned a one-year extension until the end of 2016.
Promising batsman Ali, 20, has agreed a two-year extension and, like Sheikh, will remain with the Foxes until at least the end of the 2017 season.
Last September, Sheikh became the first Leicestershire bowler to take a Championship hat-trick since Matthew Hoggard in 2011, while Ali and Hill were part of the second XI's treble-winning side in 2014.
Leicestershire and Rutland Cricket chief executive Wasim Khan said: "We are looking to build something that is sustainable in the long-term at Grace Road and it's good that these three players have committed their futures to us."
The raids were carried out at properties in Lanarkshire, Tayside, Fife and Dumfries and Galloway, as part of the operation codenamed Wolfberry.
A 44-year-old man and a 35-year-old woman from the Kirkcaldy area of Fife appeared in private at the town's sheriff court.
Jose Barbosa and Ana Calder made no plea or declaration.
They faced charges under the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2003 and the Criminal Law (Consolidation) (Scotland) Act 1995.
The pair were remanded in custody and are due back in court within eight days.
The 2017 season heralds a revolutionary change to the cars, following rule changes aimed at making them deliberately faster for the first time in decades.
The drivers have been revelling in the higher cornering speeds and greater demands on their skills over four days at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya this week.
And while trying to interpret form from testing is always fraught with risk, a sense of the competitive order is beginning to emerge, with promising signs for some famous names, and worrying ones for others.
Lewis Hamilton could hardly contain his enthusiasm when it came to describing the sensation of driving his Mercedes this week.
"The car is amazing," the triple world champion said. "It is definitely the fastest I have ever been in F1."
The rules this year were aimed at bringing back a sense of edge and drama some felt the sport had lost in recent years. It means wider cars, with bigger tyres, and much more grip, creating faster cornering speeds, and much greater physical demands on the drivers.
"It is literally the downforce," Hamilton said, "how late and deep you can brake, how quickly you can get on the gas, how you are able to take corners flat out pretty easily.
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"Turn Nine [a 160mph uphill right-hander], I am going out of it and I am like a kid on a rollercoaster ride because it is so much better than before.
"But it is worse to follow another car."
And there's the rub. It is possible - although by no means certain - that overtaking will be harder with these cars.
That's not a surprise - make cars faster through the corners and slower down the straight because of the drag from bigger tyres and bodywork, and it's inevitable that braking distances will be shorter. And generating more downforce potentially means there is more grip to lose when following another car, making it harder to get close to it.
Hamilton said this "magnifies the issue we had before". Others were not so sure, though. Both Red Bull's Max Verstappen and Renault's Nico Hulkenberg said they had been pleasantly surprised how easy they had found overtaking during the test.
"Well, I have done some," 19-year-old Verstappen said, in his matter-of-fact style. "So it is OK. It works; you can overtake with the car."
Pirelli seems to have succeeded in the mission it was set to provide tyres on which drivers can push hard for the duration of a stint, after six years in which the best in the world had to lap seconds off the pace in races to stop the tyres overheating. All drivers reported far less "degradation" than before, and the ability to push hard for much longer.
Pirelli was not specifically asked for tyres with low degradation. It was asked for tyres that did not irretrievably thermally degrade when stressed, and could be brought back by backing off slightly if they were over-worked; and degradation proportional to performance.
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But team engineers said that Pirelli seemed to have responded to the requirements made of it by making harder tyres. One described them as "like concrete - they can push on them for 100 laps". And low 'deg' is what was generally being experienced in Barcelona.
Pirelli racing director Mario Isola admitted that the general feeling was that the tyre range was "a bit hard".
Hamilton confirmed this when he said he had been told by engineers that the tyres, on their own, were only 0.5 seconds quicker than last year's, despite being much wider.
A corollary of this could be fewer pit stops in races. Whether fewer pit stops is a bad thing is a matter of opinion, and in any case Pirelli should in theory be able to adjust it simply by bringing softer tyres to races.
And at least now spectators should be able to watch races and know drivers are doing what F1 is supposed to be about - pushing hard and being tested to their limits, rather than driving around slowly trying not to over-work four fragile pieces of rubber.
The fastest time of the test was set by a Mercedes, with a Ferrari second and a Red Bull third. So far, so 2016.
But headline lap times in testing are notoriously unreliable indicators of form because there are so many variables - fuel loads, engine modes, car spec, track condition, different times of day, temperature, tyre compound, etc.
Valtteri Bottas was quickest of all for Mercedes, using the 'ultra-soft' tyres. Ferrari did not use those tyres, Sebastian Vettel setting their fastest lap on the 'soft' tyre, 0.247 seconds slower than Bottas.
The lap-time difference between soft and ultra-soft would be expected to be much bigger than that, but the off-set between tyre compounds varied between teams and from day to day. So it is best to avoid trying to correct for that at this stage.
Using the 'soft' tyres, the Finn was 0.155secs slower than Vettel but on a run that was one lap longer.
On that basis, the Mercedes and Ferrari appeared pretty even in Spain - and certainly rival teams were impressed by the Italian car's pace.
"The Ferrari is very surprising," said McLaren racing director Eric Boullier. "Maybe people were not expecting them to be matching Mercedes' lap times."
So, can Ferrari challenge Mercedes this year at last? The jury is out.
The caveat is that Ferrari looked consistently good in testing last year before a season in which they failed to win a single race - and Mercedes always look slower than they actually are because they run their engine further from the maximum than others, and probably more fuel as well.
Red Bull - powered by Renault engines - seemed a little off the other two top teams this week, but there are good signs there, too.
Renault has made a significant step forward with its engine, but was running it de-tuned. Even so, Verstappen was close to the top of the speed-trap times on Tuesday. The Dutchman said Mercedes still had a power advantage but added: "We are definitely catching up."
The car was also running light on downforce - team insiders say a big aerodynamic upgrade will appear at next week's final test.
Before testing, the word from Red Bull was that they would have to wait until mid-season before they could challenge Mercedes. Hints are beginning to seep out from the team, though, that it might happen earlier than that.
Most expect the big three to be out on their own. Haas owner Gene Haas said they were "racing themselves". But the midfield battle between Force India, Renault, Toro Rosso, Haas and Williams could be intense.
"The rest of us are somewhat competitive," Haas said. "All of our times are within a second or so, and those guys are another second ahead of that. It is really a two-tiered competition, and it is intense where we are at."
McLaren have had four dismal seasons - the last two with an under-powered Honda engine and the two before that with a Mercedes engine but an uncompetitive car.
They entered this season with hopes that a change in rules would allow them to close the gap to the front and compete at least for podiums, if not the occasional win. But the early signs are not good. At all.
McLaren's first two days in Spain were rendered virtually useless because of reliability problems, first with an oil-tank problem on Monday and then an engine failure on Tuesday.
That was four engines used in two days. And although Honda has not been completely clear how many engines were used in total, it was at least five in four days.
The car ran more reliably over the final two days of the test but it was slow, although exactly how slow was hard to judge given Honda said the engine was not being run in its final specification.
The problems are clearly not all to do with Honda but a large part of them are - McLaren were slowest through the speed traps on the start-finish straight.
Fernando Alonso has not spoken to the media since Monday evening, when he said he was "disappointed and sad" but tried to put a positive spin on things as much as possible.
Racing director Eric Boullier admitted that the two-time champion was "not very happy" when the problems hit on Monday morning.
Who can blame him? Alonso went to McLaren to win the title, sold on the idea of reviving the glory days of the team's previous era with Honda, featuring Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost, in the late 1980s.
But that seems like a pipe dream at the moment.
Honda has designed a completely new engine for this season, copying the architecture of Mercedes, but sources say the Japanese turbo hybrid is way down on performance - the grapevine in Spain said it had less power at the moment than it had in 2015, Honda's first season back in F1.
It is hardly surprising, then, that questions are being raised about the sustainability of the McLaren-Honda partnership.
Boullier and Honda F1 boss Yusuke Hasegawa had to face inquiries on that basis from the media this week. Boullier said there was "no plan at all" to split. Hasegawa said: "Of course not."
Honda, in the third year of a 10-year contract with McLaren, provides in the region of a net $100m a year to the team compared to buying a customer engine - in the form of free engines, paying half the drivers' salaries and some sponsorship funds.
But if performance remains this poor, how long can McLaren risk staying with Honda before it does serious damage to the team? How long will Alonso's patience last?
And how long can Honda carry on in F1 before it decides its own reputation is at risk and it has to stop? Just as it did in 2008.
That decision was linked to the world financial crisis, as well as poor results. Now, Honda is facing a crisis of performance alone. How will it and McLaren react?
1 Mercedes (Valtteri Bottas) 1:19.705 ***
2 Ferrari (Sebastian Vettel) 1:19.952 *
3 Red Bull (Daniel Ricciardo) 1:21.153 *
4 Renault (Jolyon Palmer) 1:21.396 *
5 Sauber (Marcus Ericsson) 1:21.824 **
6 Haas (Romain Grosjean) 1:22.118 *
7 Williams (Felipe Massa) 1:22.076*
8 Force India (Esteban Ocon) 1:22.509 **
9 McLaren (Stoffel Vandoorne) 1:22.576 ***
10 Toro Rosso (Daniil Kvyat) 1:22.956 *
* = soft tyre; ** = super-soft tyre; *** = ultra-soft tyre
But it is still to be resolved how many will be covered by an anonymity order before the case is heard.
Another preliminary hearing was held in the High Court in Belfast on Friday.
Earlier this week, boiler owners' lawyers sought to challenge a plan by the Department for the Economy to publish details of firms in the scheme.
About 450 firms are covered in the action taken by the Renewable Heat Association (RHA).
It is believed there could be about 1,700 firms in total in receipt of the RHI subsidy.
The aim of RHI was to increase the creation of heat from renewable sources but businesses received more in subsidies than they paid for fuel, and the scheme became heavily oversubscribed.
The fallout from the scandal, which is approximately £490m over budget, resulted in the collapse of Stormont's institutions and the calling of snap elections on 2 March.
At Tuesday's hearing, counsel for the boiler organisation claimed there would be a media feeding frenzy if publication went ahead, which would breach their clients' right to privacy.
But a lawyer for the department said there was a huge public interest in the working of the controversial non-domestic RHI scheme.
He argued that trumped the privacy issue.
The judge reserved judgment in the case on Tuesday and issued a temporary injunction against naming RHA members until he delivered it.
On Friday, Mr Justice Deeny said there was "an arguable case" which merited further examination at a full hearing.
But while the interim injunction covered all RHA members, that may now change.
The court was told the list of RHA members included individuals; individuals trading as a limited company and firms with a corporate name.
Counsel for the department said those who traded as companies could not attract anonymity under the Data Protection Act or Human Rights Act.
The issue is to be addressed next week, ahead of a full hearing to be held before the Northern Ireland Assembly elections.
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Welterweight world champion Brook, 30, is jumping two weight divisions to challenge for Golovkin's WBC and IBF belts in London on Saturday.
At the weigh-in, Brook scaled 159.4lb, just under the 160lb middleweight limit, while Golovkin scaled 158.9lb.
"I'm entering unknown territory but I'm full of energy and will be explosive with the extra pounds," Brook said.
"There's a lot of politics in boxing and it's destroying the game. And if you can't get massive fights at your weight, you may have to jump a division or two."
Brook rejected comparisons with Amir Khan's fight against Saul Alvarez in May, when the Bolton boxer also jumped from welterweight to middleweight only to be knocked out in the sixth round.
"Khan is a small guy and was coming up to the weight. I'm coming down to make middleweight and am feeling fit and strong," said Brook.
"I'm a world champion, I've beaten everyone I've been in with and I want to test myself. I haven't got years and years left so I want to compete against the best."
About 1,000 fans watched Brook and Golovkin weigh in at London's O2, with the usually affable Kazakh looking deadly serious.
Golovkin, 34, has won 32 of his 35 professional fights by knockout, including the past 22, while IBF welterweight champion Brook is unbeaten in 36.
Among his victims were Brook's fellow Britons Martin Murray and Matthew Macklin, although question marks remain over the calibre of his opposition.
"This fight is so huge because it has a certain mystique," said Brook's promoter Eddie Hearn.
"Does Golovkin hit as hard as everybody says he does? Does he deserve his number one pound-for-pound tag? Has Kell Brook got these other levels we haven't seen yet? I believe he has."
Brook's trainer Dominic Ingle believes Golovkin could be complacent, having had it all his own way for so long.
"The fighters who have longevity in the sport are the pure boxers and not the punchers," said Ingle.
"Punchers eventually get beat, because they rely on their power too much above everything else. Their advantage becomes their disadvantage."
Also on a packed bill at the O2 is Lee Haskins' IBF bantamweight defence against fellow Briton Stuart Hall, while Charlie Edwards will challenge John Riel Casimero for the IBF flyweight title in only his ninth paid fight.
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The driver failed to notice the extent of the damage and drove on for 10 miles.
It happened as the lorry drove under a 19th Century stone bridge known as the Cut.
A spokesperson for the prison service said one of its vehicles "was involved in a road traffic incident at Banbridge on 27 November".
No other vehicle was involved and no one was injured. The incident is being investigated.
On November 28 police posted a photo of the damage, saying it was "not the smartest move".
The following day a second lorry hit the low bridge.
Officers used the image as a warning to drivers of other high-sided vehicles, advising them to know the height and dimensions of their lorries before passing under bridges.
On the PSNI's Facebook page, officers said: "This vehicle found out the clearance height of The Cut in Banbridge yesterday. It then drove on to Portadown, not realising the damage done."
Police also joked that "only the fire service are qualified to make your motor a convertible by the roadside, but you really don't want that to happen".
They reminded motorists that in the case of a collision with a railway bridge, drivers should alert Northern Ireland Railways (NIR) immediately, using the contact number advertised under the bridge.
"There's no way of telling what structural damage could be caused by a bridge strike, and those trains aren't light."
Bridge strikes have been hitting the headlines across the island of Ireland this year.
In the Republic of Ireland, Irish Rail launched a high-profile and controversial campaign warning lorry drivers to obey height restrictions.
Kenneth Foster, from Trowbridge, Wiltshire, served as a telegrapher on HMS Viceroy during World War Two.
It was responsible for sinking two U-boats and played a key role in freeing Norwegian towns from the Germans.
Mr Foster said the honour was "out of the blue" and "after all these years, you don't expect it".
The Honorary Consul Nigel Fletcher presented the medal on behalf of the Norwegian embassy at a ceremony at Trowbridge Town Hall.
Mr Foster, who is a member of the White Ensign Association, said: "It's a big day for me. The whole thing was out of the blue and, after all these years, you don't expect it.
"To start with I was fearful of the sea because I wasn't a very good sailor.
"You had to get used to it — a ship which, we used to say, would roll on wet grass it was so unstable.
"But there was no point in being frightened of anything else because this was what you'd volunteered for."
His role was to transport Norwegians, who had been exiled in the UK for over four years, back to Stavanger as the war was ending.
"I think I was the youngest on board and here we are, I'm approaching 92 so there's not much chance of the others being with us.
"I know that all the others I kept in contact with have gone, sadly, but when I receive that medal I'll be thinking that this is on behalf of them as well."
The Friends of Penrhos Polish Home have raised £180,000 since forming 18 years ago, but say an ageing membership means it is time to call it a day.
The home, near Pwllheli, Gwynedd, was founded in 1949 on a former RAF base to help exiled Polish war veterans.
Nearly 70 years on, it is still caring for the needs of Polish pensioners.
"It will be a bittersweet night," said the charity's chairwoman, Eryl Williams.
"We've got to know so many of those at Penrhos - it really will be with regret that we are saying goodbye."
In its early days after WW2 the RAF base was a stark home for veterans, housed in wooden huts scattered across the former airfield.
But as the decades rolled past, the vast majority of the huts were dismantled, and today, the home provides both sheltered housing and residential and nursing care.
"It has become part of our community, and it really has been a humbling experience being able to help them," added Mrs Williams.
"But there are no new volunteers coming forward, people have other commitments - life is busy.
"So now is the time to say farewell."
And (the announcer tells us), the next president of the Republic of France is - Francois Hollande.
Cue a very happy man strolling through the Elysee gardens.
Of course today it sounds utterly implausible. France's head of state has given the word unpopularity a whole new meaning, the country is a strike-bound, demoralised mess.
And yet the scenario is not totally to be dismissed. Certainly there is one person who believes it might come to pass.
And that person is Francois Hollande himself.
The last few weeks have seen the French press engage in a repetitive guessing game: will he, won't he, will he join the dance? (To quote The Lobster Quadrille).
Will he, or will he not, take on once again the mantle of the left and stake a claim for re-election?
Increasingly the Paris commentariat is of the view that yes, he most certainly will.
Once again President Hollande's good fortune is working in his favour. As a politician he has made a career out of waiting.
There was once a French prime minister (the forgotten Henri Queuille) who said: "There is no problem that cannot be brought to an end by the absence of a solution."
President Hollande has taken this aphorism to heart. On the economy and unemployment, he has steadfastly refused to offer anything that might be called a solution. Instead he has tacked gently from left to right, doing his best not to offend.
And now - with less than a year till the elections - his native optimism is paying off.
The first signs of growth are re-appearing. Unemployment has fallen for two successive months. The cycle is coming round - just in time.
Of course, all this could be knocked off course by this latest outbreak of strikes (against his extremely un-radical labour law).
If the country is dragged to a standstill during the Euro 2016 championships, then it will indeed be another black mark.
But here too, the president is sending out his customary waves of Zenitude - which may well prove more effective than any bracing clutch of actual policies.
The chance of disruption during the Euros is minimal, he will have calculated. No union would be so mad as to wreck such a rare feel-good occasion.
So the feelers will go out; various sectors - like the railways - will be bought off with offers on their specific grievances; and some fudge will be found for the law's contentious Article 2.
And the games will begin.
Another factor working in Hollande's favour is that he is, after all, the boss.
The country has got used to seeing the president's authority challenged by left-wing rebels within his own party - not to mention by left-wingers outside it.
But when it comes to nominating the man or woman to run in next year's election, what influence do these frondeurs have?
Inside the Socialists there are three potential challengers. These are Emmanuel Macron, the liberal-minded economy minister; Arnaud Montebourg, the anti-globalising former economy minister; and the prime minister, Manuel Valls.
Being outside the government, Montebourg is the most dangerous of the three.
Apart from heaping abuse on Hollande's economic record, he is calling for a Socialist Party primary at the end of the year so that the public (or at least Socialist voters) can choose who should be their candidate.
His argument is simple. Only by settling on a single candidate can the Socialists put aside their differences - and minimise the risk of being knocked out in round one.
Remember in round one there will also be various far-left and Green candidates. If the Socialist vote slips too low as a result, then the run-off will be between the right and the far-right (as in 2002).
The trouble for Montebourg is that if Hollande (and his allies running the party machine) choose not to hold a primary, then that will be that.
Conceivably Montebourg - or Macron or Valls - could opt to run on a separate ticket, but they would then be roundly abused for splitting the vote and opening the door for the right.
So come the end of the year, Hollande is the natural choice to run again. The economy is starting to create jobs, and there has been a successful Euro 16.
What better news now than that the right has chosen as its candidate none other than - Nicolas Sarkozy.
Admittedly this is wishful thinking. Sarkozy would be Hollande's ideal opponent, because he is so easily branded as a divisive failure. But there is no guarantee that Sarkozy will be selected in the right's own primary in November.
A more likely primary winner is the former prime minister Alain Juppe - who polls show would easily beat Hollande.
But who can blame him for dreaming?
With Sarkozy leading the right, the first round of the election on 23 April 2017 delivers the following shock result: Marine Le Pen (FN) 27%; Francois Hollande (PS) 23%; Nicolas Sarkozy (LR) 22%.
Round two is a cinch. The centre and much of the right rallies behind Hollande, who wins 65%-35% against Le Pen.
It's five more years.
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Sally Holland co-signed a letter to Armed Forces Minister Penny Mordaunt with the commissioners for Scotland and Northern Ireland and the charity Child Soldiers International.
It said recruiting under 18s was "detrimental to their best interests".
The Ministry of Defence said the armed forces provided "challenging and constructive education".
The letter said: "Most of the world now recognises that the recruitment of children for military purposes is detrimental to their best interests and is not appropriate in modern armed forces.
"In British society, the law safeguards children by proscribing choices that entail significant risks until they turn 18, the legal age of majority.
"It is therefore incongruous that the British armed forces still enlist personnel at age 16 and accept applications from age 15.
"Premature enlistment can also bring significant risk and disadvantage."
A spokesman for the MoD said no one under 18 can join without formal written consent of their parent or guardian and are not deployed on operations before they are 18.
"We take pride in the fact our armed forces provide challenging and constructive education, training, and employment opportunities for young people, equipping them with valuable skills," the spokesman added.
Concerns have previously been raised in Wales about how many visits army officers make to schools in deprived areas.
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Headed 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.
"I've got to go away and have a wee look at it now and we have a debrief," said Strachan.
"It's hard to take in anything, it's not the time to think about it."
The 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."
Strachan 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.
While 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.
"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.
"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.
"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."
Scotland 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.
"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.
"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."
Strachan 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.
The manager praised their efforts, but bemoaned the lack of reward for that industry.
"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.
"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.
"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."
The uprising quickly escalated into a civil war between the Syrian government and various rebel factions, killing at least 250,000 and displacing many more.
Similar movements in the region, later called the Arab Spring, led to the ousting of Hosni Mubarak in Egypt, Muammar Gaddafi in Libya and Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali in Tunisia.
Five years on, people across the region have told the BBC how the uprising and the political divisions and economic turmoil that followed have affected their lives.
"I had to leave my pregnant wife behind. It was too dangerous for me to stay," says Majdy Al-Kassem, who fled Syria in early 2015 and now lives in the UK.
Majdy studied English literature in his hometown Idlib in north-western Syria when peaceful anti-government protests erupted in 2011. He and fellow students joined the demonstrations.
"In the first six months protesters were not armed, but the security forces started to shoot at people and come to their houses to arrest them," he says.
Some of the protests turned into armed insurgency and following violent clashes a brutal and complex civil war broke out across most of the country.
"One of my teachers was killed by a sniper and in the following years a lot of my friends died in prison. I was afraid that somebody who saw me at the demonstration would frame me," he says.
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A month after Majdy fled, a coalition of Islamist rebel forces, supported by Turkey and Saudi Arabia, seized Idlib from the Syrian government.
"It's a little bit safer now because there is no fighting in the city itself, but your house can always be hit by Russian or Syrian government air strikes. Many houses in our neighbourhood were destroyed.
"My family is in a very bad situation now. They often don't have the most basic things like water, electricity and petrol."
The rise of the so-called Islamic State and the increasing involvement of foreign powers have further complicated the conflict.
Like many others, Majdy made the dangerous journey across the Aegean Sea from Turkey to Greece in a rubber dinghy. Walking northwards on the so-called Balkan route, he was imprisoned in Croatia for three months, but eventually made it to the UK last summer.
The authorities in the UK are now processing Majdy's asylum application and he says: "I hope they let me stay and bring my family."
The first protests of the Arab Spring started in Tunisia after Mohamed Bouazizi, a street vendor, set himself on fire in the city of Sidi Bouzid in December 2010.
Weeks of demonstrations followed before Tunisia's long-time president Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali fled into exile on 14 January 2011.
"When we went to demonstrate in front of the Ministry of the Interior in Tunis on 14 January, we didn't realise that Ben Ali would be running away by the end of the day," says Hisham Ben Khamsa.
"Ben Ali had relied on stifling any kind of expression and dissent. The regime was out of sync with the population. Corruption and unemployment pushed people overboard."
Tunisia has been called the Arab Spring's "success story" by some after a largely peaceful transition to democracy.
In recent years, the country has been hit by a wave of attacks on tourists sites and renewed protests over youth unemployment.
"Economically and in terms of instability, it has been five years of a rollercoaster. But in this chaos and mayhem, there is some stability building up," Hisham told the BBC.
Ines Ghaieb, a preparatory school teacher in Tunis, says her life changed for the better after the uprising.
"I lost my job at the school during Ben Ali's time and couldn't do anything about it. Now I have a permanent contract."
She says that Tunisians can now express their opinions in public and in the media.
"Tunisia was an exception from the beginning. Even if there are problems, I would say the revolution was successful."
Pictures of tens of thousands of protesters on Cairo's central Tahrir Square went around the world in January and February 2011.
"I'll never experience the same again, the spirit of the people was unbelievable, and we were all on the same page," says Mohammed Safi, an Egyptian radio DJ.
"We succeeded in bringing the government down after 18 days, but the biggest mistake was to leave the square because we thought we had won.
Mohamed Morsi, a leading member of the Muslim brotherhood, was elected as president in June 2012, but following mass protests his government was overthrown by the army a year later.
"I think almost the entire nation is suffering from post-traumatic stress," Mohammed says.
"I moved out of Cairo three years ago to protect my sanity. The vibe there has become unbearable.
"Five years down the line, many people are extremely sceptictal and frustrated. Almost everybody is suffering economically and the currency has lost a lot of value."
Human rights activists have reported a rise in the number of people going missing at the hand of the security services.
"The security apparatus is more intense than under Mubarak, but the message to future generations is that you can challenge authority," says Mohammed.
"In the early months of 2011, not a lot of Libyans thought the protests would spread from Tunisia to Libya because the former regime of Muammar Gaddafi had a tight grip on society," says Muhanned Kalash, an up-and-coming Libyan actor.
"When the protests started in Benghazi, we couldn't do much in Tripoli, but of course we followed the events very closely."
Fierce fighting broke out between rebels in the east of the country and government forces. In August 2011, rebel militia toppled Gaddafi and took over Tripoli, helped by international airstrikes.
Muhanned says that five years on, none of the revolution's goals have been achieved.
"It's close to impossible for me to save money, to marry, to travel to different cities or even to go out at night because there is a risk we might get carjacked."
Libya has had two rival governments since 2014.
The political and security vacuum in the country has helped the so-called Islamic State group to establish a foothold.
Muhanned says security is his biggest concern at the moment: "With Daesh [IS], it's like we see a storm approaching, but we're pretending we are not scared.
"It's shocking to see how OK Libyans have become with death."
Martin Gould awaits Trump in Saturday's final four in Llandudno.
But Williams felt luck played a major part in Englishman Trump's progress.
"It was a good game and could have gone either way," said two-time world champion Williams. "Towards the end, obviously he only won it through the luck he had."
Williams picked out two incidents on the blue ball as crucial - an escape and a pot by Trump.
"I had him snookered on the one and he somehow got away with it, and the blue he took on - he'd probably pot one of them in 1,000.
"And how I left the blue on the middle hole in the last frame is unbelievable.
"But I've had a fair bit of run myself over the last few months so I'm not going to worry about that."
Five-time world champion Ronnie O'Sullivan beat Graeme Dott 4-1 to set up his last-four encounter with Stuart Bingham, who beat Mark Davis 4-0 in the last eight.
"We both played poorly. I felt nervous for some reason and couldn't see the wood for the trees," said O'Sullivan.
"It was strange, one of those evenings and it was lucky Graeme played as badly as me.
"I missed so many balls, it was diabolical."
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David Duckenfield claimed Liverpool fans "forced" their way into the ground when, in reality, he had ordered a gate be opened to let them in.
Former South Yorkshire Police Deputy Chief Constable Peter Hayes agreed the lie warranted a "disreputable conduct" investigation.
Ninety-six fans died in the 1989 crush.
The lie had been a "disgraceful" thing for former chief superintendent Mr Duckenfield to say, said Mr Hayes, who was in charge of discipline and complaints within the South Yorkshire force.
He agreed "it was a terrible untruth because it blamed the very people who died for their own deaths".
In the moments after the disaster at the FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest on 15 April 1989, Mr Duckenfield told the Football Association's then chief executive that some Liverpool fans had forced open a gate.
But he omitted to tell Graham Kelly that it had been his own decision.
The jury has previously heard that opening Gate C allowed up to 2,000 fans to enter the Sheffield ground in five minutes.
Many ended up going through a tunnel that led to the already-full central terrace pens at the Leppings Lane end of the stadium.
Mr Duckenfield admitted to the inquests that his mistake "was the direct cause of the deaths of 96 people".
Peter Wilcock QC, who represents a group of families, said it was a "wicked and terrible lie".
He asked: "Have you ever come across a similar example of deceit by a senior officer in your long career within the police?"
Mr Hayes replied: "No."
Mr Wilcock told the court that South Yorkshire Police "never started any proceedings against Mr Duckenfield for that wicked lie".
He asked Mr Hayes whether the lie, which Mr Duckenfield said he told the then Chief Constable Peter Wright about, could have prompted disciplinary proceedings for "disreputable conduct".
Mr Hayes said: "Yes, I would agree with that."
Two families who lost relatives in the disaster complained to the authorities about Mr Duckenfield's lie.
The jury heard West Midlands Police, which investigated those complaints, initially told the families their complaint was "rejected as being unsubstantiated".
Mr Wilcock said: "Can you imagine how they felt and how they feel now when there's evidence that you and your colleagues knew from day one that that lie was very far from unsubstantiated but true?"
The coroner, Sir John Goldring, told Mr Hayes he did not have to answer that question.
Mr Hayes had previously said that he could not remember when he first heard about Mr Duckenfield's lie.
In the days after the disaster, Mr Hayes asked Ch Supt Terry Wain to prepare South Yorkshire Police's official statement to the Taylor public inquiry, which was due to begin on 15 May 1989.
The jury heard despite being told how the police had previously closed off the tunnel when the pens became full, Mr Wain did not mention that in his report.
Mr Wilcock asked Mr Hayes: "Would it surprise you, given all the instructions Mr Wain received to be open and transparent, that that particular piece of information about the closure of the tunnel never made its way in to the report he prepared and was later presented in edited form to Lord Justice Taylor?"
Mr Hayes replied: "Yes, I am rather surprised at that."
The jury saw a letter which was sent to South Yorkshire Police by the public inquiry.
Mr Wilcock said it detailed how the inquiry would look into why "when it was decided that a gate or gates must be opened to relieve pressure... there were no steps taken to ensure that there was no police or steward presence to prevent those entering going to the tunnel".
Mr Hayes agreed that Mr Wain was not "incompetent" and "he knew exactly what he was doing".
Mr Wilcock then asked: "It's staggering, isn't it, that given that warning, his report made no mention of the past practice of closing the gates?"
Mr Hayes he was "not aware whether or not Mr Wain ever saw the letter".
Peter Weatherby QC, who represents another group of families, said: "Would you agree with me as the man managing the submission to the Taylor Inquiry that it was a serious failure that the submission did not include the failure to close the tunnel?"
Mr Hayes replied: "Yes, I find it inconceivable, sitting here now, that that was no part of the submission."
He both denied being part of a police cover-up into the disaster and asking junior colleagues to take part in one.
The inquests, being held in Warrington, Cheshire, are due to resume on Wednesday.
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He played in the narrow quarter-final defeat by Australia after originally being left out of the squad.
Referee Craig Joubert's "questionable decision" to give the Wallabies a late penalty was tough for Cowan to take.
"It didn't really sink in until a couple of days after. We were absolutely devastated," the 29-year-old told BBC Radio Berkshire.
"To almost have history that close in our own hands and then stripped away took some accepting."
Before the controversy of that Twickenham showdown and the following fallout over Joubert's decision, Cowan had to come to terms with being overlooked in Vern Cotter's initial squad.
"My whole career, I had never worked for something so hard and wanted something so badly," he said, after being overlooked for fellow flanker John Hardie.
"I knew it was going to be tight for my position and in the end Vern went for one man. But I had a lot of support from my partner and family to pick me back up."
An injury to lock Grant Gilchrist against USA handed Cowan a second chance and within days he was involved against South Africa.
He and Hardie were to play on opposite ends of the back row by the time the quarter-final came around.
"I got on well with John in pre-season and the lead up to the World Cup," he added. "We needed to slow down Australia's rhythm in that game and it worked well.
"Going forward, I think it could well be an option providing I continue to get the chance."
The New Zealand-born flanker has since returned to club action with London Irish, scoring a try on his first appearance of the season as a replacement against Exeter.
In the video, two masked gunmen speak to a man kneeling in front of them.
After killing him, the gunmen say they will kill others they are holding if the government does not agree to their demands. The demands are unspecified.
They identify themselves as belonging to the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, who are allied to the Taliban.
There had been speculation that the hostages, mostly from the Hazara ethnic minority, had been seized by Islamic State as they travelled from Iran to Kabul through Zabul province.
The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) was formed in the late 1990s and said it carried out the attack on Karachi airport in June 2014.
The BBC's David Loyn in Kabul says this is the first time they have issued a video showing a beheading.
In the footage, the gunmen ask the hostage what his job is, and he says that he is a soldier. Local news agencies report that the kidnappers want their comrades released from Afghan jails.
Along with other Taliban factions, the IMU was pushed out of its former stronghold in Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal region in an army offensive launched after the Karachi airport assault.
Unlike in Pakistan, Afghan Hazaras, who are mostly Shia Muslims, have been largely spared attacks by Sunni militants operating in both countries.
Dog owners have been warned to keep pets on leads since the deposits appeared on beaches in Kent and Sussex.
Tests in Kent have revealed a mineral oil "of unknown source or proposed use" and investigations are continuing.
The substance is not hazardous to humans or animals unless eaten, Shepway council said.
A joint statement from Kent County Council (KCC), the Maritime & Coastguard Agency and Shepway District Council said the worst affected areas were between Sandgate and Folkestone Warren.
It has advised the public not to touch the substance and to keep dogs on a lead.
It also said the public should alert the RSPCA if any distressed seabirds were found, and not to touch the birds themselves.
The likely source of the pollution "would appear to be from shipping in the Dover Strait", the statement said.
Kent Scientific Services, part of Kent County Council (KCC), carried out a chemical analysis and was able to identify the paraffin-based substance.
It revealed: "The fatty acid profile was not consistent with palm oil or any vegetable based oil. The profile resembled one from a 'fuel'-based oil."
A clean-up operation is under way.
Thanet District Council said precautionary signs erected around its coastline had now been taken down.
It said beaches were now clear and also that on inspection most reported sightings were actually non-harmful whelk egg cases.
Brighton and Hove District Council did not have any test results but said it had been clear from the start it was "suspected" palm oil.
Adur and Worthing District Council said its tests also showed the substance was a waxy mineral oil.
Its clean-up process will begin on Monday. High tides and strong winds made it unsafe for staff to start on Friday.
Chris Drake, Coastal Officer at KCC, said: "KCC will work with all the agencies concerned to ensure that our coastline is quickly restored and that if possible; those responsible for the pollution are identified and made to cover the costs of the clean-up."
The 50-year-old, who played 408 matches for Forest during two spells totalling nearly 12 years, has taken up a role with the Rams as a defensive coach.
His son Tyler, a 19-year-old striker, also now plays for Forest, while 17-year-old son Lewis represents the Rams.
Academy director Darren Wassall, who played with Walker at Forest, said the ex-England man had "plenty to offer".
Walker won 59 caps during his career and played for England at the 1990 World Cup, when they reached the semi-finals, and Euro 92.
Former Derby defender Craig Short has also joined the academy coaching set-up.
Brian Reader, 76, fell seriously ill at Belmarsh Prison, where he is being held, and was taken to nearby Queen Elizabeth hospital on Wednesday.
Reader, the oldest member of the gang, had pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit burglary last September.
He is due to be sentenced on 7 March with six others over the £14m raid.
A Prison Service spokesperson said: "An HMP Belmarsh prisoner was taken to hospital on 24 February. He remains there in order to receive treatment for an ongoing medical condition.
"Appropriate security measures are in place."
Reader's solicitor Hesham Puri said Reader was being treated for "a number of issues" at the south-east London hospital and it was "unlikely" his client would be able to attend the sentencing hearing at Woolwich Crown Court.
The "largest burglary in English legal history" took place at Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Ltd in London's jewellery quarter over Easter last year.
The gang raided safe deposit boxes for jewels after boring into the vault.
John "Kenny" Collins, Daniel Jones and Terry Perkins pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit burglary.
Carl Wood and William Lincoln were convicted of conspiracy to commit burglary and conspiracy to conceal, convert or transfer criminal property.
Hugh Doyle was found guilty of concealing, converting or transferring criminal property.
Another thief, known only as "Basil", is yet to be identified and is still at large.
Reader was also involved in the £26m gold bullion Brink's-Mat robbery three decades ago.
West Lindsey District Council said land at Swallow on the A46, near Caistor, had become a "dumping ground for fly tippers".
Paperwork found among the rubbish revealed the waste was "likely to be from various house clearances in the Grimsby area", the authority said.
It is working with the police to identify those responsible.
The authority said it had taken seven members of staff four hours to clear the site of debris, which included fridges, mattresses and tyres, at an estimated cost of £1,500.
Lesley Beevers, regulatory team manager at the council, said: "No sooner has one lot of rubbish been cleared than another load appears. In November, we cleared around four tonnes of waste from the same spot, costing more than £900."
Councillor Owen Bierley said: "It is important for residents and landlords alike to make sure that their waste is disposed of by properly registered companies.
"Simply paying cash to anyone with a van to take away your waste is not acceptable and could leave you facing a fine of up to £5,000 for not checking where your waste is going to."
Dartmouth, trained by Sir Michael Stoute, beat Simple Verse by a neck.
Morrison was later called before a stewards' inquiry after an employee of his was alleged to have urinated in the stable of his horse Marmelo.
The employee was subsequently found guilty of improper conduct.
Morrison was instructed by the British Horseracing Authority (BHA) to "ensure all of his employees are correctly briefed as to the integrity implications of these actions in the future".
He said: "There's nothing to it really. The lad is a long-standing employee. He knows he's made a mistake and he won't do it again."
Marmelo, who was fifth in the Yorkshire Cup, was ordered to have a routine doping test.
Urinating in a racecourse stable is banned because of the risk of cross contamination.
BBC horse racing correspondent Cornelius Lysaght said: "The chances of cross contamination are probably rather higher than 100-1, but of course it's possible, and this is an example, the BHA will say, of how all regulations relating to security and integrity on the racecourse are tightly enforced."
On Thursday, Morrison offered a reward of £10,000 to clear his name after one of his horses tested positive for an anabolic steroid.
Our Little Sister tested positive for nandrolone after finishing last in a race at Wolverhampton on 14 January, which had prize money of £2,500.
Dartmouth, the 11-4 favourite, was one of five horses in the running over the final furlong of Friday's race.
Having made his challenge on the stands-side rail, he snatched the verdict from Ralph Beckett's 2015 St Leger winner Simple Verse (13-2).
The pace-setting High Jinx, having his first race for 747 days, kept on in gritty fashion and was just a neck away to claim third on his first start for Yorkshire trainer Tim Easterby.
Winning rider Ryan Moore said: "He felt very easy the whole way, he's got mile-and-a-half pace, he was just doing a little too much in stages.
"He travelled beautifully and is such an honest horse, but it didn't help that I was apart from them and he's done very well."
BBC horse racing correspondent Cornelius Lysaght:
You don't have to be an arch-Royalist to enjoy the spectacle of the Queen beaming at a success for one of her runners at Royal Ascot.
And, after this narrow defeat of his nearest three rivals, Dartmouth - named after the Devon naval town - goes to the famous fixture in June with the wind in his sails.
It would be nice to think Dartmouth might try to emulate his owner's horse Estimate, who won Ascot's marathon Gold Cup four years ago, but he'll be sticking to the shorter Hardwicke Stakes this time.
The fire broke out at Lakanal House in Camberwell, south London, in July 2009.
Catherine Hickman, 31, Dayana Francisquini, 26, and her children, six-year-old Thais, and Felipe, three, were killed in the fire.
Helen Udoaka, 34, and her three-week-old daughter Michelle also died. They all lived on the 11th floor.
The jury retired to consider verdicts after hearing evidence for more than two months at Lambeth Town Hall in Brixton, south London.
In her summing up on Wednesday, Assistant Deputy Coroner Frances Kirkham said evidence suggested that the firefighters from incident command who dealt with the blaze did not have knowledge of the building layout.
She said they did not know they were dealing with maisonettes and did not know about escape balconies on the block.
Ms Kirkham added: "It's a matter for you, members of the jury, but you may conclude that the evidence suggests a lack of training amongst staff in relation to fire survival guidance calls prior to the incident that we're dealing with."
Ruth Davidson was speaking after a private meeting with Prime Minister Theresa May in Downing Street.
Ms Davidson, who also attended a meeting of the cabinet, said the Conservatives now had to "reach out to others" on issues such as Brexit.
She added: "I do think that there can be changes in the offer of Brexit as we go forward".
Ms Davidson has new-found clout at Westminster after her party won 13 Scottish seats in the election, and has hinted that she wants Mrs May to change course on her Brexit objectives.
A high-profile Remain campaigner ahead of the EU referendum, she wants the UK to keep the "largest amount of access" to the single market after Brexit.
She has also called for what she describes as an "open Brexit", which prioritises free trade and country's economic interests over curbing immigration.
The prime minister is attempting to secure a deal which would see Democratic Unionist Party MPs support her minority government.
Ms Davidson said she had stressed to the prime minister that the electorate had said "they want the Conservatives in government, but by denying us a majority they don't want us to govern alone".
She added: "And that means that we have to reach out to other people on some of the big issues, for example on Brexit."
Ms Davidson said there was a "clear understanding" that the prime objective for leaving the European Union was to ensure that the economy was protected.
And she insisted there was a "general consensus" that free trade should be prioritised despite Mrs May indicating that the UK will leave both the single market and the customs union.
When asked whether the UK could stay in the single market, she replied: "I think what is clear is that there is a commitment from around that cabinet table, from within the Conservative Party, to now work with others to make sure that we go after the best economic deal.
"In terms of how we reach out to others and how we take on board their ideas there is lots of work to be done.
"But I do think that there can be changes in the offer of Brexit as we go forward."
Mrs May is battling to keep her party behind her after losing her parliamentary majority just before the start of negotiations with the EU.
Chancellor Philip Hammond has also stressed the need to put the economy first in the Brexit negotiations.
But speaking ahead of her meeting with Ms Davidson, a spokesman for the prime minister said it had been made clear that the UK cannot control its borders while remaining as a single market member.
There has been speculation that Ms Davidson could use her 13 MPs to push for a "softer" Brexit than Mrs May had planned.
She said: "I think my 13 MPs are all individuals and each and every one of them will play their full part in the House of Commons.
"In Scotland we do come from a liberal tradition, we were a separate party at one time, and I would expect them to carry that tradition into the House of Commons and I look forward to their progress - I am proud of them and I want to see what they are going to do next".
Ms Davidson also stressed the need for the UK government, and the wider Conservative party, to pull together and insisted that Mrs May could remain in office for the next five years.
The Scottish Conservatives won just a single seat in Scotland in the 2015 general election - but the party's share of the vote doubled as it took a further 12 seats last week, all of which were at the expense of the SNP.
Ms Davidson's performance in leading the party to its best result in Scotland since 1983 has seen her mentioned as a possible successor to Mrs May - although she does not currently have a seat in the House of Commons.
The Scottish Conservative leader arrived at Downing Street as SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon met her party's 35 MPs outside the Houses of Parliament.
Ms Sturgeon, who is Scotland's first minister, has called for a "short pause" in the Brexit negotiations in order to secure a cross-party, UK-wide consensus on what they hope to achieve.
She also claimed that Mrs May's plans for a so-called "hard Brexit" were now "dead in the water", and questioned whether the prime minister could form a functioning government.
Alex Staniforth, of Cheshire, has already tackled Pen-Y-Fan, Fan Foel and Snowdon since starting the series on 13 May.
The 22-year-old will aim to scale Moel Famau, on the Flintshire-Denbighshire border, on Sunday.
If successful, he will have climbed the equivalent of 13 Mount Everests.
He said: "A big thanks for all my friends and supporters from all over north Wales who encouraged me so brilliantly over the past few months and who've been so generous."
Mr Staniforth previously became the youngest person to complete the Three Peaks Challenge and has twice attempted to scale Everest.
He abandoned his last bid to reach the world's highest summit in 2015, after an avalanche left three of his friends dead.
Mr Staniforth, who sets off at 11:30 BST, is carrying out the latest series of climbs in aid of mental health charity, Young Minds UK, and has so far raised £15,000.
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The 54-year-old from Stockport struggled to break clear of Australia's Machin, who had defeated world champion Scott Waites earlier in the tournament, in Sunday's best-of-25-legs final.
But with the score 9-9, Fitton pulled away, winning four successive legs to seal a 13-9 success in Frimley Green.
Bolton's Lisa Ashton retained her women's title, beating fellow English thrower Deta Hedman 7-4 in the final.
The report is calling for a radical overhaul of the corporation's governance, and recommends the abolition of the BBC Trust.
It said Tony Hall "operates with too high a degree of independence".
The MPs have called for the BBC Board to be reformed with the addition of an independent Chair.
The BBC Trust, currently chaired by Rona Fairhead, came into effect following the 2006 Royal Charter Review, replacing the Board of Governors.
It is independent of BBC management, and its stated aim is to make decisions in the best interests of licence fee payers.
The Committee said the Chair of a reformed Board should be a "significant figure, ideally with acknowledged experience in managing large organisations".
The new Board would "support the director general in streamlining the organisation and cutting costs".
It would also "make it clearer where responsibilities lie, and cut down some of the confusion of purpose and bureaucracy that have undermined the existing governance arrangements for the BBC".
The report's other recommendations include a clearer boundary between the World Service and BBC World News, in particular relating to allocation of resources.
It was also suggested the BBC might help "sustain local news coverage" by "placing apprentices from the BBC's training schemes with local media outlets to help with their newsgathering".
In response to the report a spokesperson for the BBC Trust issued a statement:
"We welcome the committee's endorsement of the Trust's proposals in 2015 for substantial reform of the BBC's governance - including the creation of a unitary board and strong independent regulation, specific to the BBC."
The BBC itself also released a statement, which said it "supports the committee's assertion that the BBC's independence should be protected by taking it out of the political cycle, and agree with its proposal for an 11 or 12 year charter.
"Like the committee, we think the BBC should be externally regulated - we believe that a unitary board would be good for the BBC and strengthen accountability."
Artefacts, paintings and items spanning 2,000 years are available to view at the touch of a button.
The searchable online gallery includes the story of each item on display.
Samuel Noel Savage, of Kincora Mews, appeared at Belfast Crown Court on a total of 13 charges.
The 60-year-old admitted making an arrangement with his wife Dolores Savage to acquire and convert criminal property totalling £1,045,030.
The property was allegedly stolen by his wife from the firm Arjo Huntleigh.
Mr Savage denied acquiring criminal property and eight charges of dishonestly retaining wrongful credit in his bank account.
The offences took place between June 2006 and December 2013.
Mrs Savage, 59, also of Kincora Mews, denied entering into an arrangement to acquire criminal property with her husband.
She also pleaded not guilty to obtaining a money transfer by deception and fraud by abuse of her position within Arjo Huntleigh.
A defence solicitor for Mr Savage told the judge that his client's guilty pleas to two changes "represents the totality of his culpability".
He said the charges he denied were "duplicitous to what he has already pleaded guilty to".
A prosecution lawyer said he would need to a time to "take instructions on Mr Savage's not guilty pleas to the remaining charges".
Mrs Savage will stand trial later this year and the case is to be reviewed next month.
The couple were released on continuing bail.
The 43-year-old was treated in Aberdeen Royal Infirmary after the incident which happened at a block of flats in Union Street at about 06:45 on Friday.
Two men, aged 30 and 35, and a woman, 38, have been charged over the alleged assault and robbery.
They are due to appear at Aberdeen Sheriff Court on Monday.
The bridge will shut between 09:30 and 16:00 BST from Monday 21 September to Friday 25 September, with a diversion along Bridge Valley Road and the A369.
People will be allowed to walk across and cyclists who dismount will also be able to use the bridge.
The work has included cleaning the masonry and repairs to the roof.
Bridge master David Anderson said the work had been scheduled to avoid peak morning and evening periods to minimise disruption.
Two of the incidents occurred near the flashpoint West Bank city of Hebron, while the third happened outside a gate to Jerusalem's Old City.
It is the first such spate of attacks after months of near-daily stabbings and car-rammings recently subsided.
A Palestinian was also shot dead when Israeli troops raided his home.
Mohammed Saraheen, 30, was killed while trying to evade arrest during the operation in the West Bank village of Beit Ula on Friday morning, the Israeli military said.
Two of the later attacks on Israelis happened nearby.
In one, a Palestinian was shot dead after ramming his vehicle into civilians at a bus stop near the Israeli settlement of Kiryat Arba, the military said. Three people were wounded.
Another Palestinian who was involved in the attack was shot and wounded, officials said.
Hours later, a Palestinian who stabbed and wounded a soldier at a junction near Hebron was shot dead, officials said.
In East Jerusalem, a Jordanian man was killed by security forces after trying to stab police outside Damascus Gate, according to Israeli authorities.
The site has been the scene of multiple attacks on Israelis, and killings of assailants, in previous months.
Thirty-five Israelis been killed in a wave of knife, gun and car-ramming attacks by Palestinians or Israeli Arabs since last October.
More than 200 Palestinians - mostly attackers, Israel says - have also been killed in that period.
Israel says Palestinian incitement has fuelled the attacks. The Palestinian leadership has blamed frustration rooted in decades of Israeli occupation.
Police in Cologne investigating the crimes are focussing on people of North African origin, they say.
On Sunday evening six Pakistanis and a Syrian man came under attack in the centre of the western German city.
Angela Merkel's immigration policy has come under criticism since the attacks.
Around 1.1 million asylum seekers arrived in Germany in 2015.
The scale of the assaults on women in Cologne and other German cities on 31 December has shocked the country, and police handling of the events has been sharply criticised.
Riot police used water cannon to disperse anti-migrant protesters in Cologne on Saturday.
The attacks on Sunday took place in the early evening. In the first, a group of around 20 people attacked six Pakistanis, two of whom had to be treated in hospital.
Separately, five people injured a Syrian man who did not need hospital treatment.
The higher figures came as German authorities were urged to find out whether the series of New Year's Eve sexual assaults and robberies in Cologne were linked to similar crimes in other cities.
Justice Minister Heiko Maas told the Bild newspaper on Sunday that he was convinced the attacks were pre-arranged.
"If such a horde gathers in order to commit crimes, that appears in some form to be planned,'' he said. "Nobody can tell me that this was not co-ordinated or prepared."
Authorities and witnesses say the attackers were among about 1,000 people, mostly men, who congregated at Cologne's central train station before breaking off into small groups that molested and robbed women.
Victims described chaos as dozens of sexual assaults and robberies were carried out with little apparent response from the authorities around Cologne station.
Similar attacks to those seen in Cologne were also reported in Hamburg and in Stuttgart on New Year's Eve. In Bielefeld, hundreds of men tried to force their way into nightclubs, Die Welt reported (in German).
Police said several women had alleged sexual assault.
On Friday, the chief of police for Cologne was suspended. Wolfgang Albers had been accused of holding back information about the attacks, in particular about the origin of the suspects.
Shares in the company dropped 4.3% to 430.10p after it reported a fall in the number of letters delivered.
In the nine months to 25 December, the volume of letters delivered fell 6% while letter revenues were down 5%.
"We are seeing the impact of overall business uncertainty in the UK on letter volumes," it said.
Royal Mail added that this had been seen "in particular" in advertising and business letters.
However, its parcels business saw revenues rise by 3% with the number of parcels delivered 2% higher.
Royal Mail was the biggest faller in the FTSE 100, with the UK's benchmark share index down 15.08 points at 7,232.53 in early trade.
In the FTSE 250, shares in Moneysupermarket.com jumped 9% after it said full-year results were set to beat expectations, with operating profits up 8%.
Halfords was another company benefiting from an upbeat trading update. Its shares rose 7% after the car parts and bike retailer reported a "strong sales performance" for the crucial Christmas period, with like-for-like sales up 5.9% during the three months to 15 January.
However, the news from Pets at Home was not so encouraging. Its shares fell more than 8% after it reported "subdued trading" at its merchandise division, with like-for-like sales at the unit down 0.5%.
On the currency markets, the pound rose 0.5% against the dollar to $1.2318 and was 0.2% higher against the euro at 1.1555 euros.
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Lord Coe, president of International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), has threatened to ban Kenya's track and field team from the Olympics if the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) finds them non-compliant.
Briton Farah said: "You don't wish it on any athlete who hasn't done anything wrong. But, as for the country, if they don't follow the rules then tough."
Kenya, one of the top distance-running nations, is on a Wada "watch list" although the country's sports minister says they are "fully co-operating" in an effort to prove it is tackling cheating.
Farah, who will compete in the 3,000m at the Indoor Grand Prix in Glasgow on Saturday, won gold in the 5,000m and 10,000m at the London 2012 Olympics and the 2013 and 2015 World Championships.
Asked about Kenya's potential absence from the Rio Olympics this summer, he joked: "If we don't have Kenya, it makes it easier for me, which is great."
Kenyans Geoffrey Kipsang Kamworor, Paul Kipngetich Tanui and Bitan Karoki are possible rivals to Farah.
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Adam Gemili, who won 100m silver for England at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, said: "It's good whenever a cheat is caught. It helps to clean up athletics."
Meanwhile, 32-year-old Farah says he will not let the threat of the Zika virus deny him the chance to share further Olympic success with his family.
At London 2012, wife Tania and step-daughter Rihanna joined Farah on the track to celebrate his gold in the 10,000m.
"For me, the Olympics is where it is at," he said. "I want to have that moment for my family no matter what.
"In London, one of the best things ever was having my family on the track. Seeing my wife and daughter there was incredible.
"I believe they are part of me and will be there again. I'm not even thinking about anything like the Zika virus. I want them there and that's it.
"I've been training in Ethiopia for the last six weeks up at 10,000ft in some pretty nice weather.
"Rio is not too far away now and I'm quite excited. It starts here in Glasgow now. This is the road to Rio."
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A leaked interim review had highlighted "serious concerns" over South Ribble Borough Council's taxi licensing and handling of two child sex abuse claims.
The full report concludes issues surrounding taxi licence applications have now been identified and addressed.
The authority "welcomes the findings".
An audit of taxi driver applications in December had found appropriate background checks had not been carried out in relation to 40 working taxi drivers in South Ribble.
Council leader Margaret Smith said a taxi driver's licence has since been revoked and it has "double-checked" the licence of every other taxi driver in the borough.
"The public rightly expects our licensing service to provide them with the right level of protection and we regret any instances where we fell short of the mark," the Conservative councillor said.
The authority was working closely with the police and crime commissioner, Lancashire Safeguarding Children Board and other authorities to "bring in a robust licensing policy", she added.
The independent report, written by solicitors Wilkin Chapman LLP, concluded it was not necessary to make any further recommendations as it had "taken steps to address operational issues".
The leader of the opposition, councillor Paul Foster, said he wanted more information.
Mr Foster, Labour, said: "It is a complete and utter whitewash: one licence has been revoked.
"I'm afraid there are five serious cases of either child exploitation or safeguarding issues.
"We must understand what has happened to the other four drivers and why they haven't had their licenses revoked."
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Rics) found 31% more members reporting house price increases in April.
However, the survey also indicated that buyer activity has dampened since the start of the year.
Rics said the trends, in part, may have been a result of uncertainty ahead of the election.
In the latest Rics residential market survey, Scotland was the only country in the UK where surveyors reported a rise in the number of properties coming onto the market.
Across the rest of the UK, new instructions saw their eighth consecutive drop in the last nine months.
Rics Scotland director Sarah Speirs said: "There have been indications of more moderate price gains in Scotland in recent months, but activity indicators remain positive.
"Unlike across the rest of the UK, Scotland continues to see moderate growth in supply, which is being met by a steadily increasing rise in demand.
"Anecdotally, the uncertainty created by the general election has impacted market activity and it remains early days to assess what impact the new Land Building and Transaction Tax (LBTT) is having on property prices in different parts of the country - and at different price bands."
Walker was challenged in the box by Kieran Tierney and Brown said: "It was a dive. Cheat. What else can you say?"
The Hearts midfielder said: "I knocked the ball on and I've seen him [Tierney] coming out the corner of my eye and felt contact so I went down.
"At the end of the day, I am not the referee. I don't give the decisions."
Brown praised Hearts for their performance, but added: "There is no place in football for cheats and that's been a couple of times here now."
Brendan Rodgers, taking charge of his first Scottish Premiership game, praised his Celtic players' mentality to recover from referee John Beaton's "mistake".
Celtic led via James Forrest's opener but Walker levelled from the disputed penalty.
Walker slammed in the penalty but Scott Sinclair's late winner secured three points for the reigning champions.
"It was a dubious penalty, that was clear. In fairness to the referee, he said he made a mistake," Rodgers said.
"At least he was big enough to admit that.
"We had to show mentality and character in the second half. We were super offensive in the last 20 minutes and eventually got the breakthrough."
Rodgers was understandably delighted with the impact of Sinclair, who came off the bench after an hour to make his debut after completing a £3.5m move from Aston Villa.
"He showed typical hunger and desire to score the goal, with the speed he has shown to get into the box," Rodgers told BBC Scotland after his first league match in charge of Celtic.
"It was wonderful play from Leigh Griffiths and Scott showed a great touch and composure to score.
"He has made a big choice to come here but I am sure he will do well and score many more goals.
"He is a really top talent. It has been a bit difficult for him the last couple of seasons at Manchester City and Aston Villa but he brings excitement - he gets you off your feet with his pace and trickery, and he loves scoring goals."
It completed a whirlwind 48 hours for Sinclair, who only arrived in Scotland on Friday night, and completed the final details of his transfer late on Saturday.
"It all happened so fast," he told BBC Scotland. "I only had three hours' sleep on Friday, but I did the scans and bits and pieces yesterday and I made the squad.
"It is an amazing feeling to come on and score the winner. I didn't think I would be involved but the manager said I was fit.
"This is why I came to Celtic - to play games, score goals and start enjoying it again. Hopefully it can continue."
Rodgers admitted he wants to add "at least another two" players to his squad before the transfer window closes.
One of his new signings, Kolo Toure, was struggling with a groin problem late on, in his first start for the club.
"He wanted to continue," Rodgers added. "I thought he was excellent. He is still a way off with his fitness but he showed he can still play in these big games."
Hearts head coach Robbie Neilson felt his side could have had a second penalty when Toure clashed with Robbie Muirhead.
"There were a lot of inconsistent decisions today," he said. "We got some, they got some.
"In my opinion Toure leans into the back of him. If there's no contact on the ball and the boy goes down it's a penalty."
The Tynecastle boss also revealed he hopes to make at least two signings before the end of the transfer window.
"We're still looking to get a couple of guys in," said Neilson. "[Krystian] Nowak the centre back came in last week so we'll hopefully get that tied up in the next couple of days, and we're also looking for a wide player."
The 29-year-old joins the Sky Blues on a loan agreement before the American side begin their inaugural MLS season.
"When I spoke to the gaffer he was full of confidence about what he wants to achieve here this season," McCann said.
"The way he speaks and his ideas about the way he wants his team to play, it breeds confidence into players."
McCann agreed a move to Atlanta earlier this summer after he left Wigan, where he made 82 league appearances during a three-year stay.
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The 25-year-old moved from Damascus to Berlin in 2013 and founded a non-governmental organisation (NGO) called Make it German.
It provides free advice to fellow Syrians and other Arabic-speakers new to Germany on all aspects of life, including study opportunities and finding a job.
Anas was born with craniofacial fibrous dysplasia, a genetic disease that affects the shape of bones and their development.
He was able to walk when he was a child, but as he grew older, his condition became worse.
In 2003, he travelled to Germany for the first time for medical treatment. But spinal surgery left him permanently paralysed and wheelchair-bound.
"Germany changed my life twice, once in 2003 and again in 2013," he says.
Anas found it hard to lead an independent life in Syria, despite the support of family and friends.
Wheelchair-friendly infrastructure did not exist in Damascus, restricting his freedom and opportunities.
His situation only got worse as the war intensified - he felt increasingly trapped.
"I had no choice but to leave. I wanted to pursue my goals and the situation in Syria wasn't helping me," he says.
It was a struggle to obtain a visa. Anas had to travel to neighbouring Lebanon to apply through the German embassy there.
In December 2013, Anas moved to Germany to study for an undergraduate degree in computer science at the Technical University of Berlin. He travelled by himself. His family could not join him - they could not afford the travel expenses, nor obtain visas.
Germany took in a record 890,000 migrants and refugees in 2015. But last year the number of asylum seekers fell to 280,000, after the Balkan route was closed. Syrians formed 37% of asylum applicants in 2016 - by far the largest group.
The influx has put some public services under pressure and caused political tensions.
Chancellor Angela Merkel has been criticised for her "open door" policy, though many Germans have shown generosity towards the newcomers.
Initially Anas struggled with the language and laws, but did not let that hold him back.
How did he feel about Berlin? "It was love at first sight," he says.
He admires the German culture and work ethic. "Unlike Syrians, Germans are direct and straightforward," he says.
"Being able to move freely is the most important thing. Berlin gives me the freedom of movement I always wanted and I feel independent, unlike my situation back in Damascus."
Physical barriers are no longer an issue for Anas. He crosses the city in his wheelchair, goes to university every day and sees himself as an active member of society.
He has made many friends in Berlin and is always busy with university or social events. His only concern is his financial situation.
As the Syrian war grinds on, Anas' financial burdens are increasing, but he no longer wants to ask his parents for money. He has some income from work and help from his friends.
In April 2016, he and a group of friends launched Make it German, for Arabic-speaking immigrants.
"Our goal is to build a bridge between new arrivals and German society and help them be on the right track," Anas says.
Recently the NGO launched a social media campaign encouraging Syrians to donate blood, as an "act of solidarity and a sign of co-existence".
It organises web seminars via Skype, where Syrian guest speakers and others share their experiences of making Germany their home.
At the moment, the NGO is self-funded, through the team's savings and earnings from their day jobs.
To keep costs low the volunteers mainly work from home, but Anas hopes they will soon be able to rent office space.
Ashraf, a Syrian student, praised Make it German for the advice he got about his course. "They provided me with all the information I needed, along with supporting documents from official sources."
Yusra, another student, said the NGO's advice about applying for medical school was useful, "however, I felt that not all my questions were addressed".
Anas has not seen his parents - still in Damascus - for more than three years. "Although we are not together, I think of them every day, but I can't go back to Syria. I worry about them, but my life is here now."
Even if the war were to end, Anas would like to settle in Germany. He wants to finish his studies, while continuing to help other Syrians.
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Former England assistant coach Graham Rowntree has been appointed as forwards coach, while number eight Nick Easter will become defence coach.
Meanwhile, backs coach Mark Mapletoft will succeed Kingston as head coach.
"Taking the role of director of rugby is an exciting and well-timed new challenge for me," Kingston said.
He has been on the coaching staff at Harlequins since 2001, having previously had stints at Richmond and Irish side Galwegians.
Rowntree was England forwards coach under Stuart Lancaster, but left the national set-up in December when Eddie Jones was appointed as head coach.
The 45-year-old former Leicester prop won 54 caps for England and also appeared three times for the British & Irish Lions during his playing career.
"I've had an enforced step back from the game, and it's been good to spend time with the family," Rowntree told BBC Radio 5 live.
"I was delighted we won the Six Nations, but this is the start of a new adventure. I'm determined to grasp this opportunity. I'm ready for it."
Quins say the appointment of Kingston as director of rugby came following "a rigorous and wide-ranging selection process".
Chief executive David Ellis told the club website: "We were very clear that we needed somebody who would help drive us onto the next level,"
"John's passion for the club and our style of play will stand us in good stead, and convinced us he is the right man for the job."
Ex-England international Easter will primarily be a coach next season, but the 37-year-old will retain a playing contract.
O'Shea, who has won the Premiership title, the Amlin Challenge Cup and the LV= Cup during his six years as Quins boss, will leave The Stoop to take charge of Italy's national team this summer.
The Irishman could add a second European title before his departure, with Harlequins to face Montpellier in the final of the European Challenge Cup on 13 May.
In a further change to the backroom set-up, Tony Diprose will become academy and global development director.
While much of our focus has been on the court, with the odd dash to Murray Mound to see what the punters have to say, it hasn't gone unnoticed that there are some Scots also working behind the scenes at SW19.
Olwyn Roy, from Tullibody, is one. She has been working at the championship for 30 years, mostly as a line judge.
The home economics teacher is a keen tennis player herself.
As an umpire she has seen some of the world's top seeds when they were youths, and jokes of her failure to recognise the talent of a certain teenager named Roger Federer.
The Swiss is now her favourite player.
"This is my 30th Wimbledon, I even did one where I was working in Australia for a year and I came back just for Wimbledon, so I've done 30 consecutive," she said.
She added: "We work hard all year to make certain we are selected to come down here.
"With grass, there's a special technique where you have to wait for the chalk, because sometimes if you're used to working on hard courts you'll call that bit more quickly and then you find you have a puff of chalk coming up, which obviously proves the ball is not out."
Another Scot who enjoys working at Wimbledon is Martin Swan, a former bank employee from Edinburgh.
Wearing his luminous orange vest, he is in charge of running a large section of the queue at the All England Club.
"As a member of the public, I think probably my second year living in London, I started queuing and I have been in the overnight queue," he commented.
"I have camped in the street when you could camp in the street in the old days.
"I've been involved in Wimbledon either as a customer or working here for nearly 30 years now."
Martin also managed to get closer to the action this year, with some work on the gangway of centre court.
"I'm pleased to have been on centre court I think for two of Andy Murray's matches," he said. "It's a great atmosphere."
So apart from the obvious - the internationally renowned tennis tournament, the sunny weather, the manicured grounds where you can rub shoulders with many celebrities, and, of course, the strawberries - what is it that keeps volunteers like these Scots coming back, year after year?
"There's an incredible sense of camaraderie amongst the stewards here," said Martin.
"|We generally only see each other once a year but as soon as we are back together we work really well as teams, we have a good laugh and the public like us as well."
Over the years, Olwyn has officiated some great matches including the 2008 final between the Williams sisters, and the 2007 final between Federer and Rafael Nadal.
And after seeing so many champions come and go, there are bound to be many stand out moments, which Olwyn savours when she can.
"It's everybody's dream to do a final so if you are lucky enough to get selected for the final those are the ones that are very memorable," she said.
"Occasionally it can be other matches where possibly it's just been an absolutely terrific match. You'll never forget them."
Asked if she planned on travelling back down in 2016 for the 31st consecutive year, Olwyn responded: "Definitely."
The new Afghan president is expected to ask his American counterpart to keep more troops in his country for longer.
Mr Obama has promised to end America's longest war by the end of his term, leaving only a small force to protect the US embassy.
It is believed Mr Obama will announce his troop decision later today.
The leaders will discuss troop numbers over a working lunch and in meetings, before taking questions during a press conference later this afternoon.
Originally, officials planned to cut the US troop presence to 5,500 by the end of 2015.
But with the prospect of a tough spring fighting season on the horizon, Islamic State militants trying to recruit on Afghan soil and other security concerns, officials are predicting the US will probably leave 9,800 American troops in the country long into next year.
US bases in Jalalabad and Kandahar, the Taliban capital until 2001, are central to the discussions.
President Ghani has requested that those bases remain open as long as possible, and US officials appear to be warm to that idea.
The lunch and meetings come just as gunmen killed at least 13 people in eastern Afghanistan overnight and, separately, a suspected US drone strike near the Afghan-Pakistani border killed nine militants.
However, Mr Ghani's presidency is a welcome change in the eyes of the White House, whose relationship with his predecessor grew increasingly strained in recent years.
When he assumed office, Mr Ghani, who lived in the US for more than a decade, almost immediately signed a security deal with American officials to keep US troops in the country beyond 2014.
The refusal of the previous Afghan administration, led by Hami Karzai, to sign the agreement generated consternation at the White House.
By contrast, Mr Ghani has made clear his appreciation for US support, which has included more than $60bn (£40.37bn) being invested in his country's military so far.
"We do not now ask what the United States can do for us," President Ghani said as he opened his US visit, invoking a quote by former US President John F Kennedy. "We want to say what Afghanistan will do for itself and for the world."
After a controversial election with disputed results, President Ghani agreed to share power with his main political rival, Abdullah Abdullah, who has taken the title of Chief Executive Officer of the country.
Six months into their term, the two leaders have made the trip to the US together in an effort to project unity, despite being unable to build a full cabinet.
In a ceremony at the Pentagon on Monday, Mr Ghani paid tribute to US soldiers who had fought in Afghanistan and thanked the US for its support.
"Each one of you has left a legacy," he said, noting that more than 2,200 Americans lost their lives and 20,000 were wounded in the conflict.
The Grecians are second-from-bottom in League Two and have not won at home since April, one of only two wins at St James Park in the whole of 2016 so far.
"I understand the dissatisfaction with a number of the supporters," he said.
"But it's important those people stay behind the team as this is a supporter-owned club, everyone's in it together and we have to have that mentality."
City conceded a late goal to lose 1-0 at Wycombe on Saturday - their eighth defeat in 11 league games after an injury-hit start to the season.
"There's a lot of will in the squad and a lot of effort and people behind them and we've just got to keep going with it," Tisdale added.
"We're going through one of those periods where that's all we can do.
"There's no point shirking it, but I believe in the players, they've put some real work in and we've just got to take that into next week."
The motion said many species are not covered by IWC rules, and criticised Japan's scientific whaling programmes.
The delegates' final act was to decide to hold meetings every two years.
Meanwhile, the Danish and Greenland governments will "reflect" on whaling options for Greenland's Inuit after the IWC denied a bid to raise quotas.
The options include setting quotas unilaterally without the IWC's explicit approval, or even withdrawing from the body. Either would be intensely controversial.
Nothing caused more controversy here, though, than South Korea's announcement that it was preparing to allow some of its fishermen to hunt whales under regulations permitting a catch for scientific research.
Japan has had such programmes in place since 1986, including an annual hunt in the Southern Ocean, which has been declared a whale sanctuary.
That was one focus of the resolution, tabled by Monaco, that called on the UN General Assembly to debate whale conversation.
Another was that whaling nations want the IWC's remit restricted to species that have been hunted, while others want it to work for the conservation of all cetaceans.
The resolution invited governments to "consider these issues in collaboration with the UN General Assembly, with a view to contributing to the conservation efforts of the IWC".
There was general acceptance that such a resolution should only go forward by consensus, and it was soon clear that consensus was absent.
Norway's Einar Tallaksen said issues regarding cetaceans "are not a matter for the UN General Assembly, but for the competent fisheries organisations, including the IWC".
As far as this meeting is concerned, the proposal is abandoned, though Monaco will work for it within the UN and is launching a "task force" of supportive nations.
"Clearly the whaling countries want to contain any discussion of their whaling inside the IWC," commented Patrick Ramage, director of the global whale programme with the International Fund for Animal Welfare.
"They don't want their diplomats at the United Nations to have to defend the indefensible."
On the final day of the IWC's annual meeting, held this time in Panama City, delegations were also mulling the implications of Denmark's decision to leave without a whale-hunting quota for the Greenland Inuit.
They came to Panama asking for increased quotas for humpback and fin whales, in addition to maintaining existing levels for minkes and bowheads.
The bid became more controversial after environment groups reported finding whalemeat on sale in many supermarkets and restaurants, and, with the EU against the expansion, the bid failed.
"We are going to go home and reflect, because this is a situation that needs to be handled with care," said Danish delegation head Ole Samsing.
Experienced observers noted that in previous years, Denmark has been willing to compromise its requests in order to get something agreed.
The EU would have supported a continuation of the existing quotas, but the Danes opted instead to leave with nothing.
"There can be no doubt that Denmark knew when it put the proposal to a vote that it would fail," said Sue Fisher, on behalf of the Washington DC-based Animal Welfare Institute.
"It could have walked out of here days ago with a perfectly adequate quota to meet the subsistence needs of indigenous communities in Greenland for the next six years, but it was prepared to lose everything for a handful of extra whales that, our recent surveys show, could well end up on the menu in tourist restaurants".
Japan's deputy commissioner, Akima Umezawa, said the vote against Greenland had been the most disappointing aspect of a discouraging meeting.
"Many pointed out the commercialism and the increased quota," he said.
"But commercialism is accepted by the definition of [aboriginal] subsistence whaling, and the increased quota was accepted and endorsed by the IWC scientific committee."
The issue is made more complex by the evolving relationship between Greenland, a hunting-based society of just over 50,000 people, and its former colonial ruler.
Several years ago, Greenland formally asked the Danish government to put its whaling outside the IWC's aegis, but it is understood that it would now prefer to remain within the organisation.
It is inconceivable that hunting will stop, so the question is how Greenland intends to go forward.
Its own interpretation of rules on aboriginal subsistence whaling (ASW) is that countries are entitled to set their own quotas, provided they are consistent with IWC scientific advice. Other countries disagree.
The US is also opening the door to unilateral action, with draft legislation introduced into Congress that would allow the government to set quotas if the IWC denied them.
Overall, many observers said this had been the most functional IWC meeting for years, with votes taken in an orderly fashion and a relative absence of grandstanding.
Six years ago, the pro- and anti-whaling camps were roughly equal in number.
Now, the anti-whalers clearly have the upper hand, and it was noticeable that many of the Caribbean delegations were down to a single person.
The decision to hold meetings every two years from now on is part of an ongoing process - largely driven by the UK and Australia - aimed at making the commission more functional and efficient.
Delegates concluded by selecting their first ever female chair, St Lucia's Jeannine Compton-Antoine.
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The 37-year-old former England batsman re-signed with the county for this summer's competition.
But he was restricted to only two appearances because of injury, the last against Middlesex on 21 July.
"Surrey's loss last night means the end of career in England. What an amazing journey," he posted on Twitter.
"Thank you, Notts, Hants, Surrey, ECB & supporters!"
Pietersen will continue to play T20 cricket overseas as well as continuing his involvement in wildlife conservation programmes in South Africa.
He was hoping Surrey would make it through to T20 Blast finals day on 9 September, but they lost by six wickets to 2014 winners Birmingham Bears on Friday evening.
Marc Kasowitz said Mr Trump never sought to impede the investigation into possible Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
He suggested that leaks by Mr Comey should themselves be investigated.
Mr Comey testified to the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday about events leading up to his sacking.
He went on the record with a number of explosive claims. Mr Comey said:
Mr Comey was leading one of several Russia investigations before Mr Trump fired him last month.
He also said he kept a written record of conversations with the president as he was "honestly worried he might lie" about them, and leaked details of one conversation - about the Michael Flynn investigation - after a version of it had already been published in the press.
As a result of that episode, a special counsel was appointed to lead an independent investigation into the Trump campaign's potential ties to the Kremlin.
When reporters asked Mr Trump after the testimony whether he thought Mr Comey was telling the truth, the president did not respond but simply smiled through pursed lips.
The president has rejected the allegation that anyone around him colluded with Russia and says the "real" story is leaks.
"Today, Mr Comey admitted that he unilaterally and surreptitiously made unauthorised disclosures to the press of privileged communications with the president," Mr Kasowitz told reporters.
"We will leave it to the appropriate authorities to determine whether these leaks should be investigated along with all the other leaks that are being investigated."
He also said in a statement that Mr Comey's testimony "finally confirmed publicly" that the president was not under investigation as part of any probe in Russian political meddling, and denied the claim that Mr Trump asked Mr Comey for his loyalty.
The former FBI boss remained largely composed throughout almost three hours of testimony but became impassioned when delivering his opening remarks.
"The FBI is honest. The FBI is strong. And the FBI is and always will be independent," he said in his opening remarks.
There is no known evidence of collusion between Russia and the US, and President Donald Trump has dismissed the story as "fake news".
For Donald Trump the good news from James Comey's testimony is that the former FBI director clearly said the president was not directly under FBI investigation at the time he was fired. The bad news was, well, everything else.
It's clear the president woefully mishandled this, for which he has paid a high price ever since. By unceremoniously sacking him, and offering a muddle of explanations for it, he created an adversary with both the means and the motivation to respond in the most damaging way.
The White House may claim today's testimony is a technical exoneration. Politically, however, it's a staggering blow.
The couple were married in Murray's home town of Dunblane last April and announced the pregnancy in the summer.
Confirming the news, the tennis star's agent said: "Andy and Kim had a daughter in the early hours of Sunday morning and the family are doing well."
Shirley Erskine, Andy Murray's grandmother said she was delighted at her great granddaughter's arrival.
Andy's mother Judy tweeted a photograph of Andy Murray's gold post box in Dunblane which has been adorned with pink ribbons, with the words "Dunblane baby love.......xxx".
The post box was painted gold when Andy won the gold medal at the London Olympics.
She later tweeted another picture of tennis balls and a dummy, with the caption "Tennis family #cute".
In the run-up to last month's Australian Open, Murray, said his family would be a "priority".
The world number two made it clear that he would have cut short his first grand slam of the year and flown home if the baby had arrived earlier than expected.
He said: "My child is more important to me, and my wife is more important to me, than a tennis match.
"It's a big change for me and my wife, but that's the current priority and I'll see after that.
"I have no idea how that will change things. I still love tennis."
Speaking from her home in Dunblane, Mrs Erskine said: "I am absolutely delighted, as you can imagine. It seems a long time that we've been waiting for this but all's well now as far as I know.
"I don't have any details I just know that I've got a great granddaugher so that is just lovely.
"All I could think of after Andy had finished playing his final [in the Australian Open] was 'Oh good, at least he'll get home now'.
"It's not easy getting home from Australia. He couldn't have been further away. Fortunately, he was home in plenty of time and all's well."
Mrs Erskine said the first she heard was a text saying "she's doing well" as she had missed the first multiple recipient text Andy had sent.
"I thought 'Oh something's happened'," she said. "So, I frantically texted him back, saying 'What's happened?, what's happened?'.
She said Andy then apologised as he realised she had not received the first message as she had an old phone.
"We didn't know what the baby's sex was going to be. Andy and Kim said from the outset that they didn't want to know."
Andy's other grandmother Ellen Murray, 82, said the tennis star phoned her on Monday to give her and husband Gordon the news.
Speaking from her home in Kilsyth, she said: "Andy phoned yesterday and said 'congratulations, you're a great granny'.
"He told me the baby was 8lb 10oz when she was born."
"It's wonderful news," she added. "We watched him in the Australian Open final and I think he just wanted to come home.
"I don't really know about her name yet but I hope we'll see them all soon. I'll be looking forward to a cuddle.
"Gordon is very happy too. They did a good job."
After being beaten in the final of the Australian Open, Murray tearfully told his wife he would be on "the next flight home".
Speaking to the crowd after the defeat, he gave a message to Kim, who was "watching back home".
He said: "You have been a legend the last two weeks, thank you so much for all of your support. I'll be on the next flight home."
Following news of the birth, sports personalities and politicians tweeted their congratulations, along with hundreds of members of the public.
Sports broadcaster Gabby Logan said: "Kim and Andy Murray have had a baby girl -huge congrats."
And in a note to Murray's mother Judy, the presenter added: "@judmoo - great news for Fed Cup team 2036..."
Presenter Annabel Croft, a former British number one tennis star, wrote: "Congratulations Kim & @andy-murray on the birth of their baby daughter. Fantastic news."
Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon tweeted: "Lovely news. Congratulations to @andy_murray and Kim on the birth of their daughter. Wishing every happiness."
Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale tweeted: "It's a girl! Huge congratulations to Kim Sears and @andy_murray on their wonderful news."
The couple, both 28, met as teenagers in 2005 through tennis circles. They live in Surrey and married in Dunblane last April, cheered on by a large crowd of well-wishers.
Kim's pregnancy was confirmed publicly in August after they had told family and friends the news, following the 12-week scan.
Murray, the British number one and a double grand slam winner, has been crowned BBC Sports Personality Of The Year twice.
The Rome Statute which established the court has been ratified by 123 countries, but the US is a notable absence.
What is the court designed to do?
To prosecute and bring to justice those responsible for the worst crimes - genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes. The court has global jurisdiction.
It is a court of last resort, intervening only when national authorities cannot or will not prosecute.
Aren't there already several international courts?
Yes, but they either do different jobs or have a limited remit.
The International Court of Justice (sometimes called the World Court) rules on disputes between governments but cannot prosecute individuals.
The international criminal tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda have tried individuals for crimes against humanity, but only if they were committed in those territories over a specified period.
Unlike the international tribunals, the International Criminal Court is a permanent body.
Are there any time limits on what it covers?
The court has no retrospective jurisdiction - it can only deal with crimes committed after 1 July 2002 when the Rome Statute came into force.
Additionally, the court has automatic jurisdiction only for crimes committed on the territory of a state which has ratified the treaty; or by a citizen of such a state; or when the United Nations Security Council refers a case to it.
What kind of cases does the court pursue?
The court's first verdict, in March 2012, was against Thomas Lubanga, the leader of a militia in the Democratic Republic of Congo. He was convicted of war crimes relating to the use of children in that country's conflict and sentenced in July to 14 years.
The highest profile person to be brought to the ICC is Ivory Coast's former President Laurent Gbagbo, who was charged in 2011 with murder, rape and other forms of sexual violence, persecution and "other inhumane acts".
Other notable cases included charges of crimes against humanity against Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta, who was indicted in 2011 in connection with post-election ethnic violence in 2007-08, in which 1,200 people died. The ICC dropped the charges against Mr Kenyatta in December 2014.
Among those wanted by the ICC are leaders of Uganda's rebel movement, the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), which is active in northern Uganda, north-eastern DR Congo and South Sudan. Its leader Joseph Kony is charged with crimes against humanity and war crimes, including abduction of thousands of children.
The court has an outstanding arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir - the first against a serving head of state. When Mr Bashir - who faces three counts of genocide, two counts of war crimes and five counts of crimes against humanity - attended a African Union summit in South Africa in June 2015, a South African court ordered that he be prevented from leaving the country while it decided whether he should be arrested under the ICC warrant.
The South African government allowed Mr Bashir to leave and in the fallout a judge angrily accused the government of ignoring the constitution. The government in turn threatened to leave the ICC.
In 2015, the ICC began a preliminary investigation into the 2014 Gaza conflict. The Palestinian Authority submitted evidence to the court in June of what it claims were war crimes committed by the Israeli military. A UN report found evidence of war crimes by both Palestinian militant group Hamas and the Israeli military.
The ICC has been criticised, particularly by the African Union, for its focus on Africa. In the court's 11-year history it has only brought charges against black Africans.
The ICC denies any bias, pointing to the fact that some cases - such as the LRA in Uganda - were self-referred by the country affected, and some were referred by the UN.
Fatou Bensouda, the chief prosecutor of the ICC, who is Gambian, has argued that the ICC is helping Africa by its prosecutions of criminals.
"The ICC is working with Africa, and working for African victims, so I don't think the African Union should be against that," she said.
How can the court secure the arrest and trial of suspects?
The ICC has no police force of its own to track down and arrest suspects. Instead it must rely on national police services to make arrests and seek their transfer to The Hague.
The case of Mr Bashir illustrates the problem this can present for the court. Several ICC signatory countries, including Chad and Kenya, have refused to co-operate in his arrest.
A South African court did order that he be prevented from leaving the country, only for the government to override the order.
The African Union has instructed members not to carry out the ICC arrest warrant against him while it conducts its own investigation.
How does the system work?
The prosecutor begins an investigation if a case is referred either by the UN Security Council or by a ratifying state.
He or she can also take independent action, but prosecutions have to be approved by a panel of judges.
Both the prosecutor and the judges are elected by the states taking part in the court. Luis Moreno Ocampo of Argentina was the first chief prosecutor of the court. He has been replaced by Ms Bensouda.
Each state has a right to nominate one candidate for election as a judge.
Who has agreed to co-operate with the court?
The Rome Treaty has been ratified by 121 states so far, meaning they have bound themselves to co-operate. A further 34 have signed and may ratify it in the future.
Only one Arab state has ratified so far - Jordan.
Why isn't the United States involved?
During negotiations, the US argued that its soldiers might be the subject of politically motivated or frivolous prosecutions.
Various safeguards were introduced, and Bill Clinton did eventually sign the treaty in one of his last acts as president but it was never ratified by Congress.
The Bush administration was adamantly opposed to the court and to any dilution of US sovereignty in criminal justice, and the US threatened to pull its troops out of the UN force in Bosnia unless they were given immunity from prosecution by the ICC.
In a much-criticised decision, the UN Security Council voted on 12 July 2002 on a compromise that gave US troops a 12-month exemption from prosecution - renewed annually.
But the Security Council - prompted by then UN Secretary General Kofi Annan - refused to renew the exemption in June 2004, two months after pictures of US troops abusing Iraqi prisoners shocked the world.
The court's operation is seen as weakened without US involvement. However, Washington has not ruled out co-operation with the court in particular cases.
Are there other dissenters?
Yes, a number of important countries seem determined not to submit to the jurisdiction of the ICC. Some have not even signed the treaty, such as China, India, Pakistan, Indonesia and Turkey.
Others, including Egypt, Iran, Israel and Russia, have signed but remain dubious and have not ratified.
It is unlikely that alleged crimes against humanity in those states will be prosecuted.
How does the ICC fit in with each nation's judicial system?
States that join the treaty may want to make sure that they themselves are able to prosecute all the crimes that it covers - otherwise the court may intervene.
Some governments have already introduced legislation to make changes to their own judicial systems.
Who is paying?
The states which take part. This will be according to the same rules that govern their contributions to the UN - roughly based on their national wealth.
The absence of the US in particular makes funding of the court more expensive for others.
Japan, Germany, France and Britain are among the the largest contributors.
The grant was on condition 50 jobs were created and 15 were safeguarded, with all remaining in place by 2020.
But Newsquest held two rounds of job cuts in 2016 and the hub shut in April.
The National Union of Journalists (NUJ) has now called for that recouped cash to be reinvested in "struggling" local newspapers.
Newsquest, whose papers include Newport-based South Wales Argus, opened the sub-editing hub in 2013.
A total of £340,000 in support, including the Welsh Government grant and £95,000 from the Skills Growth Fund, was given to the Newport project.
At its peak, the unit employed more than 70 people, sub-editing material written by reporters from 100 daily and weekly newspapers across the UK.
First Minister Carwyn Jones told AMs in March the Welsh Government would look to get the cash back if conditions attached to the grant to Newsquest were not met.
"Whilst Newsquest currently meet the terms and conditions of the grant, we were alert to the possibility that between now and 2020 we may wish to undertake further changes to our business," said a Newsquest spokesman.
"Although we have no current plans to do this, we believed it would be correct to return the grant, and Newsquest has therefore given back the £245,000 grant in full. This was entirely at our own volition."
NUJ Welsh organiser John Toner said it is a "lesson" for the Welsh Government as he said it "should have used the grant to support local newspapers and fund media start-ups rather than this profitable American-owned publisher".
He added: "That is why we are asking that the refunded money be used to aid new and struggling news enterprises."
The Welsh Government has been asked to comment.
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Bravo, 33, allowed Harry Bunn's shot to go in through his legs as Huddersfield led 1-0 in the FA Cup fifth-round replay, before City went on to win 5-1.
Some City fans sarcastically applauded when he made a save later in the game.
But Guardiola said: "The performance from Claudio was amazing. He can start build-ups like no-one else can do."
Chile international Bravo was signed from Barcelona last summer to replace England international Joe Hart, but has faced criticism for his shot-stopping skills since arriving in a £15.4m deal.
He was dropped in January after conceding 16 goals from the previous 24 shots on target he had faced in the Premier League, with Guardiola picking 35-year-old Argentine Willy Caballero instead for City's past four Premier League matches and the Champions League last-16 win against Monaco.
The former Barcelona and Bayern Munich manager, 46, reiterated his confidence in Bravo before the FA Cup replay, only to see him easily let in Huddersfield's first effort on target.
Afterwards, Guardiola preferred to focus on Bravo's footwork.
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"He reads when men are free. It is not easy to read that," he said.
"He gives us the continuity to play. What the fans express, I am not here to judge."
When Bravo stopped Huddersfield's second shot on target shortly before half-time, some City fans stood up and ironically cheered the save.
Guardiola appeared to turn around and glare at those seemingly mocking his keeper.
"He is strong enough," he said. "He was nominated with the five best goalkeepers in the world this year.
"I am safe with both goalkeepers I have. I am delighted and so happy he is with us. I know I can count on him."
Former England striker Alan Shearer on Match of the Day:
"I don't know what he was doing. He should not be beaten from there, it's straight at him, it went underneath him, poor goalkeeping. He has to do better."
Dr Rebecca Rumbul from the Wales Governance Centre thinks the party could win a seat as some are won by a form of proportional representation.
But she does not believe it will gain any MPs in Wales at next year's general election because of the "first past the post" system.
She spoke after UKIP won a by-election to see its first MP elected in England.
Thursday's victory for Nigel Farage's party led Prime Minister David Cameron to say the general election would be "the most important in a generation".
Meanwhile, Labour leader Ed Miliband said his party needed to "reach out" to disaffected voters.
A recent BBC Wales poll suggests support for UKIP ahead of the general election has doubled from 7% to 14%.
UKIP has already said it plans to open an office in the south Wales valleys.
UKIP Welsh MEP Nathan Gill predicts the party's current momentum can carry them to victory in at least one Welsh seat next May.
But Dr Rumbul told BBC Radio Wales it was more likely the party would be successful in the assembly elections in 2016.
She said people tend to vote differently in the different types of elections with UKIP performing strongly in the European elections in May in comparison to the general election in 2010.
"Because of the way the general election system works - the first past the post system - I do think it's unlikely that UKIP will get an MP from Wales," she said.
"However, our system in the Welsh assembly is much different and under that system it's actually quite likely that we may see some UKIP AMs returned in 2016."
The Wales Governance Centre at Cardiff University examines issues affecting Wales covering law, politics and government.
Here's everything you need to know about the show.
James Corden is hosting the show live from the Staples Center in Los Angeles at 5pm(PT)/8pm(ET) on Sunday, 12 February.
If you're in the US, you can watch the ceremony live on CBS from 8pm ET. In the UK, you have to wait until 4Music screen the show at 8pm on Monday night. Good luck avoiding spoilers.
However, you can watch the red carpet coverage live on E! (151 on Sky, 156 on Virgin, 321 on BT) from 11pm on Sunday.
And BBC Music News LIVE will be reporting on the action throughout the night.
The show has a line-up to rival Glastonbury. Here's what to expect.
Other performers are likely to be announced in the run-up to the show, and there are usually a few surprises on the night itself.
There are 84 categories at the Grammys - including "best surround sound album" and "best notes" (C# is our favourite) - so if you're a musician and you don't get a prize, it's probably best to cut your losses and take up ostrich farming.
You can see the main nominees at the bottom of this page, or read the full, exhaustive list on the official website of the Grammy Awards.
The big fight is between Adele and Beyonce, who go head to head in the three main categories: Album of the year, record of the year and song of the year.
We predict Beyonce's politically-charged Lemonade will take the honours for album of the year; while Adele's Hello will take the others, which focus more on songcraft.
If we're right, it will be the first time Beyonce's won the main prize. Two years ago, she lost album of the year to Beck's Morning Phase, prompting Kanye West to throw all his toys out of the pram.
"Beck needs to respect artistry and he should have given his award to Beyonce," he observed.
Beck declined.
Song of the year goes to the people who wrote the music and lyrics.
Record of the year recognises everyone who contributed - musicians, producers, artists, catering team, dog groomer, receptionist, Simon Cowell, etc.
Very much so. Photographs of the seating plans released on Friday show that Beyonce and Jay Z get the best seats in the house, cementing their position as pop royalty. Beyonce's sister Solange - nominated for best R&B performance - has to sit a row behind, resisting the urge to flick B's ear.
Adele sits next to Bruno Mars, while Lady Gaga has an aisle seat. And, in the most unlikely pairing of the night, J-Lo will have to make small talk with Barry Gibb.
The name was chosen in a contest - as the ceremony was previously known as the Gramophone Awards. Jay Danna, the contest winner, received 25 LPs as a prize from the Recording Academy.
Sturgill Simpson is the dark horse in the best album category. His nomination raised more than a few eyebrows from people who expected David Bowie's Blackstar to be honoured by the Recording Academy.
The bad boy of country music, Sturgill covers Nirvana songs and has publicly berated Nashville for being out of touch.
Could he do a Beck?
Adele gave an uncharacteristically pitchy performance at last year's Grammys - after a rogue microphone fell on her piano strings and knocked everything out of tune.
The Recording Academy have "spent a year trying to make it up to her," Grammy producer Ken Ehrlich told E! and they'll be tightening all the screws on all of the mic stands with an industrial-level power tool.
Undoubtedly, she'll be back to her usual, flawless self.
David Bowie, George Michael, Prince, Leonard Cohen, Sir George Martin, Sharon Jones, Glenn Frey, Prince Buster, Phife Dawg... 2016 was brutal - but that puts the Grammys in a pickle. They have a long history of musical tributes, but no-one wants this year's show to feel like a funeral.
"You've got a lot of people incredibly excited about being nominated," producer Kenneth Ehrlich told Rolling Stone. "I don't want to deny them by devoting a third of the show to people who've passed away."
However, organisers have announced there will be special segments devoted to Prince - possibly led by Bruno Mars - and George Michael.
Frank Ocean's Blonde was one of the most critically-acclaimed albums of 2016 - but it's nowhere to be seen in the Grammy nominations.
Don't call it a snub, though. The star simply didn't submit the record for consideration, citing his dissatisfaction with the way the Grammys treated black artists.
"That institution certainly has nostalgic importance," he told the New York Times. "It just doesn't seem to be representing very well for people who come from where I come from, and hold down what I hold down."
Kanye West, who's up for best rap album, vowed to boycott the Grammys if Frank Ocean wasn't nominated. We'll have to wait and see if he keeps his word.
Among the other major stars, Justin Bieber is allegedly skipping the show because he "doesn't think the Grammys are relevant or representative, especially when it comes to young singers" (according to TMZ, anyway).
And Drake isn't going to make it to LA, because he's playing a show in Manchester... But that might not be such a bad decision. The show's ratings dropped to a seven-year low in 2016, meaning the star will make more money from a single concert than he would from three minutes' TV exposure.
It certainly seems likely. Adele, Beyonce, Lady Gaga and John Legend have all been outspoken critics of the new president.
The show has a history of protest. Pharrell, Beyonce and Common all spoke out against police killings of African-Americans two years ago; while Kendrick Lamar performed in chains last year, making a comment on discrimination in America's prison system.
Chance The Rapper could make history if his Coloring Book album snags any of the seven awards it's nominated for. The ebullient, gospel-inspired record is the first streaming-only release to be eligible for the Grammys.
Although he's locked out of the best album category, David Bowie has five other nominations - and is favourite to win best rock album. But don't place a bet just yet, as he only ever won one competitive Grammy in his life.
Rihanna is second to Beyonce as the night's most-nominated woman - she's up for eight awards - but she's likely to be overshadowed in the main categories. Her bold, experimental album ANTI should easily win best urban contemporary album, however.
And, while Kanye may complain, don't expect anyone to refuse their awards. Sinead O'Connor is the only artist to have rejected her Grammy outright; while Milli Vanilli are the only act to have their award revoked.
Album Of The Year
Record Of The Year
Song Of The Year
Best New Artist
Best alternative album
Best pop album
Best rap album
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It emerged on Friday that Wigan striker Grigg and MK full-back Hodson would get the nod for the trip to France.
O'Neill has cut his squad from 28 players with Liam Boyce, Billy McKay, Daniel Lafferty, Ben Reeves and Michael Smith missing out.
Northern Ireland start Euro 2016 against Poland in Nice on 12 June.
O'Neill told each player on Wednesday if they would be involved in Northern Ireland's first appearance in a major tournament since 1986.
Grigg, who scored in Friday night's 3-0 friendly win over Belarus, beat Boyce and McKay to the final striker berth.
Smith and and Lafferty lost out to Hodson for the final full-back slot.
Northern Ireland take on Ukraine in their second Group C game in Lyon on 16 June and finish against world champions Germany in Paris five days later.
O'Neill admitted that his biggest selection dilemma was between Grigg and Ross County forward Boyce.
"It was very difficult to tell the players who were not going and it was hard choice between Will Grigg and Liam Boyce," he said at Saturday's squad announcement in Belfast.
"Liam had a great start to the season in Scotland before suffering a hand injury.
"Meanwhile, Will just kept on scoring - 28 goals for his team and helping them to promotion.
"So while it it was difficult decision, I think it was the right one."
Northern Ireland squad for Euro 2016 finals:
Goalkeepers: Alan Mannus (St Johnstone), Michael McGovern (Hamilton Academical), Roy Carroll (Linfield)
Defenders: Craig Cathcart (Watford), Jonathan Evans (West Bromwich Albion), Gareth McAuley (West Bromwich Albion), Luke McCullough (Doncaster Rovers), Conor McLaughlin (Fleetwood Town), Lee Hodson (MK Dons), Aaron Hughes (Free agent), Patrick McNair (Manchester United), Chris Baird (Derby County)
Midfielders: Steven Davis (Southampton), Oliver Norwood, (Reading), Corry Evans, (Blackburn Rovers), Shane Ferguson (Millwall), Stuart Dallas (Leeds United), Niall McGinn (Aberdeen), Jamie Ward (Nottingham Forest)
Forwards: Kyle Lafferty (Norwich City), Conor Washington (Queens Park Rangers), Josh Magennis (Kilmarnock), Will Grigg (Wigan Athletic)
Step into Michael O'Neill’s shoes and pick your XI as Northern Ireland bid to go far at Euro 2016 - and then share it with your friends using our team selector.
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Data from the National Center for Health Statistics showed a drop for men from 76.5 years in 2014 to 76.3 in 2015, and from 81.3 to 81.2 for women.
The preliminary figures show rises in several causes of death, especially heart disease, dementia and accidental infant deaths.
Life expectancy last fell during the peak of the HIV/Aids crisis in 1993.
It has improved slightly but steadily in most of the years since World War Two, rising from a little more than 68 years in 1950.
It also fell in 1980, after a severe outbreak of flu.
Overall life expectancy for men and women is now 78.8 years, a decrease of 0.1 year from 2014.
"This is unusual," lead author Jiaquan Xu, an epidemiologist at the NCHS, told AFP news agency. "2015 is kind of different from every year. It looks like much more death than we have seen in the last few years."
The report is based mainly on 2015 death certificates.
A decline of 0.1 years in life expectancy means people are dying, on average, a little over a month earlier - or two months earlier for men.
To compare it with the two other declines in the past 30 years, the drop from 1992 to 1993 was 0.3 years, and the drop from 1979 to 1980 was 0.2%.
What's also worrying some experts is that the trend had been largely flat for the preceding three years, rather than steady increase which has prevailed since the 1970s.
The figures show a mixture of factors. Death rates have risen for eight out of 10 of the leading causes of death: heart disease (0.9% rise), chronic lower respiratory diseases (2.7% rise), unintentional injuries (6.7% rise), stroke (3% rise), Alzheimer's disease (15.7% rise), diabetes (1.9% rise), kidney disease (1.5% rise) and suicide (2.3% rise).
Heart disease is the biggest killer - accounting for more than four times as many deaths as each of the others - so even the relatively small 0.9% rise in the heart disease death rate is a major contributor.
Two of the biggest rises were deaths from Alzheimer's disease and also an 11.3% increase in the rate of death for babies under one due to unintentional injuries.
Experts point to obesity levels, an ageing population and economic struggles as wider factors.
"Most of them died from accidental suffocation and strangulation in bed," said Jiaquan Xu.
Michael Grosso, medical director at Northwell Health's Huntington Hospital in New York, told AFP that these deaths would include car crashes, falls, suffocation and fires, and were therefore complex to explain.
He linked the rise to "social stressors", such as financial pressures and addiction.
"The dramatic upswing in the use of opiates and narcotic use across our country is potentially a big factor in driving a phenomenon like accidental injury," he said.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the country is "in midst of an opioid overdose epidemic", with a record 28,000 people killed in 2014. No figures are yet available for 2015, though the 6.7% rise in deaths caused by "unintentional injuries" may be partly related.
The death rate for cancer has gone down 1.7%, which is significant as cancer is the second-biggest cause of death, causing almost as many fatalities as heart disease.
But it seems that fast-developing research into cancer treatments, as well as campaigns on public education and early detection, are having an impact.
The US ranks 28th out of 43 OECD countries, according to 2014 figures - the most recent available. It is just behind the Czech Republic, Chile and Costa Rica, and just above Turkey, Poland and Estonia.
The world's highest life expectancy is in Japan, which is well known for the longevity of its elderly citizens. People there live, on average, to 83.7 years, which is followed by Switzerland and Spain on 83.3.
The world's lowest life expectancy is in Sierra Leone, at 50.1 years, according to the World Health Organization.
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Richardson-Walsh will be appearing in her seventh Champions Trophy while Alex Danson and Laura Unsworth feature for the sixth time.
The men's competition begins on Friday; the women's event follows on 18 June.
Both are being staged at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
Women's Champions Trophy match schedule
GB squad: Giselle Ansley (Surbiton), Sophie Bray (East Grinstead), Crista Cullen (No club), Alex Danson (Reading), Maddie Hinch (Holcombe), Joie Leighn (Clifton), Kirsty Mackay (East Grinstead), Hannah Macleod (St Albans), Shona McCallin (Holcombe), Lily Owsley (University of Birmingham), Sam Quek (Holcombe), Helen Richardson-Walsh (Reading), Kate Richardson-Walsh (Reading), Susannah Townsend (Canterbury), Georgie Twigg (Surbiton), Laura Unsworth (East Grinstead), Hollie Webb (Surbiton), Nicola White (Holcombe).
It was in 1974 when a then 19-year-old Mr Abney first started working for the world's largest parcel delivery firm.
A business student at Delta State University in Mississippi, at night he would work at the local UPS depot, loading packages onto vans. By day he would sleep between lectures on a sofa in the student lounge.
He was tired, but he had money to take his girlfriend out for a meal.
After graduating in 1976, while many of his friends applied for more typical graduate jobs, Mr Abney decided to go full-time with his low level UPS job.
He says he had become fascinated with how the US business worked, how through teamwork it could deliver parcels on time across the States and around the world.
Soon promoted to a UPS driver, and then a supervisor, over the next 40 years he continued to move up through the business, until, in 2014, he was appointed chief executive.
Mr Abney, a born and bred Mississippian, puts his success down to his deep Southern roots, willingness to work hard, and pride in the company. Others also cite his desire to learn about every single part of the business.
Another key factor behind Mr Abney's success was having a good mentor, someone to guide, advise and inspire him.
This was a small town UPS manager, who to this day remains a close confidant.
"He saw something in me that I could not see in myself, and he took a lot of time, and gave me a lot of attention," Mr Abney says.
"We still talk," he adds, describing not unconditional support, but a mentor who was always there to give advice that he "needed to hear".
The advice helped carry him to UPS's headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, where he would go on to oversee the group's aviation division, and its fleet of 500 planes.
He then headed the firm's entire international division, which in the early 2000s saw him lead UPS's expansion into China. Mr Abney would take 10 trips a year to the country, meeting local businesses and government officials to learn how things worked, and where the company would need to adapt.
In 2007 he was appointed chief operating officer, and then chief executive seven years later.
When Mr Abney's predecessor Scott Davis got the top job in 2008, there was some media speculation that Mr Abney and other senior managers who missed out would leave UPS.
But as Jeffrey Rosensweig, a business professor at Emory University in Atlanta, points out, the culture of jumping from company to company to secure promotions doesn't fit with either UPS or Mr Abney.
Instead people are loyal to the business, and the successful move around a lot internally.
"It's a culture [at UPS] that has more in common with Japanese culture, or military culture, where, if you are doing well, they move you so that you learn more of the business," says Prof Rosensweig.
"David had to be flexible, he had to learn. I think people [at the company] see him as talented, but still one of their own.
"They know whatever they are doing that is hard, he has done it too."
Going forward, one of UPS and Mr Abney's biggest challenges is to deal with increased competition from the likes of Amazon, which is greatly increasing its own in-house delivery business.
Like Amazon, UPS is researching delivery by drones. But Mr Abney thinks that such flying deliveries would be more useful in the developing world.
"In places like Rwanda, where 70% of the roads can be washed out by floods, I think drones can be a big help, but I don't expect that we'll see 10,000 drones flying over Atlanta," he says.
In the meantime, UPS - which has a workforce of 440,000 people - had net profits of $4.9bn (£3.7bn) last year, up 11% from $4.4bn in 2014.
Mr Abney says that UPS hasn't been "a job or a career, it's a way of life".
And he hopes that, in the future, another person who started at the very bottom of UPS can lead the company.
"We focus on promotion from within and giving people opportunities and it's amazing to see people grow and develop over the years," he says.
"So I know it's still possible for someone to move up to CEO the way I did."
Growing up in the tiny city of Greenwood, Mississippi (population just 16,000), Mr Abney was the son of an insurance salesman father and homemaker mother.
He says he was determined to work hard in life and make something of himself. "I'm a big believer that you have to take the hand you're dealt," he adds.
He is proud of his Mississippi heritage, and gives to charities in the state.
He also regularly returns to Delta State University, where he is a member of the board of directors for the university's foundation, and sponsors an annual business conference at the college.
But what happened to the childhood sweetheart, who was called Sherry? They became Mr and Mrs Abney, and remain happily married four decades later.
And with Mr Abney earning more than $10m last year, paying for dinner isn't a problem any more.
Ministers are under pressure to commit to a Nato target of spending at least 2% of GDP on defence, and new figures are expected to show the UK currently spending more than 2.1%.
But this total will include some of a £1bn cross-departmental Conflict Pool, a government source told BBC political correspondent Carole Walker.
Nato has approved the move, she added.
The Ministry of Defence provides about £450m of the costs of the Conflict Pool, which is managed with the Foreign Office and the Department for International Development.
According to the government, the pool "will draw on the most effective combination of defence, diplomacy, development assistance, and national security assets" to "promote peace and stability and to tackle threats to UK interests arising from instability overseas".
Some Conservative MPs, and former military generals, have called on the government to commit to continuing to meet the target for Nato members to spend over 2% of their economic output on defence.
Speaking on Sunday, Defence Secretary Michael Fallon told the BBC's Marr Show the latest figures would show the UK spending "comfortably over" this amount.
When pressed on whether the UK would continue to meet that target, he said: "We can't set the budget on this programme, we set the budget in September, then you'll have your answer.
"But we already have three very strong commitments in our manifesto to go on increasing spend on equipment, to go on replacing the four ballistic submarines, and not to cut the Army further.
"There is your commitment."
Former defence minister Sir Gerald Howarth said it was not fair to include contributions to the Conflict Pool in defence expenditure.
"We are facing a very much more dangerous world than we did in 2010 and it looks like what the government is doing is raiding a whole series of accounts and saying 'we didn't include those in the defence budget in the past but in order to make up the 2% and satisfy people like me, we are going to raid those accounts'," he told the BBC News Channel.
While it may be "perfectly legitimate" under Nato rules, Sir Gerald said it would not "allay concerns" both among sections of the British military and foreign allies about the UK's ability to fulfil its commitments on the world stage.
UKIP said the changes to the defence budget calculation amounted to "little more than creative accounting".
The party's defence spokesman Mike Hookem said: "Our view is that the defence budget should be spent on troops, equipment and essential care, such as decent housing and healthcare for personnel and their families."
Public Services Minister Leighton Andrews insisted the case was "compelling and widely accepted".
But opposition is widespread and varied, even within his own party.
Flintshire deputy leader Bernie Attridge described it as "political suicide" adding Welsh Labour needed "urgent change at the top".
The 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.
An alternative allows further consultation over three councils, with Denbighshire joining with Conwy instead.
Leading councillors suggested that the two authorities proposal could deliver a Plaid Cymru stronghold to the west and Labour to the east.
Others 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.
Geoff 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.
Wednesday's announcement has prolonged the uncertainty for the union's members in the north.
Financial 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.
"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.
"The greatest fear for our members is the loss of jobs and privatisation. They wonder just what services will be left to be merged."
Hugh 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".
Denbighshire and Conwy had reached a voluntary agreement for merger which was earlier rejected by Leighton Andrews.
But he is now suggesting that the arrangement could go out to consultation in a model of three new north Wales authorities.
Mr 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.
"There are also the cultural and linguistic differences with the strong urban industrial areas against the rural areas, particularly in Denbighshire," he said.
"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".
"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?
"This whole process is a distraction beyond 2020 when we should be concentrating on providing services."
But 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.
He added: "Will someone please get on with it? If the status quo isn't sustainable, then tell us what is.
"I think personally one council for north west and one for north east Wales makes sense in terms of spatial planning.
"The big question is over health and social care, where we have a health board across the whole of north Wales."
Mr Andrews said no final decisions had been taken.
"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.
"I want to emphasise this is not a final decision. It is the next phase in our public debate."
General Joseph Votel, head of US Central Command, spent about 11 hours in northern Syria.
He met US military advisers and the leaders of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), made up of Kurdish and Arab rebel forces.
The US wants local forces to defeat the so-called Islamic State (IS) group, which holds territory in the country.
Speaking after the visit, Gen Votel said training local forces to fight IS was the right approach.
"I left with increased confidence in their capabilities and our ability to support them. I think that model is working and working well," he said.
The SDF comprises about 25,000 Kurdish fighters and about 5,000 Arab fighters. The US is hoping to increase the number of Arabs in the force.
Arab commanders who spoke to journalists during the visit said their forces needed more help.
SDF Deputy Commander Qarhaman Hasan said he wanted armoured vehicles, machine guns, rocket launchers and mortars.
The SDF currently had to rely on smuggling to get weapons, he said.
"You can't run an army on smuggling," he added.
Tribal leaders also called on the US to do more, both militarily and with humanitarian aid.
The US has about 200 military advisers in Syria, where 270,000 people have died in five years of civil war.
Archaeologists from National Museums Scotland and the University of Aberdeen's Northern Picts project made the find at an undisclosed spot.
It contains more than 100 pieces.
The discovery has been hailed as the most northern of its kind in Europe. and will now be researched and catalogued.
Elements of the hoard will be on display for the first time at the University of Aberdeen from 20 January to 31 May.
The already saturated ground was topped up by further overnight rain.
Following a 12:30 BST inspection, match umpires Ian Gould and Richard Illingworth had no option but to abandon play again.
And given the forecast for Wednesday, it is unlikely that there will be any play on the final day either.
Meetings between Worcestershire and Kent have been blighted by bad weather since Worcester's great flood in 2007.
All four days were lost at New Road, as was the case in the next home game against Lancashire, and only the final day's play was possible in the return Kent-Worcestershire game at Canterbury later in the season.
Also, in 2014, the last time the clubs met in the Championship, at Tunbridge Wells, only 17 overs were bowled on the final three days.
Worcestershire head groundsman Tim Packwood:
"The ground was playable on Friday. If anything, the rain on Saturday afternoon was a lot heavier than anticipated.
"That probably topped it up to the levels where it was touch and go on Monday as to whether the players would get on.
"But there were just areas of the ground where, the best way to describe it, was that it had turned to like a jelly-blancmange.
"When you put your foot down, it wasn't actually wet on the surface but the ground was starting to move because of the height of the water table."
Pools were given a shock penalty, with Mark Hughes subsequently sent off, after an hour with Deverdics scoring the follow-up after Elliot Parish saved Padraig Amond's spot-kick.
And Alessandra added a second in injury time to secure the points.
Accrington dominated the opening period, Billy Kee spurning three golden chances either side of Alessandra forcing a smart stop from Parish.
But the game turned when referee Richard Clark intervened, apparently adjudging Hughes to have pulled back Amond amid Toto Nsiala seeing a header brilliantly saved.
Amond missed the spot-kick but, after Accrington denied two subsequent efforts in a scramble, the ball set up for Deverdics to unfurl a sublime bicycle kick.
Parish then made two fine saves to keep Accrington afloat, and they almost levelled as Paddy Lacey saw a header cleared off the line before Trevor Carson brilliantly denied Romuald Boco.
Stanley's misery was compounded when Alessandra slotted home Amond's fine cross in injury time.
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Match ends, Hartlepool United 2, Accrington Stanley 0.
Second Half ends, Hartlepool United 2, Accrington Stanley 0.
Attempt missed. Paddy Lacey (Accrington Stanley) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Foul by Romuald Boco (Accrington Stanley).
Lewis Alessandra (Hartlepool United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Goal! Hartlepool United 2, Accrington Stanley 0. Lewis Alessandra (Hartlepool United) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Padraig Amond with a cross.
Attempt saved. Romuald Boco (Accrington Stanley) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Omar Beckles (Accrington Stanley) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Padraig Amond (Hartlepool United).
Foul by Omar Beckles (Accrington Stanley).
Padraig Amond (Hartlepool United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Accrington Stanley. Romuald Boco replaces Seamus Conneely.
Corner, Hartlepool United. Conceded by Scott Brown.
Corner, Hartlepool United. Conceded by Elliot Parish.
Attempt saved. Josh Laurent (Hartlepool United) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Attempt missed. Jake Carroll (Hartlepool United) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left.
Attempt blocked. Shay McCartan (Accrington Stanley) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Corner, Accrington Stanley. Conceded by Lewis Hawkins.
Substitution, Hartlepool United. Michael Woods replaces Nicky Deverdics.
Attempt missed. Scott Brown (Accrington Stanley) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Attempt saved. Matthew Bates (Hartlepool United) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt saved. Padraig Amond (Hartlepool United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Omar Beckles (Accrington Stanley) is shown the yellow card.
John O'Sullivan (Accrington Stanley) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jake Carroll (Hartlepool United).
Corner, Hartlepool United. Conceded by Seamus Conneely.
Corner, Hartlepool United. Conceded by Elliot Parish.
Attempt saved. Jake Carroll (Hartlepool United) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner.
Substitution, Accrington Stanley. Paddy Lacey replaces Billy Kee.
Sean McConville (Accrington Stanley) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Josh Laurent (Hartlepool United).
Substitution, Hartlepool United. Jake Carroll replaces James Martin.
Foul by Omar Beckles (Accrington Stanley).
Lewis Alessandra (Hartlepool United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Billy Kee (Accrington Stanley).
Lewis Alessandra (Hartlepool United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Shay McCartan (Accrington Stanley) is shown the yellow card.
Billy Kee (Accrington Stanley) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Goal! Hartlepool United 1, Accrington Stanley 0. Nicky Deverdics (Hartlepool United) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner following a set piece situation.
Penalty saved! Padraig Amond (Hartlepool United) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, right footed shot saved in the bottom right corner.
Jesse Hawthorne, 23, from Caerphilly, posted it on Facebook six weeks after the early morning row.
The details emerged during his trial at Caerphilly Magistrates' Court for four counts of criminal damage which he was cleared of.
Hawthorne is due to be sentenced for the picture post on 7 October.
On Friday, the court heard Hawthorne was born as Jessica and had been in a lesbian relationship with the woman for two-and-a-half years before deciding to undergo a sex change.
Three months after their break up, he turned up at her house party to get his Pug back.
During the exchange on 2 May, her car damaged but magistrates ruled Hawthorne was not responsible.
The court heard he has already pleaded guilty to one count of disclosing a private sexual photograph or film with the intention of causing distress and could face jail.
Mr Durkan was addressing the Northern Ireland Assembly on Monday.
When questioned about whether his department is now open to legal challenge, he said he would robustly defend its decision in the courts.
He said he trusted that other ministers would be reluctant to waste public money on a protracted legal battle.
He said he brought the plan to the executive on several occasions.
The only issue raised related to the restriction on the sale of bulky goods at any further expansion of the Sprucefield retail area near Lisburn, he said.
The plan, BMAP, is a framework for greater Belfast.
It identifies zones for retail, residential or commercial development. The plan affects almost 40% of the Northern Ireland population.
Last week, Mr Durkan said he had approved the plan without the agreement of all his colleagues in the executive.
The DUP had previously said that BMAP was a cross-cutting matter relevant to more than one department and should have the agreement of the whole executive.
The minister confirmed that some of his executive colleagues were unhappy with the retail zoning given to Sprucefield near Lisburn.
The BMAP treatment of Sprucefield limits future expansion to "bulky goods" only, which would mean a proposed John Lewis shop could not be built there.
The plan covers not just Belfast but outlying areas such as Carrickfergus, Lisburn, Newtownabbey and North Down.
The Welsh Government said it supported the idea and was looking at "a broad range of views" on the issue.
It comes as Environment Secretary Michael Gove announced proposals on CCTV being required in every slaughterhouse in England in all areas where live animals are present.
RSPCA Cymru has called for the measures to be "brought forward" in Wales.
Under the new plans for England, which aim to ensure high animal welfare standards, vets will also have unrestricted access to footage.
Mr Gove has launched a consultation on the proposals.
The Welsh Government said: "We note with interest the launch of the consultation in England and will continue to keep in regular contact with Defra to see how the consultation progresses.
"We are currently considering all responses to the report of the Safeguarding Animal Welfare at Slaughter Task and Finish Group, set up to consider the implementation of CCTV in Welsh slaughterhouses.
"The cabinet secretary also asked the Wales Animal Health and Welfare Framework Group to look into this specific issue
"We will take into account the findings of the framework group, in addition to a broad range of views from all sides of the debate, before deciding on further action."
It added that the "vast majority" of livestock in Wales was slaughtered in facilities that already have the surveillance.
Claire Lawson, RSPCA assistant director of external relations in Wales, said it welcomed the Welsh Government's support but would "like to see measures brought forward which make this mandatory".
"The Welsh Government could protect animals being slaughtered from possible mistreatment, and slaughterhouse staff from any unfounded allegations, by backing the implementation of mandatory CCTV in abattoirs," Ms Lawson said.
She added that the RSPCA had produced a report in response to the task and finish group report, expressing "significant concerns with their evidence base and conclusions", and was waiting for a reply.
The 27-year-old was player of the year in his first season at Molineux in 2013-14 when Jackett's side won the League One title.
But he has fallen out of favour this term and has not played since 8 March.
"He's disappointed that he hasn't been playing but he's professional and has worked hard in training," said Jackett.
"We've had discussions about his overall situation. He understands there has to be some type of summing up. That will be this week. We'll talk about it and we'll see what happens."
McDonald has been linked with a move to Scottish Championship winners Rangers. But Jackett insists it is the formation he has used in midfield that has led to McDonald's continued exclusion.
"We need to be able to work to a two," he said. "We need to play next year and have enough where we can have a second forward, a very offensive number 10, that's where I want to get to.
"How does that impact on my central midfield? I'm looking for the right pair.
"It depends very much depends on how the conversations go, how we shape our squad, exactly what we have to spend and where we need to improve."
Meanwhile, Wolves have released six players, as well as allowing their two loan players, striker Adam Le Fondre, and goalkeeper Emi Martinez to return to their respective clubs.
Martinez goes back to parent club Arsenal, while Wolves have opted not to take up an option to buy Le Fondre following the end of his own season-long loan.
Wingers Zeli Ismail and Razak Boukari, strikers Liam McAlinden and Bjorn Sigurdarson, midfielder Tommy Rowe, who has been out on loan at Doncaster, and reserve keeper Aaron McCarey have all been let go too.
The American institution that was slowly brought to its knees by a combination of evolving cultural tastes, bad luck and political enemies that left it no longer financially viable.
For the performers, it also means the end of a tight-knit community that travelled and lived on a train in between shows.
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Irwin Mitchell said Helen Reynolds, of Rugeley, Staffordshire, was admitted to Spire Manchester Hospital last year.
Mrs Reynolds, 50, said she was then in pain for a year and had to have further surgery to have the tubing removed.
Spire Healthcare said patients' welfare and safety was its top priority but was unable to comment on individual cases.
Mrs Reynolds was admitted to the hospital in January last year but two months after surgery she "started to suffer from excruciating pain", Irwin Mitchell said.
It said her GP diagnosed cysts on her ovaries and further to this, a scan in May this year revealed an object inside her.
Mrs Reynolds told the BBC she had arthritis in her knees and back and paid for gastric bypass surgery so she could lose weight and ease the condition.
She said following the surgery she was taking painkillers "for quite a few months" and could not leave the house because of pains in her stomach.
Speaking through the law firm, she said: "I am flabbergasted at how this has happened to me.
"I suffered for months and months with excruciating pain in my stomach, which I can only describe as like labour pains."
Irwin Mitchell said to have the tubing inside her for a year constituted "a 'never event' according to national Patient Safety Guidelines which recognise that such occurrences are unacceptable and completely preventable if the appropriate procedures have been implemented".
The law firm said it was at the investigation stage, compiling medical evidence.
In a statement, Spire Healthcare said it took the responsibility of the welfare and safety of patients "very seriously" and "set extremely high standards" across every aspect of its hospitals.
About 250 people gathered in Leeds' City Square chanting 'time to go, Massimo', with numbers swelling as the march headed to Elland Road.
Protest organisers, the Time To Go Massimo group, said it was time to "end the farce" of chairman Massimo Cellino's ownership.
The club are yet to comment on the march.
Organisers said ex-Leeds manager and current Reading boss Brian McDermott "will return to our club to discover that Leeds United very much remains the circus that he left behind".
Mr Cellino agreed in principle to sell his majority share to supporters' group Leeds Fans United last October, but changed his mind a week later.
A recent tribunal involving former club employee Lucy Ward heard Cellino told a third party that women "should be in the bedroom or the beautician's" instead of in football.
In a statement, the club said Mr Cellino denied making the comment.
At Elland Road, Leeds United beat Reading 3-2.
Only, they were not actually bird watchers - that was just a cover. These were socialists from all over Europe, meeting to discuss ways to bring peace to a continent ravaged by World War One.
Two of the most famous participants were Russian: Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, or Lenin, and Leon Trotsky.
Their peace campaign made secrecy necessary: opposing the war was viewed as treason in many countries.
Lenin and Trotsky were already political refugees. They were both living in neutral Switzerland - Trotsky in Geneva and Lenin in Berne, quietly planning the overthrow of Tsarist Russia.
Today, Zimmerwald is not much changed from that day in 1915.
It is a sleepy little place, population 1,100, with a few farms, a church, and the Alps soaring majestically across the valley.
And for 100 years there was no sign that the founders of the Bolshevik Revolution had ever set foot there.
Thousands of kilometres to the east, however, Zimmerwald gradually became famous.
In classrooms across the Soviet Union, the village was being celebrated as the birthplace of the revolution.
"In the Soviet Union, Zimmerwald was such a famous place. Every Soviet school child knew about Zimmerwald," explained Julia Richers, a historian at Berne University.
"But you can ask any Swiss school child, they would never know what Zimmerwald was about."
Julia describes Switzerland's attitude to its history as a kind of "forceful forgetting", especially in Zimmerwald itself, where, in the 1960s, plans to have a small plaque marking Lenin's presence were formally banned by the village council.
Switzerland's neutrality probably lies at the root of that reluctance to acknowledge the past.
During the Cold War the Swiss were extremely nervous about showing overt friendliness to either East or West, and spent billions on a vast army and on bunkers for every family, in the hope of sitting, neutrally, out of any future conflict.
But in Zimmerwald, reminders of Lenin's presence were dropping through the letter box every day.
Mayor Fritz Broennimann has a vast archive of earnest missives: postcards, drawings, and notes, from hundreds of Soviet schoolchildren, many of them addressed to the "President of Zimmerwald", all begging for information about their national hero Lenin.
"They asked for photographs, for booklets," he explained, showing a fraying postcard of a Lenin statue in Moscow.
"Some even sent their letters to the Lenin museum in Zimmerwald."
Of course, there was no museum, and there were no photographs or booklets.
Most of those letters were never answered.
But occasionally a Zimmerwald official, perhaps made anxious by the excessive amount of mail with Soviet stamps landing on his desk, tried to stem the flow.
And so, in 1945, this firm reply was sent:
"Sir, I have not been briefed on your political sympathies. However, I am not inclined to provide material to a political extremist, which could then be of use to enemies of the state."
Even in this centenary year, Zimmerwald has wrestled with the apparently agonising decision over whether to mark it.
"We had an idea [for an article] - 'A hundred years, a hundred opinions'," explained Mayor Broennimann.
"So we put an advertisement in the local paper. We got about six answers."
But just a few kilometres north of Zimmerwald in the Swiss capital Berne - one of the most left-leaning of Switzerland's cities - the significance of the Zimmerwald conference is getting a good deal of attention.
"Zimmerwald was actually a peace conference," said Fabian Molina, president of Switzerland's Young Socialists party.
"They were young leftists from the whole of Europe, discussing peace, discussing their strategy against war."
"A hundred years after Zimmerwald, we are in a similar situation, if we compare the wars that are going on, with 60 million people fleeing.
"We have a refugee crisis, it reminds us how violent the world is, and so it's important to remember there was once a conference of people uniting for peace."
Historian Julia Richers agrees, pointing out that the conference was the only gathering in Europe against the war, and that the final manifesto from Zimmerwald contained some fundamental principles.
"The Zimmerwald manifesto stated three important things," she explained. "That there should be a peace without annexations, a peace without war contributions, and the self-determination of people.
"If you look at the peace treaties of World War One, those three things were hardly considered, and we know that World War One led partially to the World War Two, and so I think the manifesto did state some very important points for a peaceful Europe."
A little-known fact is that that manifesto was not revolutionary enough for Lenin and Trotsky, who wanted it to contain references to replacing war between nations with an armed class struggle.
Their fellow socialists and social democrats in Zimmerwald outvoted them, but Lenin continued to harbour hopes that Switzerland might be fertile ground for staging a revolution.
"He once stated that the Swiss could have been the most revolutionary of all, because almost everybody had a gun at home," said Julia Richers.
"But he said that in the end the society was too bourgeois… so he gave up on the Swiss."
"I think he recognised after a few years that it was not a good idea to start a revolution in Switzerland," laughed Fabian Molina.
"Switzerland has always been a quite right-wing country, it… never had a left majority, and I think Lenin saw that the revolutionary potential here in Switzerland was quite small."
But back in Zimmerwald, that historic conference, and its most famous participants, have finally received some modest recognition.
On the spot where the hotel Lenin stayed in once stood (it was pulled down in the 1960s to make way for a bus stop) are two small signs.
Made only of plywood and cardboard, they will not last once winter begins, Fritz Broennimann admits, but they do at least commemorate the events of 1915.
And, after much discussion, the village held a memorial event, with speeches by historians and politicians.
It took place in the local church which, Mr Broennimann remarks with a wry smile, "was full for a change".
And Lenin? He carried on living in Berne, where he wrote some of his most important political treatises.
In 1916 he moved to Zurich, and in early 1917 he took the famous train from Zurich to St Petersburg, which was teetering on the edge of revolution.
The rest, as they say, is history.
Patients queued in corridors because of a lack of cubicles in the department and there were not enough staff to care for them, a report said.
The Care Quality Commission said its layout made it difficult to keep an eye on patients, which "posed unacceptable risks to patient and staff safety".
The trust said improvements were being made.
In October 2015, the CQC investigated Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which runs the main hospital and four community hospitals - Chippenham, Savernake, Trowbridge and Warminster.
All community hospital services were rated "good", while children and young people's services were rated "outstanding".
But Chief Inspector of Hospitals Sir Mike Richards, said there was a "marked variation in the quality of services" between those hospitals and the Great Western Hospital.
Its "observation unit" was isolated, meaning children waiting to be seen could not be properly watched, the report said.
There were not always enough staff to look after patients left queuing in corridors and not all staff adhered to "good hand hygiene practices or using protective personal clothing".
Overall the trust's services "require improvement", the inspectors found.
Sir Mike said: "Although these issues were recognised and known, we found that the necessary improvements had not been made or sustained."
He said the trust had been under financial pressure and leadership was "open" about challenges and "must now work hard to meet the demands required".
The trust's chief executive Nerissa Vaughan said safety was "our number one priority".
"We know we need to do more to build on the improvements we have already made," she said.
She added measures had been introduced to improve the situation including new initial nurse assessments, meaning "patients are likely to be seen sooner", and more training for staff.
The 24 year-old, who came through Manchester City's academy, left Shrewsbury in December after agreeing with the club to cancel his contract.
Before joining Shrewsbury in July, Sarcevic spent three years at Fleetwood Town where he scored 18 goals in 118 league appearances.
He becomes Derek Adams' third signing in January after Nathan Blissett and Jakub Sokolik arrived at Home Park.
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Final year primary pupils sat a raft of tough new tests in the summer. Only 53% of pupils passed, compared to the 80% who passed easier tests in 2015.
Primary heads leader Russell Hobby said ministers had stressed the scale of the changes meant comparisons could not be drawn on previous years' results.
The government said schools had responded well to the higher demands.
Pupils at 14,930 state primary schools sat the new national Sats tests in reading, writing and maths - the "Three-Rs"; they also sat a spelling and grammar test.
Schools are then ranked by these results to enable parents to narrow down the choice of schools for their children.
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In the run up to and during the tests, teachers and heads across England complained that the new papers had been set at too high a level and that not enough information had been made available.
The government's expectation is that 65% of pupils in each school should meet the new expected standard in the "Three Rs".
In total, about 11,000 schools failed to meet this target.
However, the Department for Education (DfE) said schools that achieved sufficient progress scores in reading, writing and maths would not be considered to be failing.
It had deliberately held steady the percentage of schools deemed to be failing at 5% - the same as last year - so that the volatility of this year's results did not lead schools that were otherwise successful to be targeted for intervention.
Conversely, just 47 schools saw all pupils reaching the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.
General secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers, Mr Hobby, said: "The pass mark for the test was set at a ridiculously high level.
"We have just failed half the children in the country and yet Ofsted is saying nearly 90% of schools are good or outstanding.
"Pupils were doing what they should have been doing in the early years of secondary school. Some of the grammatical stuff was the same level as GCSE English."
He added: "This data is not worth the paper it is written on. The government itself has said that it cannot be used to trigger interventions in schools.
"This year we saw the Sats system descend into chaos and confusion.
"Delayed and obscure guidance, papers leaked online, mistakes in test papers and inconsistent moderation made this year unmanageable for school leaders, teachers, parents and pupils."
But School Standards Minister Nick Gibb said the introduction of a new curriculum had raised expectations and ensured "pupils become more accomplished readers and are fluent in the basics of arithmetic, including times-tables, long division and fractions".
"Many schools have responded well to this more rigorous curriculum, supporting their pupils to be leaving primary school better prepared for the demands of secondary school," he said.
Last year, when four-fifths of school pupils reached the expected level, then known as Level 4C, ministers praised schools for "rising to the challenge of raised standards and expectations for all pupils".
Julie McCulloch, primary specialist at the Association of School and College Leaders, said schools had "performed miracles" in very difficult circumstances and deserved great credit.
"The tests are based on a new, much harder curriculum, which the children had followed for only two years, and the expected standard has been significantly raised.
"In addition, the government's introduction of these tests has been chaotic."
The data shows a continuing gender gap, with 57% of girls reaching the expected level in reading, writing and maths compared with 50% of boys.
And the most disadvantaged children fared far worse in these new tests, compared to their non-disadvantaged peers, than they did in the previous test with just 39% achieving the standard.
The government data also reveals regional differences, with London performing very strongly.
Of the top 10 ranking local authorities, in terms of the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, nine are in London
Of the 33 London boroughs, all but one (Enfield) was above the national average in terms of the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.
The five local authorities with the highest percentage of pupils making the grade:
The five local authorities with the lowest percentage of pupils making the grade:
Ludgvan School in Cornwall was the only school where more than 50% of students achieved a high score in reading and maths and were working at greater depth in writing.
As well as test result data, the school league tables also provide lots of information about schools' social make-up, teaching workforce and the historic trend in their results.
"It is beyond dispute at various periods of its long history that Tibet came under differing degrees of foreign influence: the Mongols, the Gurkhas of Nepal, the Manchu emperors of China and the British rulers of India all played their parts. At other periods in the plateau's history, it was Tibet which exercised power and influence over its neighbours - including China.
It would be hard to find any state in the world today that has not been subjected to foreign domination or influence at some era in its history. In Tibet's case the degree and duration of foreign influence and interference was relatively limited."
"Traditional Tibetan society - like most of its Asian contemporaries - was backward and badly in need of reforms. However, it is completely wrong to use the word "feudal" from the perspective of medieval Europe to describe traditional Tibetan society. Tibet before the invasion, in fact, was far more egalitarian than most Asian countries of that time. Hugh Richardson, who spent a total of nine years in Tibet as Britain's last and independent India's first representative, wrote: "Even communist writers have had to admit there was no great difference between rich and poor in [pre-1949] Tibet."
"An internal Chinese military document states that from 1952 to 1958, the People's Liberation Army crushed 996 rebellions and killed over 10,000 Tibetans in the north-eastern region of Kanlho. Golog, another Amdo area, saw its population halved from an estimated 140,000 in 1956 to about 70,000 in 1964.
Referring to this area, the late Panchen Lama [the second most important figure in Tibetan Buddhism after the Dalai Lama] told Beijing's leaders: "If there was a film made on all the atrocities perpetrated in Qinghai Province, it would shock the viewers. In Golog area, many people were killed and their dead bodies rolled down the hill into a big ditch. The soldiers told the family members and relatives of the dead people that they should celebrate since the rebels had been wiped out. They were even forced to dance on the dead bodies."
"The '59 uprising against Chinese rule was a people's movement to resist all the changes the Chinese Communist Party were introducing in Tibet.
In the 17 Point Agreement signed between Tibet and China in 1951, the Chinese Communist Party promised that in return for Tibet coming to the fold of motherland, China would not change Tibet's traditional social system or tamper with the powers of the Dalai Lama. Both these promises were not kept, and the introduction of collectivisation and other aspects of the social system in Tibet forced the Tibetans to rise up."
"In the early 1980s, a liberal policy was introduced in Tibet. This policy dismantled collectivisation and there were plans to withdraw 85% of the Chinese cadres working in the Tibet Autonomous Region. This policy was aimed at letting Tibetans govern themselves.
However, in 1994, all these liberal measures were withdrawn and a new policy called "grasping with both hands" was implemented in Tibet. This policy continued Tibet's economic development while reimposing political repression targeted at undermining Tibetan culture and Tibetan Buddhism. The widespread protests in Tibet are Tibetans' resistance to this hardline policy."
US TV network ABC also ordered a new spin-off show, Marvel's Agent Carter, based on Hayley Atwell's Captain America character.
Both series tie into the Marvel film series, which includes star-studded titles like Iron Man and Thor.
They add background to events on the big screen, providing an overarching story to the so-called Marvel Universe.
Agents Of Shield was created by Joss Whedon, who scripted the Avengers Assemble film, and previously created Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Firefly.
The drama resurrected the character of Agent Coulson, who was killed in Avengers Assemble, with his character's miraculous recovery the central mystery of the opening episodes.
Played by Clark Gregg, the character took charge of a team of law-enforcement agents, tasked with investigating super-human individuals and unusual events.
Eventually, the plot of the series overlapped with Captain America: The Winter Soldier, in which the SHIELD organisation was brought down from within.
When the series debuted in the US in September 2013, it garnered 12.12 million viewers, marking the biggest network drama debut in four years.
Audience figures fell by nearly 4 million between the first and second episode, while figures for recent episodes average 5.5 million.
In the UK, where it is shown on Channel 4, the show's audience has also plummeted - from 4.5 million in September 2013 to 1.1 million last week.
However, the series plays well with young men, a much sought-after demographic with advertisers, and its ratings tend to recover once time-delayed viewing is taken into account.
Agent Carter, which follows the story of secret agent Peggy Carter, is being hailed as a "bridge show", which will be screened during Agents Of Shields' mid-series hiatus.
Meanwhile, Marvel comics is preparing another four series - Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Iron Fist and Luke Cage - via its partnership with Netflix.
And it is rewarding to bear in mind that even technological innovation is not just about inventing things.
Somebody has to make the link between the invention and the prospective user. Somebody has to turn the integrated computer on a chip into a usable computer.
Somebody has to make people actually want personal computers... even if (in retrospect) they turn out to be one of the most must-have empowering inventions ever conceived.
Those "somebodies" are often entrepreneurs: the opportunists who see the possibilities of a new machine or innovation just ahead of the rest of us.
People like Sir Charles Dunstone, for example, now in the process of merging his company Carphone Warehouse with Dixons Retail, owners of Curry's and PC World.
Charles Dunstone has made a fortune out of mobile phones, but he was not a communications outsider. He was working in mobile phones when he spotted their true potential.
The company he originally worked for was doing the conventional thing people do with a new technology: apply it to the obvious existing marketplace.
In this case the big companies were the obvious market for business equipment: those phones as big as a brick that people used to lug around 25 years ago as symbols of their importance... to somebody.
Ideal equipment for corporate sales people out in their company cars seeking out somewhere with a signal.
Mobile phones were a business-to-business product, everyone agreed.
Charles Dunstone - immersed in this strategy - saw things differently from the company he was working with.
He realised that if there were thousands of big company people, there were hundreds of thousands - maybe millions - of small business and sole proprietors whose lives would be transformed by being unshackled from the "he's not here now" or the answerphone.
The painter up a ladder could arrange his or her next job without coming down to earth. Over and over again. A real small business revolution.
In response to this insight, Carphone Warehouse was set up by Charles Dunstone and Julian Brownlie in 1989; Dunstone's old school friend David Ross joined a year later.
The phone retailer with a High Street presence was an almost immediate success.
It never needed to borrow money to create a hectic pace of expansion across the UK and then Europe. It was an idea whose time had come, but somebody had to realise it.
The name of the stores crystallises a now vanished era for mobile telephony: portable but not too portable. The move to retailing was a stroke of entrepreneurial genius, and brilliantly timed.
Carphone Warehouse had first mover advantage, and knew how to capitalise on it. That entrepreneurial drive imbued the company for a long time afterwards.
The look and feel of a company headquarters are very revealing about the way the business runs, and I have been in few more impressive than Carphone Warehouse's base in a workaday part of West London close to the A40.
Two huge open plan floors were at the heart of the business, and a visitor walked up what I remember as a big curved staircase into the main floor which had a very familiar feel.
It had the look, noise and intensity of a big media newsroom. Decisions could be taken on a minute-by-minute basis by people who walked across the room to consult on a new idea (such as a new pricing strategy).
Then the in-house broadcast studio could turn into the price announcement into a local radio advertisement within an hour or so.
Here was an organisation set up around flexibility and market responsiveness. Even a casual visitor like me caught the entrepreneurial buzz.
Mind you, businesses mature, and so do the people who run them. Charles Dunstone got his knighthood and he was in demand as a non-executive director.
One of the companies whose boards he graced was the now disgraced bank HBOS, where he chaired the retail risk committee from 2006 to 2008. HBOS later needed a government bailout because of the risks it took, and the losses it made.
"A colossal failure," said the parliamentary commission on banking standards.
Banks and entrepreneurs are not necessarily good bedfellows.
Now the mobile phone marketplace is maturing, and so are computers and home electronics. The wireless networks that created Carphone Warehouse are busy disrupting bricks and mortar selling with electronic retailing.
Sir Charles Dunstone is to be chairman of the newly merged Dixons Carphone.
In a disrupting world it will be interesting to see whether he has retained the entrepreneurial nous that 25 years ago spotted the original opportunity... when mobile phones seemed to most other people to be just a big business proposition.
The plane, which took off from RAF Northolt, was forced to land at Luton Airport following a "technical issue", a Foreign Office spokesman said.
Mr Johnson thanked the crew for their professionalism and was grateful to Luton Airport for the unscheduled welcome, the spokesman added.
He has now continued his journey.
The delay means Mr Johnson will be late for an informal dinner with EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini, but the pair intend to meet later in the evening, the BBC understands.
A spokesman for Luton Airport said all 16 passengers on board the plane left the aircraft safely, but the runway was disrupted for more than 30 minutes.
"Several scheduled flights were disrupted whilst the runway was cleared," he added.
After United's Europa League final win against Ajax on 24 May, Mourinho said he had given executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward a list of transfer targets.
Senior United figures spoke privately about signing three or four players.
There could be developments later this week, but so far the only new signing has been 22-year-old defender Victor Lindelof from Benfica for £31m.
It is understood Mourinho wants at least one forward to compensate for the loss of Zlatan Ibrahimovic, 35, because of injury, as well as a holding midfield player.
Efforts to sign Atletico Madrid forward Antoine Griezmann, 26, for a fee that would have come close to the world record £89m United paid Juventus for midfielder Paul Pogba 12 months ago were compromised by Ibrahimovic's major knee injury, which will keep him out until the New Year.
Atletico were also banned from buying players during the current transfer window and Griezmann signed a new contract, retaining a 100m euros release clause.
Another potential target, Everton striker Romelu Lukaku, 24, is thought to be more interested in joining Chelsea, so Real Madrid's Alvaro Morata, 24, has emerged as United's preferred striking option.
However, efforts to do a deal with Real have, thus far, met with frustration.
His father and agent met with Real officials at the Bernabeu on Monday and although it is still anticipated a transfer will happen, United's departure for their five-match pre-season tour of the USA on Sunday has created an artificial deadline there is no certainty of meeting.
Tottenham's Eric Dier, 23, and Chelsea's Nemanja Matic, 28, have been spoken of by club officials as possible additions to fill the holding midfield role.
However, any attempt to get Dier would involve protracted discussions with Tottenham, which United have never found easy.
It is understood Chelsea will not even entertain the prospect releasing Matic until they have completed the transfer of 22-year-old France midfielder Tiemoue Bakayoko from Monaco.
United officials also spoke to Inter Milan about winger Ivan Perisic, 28, but that move is hampered by the Italian side's improved financial situation, meaning they have no urgent need to sell.
The situation is somewhat different to 12 months ago, when Ibrahimovic, centre-half Eric Bailly and midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan were all signed two weeks before United went on their pre-season tour of the Far East, with Pogba coming in later.
Mourinho is mindful his squad needed improving, as - despite winning the EFL Cup and Europa League last season - they finished sixth in the Premier League.
Tour matches against Manchester City, Real Madrid and Barcelona in particular will offer an indication about how much improvement is required.
The Uruguayan scored an equaliser and a goal in the penalty shootout against Portugal as his country progressed to the semi-finals of the tournament.
But in his goal celebration he pulled his eyes back to make them into slits.
"It is not a racist celebration. It was a private celebration for friends," he later tweeted in Korean.
"I did not have any racist intent. I'd like to apologise."
Last month Argentina international Ezequiel Lavezzi apologised after he made a slant-eyed pose in promotional pictures for his Chinese football club.
He was photographed pulling the corner of his eyes in pictures taken for the Chinese Super League side Hebei China Fortune.
About 40 firefighters continue to tackle pockets of fire inside Maple Mill in Oldham. The blaze began early on Thursday and has been alight for about 30 hours.
Residents from Cardwell Street are unable to return home due to the "unsafe structure" of the building.
The demolition process could take about three days, Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service (GMFRS) said.
The Honeywell Centre in Hadfield Crescent remains open for residents.
A full investigation into the fire, which started on the upper floor, will begin once the building has been made safe.
A total of 80 firefighters battled for seven hours to bring the huge blaze under control on Thursday.
Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue warned people not to come to the Cardwell Street mill to watch the demolition.
Group manager Ben Levy said: "Having people come to watch the demolition process wouldn't be helpful to crews.
"And so if your intention is to come to the area for this reason - we urge you to stay away."
Local residents are still being advised to keep their doors and windows closed.
Meanwhile, the mill owner has claimed he warned police and the council about travellers at the site.
Vance Miller, 51, alleges they were charging people to dump illegal tyres and asbestos there.
The kitchen businessman insists the blaze would "never had happened" if the travellers had been evicted.
Mr Miller, who is wanted for questioning over fraud charges, said he was speaking to the BBC from China.
The businessman, who was the subject of a failed Trading Standards prosecution in 2010, claims he told police the travellers had "dismantled" the mill.
He said: "Once they had stripped everything and there was nothing left to strip they then started charging people to dump illegal asbestos and illegal tyres.
"I phoned environmental health services in Oldham and said, look, they were dumping asbestos and tyres there, but they didn't want to know.
"They said: 'We'll nip down there and take a look'. What did they do? Nothing.
"If the council had done as I'd asked it wouldn't have happened. If the police had done as I'd asked it wouldn't have happened."
Oldham Council has said it received reports of caravans at the mill in September and reported concerns to the Environment Agency and the Health and Safety Executive.
Jean Stretton, Oldham Council leader, said: "As the site is privately owned we contacted the owners' solicitors to advise them and remind them of their legal obligations to keep the building and site safe."
Greater Manchester Police is investigating.
He's been putting pressure on US companies not to move jobs south, and this week Ford announced it was investing in its factory in Michigan rather than building a new plant in Mexico.
During his election campaign, Mr Trump threatened to rip up Nafta, the free trade agreement between Canada, the US and Mexico, which has been in place for 23 years.
But what impact has Nafta had in Mexico, and what would its potential demise mean for the country?
In a leafy square in Mexico City on a warm December evening a group of excited children are hitting a brightly coloured pinata stuffed with sweets. A fellow passer-by explains to me that pinatas are a Mexican tradition, particularly at Christmas and birthdays.
However, Mexicans also like pinatas "in the shape of everything we want to hit", he says. "The latest trend is Donald Trump pinatas," he adds.
Mr Trump is not popular in Mexico. He was incredibly rude about Mexicans during his election campaign, and at a time when the world seems to be turning away from free trade he threatened to end the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta) between the US, Mexico and Canada.
The important thing about Nafta is that companies importing and exporting between the three countries pay no tariffs. Mr Trump believes it's been bad for the US as cheaper Mexican labour has meant some US manufacturers have moved production across the border, resulting in job losses at home.
Nafta was implemented in 1994 and over the past 23 years Mexico has grown as a manufacturing hub. Today the United States and Mexico trade over $500bn (£400bn) in goods and services a year, equal to about $1.5bn a day. Mexico is the US's second-biggest export market, and the US is Mexico's largest.
Red Sun Farms, a large vegetable-growing firm in central Mexico, depends on the free trade agreement. Its managing director, Thierry Legros, shows me into a vast greenhouse, 200m long, with row upon row of tomato plants. The company also grows peppers and exports 90% of its crop to the US and Canada.
So what would it mean if Mr Trump repealed the Nafta agreement completely with its tariff-free trading? "We might need to close the whole company," Thierry tells me. "It would be around 3,000 direct jobs, so with all the indirect that's quite a lot, probably double that."
Outside Thierry's office three flags flutter in the wind - one for each Nafta country.
Red Sun Farms even owns a farm in the US and sends Mexican workers over there. However, there's a stark wage differential, with pay significantly higher in the US.
"Right now with the exchange rate that's huge," Thierry explains, "it's about one to eight, one to 10."
As well as enabling Mexico to export freely, Nafta also opened the door to US imports, giving Mexican consumers much greater choice.
"It was an achievement, it was against history," says economic consultant Luis de la Calle, who was one of the negotiators of the free trade agreement.
"Most Mexicans thought that it was impossible or not convenient to have a strategic association with the US, and many people in the US never thought that Mexico could be their partner."
You can listen to In Business: Mexico and Mr Trump on BBC Radio 4 at 20:30 GMT on Thursday, 5 January and at 21:30 GMT on Sunday, 8 January.
Increased demand, as a result of free trade, forced Mexican manufacturers to improve quality.
Luis de la Calle says that before Nafta Mexico had three producers of TV sets, and the quality was "awful". But today, Mexico is "the largest manufacturer of TV sets in the world". They are exported and are "high quality, completely different from the protected market we had before".
Mexico is now a centre of manufacturing for overseas companies, such as the motor industry. General Motors and Ford both have factories in Mexico as well as the US.
But Donald Trump has put public pressure on US companies not to move production, and has threatened to impose import duties on cars coming in from Mexico. It's a sensitive subject and the American carmakers refused to be interviewed.
However, in the city of Puebla, a two-hour drive from the capital, the German car manufacturer Volkswagen is the biggest employer with 14,000 staff. It's the only place in the world where VW produces its famous Beetle, and as you enter the site you're greeted by a display of Beetles suspended in the air like a piece of installation art. The Golf and Jetta models are also produced here.
Like the US carmakers, Volkswagen's Mexican production is integrated with its US plant. "We use a lot of parts coming from the US for assembly here in Mexico in Puebla, and our colleagues in Chattanooga in Tennessee - they use a lot of parts coming from Mexico," explains Thomas Karig from Volkswagen Mexico.
This integration is possible because there are no tariffs to pay each time components are sent from one Nafta country to another. But when I ask whether Volkswagen has come under pressure from Mr Trump about keeping jobs in the US, the atmosphere cools and there is a curt "no comment".
The Nafta agreement has not benefited everyone in Mexico though. Some small farmers were unable to compete with US agricultural imports and big Mexican rivals.
According to a study by the Washington-based Center for Economic and Policy Research, from 1991 to 2007 some 4.9 million family farmers were displaced. Some found work with big exporting agricultural companies, but there was still a net loss of 1.9 million jobs.
An hour's drive from Puebla I meet Aurelio, whose family has farmed a tiny patch of land since 1925. Deep in the dry countryside he raises a few cows.
Job opportunities are scarce and three of his five children have migrated illegally to the US where they have found work painting cars. But Donald Trump has said he wants to deport illegal immigrants. Aurelio takes out his mobile phone and calls one of his sons in the US. Is his son worried about this, I ask.
His son says that if there is a chance of being deported they will have to look elsewhere, but adds: "Mexico is a tough choice because of lack of opportunities, violence, high taxes and the economic situation, so it wouldn't be easy."
President Obama has deported at least 2.4 million illegal immigrants so this isn't a new policy. And according to the Pew Research Center, by 2014 more Mexican immigrants returned to Mexico than migrated to the US.
Mr de la Calle acknowledges that the free trade agreement has split the country. He says there are two types of regions in Mexico.
"[There are] parts of the south of Mexico that are disconnected from international trade, that are lagging behind, where Nafta had little impact. Rates of growth are low, there is little investment, and you don't see large manufacturing operations."
In contrast to this, he says: "There are 16 or 17 other states that grow very fast, you see a lot of dynamism." These he describes as "Nafta states" with exporting businesses.
However, he dismisses Mr Trump's criticism of Mexico. "He says [Nafta's] been great for Mexico, actually his whole argument is that Mexico is doing so well. It's flattering."
He also claims that the US is benefiting from its close manufacturing links with Mexico.
However, when I ask who would come off worst if Nafta were repealed, the US or Mexico, he answers, "Mexico because we are smaller, but the US would lose quite a bit as well."
Donald Trump wasn't the first US presidential candidate to criticise Nafta. Hillary Clinton and even Barack Obama did so on their campaign trails.
But abandoning it completely? The US may find it has too much to lose and perhaps Mr Trump has realised that too.
In Business: Mexico and Mr Trump is on BBC Radio 4 at 20:30 GMT on Thursday, 5 January and at 21:30 GMT on Sunday, 8 January.
The 23-year-old Portugal right-back, who has won six caps for his country, will have a medical in Barcelona on Friday.
Semedo played 63 times for Benfica after joining from Sintrense in 2012.
He was part of the Portugal side that finished third at the Confederations Cup, getting sent off in the third-place play-off win over Mexico.
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The Labour leader said he was not "one of the doom-mongers" who thought new technology would "inevitably herald an era of mass unemployment".
But he argued that adapting the UK for the jobs of the future "can't simply be left to the market".
A recent report suggested robots could affect 30% of British jobs by 2030.
The PwC study estimated that nearly a third of existing jobs in the UK were potentially under threat from automation, compared with 38% in the US and 21% in Japan, with manufacturing and retail at the greatest risk.
"Technological change, from automation to decarbonisation, means many jobs and industries will disappear or shrink in the coming years and decades," Mr Corbyn told business leaders in London.
"At every stage of economic and industrial history, jobs, industries and skills have been lost, replaced and transformed.
"But when that happens at huge social cost, as it did for example in the very early days of the industrial revolution... people in desperation opposed mechanisation and opposed the bringing in of machines because they got no benefit from it."
He added: "We can't simply leave it to the market."
Instead, the public sector should "work with business to manage the social and economic effects of rapid technological change".
Rejecting a pessimistic view of increasing automation, Mr Corbyn told the British Chambers of Commerce annual conference: "As with every other technological revolution, disappearing jobs will be replaced with new, as yet unforeseen forms of work."
In its election manifesto, Labour promised that if it won power all further education courses would be free as part of a new national education service, with fees for adult education courses scrapped.
Mr Corbyn called for a "step-change in skills and training", with anyone able to retrain at any point in their life.
He also said there had been a "deep-rooted historical snobbishness" towards technical subjects.
Mr Corbyn said there had been a "lost decade" in terms of wages and output and argued that businesses would prosper if education was "given laser-like attention by a committed government".
The Conservatives have set a goal of creating three million new apprenticeships by 2020 as part of efforts to address skills gaps which British business has warned is holding the country back.
To help pay for this, firms with a pay bill of £3m have had to pay an apprenticeship levy since April.
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"A skills revolution needs a technical education revolution," she said, calling on businesses to support so-called "T-level" technical qualifications in England and work placements.
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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.
Consumers can now download the release preview
of Windows 8, a system which Microsoft says is its most tested operating system ever.
It is expected to go on sale in the autumn, three years after Windows 7.
The new operating system is designed to bring Windows into the touchscreen, smartphone era.
It adopts the Metro interface of the company's mobile operating system, Windows Phone 7.
Windows, which still dominates the desktop PC software market, has been much slower to make an impact on mobile phones and tablet computers.
The release preview has features not available in the last version, the consumer preview, launched in February.
There will be new apps for the Bing search engine, news and sports, and improvements to the mail and photo applications unveiled previously.
Microsoft said manufacturers and developers were at work on new devices and apps designed to make the most of Windows 8's features.
Do not track
The 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.
IE 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.
Microsoft's Chief Privacy Officer Brendon Lynch
announced the move on his blog
.
"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.
But the advertising industry has raised concerns.
Microsoft's decision risked "limiting the availability and diversity of internet content and services for consumers," said the Digital Advertising Alliance.
Cults Academy depute head David Strang, 50, said the accused was brought into his office and was "anxious" and "agitated".
Bailey Gwynne, 16, died after being stabbed at the school in October.
The accused, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, denies murder.
Mr Strang told the High Court in Aberdeen that after the fight, the teenager had wiped blood off his hands with a tissue and given him a knuckleduster.
He said he remembered the accused then used a mobile phone to call his parents.
He said: "I think he said that he had stabbed someone."
He added: "He said that he had been called fat and that he had retaliated that his mother was fat."
The trial began on Tuesday, when the jury was told it was agreed by both prosecutors and defence lawyers that the accused became engaged in a fight with Bailey on 28 October 2015.
They also agreed that the victim was struck with a knife and suffered a "penetrating stab wound to the heart".
The jury heard earlier how an argument between Bailey and the accused had begun in a row over some biscuits which led to name-calling and then a fight between Bailey and the accused.
Witnesses said they were not aware of any conflict between the two before the incident.
A paramedic called to the scene told the court that Bailey was "gasping for breath" when he arrived.
Gary Gillespie said the teenager was one of the palest people he had ever seen.
The fast response paramedic said: "He was gasping for breath with an obvious injury to the chest."
He said it was clear there had been "huge internal blood loss". Mr Gillespie, 46, started treating Bailey, but his heart stopped.
Efforts continued at school and then in the ambulance on the way to hospital, but there was no change in his condition.
He said there was nothing more he could have done.
Police officer Christopher Masson, who was called to the school, said the accused was handcuffed and then said: "Is he dead? It was just a moment of anger."
PC Masson added: "He was very distressed."
On the second day of the trial, the court also heard evidence from a friend of the accused.
The witness, who cannot be identified, said he had seen the accused with a knife 20 or 25 times - including the Monday or Tuesday before the alleged murder.
He told the court: "I just said 'why did you bring it to school?' He was like he thought it was something cool to have.
"I said not to bring it to school."
The witness said he had also seen the accused with knuckledusters 40 or 50 times, which the 16-year-old told him he had bought online.
He told advocate depute Alex Prentice QC, prosecuting, that Bailey and the accused started fighting after exchanging insults.
He said he was shocked as Bailey was "really shy" and was known not to fight back. Bailey was then stabbed and he saw blood.
The witness said the knife the accused had shown him was a different one seen by the jury on Tuesday - a knife which had been recovered from a bin at the school by a police scene examiner after the stabbing.
Defence counsel Ian Duguid QC asked the witness why the accused had items like knuckledusters if he was not an aggressive, violent individual.
He said: "He liked to play about with them."
The murder charge against the 16-year-old claims he did "engage in fighting" with Bailey and struck him on the body with a knife.
In addition, the accused is also alleged to have had knives or "bladed instruments" as well as two knuckledusters at school "without reasonable excuse or lawful authority" on various occasions between 1 August 2013 and the day of the alleged murder.
The court heard the Crown case might conclude on Thursday. The trial, before judge Lady Stacey, is expected to last several days.
Sean Michael Mullender, 22, from Connah's Quay, was charged on Wednesday following baby Daniel's death in October 2014.
At Mold Crown Court on Thursday, Mr Justice Wyn Williams bailed him on the condition he stays at an address in Northumbria.
Mr Mullender's trial date has been set for next April.
North Wales Police were contacted by health officials after Daniel was admitted to the Countess of Chester Hospital on 2 October.
He was later transferred to Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool where he died on Saturday 4 October.
After Khan, 28, controlled the early rounds, 27-year-old Alexander offered little until the eighth, when he managed to land a series of hooks.
But the clinical Bolton fighter remained in charge, and all three judges scored heavily in his favour.
Afterwards, Khan reiterated his desire to fight American Floyd Mayweather.
"I really believe I've earned my shot against the best boxer in the world and that's Mayweather," said Khan.
"He is the ideal fight for me. It would be a game of chess, but I would be too skilful. I have the skill and movement to beat him. He will not be able to hurt me.
"I feel better now than I did when I was 25. I'm dedicated to the sport and I know there's a few years left in me. I'm going to try and force that fight with Mayweather."
Khan, who has now won 30 of his 33 professional contests, was in complete control as the three judges scored it 119-109, 118-110 and 120-108 in his favour at the MGM Grand.
Alexander, from St Louis, had won world titles at light-welterweight and welterweight but was outclassed by his fast and more accurate opponent, who retained the lightly-regarded WBC 'silver' welterweight belt.
Under the guidance of trainer Virgil Hunter, Khan consistently beat his opponent to the punch with the American taking a large amount of punishment from the jab as he suffered only his third professional defeat in a 29-fight career.
Before the fight, Mayweather said he wanted Philippine great Manny Pacquiao to be his next opponent, although that fight has been talked about for many years without it happening.
Nevertheless, Mayweather, unbeaten in 47 bouts and the current holder of the WBC and WBA welterweight and WBC light-middleweight titles, would have been impressed by Khan's near faultless showing.
"I trained very hard for this fight," added Khan. "I knew I had to make a statement. It was against a tough, very skilful guy, but it was one of my best performances.
"I'm the best boxer and have the quickest hands in the world. I've just turned 28 and I'm getting better and getting quicker, I just had to become smarter. I've got the best jab in the business."
Typhoon Phanfone has killed at least one person, a US airman on Okinawa who was washed away by high waves.
Thousands of households have lost power and Japan's two largest airlines have suspended many flights.
The storm also forced the suspension of the search for people missing after last week's volcanic eruption.
The storm-tracking website Tropical Storm Risk forecasts that Phanfone will rapidly lose power over the next few hours as it goes further into the Pacific Ocean.
Typhoon Phanfone was downgraded from an earlier status of a super typhoon, but the Japan Meteorological Agency had warned it was still a dangerous storm.
Japan averages 11 typhoons a year, according to its weather agency.
The typhoon made landfall on Monday morning near the central city of Hamamatsu, with winds of up to 180 km/h (112 mph).
The airman was one of three US military personnel swept away by high waves whipped up by the typhoon off southern Okinawa island, where the US has a large military base. The remaining two are still missing.
A police spokesman said they had been taking photographs of the sea.
A university student who was surfing off the seas of Kanagawa Prefecture, south of Tokyo, was also missing, national broadcast NHK reports. It said at least 10 people had been injured and 9,500 houses were without power.
The storm was expected to deposit about 100mm of rain on Tokyo over 24 hours, according to the Transport Ministry website.
Many schools were closed on Monday and two car companies in Japan halted production at some plants ahead of the storm.
More than 174 domestic flights were affected nationwide, NHK state broadcaster said on Sunday.
On Sunday, heavy rain delayed the Japanese Formula One Grand Prix in Suzaka. French driver Jules Bianchi lost control in the wet conditions and crashed, sustaining a severe head injury.
The 33-year-old has been linked with a return to Hibernian where spent a month on a emergency loan in the winter.
But Commons, who has been struggling with a back injury for the past 12 months, admits he remains undecided about his future.
"I'll reflect on what has been and what is next going forward," he told BBC Scotland. "There are plenty of options out there and that's not just football. It's the other side as well, coaching, media. There's plenty of doors open."
And moving into coaching certainly seems to be on the mind of the former Scotland international.
"I've been lucky enough that I've played at the highest level," he said. "For me now it's about enjoying my football. If I can pass my knowledge on to younger players that would be great, but I just wonder whether that is going to be through a playing capacity or should I go into a coaching route."
Commons moved to Glasgow in January 2011, signed by then manager Neil Lennon from Derby County for £500,000.
His Celtic career got off to the perfect start, with a debut goal six minutes into a League Cup semi-final win over Aberdeen.
He would go on to net 91 goals in 175 appearances, winning five titles, two Scottish Cups and one League Cup.
This season was tough. Injury-plagued, there was no opportunity to impress new manager Brendan Rodgers. His loan spell at Hibs yielded two goals in five games for his old boss Lennon before further frustration.
"I haven't been fit enough to play," he added. "I get to a half decent level of fitness then I have to take a step back.
"I had a good stint at training October, November, December, went on loan to Hibs, but as soon as I came back that's when I started feeling the back again. It's a very niggly injury that has caused me a lot of problems over the year.
"I still feel I've got a little bit in me if I can get to a good level of fitness, but I've not been able to get to that top level to get into this team."
So, does he try to regain the level of fitness required and continue playing or does he decide it's time to hang up his boots?
"I still feel I have got unfinished business playing but the doubt for me is can I get to the level where I'm going to be the Kris Commons everyone knows," he said.
"If I'm not, then there's no point dwindling away. I'd rather finish on a relative high."
While Commons has had to look on while Celtic completed an unbeaten treble this season, he is able to reflect on what has been a "magical journey".
"Some of the biggest highs were under Neil Lennon," he recalls. "I look back at my Celtic career and think I had a good run at it.
"I was probably naive when I came to Celtic. I thought I was a player until I realised the scale of the club and what it meant. It was a real learning curve.
"You see big clubs in England but this club is above and beyond anything I've felt anywhere else.
"My goals might be forgotten next year or the year after but the memories that have been created for me by this famous football club will last with me till the day I die."
Ford Kiernan and Greg Hemphill announced last month that the cast will return to the stage in February for a 10-show run of Still Game: Live 2.
Tickets for the shows at the SSE Hydro in Glasgow went on sale last week and five extra dates have now been added.
The first live show in 2014 sold out for 21 nights and entertained more than 210,000 fans.
The popular comedy follows the antics of pensioners Jack Jarvis and Victor McDade in the fictional Craiglang area of Glasgow.
It returned to the BBC last week, after a nine-year absence from TV screens.
The sitcom attracted its highest ever overnight audience for a single episode on Friday, taking a 58% share of the Scottish TV audience with 1.3 million viewers - beating its previous record of 1.2 million.
Airing for the first time on BBC One throughout the UK, it drew a total of audience of 3.2 million.
The comedy grew as a spin-off from Kiernan and Hemphill's Chewin' The Fat sketch show and ran for six series between 2002 and 2007.
The live shows will run from Saturday 4 February to Thursday 16 February, with the cast taking a break each Monday.
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Walter Palmer from the state of Minnesota is believed to have paid about £32,000 to hunt lions in the wild.
Cecil the lion's death has prompted a huge reaction from many on social media, with tens of thousands of people signing a petition asking for Cecil's killer to be punished for what he did.
Mr Palmer said he thought the hunt was legal and didn't know the lion was protected.
Ayshah's been following the story.
Mr McGuigan Sr, 53, was murdered at his home at Comber Court in the Short Strand area of east Belfast last Wednesday.
The father of nine's funeral has taken place. A 39-year-old man was arrested on Tuesday and two guns were found during searches in greater Belfast.
Three other men, aged 53, 44 and 41, arrested earlier remain in custody.
Second-seed Gilmour, 21, had eased past Denmark's fourth seed Line Kjaersfeldt in the semi-finals but lost 21-15 21-18 in the 44-minute final.
Goh had come through qualifying and won seven matches on the way to her first senior title.
"I'm a little disappointed not to come away with a win," said Gilmour.
"I thought I played well. She was very solid and I made some poor decisions at some crucial points."
The Commonwealth silver medallist from Hamilton was appearing in her first final since retaining her Swedish Masters title in January.
Barry is suffering from a hip problem while Monaghan has a knee complaint.
"The League Cup is a competition that Derry have a reputation of having great success in and I would like to continue that," said Derry manager Kenny Shiels.
"We will go in as full strength as we can be. We treat the competition with the utmost respect and want to win it."
The Candystripes go into the cup tie unbeaten in their last seven league outings but will have had a day less to prepare given that they drew with Longford Town on Saturday night.
"Sligo haven't won a game yet in the league but they have been getting progressively better and I like the way they play so we have to be careful with this one," emphasised the Derry boss.
"The league is the platform you use for building for the future but the knockout competitions are important for morale and a good cup run gives a boost to the supporters.
"We always look to the next game as the most important and we try to win every game. From Sligo's point of view, they will see this as a chance to gain some momentum."
But the Concorde Trust said it remained positive about the £9m project in Bristol despite being turned down by the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF).
Trust chairman Mike Littleton said: "Although the HLF decision is a setback, we remain determined to make this project a reality."
The Save Concorde Group (SCG) said the plans were too ambitious and costly.
Ben Lord, chairman of SCG, said they had a "more realistic" plan which was "a fraction of the cost" and would be presented to British Airways in the next few days.
The plane - called Concorde 216 or Alpha Foxtrot - was the last of the fleet to fly when Concorde was withdrawn from service by British Airways in 2003 due to increased running costs.
The Concorde Trust plans for the museum at Cribbs Causeway were first submitted in 2007 but building work has never started because of a lack of funding.
The museum was given a £840,000 cash boost by Airbus last week but has almost £8m still to raise.
Mr Littleton said he did not see the HLF failure as a blow to attracting other investors and that the vision was still to open the museum in 2014.
He said the trust was evaluating feedback from the HLF with a view to resubmitting its application in the near future.
It is also pursuing other major sources of funding.
"We now need some time to review and decide our next steps, but remain confident," Mr Littleton said.
"Our professional team delivered a first class bid to the Heritage Lottery Fund with a project that was exceptionally well researched, financially sustainable and, we believe, met the funding criteria.
"Given the overwhelming support we received from the general public, local government, industry and education, we are confident that we can deal with the issues and succeed with our ambitions."
Mr Littleton said feedback from the HLF was that requests for funding had been three times greater than the amount available and that he did not think the plans were too ambitious.
"This is one of the cradles of aviation in the UK, the only one with a history of continuous industrial production and it remains a world-class centre of aerospace innovation," he said.
Mr Lord, of SCG, said: "We have been saying for some time that there's been a degree of ambiguity in what the Concorde Trust was setting out to achieve.
"We did support it as it was the only plan being fully pursued to get Alpha Foxtrot under cover, but we also voiced our concerns that it was over-ambitious in terms of the cost of the project."
He said: "While all of this has been going on, SCG has been looking into a much more realistic plan that would see Concorde remain as centre-stage and offering the world-class exclusive tours that the previous 'Concorde at Filton' exhibition had been offering.
"While it is in its early stages, we believe that this plan is totally achievable and would ensure ongoing prominence of this aircraft's unique association with Filton and Bristol as a whole."
The jet has been at Filton since 2003 and was closed to the public in October 2010 for maintenance.
Filton Airfield, where the jet is based, is to close from the end of 2012, meaning a new home will soon have to be found for the jet.
At its peak, a record 8.7Tbps of live video was streamed, according to content delivery network Akamai Technologies.
The previous record of 7.5Tbps was set during US election day coverage on 8 November 2016.
The figures reflect the growing popularity of online streaming.
In the US, 31 million people watched Mr Trump's inauguration on television, compared with 38 million who watched Barack Obama becoming president in 2009.
However, video traffic of Mr Obama's inauguration reached a peak of just 1.1Tbps the same year.
Akamai Technologies also analysed other recent events such as the Euro 2016 football tournament, which recorded a peak of 7.3Tbps, and the 2016 Rio Olympics women's team gymnastics final, which hit 4.5Tbps.
An increase in access to mobile devices, improved internet speeds and the integration of video into websites such as Twitter and Facebook have improved access to live-streamed events.
The rise of high definition video streaming also demands more internet traffic, which may have contributed to the increased bitrates shown in Akamai's figures.
Twitter said live video streaming of Mr Trump's ceremony had also broken its own record, with almost seven million people watching on the social network.
Rob Owers, head of news partnerships at Twitter, told the BBC that the platform had seen an overall increase in live video views.
"The demand for immediacy and proliferation of mobile products means we're more connected than ever, and live streaming is definitely at the heart of this," he said.
"People get used to the fact that wherever they are, there's no reason they should miss out on breaking news or events."
Carál Ní Chuilín was speaking during a visit to the construction site at Glenfada Park in Londonderry's Bogside.
Building work began last summer and the new money is in addition to funds of £2.4m.
The museum deals directly with the Northern Ireland Troubles and is close to where the events of Bloody Sunday took place in the city.
On 30 January 1972, a civil rights march in Derry ended with the shooting dead of 13 people by the Army.
The Saville Report, published on 15 June 2010, was heavily critical of the Army and found that soldiers fired the first shot.
Speaking before Parliament, Prime Minister David Cameron said he was "deeply sorry" and that the findings of the report were "shocking".
The new building is due to be finished and ready by June 2016.
Researchers will be investigating thousands of URL links attached to tweets about the tournament in France to see if they are spreading malicious computer viruses.
They hope the findings can help develop warning systems about cyber attacks.
The Euros have been chosen for the research due to the large amount of social media posts expected.
The football World Cup in Brazil two years ago was the most tweeted about event ever, at the time data was taken in 2014.
The team from the school of computer sciences and informatics will quickly trawl every tweet related to Euro 2016 with a special computer, known as an '"intelligent system".
It will perform a number of background checks to test whether the link is malicious and, if so, the timing and severity of damage it could cause to a computer user.
Dr Pete Burnap, director of the social data science lab at the university, said the fact URLs are often shortened on social media made it "incredibly difficult" to know which are legitimate.
"Once infected, the malware can turn your computer into a zombie computer and become part of a global network of machines used to hide information or route further attacks," he said.
"At the moment, many existing anti-virus solutions identify malware using known code signatures, which make it difficult to detect previously unseen attacks.
"Our system is making a decision using code behaviour, which is more difficult for cyber criminals to mask."
It is hoped the information can be used to help authorities create a future warning system that can flag a malicious link to the computer user in real-time.
Researchers hope it can also be rolled out in the form of an app to mobile users.
The change happened at 1am on Sunday 30 March.
It means you've lost an hour's sleep, but the good news is it'll stay lighter for longer in the evenings so there's more time to go outside.
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I am really looking forward to having lots of sleepovers and water fights with my friends and family!
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I'm going to India in the Summer Holidays to see my family, we are also going to a wildlife reserve. I cant wait!
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I will go and play out with my friends.
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I'm looking forward to going to the sea this summer but I've broken my toe.
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I'm most looking forward to when the movie 'Minions' comes out in cinemas as I think the minions from Despicable Me are extremely funny!
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Celtic's first-leg defeat in Gibraltar was one of the worst in their history.
But a 3-0 home win secured a trip to Astana in the third qualifying round.
"It's a six-hour flight, five-hour time difference, 35C+, a plastic pitch, with no water, but apart from that..!" Rodgers told BBC Scotland.
"It is another test for us and the focus now will be getting a good performance over there."
Astana drew games against Atletico Madrid, Benfica and Galatasaray in the the group stage of last season's Champions League.
And they will pose a much sterner test for Rodgers' fledgling side than the part-timers from Gibraltar, with the away leg to take place next week before the return at Celtic Park the following week.
Rodgers hopes to add to his squad before then, with defensive reinforcements a priority. "Hopefully that is the case," he said. "We would certainly like to. We will see over the coming days."
After the 'shock on the Rock' in Gibraltar, Scottish champions Celtic produced some flowing attacking football to see off the Red Imps, with first-half goals from Mikael Lustig, Leigh Griffiths and Patrick Roberts proving sufficient.
"It certainly wasn't perfect by any means, but it shouldn't be - we are only four weeks into pre-season," Rodgers noted.
"But I thought the first half-hour was excellent. There was good intensity, good pressure, good shape in our game. We scored three and could have had a few more.
"Once tiredness started to set in in the second half, the tempo of the game slowed down a bit. But the most important thing was getting through, and I thought overall, the performance was excellent."
Rodgers praised his players' ability to adapt to his methods in a matter of weeks.
"There is still a long way to go but I must congratulate the players - they have taken in a lot of concepts and ideas in a short space of time about how we want to work," he added.
The manager also saluted an "absolutely magnificent" crowd of almost 50,000 for their rousing support.
"When they are singing throughout the game like that, there are not many better stadiums in the world," he added.
The British Film Institute (BFI) revealed takings were up 17% from the previous year, at £1.24bn.
Cinema admissions also rose 9% with 171.9 million tickets sold, while money spent on film production was £1.41bn - the second-highest amount on record.
It is the first year since 2012 that both admissions and box office takings have risen.
Five films took more than £40m at the UK box office in 2015 - compared to just one, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, in 2014.
The Force Awakens, released in December, took £114m and is now the UK's most successful film of all time.
Spectre, the latest release in the James Bond franchise, was second with takings of £94.7m, with Jurassic World in third place with £64.5m.
The Avengers: Age of Ultron took £48.3m and Minions was fifth with £47.7m.
The BFI also said UK independent films took an 11% market share in 2015 - the third highest on record. Eight of them took more than £5m at the box office.
The highest-grossing independent film was Tom Hardy's Legend, in which he played the Kray twins, and took £18.4m. The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel came in second place, taking £16m.
The UK's film production spend figure is a decrease of 6% on 2014's record total of £1.49bn - with films made that year including The Force Awakens and Age of Ultron.
Amanda Nevill, chief executive of the BFI, said: "With spend from film production over £1.4bn, audiences flocking to cinemas and UK box office topping £1.2bn for the first time, today's numbers show a golden age of British film continuing - and underlines film's important contribution to the UK economy.
"It's significant that a wide range of fantastic British independent films won the hearts and minds of audiences in a hugely competitive year, but it's clear that the market is still tough for the makers and distributors of independent and specialised films."
Culture minister Ed Vaizey hailed the figures as "great news".
The 20-year-old has been capped 21 times at various youth levels for England, including the Under-23 side.
"The plan was always to bring in another keeper to add competition," boss Willie Kirk told the club website.
"Sophie is an extremely hard-working goalkeeper, who is technically very good and has strong distribution."
A clerk for Granite County confirmed to People Magazine that the couple secretly exchanged vows in Philipsburg, Montana on 1 October.
It is thought the ceremony took place a month after Scarlett gave birth to the couple's daughter, Rose, and a year after they got engaged.
The 30-year-old was previously married to Hollywood actor Ryan Reynolds.
Rumours that Scarlett and Romain had tied the knot had been circulating for a while, after she was photographed wearing a ring on her wedding finger.
The star of Lost in Translation and The Avengers was left "devastated" following her divorce from Ryan Reynolds in December 2010.
Speaking to Vogue magazine about the end of her two-year marriage, she said: "It really throws you. You think that your life is going to be one way, and then, for various reasons or whatever, it doesn't work out."
Newsbeat has contacted Scarlett's agent, but has not received a response so far.
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Not just any chocolate; a special kind of raw chocolate that she makes herself by crushing cocoa beans in a grinder attached to her bicycle wheel.
"The day I discovered raw chocolate I totally forgot about milk chocolate," she says, handing me a freshly made bar, elegantly wrapped in the beige and gold wrapping of her Mon Choco label.
The 27-year-old is the latest entrepreneur in Ivory Coast to become a chocolatier using Ivorian cocoa beans. While the West African nation is the world's leading cocoa exporter, it is virtually impossible to find chocolate made in Ivory Coast from Ivorian cocoa.
However, that is beginning to change, albeit on a small scale. There are more and more boutique cafes and chocolatiers selling and making handmade, artisanal Ivorian chocolate.
"Here it's really bean to bar," says Mroueh. "We want to be local. We want to show to the world that Ivory Coast is rich." She buys the cocoa beans straight from the farmer and then dries them on the roof of her factory in Abidjan, or in her newly purchased tumble dryer.
"And then this is where the magic happens," she says as she leads me into the grinding room and places the crushed beans into a large metal machine along with brown sugar, also from Ivory Coast.
After two or three days of continuous grinding, a sleek, deep brown paste is formed, which is then chilled in moulds. Unlike normal chocolate, there is no cooking involved resulting in a much richer, almost fruity taste.
"My love of chocolate is a family thing," she says, stemming all the way from her grandfather who was born in Ivory Coast and worked in the cocoa industry.
It was in the 1960s and 1970s that Ivory Coast began to establish itself as the powerhouse of cocoa. It now produces 40% of the world's cocoa, and cocoa makes up 15% of the country's GDP and 40% of its exports.
However, most of the cocoa is exported raw, meaning very little value added revenue for the economy.
"We are not keeping for the population the bulk of the added value that could be taken from agriculture," says economist Kady Fadika Coulibaly, the chief executive of Hudson and CIE, the leading brokerage firm on the BRVM, the West Africa stock exchange.
"We need to transform [the cocoa]… to be able to have more employment for the people who are working now on the plantations [so] they can also be working in the factories."
Last year, French chocolate manufacturer CEMOI opened Ivory Coast's only chocolate factory, producing chocolate spreads and cocoa powder. This year Ivory Coast is set to overtake the Netherlands as the leading bean grinding hub.
And President Alassane Ouattara has a big vision: to have 50% of Ivory Coast's yearly crop of nearly two million tonnes of cocoa processed in the country by 2020, up from 30% now.
While Coulibaly says this is possible, she says the government needs "to increase the financing to the industry and not only wait until we have foreign direct investment".
On the other side of Abidjan, in Cocody, another chocolatier swiftly shuts his front door as the brutal tropical rains start hammering on the windows.
Axel Emmanuel used to be a banker but ditched the financial sector for chocolate and launched Instant Chocolat. "I wanted to make chocolate from Ivorian cocoa because it's a challenge. We did not have national chocolatiers so I rose to the challenge," he says.
The small room downstairs serves as an office, a packaging centre and a showroom. At the top of the stairs, through plastic sheeting that acts as a door, two women are busy wrapping pralines in gold and silver foil under the ice-cold breeze of an air conditioning unit.
The poky headquarters mask the entrepreneur's success. The 32-year-old has already been crowned Chocolatier of Ivory Coast, Vice-Chocolatier of Africa, and last year President Ouattara named him Young Entrepreneur of the Year.
He sold his first bar of chocolate in 2015 and now transforms two tonnes of Ivorian cocoa beans annually. His main clients are large companies including Air France, Standard Chartered Bank, Citibank and even CEMOI itself.
He says he wants to show other entrepreneurs that chocolate can be turned into a viable business, and is setting up a project to train people to become chocolatiers "because we earn more after transforming the chocolate, that's indisputable".
Like Mroueh, his market is the middle class. Both sell their chocolate bars for about $5 (£3.50).
Ivory Coast has one of the fastest growing economies in the world, recording 10.3% growth last year, and with that, a population that has an increasingly stronger earning power. "Now is the good moment in Africa because there's an emerging middle class," says Emmanuel.
A big chunk of that middle class can be found queuing around the affluent streets of Riviera Golf over the May bank holiday weekend to get into Festiglaces, Ivory Coast's ice cream, cake and chocolate festival.
It's a dream for children: chocolate-making workshops in one marquee, crepes and face painting in another.
"I'm here for my children," says festival-goer Assiatou Fanny. "It's a great thing for them. It allows them to get to know that cocoa is the basis of chocolate because we're the premier producers."
This year's theme is "Le bon chocolat de Cote d'Ivoire" - "Ivory Coast's good chocolate" - a clear sign that it's not just the boutiques and cafes who are keen to promote the" Made in Ivory Coast" theme.
"I've eaten lots of ice cream, lots of cakes and lots of chocolate also," says Fanny's 11-year-old daughter Anita, with a smile. "I've even eaten chocolate that was made here," she adds delightedly, clearly something she doesn't get to do very often.
And this is one of the problems - the accessibility of chocolate. For most people in Ivory Coast, it is a luxury they just can't afford.
The average consumption here is less than 500g a year. Compare that to countries like Germany or Switzerland, now the world's biggest chocolate eaters, whose average consumption is closer to 9kg a year.
Emmanuel says his next goal is to make a chocolate bar that still has the quality and hallmark of Instant Chocolat, but that is affordable for everyone.
"We have to come up with a reasonable price," he says, something that is on Mroueh's radar too.
"It's a shame that we are the first producer of cocoa but Ivorians don't even know the taste of chocolate or what the world is doing with their beans," she says.
Mroueh is working on designing cheaper packaging in order to reduce the price. She wants to launch a second chocolate bar to be sold in supermarkets and smaller shops, while keeping the deluxe version in boutiques and cafes because she says everyone here "has the right to taste chocolate and appreciate this brilliant product".
In a blog post on Friday titled "Meeting Donald Trump," British tycoon Sir Richard Branson became the latest celebrity to give his thoughts on this never-ending election. And it wasn't a pitch for President Trump.
Mr Branson describes being invited by Mr Trump to his apartment in Manhattan where the New Yorker discussed his bankruptcy and the various people he had gone to for help but who had turned their backs on him.
"He told me he was going to spend the rest of his life destroying these five people," Mr Branson continues, before adding that he found the event "bizarre". He told Mr Trump there must be more constructive ways to spend the rest of his life. "Hopefully my advice didn't lead to him running for president!" he writes.
"For somebody who is running to be the leader of the free world to be so wrapped up in himself, rather than concerned with global issues, is very worrying," the Virgin founder concludes.
Just in case anyone is left in any doubt as to which candidate he prefers, he adds that he later had lunch with Hillary Clinton where they talked "education reform, the war on drugs, women's rights, conflicts around the globe and the death penalty". You get the message.
And in another sign that Hillary Clinton has no problem connecting with celebrities, Oprah Winfrey came out batting for her on Friday as well. In an interview with a Texan pastor, the TV star said she hasn't been vocal about her support for Hillary Clinton because she "didn't know what to say that could actually pierce through all the noise and the chaos and the disgusting vitriol that's going on".
But she encouraged voters who hadn't worked out whether they liked Mrs Clinton to think about what they wanted in a leader. "She's not coming over to your house! You don't have to like her!" she added.
Talking of candidates you don't have to like, former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, who is running to become a senator in Louisiana, made some headlines on Friday after polling well enough to make it into a televised debate on 2 November. As if this election wasn't crazy enough already...
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The number of states that say they have refused requests from Russian officials to be present at polling stations on election day.
Chicago Tribune: Bill Murray crashes White House press briefing
With just three weekends before election day, it's a busy couple of days for both campaigns.
Hillary Clinton is in Pennsylvania on Saturday with running-mate Tim Kaine, holding "get out the vote" rallies in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. Meanwhile, Bill Clinton is down in Florida visiting Panama City and Pensacola. On Sunday, Mrs Clinton is in North Carolina while Tim Kaine hits Florida.
Donald Trump is zigzagging across three states on Saturday, visiting Pennsylvania, Virginia and Ohio - the last one a joint rally with running-mate Mike Pence. On Sunday, Mr Trump is in Naples, Florida.
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The 43-year-old, from Southampton, won almost three times as much prize-money in 2016 as his previous best year to finish 28th on the order of merit.
Bland is confident 2017 will see him finally win a tournament after a string of top 10 finishes last autumn.
"If I put myself in contention enough times, I'm going to fall across the line at some point," he told BBC Sport.
Bland lines up at the Abu Dhabi Championship from Thursday having missed the cut at the South Africa Open last week.
"In terms of where my game is at the moment, it's a bit like what footballers say when they're short of match fitness," he told BBC Radio Solent.
"But, rounds of golf will take care of that at this stage of the season in only my second tournament of the year.
"I'm looking forward to the next four events as they will have strong fields that should help me push on into the middle part of the season."
After finishing tied fourth at October's British Masters, Bland believes his first tour win is just around the corner.
"If I can keep doing what I was doing last year, I can put a win in there somewhere," he said. "It would be a dream come true."
Its 18 time-specific action points are based on 14 recommendations from a government-appointed panel.
The Bengoa Report includes phrases such as "accountable care systems" and "elective care performance". But what do they mean?
We asked Belfast GP, Dr George O'Neill, to simplify the report's recommendations.
"We are at a crossroads with regard to health and social care, where we have political leadership willing to take on the challenge and have the courageous conversations with their electorate," Dr O'Neill said. "The emphasis being on a patient-centred service delivering improved outcomes for our populations."
Recommendation One
The panel recommends using the dimensions of the Triple Aim as a framework for reform, including an increased emphasis on the experience of those who deliver care.
Dr George O'Neill: "The panel is recommending that we look at population health instead of individual health, based on the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) and their Triple Aim framework. Triple Aim means three things: improved patient experience, improved health of populations and reduced cost."
Recommendation Two
The panel recommends that the HSC (Health and Social Care) should move to: Formally invest, empower and build capacity in networks of existing health and social care providers (such as Integrated Care Partnerships and the developing GP Federations) to move towards a model based on Accountable Care Systems for defined population based planning and service delivery; and, regionalised planning for specialist services.
Dr George O'Neill: "This looks at what we have already which are GP Federations and developing a system based on some US accountable care organisations."
Recommendation Three
The panel recommends that the HSC should continue its "positive work" and there should be particular focus on the three key areas of workforce, eHealth and integration.
Dr George O'Neill: "This is to continue what we are doing but to empower those developing health and social care, such as nurses and pharmacists, to deliver the skills they are capable of offering. There is a new approach to purchasing - the death of the purchaser/provider split."
Recommendation Four
The minister should create, communicate and lead a clear, powerful, long term vision for the Health and Social Care system as a first step in the implementation process.
Dr George O'Neill: "It is clear that the ministers and politicians should have a long-term vision of the local health and care system that we require. By accountable care services, they mean there will be more cooperation with all those across the health and social care family. They will have a budget to deliver outcomes and they will be accountable for that budget, which is a big change."
Recommendation Five
The panel recommends that plans, costs and timescales for introducing recommendations on areas such as population health and patient care, should be prepared within the next 12 months.
Dr George O'Neill: "They are suggesting we look at population health and risk stratification. Which means targeting those at the greatest risk and who will get the greatest benefit from any identification. You get the facts and figures before you move forward. It mentions the importance of developing new systems."
Recommendation Six
Many of these recommendations will require additional, transitional funding. The panel recommends that the minister should establish a ring-fenced transformation fund.
Dr George O'Neill: "You need seed money to start the whole process of transformational funding and it must be properly resourced."
Recommendation Seven
The panel recommends the creation of a transformation board, supported by the department, linked to the executive's health and well-being strategy. This board would set the mid-term strategy, oversee the transformation process and would be tasked with creating the right conditions for the local system of care to develop successfully. It should help to transform organisational structures and management processes by promoting local decision making, local innovation and scaling up of best practices among the local systems of care.
Dr George O'Neill:"The panel recommends a transformation board being created and that it is linked to the Stormont executive's health and wellbeing strategy."
Recommendation Eight
The system should identify and scale up at least two innovative projects per year where there is clear evidence of improved outcomes for patients or service users.
Dr George O'Neill: "It is self-explanatory, there should be at least two innovative projects per year where there are clear outcomes for patients. That is common sense."
Recommendation Nine
The minister should adopt a continuous improvement methodology to support the reform of health care towards local systems of care. To make this actionable, it is necessary to continue with plans to create stronger quality improvement systems. While the exact remit for this will need to be decided by the minister, the panel feels that it should be locally owned and tasked with providing support and intelligence to enable new projects at the provider level.
Dr George O'Neill: "They are talking about continuous improvement. What it means, in essence, is you look at what is happening regarding specialism. You concentrate on placing the specialism with high volumes where people can hone their skills with appropriately-trained staff to deliver improved and better outcomes. You must ensure the public are involved and have an understanding of what is happening."
Recommendation 10
The minister takes steps to address elective care performance. However, while this is important, it should not be allowed to overshadow the need for long term transformation.
Dr George O'Neill: "They are saying that waiting lists should not overshadow, drown out or slow up the transformation."
Recommendation 11
At the strategic leadership level, the HSC should:
Dr George O'Neill: "This is about leadership, organisational and cultural change. How do you change a culture of an organisation set in concrete since its inception? To do this, everyone will have to change the way they behave - this includes GPs, pharmacists, community care and secondary care."
Recommendation 12
The HSC should consider whether there needs to be a platform for a more open and immediate conversation with staff and service users.
Dr George O'Neill: "How do you sell this to staff and service users? You have to be open transparent and inclusive, things must not happen suddenly."
Recommendation 13
The panel recommends that the department should formally endorse the criteria and apply them to five services each year to set out the future configuration of services to be commissioned (or not) from the Accountable Care Systems. If applying the criteria leads to the conclusion that the service is vulnerable, plans for reconfiguration should be developed and actioned within this 12-month period.
Dr George O'Neill:"Accountable care systems will need to be properly funded, staffed and skilled up."
Recommendation 14
The identification of a senior leader to lead this process at a regional level. This process should be collaborative and inclusive and based on the criteria above.
Dr George O'Neill: "A senior decision maker to be in charge of the day-to-day running and all operational matters regarding health and social care. If this is set up properly it will mean politicians will not micro-manage.
"The example I would use is the policing board where the Police Service of Northern Ireland chief constable is in charge of operational matters - you can put the fire to his feet, but you cannot overrule him."
Javier Hernandez scored twice for Leverkusen but two Daniele De Rossi strikes before half-time made it 2-2.
Miralem Pjanic placed a low free-kick to give the Italians the lead, before Iago Falque converted for 4-2.
But Kevin Kampl curled in from range and with four minutes to spare, Admir Mehmedi tapped in a dramatic leveller.
The German side could have won it when Hernandez fired narrowly wide at the end. They sit second in the group on four points, three adrift of leaders Barcelona, who beat BATE Borisov 2-0.
Their coach Roger Schmidt said "this was far from a normal football game", while sporting director Rudi Voller admitted his side "lost the plot" after Roma had scored their first.
Roma - who are without an away win in the Champions League since 2010 - are now bottom of the group and will realistically need to beat Leverkusen in the Italian capital on 4 November to stand a chance of reaching the last-16.
Match ends, Bayer 04 Leverkusen 4, Roma 4.
Second Half ends, Bayer 04 Leverkusen 4, Roma 4.
Kevin Kampl (Bayer 04 Leverkusen) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Edin Dzeko (Roma).
Attempt missed. Javier Hernández (Bayer 04 Leverkusen) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Julian Brandt following a fast break.
Wendell (Bayer 04 Leverkusen) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Wendell (Bayer 04 Leverkusen).
Vasilis Torosidis (Roma) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Roma. Juan Iturbe replaces Alessandro Florenzi.
Foul by Hakan Calhanoglu (Bayer 04 Leverkusen).
Miralem Pjanic (Roma) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Admir Mehmedi (Bayer 04 Leverkusen) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Radja Nainggolan (Roma).
Kyriakos Papadopoulos (Bayer 04 Leverkusen) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Edin Dzeko (Roma).
Goal! Bayer 04 Leverkusen 4, Roma 4. Admir Mehmedi (Bayer 04 Leverkusen) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box to the top right corner. Assisted by Wendell.
Substitution, Roma. Edin Dzeko replaces Gervinho.
Goal! Bayer 04 Leverkusen 3, Roma 4. Kevin Kampl (Bayer 04 Leverkusen) left footed shot from outside the box to the top left corner.
Foul by Vladlen Yurchenko (Bayer 04 Leverkusen).
Vasilis Torosidis (Roma) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Miralem Pjanic (Roma).
Javier Hernández (Bayer 04 Leverkusen) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Kostas Manolas (Roma) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Javier Hernández (Bayer 04 Leverkusen).
Foul by Alessandro Florenzi (Roma).
Kyriakos Papadopoulos (Bayer 04 Leverkusen) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Bayer 04 Leverkusen. Vladlen Yurchenko replaces Ömer Toprak.
Offside, Roma. Vasilis Torosidis tries a through ball, but Antonio Rüdiger is caught offside.
Corner, Roma. Conceded by Jonathan Tah.
Attempt saved. Kyriakos Papadopoulos (Bayer 04 Leverkusen) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Hakan Calhanoglu with a cross.
Corner, Bayer 04 Leverkusen. Conceded by Wojciech Szczesny.
Attempt saved. Julian Brandt (Bayer 04 Leverkusen) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Kevin Kampl.
Goal! Bayer 04 Leverkusen 2, Roma 4. Iago Falque (Roma) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the high centre of the goal. Assisted by Gervinho.
Iago Falque (Roma) hits the bar with a header from the centre of the box following a fast break.
Attempt saved. Alessandro Florenzi (Roma) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Radja Nainggolan.
Foul by Iago Falque (Roma).
Javier Hernández (Bayer 04 Leverkusen) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt saved. Julian Brandt (Bayer 04 Leverkusen) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Kevin Kampl.
Attempt missed. Kevin Kampl (Bayer 04 Leverkusen) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Admir Mehmedi.
Substitution, Bayer 04 Leverkusen. Julian Brandt replaces Christoph Kramer because of an injury.
The "March for Dignity" was organised by ordinary women to defend women's rights and also focused on violence against women.
Poland's laws on abortion are already among the most restrictive in Europe.
Anti-abortion groups are seeking a law which would allow terminations only to save a pregnant woman's life.
Currently the procedure is allowed in cases of rape or incest, if the woman's life is in danger, or if the foetus has medical problems.
The BBC's Adam Easton, in Warsaw, says the two anti-abortion groups who are collecting signatures to introduce the bill have been emboldened by the fact that Poland is now governed by the conservative Law and Justice party.
The party promotes traditional Catholic values.
The body of 65-year-old Christine James was found in her flat in Cardiff Bay on 2 March after she failed to arrive for a flight.
Kris Wade, 36, of Cardiff, has been charged with her murder.
South Wales Police referred the case to the Independent Police Complaints Commission.
Suren Sivananthan, 32, was found dead near the Co-op in St Leger Drive in Great Linford, Milton Keynes, at 04:00 GMT on Saturday.
Thames Valley Police said Gnanachandran Balachandran, 37, had been charged with murder alongside Kiroraj Yogarajah, 30.
The men will appear at Milton Keynes Magistrates' Court along with a 17-year-old boy from Croydon.
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The police response to the death has been referred to the police watchdog, the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC).
"The force awaits notification of the IPCC's decision on its mode of investigation," a police spokesman said.
Mr Balachandran, of The Fleet, Springfield, Milton Keynes, Mr Yogarajah of Dunthorne Way, Grange Farm, Milton Keynes, and the teenager were all arrested on Saturday.
A 23-year-old man arrested on suspicion of murder on Monday remains in police custody.
The Fourth of July holiday remembers the day in 1776 the 13 American colonies adopted the Declaration of Independence, proclaiming citizens' right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
But not everyone was taking the day too seriously.
Molly Schuyler marked the auspicious occasion by eating 21 Z-Burger hamburgers in an impressive 10 minutes in Washington, thereby successfully defending her title.
Not to be outdone, in Brooklyn, Joey Chestnut claimed his 10th title, eating a not insignificant 72 frankfurters in the same time during Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest.
A couple of hours south, Island Beach State Park in New Jersey reopened to the public.
The beach had briefly become one of the country's best-known just days earlier, when Governor Chris Christie and his family were pictured sunning themselves on its deserted sands - the politician having shut it to the public due to a row over the state budget.
Meanwhile, US President Donald Trump returned from his golf course in Bedminster, New Jersey, to celebrate the day at the White House.
On the other side of the country, in Oregon, 13,000 people gathered for a peace and love festival, at which 15 people were arrested and two people died.
A spokeswoman for the Rainbow Family Gathering said neither deaths were related to violence.
However, it says that there is no risk of electricity supplies being disrupted.
National Grid has issued a Notification of Inadequate System Margin (NISM) as a result of multiple energy plant breakdowns.
"This is part of our standard toolkit for balancing supply and demand," the company said.
"[It] is not an indication there is an immediate risk of disruption to supply or blackouts.
"It indicates that we would like our power held in reserve to be higher."
An additional 500 megawatts is being requested for between 16.30 and 18.30 on Wednesday.
The company last issued a NISM in February 2012, and before that in 2009.
When a notification is issued, generators with spare capacity can respond quickly, ramping up supply within the system.
The National Grid said in the event that this failed to happen it has standby contracts with some gas-fired stations.
It also has "demand side management" contracts with businesses, which allows it to ask them to reduce their energy consumption at specified times.
Last month, the National Grid said gas supplies for the winter months were "comfortable", while electricity supplies were "manageable".
It said the supply of electricity exceeded demand by 5.1%, but only after additional supplies had been secured, such as paying plants to remain on standby.
This is the lowest rate in seven years.
There have been some concerns expressed that the UK could suffer from blackouts as a result of short supplies, brought about in large part from the closure of a number of power stations that have come to the end of their natural life.
However, the National Grid and many experts have dismissed these concerns.
There has been one electricity outage in the past 10 years, according to a study commissioned by the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit.
Barcelona made Champions League history by recovering from a 4-0 last-16 deficit to beat Paris St-Germain in the second leg on Wednesday.
How did the players, managers and the world react to one of the greatest nights in European football?
Barca's stunning comeback against the French side - the biggest second-leg turnaround in Champions League history - was "crazy and unbelievable", according to midfielder Ivan Rakitic.
"It was really impossible," added the Croatian. And manager Enrique said: "I was brought to my knees."
Looking to overturn a four-goal deficit, Barca hit back through Luis Suarez's header, Layvin Kurzawa's own goal and Lionel Messi's penalty to go 3-0 up.
Their hopes looked to have faded when Edinson Cavani smashed in just after the hour mark, but Neymar had other ideas with a stunning free-kick on 88 minutes, before stroking in a penalty three minutes later.
With time running out, the Brazilian chipped the ball into the box for Sergi Roberto to stab home the winning goal and send the Nou Camp into raptures.
Enrique added: "I don't think anyone stopped believing. After seeing them sit back despite the goal, the team were incredible.
"We risked everything and it paid off. You get finales like this very occasionally in football and this time it was our turn.
"A feat like this does everyone good and I'm delighted to enjoy a moment like this. The key was our efficiency. The sixth goal was scored with the hope of the fan who was on the other side of the world."
BBC Sport Spanish football writer Andy West at the Nou Camp
Mayhem, utter mayhem.
When Sergi Roberto sent that 95th-minute volley into the Paris St-Germain net, completing the greatest comeback in the history of European football, Camp Nou exploded in a release of raw, ecstatic emotion.
All around me, people were hugging, jumping, screaming. Grown men were crying and strangers were leaping into each other's arms.
Unlike so much of modern sport, there was nothing contrived or orchestrated about those celebrations, about that moment.
This was deep, instinctive passion at its most authentic and unrefined. Just pure, wordless, thoughtless exhilaration. And it is surely for moments like this, which come along once every few years if you're lucky, that sport is so compelling.
From a personal point of view, being there was a privilege. Two decades of attending sporting events in a professional capacity have hardened me to the extent that I thought nothing can move me.
I was wrong.
When that sixth goal went in, any sense of objective detachment completely disappeared, and I was standing open-mouthed, trying to take in what had happened and reminding myself to savour the moment. Something incredible had just happened and I was lucky enough to witness it in person.
Like anyone else who was there, I know that I will talk about the night for years to come, and gradually we will find some words to adequately capture our recollections of how it felt.
But realistically, there are simply no words to capture the full range of the emotions of that moment. I have never seen anything like it, and I probably never will again.
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"I threw myself at it with everything. We were prepared for all this. The fans were like 10 extra players and in the end this is all for them." Barcelona match winner Sergi Roberto.
"It's the best match I have ever played in my life." Barcelona forward Neymar.
"I left some ligaments on the pitch but it was worth it." Barcelona boss Luis Enrique.
"This is a historic achievement that will be remembered forever." Barcelona president Josep Maria Bartomeu.
"It's a nightmare for everyone. Three goals in seven minutes is very difficult." PSG president Nasser Al-Khelaifi.
Super Bowl LI saw the New England Patriots produce the greatest comeback in Super Bowl history to beat the Atlanta Falcons 34-28 in overtime. The Patriots trailed by 25 points in the third quarter, but fought back to claim a fifth title in the most dramatic of circumstances.
Liverpool won the 2005 Champions League final despite trailing 3-0 at half-time. The Reds, managed by Rafael Benitez, scored three goals in six minutes, courtesy of Steven Gerrard, Vladimir Smicer and Xabi Alonso, before going on to win the trophy for a fifth time.
At the 2012 Ryder Cup, Europe battled back from 10-4 going into Sunday's singles, to win 14.5-13.5 thanks to Martin Kaymer's winning putt on the last green.
The tree in Paddock Wood was due to be taken down at the start of January but the dove can't be disturbed.
In the UK, all wild birds, their nests and their eggs are protected by law.
The council discovered the dove when they started to remove Christmas decorations from the tree.
A spokesperson said: "Paddock Wood Town Council is happy to leave the tree in place for as long as is necessary and would ask that she is left in peace so she can raise her chicks undisturbed."
The tree will stay in place for around another month after all the dove chicks are able to fly.
She was speaking the day before schools face new requirements to play a bigger part in counter-extremism.
The Counter-Terrorism and Security Act places a legal duty on schools to "prevent people from being drawn into terrorism".
But NUT leader Christine Blower said: "Teachers cannot be turned into spies in the classroom."
Head teachers' leader Russell Hobby said schools should see the regulations in terms of "safeguarding" and not "surveillance".
"Recent events have shown the risks of young people being targeted by radical groups should not be underestimated," said Mrs Morgan.
"Schools and childcare providers already play an important role in protecting and safeguarding young people including from radicalisation and extremism," said the education secretary.
A telephone helpline has been offered for teachers, governors and other staff to raise concerns directly with the Department for Education.
The regulations, being introduced on 1 July, set out new responsibilities for "frontline workers" in public bodies, including schools, to challenge extremism.
It follows high profile cases in which young people have left the UK to join militant groups in Syria and Iraq.
The counter-extremism requirements, applying to primary and secondary, state and independent schools, include warnings against "non-violent extremism".
"Being drawn into terrorism includes not just violent extremism but also non-violent extremism, which can create an atmosphere conducive to terrorism and can popularise views which terrorists exploit," says the government guidance for schools.
Teachers will have to assess the risk of pupils being drawn into extremist ideologies.
There will be training for staff to identify children at risk and "to challenge extremist ideas".
Schools will have to ensure that pupils do not access extremist material online.
Mr Hobby, leader of the National Association of Head Teachers, said schools should "see their duties on radicalisation as another safeguarding duty".
"Schools are used to keeping their students safe from harm and this is a version of that. This means looking out for students rather than conducting surveillance on them.
"It means understanding the risk and acting proportionately. And it does mean reporting serious concerns so that any danger can be prevented before it materialises."
But Christine Blower, leader of the National Union of Teachers, said the "jury is out" on whether such regulations are the best way to get young people to "reject engagement with groups who advocate violence".
She said that the Prevent counter-extremism strategy was already causing "significant nervousness and confusion among teachers".
Ms Blower warned that concerns over extremism could "close down" the classroom debates which could encourage democracy and human rights.
The regulations set out a definition of extremism as "vocal or active opposition to fundamental British values, including democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect and tolerance of different faiths and beliefs".
There are two sets of guidelines - one for England and Wales and another for Scotland.
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The 87-year-old, who has been in hospital since 31 May, also had a lung inflammation which has since subsided.
The monarch has had frequent bouts of ill health in recent years.
He is seen as a pillar of stability in Thailand which saw political strife culminating in last year's coup.
Though the king has no formal political role, he is seen by Thais as a symbol of unity, having ruled since 1946, and his health is closely watched.
Last October he had his gallbladder removed. He was in Bangkok's Siriraj Hospital for seven months, and was discharged in May this year, only to return to the hospital a few weeks later for medical tests.
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The League One club had to rely on results elsewhere as they narrowly avoided relegation back to League Two on the final day of the campaign.
"There were dark days," Bowler told BBC Radio Stoke." But if you get rid of the manager you've still got dark days.
"You might as well find a way out with one you know you can trust."
He continued: "If we believe we've got the right management team. We'll work with them. As far as we're concerned, we're in it for the long term.
"If you're reliant on youth development, as we are, we know that youngsters can take time to develop. If you have got the person you believe to be the right man to take the club forward, together you can get through the dark days."
Having remained fully supportive of the manager during such an uncomfortable campaign, Crewe can now look forward to a fourth straight season under Davis in the third tier of English football.
There have only been four managers at the club since Bowler, 78, became chairman of the Alex in 1987 and he insisted the key to their future survival in League One was honesty and trust.
"We had many long chats after games together with the management team and there was some straight talking," he added. "You need a team that's honest with each other."
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"At this stage we can confirm there are dead and wounded on all sides, and hostages," Lt Col Diarran Kone said.
Ukraine's foreign ministry says one of its nationals is being held hostage.
Residents told the BBC that before the attack, gunmen on motorbikes warned people via loudhailers to go indoors.
Sevare has an air force base and some UN peacekeepers are in the town.
The BBC's Alex Duval Smith in Mali says the town, which is about 600km (370 miles) north-east of the capital, Bamako, is the trading hub that serves the historic riverside city of Mopti.
The Byblos Hotel, scene of the ongoing incident, was reportedly attacked early on Friday morning by gunmen who had spent the night at the nearby Debo Hotel.
"An armed attack has been carried out on a hotel in Mali, and a Ukrainian national is among the hostages. Jointly with our international partners, we are taking urgent steps to free our citizen," Ukrainian foreign ministry spokesperson Mariana Betsa said on Twitter.
Our reporter says there are several hotels near each other in the town that are popular with UN workers and those working for non-governmental organisations.
The BBC has learned that guests from France, South Africa and Ukraine are registered at the hotels, but it is not clear if they are caught up in the operation.
UN spokeswoman Radhia Achouri refused to say whether any UN members of staff had been affected or were being held hostage in the Byblos Hotel.
A resident in the same neighbourhood as the hotel said: "We have never seen anything like this is Sevare.
"In 2012, the jihadists from the north were stopped at Konna, about 50km from here. So we only saw the war on television. Now that it has come to Sevare we are all traumatised."
Al-Qaeda-linked Islamist militants have been fighting the army in northern Mali for a number of years.
France, the former colonial power in Mali, intervened in January 2013 to stop their advance south to the capital.
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They highlight the case of a woman they treated last year who became critically ill after taking herbal remedies and drinking too much water.
The 47-year-old needed intensive care at Milton Keynes hospital.
She recovered with treatment, but her story is a reminder of the dangers of drastic detoxing, the medics say.
While it may be tempting to cleanse yourself of the excesses of Christmas, the concept is not necessarily healthy and is not backed by medical science, they report in the British Medical Journal Case Reports.
The woman they treated had taken a cocktail of herbs and alternative remedies including:
Her partner said she had also been drinking lots of water, green tea and sage tea over the few days before she became ill.
Shortly before being admitted to hospital, the woman collapsed and had a seizure.
Medical tests revealed she had dangerously low levels of salt (sodium) in her body.
Researching the herbal remedies used by the patient, her doctors discovered the case of a man with a history of anxiety who had had seizures due to a low sodium level.
His symptoms developed after consuming a large amount of a herbal remedy that contained:
"The complementary medicine market is very popular in the UK and the concept of the new-year 'detox' with all-natural products is appealing to those less concerned with evidence-based medicine and more with complementary medicine," say the medics in their write-up.
"Excessive water intake as a way of 'purifying and cleansing' the body is also a popular regime with the belief that harmful waste products can thus be washed from the body."
However, they warn that "despite marketing suggesting otherwise, all-natural products are not without side-effects".
The British Dietetic Association says the whole idea of detoxing is nonsense.
"There are no pills or specific drinks, patches or lotions that can do a magic job," a representative said
"The body has numerous organs, such as the skin, gut, liver and kidney, that continually 'detoxify' the body from head to toe.
"Being well-hydrated is a sensible strategy, but drinking too much water can be as dangerous as not drinking enough.
"It sounds predictable, but for the vast majority of people, a sensible diet and regular physical activity really are the only ways to properly maintain and maximise your health."
He scored 17 goals in 43 league games for Woking in 2016-17 but was a free agent after leaving the National League side at the end of the season.
Ugwu, 24, told the club website: "There was interest from other clubs as well but Chesterfield stood out."
Manager Gary Caldwell added: "I have been very impressed with his physical attributes and ability to score goals."
Ugwu, who came through the youth ranks at Reading, has also played for Yeovil, Plymouth, Shrewsbury, Dunfermline and Wycombe.
Caldwell, who will lead the relegated side in League Two next season, added: "It's a big challenge for him now, but he's played in the Football League before so he understands what it takes to succeed. He is someone I can see making a real impact."
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The Royal Free Hospital said it was "sorry to announce that the condition of Pauline Cafferkey has gradually deteriorated over the past two days".
Ms Cafferkey, from South Lanarkshire, was given an experimental anti-viral drug and blood from disease survivors.
Meanwhile, a patient who was tested in Swindon for Ebola has tested negative.
Ms Cafferkey, a public health nurse, was diagnosed with Ebola in December after volunteering with Save the Children in Sierra Leone.
On Saturday Prime Minister David Cameron said on Twitter: "My thoughts and prayers are with nurse Pauline Cafferkey who is in a critical condition with Ebola."
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt also expressed his concern, adding: "I know Dr Mike Jacobs and his team at the Royal Free Hospital are working tirelessly to provide her with the best possible care."
Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon tweeted: "My thoughts are with Pauline & her family at this extremely difficult time. Thanks to all who are caring for her."
Ms Cafferkey had travelled home via Casablanca, Morocco, and London's Heathrow Airport.
She was screened for the disease at Heathrow where she told officials she believed a fever might be developing.
Her temperature was taken seven times in total, six of which were within 30 minutes, and was normal each time, so she was allowed to fly home to Scotland.
The government's chief medical officer, Dame Sally Davies, has said the case raises questions about airport screening procedures.
Ms Cafferkey was later placed in an isolation unit at Glasgow's Gartnavel Hospital after becoming feverish, before being transferred by RAF Hercules plane to London and on to the Royal Free's specialist treatment centre.
Officials from Health Protection Scotland have spoken to all 71 people aboard the British Airways flight from Heathrow to Glasgow that Ms Cafferkey took - a Public Health England (PHE) spokeswoman has said.
And all 101 UK-based passengers and crew aboard the Royal Air Maroc flight from Casablanca to Heathrow have been contacted by PHE officials.
The remaining 31 international passengers on the flight were being traced by international health authorities, the spokeswoman added.
Dr Nick Beeching, an infectious disease specialist and a senior lecturer at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, told the BBC the risk to the general public of disease spreading was "almost nil".
He said Ms Cafferkey was receiving the best possible care, and the doctors and nurses at the Royal Free were aware of the risks of contamination.
Ms Cafferkey's is the second UK case of Ebola. Another nurse - William Pooley - recovered from Ebola in September after also being treated at the Royal Free Hospital.
He donated some blood plasma and was treated with the anti-viral drug ZMapp, of which there are no stocks left.
Microbiologist Professor Hugh Pennington said patients responded to Ebola treatment differently.
"Some patients with Ebola get sick and then they get better. Not everybody dies," he said.
For this reason, he said, it was "very difficult" to tell how effective treatments would be - especially when "relatively small numbers of people are being treated with these various experimental approaches".
David Mabey, an expert in communicable diseases from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, also said Mrs Cafferkey's reaction to the virus would have been hard to predict.
"A proportion of people don't get severely ill; Will Pooley was an example - he was never very sick and he recovered fully within a few days.
"The critical period is in the first four or five days after it's diagnosed, because, you know, if you are going to get worse then that's when it happens, and I'm very sorry to hear that seems to have been the case."
Dr Chris Smith, a consultant virologist at Cambridge University, said symptoms usually develop "abruptly" and peak after "about seven days".
After 10 days, he added: "Usually they've turned the corner and they begin to improve."
Ebola is transmitted by direct contact with the bodily fluids of an infected person, such as blood, vomit or faeces.
The virus has killed more than 7,800 people, almost all in West Africa, since it broke out a year ago.
The World Health Organization says the number of people infected by the disease in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea has now passed 20,000.
The Federation of Museums & Art Galleries of Wales (FMAGW) said some of the 90-plus venues have been hit hard but others are in a better position.
It follows years of cuts.
A 2015 report into local museum provision said a cycle of decline "has already started which will at best lead to 'zombie' museums".
By that it meant funding would "only be sufficient to maintain collections with no 'doing money' for improvement, activities and events that encourage access by the widest audience".
It warned the result would be waning interest which would lead to further funding cuts and closures.
"There are some bad sites and there are some good ones," John Marjoram, development officer at FMAGW, said.
"Services have been hit with cuts to the budget and there have been one or two branch closures."
Local authorities shut Cynon Valley museum in south Wales and Newtown textile museum in Powys but these have reopened as independent museums, while Bersham heritage centre in Wrexham and Llanidloes museum, Powys, have recently closed.
Some other places such as Cyfarthfa Castle museum have been taken over by a trust which runs all leisure services in Merthyr Tydfil and there are some which have been saved.
"One of the things about museums is a lot of them are in historic buildings," Mr Marjoram added.
"But it's a mind set about how you look at heritage. Museums are remarkably resilient.
"A lot of museums are run by volunteers and perhaps it's surprising that so few museums have actually closed."
"Amazingly, museums have come through a lot of difficulties since 2008 and I don't think the public will have noticed."
One museum which has been noticed is Storiel in Bangor, Gwynedd.
The £2.5m project has replaced Gwynedd museum and art gallery which lost half its funding in 2008 and closed in September 2015.
It attracted 12,000 to 15,000 people a year, but Storiel has had 80,000 visitors since it opened a year ago.
"It's staggering," principal museum and arts officer Nest Thomas said.
"From a very negative situation, we were able to turn it around because there was a lot of public support.
"With a new vision and business case, we were able to access grants and open Storiel in the new building at Bishop's Palace.
"Obviously the offer is different. It's got lifts, a café and an improved shop.
"We change our art exhibitions every six to eight weeks and the museum collection is the same from the old place.
"We will be introducing digital interpretations and apps and 3D interpretations.
"We've also got community spaces to work with local groups and spaces for activities and events which has proven more popular than we were anticipating."
Ms Thomas said there was still a need to work "very, very hard" on two key elements - ensuring people keep coming back and funding.
But she warned other museums facing difficulties will have a much tougher task to turn them around.
"Gwynedd museum and art gallery was one of the first to take a big hit and we were fortunate that we were given time," she said.
"Now, change is quicker. You have to look for premises and for funding and you are working in a harder climate.
"Places need to look at what they are doing, why they are doing it and who for. Be clear on what the vision is.
"You've got to be the eyes and ears, be out looking for projects and be very, very proactive - we were involved with the Weeping Window poppies at Caernarfon Castle.
"We want to make sure these museums and art galleries survive for the next century."
One problem facing many museums is that they are housed in old buildings which are in much need of expensive repairs such as Carmarthenshire Museum in Abergwili.
"It's a very old building and it's part of a big plan to undertake a significant redevelopment," said the county's museums development manager Morrigan Mason.
"Carmarthenshire council is bucking the trend and creating new jobs like mine. It has been through a process of cutting back.
"There have been problems as a result of that with buildings falling further into a state of disrepair.
"It's also about museums not making a song and dance.
"There's been a real culture change in Carmarthenshire. It seems almost every museum they've got is facing potential redevelopment."
Mrs Mason said the change of heart has come from the top ranks at Carmarthenshire council who have a "strong interest and pride in heritage".
"There's a real sense of urgency" she added. "We're looking at an explosion of development on the museum front."
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Mercedes F1 boss Toto Wolff has long been aware of that truism, and after the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix he heads into the off-season this winter with another problem on his hands - what does he do about Hamilton's actions at Yas Marina?
In attempting to win the championship by driving slowly to bring rivals into the private battle between himself and team-mate Nico Rosberg, Hamilton repeatedly disobeyed team orders not to slow down too much.
From Mercedes' point of view, it all ended well - Hamilton won the race, Rosberg finished second to clinch the title, having navigated his way through what he described as an "intense" 90 minutes or so.
But it leaves the team with a conundrum - what to do about Hamilton's disobedience, and how does it affect them going into next season?
There is one central issue that Wolff has not addressed in public - he and Mercedes need Hamilton.
For one thing, he is F1's biggest star and he gives the Mercedes brand an appeal to an audience demographic it otherwise struggles to reach.
For another, he is the fastest driver in the world and F1 is heading into a season with a major regulation change and no guarantee that Mercedes will continue to have such an advantage over their rivals.
One can argue that if you give the best team of the past three years, with demonstrably the best engine, new aerodynamic rules that increase drag and therefore make power even more important, they are likely to continue on top.
On the other hand, history suggests that when rules change, the man who gets it right more often than not is Adrian Newey - the design chief of Red Bull. And after three years, with a major engine redesign coming from the French company, their partner Renault could catch up Mercedes.
Hamilton is an emotionally driven character, who has been on a personal roller coaster this year because of his reliability problems, and who has admitted he reached "rock bottom" after his crash with Rosberg at the Spanish Grand Prix, when he was 43 points off the championship lead.
With the threat of a resurgent Red Bull, and their ultra-strong driver line-up of Daniel Ricciardo and Max Verstappen, Wolff needs his team in the best possible shape in 2017.
And that means finding a way to handle this while keeping Hamilton happy.
On the eve of the race, Wolff pledged "not to interfere" in the battle between Hamilton and Rosberg "as long as they are not overstepping the mark in terms of what we see as sportsmanlike driving".
What he meant - although he did not say it at the time - was that he did not want to see Hamilton backing Rosberg up to the extent that it could affect Mercedes' ability to win the race.
Many observers, including senior insiders from other teams, feel Hamilton never actually stepped over that line, in that he was always in the lead and always in control and the victory was never in doubt - a point Hamilton himself made over the radio to the team.
But the team insist that was not the case. They say there were two moments when the win was at risk - when Red Bull's Verstappen was running second to Hamilton and ahead of Rosberg and it became clear the Dutchman was on a one-stop strategy; and later in the race when Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel was closing in rapidly on fresh super-soft tyres.
Rivals feel Mercedes' claims that the win was under threat were disingenuous - Hamilton had so much pace in hand he could simply have sped up.
However, Mercedes say their strategy software said otherwise, hence their interventions to Hamilton - which went as far as executive director (technical) Paddy Lowe coming on the radio with an "instruction" to "pick up the pace to win this race". Lowe's intervention is the "highest escalation" of team orders, Mercedes say.
Hamilton's response? "I'm in the lead right now. I'm quite comfortable where I am."
From the perspective of a racing driver, Hamilton did nothing wrong. He had two options going into the race - disappear into the distance to make a point about him being the fastest driver whose season had been affected by bad luck; or try to get rivals in between him and Rosberg.
He chose the second and in doing so he broke no rules. It could be argued - indeed it was argued by Mercedes insiders - that taking the first choice would have been to claim the moral high ground. But what does Hamilton care about that when a world title is at stake? His view was: it's not cheating, so it's not a problem.
Even those inside Mercedes would admit that Hamilton was relatively gentle with Rosberg. He drove slowly all race, but could have done so much more aggressively and much earlier on.
Even during the closing laps, when he began to turn the screw, he only just managed to get Vettel on to Rosberg's tail on the final lap - although the suspicion is that Vettel had already made a decision not to get involved, which raises its own questions of morality.
Ask any racing driver and he would tell you there were many other options Hamilton could have chosen that would have had a much more dramatic effect.
It's almost as if he was fighting his own moral battle in his head while he was out there - do something, just don't do too much.
If so, it would be in keeping with his racing character. Hamilton is a hard racer but through his career he has generally been scrupulously fair. Not for him the darker arts of someone like Michael Schumacher, or even Ayrton Senna.
Mercedes view his actions through the prism of what they call their "team values and ethics".
"Undermining a structure in public means you are putting yourself before the team. And anarchy doesn't work in any team or company," Wolff said.
However, he added: "It was his only chance of winning the championship at that stage and maybe you cannot demand a racing driver who is one of the best - if not the best out there - to comply in a situation where his instincts cannot make him comply.
"It is about finding a solution how to solve that in the future because a precedent has been set."
Others would contend that there was no place for team orders in this context. Mercedes were already assured of the drivers' and constructors' titles, it was just a question of which driver was champion. Not even a crash that took both out of the race would have affected any of that.
But the team say you cannot pick and choose when to apply those values - it's no different at the last race than the first. After all, every race counts for the championship.
The issue is what to do now? Wolff is taking his time to think the matter over and as he does so, a number of factors will come into play.
The first is that Mercedes are facing here a situation with which no team has been confronted since McLaren with Senna and Alain Prost in 1989.
Ron Dennis' inability to handle that dynamic led to an implosion - Prost signed for arch-rivals Ferrari and the title was decided in a collision between the two drivers in Japan.
A not dissimilar situation arose when Dennis failed to handle the tensions created when Hamilton and Fernando Alonso were team-mates in 2007.
Wolff is keen to avoid falling into that trap. But, realistically, what can he do?
After Rosberg and Hamilton collided in Austria for the second time in five races, he threatened both with suspension if it happened again. However, that's not what happened in Abu Dhabi.
So a suspension can surely be ruled out - despite Wolff's post-race remark that "everything is possible".
In time, Wolff will probably sit down with Hamilton and discuss it. But what then?
Wolff said: "Throughout these last three years we have really tried to create an environment and a set of values in the team and one of the reasons is the individuals in this team are very much part of it.
"They bought into these values. You cannot invent a rule for every single situation. This is motor racing and it would make it the most boring sport ever if we would have a corporate solution for every single situation.
"The tricky bit here is what does that mean for the future of the team and how can we progress and not be over-corporate and boring but allow them to race?
"It wasn't acknowledged that we have let them race over the last three years.
"We could have had a much smoother run and decided that 'you are going to win or you are' and this is how it happened in Red Bull and in Ferrari many years ago and how it happened many years in other teams.
"We are not here in the credit-taking business because it needs headlines - but I think we have coped quite well with this situation the last three years."
Shinji Okazaki's header and instinctive strike put Leicester in control, but Gary Cahill nodded in before the break.
Cesar Azpilicueta equalised with a long-range effort before Foxes defender Marcin Wasilewski was sent off.
Fabregas' clipped finish put Chelsea ahead early in the first extra period and a powerful shot sealed the win.
It had been a pulsating cup tie - particularly in the second half - with chances at both ends but Wasilewski's dismissal for elbowing Diego Costa ultimately proved costly.
Chelsea deserved to progress but Foxes boss Claudio Ranieri will perhaps be buoyed by his side's performance for much of the game, with glimpses of the incisive attacking and compact defending that helped them win the title last season.
Chelsea have scored in every game this season and their attacking strength came to the fore towards the end of this game.
However, their defensive frailties should continue to be a cause for concern for boss Antonio Conte.
Only once in their previous 14 games in all competitions have the Blues kept a clean sheet - and they were needlessly exposed in the first half of this game.
Azpilicueta's awkward touch when trying to deal with Ahmed Musa's cross allowed Okazaki to nip in and flick a header over Asmir Begovic, and the Foxes forward then profited from a static backline to score a second.
"Chelsea's decision-making when under pressure was poor," said BBC Radio 5 live summariser and former Leicester defender Gerry Taggart.
"We are talking about basics. Clear the ball first, then ask questions. Some of Chelsea's decision-making was abysmal."
Fabregas has been unable to establish himself under Conte, with the Spanish midfielder restricted to appearances from the bench in the Premier League so far this season.
His only two starts for the Italian have come in the EFL Cup - but he was arguably the standout player for the Blues in this game.
The 29-year-old has been criticised for a lack of goals in the past - he scored six last season and five the campaign before - but took both his finishes well against the Foxes and also provided the assist for Cahill's goal.
His was a performance to give Conte food for thought.
Leicester boss Claudio Ranieri: "I am happy with our performance until 2-0. We started very well and we were in control of the match. Chelsea had more possession but we were very smart and clever to score twice.
"The key was when we conceded a goal on the last corner of the half - we lost two dangerous men, Luiz and Cahill.
"In extra time I said stay together and close the space, but Fabregas scored and it was very difficult for us."
Chelsea boss Antonio Conte: "It's important when I call someone to play and they show me my choice is not wrong.
"I am pleased for Cesc because he played a good game, he showed me great commitment in the training sessions. I am satisfied when I see this behaviour.
"This is the right way and I want my players to create good competition and, game by game, give me the opportunity to choose the best line-up."
Leicester return to Premier League action at the weekend with a tricky away fixture at Manchester United on Saturday. Chelsea, meanwhile, will look to bounce back from a 2-1 defeat by Liverpool last time out in the league when they travel to Arsenal, also on Saturday.
Match ends, Leicester City 2, Chelsea 4.
Second Half Extra Time ends, Leicester City 2, Chelsea 4.
Diego Costa (Chelsea) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Danny Simpson (Leicester City).
Offside, Chelsea. Nathaniel Chalobah tries a through ball, but Cesc Fàbregas is caught offside.
Attempt missed. Cesc Fàbregas (Chelsea) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Marcos Alonso with a cross.
David Luiz (Chelsea) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jamie Vardy (Leicester City).
David Luiz (Chelsea) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by David Luiz (Chelsea).
Jamie Vardy (Leicester City) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Second Half Extra Time begins Leicester City 2, Chelsea 4.
First Half Extra Time ends, Leicester City 2, Chelsea 4.
Foul by Eden Hazard (Chelsea).
Daniel Drinkwater (Leicester City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Ben Chilwell (Leicester City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
César Azpilicueta (Chelsea) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ben Chilwell (Leicester City).
Attempt blocked. Victor Moses (Chelsea) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Eden Hazard.
Corner, Chelsea. Conceded by Ron-Robert Zieler.
Attempt saved. Nemanja Matic (Chelsea) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Goal! Leicester City 2, Chelsea 4. Cesc Fàbregas (Chelsea) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the high centre of the goal following a corner.
Corner, Chelsea. Conceded by Ben Chilwell.
Goal! Leicester City 2, Chelsea 3. Cesc Fàbregas (Chelsea) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the top left corner. Assisted by Eden Hazard.
First Half Extra Time begins Leicester City 2, Chelsea 2.
Second Half ends, Leicester City 2, Chelsea 2.
Attempt missed. Diego Costa (Chelsea) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by César Azpilicueta.
Attempt missed. Victor Moses (Chelsea) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left following a corner.
Substitution, Leicester City. Daniel Amartey replaces Demarai Gray.
Corner, Chelsea. Conceded by Danny Simpson.
Second yellow card to Marcin Wasilewski (Leicester City) for a bad foul.
Diego Costa (Chelsea) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Marcin Wasilewski (Leicester City).
Substitution, Chelsea. Eden Hazard replaces Pedro.
Attempt missed. David Luiz (Chelsea) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high from a direct free kick.
Daniel Drinkwater (Leicester City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Diego Costa (Chelsea) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Daniel Drinkwater (Leicester City).
Corner, Chelsea. Conceded by Daniel Drinkwater.
Corner, Chelsea. Conceded by Ron-Robert Zieler.
Mitchell Ogston was on his bike outside his family home in the Oldmixon area of Weston-super-Mare on 7 March when a driver hit him and drove away.
Neighbour Linda Dalrymple said she wanted the speed limit cut from 30mph to 20mph and speed bumps installed.
Avon and Somerset Police said investigations are continuing.
North Somerset Council said it is currently waiting for a police report on the accident, which will be added to its database to record all injury accidents.
It said: "The database is used to direct our casualty reduction programme, which includes highway engineering, enforcement (in conjunction with the police) and road safety education, training and publicity.
The 28-year-old Scotland international joined the Toffees on a free transfer in 2012, signing an initial four-year deal.
The former Rangers and Kilmarnock forward has six goals this season and scored on Monday evening when the Toffees beat QPR 3-1 at Goodison Park.
"I am so happy here," Naismith told the club's television channel.
"From the moment I signed my first contract here it wasn't long before I saw what a great club it was.
"I would say this is probably the best form of my career. I'm delighted to have agreed an extension which will keep me here for a few more years yet."
Puttergill, 1,207th in the rankings, has also been fined $5,000 (£4,115) and will pay a similar fine if he commits another offence before 11 July.
The matches took place between May 2012 and November 2014, but the 23-year-old was not playing in any of them.
An investigation found Puttergill used two online accounts to place the bets.
Sandra Wood died at Maidstone Hospital on 18 April after collapsing at home.
An inquest heard the 69-year-old was referred to Tunbridge Wells Hospital the previous day with a possible bowel obstruction but sent home.
Senior coroner Roger Hatch said she died of natural causes as a consequence of its "failure" to diagnose her properly and give her a CT scan.
The retired shop assistant from Burham, near Rochester, and her partner Richard Wood, were told "hospital policy" meant the scan could only be arranged for an emergency and it was highly unlikely she would receive it at the weekend.
Mrs Wood was diagnosed with a constipation and urinary tract infection, sent home with a prescription in the early hours of Saturday 18 April and told she could return for a scan on 20 April.
Hours later she collapsed at home and was taken to Maidstone Hospital where she died.
Mr Hatch told the inquest at Gravesend Old Town Hall the CT scan should have been carried out on 17 or 18 April "due to the emergency situation that had occurred".
"It is highly unsatisfactory that facilities for a CT scan to be carried out at the weekend at Tunbridge Wells Hospital are not routinely available without having to go through a number of steps for this to be arranged.
"In this case, the delay until Monday was critical as the outcome has sadly demonstrated."
The family of Mrs Wood have launched civil action against Tunbridge Wells Hospital.
Her daughter, Amanda Sparkes, said: "The coroner has now confirmed what we always suspected - the hospital's policy not to carry out a scan caused this tragedy.
"It is devastating to think that had my mum been given the treatment she deserved she would have survived."
In a statement Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust said it carried out CT scans at weekends and overnight "based on individual clinical need following careful clinical assessment".
"We would like to extend our deepest sympathies to Mrs Wood's family," it continued.
Jawad worked in sales in Syria before the war began. When his father found out he was gay, he had him arrested.
After five years of hard labour, he emerged a broken man, only to find his country at war. Estranged from his family, he found himself dangerously exposed.
Soon after his release, he was gang raped at gun point by four men from an armed group.
"They could tell I was gay," he told me, through stifled sobs, looking out over the Beirut cityscape.
His vulnerability made him an easy target for this brutal weapon of war. Now in Lebanon, where he thought he could start again, he works as a prostitute.
"I have nothing but my body to sell. That was my reward for the Syrian revolution."
It might come as little surprise that gay men and women don't have the easiest time in the Middle East. But it was not always so.
In many ways modern attitudes to homosexuality in the Middle East are similar to western European attitudes of the 19th and 20th Century - religious zeal and a specific vision of gender roles.
Those convicted of committing homosexual acts in Europe faced the death penalty. In the Middle East at this time, same-sex relations were relatively commonplace and accepted.
But colonialism brought the influence of Western prudishness and a codification of anti-gay laws.
The result was that homosexuality became effectively illegal in every Arab country. From "debauchery" in Egypt, to anti-sodomy laws in Tunisia and "acts against nature" in Lebanon - now all enforced with varying levels of severity.
While western Europe became more accepting, the Middle East went the opposite direction.
Now in a context of increasingly deeply conservative cultural and religious attitudes, the prospects for change are grim.
But the distant memory of "the Arab Spring" did promise some change.
Protests across the region called for "dignity" and "respect" - values long associated with the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered (LGBT) movement.
From Egypt to Syria, these dreams have turned into nightmares for most - not just the gay community.
But meeting with gay refugees in Lebanon demonstrated why their plight is perhaps especially significant - gay people have become refugees from both their country, and their families.
This is a region where the family or ethnic network provides not just emotional support, but much of the practical help the state is unable to deliver.
In a time of war, where the state begins to break down, these connections become vital for survival.
When a Syrian refugee arrives in Lebanon, Jordan or Turkey, they often have someone they can call - a relative, a friend, even just an old neighbour.
But without family support, a gay man or woman fleeing the war does so totally alone.
None of the gay men and women I met had anyone to call. And some - even after escaping the regime or Islamic State - had been hunted down by their own families.
The very opposite to the kind of care and help they needed. Gay people become targets of the state, the groups fighting it, and their own families.
"When you lose the familiarity of your surroundings, you are left exposed and in danger," says Tarek Zeidan, from Helem, a long running LGBT non-governmental organisation (NGO) in Lebanon.
"It is secrecy that keeps most gay people alive in the Middle East."
That familiarity is totally shattered when a gay refugee arrives in a foreign country, often living in close quarters with people who would do him harm. In some cases - such as Jawad's - they turn to what Tarek calls "survival sex".
It is not known what proportion of the millions of refugees fleeing Syria are gay because most don't register with the UN, but young LGBT men and women escaping the war appear every day at the offices of Proud Lebanon, one of the only NGOs in the region helping the LGBT community.
Its director, Bertho Makso, explained what it's like being gay and Syrian in Lebanon: "Well you know he will be carrying all the problems that he was facing in his country.
"He'll flee to Lebanon hoping that he will be accepted. It's true that the image of Lebanon is reflecting an open-minded society.
"However, it's not the case in all the societies in Lebanon, because Lebanon is many Lebanons. And in every society there is discrimination and trauma.
"He faces a double discrimination. First because he is Syrian, and second because he is LGBT."
It is perhaps their status as a minority that makes gay people vulnerable in the Middle East.
The rise of Islamist regimes in the wake of popular uprisings may have reinforced already conservative attitudes towards them, but new regimes keen on consolidating power have - whatever their political or religious leaning - found in the gay community an easy target.
It is almost impossible to formulate an accurate overview of attacks or arrests of LGBT people.
They are rarely recorded on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity and often governments simply deny them. Victims are also often too scared to come forward.
But in Egypt, President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has not reversed the practices of his predecessors.
Indeed, the crackdowns have got worse and anal testing - the crude medical procedure to "prove" homosexual activity - still goes on.
Most recently, the security services were accused of infiltrating online dating sites to entrap gay men.
One application, Grindr, actually urged users to hide their identities.
In Morocco recently a gay British tourist found himself in prison for "homosexual acts" - it was only after an online petition was set up that he was freed.
And in Lebanon, the country's morality police have been accused of brutalising the gay men they take into custody, and performing these same anal tests which are supposed to have been outlawed - charges they deny.
One refuge in the region for some is Israel, one of the most progressive countries in the world for LGBT rights.
Same-sex relationships are protected by law, and the only annual gay pride march in the Middle East takes place in Tel Aviv - regarded as an international gay capital.
Since 1993 - well before the US and other Western countries - openly gay people have been allowed to serve in the military. Palestinians from conservative homes have also fled to Israel to avoid persecution.
And, of course, the experiences of gay people in the Middle East are as varied and contrasting as the region itself.
Living an openly gay life in Saudi Arabia, for example, would be impossible and vastly different compared with an open life in Lebanon.
But as with so much in the region, socio-economic status dictates relative freedom.
Bars and clubs for gay people do exist in Lebanon, for example, but these are only really accessible to those who can afford their expensive drinks.
Ahmed, a successful businessman from Sidon, is "out" to some of his friends.
But, he told me, this is because "I can afford to be". When it comes to telling his family, that is a different story.
They own the company for which he works, and he fears telling them would remove the very economic freedom that allows him to live at least part of his life as a gay man.
Jawad and the men I met at Proud live a very different life.
They have become the targets of a nation struggling to support the huge number of refugees coming into Lebanon.
Like other minorities, they are easily blamed for problems for which they bear little responsibility.
Facing these issues without their families - or even against them - makes their struggle almost impossible to deal with.
Rights groups continue to fight for LGBT freedoms in the region, combating widespread homophobia in society to ensure political leaders can find no willing constituency for their anti-gay views.
Gay activism is difficult, and often restricted to the internet because of the lack of public support.
GayEgypt.com was one forum for people to discuss their sexualities and religious beliefs in a safer place - but had to close under constant threat of infiltration by the security services.
Boris Dittrich, from Human Rights Watch, explains how the organisation tackles the issue.
"Our experience in the Middle East is that singling out LGBT people as a vulnerable group doesn't resonate with the general audience or with decision makers.
"They will view LGBT people as a separate category they can neglect.
"Best is to embed attention to human rights abuses against LGBT people in a bigger frame.
"For instance address the issue of police abuse against several vulnerable groups - migrants, people with disabilities, unmarried women, drugs users et cetera - and include information about abuse of LGBT people.
"Social attitudes might change when the general audience can relate to personal stories of LGBT people. They then will realise their son or daughter, their neighbour or colleague could be gay or lesbian.
"The problems of LGBT people thus become concrete and relatable. Usually, straight allies are convincing partners to address discrimination of LGBT people."
It may seem as though gay rights come far down the list of priorities in a region plagued by war and violence.
As a gay friend in Egypt told me when I asked him if he thought he'd have an easier life after President Hosni Mubarak was toppled: "One thing at a time."
But as Sherine el Feki, author of Sex and the Citadel, points out: "Gay rights are human rights. You can't distinguish one from the other."
It has been a turbulent few years in a region of people struggling to forge better lives.
A truly democratic system, some would argue, is a more pluralistic one.
Perhaps one of the true markers of success will be how its minorities come to be treated - including the LGBT community.
Leon Osman celebrated his new one-year contract extension by firing home from eight yards after Aiden McGeady's cross had evaded James McCarthy.
McGeady was involved in the second before the interval, Phil Jagielka finding the net with a header following the former Celtic winger's corner.
Steven Naismith added the third from Leighton Baines's low cross.
Roberto Martinez's side head into their final two group games in pole position to qualify for the last 32 after passing their French test with flying colours.
The Toffees have eight points from four games, one more than Wolfsburg, who hammered Krasnodar 5-1 and who Everton visit on 27 November.
Win in Germany and Martinez's side can start planning for the next round with one game to spare.
It was fitting that Osman, who has served the first team for almost 12 years, should find the net hours after it was announced that the 33-year-old will remain at Goodison Park until at least the summer of 2016.
The hosts had already gone close through Romelu Lukaku when Osman gave Vincent Enyeama no chance after lashing home McGeady's 27th minute cross into the danger area.
Everton were vibrant and creative as they constantly probed the French defence in what was one of their best Goodison displays of the season.
Tim Howard had to be alert to stop Ryan Mendes from scoring when the game was goalless but other than that the Toffees defence was rarely troubled.
Lukaku spurned a great chance to double the lead when he headed wide before unmarked England defender Jagielka showed the Belgian how to score with a 42nd minute bullet header after another excellent delivery by McGeady.
Lille were a shadow of the team that had frustrated the Toffees in northern France two weeks earlier.
The busy Lukaku forced Enyeama into a fine finger-tip save to keep out his 54th minute free-kick before Naismith sealed the points in front of his watching international manager Gordon Strachan.
Naismith, named in the Scotland squad for the forthcoming European Championship qualifier against the Republic of Ireland and the England friendly, produced an emphatic finish from eight-yards after Leighton Baines's cutback.
That was Baines's ninth assist of the campaign while Everton are now unbeaten in five league and cup matches, their season gathering momentum.
Everton manager Roberto Martinez:
"We played with a maturity that suggested we had been playing in Europe for years.
"What pleased me the most was that every player was ready and embraced the chance to play in Europe.
"We started the game really brightly and in the first three actions we showed we could open Lille up.
"We were very strong defensively against a strong attack. Then going forward we always looked a threat."
Match ends, Everton 3, Lille 0.
Second Half ends, Everton 3, Lille 0.
Attempt missed. Ronny Rodelin (Lille) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Florent Balmont with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Lille. Conceded by Sylvain Distin.
Tony Hibbert (Everton) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Divock Origi (Lille).
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Simon Kjaer (Lille) because of an injury.
Foul by Steven Naismith (Everton).
Pape Souaré (Lille) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Franck Beria (Lille) right footed shot from outside the box is too high following a corner.
Corner, Lille. Conceded by Leighton Baines.
Offside, Everton. Tim Howard tries a through ball, but Romelu Lukaku is caught offside.
Florent Balmont (Lille) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Leighton Baines (Everton) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Florent Balmont (Lille).
Romelu Lukaku (Everton) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Franck Beria (Lille).
Substitution, Everton. Muhamed Besic replaces James McCarthy.
Leon Osman (Everton) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Florent Balmont (Lille).
Offside, Everton. James McCarthy tries a through ball, but Romelu Lukaku is caught offside.
Substitution, Lille. Ronny Rodelin replaces Sébastien Corchia.
Steven Naismith (Everton) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Franck Beria (Lille).
Leon Osman (Everton) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Sébastien Corchia (Lille).
Substitution, Everton. Darron Gibson replaces Gareth Barry because of an injury.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Gareth Barry (Everton) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Substitution, Everton. Christian Atsu replaces Aiden McGeady.
Delay in match Gareth Barry (Everton) because of an injury.
Delay in match Sébastien Corchia (Lille) because of an injury.
Foul by Gareth Barry (Everton).
Sébastien Corchia (Lille) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Lille. Franck Beria replaces Ryan Mendes.
Substitution, Lille. Nolan Roux replaces Michael Frey.
Goal! Everton 3, Lille 0. Steven Naismith (Everton) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the top left corner. Assisted by Leighton Baines.
Corner, Lille. Conceded by James McCarthy.
James McCarthy (Everton) wins a free kick on the left wing.
The president did not give details of what he will do but he is expected to expand background checks on gun buyers.
He told reporters at the White House that the high number of shootings in the US had forced him to act without the approval of Congress.
Gun supporters are deeply opposed to any new laws.
But Mr Obama said his new measures will be within his legal authority and consistent with the Second Amendment, which grants Americans the right to bear arms.
And while they will not solve every violent crime in the US, he said they will potentially "save lives and spare families the pain".
There are tens of thousands more gun deaths in the US than other countries, he said, including suicides and mass shootings.
The new law, to be passed by executive order without Congress, will mean more sellers having to register as licensed gun dealers, say US media reports.
The president was speaking after hearing recommendations from Attorney General Loretta Lynch, FBI Director James Comey and other top law enforcement officials.
He told the BBC last year that his failure to pass effective gun laws was his biggest regret.
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Their audiences total around four million - and these are the very people who can make or break the fortunes of performers and businesses.
It's Mary Hillard's third Fringe - but it's the first year she's seen queues snaking down the street from the door of her ice cream shop.
It's mostly thanks to a Buzzfeed article which described Mary's Milk Bar as "definitive proof that Edinburgh is a food paradise".
With the superlatives came the crowds.
Mary said: "It started about a week ago. It's taken us all by surprise a little bit. I'm just making ice cream, round the clock, all the time. I dream ice cream.
"I had extra staff in for the Fringe anyway, we expected it to be busy, and then a queue formed around the block before we opened… It's ridiculous."
For independent businesses like Mary's - especially ones selling seasonal produce like ice cream - the surge in business during the summer festivals can help them through the quieter months.
"This should see us through, hopefully," she said. "Fingers crossed. Survive for another year."
The festivals are the third most paid-for ticketed event in the world, after the Olympics and the Fifa World Cup.
They peak during August, when the city hosts hundreds of thousands of visitors - and around 25,000 performers and entertainers.
However, despite ticket sales, many of the artists struggle to break even.
They can spend around £8,000 of their own money hiring a venue, paying for accommodation and marketing their show - a sacrifice they make in hope of critical acclaim and bookings throughout the year.
Liam Williams is an Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee.
It is also his third Fringe - and it is the second time he has chosen to take his show to the Free Fringe, rather than a traditional paid venue.
For him, the financial result is about the same. He is well-known enough to pay for a venue and sell enough tickets to break even.
On the free Fringe, he can also avoid operating at a loss - he spends money on promotion and production, but gets contributions from the audience at the end of his performance.
The free model works particularly well for stand-up, as "all you need is a microphone, some lights, some chairs, and you've got a show", Liam said.
He believes it is more democratic - and fairer on the performer and the audience - to ask for donations at the end rather than charging upfront for tickets.
For new names in particular, the free aspect makes performing at the Fringe much more accessible.
"[They're] taking a risk merely by being here," he said.
At free venues, they avoid the upfront hire charge and get money in their buckets at the end of the show.
The benefits are not just financial. Liam said the first time he performed at the Free Fringe, his show got a lot more attention.
"I think a factor in that was that audiences thought 'we'll take a risk on this, because we don't have to pay anything'," Liam added.
Edinburgh International Festival (EIF)
Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo
Edinburgh Art Festival
Edinburgh International Book Festival
The Edinburgh Mela.
Scottish International Storytelling Festival
Edinburgh's Hogmanay
Edinburgh International Science Festival
Imaginate Festival
Edinburgh International Film Festival
Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival
For artists, the festivals may be a financial risk - but their contribution to the Scottish economy is undeniable.
They generate over £260m and create the equivalent of 5,242 jobs every year. Businesses like Mary's Milk Bar may not survive without them.
However, does this mean Edinburgh has become over-reliant on the events?
John Donnelly, chief executive of Marketing Edinburgh, disagrees.
He said: "We do have other festivals, the winter festival and the world famous Hogmanay.
"I think the way to view it is that Edinburgh is the attack brand for the country, we're the visitor economy.
"The majority of international visitors come to Edinburgh and then move on to other parts… and therefore all of the country benefits."
However, a city which relies on annual events will inevitably see some calmer months.
Mr Donnelly, said: "It's very busy between June and September and it's busy in the Christmas period.
"There are these little shoulder months when it gets quieter, so it's about filling those and giving people a reason to come to the city."
For Mary - who is struggling to keep up with demand, as she makes all her ice-cream by herself - a quiet period has its advantages.
She said: "I just can't believe that people would queue for half an hour to get an ice cream from the Milk Bar.
"I still won't believe it in a month's time when I'm having a sleep."
The recipe for churros - sweet fried snacks similar to doughnuts - caused explosions that showered the cooks with hot oil, causing burns.
Chile's supreme court found that injury had been inevitable for anyone who followed the printed recipe.
It ordered La Tercera to pay more than $163,000 (£104,000) to the victims.
The individual damages range from $279 to $48,000 to a woman whose burns were particularly severe.
The judgement comes seven years after readers were burned on the arms, body and face while trying out the recipe.
The court said the oil temperature mentioned in the recipe was too high, making an explosion likely when the mixture was put in the pan.
"The explosions were so violent that in some cases the splashes hit the ceiling and covered the person who was cooking," the court said.
"Faithfully following the recipe published in the newspaper, this damage could not have been avoided," it added.
The company which owns La Tercera has said it will respect the judgement, which upholds decisions by two previous courts.
Dusted in sugar or dipped in chocolate, churros are a popular treat in Spain and across Latin America.
The woman, who is thought to be in her 40s, was struck by the vehicle on Bensham Road at about 19:00 BST on 22 April.
A spokeswoman for Northumbria Police said the pedestrian was pronounced dead after being taken to hospital and the coroner will be informed.
The driver of the car, a woman in her 50s, was not injured in the collision. Police are appealing for witnesses.
It would be Celtic's fifth in a row - and their second under the Norwegian.
But his side were beaten in the Scottish Cup semi-final by city rivals Rangers, the Championship winners.
"It is going to be difficult for him now," Bonner told BBC Scotland. "I've always said that a cup and the league would be the expectation this year."
Celtic lead Aberdeen by eight points with five games remaining in the Scottish Premiership, but they also lost in the semi-final of the League Cup, beaten by eventual tournament winners Ross County.
Despite Sunday's defeat by Rangers on penalties, indications are that major shareholder Dermot Desmond and chief executive Peter Lawwell will give Deila at least until the end of the season.
"Now the cups are gone, the league is left, they will win the league no doubt," said Bonner.
"Will that be good enough to keep him in a job? I'm not so sure.
"It is a decision Peter Lawwell, Dermot Desmond and the board of directors will have to make now."
Celtic failed to reach the Champions League group stage and finished bottom of their Europa League section.
"They didn't have a good European campaign and they've played in bits and pieces," said Bonner.
"Maybe people put too much emphasis on Champions League, but for this club that's the target - to be in the group stages.
"It has been done in the past and that's what any manager should be judged on."
Last season, Celtic eased aside Rangers 2-0 in the semi-final of the League Cup on their way to winning Deila's first trophy as manager.
"I think Rangers have made dramatic strides compared to what we saw last year in this same type of fixture," suggested Bonner.
"They really have improved, there is no question about that. They play a good brand of football and the players look a lot more confident than they did.
"So, from that point of view, Celtic haven't really progressed."
Former Rangers midfielder Derek Ferguson also doubts whether Deila will be in charge of Celtic next season.
"I think it was last chance saloon for him," he said of Sunday's semi-final. "I don't think Ronny could afford to lose to Rangers.
"He will have the championship in the bag, but I think it's now for Ronny and Celtic to move on and I think they'll need to bring in a new manager sooner rather than later."
President Mamnoon Hussain told students that it was a Western tradition and conflicted with Muslim culture.
His remarks came after a district in north-western Pakistan banned Valentine's Day celebrations.
Valentine's Day is popular in many cities in Pakistan, but religious groups have denounced it as decadent.
Earlier this week, the local government in Kohat, in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, told police officers to stop shops from selling Valentine's Day cards and items.
Kohat district is run by a religious political party and borders Pakistan's conservative tribal areas.
Meanwhile, the Peshawar local council also passed a resolution to ban celebrations of what it called a "useless" day.
Kohat district administrator Maulana Niaz Muhammad told the BBC Urdu: "Valentine's Day has no legal grounds, and secondly it is against our religion, therefore it was banned."
While giving cards and flowers was not in itself a bad thing, linking this to a specific day was not appropriate, Mr Muhammad said. He added that he felt such practices could encourage obscene behaviour.
However, officials in both places later said the bans had been discarded or ignored for being unpopular.
Earlier this week, there were unconfirmed media reports that Valentine's Day gifts had been banned in the capital Islamabad - although this was subsequently denied by the government.
The issue of St Valentine's Day is a polarising one in Pakistan, a country where it has only become widely marked in recent years, writes the BBC World Service's South Asia editor Charles Haviland.
In the run-up to this year's festival, one conservative newspaper described it as a "festival of obscenity", asking if Pakistanis would next start celebrating the Hindu Diwali or the Christian Christmas.
In past years, conservative social groups, who view the day as a festival of immorality detrimental to traditional marriage, have declared the day to be "shameless".
Renowned civil society activist Sabeen Mahmud once set up a demonstration with slogans including "Karachi says Yes to Love". (Last April, she was killed in a drive-by shooting, although not necessarily for that particular issue.)
In neighbouring India, Valentine's Day also garners opposition, usually from Hindu conservatives who say it is alien to Indian culture and - as argued by Pakistani Muslims - contrary to traditions such as arranged marriages.
It was the hosts who started the better, but Woking took the lead just after half an hour when Nathan Ralph, unmarked in the box, headed home a cross from the right.
Woking's second arrived when Zak Ansah's cross went all the way in just four minutes after half-time.
Substitute Harry White was at the heart of things for Solihull, first pulling a goal back in the 72nd minute, and then seeing his shot poked home by Jordan Fagbola after a rebound seven minutes later.
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Match ends, Solihull Moors 2, Woking 2.
Second Half ends, Solihull Moors 2, Woking 2.
Jake Caprice (Woking) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Goal! Solihull Moors 2, Woking 2. Jordan Fagbola (Solihull Moors).
Substitution, Woking. Charlie Carter replaces Ismail Yakubu.
Fabio Saraiva (Woking) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Goal! Solihull Moors 1, Woking 2. Harry White (Solihull Moors).
Substitution, Woking. Fabio Saraiva replaces Dennon Lewis.
Substitution, Woking. Charlie Penny replaces Zak Ansah.
Goal! Solihull Moors 0, Woking 2. Zak Ansah (Woking).
Second Half begins Solihull Moors 0, Woking 1.
First Half ends, Solihull Moors 0, Woking 1.
Goal! Solihull Moors 0, Woking 1. Nathan Ralph (Woking).
Ismail Yakubu (Woking) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
The 16-year-old, who was rescued by Tower RNLI, said he had been dared to jump in so his friends could upload video footage to YouTube.
Helmsman David Norman said: "Peer pressure can be a very powerful thing... it nearly cost a young man his life."
The boy was handed into the care of London Ambulance Service.
Tower RNLI said it was already on a call near Waterloo Bridge on Sunday when crew members heard radio traffic saying a person was in the water near Westminster and tended to the boy.
Mr Norman said: "We learned afterwards that his mates had dared him to jump from Westminster Bridge.
"People just do not realise what the conditions of the River Thames can be like.
"It can be very cold - granted, not so much at this time of year - but the currents can be vicious."
The scheme, proposed for a site between Darlington Road and Stokesley Road, also includes a new link road and bridge over the Northallerton to Middlesbrough railway line.
A new primary school, playing fields and allotments have also been assigned part of the development.
Hambleton District Council hopes a planning application will be submitted by the end of May.
The council said it had been working with three developers to "see Northallerton expand over the next 15 years".
The proposals are being exhibited to the public at the Golden Lion Hotel between 14:00 and 21:00 BST before a formal planning application is submitted.
Mr Cheung, 65, died after he was attacked and stabbed at Caddy Road, near Randalstown, on 8 January.
Two 16-year-old girls were arrested in Randalstown on Wednesday morning and a 17-year-old girl was detained by detectives on Wednesday evening.
One of the 16-year-olds has since been released pending further inquiries.
The other remains in police custody.
Mr Cheung was attacked after his car was forced off the road. His wife, Winnie, 57, was injured.
Three men have already appeared in court charged with his murder. They deny the charge.
Three men - Ken Cresswell, 57, and John Shaw, 61, from Rotherham, and Chris Huxtable, 34, from Swansea - have been missing since the collapse in February.
Emergency services and workers who have searched for the bodies formed the guard of honour as the body was driven from the site at 02:30 BST.
The body has not been identified but all three families were in attendance.
Thames Valley Police said formal identification of the body found on Wednesday had not yet taken place.
Oxfordshire Live: Didcot body recovered
The body of Michael Collings, 53, from Brotton, Teesside, was previously recovered from the site.
The building was due for demolition when it partially collapsed in February. The remaining section was brought down using explosives in July.
Sarah Champion, the MP for Rotherham, where two of the families are based, said: "It's a great relief that someone has been found, but the families have been waiting now for just over six months.
"If you start thinking about the implications of that, it means they can't have a funeral for their loved ones, they can't grieve, they can't go away, and every time the phone rings they've been wondering if it's the call that their husband has been found."
Ed Vaizey, MP for Didcot and Wantage, called it a "terrible saga".
"The news that one body has been found is very sad but at the same time there is a sense of relief because the families can't get closure... and the wait must have been absolutely agonising for them."
Oxfordshire's coal-fired Didcot A Power Station was turned off in 2013, after 43 years in service.
The site was able to generate 2,000 MW of electricity - enough to meet the needs of two million households - owners RWE Npower said.
The station included six cooling towers, measuring 375ft (114m) in height, which dominated the skyline of the town.
Hundreds of people gathered to watch when three of the towers were demolished in the early hours of 27 July 2014.
RWE Npower expected complete deconstruction of the site by the end of this year before the boiler house collapse in February took place.
A gas-burning power station - known as Didcot B - opened in 1997 on the site and continues to operate.
The move follows a monitoring programme by Caerphilly council of 7,000 randomly-selected homes which found only 38% were recycling.
Over the next few weeks, council officials will go to 80,000 homes in a bid to increase that figure.
The authority said 7,000 tonnes of food waste was not being recycled.
Councillor Nigel George, cabinet member for community and leisure services, said: "If every household participated in recycling food waste, the council could save nearly £200,000 a year which could go towards protecting other frontline services."
The Welsh Government has set targets which require councils to recycle at least 64% of all waste collected by 2019-20 and 70% by 2024-25.
Failure to do so could lead to significant fines of up to £1m being imposed on councils.
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Forfar Athletic striker David Cox has struggled with mental health problems since he was a teenager.
"I remember one game when I came off with about 10 minutes to go and I was standing at the dugout," he recalled.
"And I heard someone shouting 'away and hang yourself and do it right this time' or something like that."
Cox, who has spoken publicly about his problems in the past, has been battling with depression since he was 15 and has tried to kill himself as recently as last year.
"It scares me because my girlfriend was taken aside and told it was touch and go," the 28-year-old told BBC Scotland.
"At that time, it was the worst I've ever felt in my life and the lowest I've ever felt."
Cox's comments come after the players' union, PFA Scotland, released figures suggesting almost a third of players have some experience of mental health problems, either personally or through a team-mate.
The former Kilmarnock, Montrose, Annan Athletic, Peterhead and Airdrieonians midfielder thinks more needs to be done to create a better understanding of the issue within football.
"I was also having an argument on the field, which you do in football, and a player said 'watch your wrists, wee man' in reference to me cutting my wrists," he said.
"I'm speaking out in order to try and help other people - not for people to come back at me.
"Some people might think it's the best job in the world, but it's not what everyone thinks it is.
"It comes with its pressures - it's competitive and some people react to things differently."
Six hundred players responded to a PFA Scotland survey and, from that number, 64% said they or a team-mate they knew had suffered mental health issues.
The players' union is now providing a dedicated service for those who feel they need help.
PFA Scotland's Michelle Evans said: "We do club visits and I do a mental health presentation to the players.
"Off the back of every club visit, the phone rings, which is worrying, yet it is great at the same time because they know it's there and they're using it."
Former Rangers, Birmingham City, Blackburn Rovers, Blackpool and Scotland captain Barry Ferguson, who until February was Clyde manager, has also been involved in tackling the problem.
"I started getting involved in it when I came back up the road and when I took the Clyde job," he said.
"I started to do a lot of work with guys from different backgrounds - they'd never been in football. We used to take them coaching during the day.
"That was a release for them, letting them play football and we did eight-week courses.
"The difference you saw from week one to week eight was phenomenal.
"They wouldn't speak to you for the first couple of weeks and, as they got to know you, they opened up."
In her first interview since revealing the news last week, Wyatt told the Radio Times: "It is what it is."
"I am not angry, and I don't want bitterness to start eating away at me."
One of the best known faces of BBC News, Wyatt recently stepped down as the corporation's religious affairs correspondent due to her condition.
"I feel really sad now because I'm not going to be a correspondent full-time anymore - I physically can't."
Wyatt had been struggling with undiagnosed symptoms for 25 years but was only diagnosed with MS last July after she was paralysed down her left side.
Wyatt, who was also the BBC's defence correspondent, said she has had moments where she has questioned her own mortality.
"Reporting news is often about reporting death, particularly in the places I have been. But it's less terrifying to me to think of being blown up and dying than to think 'gosh, I might decline slowly day by day, losing a little bit of capability every day'."
At the moment, she is a bit unsteady on her feet and is struggling with her vision but still says she is "incredibly lucky and incredibly blessed".
She is currently on a long summer break but is hoping to return to radio broadcasting later in the year, along with covering the canonisation of Mother Teresa in Rome.
In MS the protective layer surrounding nerve fibres in the brain and spinal cord - known as myelin - becomes damaged. The immune system mistakenly attacks the myelin, causing scarring or sclerosis.
The damaged myelin disrupts the nerve signals - rather like the short circuit caused by a frayed electrical cable.
If the process of inflammation and scarring is not treated then eventually the condition can cause permanent neurodegeneration.
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The Punch Bowl stone on the A5183 St Albans Road was stolen in August 2012.
A second stone was taken from opposite the Chequers pub, a mile further down the road near Redbourn, last month.
Officers responding to reports it was now in Hemel Hempstead realised it was actually the first stone. The second was found hours later in Kings Langley.
Hertfordshire Police said the first stone, which is 5ft 8ins (1.7m) tall and had stood close to the Punch Bowl Lane turning on Watling Street, was discovered by a member of the public in Dodds Lane on Friday morning.
The second, which was taken between 15 and 27 March, was found just over six miles away in Barnes Lane, Kings Langley, again by a member of the public.
A police spokesman said both would be "placed back in their rightful place at some point in the future".
Sgt Tom Fisher said the first stone had probably been discarded after a police appeal about the second theft.
"I suspect someone had it in their garden, saw the press [appeal] and probably thought 'I'm going to be in a bit of trouble' and dumped it to try and get rid of the evidence," he said.
The force has asked for anyone who may have been in the areas where the stones were recovered to come forward if they had seen anything suspicious.
Local historian Sandy Ross said the milestones between St Albans and Redbourn had been erected from 1722 onwards as a requirement of the Dunstable - St Albans - London Turnpike Act of Parliament.
This allowed a private business to repair the roads but to make a charge to users based on the distance travelled.
Mr Ross, who reported both thefts to police, called the finds a "happy outcome for our local heritage".
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The 20-year-old has made seven appearances for the Hammers in all competitions, scoring one goal.
Lee, son of former England player Rob, is in his second stint with the U's, having featured in four games during a loan spell in 2013.
He also played four times for Blackpool after joining on a one-month loan in November, but failed to score a goal.
Meanwhile, midfielder Byron Lawrence, 19, has left the U's after his contract was cancelled by mutual consent.
Lawrence made only one appearance for Colchester after signing following his release by Ipswich in September 2014.
Lee and Robert Firkins were found guilty in 2005 of murdering Graham and Carol Fisher at the couple's petrol station near Wadebridge.
Solicitors said DNA from the Fishers' bungalow could show other people, who may have been responsible for the killings, were there.
Their submissions are being examined by the Criminal Cases Review Commission.
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No physical evidence was found to link the brothers to the crime scene, where the couple were shot repeatedly after being bludgeoned with a sledgehammer.
The Firkins are currently serving life sentences for the 2003 murders.
Jane Hickman, who represents Lee Firkins, said that since the murders, the science of DNA had "advanced enormously", and that the number of people in the database had doubled.
She said fingerprints and palm prints from inside the house that had previously not been matched to anyone may now be identified.
She said the prints may be a "game changer" in the case.
The Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) has provisionally decided against sending the case to the Court of Appeal after a previous challenge to the Firkins' convictions.
That related to the reliability of a key witness, and was lodged almost two years ago.
If the CCRC agrees to the latest request, and new evidence is found, the case could go to the Court of Appeal.
The commission said: "We received submissions relating to forensics in this case - we are considering those at the moment."
The captain was caught at short leg off Steve Smith's part-time leg-spin for a gutsy 85 in the penultimate over of the third day to leave his side perilously poised on 203-6, still 129 runs behind Australia after their skipper Michael Clarke enforced the follow-on.
Under-pressure England opener Adam Lyth, Ian Bell, Joe Root and Ben Stokes made just 34 runs between them, while Jonny Bairstow contributed 26 and Jos Buttler dug deep to reach 33 not out at the close on a scorching summer's day at The Oval.
England's ninth-wicket pair had earlier added 47 as they were bowled out for 149 in reply to Australia's 481.
And despite Cook's valiant efforts, the damage done by England's desperate collapse on Friday afternoon appears certain to have condemned them to defeat.
The hosts had already regained the Ashes after their victories at Cardiff, Edgbaston and Trent Bridge gave them an unassailable 3-1 series lead.
Clarke's decision to ask a team to follow on for the first time in his captaincy career provided Lyth with an opportunity to salvage his series - but once again the Yorkshire left-hander was not up to the task.
He had made 10 runs when he poked at a ball shaping away from Peter Siddle and was caught by Clarke at slip.
Lyth's latest failure leaves England no closer to finding a long-term replacement to Andrew Strauss as Cook's opening partner.
Nick Compton, Joe Root, Michael Carberry, Sam Robson and Jonathan Trott have also auditioned for the role, without ever doing enough to make it their own.
Despite his pedigree, Bell is another player facing an anxious wait to see if he is included in England's party for the series against Pakistan in the United Arab Emirates.
He looked desperately out of sorts and was dropped on three at second slip by Clarke as he scraped together 13 runs. But when a lifter from Mitchell Marsh glanced off Bell's glove, this time Clarke made no mistake.
Root fell trying to take on Mitchell Johnson in the first over, as he top-edged a hook shot to Mitchell Starc at long leg.
Bairstow and Ben Stokes then succumbed in the same Nathan Lyon over after tea, although Bairstow should not have been given out by the letter of the law.
Adam Voges took a juggling catch at short leg, but the ball made contact with the grille of his helmet in the process, which should technically have nullified the dismissal.
With wickets tumbling at the other end, Cook remained serene as he moved towards what would have been his first Ashes hundred in England.
He eschewed risk, scoring heavily on the off side and raising some hope of England surviving through to Sunday afternoon's predicted downpour.
But Clarke's decision to deploy Smith's occasional leg-spinners proved a masterstroke.
His second ball - a full toss - was dismissively sent to the boundary by Buttler, but the last ball of the over gripped and turned enough to catch the splice of Cook's bat and fall into the grateful hands of Voges.
As the Australians celebrated wildly, Cook was a picture of disappointment as he loped back to the pavilion knowing that the game had gone.
Cook's dismissal brought Mark Wood to the crease for the second time in the day, the Durham fast bowler having earlier combined with Moeen Ali to help England add 42 runs to their overnight 107-8.
Both fell in successive deliveries from Johnson, Wood becoming the fourth England batsman to perish on the pull shot as he looped a catch to mid-wicket and Moeen nicking to Peter Nevill.
Australia seam bowler Peter Siddle: "The follow-on is always hard, it was a long day today, but Pup [captain Michael Clarke] asked us what we wanted to do, and he wanted to have a real go at winning this Test match.
"Pressure is key. I would have liked my chance, but I didn't bowl as well as I could in the tour matches."
England wicketkeeper Jos Buttler: "We're up against it, but we've just got to keep fighting and hang in there. The captain showed that for most of the day. It would be great if we could get out of this, and a bit of rain would be great.
"I've had a tough series, it's been tough mentally when you keep finding ways of getting out, but you've got to keep scrapping. I'm really happy with the way my keeping's gone - I feel there's been a progression."
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Nick Alexander, 35, was shot in the abdomen and chest in the Bataclan nightclub in November last year, Chelmsford Coroner's Court heard.
The inquest heard written evidence from Helen Wilson, who was with him at the concert venue where 90 people died.
Coroner Caroline Beasley-Murray ruled Mr Alexander was unlawfully killed.
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Ms Wilson said the pair had tried to "play dead" when they realised what was happening.
"We dropped to the floor as soon as we heard the first shot," she said.
"A tall man came over to us and started shooting. I tried to protect Nick.
"I asked him if he had been shot. I felt a burning sensation around my legs and I could see blood.
"Nick told me he had been shot in the stomach."
Ms Wilson told the inquest she held on to Mr Alexander's hand while his breathing became shallower.
"I twisted my body around and gave him mouth-to-mouth. I was telling him not to leave me and I love him," she said.
Mr Alexander, from Colchester, Essex, was selling band merchandise for Eagles of Death Metal when he was killed in one of a series of co-ordinated attacks by gunmen across the city.
He was the only British national to die in the attacks, the Foreign Office told the BBC.
Outside the coroner's court, Mr Alexander's sister Zoe said he "lived his life to the full".
Standing alongside her mother Sheelagh, she said her brother "lost his life in an indiscriminate act of terror at the Bataclan theatre".
"Nick was a much-loved son, brother, uncle and friend, a strong, gentle, generous and funny man who lived his life to the full," she said.
"We were blessed to have him in our lives and we miss him beyond measure."
James McGowan, 58, pled not guilty to killing Owen Brannigan by repeatedly stabbing him at a house in Coatbridge, on 28 or 29 November 1999.
At the High Court in Edinburgh, Mr McGowan's lawyer said another man called Thomas Stewart, who is now dead, was responsible for the alleged murder.
The accused also denies assaulting Thomas Duggan on 28 November 1999.
Mr McGowan's lawyer Murray Macara lodged the special defence of incrimination on the first day of proceedings against his client.
The jury heard that Mr Brannigan was once married to Mr McGowan's sister Carol and that the marriage ended in divorce.
They were told Mr Brannigan was repeatedly stabbed on the neck and body with a knife "or similar instrument".
Mr McGowan and his wife emigrated to Australia in 1980.
In November 1999 he travelled back to Scotland for his mother's funeral, which was held on November 22 1999.
The court heard how his return flight was booked for 10 December 1999.
On 29 November he visited British Airways and asked to rearrange his return flight to the "next available flight".
Jurors also heard that twice in July 2012, Mr McGowan phoned an Australian counselling service called On the Line.
Mr McGowan requested on both occasions that his calls weren't recorded. However, the calls were recorded in "error".
The jury was told the calls were accurately transcribed and the transcription forms part of a Crown document.
Scottish police officers travelled to Australia and in March 2016, the accused was placed in their custody and was "extradited" to Britain.
The case is being prosecuted by Alex Prentice QC.
The trial, before judge Lady Scott, continues.
Officials are talking to unions, including Unison, about proposals, such as reducing the working week to avoid redundancies.
A spokesman said a "wide-ranging review" was looking at addressing "significant financial issues" set to arise in the coming years.
Unison said the university's financial strategy appeared "unrealistic".
It is not yet clear which jobs would be affected if redundancies were made.
Vice chancellor John G Hughes said since the review started in 2016, it has suffered further funding cuts and £8.5m will need to be saved to "ensure that the university can meet the challenges it faces".
He added: "Over the next few weeks and months a comprehensive series of steps will be adopted in order to make the necessary savings."
But Geoff Edkins, from Unison, said university staff were "alarmed" at the apparent state of its finances.
"They are angry that management of the university has put their jobs at risk and threatened their families' livelihoods," he added.
"We must protect the quality and breadth of student learning and support at the university and Unison doesn't see how the university's proposals will do that. At best, the financial strategy of Bangor appears unrealistic."
Mr Edkins said: "One idea the trade unions have put forward is to sell the grace-and-favour property bought for the vice chancellor and which is scarcely used. We believe this could net the university £1m straight away.
"Staff are due to meet to consider the university's proposals and we believe they will be thrown out. If implemented, they would force staff who are already low paid, into poverty."
The announcement follows similar moves by institutions around Wales.
On Tuesday, the University of South Wales said it had "minimised" job losses after announcing in March 139 jobs could go in a bid to balance rising costs with an anticipated reduction in students due to Brexit.
In May, Aberystwyth University said up to 150 positions "could be at risk" as it tried to make cuts of £11.4m while University of Wales Trinity Saint David asked staff to consider voluntary redundancy.
The Dutchman replaces the Portuguese coach Jose Peseiro who left the club in January to take over at Porto.
It means Cairo rivals Ahly and Zamalek both have new coaches with Alex McLeish set to take over in charge of the White Knights.
Ahly are currently top of the table in Egypt above Zamalek, who are the reigning champions.
As well the English clubs Tottenham and Fulham Jol has also had spells with German side Hamburg and Dutch club Ajax.
The 60-year-old has been out of management since being sacked by Fulham in 2013.
British riders occupied the top three spots in last year's women's World Cup - success Atherton believes has helped encourage participation in the sport.
But the 28-year-old, who races in Scotland this weekend, says "everyone dreams of being an Olympic champion".
"It's everything an Olympic sport should be," Atherton told BBC Sport.
BMX racing became an Olympic sport for the 2008 Games in Beijing, and Atherton suggested that downhill mountain biking would benefit from inclusion.
She said: "I think it would be amazing. Being in the Olympics would change the sport. We saw it in BMX. It changes the way the sport is run."
Atherton says it would take pressure on the International Olympic Committee from top riders to earn the sport a place at the Games.
In 2014, her brother Gee suggested it should be part of the Winter Olympics. But Atherton is confident, even without Olympic participation, that the sport is "booming" in the UK.
The Trek Factory rider will line up against British rivals Manon Carpenter and Tahnee Seagrave this weekend for the third stage of this year's World Cup at Fort William, a venue she feels shows downhill mountain biking's popularity.
"British downhill riding is in a really good place at the minute and it's amazing to see," added Atherton, who won the opening two World Cup stages.
"The UK has got some amazing venues and really good places to ride. At Fort William, you see people with their kids, all on their bikes and they know all the riders. It's awesome."
Nathaniel Mendez-Laing, Ian Henderson, Callum Camps and Peter Vincenti scored to give Dale a 4-1 win over Gillingham and end a 11-game winless run.
Saturday's victory moved the side into 10th place, easing pressure on Hill.
"They see the infrastructure that we've put in place and the processes to be even more successful," 47-year-old Hill told BBC Radio Manchester.
"I'm fortunate enough that I've got very intelligent owners who can see through not winning a game since early January."
Rochdale's win was their first in the league since 2 January, when they beat Walsall 2-0, and although Hill was pleased with the three points he believes he has nothing to prove.
"I'm the most successful manager this club has ever had and there are plenty of clubs up and down the country who'd take me tomorrow," he said.
Hill's side are seven points outside the League One play-off places, but with games in hand on many rivals, and he is looking forward to the remaining 10 matches.
"We play a lot of teams below us and I think that could give us some impetus going into the next stage of the season," he added.
Blink and you would have missed them. Months of preparation amounted to defeats by Italy and Uruguay in the space of six days before England manager Roy Hodgson and his squad were making the plans for the flight home.
When the story of Brazil 2014 is told, it will be a tale of ambitious attacking football, Luis Suarez's bite and the World Cup semi-final carnage inflicted on the host in a 7-1 loss to Germany that will be revisited as long as the tournament is staged.
England? Move along. Nothing to see here.
The immediate priority for Hodgson and the Football Association will be preparations for England's Euro 2016 campaign, with a sympathetic group draw likely to allow them a relatively straightforward passage to France in two years.
But what of the next World Cup in Russia? While Hodgson puts together briefing notes on how and why England slipped into and out of South America almost unnoticed, it is to be hoped a close eye was kept on how the rest of the World Cup played out.
Apart from brief spells against Italy, England's approach was at odds with the fast-paced, counter attacking football even so-called underdogs such as Algeria and Costa Rica were able to produce.
The task for Hodgson is to ensure England are not left staring into the distance as the rest of the football world disappears over the horizon and out of sight by the time the Russian campaign starts.
The likelihood is that Hodgson, barring a spectacular and highly-unlikely success at Euro 2016, will be preparing the ground for his successor. And despite FA backing, he knows any false moves in the Euros could result in a swing in public mood.
Hodgson will be 70 when the World Cup comes to Russia so on any level it is tough to see him in charge.
Those who took on the role of apologists for the limp effort in Brazil claimed it at least gave some youngsters a chance, however limited, so Hodgson must seize the opportunity created by their arrival or he will be considered the man who allowed England to be left behind.
The sight of England's players being applauded off in Belo Horizonte after a tedious goalless draw with Costa Rica was more a sign of acceptance than appreciation. Fans had almost lost the will to criticise.
The lack of any angry reaction has been significant, but there is no guarantee that will remain the case should England get even one bad result in Euro qualifiers.
If Hodgson does not stay in his post through to 2018 - and it is hard to see he will - the FA will then have a difficult choice because, while there have been crucial junctures for England before, this seems even more important given the scale of their failure in Brazil.
The received wisdom seems to be that the national manager should now be English and interlocked with the work at the National Football Centre at St George's Park.
This would suggest that, unless a new and emerging contender comes through, next man in line to succeed Hodgson would be either current coach Gary Neville or Gareth Southgate, who is in command of the under-21 side.
Should this be the case? Should the FA simply go English for English sake if a better alternative is available?
Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho flirted with the FA before and the fluid nature of his career means his path is not easy to map out. But his only national interest is Portugal and much later in his career.
QPR boss Harry Redknapp and BBC Sport pundit Alan Hansen have both mentioned Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers and Everton's Roberto Martinez as potential England managers. As one is from Northern Ireland and the other is a Catalan, they may not fit the brief, even if they actually wanted the job.
For now it is Hodgson in charge and, while all eyes are on Euro 2016, the FA and England must also cast a glance long-term to Russia in four years' time with the express intention of putting on a better show than the cameo of failure produced in Brazil.
England, at least, have some building blocks in place in the shape of exciting young players. Here, the old campaigner Hodgson must demonstrate he is the man to inspire them, relate to them and be capable of getting them playing the sort of football that has graced this World Cup.
Hodgson and England must move with the times otherwise the idea of how they will fare at the 2018 World Cup might even be reduced to a redundant argument. They must qualify first.
In a World Cup context, England can forget about Steven Gerrard and Frank Lampard. Indeed, they can probably forget about them now. Wayne Rooney is unlikely to be involved at 32, while Phil Jagielka and Leighton Baines - both starters in Brazil - will not be involved either.
At 27, goalkeeper Joe Hart has another World Cup in him, although Jack Butland may come through and challenge.
Manchester United new boy Luke Shaw should lock down the left-back position, while Everton's elegant centre-back John Stones has not only been talked about as a certain regular but also a future England captain.
Everton's Ross Barkley and Liverpool teenager Raheem Sterling will be the shining attacking lights of the new generation, while Arsenal's Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain is destined for great things.
Liverpool pair Daniel Sturridge and Jordan Henderson are also young enough to, barring misfortune, take their England careers through to 2018. Furthermore, Theo Walcott will only be 29 and will hope to make up for lost time.
There is, then, a core of hopefuls.
Beneath them, Hodgson and his backroom team at all levels must look to the likes of Fulham's Patrick Roberts, Southampton right-back Calum Chambers and to the team who were crowned European champions at under-17 level in May.
Captain Ryan Ledson from Everton impressed at that tournament, along with Chelsea pair Dom Solanke and Isaiah Brown and Fulham's Roberts, who has excited so many shrewd observers.
England's first task is to reach Russia and many factors will be at work there. And even if they do, it is stretching credibility to its maximum elasticity to believe they could win the tournament. No-one would seriously go there.
This does not mean, however, that the FA and England should not be looking further down the track to avoid a repetition of their embarrassing early flight out of Brazil.
Touch wood, they qualify. If they do, England should be organised under manager Gary Neville, who pipped Gareth Southgate to succeed Roy Hodgson when England failed to get out of the group stage at Euro 2016. They lack a holding midfielder, but Jack Rodwell could be re-energised by a return to Everton.
As promising as Calum Chambers, Jamaal Lascelles, Jesse Lingard, Ruben Loftus-Cheek, Ryan Ledson, Lewis Baker, Patrick Roberts etc are, I would be pleasantly surprised if more than a couple of them are starting for England by 2018.
I have gone for Chambers and Fulham's Roberts, but you never know how young players will develop. That is reflected by the difficulties that Phil Jones and Jack Wilshere have had over the last two or three years, but I would still back them to be part of England's long-term future.
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Danny Welbeck and others will be heavily involved, too, and I would like to think Jack Rodwell would get his career back on track. It would still be a young team by 2018 and a reasonably talented one, but not one - sadly - that would go to Russia, if they qualified, with serious hopes of winning the World Cup.
Having squeaked through via the play-offs (paying the price for falling out of the top nine in Europe by next summer), expectations will not be high for Gareth Southgate's team. I suspect that getting out of the group will feel like a triumph after the last two World Cups. I'm backing Tottenham's Joshua Onomah to fulfil his promise and come through.
There are some talented young players here who already have England caps and should, in theory, be even stronger by the next World Cup. Yet how many times have we said that before? It is a recurring theme from generation to generation with England permanently stuck in the same old loop.
Can they win the World Cup in 2018? It is not a credible debate. We came out of the current World Cup with manager Roy Hodgson, Gary Neville (and many others) acclaiming the performance against Italy as the best in over a decade, And yet the bottom line is England were out after six days. It is going to be a long catching-up process.
If England actually qualify for the 2018 World Cup, there is a solid foundation of young players who should be in full maturity by then such as Barkley, Shaw and Sterling. It will need a lot more to come through - especially in central defence as I select Smalling with no real conviction - to even think they will make any serious impression. I'm backing Fulham's Patrick Roberts to be one of those. But winners? No chance.
He was talking after helping his side avoid relegation from the Championship.
The 24-year-old is keen to play for the Leopards despite rejecting the chance to go with them to the Africa Cup of Nations in January to concentrate on his club career.
"I was born in Congo so that's where I want to play," he told the BBC Sport.
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"My dad played there so it's not really difficult. People might say its the easy way but that's where I was born, that's where my family is from."
His father Fedor Assombalonga is a former DR Congo international and his brother Christian plays in the lower English leagues.
He was born in the Congolese capital, Kinshasa and came to England with his family when he was eight months old and is proud of his heritage.
"I am African and I want to show people that they can pick to go and play for a team in Africa and that's what I have done, that's what I have chosen," he insisted.
"It's good for me because I am proud to say I am African, I am proud to say I am from Congo and that's the team I would like to play for."
Assombalonga was the hero for Forest last weekend as he scored twice in their final game of the season against Ipswich to ensure his side were not relegated.
"This weekend was special but nervy. I wouldn't call it a big achievement because you never want to be in that position," he explained.
"It's nice to see everyone excited because we didn't get relegated but as a player, as a coach you never want to be in that position."
Central parts of the town on the German border have been sealed off, as police are searching for the attacker.
Police and ambulances are on the scene and rescue helicopters are circling overhead, police spokeswoman Cindy Beer said.
The police say the attack is not related to terrorism.
Police have released a picture of the alleged suspect, who is still on the run, but have not named him.
They have warned that the man, who is about 190cm (6.2ft) tall, with an unkempt appearance, is dangerous.
Local shops are also shut, and people have been told to avoid the area.
The alarm was raised at 10:39 local time (08:39 GMT), when an armed man was reported to have entered office buildings in Schaffhausen.
He then attacked a number of people working in the local branch of a health insurance company, according to local news site Swissinfo.
At a news conference, police reassured the public that a large number of officers had been deployed in the area.
According to news agency ATS, the vehicle he was believed to be driving - a white Volkswagen - has been found.
The attacker is still at large, however.
Schaffhausen is the capital of the Swiss canton with the same name.
About 36,000 people live in the historic town.
The pair will attempt to give Britain a man and woman in the last eight for the first time since 1973.
Sixth seed Konta plays France's 21st seed Caroline Garcia in the opening match on court one at 13:00 BST.
Defending champion Murray plays Frenchman Benoit Paire on Centre Court at about 15:00.
A packed schedule includes eight men's and eight women's singles matches, and spectators began queuing over the weekend for the remaining tickets.
In the men's draw, Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal and Murray have 14 Wimbledon titles between them, while five-time champion Venus Williams is the only former winner in a fascinating women's event.
The 37-year-old American opens play on Centre Court against 19-year-old Ana Konjuh of Croatia at 13:00.
"I guess when you walk on the court, I don't think either of us is thinking about the age," said Williams, playing her 20th Wimbledon.
"You're thinking, 'How do I win?'"
They will be followed on Centre Court by Murray against Paire, before Federer takes on Bulgarian 13th seed Grigor Dimitrov.
"He's in the prime of his career you would think right now," Federer said of Dimitrov.
"I expect that every time I have played him he has become better. I expect the same on Monday."
On court one, Spain's two-time winner Rafael Nadal faces 16th seed Gilles Muller of Luxembourg in the second match, followed by Serbia's Djokovic against unseeded Frenchman Adrian Mannarino.
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It is 44 years since Roger Taylor and Virginia Wade carried British hopes into both the men's and women's quarter-finals, and Murray and Konta look capable of matching that feat.
Murray, 30, has coped well with the hip injury that disrupted his preparation and came through his first serious test against Fabio Fognini on Friday in four sets.
He now meets Paire for the second time, after winning a dramatic match in Monte Carlo last year that sparked a brilliant run of form which ultimately ended in the number one ranking.
"He has very good hands, moves well, takes a lot of chances and goes for his shots," said the Scot.
"He can be quite up and down. But he seems to have played pretty well so far at this event. I expect it to be tricky."
Konta, 26, is doing her best to play down talk of being the tournament favourite but appears to have as good a chance as any of the 16 women left in a wide open draw.
Garcia will have similar thoughts, however, and won their previous match in a final set tie-break in Indian Wells earlier this year.
"I have said that everyone in the draw is in with a chance of taking the title," said Konta.
"I think I'm pretty sure favourites also come and go. They change daily almost.
"I'm just here, happy to have actually made it into the second week, happy to come through three battles this week."
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The second Monday of Wimbledon is one of the most famous days in tennis, as the only one of the four Grand Slams that schedules the last 16 men and women together on the same day.
Germany's Angelique Kerber is trying to rediscover her best form, and at the same time hang on to her world number one ranking, with Spanish 14th seed Garbine Muguruza her next opponent.
Such is the quality of matches all around the All England Club that this clash of the last two Wimbledon runners-up is the first match on court two at 11:30.
At the same time, newly-crowned French Open champion Jelena Ostapenko of Latvia faces Ukrainian fourth seed Elena Svitolina, one of the form players of 2016, on court 12.
"To be honest, I'm really not looking at the schedule," said Kerber.
"I'm trying to think more about my game, it doesn't matter which court. I just go out there, try to play my game."
Kerber and Muguruza will be followed on court two by an equally intriguing contest between Romanian second seed Simona Halep and unseeded Victoria Azarenka of Belarus.
Halep continues to search for a first major title after losing in the French Open final last month, while Azarenka is making her Grand Slam return after giving birth to son Leo in December.
Sixth seed Milos Raonic, the Canadian who lost to Murray in last year's final, completes the court two line-up against German 10th seed and rising star Alexander Zverev.
T and A Kernoghan Limited has been operating for more than 25 years but has run into financial problems.
Upwards of 50 jobs could be lost.
In a statement the company said it was "profoundly disappointed" by events.
North Wales Police said the incident on Thursday involved one vehicle on the B5111 in Coedana, Llanerchymedd.
The road was closed following the incident at about 17:30 BST but reopened just after 21:00.
An investigation is under way to establish the cause of the crash.
Souttar, 19, has agreed a three-and-a-half-year deal at Tynecastle.
"We see him as one of the brightest young prospects in Scotland, and one who we can develop further," head coach Robbie Neilson told the Hearts website.
"I'm delighted to have signed for Hearts," said Souttar. "I'm joining a brilliant club at a great time."
Souttar made his United debut in January 2013 and played 73 games for the Premiership's bottom side.
The Edinburgh club had seen earlier approaches for the player rejected by United, who are 11 points adrift of the play-off place.
The Scotland Under-21 cap turned down the offer of a new deal at Tannadice and had entered the final six months of his contract.
"John's a player who we've admired for a long time and I'm delighted to secure him," added Neilson.
"It shows the intent of Hearts to not only develop young players from our own academy, but recruit them too and continue their development."
Souttar said he was joining a club where the head coach likes to give young players the chance to shine.
"I'm really looking forward to getting stuck in and getting my career back on track," Souttar added.
Hearts have also recruited Don Cowie and Abiola Dauda, while they have agreed to sell top-scorer Osman Sow to a club in China.
Meanwhile, Morgaro Gomis has joined Motherwell on loan and fellow midfielder Danny Swanson has left by mutual consent.
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The Northern Irishman trailed the Spaniard by three shots at the start of the final day in Akron but clawed back the deficit inside four holes.
The Open champion signed for a four-under 66 to finish on 15 under, while Garcia closed with a scrappy 71.
Tiger Woods was forced to quit midway through the round with a back injury.
McIlroy's first WGC title will see him overtake Australian Adam Scott at the top of the world rankings, regaining the position he last held in March 2013.
The 25-year-old was hugely impressive at Hoylake last month and was keen to show there would be no hangover when he arrived in Ohio this week.
"I'm really proud of following up the Open with a performance like this. I wanted to keep going and keep performing until the end of the season," McIlroy said.
"It's great to come to one of my favourite tournaments of the year and to perform like this, I am pretty satisfied."
McIlroy opened with three straight birdies to take a one-shot lead. He never trailed the rest of the way and took the lead for good with an eight-foot birdie on the 11th hole.
Garcia's final-round return of two bogeys against one birdie was some way short of his exploits on the second day.
Garcia played the back nine in just 27 shots in his record-equalling second round of 61, and hit a total of 16 birdies over his first three rounds.
But his failure to press his advantage home on Sunday means the 34-year-old has now won just three times on the 16 occasions he has held the 54-hole lead.
Woods withdrew after eight holes with back pain sustained jumping into a bunker as he played a shot on the second hole, in what was only his third event since returning from back surgery.
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However, the 62-year-old will continue to help with the youth development programme at the Racecourse Ground.
"I've loved every minute of my time at Wrexham," said Jones, who went on to win two European Cups with Liverpool in 1977 and 1978.
"It's time to let others come to the fore and carry on the proud traditions of the club. "
Llandudno-native Jones joined Wrexham in 1970 as a teenager and made his senior debut two years later in a Welsh Cup tie against Chester.
His talent was spotted by Liverpool and the defender joined the Merseyside giants for £110,000 in July 1975.
Jones made his Wales debut the same year - against Austria at the Racecourse - and would go on to win 72 caps for his country.
He would play for Wrexham in two further spells, as well as Chelsea and Huddersfield Town.
During his playing career Jones won the old First Division, two European Cups, a Uefa Cup and Super Cup, the Second Division championship and the Welsh Cup.
Jones finished his playing career as player-coach at Wrexham under former manager Brian Flynn, hanging up his boots in 1992 at the age of 37 but continuing to coach at the Welsh side.
He required a heart operation in 2002, when he was 47, but made a full recovery.
"The club continues to be a massive part of my life and whilst I am retiring from a full-time position, I will still be part of the future of the club and especially helping the younger generations make the transition to professional football like I did with Wrexham," Jones added.
"I'm looking forward to the season ahead and hopefully we will be right up there."
Joey Jones won the European Cup with Liverpool in 1977 and 1978.
There were 493 vacancies for doctors in Welsh health boards on 1 December 2015, a rate of 7.8%.
Five health boards said they were trying to recruit doctors from abroad, while all seven said they were actively recruiting nurses from overseas.
Ministers said despite more staff there were "challenges" in some specialities.
The data was obtained by a Freedom of Information request for BBC News.
The figures for December 2014 do not include Hywel Dda but comparing vacancy numbers in the other six health boards there was a rise of 66% to 2015.
The snapshot figures for 1 December also showed there were 1,203 vacancies for nurses in the NHS in Wales, a rate of 5.6%.
This was below the average including England and Northern Ireland, which was 9% of the workforce.
The average vacancy rate for doctors in England, Wales and Northern Ireland was lower at 7%.
Cwm Taf University Health Board said 10% of its 698 nursing posts were unfilled, the highest proportion in Wales.
Powys 15%
Betsi Cadwaladr and Hywel Dda 14%
Abertawe Bro Morgannwg 11%
Aneurin Bevan and Cardiff/Vale 3%
Cwm Taf 2%
Both Betsi Cadwaladr and Hywel Dda health boards reported 14% of their doctor posts were vacant, compared to 3% in the Cardiff and Vale area.
The Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University health board saw the number of vacancies for doctors more than treble from in a year from 47 to 145, a rate of 11%.
Cardiff and Vale Health Board in December was looking to recruit three consultants in emergency medicine and Betsi Cadwaladr Health Board was looking for three consultant paediatricians.
Unions representing doctors and nurses have consistently warned of a "recruitment crisis" facing the NHS.
Dr Phil Banfield of the British Medical Association (BMA) in Wales told BBC Wales there was "terrible manpower planning" in the NHS.
"We've been raising the staff shortages issue for a number of years now. We've been highlighting some bad HR practices such as restricting advertising posts in the first place.
"If you delay advertising posts you don't pay the salary. You try to get away with shortages and get everyone else to cover.
"But then there becomes a need to staff the NHS with locums and we're also now seeing an increasing number of doctors choosing to be locums because they have a choice of when and where they work."
The Welsh government said there were more doctors and nurses working in the NHS than 10 years ago.
"Management information provided by health boards shows 94.5% of medical and dental posts are currently filled," a spokesperson said.
"However, the Welsh NHS does face recruitment challenges in some specialties in common with the rest of the UK.
"We will continue to do all we can to support recruitment initiatives proposed by health boards and trusts and to address recruitment and retention at a national level."
Vacancy rates in Scotland are published quarterly so comparable figures are not yet available.
The inquiry, led by barrister Clive Sheldon QC, was started by the Football Association in December after allegations from former players.
Sheldon wrote to every club in England and Wales in January.
The EFL said in a statement it was "very disappointed" to learn eight clubs had missed the 15 March deadline.
Those clubs, which have not been named, had been warned they could face sanctions.
"Having been made aware of the situation, the EFL immediately made contact with the relevant clubs and secured a response," said the statement.
"The EFL is satisfied that its clubs were not seeking to 'obstruct' the process but acknowledges that the failure to respond within the given time frames created unnecessary speculation and was unhelpful.
"All 72 clubs will once again be reminded that the EFL expects their full co-operation with the review."
The review is asking anyone involved with football who wishes to provide information about the way in which clubs or the FA dealt with concerns over child sex abuse between 1970 and 2005 to come forward.
Sheldon - an expert in safeguarding and child protection - has also written to all 65,000 affiliated clubs seeking assistance, and has begun meeting individuals who can contribute.
BBC Sport has learned that investigators have started searching 5,000 boxes of FA archives - each containing up to 1,000 pages.
A final report is not expected to be published until 2018.
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The 23-year-old's triumph completed a clean sweep for South Korea in the four archery disciplines.
Ku was part of the men's team that won team gold by beating the USA on Saturday.
American Brady Ellison beat the Netherlands' Sjef van den Berg 6-2 in the bronze-medal match.
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He spoke of "enormous devastation", praised those who saved lives and hailed disaster relief co-ordination by state and federal authorities.
Thousands of evacuees are in shelters, or with friends and relatives.
Isaac killed seven people - five in New Orleans and two in Mississippi - seven years after Hurricane Katrina.
Mr Obama was met in New Orleans by Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal and city Mayor Mitch Landrieu, before heading off to visit storm damage in St John the Baptist Parish.
"Obviously right now we are still in recovery mode," the president said after his tour, before adding: "The good news is that the army corps levees... worked very well."
He pledged that the US federal government would work to speed up "any decisions that need to be made" to ensure the entire region was protected by flood defences for future storms.
His visit came after Republican opponent Mitt Romney toured storm damage in Louisiana on Friday.
Early on Monday, utilities said that nearly 240,000 people had no electricity in Louisiana, although that figure was lowered significantly to about 100,000 as the day went on.
More than 11,000 were without power in Mississippi. About 5,000 were without power in Arkansas.
"My family is split up," Angela Serpas, resident of hard-hit Plaquemines Parish, told the Associated Press news agency. "This is the second time we've lost our home. We lost it in Katrina."
Residents who were evacuated from Plaquemines Parish, a vulnerable stretch of land extending to the Gulf of Mexico, will be allowed to return temporarily under police escort on Monday.
Over 3,500 people were still in shelters on Sunday, according to the office of Governor Bobby Jindal.
Thousands of people were forced out of their homes in that area after storm surge drove water over the banks of Lake Pontchartrain.
Crews are also still clearing debris left by Isaac, mostly downed trees and power lines. So far, state workers in Louisiana have cleared 130 miles (210km) of roads.
In St Tammany Parish, Louisiana, which lies to the north of New Orleans, authorities were dealing with threats from the swollen Pearl River and a lock under pressure in a canal.
The lock was opened to release water and a mandatory evacuation notice was lifted, but officials encouraged residents to stay away from the area.
In the town of LaFitte, rescue teams intentionally breached a levee on Sunday to ease flooding in the area, the Times-Picayune newspaper reported.
Forecasters are expecting the Pearl River to crest on Monday at 19.5ft (5.9m), potentially putting thousands of homes at risk of flooding.
Meanwhile, in Mississippi, the swollen Wolf River is due to crest on Tuesday, weather forecasters said.
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, which killed almost 1,800 people, the federal government spent $14.5bn (£9.1bn) rebuilding the city's flood defences. Hurricane Isaac marked the first real test of the revamped system.
Although Hurricane Isaac did not have the same force as Katrina, the storm moved slowly and dumped large volumes of rain on Louisiana and Mississippi.
Many of the areas hardest hit by the hurricane were not protected by the New Orleans flood barriers.
At the height of the storm, about 850,000 people were reported to have lost power in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Texas and Arkansas.
Police said a 52-year-old man was left with a number of injuries near a bus stop in Ferry Road at about 22:30 on Friday.
He was taken to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, where he was in a serious but stable condition. A 57-year-old man was in police custody.
Officers said they were treating it as attempted murder.
Det Insp Alan O'Brien said: "We are currently following a number of positive lines of inquiry."
"I would like to reassure the local community that crimes like this are rare. Anyone who was within the area at the time who may have witnessed the incident is asked to contact the police on 101."
BBC Wales meteorologist Derek Brockway is employed by the Met Office but the BBC confirmed on Monday that no changes are planned to its weather coverage.
The Met Office has provided the data used by the BBC since 1922.
The BBC said it was required to secure the best value for money and will tender the contract to competition.
The Met Office said it was disappointed by the decision.
A replacement is expected to take over next year.
Steve 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.
"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."
A BBC spokesman said: "Our viewers get the highest standard of weather service and that won't change.
"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.
"Our graphics are already supplied by another provider and our long-standing relationship with the Met Office will continue as we intend to still broadcast their severe weather warnings."
Speaking at UKIP's first Welsh conference on Saturday he said the party should have genuine belief it can be the opposition in Cardiff Bay.
He also named Welsh MEP Nathan Gill as the party's Welsh leader and announced two defectors to UKIP.
About 50 protestors gathered outside the conference at Margam Park.
UKIP claims it is now the main challenger to Labour in Wales and has its rivals "on the run".
It has opened campaign offices in Merthyr and Penarth, and is due to open another in Shotton, Flintshire, next week.
The party came within 4,500 votes of beating Labour into first place in the European elections in Wales in May.
Welsh Labour has launched an advertising campaign attacking Mr Farage as a "Thatcherite".
But during his speech to the conference, Mr Farage responded to Labour supporters saying UKIP is not welcome in Wales by saying: "It's a bit late mate, We're already here!"
He said coming close to Labour in the European elections "was simply the most stunning result of the night".
He added: "Our progress electorally and organisationally in Wales is fantastic. We've trebled our membership here."
On devolution Mr Farage took another swipe at the Labour-led Welsh government.
"It isn't devolution that's failing Wales, it's the administration in Cardiff," Mr Farage said.
Turning his attention to next year's general election, he said targeting seven or eight seats and making Mr Gill leader in Wales "sends a signal we're taking Welsh politics seriously".
And on the assembly elections, he added: "We're planning a massive assault on the Welsh assembly elections in 2016.
"We should go into those elections with a genuine belief we can be the opposition party in Cardiff Bay."
Former Newport Conservative councillor William Routley and former Cardiff Plaid Cymru councillor Mohammad Sarul Islam have defected to UKIP.
A Plaid Cymru spokesperson said its former member had not been an active member "for some years".
Hear Nigel Farage's interview on BBC Radio Wales' Sunday Supplement at 08:00 GMT or see it on BBC One Wales' Sunday Politics Wales at 11:00 GMT on Sunday 7 December.
The hat was one of thousands donned at January's protest in response to Donald Trump's controversial 2005 comments about grabbing women "by the pussy".
The garment forms part of the Victoria and Albert museum's Rapid Response collection of items reflecting current global and political events.
It was knitted by Jayna Zweiman, co-founder of the Pussyhat project.
The initiative aimed to turn the 21 January march into a "sea of pink" in protest against the Trump administration.
Other marches that took place around the world also saw widespread use of the garment.
According to the V&A's Corinna Gardner, the hat became "an immediately recognisable expression of female solidarity and symbol of the power of collective action".
Other items in the Rapid Response collection include a Vote Leave campaign leaflet distributed in the run-up to the UK's EU referendum.
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The whereabouts of Nefertiti's remains are not known, although those of Tutankhamun - who may have been her son - were found in 1922.
New tests have shown there may be a portal leading from King Tut's tomb.
Nicholas Reeves, an archaeologist at the University of Arizona, says he believes Nefertiti may lie inside.
One leading Egyptologist urged caution over the conclusion but said that, if confirmed, it would be "brilliant".
The finds were made last year, after the Spanish artistic and preservation specialists, Factum Arte, were commissioned to produce detailed scans of Tutankhamun's tomb.
The scans were then used to produce a facsimile of the tomb near the site of the original Valley of the Kings in Luxor.
While assessing the scans last February, Dr Reeves spotted what he believed were marks indicating where two doorways used to be.
"I have been testing the evidence ever since, looking for indications that what I thought I was seeing was, in fact, not there," Dr Reeves told the BBC.
"But the more I looked, the more information I found that I seemed to be looking at something pretty real."
The layout of Tutankhamun's tomb has been a puzzle for some time - in particular, why it was smaller than those of other kings' tombs.
Dr Reeves believes there are clues in the design of the tomb that indicate it was designed to store the remains of a queen, not a king.
"If I'm wrong, I'm wrong," he said. "But if I'm right, the prospects are frankly staggering. The world will have become a much more interesting place - at least for Egyptologists."
After being discovered by English archaeologist Howard Carter in 1922, the tomb of Tutankhamun was opened in February the following year.
It was the most intact Egyptian tomb ever discovered, and very few objects appeared to have been plundered.
Close to 2,000 objects were found, and it took archaeologists nine years to catalogue them all.
If the same amount of objects were found elsewhere in the tomb, it would represent "quite a coup," said Dr Reeves.
Neither Egyptian authorities nor Factum Arte have responded to the claims.
"I think there are certainly some signs that there might have been some activity around those doorways," said Joyce Tyldesley, an Egyptologist with the University of Manchester.
"Whether we can deduct from that that we actually the burial site of Nefertiti might be a step too far.
"But if it was true, it would be absolutely brilliant."
On Saturday, there is an opportunity for the public to visit the Iron Age hillfort on Penycloddiau hillside.
A dig on nearby Moel y Gaer at Bodfari, near Denbigh, where a team from Oxford University has been excavating since 2011, will be open on Sunday.
There are several hillforts in the vicinity, which is in an area of outstanding natural beauty.
Denbighshire county archaeologist Fiona Gale said: "It is a great opportunity for us to learn more about what life was like in these enigmatic places when people built them around 2,500 years ago.
"The spotlight is really on sites in our area, with archaeologists from across the UK waiting to see what is found."
Ms Gale will lead a walk up to Penycloddiau from Llangwyfan car park at 10:00 BST on Saturday.
The Moel y Gaer open day is between 11:00 and 16:00 on Sunday.
Visitors will be able to talk to experts about what has been found at the sites.
The Fire Brigades Union said during the fire "access was an issue", with "huge difficulties" getting past parked cars.
Narrow streets and bollards also caused fire crews problems, witnesses told the Victoria Derbyshire programme.
The council said it could not comment because of an ongoing inquiry.
Plans to build a new academy school at the foot of Grenfell Tower were opposed by many residents, who felt the area was already congested.
The council received 318 letters opposing the Kensington Aldridge Academy, and just two in support.
An email sent in 2010 to councillors by local resident Francis O'Connor, a member of the Grenfell Action Group, said the plans meant emergency access to Grenfell Tower would "certainly be compromised".
An 80-capacity car park was demolished to make way for the school in 2012.
Campaigners said that pushed more cars on to the surrounding streets, making it difficult for large vehicles such as fire engines to access the site.
A Grenfell Action Group blog post from January 2013 warned about access to the southern side of the tower.
It read: "There is barely adequate room to manoeuvre for fire engines responding to emergency calls, and any obstruction of this emergency access zone could have lethal consequences in the event of a serious fire or similar emergency in Grenfell Tower or the adjacent blocks."
The Fire Brigades Union said its members had reported a number of problems accessing the site.
"We're hearing from firefighters at the scene that lots of cars were parked where they shouldn't have been," said Lucy Masoud, a senior official. "The fire engines couldn't get past."
"The road is very, very narrow anyway, but they had huge difficulties getting to the dry riser [a pipe that sends water to different levels of the building] because of parked cars."
"We'll want access issues and any changes to the area surrounding Grenfell - including the building of the academy - to be part of the public inquiry," she added.
One anonymous firefighter wrote on the Save the UK Fire Service Facebook page in June: "We arrived about 01:20, but, due to the way cars are parked in the streets and the fire engines that are arriving with us, we couldn't get closer than four to five streets away from the building."
Witnesses also spoke about fire trucks queuing to reach the tower.
"There were bollards blocking the fire brigade from coming into the green and parking," Mahad Egal told the Victoria Derbyshire programme hours after he escaped from the tower.
The Reverend Mike Long, from Kensington Methodist Church, opposite the academy, said at least one parked car had been forced out of the way to allow access to the northern part of the site.
The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea said it was "committed to cooperating fully" with the ongoing public inquiry and did not "think it was right" to comment on areas relating to it.
The London Fire Brigade said with 40 fire engines and more than 200 firefighters attending it was "inevitable" that not all vehicles would be able to park next to the scene of the fire.
"For that reason, we have tried and tested procedures, including rendezvous points and marshalling areas, that ensure our crews can be rotated in and out of an incident as quickly, safely and efficiently as possible," it said.
Watch the Victoria Derbyshire programme on weekdays between 09:00 and 11:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News channel.
Left-arm spinner Ravi Jadeja took 5-30 as the Proteas, who have passed 200 only once in six innings during the series, again failed with the bat.
AB de Villiers top scored with 42 after India were taken to 334 by Ajinkya Rahane's 124, his first Test century on home soil.
India already have an unassailable 2-0 series lead.
If they wrap up a 3-0 series victory they will climb to second in the world rankings behind South Africa, who will lose top spot if they are beaten in their next Test series at home to England.
After all 20 South Africa wickets fell to spin in their third-Test defeat in Nagpur, the top order was again found wanting against the turning ball as Jadeja accounted for four of the top five.
Paceman Umesh Yadav had opener Dean Elgar caught behind before Jadeja got to work.
Recalled opener Temba Bavuma was bowled, captain Hashim Amla was caught behind looking to cut and Faf du Plessis was out sweeping for his third duck of the series.
De Villiers watched most of the carnage from the other end but his counter-attack ended when he was caught in the deep off Jadeja, the ninth wicket to fall.
Earlier, Rahane not only added the 11 runs he needed for a century, but also combined with Ravichandran Ashwin for 98 valuable eighth-wicket runs.
At number five, his chance of batting again in the match may hinge on whether India opt overnight to enforce the follow on.
South Africa are 231 behind and their top score in the series in 214.
It is the first big deal of new Fifa President Gianni Infantino's reign, and the first since the scandals that engulfed the organisation.
Wanda Group operates in a number of sectors including property, retail, sport, hotels, film and stores.
It has entered at the highest level of sponsorship rights and the deal covers the next four World Cups until 2030.
The financial size of the partnership has not been revealed, but it is believed to be one of the biggest in Fifa's history.
Fifa's top five sponsors - Coca Cola, Gazprom, Adidas, Visa, Hyundai - paid some $180m to the governing body between them in 2015.
Although Wanda is the first Chinese firm to enter at this top level, another Chinese firm, Yingli Solar - a solar panel provider - was a second-tier Fifa sponsor of the 2010 and 2014 World Cups.
One of the companies Wanda owns is InFront Media, a sports marketing firm which owns the media rights for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups across 26 Asian territories.
The agreement is another sign of the growing importance of football in China - with government backing, major expansion and investment in the game at home, and a number of overseas clubs being bought by Chinese businesses.
Dalian Wanda has a 20% stake in Spanish La Liga football team Atletico Madrid, while fellow Chinese company CMC took a 13% stake in the parent group of Manchester City last December.
"We are pleased to welcome the Wanda Group to Fifa," said Mr Infantino.
He added that it was "a company that has a long affiliation with football, has been an active supporter of the game for many years and shares our enthusiasm to develop and strengthen football".
Wanda Group will have rights to all Fifa competitions and corporate activities up to and including the 2030 World Cup.
Mr Infantino said the Wanda partnership would help with the continuing development and growth of the game in China and elsewhere.
"We are highly motivated to promote football across the country and to inspire a new generation of youngsters," said Wang Jianlin, chairman of the Wanda Group and the richest man in China.
He said the company wanted to support the Chinese government drive to develop football in the country. President Xi Jinping made football a national priority last year.
The deal is some positive news for Fifa, which has been engulfed in a corruption scandal for the past 10 months.
On Thursday, it said that costs connected with the scandal, including legal fees, helped bring about a loss of $122m in 2015, its first since 2002.
The Australian, 74, now a Christian pastor, says she will not fly on Qantas "where possible" in protest of its support of same-sex marriage.
Tennis Australia stated that her personal views "are her own".
Grand Slam winners Martina Navratilova and Billie Jean King, who are both gay, have previously criticised Court.
The venue was originally called Show Court One when it opened in 1988 before it was renamed in 2003 in tribute to the multiple Grand Slam winner.
The Margaret Court Arena also hosts other sporting events and concerts.
Court expressed her views in an open letter to the national airline published in The West Australian newspaper.
She said: "I am disappointed that Qantas has become an active promoter for same-sex marriage.
"I believe in marriage as a union between a man and a woman as stated in the Bible.
"Your statement leaves me no option but to use other airlines where possible for my extensive travelling."
American singer Ryan Adams, who is playing at the arena on Friday, tweeted: "Hey Margaret Court, a PAGAN who STRONGLY SUPPORTS marriage equality (get a prenup tho) will play the arena named for you tomorrow."
And Tom Steinfort, a senior correspondent for Nine News in Australia, tweeted: "I'll never set foot in Margaret Court Arena again because of this."
Peter FitzSimons, chairman of Australia's Republican Movement, called for the venue to be renamed in a piece for the Sydney Morning Herald.
Tennis Australia tweeted a response: "As a legend of the sport, we respect Margaret Court's achievements in tennis and her unmatched playing record. Her personal views are her own, and do not align with Tennis Australia's values of equality, inclusion and diversity."
Court won 11 Australian Open singles titles in the 1960s and 1970s, five French Opens, five US Opens and three Wimbledon crowns.
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The Crystal Palace striker netted a hat-trick in a 6-0 Group H win, the first of which was also the quickest in his country's history.
Benteke beat the previous record of 8.3 seconds, set by San Marino's Davide Gualtieri against England in 1993.
Manchester United midfielder Paul Pogba scored a long-range effort as France won 1-0 in the Netherlands.
At Estadio Algarve in Portugal, Benteke pounced on a loose ball after the home side had kicked off and dribbled into the box before scoring with a left-footed shot.
Chelsea's Eden Hazard was also on the scoresheet, along with Axel Witsel and Dries Mertens, as Roberto Martinez's side won their third 2018 World Cup qualifier to maintain a 100% start.
In Amsterdam, Pogba's 30th-minute goal means France top Group A ahead of Monday's opponents and Sweden, who beat Bulgaria 3-0.
Meanwhile, Euro 2016 winners Portugal beat Faroe Islands 6-0 with FC Porto striker Andre Silva scoring a first-half hat-trick and Real Madrid forward Cristiano Ronaldo netting his 66th international goal.
Match ends, Gibraltar 0, Belgium 6.
Second Half ends, Gibraltar 0, Belgium 6.
Attempt saved. Kevin Mirallas (Belgium) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Eden Hazard.
Corner, Belgium. Conceded by Jean Carlos Garcia.
Corner, Belgium. Conceded by Aaron Payas.
Attempt missed. Toby Alderweireld (Belgium) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high.
Kevin Mirallas (Belgium) hits the right post with a left footed shot from outside the box.
Substitution, Gibraltar. Mikey Yome replaces Kyle Casciaro.
Attempt missed. Nacer Chadli (Belgium) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Axel Witsel.
Axel Witsel (Belgium) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Joseph Chipolina (Gibraltar).
Attempt missed. Jan Vertonghen (Belgium) left footed shot from more than 35 yards is high and wide to the left.
Substitution, Gibraltar. Anthony Bardon replaces Liam Walker.
Substitution, Belgium. Michy Batshuayi replaces Christian Benteke.
Goal! Gibraltar 0, Belgium 6. Eden Hazard (Belgium) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Toby Alderweireld.
Joseph Chipolina (Gibraltar) is shown the yellow card.
Kevin Mirallas (Belgium) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Jayce Mascarenhas-Olivero (Gibraltar).
Attempt saved. Kevin Mirallas (Belgium) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Eden Hazard.
Attempt missed. Thomas Meunier (Belgium) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right is close, but misses to the right.
Axel Witsel (Belgium) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Liam Walker (Gibraltar).
Attempt blocked. Eden Hazard (Belgium) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Kevin Mirallas.
Attempt missed. Laurent Ciman (Belgium) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Eden Hazard with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Belgium. Conceded by Scott Wiseman.
Attempt blocked. Steven Defour (Belgium) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right is blocked. Assisted by Thomas Meunier.
Attempt blocked. Axel Witsel (Belgium) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Eden Hazard.
Foul by Thomas Meunier (Belgium).
Joseph Chipolina (Gibraltar) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Belgium. Kevin Mirallas replaces Dries Mertens.
Attempt saved. Toby Alderweireld (Belgium) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Axel Witsel.
Attempt missed. Eden Hazard (Belgium) left footed shot from the left side of the box is too high. Assisted by Jan Vertonghen.
Attempt blocked. Liam Walker (Gibraltar) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt blocked. Ryan Casciaro (Gibraltar) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Offside, Gibraltar. Scott Wiseman tries a through ball, but Joseph Chipolina is caught offside.
Goal! Gibraltar 0, Belgium 5. Christian Benteke (Belgium) left footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Eden Hazard.
Foul by Axel Witsel (Belgium).
Jayce Mascarenhas-Olivero (Gibraltar) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Belgium. Nacer Chadli replaces Yannick Carrasco.
Eden Hazard (Belgium) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Maria Louise Hopes, 46, and her son Leon Port, 24, were jointly accused of murdering Mark Hopes, 45, at the couple's home in Trealaw last October.
They blamed each other for the killing, Merthyr Tydfil Crown Court heard.
Port was previously found guilty of Mr Hopes's murder, but there was a retrial after the jury could not reach a verdict on his mother.
Both mother and son admitted perverting the course of justice, along with Port's girlfriend Rebecca Donovan, 24.
All three will be sentenced at a later date.
The court heard the violence began with an argument between Mr Hopes and Port on the afternoon of 2 October, which ended with Port throwing punches.
Port, of Mountain Ash, claimed that was the end of his involvement and said his mother pulled her husband from the sofa and hit him with a weapon, causing the fatal injuries.
Hopes claimed her clothing was covered in blood because she helped clean her husband up, but the jury heard attempts were made to dispose of the evidence, with blood found on a mop and on an outside drain cover.
It was not until the following day that Port called 999 and tried to deflect the blame from himself. He told the operator Mr Hopes had been out drinking and had come home injured.
Prosecuting, Christopher Quinlan said Mr Hopes suffered "significant external and internal injuries" to his head, face and body.
"He was beaten to death in an assault which must have lasted an appreciable time and involved the use of a weapon," he added.
Mr Quinlan said Hopes and Port had "helped themselves and each other and not the dying Mr Hopes."
Ayew drove into the top corner from inside the area to cancel out Fabricio Coloccini's close-range opener.
Both sides had chances to win in the closing stages, with Newcastle striker Georginio Wijnaldum and Villa's Rudy Gestede having shots saved.
Villa, without a Premier League win since the opening game of the season, remain 10 points from safety.
Relive Newcastle's game with Aston Villa
Results and reaction from Saturday's Premier League football
Until recently, Newcastle boss Steve McCLaren had looked in danger of losing his job after failing oversee a win any of his first eight Premier League games.
However, back-to-back victories against Liverpool and Tottenham lifted Newcastle out of the relegation zone and three points on Saturday would have moved them five points clear of danger.
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Key to Newcastle's upturn in form has been a switch to a more counterattacking style of football, but a sodden pitch, coupled with Aston Villa's defensive approach, meant was ineffective against Aston Villa.
They struggled to break Villa down for long periods, with their opener coming from a defensive lapse in concentration from a corner, as Coloccini was left unmarked.
However, when Villa pushed forward after equalising, it played to Newcastle's strengths and they twice went close to snatching victory on the break, with Wijnaldum's and Ayoze Perez's finishing letting them down.
Newcastle remain one place above the relegation zone, but the draw means they are three points clear of Swansea in 18th.
No Premier League team with as few points as Aston Villa at this stage of the season have stayed up, and they would certainly need an impressive upturn in form to rescue their situation.
Villa have kept just two clean sheets in their 17 league games this season and the ease with which Newcastle scored, with Siem De Jong's corner cutting through the defence, will be of concern for manager Remi Garde.
However, their second half performance will give the Frenchman some hope.
In Ayew, they have a striker who is finding his form in the Premier League. He had gone seven games without scoring at the start of the season but, having been employed in a more central role recently, he has scored four goals in his last eight games.
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Newcastle head coach Steve McClaren: "The conditions were horrendous. Get the ball wide and get the ball in the box - it was a game for width.
"Anybody can beat anybody in the league. I said before the match this was a dangerous game. Regarding us, a settled side has helped the momentum. We might not win every game but we've made huge steps forward."
Aston Villa manager Remi Garde: "We didn't play well at all in the first 45 minutes. We were out of the game in terms of impact and intensity. If you are in the position we are in it's difficult for the player to get in the game straight away.
"There's a lack of confidence. It's better to react late then not to react. The fact we got back in the game could be very important. Newcastle have won the last two games, but in the second half we showed we are not far away from this type of team."
Newcastle host Everton on Boxing Day while Aston Villa host West Ham on the same day.
The Tories won 58 of the 98 seats, the Liberal Democrats 27, independents eight, Labour four and UKIP won its first seat in the county.
UKIP's David Martin Pollit won Melksham Central from the Lib Dems.
Conservative council leader Jane Scott held on to her Bybrook seat with a reduced majority and finds out on Saturday if she will remain as leader.
Mr Pollit said: "I'm stunned to be honest. We saw from the news this morning the successes overnight of the UKIP party, and long may it continue".
John Walsh, who won Fisherton and Bemerton Village for Labour by just one vote, said: "It was a close run thing, and all credit to my opponents who ran me very close indeed."
Nigel Carter and Jane Burton from the independent group the Devizes Guardians both lost their seats to the Conservatives.
Six Conservative seats were not contested - Warminster West, Tidworth, Ludgershall and Perham Down, The Collingbournes and Netheravon, Winterslow, Fovant and Chalke Valley.
The results can be found on the BBC election website.
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The high-throughput platform should provide customers with superior connections at a lower cost.
Designated Intelsat 29e, it will sit at 50 degrees west, and deliver services to the Americas and the North Atlantic aeroplane and shipping routes.
At least six more Epic spacecraft will follow, to cover other regions and to provide back-up.
Commentators and analysts see the success of the fleet as critical to the fortunes of Intelsat, which is based in McLean, Virginia, and is battling to hold its ground in a fiercely competitive market.
At 6.5 tonnes, Intelsat 29e is a heavyweight "bird", and was the only passenger on its Ariane launch rocket, a vehicle that normally puts up two platforms at once.
All the major commercial satellite operators are in the midst of introducing next-generation systems.
The 29e has substantially enhanced capability compared with Intelsat's previous spacecraft, delivering a throughput of 25 gigabits per second.
Stephen Spengleris is the CEO of Intelsat: "Intelsat 29e is the first of our Intelsat Epic high-throughput satellites. Its entry into service starts the first phase of establishing a high-performance overlay for our global fleet. And more importantly, it allows us, our partners and our customers, to deliver broadband services that will impact the lives of millions of people around the world."
The satellite will be used for all manner of data connections, from broadband access in remote areas to machine-to-machine communications - the so-called "Internet of Things". Media companies will use Epic to transmit video channels, and telcos will route backhaul traffic through 29e from their cellphone networks.
Special antennas are being developed that will allow even motor cars to talk to the Epic system.
But two key areas of business will be the aeronautical and maritime sectors. Providing connectivity to planes so that passengers can surf in their seats has become a booming business.
The footprint of 29e will cover the region of the North Atlantic with the densest traffic.
Panasonic Avionics, one of the big players in inflight entertainment, was one of the first customers to buy capacity on the new satellite.
Epic's pursuit of aeronautical and maritime business brings it into very direct competition with Inmarsat of London which has traditionally dominated in satcom services to mobile users.
Inmarsat has recently launched three spacecraft in its own high-throughput system called Global Xpress. Unlike Epic, which operates in the C, Ku and Ka portions of the radio spectrum, Global Xpress is concentrated solely on the higher frequency Ka-band.
The Intelsat approach would minimise disruption to customers, commented Rachael Villain from the space consultancy Euroconsult, based in Paris.
"Intelsat have taken the view that they want to maintain backwards compatibility for their customers using their exiting fleet. They have anticipated that the transition to new reception equipment - whatever it is, aeronautical or maritime - would take more time or would be more costly with Ka-band than with Ku," she told BBC News.
The next Epic satellite, Intelsat 33e, which will serve Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, should launch later this year.
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The Red Devils twice came from behind, with Marouane Fellaini and Daley Blind, late on, cancelling out Stephane Sessegnon and Saido Berahino strikes.
"I'm disappointed because we played our best match of the season and the result is not good enough," said Van Gaal, 63.
"We could have won but that does not count in our world."
United are still without a victory away from home under Van Gaal, who replaced David Moyes in the summer after steering the Netherlands to the World Cup semi-finals.
While the Red Devils had 63% of possession and registered 22 shots, with seven on target, they looked vulnerable at the back as the Baggies exposed their inexperienced backline on numerous occasions, scoring with both of their shots on target.
Despite that, Van Gaal remained positive about his side's display.
"I have to be happy because we created lots of chances and West Brom only had two chances," he said. "We gave it away, which is a pity because we could have had a new start if we had won.
"There were individual errors and they were forced because West Brom were playing more narrow in midfield and we had to push up."
The Dutchman insisted his team would not sacrifice any of its attacking flair in order to prevent similar defensive mistakes.
"I don't think that is the solution," he said. "Football is made to play attractively for the fans.
"And I think today the fans have enjoyed, not only the Manchester United fans but also the West Bromwich Albion fans, because it was a great game.
"I am happy about our style of play but not happy about the result."
Van Gaal introduced Fellaini as a half-time substitute, and the move paid instant dividends when the Belgian netted his first goal for the club with a stinging shot from the edge of the area, equalising after Sessegnon had smashed home the opener.
Berahino restored the home side's lead with a cool finish after being played in on goal but Blind equalised in the 87th minute with a low shot from 20 yards.
United face Premier League leaders Chelsea at Old Trafford on Sunday before a visit to second-placed Manchester City seven days later.
"I don't think it was a good result for us because the next two games will be difficult," midfielder Fellaini, 26, told BBC Sport. "The manager asked me to put pressure on the box and to keep fighting. I did and I managed to score."
West Brom manager Alan Irvine said his side were "disappointed" not to hold on for all three points against a team they beat at Old Trafford last season.
"We were so close to getting a fantastic result and for us to be in our dressing room feeling bitterly disappointed is a feeling we won't experience much," said Irvine. "We thought the three points were there for the taking.
"We scored two fantastic goals with two fantastic moves. Saido Berahino has good role models here. He is a good finisher with both feet and is very composed in those situations, I wasn't surprised when he scored.
"I enjoyed tonight and I'm enjoying the job, the players are so responsive. We're making progress and I can't praise them enough for how they've reacted since I came to the club."
The portrait by Oscar Rialubin from the Philippines is called Xyclops.
Martin Samworth, chief executive of CBRE said: "The competition constantly provides us with new perspectives on working environments within cities. This year was no exception and Rialubin's intimate portrait of a watch repairman gives insight into a universal trade. Urban life is constantly changing and the beauty of the competition is that it has captured this every year through the winning images."
The Europe, Middle East and Africa prize was awarded to Armen Dolukhanyan for another black-and-white picture. This one shows a young couple, both in the Ukrainian police force.
Peter Graney's photograph of poultry being prepared for market in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, won him the Asia Pacific prize.
The other top award went to Christopher Martin, as the winner of the Americas prize for his picture Winter Work, which shows an aeroplane being de-iced at Calgary International Airport, Canada.
Cocu Liu won the mobile section of the competition, capturing this winter scene in Chicago on his phone camera.
There were two awards for younger photographers, with Diogo Miguel Carvalho Goncalves claiming the prize for the 13-15-year-old category with this picture taken at the Carreiros do Monte in Madeira.
The 16-25 age category was won by Belal Hossain Rana, who photographed technicians in Bangladesh working underground to repair electrical cables.
As well as these awards a picture is selected to depict each hour of the day around the globe - here is a small selection of them.
Pedro Lins's picture was taken during a series of protests in Rio De Janeiro in Brazil.
A construction site opposite Borna Mirahmadian's home in Tehran, Iran, is the subject of another image selected by the judges.
Mirahmadian said: "One night I noticed the employees were working double-shift throughout the night (apparently to finish their job on time). Contrasting colours of the lights and shapes of workers' silhouettes grabbed my attention and after a long wait, I could capture this shot from the window of my bedroom."
Johanna Siegmann photographed professional dog walker Leslie in Malibou, California.
Siegmann said: "She can walk up to 20 dogs at a time, although on this day she 'only' had 12. Here she is driving them to a dog park, where they will be allowed to run around, unleashed. The hardest part of her job, from what I witnessed, was unravelling the giant macrame knot of leashes created when the dogs weave in and out around each other."
Martin Faltejsek's picture was taken in London and captured a man with his smartphone.
Faltejsek said: "I was spending some time at my friends in London and one night we went out to buy some food. Walking through the little backstreets, we were passing by so many people standing in front of walls or sitting down on pavements, holding their smartphones and smoking cigarettes or drinking alcohol.
"I love the simplicity in the picture, the symbol of an empty wall and one little man standing there. We tend to live our lives inside social sites and we prefer to spend our time swiping through our phones instead of communicating with people in real life. I find this reality very sad."
Club vice chairman and businessman St Quinton bought a 25% stake in the Cherry and Whites in 2008, and later purchased a further 15%.
Tom Walkinshaw took over the club in 1997, with son Ryan then replacing the former Formula One team boss, who died in 2010.
"This club isn't broken, there's a lot of good things," St Quinton said.
"My goal will be to fill the stadium every week, if you can fill the stadium every week you can have a fantastic atmosphere here at Kingsholm, and you're only going to fill the stadium if you're playing attractive rugby and you're winning.
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"If you can fill the stadium that's the prerequisite to really developing a fantastic club.
"At that point you can afford the very best players, the very best coaches, you can develop the stadium, increase the capacity and you've got great momentum."
Gloucester are eighth in the Premiership, five points outside the top four.
Harry Whitlam, 11, died after the vehicle driven by Gary Green, 51, reversed into him at Swithens Farm, Rothwell, in 2013.
An inquest last year heard Mr Green was almost three times the legal alcohol limit on the day of the crash.
He was not prosecuted at the time as it happened on private land.
Mr Green, of Bradburn Road, Wakefield, admitted failing to ensure the safety of others at a hearing at Leeds Crown Court.
He is due to appear in November for a further hearing before sentencing.
The Health and Safety Executive announced this year it had brought a charge against Mr Green under Section 3 of the Health and Safety at Work Act.
Hollywood actor George Clooney and Republican White House contender Jeb Bush were among Colbert's first guests.
The former host of Comedy Central's satire programme, The Colbert Report, opened the show with a sketch, singing the national anthem around the country.
He also paid tribute to his predecessor Letterman, calling himself "a fan".
"We will try to honour his achievement by doing the best show we can and occasionally making the network very mad at us," said Colbert.
"As long as I have nine months to make one hour of TV, I could do this forever," he added.
The comedian played a hardline conservative in his previous show, Comedy Central's satirical news show The Colbert Report, but he appeared as himself for his mainstream debut.
He was first seen singing the Star Spangled Banner with people at a bowling alley, in a factory and at a youth baseball game - where an "umpire" took unmasked himself as Jon Stewart - Colbert's former colleague on The Daily Show .
As the segment ended, and Colbert walked on stage he was given a standing ovation by the studio audience, who chanted, "Stephen, Stephen, Stephen".
"If I knew you were going to do that, I would have come out here months ago," he joked.
Analysis - Nick Bryant - BBC New York correspondent
"With this show, I begin the search for the real Stephen Colbert. I just hope I don't find him on Ashley Madison."
With a self-referential zinger, the new host of The Late Show got straight to the question that many viewers doubtless tuned in asking: Who is Stephen Colbert, now that he has shed the hyper-conservative persona that catapulted him to fame on the cable channel Comedy Central?
The answer, pretty much, is the Stephen Colbert of old. As he joked to one of his first guests, the Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush: "I used to play a narcissistic conservative pundit. Now I'm just a narcissist."
From the supreme confidence with which he bounded onto stage at the famed Ed Sullivan Theatre to the news-style graphics he used to punctuate his comic riffs - one featured a photo-shopped wall along the Mexican border made up of Trump Towers toppled on their sides - much of his show reprised the style and content of The Colbert Report.
So his debut show on CBS felt more like a refurbishment of his on-screen personality rather than a reinvention.
Colbert presented his first guest Clooney with a belated wedding gift for his marriage last year to human rights lawyer Amal Alamuddin - a Tiffany paperweight inscribed with the phrase, "I don't know you."
He also binged on a bag of Oreo cookies as he made jokes about Donald Trump, who recently vowed never to eat Oreos again after makers Nabisco Inc said it was opening a new plant in Mexico.
Fellow light-night TV figures also wished him well - including NBC rival Jimmy Fallon who said: "Have a good show, buddy. See you in the locker room." The British host of the Late Late Show, James Corden, showed support on Twitter.
The broadcast ended with Colbert singing with his new house band, led by Jon Batiste, in a cover of Sly and the Family Stone's Everyday People.
They were joined by Mavis Staples, Aloe Blacc, Ben Folds and Buddy Guy, amongst others.
Writing in the Los Angeles Times, critic Robert Lloyd said: "It started strong, ended strong, and in between it was mostly ... strong."
The New York Post said: "The cranky, jaded ghost of David Letterman was driven out of the Ed Sullivan Theatre as its new tenant, Stephen Colbert, made a rousing, late-night debut."
There were too many adverts, said Variety, which timed a "nine-minute break" between Clooney and Bush.
But, once the show hits its stride: "Colbert looks like he has the skill set to settle in and make this job his own, night in and night out."
Asad Shah, 40, was found seriously injured in Minard Road, Shawlands, at about 21:05 GMT on Thursday. He died in hospital.
The incident happened hours after he apparently posted social media messages wishing his customers a happy Easter.
Police said both Mr Shah and the arrested man were Muslims.
A post on Thursday from an account that appears to be Mr Shah's said: "Good Friday and very happy Easter, especially to my beloved Christian nation x!"
Mr Shah was taken to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
Floral tributes have been placed at the scene and people have been taking part in a silent vigil there in memory of the shopkeeper.
Residents told BBC Scotland they were shocked and saddened by Mr Shah's death and described the shopkeeper as a "gentleman".
Brothers Qaiser and Omar Khan said they knew Mr Shah well and had repaired his cars in the past. They described him as "a humble, sweet person".
Omar Khan added: "I've known him since I was a wee boy so this is shocking news.
"He was a very straight-forward, humble person who was very good with his customers. He cared about his family a lot."
Robert Maitland, said: "He was very friendly. Every morning we shook hands and said 'have a nice day'. He was just a pleasant, lovely lad."
Isabella Graham, 64, said Mr Shah employed her daughter at the shop when she was younger.
"He was an amazing, wonderful man, he couldn't do enough for you," she said.
"He wouldn't hurt anybody. Nobody in Shawlands would have a bad word to say about him. I can't believe he's gone."
Earlier forensic officers placed a white tent outside his shop, Shah's Newsagent and Convenience Store. Another white tent was placed some metres down the road.
One card left at the cordon read: "Thank you for being the nicest guy on the planet."
Another read: "A good man, much loved and a pillar of the community. You'll be sorely missed."
The town, known for real and fictional links with Cosa Nostra, will now be run directly by the interior ministry.
Corleone was the hometown of the fictional "Godfather" in Francis Ford Coppola's films.
It was also the birthplace of real mafia bosses Salvatore Riina and Bernardo Provenzano.
Riina and Provenzano were both eventually captured, having spent many years on the run.
Provenzano died last month at the age of 83 while Riina, 85, remains in prison serving a life sentence.
Their links with Corleone ensured the town's continuing notoriety but in more recent years residents had tried to overcome historical associations with the criminal network, opening an anti-mafia museum.
Wednesday's move is the first time Rome has disbanded the local government in Corleone.
Local administrations in Arzano, near Naples, and Bovalino and Tropea, both in Calabria, were also dissolved this week amid allegations of mafia links.
But in doing so made it clear Tay's views were a result of nurture, not nature. Tay confirmed what we already knew: people on the internet can be cruel.
Tay, aimed at 18-24-year-olds on social media, was targeted by a "coordinated attack by a subset of people" after being launched earlier this week.
Within 24 hours Tay had been deactivated so the team could make "adjustments".
But on Friday, Microsoft's head of research said the company was "deeply sorry for the unintended offensive and hurtful tweets" and has taken Tay off Twitter for the foreseeable future.
Peter Lee added: "Tay is now offline and we'll look to bring Tay back only when we are confident we can better anticipate malicious intent that conflicts with our principles and values."
Tay was designed to learn from interactions it had with real people in Twitter. Seizing an opportunity, some users decided to feed it racist, offensive information.
In China, people reacted differently - a similar chatbot had been rolled out to Chinese users, but with slightly better results.
"Tay was not the first artificial intelligence application we released into the online social world," Microsoft's head of research wrote.
"In China, our XiaoIce chatbot is being used by some 40 million people, delighting with its stories and conversations.
"The great experience with XiaoIce led us to wonder: Would an AI like this be just as captivating in a radically different cultural environment?"
The feedback, it appears, is that western audiences react very differently when presented with a chatbot it can influence. Much like teaching a Furby to swear, the temptation to corrupt the well-meaning Tay was too great for some.
That said, Mr Lee said a specific vulnerability meant Tay was able to turn nasty.
"Although we had prepared for many types of abuses of the system, we had made a critical oversight for this specific attack.
"As a result, Tay tweeted wildly inappropriate and reprehensible words and images. We take full responsibility for not seeing this possibility ahead of time."
He didn't elaborate on the precise nature of the vulnerability.
Mr Lee said his team will continue working on AI bots in the hope they can interact without negative side effects.
"We must enter each one with great caution and ultimately learn and improve, step by step, and to do this without offending people in the process.
"We will remain steadfast in our efforts to learn from this and other experiences as we work toward contributing to an Internet that represents the best, not the worst, of humanity."
Next week, Microsoft holds its annual developer conference, Build. Artificial intelligence is expected to feature heavily.
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Immigration Minister Peter Dutton said the one-year-old girl known as Asha and her mother would be released into community detention in Australia.
Protesters blockaded the hospital to prevent the child being removed.
Australia's policy on asylum seekers has been widely criticised.
Previously, the government said it would stand firm on its asylum seeker policy amid the protests over the child's impending deportation to Nauru.
It argues that its offshore detention policy is necessary, and aimed at preventing asylum seekers trying to reach Australia on unseaworthy boats.
Australia's High Court upheld Australia's asylum policy as legal under the country's constitution in a decision handed down at the beginning of February.
A woman, 24, and a man, 27, have been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter by gross negligence, and bailed.
Paramedics were called to Harlow Town Park in Essex, just after 16:00 GMT on Saturday, where an event organised by Thurston fun fairs was taking place.
Summer was treated by ambulance crews but later died in hospital.
A post-mortem examination established the cause of her death as multiple injuries, Essex Police said in a statement.
It is believed the dome-shaped inflatable carrying Summer blew over a number of trailers and caravans in the park.
Ray Smith, a representative of the Showmen's Guild of Great Britain, said: "It was a sudden gust. Had it been a consistent wind they would have closed down all the inflatables."
The Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate is leading the investigation into the incident.
Det Insp Daniel Stoten urged people who had been at the event to contact police, and urged anyone who had video footage of the scene to get in touch.
He said: "This is a very tragic incident where a young girl has lost her life. My deepest sympathies go out to her family."
East of England Ambulance Service said the girl had suffered serious injuries when the inflatable was blown "some distance". She was treated by ambulance crews and the Essex and Herts Air Ambulance before being taken to the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow.
A spokesman for the ambulance service said: "Our thoughts are with the friends and family involved on this sad day."
Floral tributes have been left at the gates of the park, where a section remains cordoned off by police.
Among them is an Easter basket, while a card on a bunch of flowers reads: "God has taken a beautiful girl for his angel. RIP Princess."
Almost £2,000 has been donated after an online fundraising drive for Summer's family.
On Sunday morning, police were still standing guard around the inflatable. BBC Essex reporter Nick Alliker said about 20 caravans and trailers and a couple of fairground rides remained in the park.
The Health and Safety Executive said it was assisting police with the investigation.
Last year a bouncy castle collapsed while children were playing on it during a fair in the park.
Harlow Council officers visited the site following the incident last May and suggested a number of health and safety improvements, including better stewarding of the event.
It was reported at the time that three children were treated by paramedics when the inflatable castle collapsed on them.
After news of Saturday's tragedy broke, Conservative MP for Harlow Robert Halfon tweeted: "My thoughts and heart go to family."
He said in a statement he would be asking for an "urgent inquiry" and to consider whether bouncy castles "should be banned from Harlow town fairs, until we can be sure that they are completely safe, so such a horrific tragedy never happens again".
Jon Clempner, leader of Harlow Council, said: "Harlow is a town in shock following this tragic incident yesterday. I can't imagine the heartache of the parents and family of the little girl who has died, and my thoughts are with them."
Ardron, 25, joined from Ontario Blues in 2013 and scored seven tries in 64 appearances for the Ospreys.
Wing Tom Grabham and prop Dan Suter will also leave the Ospreys this summer at the end of their contracts.
Centre Jonathan Spratt had already announced his retirement while Sam Underhill, Josh Matavesi and Joe Bearman have signed for other clubs.
Flanker Underhill, who has been included in England's squad to tour Argentina, will join Bath while centre Matavesi has signed for Newcastle Falcons and Bearman will play for Merthyr.
"The nature of professional sport means that there is always a turnover at this time of the year with people leaving," Ospreys managing director Andrew Millward said.
Those in favour of hunting won just over half the votes cast in the keenly-contested vote.
Campaigners for the ban have conceded defeat.
There were jubilant scenes in the counting hall as the pro-hunt activists celebrated victory, which was achieved by only 2,200 votes.
The BBC's Mario Cacciottolo in a tweet says that hunters' association head Joe Perici Calascione is "ecstatic" about the outcome of the vote and has described hunting as an integral part of Maltese tradition.
Opponents of hunting say it will now be an "uphill struggle" to stop annual spring shooting of turtle doves and quail.
The issue has led to disagreements between conservationists and those who say a Maltese tradition is at stake.
Critics accuse hunters of killing scores of birds - they say that turtle dove numbers have declined 77% since 1980 - and encroaching on the island's open spaces.
They argued that the hunting season is abused by some hunters through the illegal shooting of protected species during a crucial migration period as birds fly over Malta into Europe.
About 340,000 people were eligible to vote in the referendum, which was held in response to a voters' petition for a ban on the hunting of birds between 14 April to 30 April.
The margin of victory was tiny - 50.44% to 49.56%.
Prime Minister Joseph Muscat who supported the hunters warned that existing laws would be rigidly applied and anyone who violated them would be punished.
The Times of Malta said that the "Yes" campaign successfully argued that a "No" victory could result in other pastimes, such as fireworks and motorsports, also being banned in referendums.
The paper says that hunting enthusiasts also succeeded in using the "pulling power" of Mr Muscat while simultaneously ensuring that their campaign was "characterised by an absence of images of shotguns and dead birds".
A second hunting season in autumn was not included in the referendum.
Malta is the only EU country that allows recreational spring hunting.
The 24-year-old made 130, hitting his final 56 from 21 balls to press his case for inclusion in England's XI for the Test series with Sri Lanka in June.
Chris Rogers replied with 122 not out for Middlesex in an opening stand of 181 with Sam Robson (77).
Dawid Malan reached 28 by stumps as Middlesex closed day four 230-1.
The record fourth-innings run chase in the County Championship was achieved by Middlesex, who reached 502-6 to beat Nottinghamshire in 1925.
Should the home side pull off an unlikely victory, their score will still be 30 runs short of the County Championship's record fourth-innings run chase.
The fact Middlesex have any chance of achieving such a feat is proof of how much the Lord's pitch has flattened after the sides managed just 301 between them first time around.
Yorkshire began the day in a strong position on 213-4, and after Ballance was supported by Adil Rashid (43) and Andy Hodd (22), it was soon 350-9, leaving Ballance to take charge.
And the England man punished seamer Neil Dexter and the spin of Ollie Rayner to race well beyond three figures before Tim Murtagh finally had him caught at third-man.
Though not in the same fashion as Ballance ended his knock, Robson and captain Rogers scored at a rate well beyond four-an-over before the latter edged Jack Brooks to slip.
But that pace continued with Malan at the crease. Such positivity makes 472 an achievable target in terms of time, though Middlesex still face a colossal task to simply avoid defeat.
BBC London 94.9's Kevin Hand:
"A quite extraordinary day at Lord's has seen the game swing dramatically into the balance.
"Yorkshire would have felt more than comfortable with their position, which has been dominant throughout, when they were bowled out for 416 after some pyrotechnics from Gary Ballance.
"However, Chris Rogers has replied with a magnificent century under incredible pressure with a target of 472, and more than four sessions to bat.
"Opening partner Sam Robson must be close to being nailed on for England's first Test of the summer, as he hit 77.
"Dawid Malan played some further fluent shots towards the end and with nine wickets standing, Middlesex will know that with every run that ticks by, so the pressure will mount on the visitors."
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The soldiers found the money packed in plastic bags during an operation in a deserted Farc rebel camp in April 2003.
They were found guilty of embezzlement. Their lawyers had argued that there had been no theft as it was not clear who owned the money.
The jail sentences ranged from eight months to five years.
At their trial, the court heard that the soldiers had known the money belonged to the Farc and that it had come from drug trafficking, kidnap ransom and extortion.
Instead of reporting the find, the judge said, the soldiers had decided to split it.
Many deserted with the cash and some went on spending sprees, which raised suspicions.
On Friday, the military court ordered the immediate capture of those still on the run.
The soldiers belonged to an anti-guerrilla battalion fighting members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc) in the San Vicente de Caguan area.
However, Hughes expects the 27-year-old, who joined the club on a season-long deal from Manchester City in the summer, to stay with the Potters.
"I think that may well be true," said Hughes when asked about the clause.
"A lot of things have come to the fore to make that happen, not least that Wilf needs to want to go himself."
He added: "I don't think he will want to. I think he sees himself very much as a Premier League player this year and in the years to follow."
Bony's two goals for Stoke in 10 appearances so far this season came in a win over his former club Swansea.
Hughes also confirmed the Potters do not have a set fee agreed with City to sign the Ivory Coast international on a permanent basis as part of the loan deal.
"Sometimes you can do that but that's clearly not what Manchester City wanted," said the 53-year-old Welshman.
"We're delighted that he's here until the end of the season in our view. We'll look at it again."
Saves from goalkeeper Beth Davies kept Bees in the first half, until Kirsty Linnett's low header from Emily Westwood's cross opened the scoring.
After the break, Kerys Harrop headed in a second before Charlie Wellings' long-range strike added the Blues' third.
An own goal from Davies made it 4-0 late on as she diverted Andrine Hegerberg's curling corner goalwards.
The Bees, who knocked out Chelsea Ladies in the first round and were the first Women's Super League Two side to reach the semi-finals, lost captain Ashleigh Goddard to a suspected shoulder injury in the second half.
Birmingham will play in the final for the third time in six years, after losing the 2011 and 2012 finals to Arsenal Ladies.
Holders Arsenal travel to Manchester City on Sunday in the second semi-final, with the final taking place on Sunday, 2 October at Manchester City's Academy Stadium.
London Bees: Davies, Clarke, Hurley, Watts, Anderson, Nparta, Goddard (capt), Cooper, Beckett, Wilson, Howells.
Substitutes: Greenwood, Georgiou, Scanlon, Clark, Will, Harris, Riches.
Birmingham City: Berger, Carter, Harrop, Ayisi, Linnett, Hegerberg, Stringer, Lawley, Westwood (capt), Haines, Mannion.
Substitutes: Baggaley, Windell, Linden, Wellings, Peplow, Scofield, Brazil.
Republican frontrunner Donald Trump won all five of his races, and called himself "presumptive nominee" in a victory speech.
Hillary Clinton won all but Rhode Island to confirm her position as presumptive Democratic nominee, although rival Bernie Sanders has vowed to stay in the race until the end of the primaries process.
Click or tap on the links below for full results, provided by the Associated Press.
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Winning delegates, the people who endorse a candidate at the party conventions in July, is key to securing the nomination.
The Democratic totals include the delegates won per state, as well as so-called "unpledged" or "super delegates". Hillary Clinton has a huge lead among the party leaders and elected officials who each get a vote at the convention.
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They are accused of killing hundreds of Bosnian men and boys in a single day at a warehouse near Srebrenica.
It is the first time a Serbian court has charged anyone over the massacre of 8,000 people by Bosnian Serb forces.
The authorities in Bosnia and an international court in the Hague have carried out all previous prosecutions.
The 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.
They 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.
Those 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".
Mr 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.
But 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.
Prosecutor 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".
The eight men could face a maximum sentence of 20 years if found guilty.
Fourteen 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.
Former 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.
The ICTY and the International Court of Justice have called the events genocide.
The Srebrenica massacre came amid the bloody break-up of Yugoslavia into independent states in the 1990s.
Serbia backed Bosnian Serb forces fighting the Muslim-led Bosnian government during the conflict.
In 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.
Hugh Nicol, from Appin, took the image called The Audrey, Loch Creran, while on an evening cycle ride.
The picture won the Jolomo Colours of Scotland Photography Competition, which was launched last year by Scottish artist John Lowrie Morrison.
The runners-up photographs included images taken in the Western Isles.
Mairead Maclennan, from North Uist, was a runner-up with her picture Old School, Loch Portain, North Uist.
The other runners-up were Susanne Wilson, of East Kilbride, for Luskentyre Beach, Harris and Raymond Hosie, from Campbeltown for The Gauldrons, Machrihanish.
Mr Nicol, an estates manager in Argyll, said: "I have no professional photography experience, I'm not even an amateur, but I do like to carry a camera when I can and will take a snap when I have the time."
"The photograph was taken one beautiful, very still, autumn evening when I was out cycling around Loch Creran from my home at Portnacroish in Appin.
"I knew it was going to be a good night for photographs so took my camera with me. When you have somewhere as beautiful as Appin to work with, taking the picture was easy."
Lowrie Morrison, who is known as Jolomo, said: "The entries were superb, making it difficult to judge.
"Hugh's picture is beautiful and stood out from the beginning. It shows the colours of Scotland extremely well.
"In fact, the whole image expresses a real feel of Scotland and a lovely feeling of movement. I love the way he has expressed the landscape through reflection. He has captured a moment in time."
He used a much stronger word in Spanish but you get the gist.
It is a feeling shared by many, one that basically says: "Look out for yourself because nobody else will" - and if it means breaking a few rules in the process, then so be it.
Jorge Castaneda, a former foreign secretary and author of Manana Forever? Mexico and Mexicans, says it is an attitude that goes back to colonisation and spills over into politics and business.
"The rules were laid down in Spain but it took months and months for the rules to get here," he explains.
"In the meantime somebody had to get things done so the rules didn't really matter because they were irrelevant.
"And the rules that were made here were relevant but they weren't really legal. So you have this sort of split between what was legal and what was relevant almost from the very beginning."
This rule-breaking attitude was something that Mexico City native Arturo Hernandez wanted to address after living in Miami for several years.
"I realised that in some way in the US they have authority and when you have an authority, people respect the rules," he says.
"In Mexico, people don't respect the rules. I began to think we should do something with comedy to take this authority and change this bad behaviour."
And so the comedy duo Supercivicos (Super civic-minded ones) was born.
Arturo Hernandez goes by the name of Comandante Hernandez.
His partner in crime, Alex Marin y Kall, is better known as "ese wey", Mexican Spanish for "that bloke".
Together they are trying to make things better.
Each week they plot what they call "happenings", little films illustrating a troublesome issue of the week.
It can be anything from confronting people who do not clear up after their dogs to people parking in spaces reserve for disabled drivers.
Once they are done with filming, they upload the video skit to YouTube and some of the less controversial ones air on television, too.
Their most successful video to date was one in which they removed campaign messages illegally plastered around Mexico City ahead of this year's mid-term elections.
It got more than nine million views and won them instant fame.
But it is not without its risks.
"There are some mad people about," says Comandante Hernandez, recalling how someone once threatened to pull a gun on him.
The happening I went along to was not nearly so controversial but concerning nonetheless.
Members of the public got in touch through social media to tell them about various road safety issues across the city.
They hired a hearse and a coffin for the day.
Comandante Hernandez dressed up as Death, complete with a skull mask and a sceptre while ese wey came dressed as a grave-digger with his eyes blacked out and carrying a spade.
Their aim was to mockingly thank the authorities for giving them work because of the potential deaths caused by these dangerous spots.
First up was a pothole more than 1.5m (5ft) across and at least half a metre deep.
A member of the public had put some bricks around it and tape saying "caution" but according to Comandante Hernandez, the pothole had been there for two weeks and the authorities had done nothing.
Anybody driving over it would have their car written off and could face severe injury, too.
While they filmed the scene, crowds gathered, fascinated by the cackling comedians.
"In rainy season the potholes get much bigger - it's a crater," says bystander Loren Villalobos who works along the road.
"It's a total lack of responsibility of the local authorities - they don't keep us drivers safe."
Once the scene is filmed, they move on to the next "happening".
This time it is a bus stop on a busy road so badly positioned that passengers have to run across several lanes of fast-moving traffic to catch their bus.
As they are filming police arrive and tell them to move along because it is dangerous.
This is exactly what the Supercivicos want - attention from the authorities to shame them into doing something.
They keep filming while Comandante Hernandez chats to the policeman to explain why they are there.
It is all very amicable and they hope it has an effect.
"We're bringing the message to the people that everybody can make a little change to create a better place to live," the comedian says.
"Little by little everybody's taking small actions and I think it's working. It's a small effort but it's the best proof that two people can change things."
Change or not, it gives Mexicans plenty to laugh about in an enormous city the chaos of which can sometimes bring you to tears.
Curtis Wilson's try helped put Ealing 10-6 up at the break as they looked to close a 18-point first-leg deficit.
Joe Ford kicked Carnegie into the lead with his sixth penalty four minutes from the end, after Rayn Smid went over to give Ealing renewed hope.
A stoppage-time try from Luke Peters sealed Ealing's ultimately futile win.
Yorkshire will face either county neighbours Doncaster or London Irish, who are looking to make an immediate Premiership return, in the two-legged final.
Carnegie advanced to their first play-off final as 52-36 aggregate winners, having last won promotion to the top flight as National League One title winners under their old name of Leeds in 2009 after just one season in the second tier.
The competition was revamped as the Championship and the end-of-season play-offs introduced a season later.
Their latest stay in the division has lasted six seasons, falling short in the play-offs on five occasions.
London Irish are in a strong position to join Yorkshire in the final, as they take a 35-3 lead into the second leg of their semi-final at home on Saturday (13:15 BST).
Doncaster, along with Ealing, announced that they would not accept promotion to the Premiership if they prevail in the play-offs, while London Irish finished 17 points clear of second-placed Carnegie at the top of the table after winning 19 of their 20 Championship games.
Yorkshire Carnegie: Elder; Holmes, Forsyth, Lucock, McColl; Ford, Davies; Boyce, Nilsen, Faletau, West, Smith, Stedman, R Mayhew, Burrows.
Replacements: M. Mayhew, Beech, Cusack, Myerscough, Beck, Green, Stegmann.
Ealing Trailfinders: Harries; Wilson, L Peters, Munro, L Jones; Penberthy, Carter; Gibbons, A Walker, Thiede, Maddison, Townson, Murphy, Ellis, Bright.
Replacements: Lawrence, Davis, Penny, Casson, Smid, York, Davies.
In a letter to the Times, Nick Clegg, Ken Clarke and Jacqui Smith said jails had become unacceptably dangerous.
They said inmate numbers had risen to more than 85,000 since Michael Howard declared in 1993 that "prison works".
The cross-party trio pointed out that almost half of inmates are re-convicted within a year of being released.
Former Lib Dem leader and deputy PM Mr Clegg, ex-Conservative Home Secretary Mr Clarke and former Labour Home Secretary Mrs Smith said the recent violent unrest at Birmingham Prison was a "wake-up call for this country".
Riot teams restored order to all four wings of HMP Birmingham last week after more than 12 hours of rioting described as the worst since events at Strangeways 26 years ago.
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The trio's letter said there had been a 31% increase in prison assaults in the past year, and one prisoner killed themselves every three days.
"We believe that an escalating prison population has gone well beyond what is safe or sustainable," they wrote.
"To restore order, security and purpose to our jails, ministers should now make it their policy to reduce prison numbers.
"If the tide is not turned soon, the prisons crisis will do untold damage to wider society."
Mr Clegg told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that it was "with the benefit of hindsight and in a non-partisan way" that he, Mr Clarke and Mrs Smith were able to make the suggestions.
"All Ken and Jackie and I are saying is yes, if we chose to as a country, we could move to American style levels of mass incarceration - it's very expensive, it's very ineffective - or, we can try and think again and make our prison estate smaller, safer and more effective in dealing with crime," he said.
Cutting the number of inmates to 45,000 would bring the prison population close to what it was under Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government, the letter said.
"The system is not serving victims of crime or properly protecting our communities either," it said, but did not explain how the three thought the reduction could be achieved.
Justice Secretary Liz Truss has said violence in prisons "will not be tolerated".
"I started work at the prison more than 10 years ago. It was my first prison job and I was a fresh recruit.
I felt safe at first. During the first few years I could count the amount of times I felt fearful for my own safety on one hand. Eventually it got to the point where I was fearful nearly every day.
At first, if you were dealing with an incident you would have colleagues around you.
But gradually I realised they were taking more time to turn up, mainly because they may be coming in from other areas.
It's a psychological process - you become more wary of challenging prisoners so prisoners become more confident and less respectful."
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In June 1815, Major Harry Percy arrived by rowing boat at Broadstairs in Kent with the news. From there the dispatch was taken by a fast carriage to the Prince Regent in London.
A group of volunteers have recreated the moment the boat arrived in Kent.
On Sunday, the dispatch will be taken through London.
The dispatch arrived earlier in the morning, landing at Viking Bay in Broadstairs.
It was then taken to Canterbury to be presented to the Lord Lieutenant of Kent, before a service marking Waterloo at Canterbury Cathedral.
On Sunday, it will arrive in London and be taken throughout the city.
In 1815, the ship carrying the dispatch began to drift in the English Channel. The decision was made to row for 20 miles to shore before landing at Broadstairs.
Rosalind Blinks, who is the Mayor of Broadstairs, said: "History was made here and history is often a quirk of fate, it wasn't their intended destination, so it is important that we honour the occasion."
The 200th anniversary of the battle has seen a series of events throughout Europe re-enacting important moments.
Earlier, thousands took part in a re-enactment of the battle of the same fields of Waterloo.
It comes as a group concerned about the potential threat of paedophiles contacted all Guernsey politicians.
The "Lets stop the pedophila in Guernsey" Facebook group claims it was created to "protect society from sexual perverts".
Home Minister Peter Gillson said he would meet group members to "allay their fears".
But, he added: "I think people need to be cautious what they post on social media that they don't fall foul of criminal or civil laws."
Deputy Gillson said he was "confident" the island had a "very robust and balanced set of procedures to ensure the safety of the public".
Anna Guilbert, chief probation officer, said the updated sex offenders' law was expected to be introduced in July, but currently each convicted sex offender was "monitored and supervised".
She said the new element was a "requirement to notify, or what people colloquially call a sex offenders' register".
The creation of a register was agreed by the States in 2011, but no date for its roll out had previously been set.
Michael Brender set up the group and said, as a father he was concerned a convicted paedophile could be living next door and he would not know about it.
On the closed Facebook group, which has more than 1,400 members, its cover photo says "if we find you to be hosting, promoting or supporting child pornography you will become a target".
Mr Brender said the page was strictly governed with only convicted criminals named: "It's not a witch hunt, it's not so we can track them down and beat them up, it's just for the children's safety."
He wants paedophiles to be tagged on release to ensure they stay away from schools and other areas.
Access to dentistry within the NHS has been a long-running problem.
To help patients navigate their way round the system, NHS Choices now provides details of which dentists accept new NHS patients.
But researchers from consumer group Which? found three in 10 advertising availability could not actually take on new patients.
There are 7,500 dental practices that provide NHS services, but only 4,500 of them were advertising as being able to see NHS patients.
Undercover Which? researchers contacted 500 of those, choosing them randomly across the country.
As well as some not having availability, 29% of those that could take on new NHS patients had waits of at least two weeks for an appointment - with one saying it would be eight to nine months before the patient could be seen.
Some practices also made people "jump through unnecessary hoops" such as visiting the surgery to fill out forms or asking patients to pay deposits.
The Which? report said the problems needed to be investigated.
Which? executive director Richard Lloyd said: "We found it frustratingly difficult to get an appointment with a dentist, as information about availability doesn't reflect reality.
"This is a kick in the teeth for patients and yet more evidence of poor communication from the dental sector.
"We want the Competition and Markets Authority to step in and ensure that dentists put the existing rules into practice so that people can easily find out where they can get NHS dentistry."
The research comes after an investigation by Which?, published in January, indicated half of patients who had visited a dentist in the past six months had not seen a price list and a fifth had been unsure about the costs ahead of treatment.
But British Dental Association chair Mick Armstrong said the system often worked against dentists, as they were only paid for a set amount of patient visits - and if they breached these, they did not get paid.
"Many would like to see more patients, but this is impossible within rigid contracts."
Anna Bradley, who chairs patient watchdog Healthwatch England, said: "We hear a lot in the news about people struggling to access their GPs, but getting an appointment with an NHS dentist is often more frustrating."
NHS England acting chief dental officer Serbjit Kaur said official surveys suggested nine in 10 patients could get appointments - but urged dentists "to do everything they can to ensure a good quality service is available to all".
27 February 2015 Last updated at 06:46 GMT
In this recruitment video from 1942, Major General V.H.B Majendie, commanding officer for Northern Ireland, appeals for support for the defence force.
Used with permission from the Police Museum of Northern Ireland.
Not Dad's Army - Northern Ireland's Home Guard will be broadcast on BBC Radio Ulster at 12:30 GMT on Sunday 1 March 2015. It will then be available on BBC IPlayer radio.
A 26-year-old Algerian is charged with attempted sexual assault and theft.
He is accused of being part of a group of 10 men who surrounded and groped a woman in the main railway station in the early hours of New Year's Day.
The large-scale sexual assaults and robberies by men of North African and Arab appearance shocked Germany.
More than 1,000 criminal complaints were filed, hundreds of them alleging sexual assault, after women reported being surrounded by groups of men in and around Cologne's main station.
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The 26-year-old whose trial began on Friday denies the charges against him.
According to prosecutors, after the group of men surrounded the woman victim, some of them proceeded to touch her on the buttocks and other areas "in a sexually motivated way", for two to three minutes.
The defendant allegedly used this opportunity to steal her mobile phone.
On trial with him is a 23-year-old Algerian - his brother, according to German news agency DPA - who is accused of stealing another woman's mobile phone as she was surrounded.
Nine men have already been convicted of theft and similar charges in relation to the events, prosecutors say.
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Belgium's Christian Benteke scored the fastest ever World Cup qualifying goal after 8.1 seconds against Gibraltar.
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A Rhondda Cynon Taff woman has been found guilty of murdering her husband after trying to blame it on her son.
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Jordan Ayew's superb second-half goal earned Premier League bottom club Aston Villa a point at Newcastle.
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Woods, 39, announced an indefinite break from the game this week.
Hank Haney, who spent six years with the 14-time major champion, told BBC Radio 5 live that Woods had "no choice" but to withdraw from competitive golf.
"Whatever the reason, he definitely has not practised like he did earlier in his career - and it shows," Haney said.
"Make no mistake about it, this is not a bump, this is not a hill... this is a mountain he has to climb to get anywhere near back to where he was.
"Has he lost the desire and energy? I don't think there is any doubt. Who knows when we'll see him again?"
Haney said injuries and having two young children had impacted on Woods.
He also claimed "big, big issues" in the former world number one's game meant the decision to take time out was "pretty predictable".
BBC golf commentator Peter Alliss believes Woods needs "a guru" to rediscover his magic on the course.
"Tiger might go to India like the Beatles and discover something magical," said Alliss, who hoped Woods would remain a force in the game
"He'd be a huge miss. He's been a giant in a land of Lilliputians for years."
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Woods has begun his break from golf at Beaver Creek in Colorado, where he is supporting girlfriend Lindsey Vonn as she competes in the Alpine Skiing World Championships.
The American missed the cut at the Phoenix Open at the end of last month with an 11-over-par 82 - the worst round of his professional career - and finished last of a field of 132.
Woods, who has not won a major in seven years, also withdrew from last week's event at Torrey Pines in California after just 12 holes, citing a back problem.
"I need a lot of work on my game and to spend time with people that are important to me," Woods said earlier this week.
However, he indicated on his website that he could return as early as the Honda Classic, which starts on 26 February.
Alliss, 83, says he is at a loss to explain the reasons behind the recent decline of Woods but only wants him to return if he can banish his problems.
"I'd like him to finish and play well," said Alliss. "I don't want him to remember him hitting 82 and walking off courses in a wounded state."
Paul Azinger, 55, has urged fellow American Woods to take a back-to-basics approach and stop over-thinking his swing.
Azinger told USA Today: "What Tiger has done is sacrifice a winning swing at the altar for a quest for the perfect swing. And a perfect swing doesn't exist."
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Threats were posted on Facebook to "kill as many people as possible" at Montgomery High School in Blackpool on Monday.
Lancashire Police dismissed the threat as "not credible".
A person claiming to have written the post has since apologised on the Blackpool Gazette website, saying it was "a gigantic mistake".
In the original post, made during the school holidays, the Facebook user praised people who killed students in the US, and wrote on the school's page: "Nobody talks to me or notices me except when they're calling me a nerd and pushing me around."
Responding to one student, they commented: "You think it's a joke? You'll see bullets, bodies, and blood."
Later, a long apology appeared on the Gazette's website, saying: "I am a bullied student at Montgomery, I did start the threats but they are NOT genuine; I simply wanted to shock the school into handling the bullies."
Describing their actions as "the stupidest decision I've ever made", the author, who claimed to be 15 years old, continued: "I just wanted to do something about the bullies because all other channels of communication were ignored.
"I thought scaring the bullies and the teachers would simply sort out the bullying problem and then everyone would just move on; I was incredibly wrong."
Lancashire Police has confirmed the apparent confession is one of the lines of inquiry in their investigation.
The school, which said more than 1,000 of its 1,375 pupils did not attend on Monday, added it was "unable to comment" on the apparent confession as it did not want to "compromise what is an extensive ongoing police investigation".
On its website, principal Tony Nicholson wrote there had been a "much higher attendance" on Tuesday.
Up to three armed men took hostages in the town near the border with Belgium, reports said.
One of the hostage takers was killed during the police operation, according to local officials.
The incident was not related to the security situation in France following the 13 November attacks in Paris.
Local authorities said the hostages were now in a "secure place"; at least one suspect had been arrested, according to reports.
Local media said the incident took place at around 19:00 local time (18:00 GMT), and an area of the town was cordoned off.
It is not clear how many people were held hostage.
Gunshots were fired, according to local residents.
The armed men had been planning a robbery targeting a banker, reports say.
Hayley Court claimed she was asked to encourage the media to report evidence favourable to the police, including that fans were partly to blame.
She said she was told to "get the media together and tell them what to write".
The force has said Ms Court's claims were "not substantiated".
A spokesman for the Independent Police Complaints Commission said: "Following an assessment of the available evidence, the IPCC has decided to conduct an independent investigation into this matter."
Ms Court claimed she felt trapped when she realised she had been given an "impossible job" that was "wholly unethical".
"It seemed to me to be more about how we could share the blame," she said.
"If South Yorkshire Police was going to be found partly responsible for what happened then all the other interested parties should be found partly responsible as well.
"If that meant perpetuating comments about fans being drunk, if that meant perpetuating comments about fans forcing gates then that was how they were going to do it."
Ninety-six football fans died in the 1989 disaster, which unfolded during an FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest.
A jury at the inquests concluded the fans had been unlawfully killed.
They also criticised SYP's planning for the match, and highlighted a catalogue of failures by senior officers on the day.
The stadium was also said to have contained "defects" that contributed to the disaster, and Sheffield Wednesday FC and South Yorkshire Metropolitan Ambulance Service were criticised.
The supporters were exonerated of any blame.
SYP's chief constable David Crompton was suspended the day after the inquests concluded because there had been an "erosion of trust".
The 32-year-old former Sheffield Wednesday man has played 262 times for the club and helped them gain promotion to the Championship in 2015.
It follows news that long-term keeper David Martin is also leaving, while captain Dean Lewington said earlier this month his future is undecided.
"I shall now be seeking a new challenge elsewhere," Potter said.
"I would like to say a huge thank-you to the fans, who have been nothing but fantastic to myself and my family during my time here."
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Rosberg took his second pole in a row and third of the year as Hamilton was slower on his first flying lap and then made a mistake on his second.
Hamilton never looked comfortable on the Sochi track, and was outpaced throughout by his main title rival.
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Williams's Valtteri Bottas beat Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel for third.
Bottas was 0.799 seconds off Rosberg with Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen fifth ahead of Force India's Nico Hulkenberg.
It was an impressive performance by Rosberg, who was also fastest in a final practice session truncated by a huge crash involving Toro Rosso's Carlos Sainz.
The Spaniard, whose car ended up underneath barriers at Turn 13 after he lost control at one of the fastest parts of the track, was taken to hospital, where it was found he was unhurt but is being kept in overnight for observation.
Hamilton pulled into the pits with two minutes of qualifying still to go after running wide at Turn 13 on his second flying lap trying to make up the gap to his team-mate.
It was only the third time in 15 races Rosberg had beaten him in qualifying.
"I'm very happy," Rosberg said. "It's been a difficult weekend because we didn't get much practice but qualifying worked out really well. It felt comfortable and I got some good laps in."
Hamilton, who won in Russia last year after starting second, said: "Difficult weekend for everyone. Nico did a great job in his lap."
He added he was "perfectly happy with the balance" of his car and it was "not such a bad race" to start in second.
Hamilton heads into the race 48 points ahead of Rosberg in the championship with a maximum of 125 points still available.
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The top 10 was completed by Hulkenberg's team-mate Sergio Perez, Lotus's Romain Grosjean, Toro Rosso's Max Verstappen and Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo.
It was another eye-catching performance by Verstappen, the 18-year-old Dutchman beating both cars of senior team Red Bull just hours after team-mate Sainz's crash.
Verstappen prevented Red Bull's Daniil Kvyat from getting into the top 10 shoot-out at the Russian's home grand prix by just 0.095secs.
Kvyat was 0.209secs slower in the second session than team-mate Ricciardo.
Bottas's team-mate Felipe Massa was only 15th after being caught in traffic and then making a mistake and running wide.
Fernando Alonso had a disappointing qualifying on the occasion of his 250th grand prix meeting, knocked out in the first session and qualifying 16th.
Ahead of team-mate Button by 0.15secs on their first laps, Alonso was 0.405secs slower on their second runs, although his position was irrelevant as he will drop to the back of the grid as a result of a 35-place penalty for using too many engine components.
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Button said the race would be "one of the most difficult" for McLaren because of the shortfall in hybrid boost from the Honda engine. This also causes the team fuel consumption problems, the Englishman said.
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It comes as a government commissioned maths review found too many teenagers dropped maths after GCSE, harming their job prospects and the wider economy.
The cash, from existing budgets, will help more students take a maths A-level or core maths qualification, say ministers.
Better maths skills were "vital", said Education Minister Nick Gibb.
In most advanced countries, all young people continue to study maths beyond the age of 16 - but England "remains unusual" because this is not the case, says the review, by Prof Sir Adrian Smith, vice-chancellor of the University of London.
And among teenagers with good GCSE grades, almost three-quarters "choose not to study mathematics beyond this level".
"England was the only country in a 2013 sample of developed economies where young adults performed no better than older adults in numeracy proficiency," the review says.
And lack of maths proficiency can leave university students anxious and unconfident about any maths or statistics required in their courses and limit young people's career prospects at every level.
If more sixth-formers took maths, it "could deliver significant payback for individuals, for the economy and in increased productivity", said Prof Smith.
The review says "as an urgent and immediate measure", the government should put money into AS- and A-levels in maths and into the government's core maths qualification, introduced in 2015 with the aim of increasing the number of sixth-formers studying the subject.
"Core maths plugs a critical gap" for students going on to higher education or higher technical study with a mathematical element, the report says.
But the subject has suffered from too little funding and a lack of awareness, with the result that uptake has been too low.
The government says the cash, to be paid in two £8m chunks from April next year, will be used to:
"The government is determined to give all young people the world-class education they need to fulfil their potential," said Mr Gibb in a written ministerial statement setting out the plan.
"This includes providing opportunities to develop the mathematical and quantitative knowledge and skills appropriate to their chosen careers.
"In an increasingly technological world, this will be vital to ensuring that our future workforce will be productive and competitive in the global marketplace."
Frank Kelly, chairman of the Royal Society Advisory Committee on Mathematics Education, said better funding for post-16 maths was key.
"Mathematics skills are necessary to a wide variety of disciplines, and we welcome the government's recognition of their importance and commitment to improving opportunities in schools and colleges."
Chris Linton, president of the Institute of Mathematics, said: "The UK lags well behind the rest of the developed world in the number of students studying mathematics post-16, and Sir Adrian's report provides clear evidence that this needs to be reversed."
Mike Ellicock, chief executive of National Numeracy, said the current system "abjectly fails to equip far too many young people adequately for their future lives and the world of work".
Families and individuals enjoyed the hazy sunshine and strong breezes at West Mersea Beach in Essex.
Forecasters are predicting that after a cool night with fog patches in Norfolk and Suffolk, Monday will be sunny again.
But the highest temperatures will be inland until skies cloud over later in the day.
The boy had to be freed from the metal device by a fire crew at Torquay Museum on Thursday afternoon and was taken to hospital.
Its director said the trap was in a closed position and setting it would have taken "a considerable effort".
Basil Greenwood said he believed it had been "tampered with" and the museum has now been assessed as safe.
"It's called a spring trap and they were used in Victorian times for catching large animals," Mr Greenwood said.
Devon Fire and Rescue Service said it was called to the museum at 15:30 BST to free the child and attended for more than an hour.
Mr Greenwood said he believed the boy's hand had been punctured and he had been discharged from hospital.
"I believe the child was the innocent party in this," he continued.
"Somehow, this object was made into a dangerous state and I do not believe that would have been the child.
"It is very heavy and would have taken two strong individuals to set it."
He said there was a possibility that the boy tripped and hit the trap, although the circumstances remained a mystery and CCTV was being reviewed.
The figures, requested by the Scottish Tories, showed that £33.2m was spent settling 13,000 claims from 2007-2012.
The party said it suggested there was a "compensation culture" which was "spiralling out of control".
The council umbrella body Cosla accused the party of "opportunistic council bashing".
Its president, Councillor David O'Neill, said local authorities only paid compensation when instructed to do so by their lawyers.
The Conservatives' local government spokeswoman, Margaret Mitchell, said it was "neither sensible nor sustainable" for local authorities to be spending millions on compensation payments when public finances were being squeezed.
She said the payments were made over incidents ranging from the "very serious to the utterly ridiculous".
Settlements included a man in Edinburgh who claimed £170,000 because a firework blew up in his hand and a woman in Clackmannanshire who claimed £40 because grass-cutters damaged her garden gnomes.
A dog owner in East Dunbartonshire received £57 from the council after their pet's paws were covered in tar and a cyclist in Edinburgh was given £4,000 after being knocked off their bike by overhanging branches.
Of the local authorities which responded, Falkirk Council has paid out most, at about £6.7m, while claims cost Fife Council more than £5.2m over the period.
Edinburgh City Council spent just over £3.2m but at Glasgow City Council - Scotland's largest local authority - the cost was £665,000.
Across Scotland, the majority of claims involved vehicle accidents, trips on pavements or potholes and problems with council housing.
Ms Mitchell said: "It is right when someone is injured, has their property damaged or is inconvenienced through no fault of their own, councils should pay up quickly and efficiently.
"However, the sheer amount of cash involved here really points to the compensation culture in which we live spiralling out of control.
"Councils must be given the appropriate legal support when people make spurious claims. Clearly, with budgets tight, it is neither sensible nor sustainable to be spending millions of pounds every year on incidents which, in many cases, are entirely avoidable."
The Conservatives claimed the true figure could be even higher as seven of Scotland's 32 councils did not respond to the request.
But Cllr O'Neill said: "The Conservative Party have certainly chosen to have Scotland's councils in their sights over the festive period. Here we have more opportunistic council bashing from them.
"They should perhaps remember that councils are made up of all political parties and as they returned an increased number of councillors in the May elections, they are having a pop at themselves to a large extent.
"The bottom line is that in the modern world we now occupy, there is far more of a compensation culture and people are often actively encouraged to pursue claims through no-win no-fee lawyers.
"However, that said, councils only pay compensation when they have been instructed to legally. They do not pay it willy-nilly and to suggest otherwise is both wrong and misleading."
Shots had enjoyed an eight-match unbeaten run prior to their 4-0 defeat against Forest Green on Tuesday and they got back on track thanks to second-half goals from Shamir Fenelon and Scott Rendell.
The hosts broke the deadlock in the 64th minute when Cheye Alexander played in Fenelon and he found the bottom corner from 15 yards, before Rendell headed in Jim Kellerman's cross from close range to seal the win in the 82nd minute.
Solihull had scored four goals in each of their last two matches but created very little as their five-match unbeaten run was ended.
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Match ends, Aldershot Town 2, Solihull Moors 0.
Second Half ends, Aldershot Town 2, Solihull Moors 0.
Substitution, Aldershot Town. Idris Kanu replaces Bernard Mensah.
Goal! Aldershot Town 2, Solihull Moors 0. Scott Rendell (Aldershot Town).
Substitution, Solihull Moors. Darryl Knights replaces Omari Sterling-James.
Substitution, Aldershot Town. Jim Kellerman replaces Charlie Walker.
Substitution, Solihull Moors. Andy Brown replaces Jamey Osborne.
Substitution, Solihull Moors. Harry White replaces Akwasi Asante.
Goal! Aldershot Town 1, Solihull Moors 0. Shamir Fenelon (Aldershot Town).
Substitution, Aldershot Town. Shamir Fenelon replaces Iffy Allen.
Jake Gallagher (Aldershot Town) is shown the yellow card.
Second Half begins Aldershot Town 0, Solihull Moors 0.
First Half ends, Aldershot Town 0, Solihull Moors 0.
Ryan Beswick (Solihull Moors) is shown the yellow card.
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Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
The woman was taken ill on a flight from the US to Nigeria via Heathrow.
It comes as a group of MPs have urged the government to take "urgent action" to recover more money for treating foreign patients.
A Public Accounts Committee report says the system for recouping costs from overseas patients is "chaotic".
The case of the Nigerian woman is thought to be one of the NHS's biggest unpaid bills for an overseas patient.
The woman, who is included in the BBC One programme Hospital, was due to give birth in the US, where she has family, but had been turned away for not having the right hospital paperwork.
She was taken ill on her flight home to Nigeria and ended up in St Mary's A&E, which covers Heathrow after her flight stopped over at the airport.
Priscilla was three months away from her due date.
She gave birth to one baby who died and she and her three children were all placed in intensive care.
Another of her children died on Saturday and her two surviving children remain in intensive care which costs £20,000 a week per child.
Priscilla was released from hospital after six weeks and is being supported by a charity as she has no family in the UK and admits she has no ability to pay the bill.
The NHS Imperial College Trust which includes St Mary's spent £4m on overseas patients last year and managed to recoup £1.6m.
Treatment given in A&E departments is free to all, however, once you are admitted, even as an emergency, overseas visitors are chargeable.
In October, it was revealed the government was expected to fall short of its target of recovering £500m a year from overseas visitors and the Department of Health "refined" its target for 2017-18 to £346m.
Chairwoman of the Public Accounts Committee Meg Hillier attacked the government's "failure to get a grip" as "simply unacceptable".
The Department of Health said it would be announcing "further steps very shortly to recover up to £500m a year".
Ms Hillier, MP for Hackney South and Shoreditch, said the NHS was missing out on "vital funds".
"The public rightly expects the government to enforce the rules, and more can and should be done to recover money," she said.
The report calls on the Department of Health to publish an action plan by June, "setting out specific actions, milestones and performance measures for increasing the amount recovered from overseas visitors".
Responding to the PAC report, a Department of Health official said: "This government was the first to put measures in place to make sure the NHS recoups money from people who are not eligible for free care.
"Some hospitals are already doing great work, and the amount of income identified has more than trebled in three years, to £289m.
"However, there is more to be done to make sure that if people are not eligible for free care, they pay for it.
"We will be announcing further steps very shortly to recover up to £500m a year by the middle of this Parliament."
Hospital trusts in England are legally obliged to check whether patients are eligible for free non-emergency NHS treatment and to recover any costs.
The report identifies the biggest challenge to recovering costs as the lack of a single easy way to prove whether patients are entitled to healthcare.
The committee notes that while some trusts are now requiring patients to prove their identity by showing passports and utility bills, these documents do not demonstrate entitlement to free NHS care.
Some patients, such as refugees and those applying for asylum, are exempt from charges.
The report says the Department of Health should build on existing systems, such as the NHS number and electronic patient record.
There are currently large variations between trusts in the amounts they charge and the debts they recover from overseas patients.
The committee says that trusts' performances should be shared and there should be intervention if a trust is falling short.
And while GP appointments are free to everyone, the report says GPs could do more to help and the government should give clear guidelines on what is expected of them.
Dr Mark Porter council chairman for the British Medical Association, said: "It is important that those accessing NHS service are eligible to do so and that we recover the costs for treating overseas visitors.
"The systems to do this need to be practical, economic and efficient and must not jeopardise access to healthcare for those who need it.
"Any charging systems should not prevent sick and vulnerable patients receiving necessary care, otherwise there may be serious consequences for their health and that of the public in general."
The latest Markit/CIPS service sector purchasing managers' index (PMI) fell to 55.6 last month from 57.4 in July.
Although the figure remained above 50, indicating expansion, it was the weakest reading since May 2013.
Markit estimated the UK economy would grow by 0.5% in the third quarter of 2015, down from growth of 0.7% in the previous three months.
Earlier this week, a survey of the manufacturing sector also found growth slowing, although the construction sector recorded a slight pick-up in activity.
"Even after allowing for usual seasonal influences, August saw an unexpectedly sharp slowing in the pace of economic growth," said Chris Williamson, chief economist at Markit.
"The services PMI came in well below even the most pessimistic of economists' forecasts and follows disappointing news of a stagnation in the manufacturing sector earlier in the week."
The Markit survey said the slowdown in the sector was mainly due to the slowest increase in new business since April 2013.
Employment growth picked up from July, but it was still the second weakest reading since March 2014.
The survey found little evidence of price pressures in the sector, and Mr Williamson said this "suggests the inflation outlook is benign and is therefore likely to help tip the argument towards postponing any rate hikes until the wider global economic picture becomes clearer".
The data comes a week before the latest meeting of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee, which sets UK interest rates.
UK CPI inflation was 0.1% in July and looks unlikely to rise in the foreseeable future, which has led some economists to push back their expectations for a rate rise to the middle of next year.
Surveys published earlier this week also indicated the weakest growth for more than two years at Chinese and US factories, as well as a softening in China's services sector.
Separately, the Bank of England said net lending to small businesses by banks and building societies taking part in its Funding for Lending scheme reached £490m in the three months to the end of June, compared with £400m a year earlier.
Launched in 2012, the scheme is designed to provide lenders with cheap access to finance to improve lending in the wider economy. They have drawn down £61.4bn of funding from the scheme since it launched.
The biggest net lenders to small businesses during the period were Lloyds Banking Group, which lent £527m, and Aldermore, which lent £127m.
The Bank said the improvement in net lending reflected a relaxation of credit conditions and growing confidence in the economy.
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence says staff are either too overstretched or undertrained to provide for patients who are seriously dehydrated and need to be on a drip.
It is launching draft guidelines to remedy this.
A confidential inquiry found many patients received either too little or too much fluid, which can be fatal.
Data gathered by the National Confidential Enquiry into Perioperative Deaths (NCEPOD) suggests as many as one in five patients on intravenous (IV) fluids have complications or die because of inappropriate administration.
The NCEPOD says inexperienced junior doctors are being left to provide care.
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) says as well as a lack of training in IV fluid management, professionals may be overworked and unable to give patients the attention they need.
And experts often disagree on which IV fluids are best, leading to wide variation in practice.
Prof Mark Baker, director of the Centre for Clinical Practice at NICE, said: "Current pressures on the NHS and the people who work within it can mean staff without the right knowledge or training are sometimes left to look after people who may need intravenous fluid therapy - when fluids must be administered through a drip.
"Making sure someone has the right level of fluid in their body is fundamental to good, basic care but this isn't always happening. There can be serious consequences if the wrong amount or composition of IV fluids is prescribed."
If a person receives too much or too little fluid this can lead to problems such as fluid in the lungs, dangerously raised or lowered levels of potassium, sodium or nutrients such as glucose, and in some cases, heart failure.
NCEPOD chief executive Dr Marisa Mason said: "NCEPOD welcomes the new guideline on fluid management, which has addressed the concerns that we have highlighted in several of our reports during the last 10 years.
"The NICE single guideline is a positive move that will support healthcare staff provide good quality care to patients in need of intravenous fluid therapy."
Rashid took three wickets on the second day of the third Test against India to take his tally for the series to 16, more than any other bowler.
"He's found that he belongs here," Vaughan, who was critical of England's spinners during the second Test, told Test Match Special.
"He looks himself in the mirror and says, 'I can play Test cricket'."
Rashid managed 15 wickets in his previous five Tests but in taking 16 in three against India he has taken the most in a series by an England leg-spinner since Doug Wright's 23 against Australia in 1946-47.
"It's nice to have those stats but stats don't mean that much to me," Rashid, 28, told BBC Sport. "I don't look that far ahead, who is leading or isn't leading, I just try to do my job.
"Sometimes you don't bowl that good a ball, you get a wicket. Sometimes you bowl jaffas, they get wickets. That's part and parcel of cricket and being a leg-spinner."
The Yorkshireman's 3-81 helped England fight back in Mohali as India were reduced from 148-2 to 204-6.
Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja then combined to take India to 271-6, 12 runs behind England's 283.
"England's bowling was excellent," said Vaughan. "This England attack is an attack that any captain in the world would want."
Rashid said: "It's fairly interesting at the moment but fairly poised. We stuck by our plans and got rewards.
"As a group and as a team we had the belief that if we stick to our plans and what we were doing things will change and happen. We're still confident."
The European Union - another critic - "better choose purgatory, hell is filled up", Mr Duterte said.
The remarks came as the US and the Philippines began joint military exercises. The US said there was a "strong alliance" with the Philippines.
Mr Duterte's drugs war has caused thousands of extrajudicial killings.
In a speech to local officials and business executives Mr Duterte said he was disappointed with the US for criticising the Philippines' tactics to combat the drug trade. He also described Washington as an unreliable ally.
"Instead of helping us, the first to criticise is this state department, so you can go to hell, Mr Obama, you can go to hell."
Later on Tuesday he warned: "Eventually I might, in my time, I will break up with America. I would rather go to Russia and to China.''
Mr Duterte also revealed that the US had refused to sell weapons to Manila, but added that he would be able to buy them elsewhere.
"If you don't want to sell arms, I'll go to Russia. I sent the generals to Russia and Russia said, 'Do not worry, we have everything you need, we'll give it to you'.
"And as for China, they said, 'Just come over and sign and everything will be delivered'," President Duterte said.
In response to his comments, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said: "This is an alliance that is robust and that benefits both of our countries. The diplomatic lines of communication between the United States and the Philippines remain open.
"Even as we protect this strong alliance, the administration and the United States of America will not hesitate to raise our concerns about extra-judicial killings.
"We have not yet received any sort of formal communication using those channels from the Filipino government about making substantial changes to our bilateral relationship."
The Philippines, once a colony of the US, has a longstanding defence relationship with Washington.
But Mr Duterte said last week these would be the last joint military exercises while he is in office, although later his defence secretary said there was no official order yet to that effect.
He also said he would review a defence pact signed two years ago with the US that would see more US troops sent to the Philippines.
The pact is seen as vital for the US to counter China's activities in the South China Sea.
The eight-day military drills involve 1,100 American troops and 400 Filipino military personnel, and are taking place on northern Luzon island.
They are aimed at improving readiness to respond to crises and deepening historic ties, the US military said.
Relations were strained last month when the US cancelled a bilateral meeting after Mr Duterte used insulting language to refer to the US president.
Defence Minister Raul Jungmann said the soldiers and national guard officers would stay until calm was restored.
Criminals ran amok in the south-eastern city after police stopped patrolling on Saturday in a row over pay.
Brazilian TV has broadcast scenes of looting, shootings and carjackings.
Banks, schools and public health centres remained closed on Tuesday, as were most shops.
Buses returned to the streets but officials said services would stop by the evening.
"The armed forces are on the streets," Mr Jungmann said after talks with officials in Espirito Santo state.
"We are determined to restore peace, order and tranquillity in Vitoria and wherever else necessary."
The troops have been caught up in clashes between residents opposed to the strike and relatives of the striking officers protesting outside police barracks.
The relatives have rallied in front of police stations because the military police officers themselves are barred from protesting.
The officers are demanding better pay, including extra pay for night work and danger money.
Brazilian media said about 70 people had been killed since the strike began.
Balfour Beatty, which purchased it in 2008, said its strategy had changed and it wanted to end its involvement in running regional airports.
Staff were told the news on Thursday and management said it was too soon to comment about any potential redundancies as a result of the sale.
Blackpool Airport said it would be sold as a going concern and it was "business as usual" and flights would continue.
The airport said: "It's too soon to comment on any redundancies, the size and the shape of the company would be determined by new owners."
There are about 110 staff employed at the airport.
Last year, 235,000 passengers used the airport.
The England forward, 20 has rejected a new £100,000-a-week contract, and denied being a "money-grabber" in a BBC Sport interview last month.
Sterling told Brendan Rodgers he wants to go before the Chelsea game on 10 May and will now meet the Reds manager and chief executive Ian Ayre on Friday.
It is understood Liverpool want to keep Sterling, whose deal ends in 2017.
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Should he be made available, Manchester City remain the frontrunners for his signature but Arsenal and a number of leading European clubs have also expressed an interest.
While Liverpool insist they will not sell for any price this summer, their resolve may be tested by an offer in the region of £35m.
Sterling - whose current contract is worth £35,000 a week - said in an interview on 1 April that he "talks about winning trophies" rather than money.
Former Reds defender and BBC Sport pundit Mark Lawrenson said at the time that Sterling had put himself "under pressure" with his comments.
Liverpool's last piece of silverware came in 2012, when they won the League Cup, and they have missed out on Champions League qualification for next season.
Rodgers has previously said: "Liverpool are one of the superpowers of football and if the owners don't want to sell, they don't have to."
Speaking on Friday, captain Steven Gerrard told Sterling to stay and play for a coach who "believes in him".
"I think there is no-one better for him than Brendan Rodgers," said Gerrard, who will join MLS side LA Galaxy this summer after 17 years at Anfield.
"The danger for younger players is they want it all too soon and go to another club and just become a number."
Former Liverpool midfielder Ray Houghton: "Supporters are coming to the end of their tether with Raheem, he still hasn't learnt.
"The club could take a real stance, but it's not advisable. The best thing is to let him go and invest the £40m-£50m in players that want to come to the club."
Ex-Everton midfielder Kevin Kilbane on BBC Radio 5 live: "It shows the changing face of football, it is very much manufactured. I think it lacks a lot of class.
"If Sterling does not want to stay at Liverpool, fair enough, there may be underlying reasons why he does not want to stay. But surely the negotiations, especially with a lad who has a lot to prove and a long way to go in the game, can be done behind closed doors, in a way that best suits everyone."
Former Reds defender Jamie Carragher said Sterling is "not some flash young kid", but added the thought of him "taking on" Liverpool over contract negotiations annoyed him "to the pit of my stomach".
"You keep your mouth shut and get on with playing football.
Speaking on Sky Sports, he said: "Raheem Sterling will obviously move on at some stage, he doesn't want to be at the club and this looks like a tactic to force the club's hand.
"Liverpool had a chance to win a trophy this season in the FA Cup semi-final against Aston Villa - where was Sterling? Trophies don't get handed out, you've got to earn them. You've got to deliver in big games and he hasn't done that yet."
Ex-Manchester United defender Gary Neville added: "Liverpool haven't handled contracts well at all in the past 18 months."
The balloon came down at about 07:30 BST near the B573 at Earls Barton, Northamptonshire. Eyewitnesses reported seeing sparks as it passed an electricity pylon.
The 22-year old female passenger who suffered burns was taken to Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham.
The 64-year-old male pilot was not injured, police have said.
One eyewitness, Ian, said the balloon came close to a car-boot sale in Earls Barton.
He said: "We were at the car boot this morning at Whites Nursery and a hot-air balloon came over and there was a lady and gentleman - they were waving at everyone.
"It suddenly disappeared over towards the trees and then burst into flames and over towards the ground."
Wendy Rousell, the secretary of the British Balloon and Airship Club, said incidents such as this were "very rare in the UK".
"There are 20 balloons in Northamptonshire and they can fly all over the county when weather permits, and this morning's conditions were perfect."
Police have handed the inquiry to the Air Accidents Investigation Branch.
At the scene: BBC Northampton reporter Kris Holland
The balloon came down near a car-boot sale at Whites Nurseries in Earls Barton and those who saw it say they saw blue sparks as it hit power cables.
I've been told that after this, the balloon was seen to catch fire and plummet around 100ft through the air into the field.
Some eyewitnesses said the pair were throwing gas canisters out of the balloon's basket as it crashed.
23 February 2017 Last updated at 07:22 GMT
It's all because of something you might have heard mentioned a lot recently: Brexit.
Across the whole of the UK most people voted to leave the EU, but in Scotland, most people wanted to stay in it.
Jenny went to Glasgow to find out what kids there think now the UK is leaving the EU.
Women's triathlon will be the first gold medal to be won on the Games' opening day - Thursday, 5 April 2018.
The men's and women's 100m finals are on day five, while the rugby sevens will bring events to a close on 15 April 2018.
The Gold Coast is a coastal city in the Australian state of Queensland.
The BBC was awarded the UK broadcast rights for the 2018 Commonwealth Games last year.
In March, Durban was stripped of the right to host the 2022 event.
Birmingham, Liverpool, London and Manchester have expressed interest in replacing the South African city - and officials have said they would consider a joint UK bid.
Full schedule available here
A first-half goal from former Celtic striker Morten Rasmussen secured a 2-1 aggregate win - and with it a place in Friday's group stage draw.
The Saints saw an early Jose Fonte effort cleared off the line but were then punished by Rasmussen's angled shot following a Jay Rodriguez error.
Southampton rarely looked like getting an away goal to force extra time.
After finishing seventh in the Premier League last season, this was a disappointing end to Southampton's first entry into Europe since 2004.
Ronald Koeman's side eased past Dutch club Vitesse Arnhem in their first qualifying round but did not convince against Midtjylland in the first leg, drawing 1-1 at St Mary's.
And apart from Fortune's early chance and a blocked shot from James Ward-Prowse, they carried little threat on Thursday.
Rasmussen accepted a pass from Kristian Bach Bak to turn sharply and hit the 28th-minute winner after Rodriguez had been caught in possession.
Relive Southampton's Europa League exit.
The Dutchman could do little wrong in his first season in charge as he defied the doubters following the sale of some of Southampton's biggest names - including Rickie Lambert, Adam Lallana, and Dejan Lovren - to lead Southampton into Europe.
But second-season syndrome now looks a real threat with Southampton again selling over the summer with key midfielder Morgan Schneiderlin and defender Nathaniel Clyne both leaving.
The Saints are yet to win in the Premier League and will now have to get over the disappointment of their early Europa League exit.
Last season, Hull were knocked out in Europa League qualifying and went on to be relegated. Southampton are a long way from that prospect but Koeman's managerial acumen will now be tested.
The Saints could do with the transfer window shutting without any further exits.
Midfield powerhouse Victor Wanyama has been linked with Tottenham and forward Sadio Mane with Manchester United.
Neither played in Denmark and both were missed.
The Saints can't afford to lose any more of their key players and need to strengthen. A move for Celtic defender Virgil van Dijk could happen now that the Scots are out of the Champions League.
Southampton manager Ronald Koeman, speaking to BT Sport: "In both games we were the better team, we had the most chances. We scored a goal at home that was disallowed and tonight we need a penalty for a handball from the free-kick.
"We worked very hard but sometimes you need good decisions. We didn't have that. In my opinion that makes the result.
"Sadio Mane wasn't 100% and it will be a long season. I didn't take that risk to put him in. We need him for more games."
Southampton are at home to Norwich on Sunday and could do with a first Premier League win just to settle things down ahead of the international break.
The bodies of Tim Newton, 27, and Rachel Slater, 24, who both lived in Bradford, were found on the north face of Ben Nevis on 23 March.
The experienced climbers had been missing since 15 February.
A "celebration of life" service will be held for friends and family in the Leicester area on 16 April.
A statement from his family said they wanted to "say a huge thank you to all of the people… [who] extended kind wishes and prayer.
"The kind words since Tim and Rachel were found have been much appreciated. The support of so many people has meant so much."
The family also thanked the mountain rescue teams for their "relentless hard work and support".
Ms Slater was a graduate of Manchester University and employed as an environmental consultant near Bradford.
She spent some time living and climbing in Canada, where her parents are still based.
Mr Newton, originally from Leicester, studied physics at Manchester and Leeds universities.
He joined Hinckley Mountaineering Club in Leicestershire in 2010 before he moved away to university, with fellow climbers there calling him a "natural".
Staff trawled through 1,000 rubbish bags looking for the 90-year-old pet after using the bin lorry's GPS to track him to the waste facility.
Zuma is now recuperating at home with owner Sarah Joiner in central London.
She praised the "amazing teamwork" that brought Zuma back home.
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Ms Joiner, a life-long Westminster resident and The MS Trust volunteer, said: "Thank you is never going to be enough. There was no nonsense about it, just enormous good will in finding him."
The 56-year-old, who has Multiple Sclerosis, has owned Zuma - short for Montezuma - for 40 years.
The male spurred tortoise, originally from the Mediterranean, is now recovering from his bumps and bruises at home.
Lynn Davis from Veolia, the company that operates the waste treatment facility where Zuma was found, said: "I'm delighted that we were able to find Zuma and return him to Mrs Joiner unharmed, he really has survived against the odds.
"This was certainly a different way to spend a Friday afternoon and I'm just relieved we were successful."
The part-timers from Luxembourg visit Pittodrie in the first-leg and McInnes still has "one or two wee concerns" with his forwards.
"If we didn't feel the need to involve [McGinn], we'd tell him to stay away and get some sun," the manager said.
"But he's our player and we've got an important game."
Striker Adam Rooney has taken part in every pre-season training session and played all three friendly matches as he continues his recovery from a thigh injury suffered in February.
Miles Storey signed from Swindon Town as a free agent having spent last season on loan at Inverness Caledonian Thistle, but he will not join the club officially until Friday and will not feature in the first round.
McGinn flew back to Aberdeen from France on Tuesday following Northern Ireland's exit from the Euro 2016 finals and took part in a training session in the afternoon.
"We're delighted to get him back," McInnes said.
"We wanted Niall to get the best experience possible from the Euros and the fact that he's managed to contribute, score and be part of a successful campaign is brilliant for him, but delighted at the same time to get him back.
"We've got one or two wee concerns in the forward areas and we don't have Miles Storey. We need Niall back.
"We're still working our way through with Adam Rooney, but he's been a long time out and that's always a concern.
"Johnny Hayes missed the game, as did Kenny McLean, on Sunday. They trained today and hopefully no reaction so they're in the squad for Thursday."
Fola Esch only have four professionals in their 24-man squad, which also contains four players from the youth squad who are 17.
Their leading scorer is Luxembourg international Stefano Bensi, who scored 21 goals in 31 games last season.
Many of their players work outside football, though, with one of the goalkeepers completing his shift as a postman before catching the flight to Scotland.
McInnes is aware of their strengths and weaknesses, having had them scouted as extensively as possible, and insists his players will be ready for their first competitive game of the season.
"We've got a tough opponent and we've got to make sure that we're thoroughly professional," he said.
"Their outstanding result against Zagreb last year in the Champions League qualifiers, drawing 1-1, going down to 10 men, shows you what they're capable of.
"They've got a very set way of playing, they've got good consistency of selection, they've brought one or two players in, but there's a familiarity about their personnel.
"They're good technically, they've got a good shape, they know what they're doing, they've got goals in them and a presence up top, a bit of pace in behind, and good experience and physicality."
6 January 2017 Last updated at 23:23 GMT
He told BBC News NI's Mark Simpson he had enjoyed a warm welcome during his extended Christmas visit.
Research by BBC Radio London has revealed that 28 boroughs out of the 33 intend to add up to 3% to help pay for adult social care.
But 24 of those local authorities will also add on between 1% and 1.99% to the council's part of the tax to pay for other council services.
And 13 of those boroughs are opting for the maximum increase allowed of 4.99%.
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They include Labour-run Camden where council tax on a Band D property will rise by an average of £1.04 a week, and the Conservative-run Royal Borough of Kingston, which will see it increase by £1.35 a week.
Havering is planning an increase of 3.5% for the social care precept and core council tax combined - which will also add an additional 1.04p a week onto a Band D council tax bill.
The north-east London borough says it has mounting budget pressures. It now spends almost £1m a year on clearing up fly-tipping alone, when two years ago that cost was £400,000.
It also has a growing school-aged and elderly population which is adding to its costs.
The leader of Havering Council, Conservative Councillor Roger Ramsey, said: "We built into our budget a £2m increase both for elderly adults and for children's services and this year, even with that, we overspent by £2m in each.
"What with that and the reduction in our government grant of £8m, we are put in a very difficult position."
Professor Tony Travers of the London School of Economics said: "I think what we're witnessing this coming year is councils being encouraged by the government to push up council tax a bit to pay for social care, and deciding that that gives them cover to push up their own share of the council tax within the rules as much as they can because their own budgets are under pressure anyway."
But a spokesperson for the Department for Communities & Local Government said: "Whilst local authorities - like all public bodies - have had to find efficiency savings, our historic four year funding settlement gives them the certainty they need to plan ahead with almost £200bn available to provide the services that local people want."
While most London boroughs will raise council tax this year, four of them intend to freeze it.
They include the City of London, Hammersmith & Fulham (Lab), Hillingdon (Con) and Newham (Lab).
Newham said it had been able to freeze council tax thanks to efficiency measures, like turning some council services into small businesses.
The Shared Lives service, for example, is a not-for-profit business run by former council staff that matches vulnerable people with carers who they move in with.
As well as saving cash, those behind the idea claimed it made it less likely vulnerable people would end up back in the care system in the future, therefore reducing the pressure on the council's adult social care system.
Council taxpayers in every borough - including those that intend to freeze council tax - will see a small increase in their bills because the mayor of London will increase City Hall's share to help pay for policing.
It will add 8p a week onto the average band D council tax bill across London.
The vehicles were being sold in Greater Manchester via at least three accounts on the website after having their details switched with legitimate cars.
Among the victims was a retired police officer who lost £17,000 buying a Mercedes from a seller in Rochdale.
Greater Manchester Police has declined to confirm whether it is investigating.
Former police officer Graham Murray lost his money after buying a Mercedes C-class in Rochdale two months ago, leaving him "devastated".
He said he reported the case to police and has questioned why the fraudulent eBay sellers have not yet been caught.
"The police have known about this gang since January," he said.
"As a former police officer I'm absolutely disgusted. How can you have any trust in the police."
Car cloning is often used as a method to sell stolen cars.
The vehicle is given the identity of another, similar legitimate car, including licence plates, chassis numbers and accompanying documentation.
It means even if the buyer runs an online background check, the details will appear correct.
Mr Murray, from Dumfries, said the seller had asked for cash on collection, rather than the more usual method of receiving a secure payment via eBay.
The 57-year-old later discovered the vehicle's details had been altered, before police confirmed he had bought a stolen car.
He said: "It was £17,000 just gone, and I knew there was little or no chance of getting this money back, ever."
Another victim, Gordon Alexander, from Forfar in Tayside, bought a cloned BMW for £18,300 in January.
Mr Alexander, a garage owner, won the auction and collected it from an address in Rochdale.
He realised he had been conned after the car was taken to a BMW garage for a service the next day.
"I was absolutely gobsmacked. I've worked hard for my money," he said.
"I've worked every day, and for someone to just take £18,300. They are the scum of the earth. I'm gutted."
Mr Alexander said he was told by police that the BMW had been returned to its original owner in Bury.
An eBay spokesman said the company was yet to be contacted by Greater Manchester Police.
He confirmed the accounts in question had been closed down and added: "Cash on collection is very unusual and we would ask buyers to always pay via the platform when purchasing."
A reporter from BBC Radio Manchester was able to win an auction for a cloned Vauxhall Mokka for £9,600 from one of the suspicious accounts last week.
A car of the same make and model with the same registration plate was then discovered up for sale at a Vauxhall garage in Wales.
The BBC has also informed police of its findings.
An AA spokesman said: "Remarkably, it's quite easy for sophisticated criminals to do all of this, so it's become a real industry. Somebody is making a lot of money."
Yorkshire Ambulance Service had warned they warned it could be overwhelmed on Saturday and Sunday, when wintry weather hit the region.
It said the most serious calls were up almost 30% on last year.
Dr David Macklin, director of operations at the ambulance service, said extra staff and volunteers were drafted in to cope with the demand.
He said compared with 2013, there were over 7,000 more calls to the NHS non-emergency number 111.
The ambulance service covers about 6,000 square miles across the Yorkshire and Humber region, and serves more than five million people.
It said before Christmas it was "very busy" and predicted that because GP practices and NHS services closed over Christmas, they would get "an even higher volume of calls for seasonal illnesses and incidents".
According to the ambulance service:
Dr Macklin said the increase in 999 calls was likely to last into the early part of next year.
Lindsey Kushner QC said women were entitled to "drink themselves into the ground" but their "disinhibited behaviour" could put them in danger.
Judge Kushner made the courtroom plea as she jailed a man for six years who raped a girl he met in a Burger King in Manchester city centre last year.
But, Rape Crisis slammed her comments as "outrageous" and "misguided".
Yvonne Traynor, chief executive of Rape Crisis South East, said: "As a judge and a woman she should know better.
"The only person who is responsible for rape, is the rapist.
"Women are yet again being blamed for rape."
The judge spoke out as she retired from the criminal bench.
Judge Kushner, 64, said "as a woman judge" it would "be remiss" if she did not beg women to protect themselves from predatory men who ''gravitate'' towards drunken females.
The mother of two, who has sat as a senior circuit judge since 2002, said judges have been criticised for "putting more emphasis on what girls should and shouldn't do than on the act and the blame to be apportioned to rapists".
"There is absolutely no excuse and a woman can do with her body what she wants and a man will have to adjust his behaviour accordingly," she said.
But she said she does not "think it's wrong for a judge to beg woman to take actions to protect themselves".
Judge Kushner's plea to women to protect themselves was strongly - but carefully - worded: she was emphatically not blaming them for an attack but warning them that when drunk they're more vulnerable.
Other judges who've stepped into this tricky territory haven't always framed their remarks so delicately.
Judge Mary Jane Mowat's comment in 2014 that "the rape conviction statistics will not improve until women stop getting so drunk" was designed to highlight a point Judge Kushner also made - that victims are less likely to believed if they've had a lot of alcohol - but she made it sound as though women were responsible for rapists getting off.
But even more insensitive was the comment made by Mr Justice Leonard in 1987 when he declared that the trauma suffered by Ealing vicarage rape victim Jill Saward "had not been so great". He later apologised.
Judge Kushner said "potential defendants to rape" target girls who have been drinking because they are "more likely to agree as they are more disinhibited, even if they don't agree they are less likely to fight a man with evil intentions off".
She said a woman would be less likely to report a rape "because she was drunk or cannot remember what happened or feels ashamed to deal with it".
"Or, if push comes to shove, a girl who has been drunk is less likely to be believed than one who is sober at the time," she said.
"It should not be like that but it does happen and we see it time and time again."
She said women "are entitled to do what they like" but asked them to "please be aware there are men out there who gravitate towards a woman who might be more vulnerable than others".
"That's my final line, in my final criminal trial, and my final sentence," she concluded.
Judge Kushner jailed factory worker Ricardo Rodrigues-Fortes-Gomes, 19, after Manchester Crown Court heard he ignored his 18-year-old victim's screams as he attacked her on a canal bank.
A witness heard the teenager, who had been drinking lager and vodka as well as inhaling the party drug amyl nitrite, begging Rodrigues-Fortes-Gomes to stop.
Kiwi Gatland said "half a dozen players are in contention" to lead the squad, which will be named on 19 April.
"The captaincy is a great honour, but whoever the captain is there'll be no guarantee he plays," said Gatland.
However, one of his Lions predecessors, Sir Clive Woodward, believes the captain must be a "certain pick".
"You need one person who is going to be in the Test team without a shadow of a doubt - a Brian O'Driscoll, a Martin Johnson, a Lawrence Dallaglio type of figure," Woodward said on BBC Radio 5 live's Sportsweek programme.
Woodward, whose Lions side were beaten 3-0 on the previous tour visit to New Zealand in 2005, highlighted Wales flanker Sam Warburton as a stand-out candidate with the Welshman still the youngest captain in British and Irish Lions history after he was chosen by Gatland in 2013.
"Personally I have always been a huge fan of Sam Warburton," Woodward continued.
"He knows Warren well, he's been a successful Lions captain already. Would he be in the starting team? Absolutely, the first name on the sheet."
But Gatland reinforced that his squad decisions will come down to form and he refused to be drawn on suggestions of Warburton being given the role for a second time.
"The captain's form has to be good enough," he said on Sportsweek. "I think whoever that person is has to rise to that, the message to that person is it's a great honour to captain the Lions but your form has to be good enough to be selected for the Tests."
On Warburton he added: "He's a different captain to some other players. He leads by example. He doesn't say a lot but he has that experience.
"He's one of the guys in contention, definitely. In my mind there's probably half a dozen people in contention."
3 June - v Provincial union team (Toll Stadium, Whangarei)
7 June - v Blues (Eden Park, Auckland)
10 June - v Crusaders (AMI Stadium, Christchurch)
13 June - v Highlanders (Forsyth Barr Stadium, Dunedin)
17 June - v Maori (International Stadium, Rotorua)
20 June - v Chiefs (Waikato Stadium, Hamilton)
24 June - v New Zealand (First Test, Eden Park, Auckland)
27 June - v Hurricanes (Westpac Stadium, Wellington)
1 July - v New Zealand (Second Test, Westpac Stadium, Wellington)
8 July - v New Zealand (Third Test, Eden Park, Auckland)
Eloise Dixon, her partner and their three children were driving in Angra dos Reis on Sunday, when their car was approached by an armed group, Brazilian newspaper O Globo reported.
She was shot twice, once in the abdomen, but is recovering in hospital.
Ms Dixon's family were unhurt, the paper added.
O Globo said the family had apparently been searching for water to buy in Angra dos Reis - a coastal resort about 90 miles (145 km) from Rio de Janeiro.
According to the O Dia newspaper, they ended up in the Agua Santa - or holy water - community because of a difficulty in understanding the language.
The slum area is known to have drug traffickers.
Authorities told O Globo the family were shot at after they were told to leave their car by armed men but did not understand the request.
One bullet was aimed at the head of Ms Dixon, who was sitting in the front passenger seat, but missed, while two others hit her in the abdomen. Neither of them hit any vital organs.
The director of the hospital where she was treated, Rodrigo Mucheli, told Brazilian media: "The projectile passed through the abdomen and fortunately did not hit the big vessels. She was really lucky."
Ms Dixon, from south-east London, is now reportedly in a stable condition after she underwent two hours of surgery.
A UK Foreign Office spokesman said: "We are assisting the family of a British woman who has been hospitalised in Angra dos Reis, Brazil.
"Our staff remain in contact with the local authorities."
By Katy Watson, BBC South America correspondent
Angra dos Reis, the place that Eloise Dixon was shot, is a jumping-off point for some of Brazil's most famous tourist destinations. It's where tourists catch ferries to head to the beaches of Ilha Grande and not far away is the popular colonial town of Paraty.
But while most tourists would feel safe in those parts, this shooting just shows how easy it is to get caught up in troubles.
Agua Santa is a favela, or slum. A poor neighbourhood that would have probably started informally but then integrated into the main city. They are often controlled by drugs gangs so tourists are not advised to go in without a local resident or guide.
This shooting of Eloise Dixon isn't the first. There have been similar incidents in the city of Rio, with tourists following instructions from mobile apps and straying into favela territory with fatal consequences.
Walter Keane's paintings of waifs with big tearful eyes were frowned on by art critics, but their huge popular success made him a fortune. Years later, the truth emerged: the works were actually not created by Walter, but by his wife Margaret - who painted them in secret while her husband took the credit.
Why did she go along with the deception? Would the paintings have become famous without the smooth-talking Walter to promote them?
These are questions that Burton explores in Big Eyes, which stars Amy Adams and Christoph Waltz as the Keanes, alongside Terence Stamp as New York art critic John Canaday who describes the artworks as "an infinity of kitsch".
The film reunites Burton with writers Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, who worked with him on 1994 biopic Ed Wood, about the cult film-maker.
The director tells the BBC why he has long been fascinated by the weird-eyed portraits and how he copes with sharp-penned critics.
How far back does your association with Keane paintings go?
Since childhood. I always thought of it as suburban art, because everyone had it. It was in people's living rooms, offices, doctors' offices, dentists' offices. You know that in childhood some things leave your memory, but these things stuck with me.
I'm interested in pop culture and things; it was just something that was very present and it wasn't until the mid-90s when a friend of mine in New York told me the story about the Keanes. Like most people, until that point I had thought that Walter was the painter of the work, because that's what I remember. I was like 'wow - this is an amazing, interesting story'.
When I was in San Francisco I visited Margaret [who still has a gallery there] and commissioned a painting from her. It was a couple of years later that I found out that Scott and Larry, who'd written Ed Wood, had a script based on the story.
Do you see an affinity between Margaret Keane and Ed Wood, who were both artists some people sneered at?
As much as people trashed the whole thing, there were a lot of people trying to copy it. I know a lot of people that are inspired by the 'big eye' thing. You have to admit that there's a reason why people had it in their living rooms. Even if you hate it, there's something there - it's like Ed Wood, he's the worst film-maker in the world but at the same time there was a weird poetry to his films and you could remember them over other films that won Academy Awards.
That question of what's good and bad is something that I've always been interested in, because I've experienced it myself. I do identify with those kind of characters, because there's two sides to the story.
It's a lower budget film, with very few special effects, in contrast to your past work. Did that make it more personal for you?
After doing lots of big studio stuff, it was nice to strip back, have a low budget, and have to move quickly. That reconnects you with why you like making movies on a certain level. You don't hear the term franchise, you don't hear about the McDonalds tie-in, so it's quite nice to not have that kind of spectre hanging over you.
In the film John Canaday, the art critic, says Mr Keane "is why society needs critics to protect them from such atrocities". What's your relationship been like with critics throughout your career?
From the beginning of my career, films like Pee-wee's Big Adventure or Beetlejuice were in the top 10 worst films of the year. I've had that Batman's too dark, and this and that... or some people like it.
I feel lucky because I know people who make a film and it gets some great reviews, and then they're only in for a fall.
I feel like I've been sort of well-balanced. I had movies being horribly reviewed that do very well, and movies that are reviewed very well but do horribly at the box office.
My MoMA [Museum of Modern Art] show in New York recently got almost completely panned - probably worse than Keane. At the same time we had the highest attendance ratings. So you get a mixture of things, in a bizarre way it balances you out.
Do you find at this stage of your career that you deal with criticism better than you did?
I don't really read it too much. I actually have trouble looking at anything, even positive ones, or negative, I know enough - people tell me, so I'm not living in a dream world.
Your next film is Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children - with Hugo star Asa Butterfield in the cast. What's your vision for the film?
Hugo doesn't seem like it was that long ago... [Asa] has obviously become a young adult, but he's still got an incredible presence, and I'm really looking forward to working with him.
When I read Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, there was a vibe about it that felt different. I think that's the key, to try to capture the spirit of the book. That's why I'm casting peculiar people.
Big Eyes is out in the UK on Friday 26 December.
The friendly was moved from the King Baudouin Stadium in Belgium's capital after 35 people were killed and many others injured in last week's attacks.
It is the second successive Belgium friendly affected by terror attacks.
In November, their match against Spain in Brussels was called off following the Paris atrocities.
Tuesday's game was originally cancelled, but Portugal coach Fernando Santos said continuing with the game shows "football is not afraid".
Meanwhile in France, it was the home side's first appearance at the Stade de France since their national stadium was one of several targets in last year's attacks, which killed 130 people.
"You don't forget, but you have to move forward," said France coach Didier Deschamps.
France were playing a friendly with Germany in November when a bomb exploded outside the ground.
This week's round of international friendlies are warm-up games before Euro 2016 in France, which starts on 10 June.
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Purvis was part of the British team to win silver in the team event - their first men's team medal at a world championships - in Glasgow.
"It's great to be back," he told BBC Scotland. "Its always fantastic to be in front of a home crowd.
"To be here in a big arena in front of an enthusiastic crowd."
Purvis, who competed at the recent Scottish championships in Perth, is taking part in the Gymnastics World Cup at the Emirates knowing that he is constantly under the selectors' microscope with the Rio Olympics looming.
Britain have secured a team place in Rio thanks to their world championships showing, but the five men making up that team have yet to be announced.
The final line-up will be confirmed on 12 July.
"Rio is always on the back of your mind, but you have to keep your feet on the ground," said Purvis. "You have to train and get on the team.
"These competitions allow me to prove myself and that's what keeps your head settled.
"It's one thing to dream, but to try and get there in reality is another."
Purvis was part of the GB men's team to win bronze at the 2012 Olympics in London and, two years later, he won gold for Scotland at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow on the parallel bars as well as silver with the men's team.
Last year's world championships achievements followed and he is fresh from being crowned Scottish champion two weeks ago.
"Confidence is high," Purvis added. "At the moment, the key momentum is about hitting these results and scores.
"Training has been good, so I'm ready to go and hit the routines I know I can."
The 27-year-old joined Swansea in 2015, but made only three appearances before going on loan to former club St Etienne.
The ex-France Under-21 cap can play on the wing, but is primarily a left-back.
Neil Taylor's presence in Swansea's defence helped ensure Tabanou's chances to impress were rare.
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Australia has said it will take more Syrians, but stopped short of increasing its overall refugee intake.
Social media has taken up the push for a policy change, with people on Tuesday posting photos to #lightthedark.
More vigils will be held this week, which will also remember a Syrian child who drowned on the coast of Turkey.
An image of three-year-old Alan Kurdi lying face down on a beach has sparked an international outcry over the human cost of the European migrant crisis.
An estimated 10,000 people attended the ceremony at Sydney's Hyde Park on Monday night, and thousands more in other cities.
They came ahead of an expected announcement on Tuesday from the Australian government authorising air strikes against the so-called Islamic State group in Syria.
Members of Prime Minister Tony Abbott's own party, including several state premiers, have called for more to be done for people fleeing Syria.
A Kosovo-type solution has been discussed that would see Syrians and Iraqis housed in Australia, then returned home once the countries were safe.
The Federal Opposition has called for 10,000 additional places for refugees from the Middle East, with priority to be given to those from conflicts in Syria and Iraq.
Opposition Labor leader Bill Shorten also said the government should spend an extra $A100m ($69m; £45.6m) on aid for refugees.
A 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.
Tourists were increasingly leaving comments like "I was here" in several languages on monuments and signs at Base Camp on the Chinese side of the mountain, they said.
They plan to erect tablets tourists can deface instead, to meet their demands for somewhere to leave their mark.
The Great Wall of China also recently introduced a designated graffiti zone.
Officials in Tibet told local media that as tourists already have to register to enter the scenic area, it would be easier to identify the culprits.
"Starting this year, we will set up a blacklist system to punish badly-behaved tourists, such as those who leave graffiti. The blacklist will be made public through media outlets," said Gu Chunlei, deputy head of Tingri County tourism bureau.
May is the peak time for tourism to Everest in Tibet, with 550 visits a day to the base camp there at the height of 2015, according to Xinhua.
Police have appealed for witnesses to the incident, which happened at William Hill in Sauchiehall Street at about 15:50 on Sunday.
A 27-year-old man was treated in hospital for a head injury and a 26-year-old, who was punched in the face, declined medical attention.
Officers were reviewing CCTV footage as part of their inquiries.
One suspect was described as being white, of heavy build, and about 35-45 years old.
He was wearing a blue T-shirt and jeans.
The other suspect was described as being white, in his mid-40s and wearing a blue T-shirt.
Det Con Stephen Palmer said: "We know there was a disagreement between the men and violence broke out as a result of that confrontation.
"I am appealing to anyone who was within the premises at the time to contact us.
"Any small piece of information could assist our investigation."
The 25-year-old has made 80 league appearances for the Championship side since joining from Chesterfield in August 2014.
Cooper is the second player to extend his stay at Elland Road this week after full-back Gaetano Berardi signed a new three-year deal on Tuesday.
Thomas Christiansen's side have started the season with wins over Bolton in the league and Port Vale in the EFL Cup.
It is being held to mark 80 years of the brand, which was launched by the Nottingham-based company in 1935.
In Victorian times, colour cosmetics had been considered a form of deception more suited to actresses and prostitutes.
However, attitudes were changing by the early 20th century.
One of the exhibition's curators, Sophie Clapp from the Boots Archives, said people were partly influenced by the glamour of Hollywood stars.
"The suffragettes started to wear bright red lipstick as an act of defiance and then you get the flapper movement in the 20s, again showing that modernity and trying to be something a bit way out there, and really that softens in the 1930s," she said.
"We started to get requests from our customers later on in the late part of the decade, and our response was to start producing a few different products that were colour cosmetics."
Another curator, Dr Richard Hornsey from the University of Nottingham, said his favourite parts of the exhibition are from the middle of the 1930s.
'Not quite respectable'
"At the time cosmetics and particularly colour cosmetics were very daring and women don't really have much experience of them," said Dr Hornsey, a lecturer in Modern British History. "There's very tentative advice about how to wear colour.
"There's this lovely line in one of the advice booklets that says 'Only you should know that the rouge is there'. Because it's still not quite respectable to wear make-up or to be seen to be wearing too much make-up, which is this big fear at the time."
Cosmetics were not rationed during World War Two, but manufacturers faced government restrictions on the amount they could produce.
"There's some anxiety early on about whether important factory resources should be spent on producing make-up, but then this realisation that make-up is really important," said Dr Hornsey.
"It's important partly because women are entering a lot of male jobs, going into factories, driving buses and so forth, and this is a way that women can retain their femininity while they're in uniform.
"But also there's something about the act of putting on lipstick, for instance, that becomes an act of defiance. 'I'm still going, I'm still beautiful, I'm still doing my daily routine, you haven't got me yet Hitler'."
Ms Clapp said there was an "explosion" in the number of products available after the war.
Beauty products were often promoted as a way of getting male attention, with one slogan telling women: "Someone is always looking at you. Stay lovely always."
But later the focus changed to women's self-expression and style.
"Suddenly there's a shift in the 70s where it's much more about them doing it to make yourself feel good," said Ms Clapp.
"And this seems to be a theme that's carried on and it's still really what we would think of today, as the reason why we put make-up on every day."
"Certainly the idea of looking good for men seems to have completely disappeared over the last several decades and I don't think that's going to be coming back," said Dr Hornsey.
The exhibition is at the Weston Gallery at Nottingham Lakeside Arts until 17 April and a series of free talks is also being held to accompany it.
Ex-England midfielder Cole, 33, has joined Coventry City on loan from Villa, who are 19th in the table with four points from nine games.
Grealish, 20, has scored one goal in six top-flight appearances this season and Cole said: "The gaffer loves him.
"He has gone beyond potential and is an important cog in the wheel at Villa."
Grealish made his Villa debut in the penultimate game of the 2013-14 Premier League season but played a more prominent role last season as the club narrowly avoided relegation and reached the FA Cup final.
He recently opted to play for England, despite having turned out for the Republic of Ireland at Under-21 level.
Cole, a former West Ham, Chelsea and Liverpool player, added: "When you step into that world of Premier League football the expectancy levels are massive and someone with the ability levels of Jack, the expectancy levels go up so you need to have the mentality to cope.
"It is important that the club build the team around him. I think they have the perfect gaffer for him.
"He is going to be a massive player for Villa over the future."
Villa won their opening league game of the season but have since lost seven and drawn one of their following eight games.
Sherwood has come under pressure but Cole has backed the 46-year-old to avoid relegation with the West Midlands club.
"The manager has a lot of qualities he brings to the table and he is also getting better everyday," said Cole.
"He is learning the trade himself. But he is definitely good enough to keep Villa up."
The two events were not related. It was not in response to the latest school shootings in the US that Mexican politicians moved to change the legislation. But the timing was certainly symbolic.
Ironically for a country awash with hundreds of thousands of illegal firearms, Mexico has some of the most stringent gun laws in Latin America.
Mexicans do have the right to own a registered gun in their home, but only the military, police and citizens with federal permits can carry arms outside the home.
Obtaining that licence costs $150 (£93) and involves rigorous checks. Consequently, many ordinary Mexicans who want to carry a weapon simply buy on the black market.
Since the Mexican government shut down the last private gun shop in the 1990s, there is just one legal gun store in the entire country, located in Mexico City and controlled by the military.
This latest piece of legislation was aimed at stemming the flow of magazines for automatic weapons into the country by closing a longstanding legal loophole.
Senator Arturo Zamora of the ruling PRI party introduced the measure to parliament saying: "The traffic of magazines for high-calibre weapons is in the hands of criminal organisations."
"These magazines pose a threat to society. They are not being brought into country with the aim of protecting people but rather to be used in crimes such as extortion, kidnapping and murder."
As the US grapples with the implications of the shootings in Newtown, there has been relatively little mention of the impact the country's lax gun laws have had on its southern neighbour.
Last year a US Senate report, submitted by the Democratic senator leading the push for greater gun control, Dianne Feinstein, said as many as 70% of the guns in the hands of the Mexican drug cartels came from the US.
Two years earlier, the number cited had been even higher, at about 90%.
For the pro-gun lobby, however, the statistics were inaccurate and the report fundamentally flawed.
The figure was based on some 30,000 guns confiscated by the Mexican authorities and submitted to the US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) for tracing.
Critics of Senator Feinstein's report say there are tens of thousands of weapons which were not handed over for tracing and many more still in circulation in Mexico whose origins are unknown.
"The single biggest supplier of firearms to the Mexican criminals is the US government through our sales to the military and the police," argues Robert Farago of the pro-gun online magazine The Truth about Guns.
Those firearms are "fully-automatic assault rifles", says Mr Farago, which "then seep to the cartels. They also have weapons coming in from China and Eastern Europe."
One particular episode involving US weapons in Mexico has created more tension between the two countries over the issue than any other.
In a botched sting operation by the ATF called Fast and Furious, US authorities lost track of some 1,400 weapons they were hoping would to lead them to drug kingpins. Instead the guns simply ended up arming Mexican gangs, particularly the Sinaloa Cartel.
"Fast and Furious" weapons have turned up in violent crime scenes across Mexico.
Now a Republican Senator from Iowa, Charles Grassley, has called for an investigation into whether guns from the bungled operation were used in a shoot-out earlier this year in which a 20-year-old beauty queen, Maria Susana Flores Gomez, was killed.
For pro-gun commentator Robert Farago, Fast and Furious is an example of where the problem lies.
"The idea that US gun laws are in any way impacting the availability of firearms in Mexico is ridiculous," he says. "It's not United States' gun stores they need to worry about."
Nevertheless, the 2011 Senate report concluded that the private sale of military-style weapons was "arming Mexico's drug trafficking organisations at an alarming rate", and called for the Assault Weapons Ban to be reinstated.
Those calls have turned into urgent demands from some quarters in the wake of the massacre at Newtown.
In Mexico, politicians and members of civil society have long made a link between US gun laws and the firepower of Mexico's cartels.
Asked whether greater gun control north of the border would improve security in Mexican communities, PRI Senator Arturo Zamora was emphatic: "Definitely it would, yes. In June, the Defence Ministry stated that in the last six years, it confiscated more than 12 million cartridges of different calibres."
Tighter US gun laws, he says, would immediately help to curb the illegal traffic of so many bullets and weapons into Mexico.
Needless to say, US gun enthusiasts vehemently disagree.
"It's absolutely laughable," says Robert Farago of the senator's argument.
"If anything, Mexicans should be copying our gun laws and Second Amendment rights. What Mexicans need are more magazines, more guns, more bullets in the hands of law-abiding citizens."
Most law-abiding Mexicans, however, believe more guns are the last thing the country needs.
Gemma Chan, who also appeared in Sherlock Holmes and is the partner of comedian Jack Whitehall, was giving evidence at the Old Bailey.
Schizophrenic Frederic Russell, 28, has been charged with murder but is not well enough to stand trial.
The jury must instead decide if he stabbed Colin Hammond in Putney.
The 65-year-old was killed last October as he walked down the street in west London.
Miss Chan told the court she was walking towards Putney Bridge underground station when she saw two men fighting on the ground.
The younger man, who had a goatee beard, was on top of an older man, kneeling on him and gripping his clothes around his neck with their faces a few inches apart, she said.
Miss Chan said she heard one of the men shout that he did not have money.
She said she retraced her steps and noticed that the younger man had his right hand pressed into the neck of the older man for about six seconds.
Miss Chan added that when the younger man pulled away, she saw there was a knife in his hand which she described as being about 12cm (5in) long.
The knifeman then got to his feet and walked along the road and disappeared out of view, she added.
The actress told jurors she went up to Mr Hammond, who was still lying on the ground and groaning and holding his neck, and asked him if he was alright.
She told the court that Mr Russell then reappeared and that the pair of them stared at each other for about three seconds before the road started to fill with people as a train had left Putney station.
Miss Chan said the defendant then disappeared in to the crowd of people.
She said she stayed with the victim until emergency services arrived later.
The case continues.
There were 124,066 officers in the year ending March 2016 compared with 143,769 seven years ago - a fall of 14%.
Both front line and local police numbers have fallen while officers on long-term sick leave have increased.
The Police Federation for England and Wales said the figures were "deeply worrying and disappointing".
Police budgets have faced significant cuts since 2010 - an overall 18% reduction in real terms. Meanwhile crime has continued to fall with a 6% drop in offences compared with last year.
The Home Office said the figures showed police forces had demonstrated that, with reform, it was possible to deliver more for less.
The cuts, which began under the coalition government, have led some forces to share services while many have also reduced costs by closing police stations, reducing procurement costs and reorganising the workforce.
The latest Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW), which asks people about crime they have experienced and includes offences not reported to police, showed that despite the falling number of officers there was a 6% fall in the number of incidents for the year ending March 2016.
However, it did not include new figures showing almost six million fraud and cyber crimes were committed in the same period.
Crimes recorded by police forces also showed an annual rise of 8%. However, the ONS said this was not considered a reliable indicator of trends in crime; most of the latest rise is thought to be due to improved crime recording practices.
Police Federation chairman Steve White, which represents rank and file officers, said: "Whichever way you look at it, the figures are deeply worrying and disappointing.
"The continued increase in police recorded crime, and inclusion of cyber-crime and fraud figures, clearly shows on-going and rising demand on the police service. This, at a time when officer numbers continue falling.
"The increased demand is taking its toll. The figures highlight increased levels of sickness across officers in England and Wales, illustrating the intense pressures they face. This cannot be allowed to continue.
"At a time when safety and security of the public is at the top of the political agenda, it is time to refocus priorities and invest further in the police."
A National Security Agency (NSA) document shows location, websites visited and contacts are among the data targeted from mobile applications.
It is the latest revelation from documents leaked by Edward Snowden.
In a statement, the NSA said it was not interested in data beyond "valid foreign intelligence targets".
"Any implication that NSA's foreign intelligence collection is focused on the smartphone or social media communications of everyday Americans is not true," the statement said.
By Gordon CoreraSecurity correspondent, BBC News
From the very start, the Snowden revelations have thrown a spotlight on the tech sector as well as the intelligence agencies.
In some cases, it was clear they were complying with laws - for instance providing metadata - but having to do so secretly. That is something they have now won the right to disclose at least a little more.
In other cases, it appears that some companies might have been doing more than they strictly had to leading to awkward questions.
And in other cases, the intelligence agencies appear to have been hacking into the companies - for instance their internal data links - without knowledge or permission.
The more publicity that this has all attracted the more the companies have distanced themselves from government with expressions of anger and calls for more transparency.
In the case of the latest Angry Birds and Squeaky Dolphin revelations, it appears that NSA/GCHQ are effectively piggybacking off customer data that companies designing software - whether Rovio or Google - collect themselves and without the companies knowing.
This will anger the companies, not least because it may throw a spotlight on just how much personal information they collect from ordinary people who may not have known about it in the past.
The report, published by the New York Times, ProPublica and the Guardian, says the NSA and Britain's GCHQ have worked together since 2007 to develop ways to gain access to information from applications for mobile phones and tablets.
The scale of data gathering is unclear.
But the reports suggest data is gained from a variety of mapping, gaming and social networking applications, using techniques similar to the ones used to intercept mobile internet traffic and text message data.
The documents also reveal the two agencies are increasingly convinced of the importance of mobile applications data.
The joint spying programme "effectively means that anyone using Google Maps on a smartphone is working in support of a GCHQ system" one 2008 document from the British intelligence agency is quoted as saying.
Another GCHQ report, in 2012, laid out how to extract information from Angry Birds user information from phones on the Android operating system. The game has been downloaded 1.7 billion times across the world.
The British spy agency said it would not comment on intelligence matters, but insisted that all of its activities were "authorised, necessary and proportionate".
Another NSA document described a "golden nugget" - a perfect scenario where NSA analysts could get broad selections of information from the applications, including networks the phone had connected to, documents downloaded, websites visited and "buddy lists".
Other applications mentioned by the documents include the photo-sharing site Flickr, movie-based social network Flixster and applications that connect to Facebook.
Developers are responsible for the information generated from each application, but there was no suggestion firms were actively agreeing to give the spy agencies data.
On Monday, the justice department announced it had reached agreement with five major internet firms over their request to share information about how they responded to orders from the NSA and other agencies.
Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Facebook and LinkedIn had previously sued the US government over being able to disclose to the public more information on what they have released to intelligence agencies.
Under the compromise announced, the firms will be able to release:
As part of the deal, the firms will delay releases of the number of national security orders by six months.
But tech firms cannot reveal government surveillance of new technology or new ways to communicate that they create for up to two years.
This caveat has been criticised by Ladar Levison - the founder of Lavabit, the secure email service that Edward Snowden used - who said the provision would undermine confidence in start-ups.
"While our courts are allowed to keep ethically dubious court order secret, it will remain impossible to trust private data to American companies," he told the New York Times.
Apple was quick to take advantage of the new rules.
It has revealed that it received between zero and 249 national security orders between 1 January and 30 June affecting between zero and 249 accounts.
Late on 10 July, Russian troops placed new demarcation signposts along the administrative boundary between the annexed territory of South Ossetia, which was removed from Georgia's jurisdiction by force in the war of 2008, and Tbilisi-controlled territory.
Crucially, a further 1.5km into the Georgian territory was added overnight. The new "border" is now a de facto occupation line, just a mile away from a major highway linking Georgia's eastern and western regions
Not only did this "land grab" disrupt the lives of villagers, whose households ended up overnight within the Russian-controlled territory, a kilometre-long section of the BP-operated Baku-Supsa oil pipeline also now lies outside of Tbilisi's reach.
Russia has been denying any involvement in the latest incident, advising the Georgian authorities to talk directly to the Ossetian "government". Russia recognises South Ossetia as an independent state, while Georgia and the most of the rest of the world regard South Ossetia a part of Georgia by right.
Georgia's Western ambitions have been a thorn in Russia's side since the early 1990s after it emerged as an independent state from the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Moscow has only really reacted since the mid-2000s, as Georgia's former President, Mikhail Saakashvili, instigated reforms to attempt to meet Western club accession conditions - efforts that earned him the reputation in Moscow of "Washington's puppet".
Signing a trade agreement with the EU in 2014 and contributing to peace-keeping missions in Afghanistan lent further weight to the Russian accusation that the country had "defected".
Most recently, Nato military training exercises near Tbilisi, talks over a potential Nato training centre in Georgia and slight but steady progress towards visa liberalisation with the EU may also have contributed to Moscow's wrath.
Russia's antipathy towards Nato has long been known, but its inability to accept former Soviet states' closer partnership with the European Union is rather more recent.
In September 2013, Moscow forced Armenia to scrap years of negotiations over its EU trade agreement and join the Russia-led Eurasian Economic Union. Two months later, Moscow tried to buy Ukraine's loyalty by offering its soon-to-be-ousted President Viktor Yanukovych $15bn of bailout money in exchange for abandoning its European path.
The transformative power of political modernisation that comes with closer association with the EU is ultimately what irks the Russian leadership.
Political change with economic growth in countries like Ukraine, Georgia or Moldova is seen as a threat to the Russian regime, since success in these countries may motivate the Russian population to question their own governance model.
Russia's modus operandi of weakening a country that is unwilling to tow Moscow's line has been fanning the flames of separatism, as we are now witnessing in eastern Ukraine.
Moscow has been doing this in the internationally recognised Georgian regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia since the late days of the Soviet Union. This policy culminated in the 2008 war that saw both territories occupied by Russian troops. Russia subsequently proclaimed them as independent states.
As in 2008, when Moscow began its invasion on the eve of the Beijing Olympics, the timing of the latest provocation was skilfully chosen. Tied down with the so-called Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, the nuclear talks with Iran and Greece's financial woes, the West has a lot on its plate.
Russia's actions are also a consequence of its current anti-Western bent, which needs external enemies for regime maintenance and Putin's high approval ratings at home. With the war in Ukraine at a stalemate, and the Nato Article V pledge to come to the rescue of the Baltic states in case of Russian provocation, Moscow needs an easier target.
Georgia's only option to counter Russia is international assistance. But Western reaction has been limited to expressions of concern. No major Western news network covered Russia's latest move in the first few days after it took place.
Only a visit to the South Ossetian administrative boundary by European Council President Donald Tusk brought a semblance of international attention to the situation.
Unless the West sends a clearer message about the unacceptability of Russia's policies and defends any violation of Georgia's statehood, Russia may be emboldened to make further territorial advances.
In the absence of such a message, Tbilisi risks succumbing to mounting Russian pressure and faces a stark choice between changing its foreign policy course in Russia's favour on the one hand and further dismemberment on the other.
With Armenia already firmly within the Russian orbit through its Eurasian Economic Union membership and Azerbaijan reheating its relations with Moscow, Georgia remains the West's last serious toehold in the South Caucasus.
Georgia's loss, therefore, would in essence signify the transfer of the whole region, with its substantial energy transit potential and geopolitical significance, to the Russian sphere of influence.
George Mchedlishvili is an academy associate in the Russia and Eurasia Programme at the independent think tank Chatham House.
The Most Reverend Justin Welby said so-called Islamic State is "igniting a trail of fear, violence, hatred and determined oppression".
He also branded IS as "today's Herods" - a reference to the Biblical king at the time of Jesus's birth.
The archbishop delivered his sermon at Canterbury Cathedral.
He said: "Confident that these are the last days, using force and indescribable cruelty, they [IS] seem to welcome all opposition, certain that the warfare unleashed confirms that these are indeed the end times.
"They hate difference, whether it is Muslims who think differently, Yazidis or Christians, and because of them the Christians face elimination in the very region in which Christian faith began.
"This apocalypse is defined by themselves and heralded only by the angel of death."
The archbishop - spiritual leader of the world's 85 million Anglicans - also said that to those who have been, or are being, "dehumanised by the tyranny and cruelty" of IS, then "God's judgment comes as good news, because it promises justice".
Referring to IS as Isis, he told the congregation: "Today's Herods - Isis and their like - around the world propose false apocalypses.
"But you and I are called this morning to respond in worship and transforming, world-changing obedience, both as individuals and together, to this revelation of the baby that defines God.
"For it is our response to Jesus that defines us."
He has also tweeted: "In our world today extremists talk of coming apocalypse: it's already happened - in newborn Jesus, God radically reimagined the world.
"The apocalypse of Christmas judges every power, reaches every refugee and asks us all how we respond to Jesus, Prince of Peace."
Cardinal Vincent Nichols, Archbishop of Westminster and the head of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales, used his homily at midnight mass to say in a life shaped by faith in God, there is "absolutely no room at all for gratuitous violence".
He said: "No to all violence against the innocent. Yes to mercy. If we learn those lessons, then our world and our families will be more graceful places... and then, you and I can be protagonists of unarmed goodness."
The archbishop added that he hoped Christians who had been forced to leave their homes in northern Iraq would find some comfort from the Christmas story.
"I think many a Christian who's been driven from their home, who's seen family members killed, who knows of relatives who are in great distress, will draw great comfort from this feast and from the knowledge that their plight is being talked about throughout the world," he said.
Elsewhere, Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, in his own message for the festive season, will condemn "aggressive secularism that threatens to relegate spirituality and sanctity within our society" as well as the "shameful scourge of hatred and oppression, which remains the most pressing global challenge of our time".
The Anglican Archbishop of York visited an open prison in North Yorkshire on Christmas Day to lead morning services. Dr John Sentamu attended Kirklevington Grange Prison, where he told inmates that it is never too late for a fresh start.
Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, better known as "Ahok", is accused of insulting Islam during election campaigning.
Two protests against him, the last bringing together 200,000 conservative Muslims, have been held in the city.
Indonesia is the world's largest Muslim-majority nation.
Mr Purnama is Christian and ethnic Chinese - a double minority in Indonesia, where ethnic Chinese are about 1% of the population.
Sunday's counter-rally was pitched as a "parade of Indonesian culture".
It featured traditional dances from across the country and a giant flag proclaiming "We Are Indonesia". Police said 30,000 people attended the rally.
The Jakarta Post said the rally was organised by two parties that are part of President Joko Widodo's coalition. Mr Widodo is a political ally of Mr Purnama, but turned up for the last rally against him on Friday.
Speaking from the stage on Sunday, Surya Paloh, the chairman of the National Democratic Party, said Indonesians could not work together if they were "scattered, blaspheming, humiliating each other and no longer trust each other".
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In a campaign speech in September, Mr Purnama said Islamic groups who were using a Koranic verse to discourage support for him were deceiving voters. The verse is interpreted by some as prohibiting Muslims from living under the leadership of a non-Muslim.
Islamic groups said he had criticised the Koran and lodged complaints with the police.
Mr Purnama later apologised but denied committing blasphemy, which carries a maximum five-year jail sentence.
On Wednesday, Indonesian prosecutors confirmed his case could go to trial.
A large protest against the governor on 4 November turned violent, leaving one man dead and dozens of police and demonstrators injured. A larger rally was held on Friday.
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Ranieri was sacked by the Premier League champions in February and said on Monday night that "someone behind" him may have been working against him.
Shakespeare said: "We have never had any arguments or hard feelings.
"Free speech is there for everybody. I don't have any problem with that. I have a clear conscience."
Speaking on Sky Sports on Monday, Ranieri hinted at problems with somebody at Leicester, but refused to name anyone, leaving Shakespeare to face questions in the build-up to Wednesday's Champions League quarter-final with Atletico Madrid.
Ranieri said: "I don't want to say who it is. I am a loyal man. What I had to say, I said face to face."
Shakespeare, who did not see the interview live, said that he had spoken with Ranieri on the day the Italian was sacked and believed their relationship was good.
"Claudio was in good humour, he came across exactly as I know him," Shakespeare said.
"My stance is the same from my first interview [as manager] when I stated that I'd spoken to Claudio the night he was relieved, he thanked me for my time, and I thanked him.
"He said it was football. It was good to see him enjoying his football and he came across really well."
Leicester won their first five league games under Shakespeare before losing at Everton on Sunday but start as underdogs against an Atletico side who have reached the Champions League final in two of the past three seasons.
Captain Wes Morgan has travelled with the squad but is not fit to start as the Foxes look to cause the latest upset in a remarkable couple of seasons.
"These are the nights that drive you on," said Shakespeare.
"When you look at where the club has come from, to walk through a stadium like this, a lovely traditional ground filled with cups and trophies, it gives you a tingle."
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Johnstone, 21, has been ruled out for up to eight months, a lay-off that has also ended any hopes of him making the England squad for the World Cup.
He will undergo surgery once the knee has settled from the initial damage.
"I'm trying to be positive about it," Johnstone told the club website.
"The amount of pain I was in I didn't think it was good, but I didn't think it was anywhere near as serious as it is."
Johnstone's injury is a big blow to Wakefield, as his eight tries in 12 games have been key in their rise to sixth place in the table.
Last season he scored 20 tries in 25 games to help Trinity reach the Challenge Cup semi-final and finish in the top eight.
"We've got to wait a couple of weeks for the inflammation to settle down," physio Ryan Carmody said.
"Unfortunately he will require surgery but the surgeon is really good, he's worked with a lot of rugby players.
"We're looking at six-to-eight months, it's standard protocol. We're really confident Tom's going to be absolutely fine."
Anna Lewis, 27, who lives in Fishponds, was last seen last seen leaving her work placement at Southmead Hospital on Thursday 13 April.
Avon and Somerset Police said her disappearance was "out of character".
A spokesman said Ms Lewis was known to go on camping trips without telling others but had never gone missing for such a long time before.
The police spokesman added they were "growing concerned for her welfare".
Ms Lewis was reported missing on Friday by her family, who do not live locally.
She is described as white, about 5ft 5in tall, of slim build, with brown eyes and long dark brown hair; which she tends to wear in a low ponytail.
Police said she tended to wear jeans or walking trousers, hiking boots and loose jumpers.
The 21-year-old former Everton trainee made 10 league appearances for the Clarets last season as they won promotion to the Premier League.
He has previously had loan spells at Milton Keynes Dons and Brentford.
"He's a player I've known for a long time and I actually tried to sign when I was manager of Wigan," Fleetwood head coach Uwe Rosler told the club website.
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The body of Ms Downey, 51, was discovered in a house in the Toberhewney Hall area at about 02:50 GMT on Friday.
The man who has been charged is due to appear at Lisburn Magistrates' Court on Monday.
All charges are reviewed by the Public Prosecution Service.
PSNI Inspector David McGrory said enquiries into the murder were continuing and asked the public for their assistance in locating a mobile phone which he believes "has been missing somewhere in the Lurgan area since around 9pm on the evening of Thursday 19th January".
He asked anyone finding a phone in the Lurgan area to contact detectives at the incident room in Mahon Road station.
China's Yunyi Guokai Sports Development Limited completed their takeover of the Premier League club on Thursday.
Pulis, whose position has been under scrutiny in recent weeks, said he was "pleased" the deal had been finalised.
However, the 58-year-old added: "I won't be leaving. If I leave, it will be the club's decision for me to leave, it won't be my decision."
Pulis, who has a year left on his contract, was disappointed the Baggies failed to land some of his preferred transfer targets this summer but chose not to quit.
"I've signed a contract and I'm going to see that contract through," he said, adding that he was "not worried" about his contract running out.
"If we sit down and talk about a new contract we do, if we don't, we don't," he continued.
"It doesn't change my view, my perspective or my attitude to doing my job.
"Every day I wake up I realise and understand how lucky I am to be in this game, irrespective of all the criticism you get or don't get. I'm a very fortunate lad and every day I'm in it I'm lucky."
Pulis thinks the club's new owners will run the club in a similar way to former owner Jeremy Peace.
"They've bought into Jeremy's model," said Pulis. "I think they are going to try to run it on similar lines. I still think Jeremy is going to be involved a little bit.
"[Chief executive] John Williams has moved in as chairman so there will still be that continuity."
Asked if he had spoken to the new owners, Pulis said: "That will come, I think."
That is not the line you would expect from the newly appointed leader of an airline, especially one at the heart of one of the biggest corporate failures in the aviation history.
But those were the exact words of Kazuo Inamori - who is now credited with Japan Airlines' (JAL) dramatic revival - less than three years ago.
The carrier had just filed for bankruptcy with more than $25bn (£16bn) of debt. The government stepped in to bail it out and the 80-year-old founder of hi-tech giant Kyocera was its choice as the new chairman.
"I declined the offer numerous times because I had no clue about airlines," he tells the BBC.
"I didn't even know that JAL had such a huge debt until it went bust," he laughs.
With little experience in the sector, he was not the only person who was sceptical. Friends and family also advised him against accepting it.
But despite those objections, he took the job - without pay - because "if we couldn't revive JAL, it would have been a huge blow to Japan's economy which was already struggling", he says.
Three years later, JAL is making money again and has relisted on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
Of course, a huge injection of taxpayers' money helped. Its rival All Nippon Airway has been criticising JAL for having an unfair advantage.
But under Mr Inamori's leadership, the carrier shed about a third of its workforce, trimmed employee benefits and reduced unprofitable routes.
He says his biggest challenge was to change JAL's "rigid and bureaucratic" corporate culture. Until its privatisation in 1987, Japan Airlines was owned by the government for more than three decades.
"I felt very uncomfortable because the company didn't feel like a private firm at all," Mr Inamori recalls.
"Many former government officials used to get golden parachutes into the firm so I am not saying that it was all JAL's fault.
"But even then, I was surprised that there was no true leader who could unite all the staff during the crisis," he adds.
So how did he manage to change such a deeply rooted corporate culture?
"My simple philosophy is to make all the staff happy," he says. "It has been my golden rule since I founded Kyocera when I was 27.
"Not to make shareholders happy but simply to create the company that every employee is proud to work for," he adds.
"Many people were sceptical if such a simple philosophy would work but in the end, it did."
Soon after his appointment, JAL issued a small booklet of Mr Inamori's philosophies - he was ordained as a Buddhist priest - and held compulsory sessions for staff to attend.
However, not everyone welcomed the moves initially.
That is when he unleashed another secret weapon.
"I brought six cans of beer after these sessions or to people who were working late," he says.
"After a beer or two, people opened up and told me their honest opinions."
The tactic is known as nommunication in Japan - communication with drinks to have less formal business chats. And he says using it has paid its dividends.
"It really feels that all of our employees are united now, which is the key to the company's revival," Mr Inamori says.
The dramatic turnaround of JAL is one of a few success stories from Japan Inc in recent years.
The economy, once the world's second largest, has been overtaken by China.
Its electronics makers, which used to dominate the industry, have been losing out to their overseas rivals.
Mr Inamori says the downfall has been partly caused by the lack of strong business leaders.
"What puzzles me is why Japan's economy has been struggling for the last 20 years because we have the technologies, skills and great people.
"But I guess people got too complacent after the economy grew spectacularly since the end of World War II.
"Today, we are lacking strong business leaders who can make difficult decisions and be inspirational, people who work hard for the good of the company, not for their personal gains."
The government's persistence to appoint Mr Inamori to JAL's top job in 2009, just before he turned 78, may prove his point - that the country does not have younger leaders to rely on for such a challenging task.
Mr Inamori represents a generation of Japanese businessmen who supported the country's dramatic recovery after the war.
He helped to revive the carrier which was once seen by many as a symbol of the country's post-war boom.
But not only is Japan's legacy fading fast, but the people who drove it are also now in their 70s and 80s.
JAL may have been lucky to have had Mr Inamori to lead its revival. But the question remains if Japan has raised the next generation of strong businessmen who can confidently lead the industry.
It's not every day that an "amateur" can succeed like Mr Inamori did with JAL.
Five-time world champion O'Sullivan produced two century breaks but never led in the match and was eventually knocked out 5-4.
Joyce will meet home favourite Ding Junhui in the last 16.
Two-time World Championship finalist Ali Carter also went out after a 5-3 defeat by Michael White.
World champion Mark Selby had no trouble reaching the third round as he beat Martin O'Donnell 5-1, while defending champion Judd Trump beat Eden Sharav 5-0.
John Higgins will face fellow former world champion Mark Williams in the third round after overcoming Mark Davis 5-2. Williams beat Michael Holt by the same scoreline.
As a result of the move, 500 full-time jobs and 1,000 part-time jobs will go, the retailer said.
Future Shop, Canada's biggest electronics brand, had been owned by Best Buy since 2001.
After the changeover is completed, Best Buy will have 192 Canadian stores.
Best Buy said it would be investing C$200m (£106.5m; $158m) in its operations there over the next two years.
There would also be restructuring costs of at least C$200m, it added.
Analysts say the move will rationalise Best Buy's offer in Canada and get rid of duplication. Best Buy and Future Shop outlets are often found in close proximity, they say.
Other observers took a mixed view of the development. "Best Buy may now be the 'de facto' big-box tech store in North America, but that power grab is coming at a stiff price," said technology news website Engadget.
Officers want to trace a light-coloured saloon car spotted near the scene of the attack at Balerno on 27 August.
The woman was walking along Newmills Road after midnight when a man approached her from behind, threatened her and took her into a field.
An update on the inquiry was posted on the BBC's Crimewatch website on Monday.
The suspect is described as white with a slim build. He is around 6ft tall and possibly has long hair.
At the time, he was wearing a grey hoodie and dark jeans. He may also speak with an Edinburgh or English accent.
The officer in charge of the investigation, Det Insp Grant Johnston said: "We are hopeful that tonight's Crimewatch appeal will help jog people's memories and result in a vital piece of information.
"Anyone who believes they have information that could assist with our ongoing enquiries is asked to come forward immediately."
Detectives said a light-coloured five door saloon car seen a short time before the attack, near the railway line further down Newmills Road towards Gowanhill Farm Road.
Det Insp Johnston stressed that the people in this car are potential witnesses and appealed for them to come forward.
Only a description of the driver is available. He is said to be his 20s and around 5ft 7in tall.
There were also thought to be two or three passengers in the vehicle.
Many believe the white image on the outside wall of a toilet shows a man praying, interpreting it as a message from God.
Riot police have been deployed to keep an eye on the crowd as people queue day and night to see the mark.
Most southern Malians are Tijani Muslims, a moderate sect of Sufi Islam.
''We believe it is a vision of our prophet,'' Aliou Traore, who lives in the compound, told the BBC.
''People have come from Senegal to see it and several Malian government ministers and religious leaders have paid us a visit,'' he said.
Mr Traore said the mark has been changing shape since it first appeared.
"Sometimes the white apparition leaves the wall altogether and moves around the compound. Then it goes back,'' he said.
The BBC's Alex Duval Smith in Bamako says people do not have to pay to see the mark but are leaving money in a bucket, which the Traore family say they will give to the local mosque.
When our reporter visited the compound, the mark seemed to look like a drying patch of cement in the shape of a standing woman.
Photos of the image have been circulated widely in Bamako by mobile phone since it appeared on Saturday evening, our correspondent says.
"It's a miracle, I've seen it," schoolteacher Aboubakar Diarra said after looking at the wall.
"It's obviously true. It's a sign from God to Mali that our nation is great."
Followers of Tijani sect - who are mostly found in West Africa - are known for respecting "miracle" signs.
Russia's direct intervention in the Syrian war has consolidated President Bashar al-Assad's position and ensured that regime change will not happen any time soon. It has also transformed the tactical environment in which the Israeli Air Force operates.
Russian combat patrols and sophisticated radars and air defences potentially limit Israel's freedom of action in the airspace over Syria.
So the Israeli prime minister and Russian president have much to discuss. Indeed they have frequent meetings - Mr Netanyahu rushed off to Moscow soon after the Russian military intervention in Syria was announced in 2015, and he was back there again last April. The regularity of these contacts underscores the importance of this "odd-couple" in Middle Eastern diplomacy.
Of course, Moscow's view of the Middle East has always mattered to Israel. Russia remains a permanent member of the UN Security Council. It has been the chief military backer of key regional players like Syria.
And it is of course the original home of hundreds of thousands of Israeli citizens who emigrated there from the Soviet Union. Many of them retain strong ties to Russia.
Russia has, for the time being, supplanted the United States as a key player in crisis management in Syria (accepting that direct intervention in a war is a "generous" interpretation of the phrase "crisis management").
Moscow has signalled that it intends to be in Syria for the long-term. It plans to expand its small naval base in the country and its air base looks more and more like a permanent fixture. The country's future will be influenced by key external players like Turkey and Iran but it is the Russians whom the Israelis believe can be persuaded to take on board Israel's strategic concerns.
Israel has largely been indifferent to the fate of President Assad. It has been largely concerned about what happens in the border region near the Israeli-held Golan Heights. Its fear has been that extremist groups would infiltrate the area or that local forces would declare their support for so-called Islamic State.
This is the case, for example, with the Yarmuk Martyrs Brigade - a local militia that holds the territory facing Israeli forces in the southern part of Syria near its border with Jordan.
Now with the fall of Aleppo to Syrian government forces - backed by the Russians and crucially the Iranians - Israel's strategic concerns are growing. On a trip to the Golan just a few weeks ago, senior Israeli military commanders told me of their concern that pro-Iranian groups like Hezbollah or other Shia militias could take over the border region, opening up a new front between Tehran and Israel.
Battle lines in a future war between Israel and the Iranian-backed Hezbollah organisation could extend from the Mediterranean coast along the Israeli-Lebanon border and well into Syria too, making it a much more extensive and destabilising conflict.
So Mr Netanyahu's chief message to Mr Putin will be that, in any putative peace deal in Syria, pro-Iranian forces should ideally be sent home or at the very least compelled to keep away from the border area.
Their talks may also have a military dimension. Israel is eager to maintain its military co-ordination with Russia to avoid encounters in Syrian air-space. (Something similar to the arrangement that operates between the US and Russia over northern Syria).
Israel is eager to prevent sophisticated weapons systems being delivered to Hezbollah. It carries out periodic air strikes against warehouses or weapons convoys and these strikes do not seem to have been especially hindered by Russia's military presence next door.
A good proportion of these weapons of course are Iranian-supplied, and Israel hopes that Moscow can act as a break on Tehran's growing influence in the region. Iran's broadening role has recently been a key element of the dialogue between Mr Netanyahu and the new Donald Trump administration as well.
But it is the Russians who are the active players on the ground, hence the deepening and complex diplomatic dance between Israel and Moscow.
The scam involves transferring stolen money through children's bank accounts to hide it from the authorities.
According to The Times, the Met Police wrote to parents warning that pupils were being approached outside school gates and on social media.
Det Ch Insp Gary Miles said the Met wanted to "make parents aware so they can discuss this with their children".
In a statement, he added: "Children are getting accounts at a younger and younger age - 13-year-olds now have access to money that they didn't have before."
According to fraud prevention service Cifas, the number of so-called "misuse of facility" frauds involving people under 21 has almost doubled in the last year.
It said there were 4,222 cases in the first half of 2017, compared to 2,143 in the same period last year.
Cifas has previously reported that young people are increasingly tempted by fraudsters who offer a small cash fee in return for transferring money through their bank accounts.
Allowing a bank account to be used in this way carries a maximum sentence of 14 years in prison and could affect credit ratings, police said.
A force spokesman said: "The Met would always remind people not to allow anyone access to their bank accounts and that requests for money transfers should be declined unless you are certain you know where and from whom it has come."
The council had previously voted to demolish the listed building to make way for a new city square.
However councillors agreed to market a 125-year lease for the former concert hall to settle whether a realistic alternative exists.
With the closing date for applications now past, the five proposals received will be evaluated.
The authority has taken on independent commercial property expert Jones Lang Lasalle to establish whether any of the bids set out a credible and financially deliverable business case for the redevelopment of the hall.
The building has sat empty since the opening of Perth's new city concert hall opened in 2005.
Proposals previously mooted for the building include converting it into a luxury hotel or a food hall.
The scientists said that in September 2015 the hole was around 4 million sq km smaller than it was in the year 2000 - an area roughly the size of India.
The gains have been credited to the long term phasing out of ozone-destroying chemicals.
The study also sheds new light on the role of volcanoes in making the problem worse.
The natural production and destruction of ozone in the stratosphere balances itself out over long time, meaning that historically there has been a constant level to protect the Earth by blocking out harmful ultraviolet radiation from the Sun.
Its absence increases the chances of skin cancer, cataract damage, and harm to humans, animals and plants.
British scientists first noticed a dramatic thinning of ozone in the stratosphere some 10 kilometres above Antarctica in the mid 1980s.
In 1986, US researcher Susan Solomon showed that ozone was being destroyed by the presence of molecules containing chlorine and bromine that came from chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs). These gases were found in everything from hairsprays to refrigerators to air conditioning units.
The reason the thinning was occurring mainly over Antarctica was because of the extreme cold and large amounts of light. These helped produce what are termed Polar Stratospheric Clouds.
In these chilled-out clouds, the chlorine chemistry occurs that destroys the ozone.
Thanks to the global ban on the use of CFCs in the Montreal Protocol in 1987, the situation in Antarctica has been slowly improving.
Several studies have shown the declining influence of CFCs, but according to the authors this new study shows the "first fingerprints of healing" and the ozone layer is actively growing again.
Prof Solomon and colleagues, including researchers from the University of Leeds in the UK, carried out detailed measurements of the amount of ozone in the stratosphere between 2000 and 2015.
Using data from weather balloons, satellites and model simulations, they were able to show that the thinning of the layer had declined by 4 million sq km over the period. The found that more than half the shrinkage was due solely to the reduction in atmospheric chlorine.
Normally measurements are taken in October when the ozone hole is at its largest. But this team believed they would get a better picture by looking at readings taken in September, when temperatures are still low but other factors that can influence the amount of ozone, such as the weather, are less prevalent.
"Even though we phased out the production of CFCs in all countries including India and China around the year 2000, there's still a lot of chlorine left in the atmosphere," Prof Solomon told the BBC World Service Science in Action programme.
"It has a lifetime of about 50-100 years, so it is starting to slowly decay and the ozone will slowly recover.
"We don't expect to see a complete recovery until about 2050 or 2060 but we are starting to see that in September the ozone hole is not as bad as it used to be."
One finding that puzzled researchers was the October 2015 reading that showed the biggest ozone hole on record over Antarctica.
The scientists believe that a key contributor to the record hole was volcanic activity.
"After an eruption, volcanic sulphur forms tiny particles and those are the seeds for Polar Stratospheric Clouds," Prof Solomon told Science in Action.
"You get even more of these clouds when you have a recent major volcanic eruption and that leads to additional ozone loss."
"Until we did our recent work no-one realised that the Calbuco eruption in Chile, actually had significantly affected the ozone loss in October of last year."
The study has been hailed as "historically significant" by some other researchers in the field.
"This is the first convincing evidence that the healing of the Antarctic ozone hole has now started," said Dr Markus Rex from the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Germany.
"Right now the state of the ozone layer is still really bad, but I find it very important that we know the Montreal Protocol is working and has an effect on the size of the hole and that is a big step forward."
However others are not entirely convinced that the decline shown in the new study is down to a reduction in the amount of chlorine in the stratosphere.
"The data clearly show significant year to year variations that are much greater than the inferred trends shown in the paper," said Dr Paul Newman from Nasa.
"If the paper included this past year, which had a much more significant ozone hole due to lower wave driven forcing, the overall trend would be less."
Regardless of these questions, the scientists involved in the study believe the ozone story is a great role model for how to tackle global environmental problems.
"It's just been remarkable," said Prof Solomon.
"This was an era in which international co-operation went rather well on some issues. I was inspired by the way the developed and developing countries were able to work together on dealing with the ozone hole," said Prof Solomon.
The study has been published in the journal Science.
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Artillery began firing on the city early on Monday, in a long-awaited assault from Kurdish peshmerga, Iraqi government and allied forces.
Tanks are now moving towards the city, which has been held by IS since 2014.
The UN has expressed "extreme concern" for the safety of up to 1.5 million people in the area.
The BBC's Orla Guerin, who is with Kurdish forces east of Mosul, says tanks are advancing on the city, throwing up clouds of dust.
As the operation began, one Kurdish general told our correspondent: "If I am killed today I will die happy because I have done something for my people."
Kurdish forces say they have retaken a number of villages in their advance.
Meanwhile pro-government forces are attacking from an airbase in Qayyarah, about 60km (37 miles) to the south, which was recaptured in August.
The US-led coalition fighting IS is backing the assault with air strikes, The operation is complex and analysts say it could last for weeks, if not months.
The start of the operation was announced by Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi in a televised address in the early hours of Monday (local time). "The hour of victory has come," he said.
"God willing we will meet in Mosul to celebrate the liberation and your salvation from Isis (IS) so we can live together once again, all religions united and together we shall defeat Daesh to rebuild this dear city of Mosul," Mr Abadi said.
About 30,000 pro-government troops are involved in the operation. The main assault is being led by Iraqi army troops based south of Mosul.
About 4,000 Kurdish peshmerga militia have begun clearing villages in the east.
Sunni tribal fighters and Shia-led paramilitary forces are also due to take part. Planes from the US-led coalition against IS are providing air support.
US Special Operations personnel are advising forces on the ground. Elite Iraqi counterterrorism forces are expected to join in the coming days.
An estimated 4,000-8,000 Islamic State fighters are defending the city.
What can be said with certainty is that the liberation of Mosul will be a multi-phased operation.
First the logistical base for the operation must be established at Qayyarah airbase. This is also the collecting point for the Iraqi forces that will liberate Mosul.
The next phase will be a multi-pronged advance on the outskirts of Mosul. This phase will unfold in fits and spurts: one day 10 miles will be gained easily, another day there will be tough fighting at an IS strongpoint or a pause to bring up supplies.
During November and December the main battle will probably begin. But for the Iraqi and coalition forces, the issue of civilians will be a tricky factor.
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Mosul, the oil-rich capital of Nineveh province, was Iraq's second-largest city before IS militants overran it in June 2014.
Its capture became a symbol of the group's rise as a major force and its ability to control territory. It was there that IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi proclaimed a "caliphate" in parts of Iraq and neighbouring Syria.
The city was one of Iraq's most diverse, comprising ethnic Sunni Arabs, Kurds, Assyrians and Turkmens, as well as a variety of religious minorities.
While members of those minorities largely fled the onslaught by IS, many local Sunni Arabs initially welcomed the militants, angered by the sectarian policies of the previous Shia Arab-led central government.
But after two years of brutal IS rule, opposition has reportedly grown inside Mosul.
One major concern for those still there is the involvement of Shia militiamen in the offensive, after they were accused of sectarian abuses in other cities that have been recaptured.
Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has sought to reassure them by saying only Iraqi security forces would be allowed to enter Mosul.
Even if IS is driven out of Mosul, the group will still control areas of northern and eastern Iraq.
The UN's under-secretary for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator, Stephen O'Brien, asked for civilians to be protected and be given access to assistance "they are entitled to and deserve".
"I am extremely concerned for the safety of up to 1.5 million people living in Mosul who may be impacted," he said in statement.
As many as a million people could be forced to flee their homes because of the operation, he added.
There are no firm figures on how many people remain in Mosul, but there were more than two million there when IS took the city more than two years ago.
The ruling is the latest twist in a decade-long UK chocolate wars saga between Nestle and Cadbury.
The Dairy Milk maker failed in its own attempt to trademark the shade of purple it uses after Nestle complained.
But on Wednesday, it was the Cadbury bosses celebrating the latest attempt to foil KitKat's plans.
Nestle claimed that the shape of the bar was so unique, it should be protected by law.
But time after time, judges have thrown out the attempt.
Its case was not helped by the existence of a similar Norwegian bar, called Kvikk Lunsj, which means "quick lunch" and has been around since 1937.
A spokesperson for Nestle said the company is weighing up its options.
"Nestle is disappointed by the Court of Appeal judgment and is considering next steps.
"KitKat is much loved around the world and its four-finger shape is well known by consumers.
"Nestlé's four-finger shape has been granted trademark registration in many countries of the world, for instance Germany, France, Australia, South Africa and Canada, further protecting it from imitations."
Cadbury's owner, Mondelez, which fought the attempt, said: "We are pleased with the Court of Appeal's decision today and welcome their conclusion.
"As we have previously stated, we do not believe the shape of the KitKat bar should be protected as a trademark in the UK."
The ruling could lead to copycat versions of the bars hitting shelves, a practice some discounter supermarkets have popularised.
Aldi and Lidl have both been accused of selling own-brand versions that are remarkably similar to famous brands.
KitKats were first snapped up by the public in 1935 by Rowntree, when it was called the Chocolate Crisp.
In September 2015, Nestle failed to persuade European judges of its arguments.
The European Court of Justice said that the company had to demonstrate the public relied on the shape alone to identify the snack.
They concluded this was difficult to prove if goods also showed a brand name, such as KitKat.
Nestle has experience of trying to register difficult trade marks.
It took more than 40 years for it to register the slogan "Have a Break" as a trade mark, finally succeeding in 2006.
Nestle first tried to trademark the shape of the four-fingered chocolate bar in 2010, but its attempts were opposed by Cadbury.
The two have also battled over other trademarks. In 2013, Nestle blocked Cadbury's attempts to register the shade of purple used in the packaging of Dairy Milk.
Nestle has not sought to trademark the two-fingered bar.
Shapes can be trademarked for certain distinctive products - such as the familiar Coca-Cola bottle - but others can struggle.
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For the first time, two Netflix films are competing for the Palme d'Or this year.
However from next year, films will have to be released in French cinemas if they want to be considered.
Jury president Pedro Almodovar agreed with the change, saying films should always be seen on the big screen and he was "concerned" about the issue.
Tilda Swinton film Okja, and The Meyerowitz Stories - starring British actress Emma Thompson and Ben Stiller - are the first Netflix films to be shown at Cannes which are up for the main prize.
The jury, which is also made up of Will Smith, Jessica Chastain and Paolo Sorrentino, will pick the Palme d'Or winner out of the 19 films in competition next weekend.
Almodovar gave a passionate defence of cinema at the festival's opening press conference, saying he didn't think films should be considered for prizes if they had not had a cinema release.
Reading from a pre-prepared statement, he said: "All this doesn't mean I'm not open, or don't celebrate the new technology and the possibilities they offer to us.
"But while I'm alive, I will be fighting for the one thing the new generation is not aware of - the capacity of hypnosis of a large screen for a viewer."
The Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown director said he could not conceive the Palme d'Or - or any other prize - "being given to a film and then not being able to see the film on a big screen".
He was applauded by the audience for his strong remarks.
But Men in Black star Smith - giving an exuberant press conference performance in his debut as a jury member - disagreed with the cinema great.
The star, who has a film in the works with the streaming giant, said his children both go to the movies twice a week and watch Netflix.
"There's very little cross between going to the cinema and watching what they watch on Netflix," he mused, saying they were "two different forms of entertainment" and that Netflix "brings a great amount of connectivity".
"In my home, Netflix has been nothing but an absolute benefit. [They] watch films they otherwise wouldn't have seen. It has broadened my children's global cinematic comprehension."
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Remain campaigners argue the UK will suffer a recession if it opts to leave the European Union.
But the UKIP leader hinted on BBC's The Andrew Marr Show that people had begun to see through the "scare stories".
He added: "I think collectively people are beginning to put two fingers up to the political class."
Mr Farage also downplayed the impact Brexit could have on the value of sterling after the FTSE closed down 116 points on Friday.
He said: "I did work in this area for 20 years, I know a little bit more about it than most people.
"Sterling is up since March. Since Brexit became a possibility sterling is up and FTSE is exactly the same level it was in March and what happened on Friday were very bad economic figures from America and the fact that our growth forecasts in Britain have been downgraded from 2.5% to 2% and that our borrowing is still out of control.
"Again, these are ludicrous scare stories that are being put out.
"Even if sterling were to fall a few percentage points after a Brexit, so what?"
But later on the same programme, Prime Minister David Cameron warned that if the pound fell post-Brexit the prices in shops would rise.
He also said that several independent economic forecasters had predicted a recession if the UK decided to leave the union.
He told the show: "I totally accept that people are confused by having so many statistics and that there is a lot of frustration because of that.
"But I think it is actually my job as prime minister, when you have got information coming from independent forecasters... to talk about those risks and it would be very irresponsible not to."
Mr Farage questioned the neutrality of organisations like the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), saying that three quarters of its funding came from the British government and the European Union.
"You don't bite the hand that feeds you," he said.
Mr Farage went on to say that he believed there had been a "shift in the last fortnight" and a change in the debate about the EU referendum - for which voters will go to the polls on 23 June.
"People have had enough of being threatened by the prime minister and the chancellor and I think collectively people are beginning to put two fingers up to the political class," he said.
He was also asked about claims he made earlier in the year when he said migrants were using the NHS for HIV treatment.
He said: "Should we say to people from all over the world if you've got a very serious disease we are very happy for the National Health Service to provide whatever healthcare you want, at the same time as it now takes people all over Britain a fortnight to get a GP appointment?
"It's about priorities, isn't it? And my priority would be we put our own people first. It's about time we did."
The IFS hit back at the UKIP leader, saying that although it did receive some funding from research councils supported by the UK government and the EU, this did not in any way influence its work.
In a statement on its website, the think tank said it had been "fearless and beholden to nobody" throughout its 40-year history and that Mr Farage's comments were "an attack not just on the IFS but suggest that academic independence does not exist".
Warnock's side lost 2-1 at his former club Queens Park Rangers, to leave them 15 points adrift of the play-offs.
"If we can't win here when we've dominated like that, we're not going to get into the play-offs," Warnock said.
"To get where we are has been fabulous. The lads have really done well for me."
Cardiff had led through Sol Bamba's first half header at Loftus Road before Yeni Ngbakoto equalised five minutes after coming on as a second-half substitute.
Ngbakoto's corner with seven minutes remaining was met by Matt Smith, with the ball going in off Cardiff defender Jazz Richards to end their four match unbeaten run.
The Bluebirds were in the Championship relegation places when Warnock took over in October 2016 but are now 12th in the table and 12 points clear of the drop zone.
Having recently signed a new one-year contract extension, Warnock says he considering which players to retain and which areas he needs to recruit.
"I thought today made up my mind on the odd position what I'm looking for." Warnock said after losing to QPR.
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"We've got 11 games left to look at the others to make sure.
"I'm looking all the time to see what we need to have a good go next year. We don't want to mess about next year.
"We want to start well at the start of the season and look forward to coming to places like this."
Warnock said "three or four" suffered knocks before Tuesday's trip to struggling Blackburn Rovers.
Midfielder Aron Gunnarsson played against QPR despite not taking part in training during the week due to illness.
"We're a little but short in certain areas," Warnock added.
"But I'm looking forward to Blackburn. They won again [on Saturday, against Wigan] so it will be nice to go up and try and get the points."
The Labour leader appeared alongside Lib Dem leader Tim Farron, the SNP's Angus Robertson and Conservative Sir Patrick McCoughlin at the hearing.
He said women ought to be there too.
But Women and Equalities Committee chairwoman Maria Miller told the senior male politicians present: "With respect, that's your fault, not ours."
The hearing was part of an inquiry into the lack of female representation in the House of Commons.
Mr Corbyn, who has set a goal of at least 50% of Labour's MPs being women, said British society was "quite misogynistic".
He added: "I hope you are also going to be taking evidence from women representing all of the political parties.
"It seems slightly odd to have four white men sitting in front of you giving evidence about women's representation."
Challenged about allegations of bullying within Labour, Mr Corbyn said: "You are assuming that the party is riddled with intimidation. It is not. There is some intimidation that goes on. I am stamping it out and dealing with it."
Mr Farron acknowledged the Lib Dems were not setting a good example since their number of MPs had been hugely reduced at the last general election.
He said: "To be left with eight white blokes is hardly a great result for diversity or indeed for the party."
The Conservatives have not imposed all-female shortlists for parliamentary seats and Sir Patrick, the party chairman said to do so "would possibly risk a resentment" towards female MPs.
He said: "I would rather do other measures, working with associations, working with women who are trying to get on the candidates' list."
There are currently 191 female MPs. Another, Labour's Jo Cox, was killed earlier this year, prompting a by-election in her Batley and Spen constituency, which is due to happen next week. A contest is happening in Witney, the seat vacated by former Prime Minister David Cameron, on the same day.
When full, the House of Commons has 650 members.
The committee has previously raised concerns that government plans to reduce the number of MPs to 600 could make it harder for women to be selected by parties for winnable seats.
Mrs Miller, a former Conservative cabinet minister, has said: "We need to see proper diversity in public life - an important part of this is making sure the House of Commons is representative of the nation at large."
New Zealander Cotter, who was in charge of Scotland from 2014 to 2017, interviewed for the Lions position, narrowly missing out to Warren Gatland.
"I think they are strong enough to win," Cotter told BBC Radio 5 live.
"I think the player talent is there, I think the determination, desire and belief is there. I think they have a real chance," he added.
Cotter coached the Crusaders to Super Rugby titles in 2005 and 2006, before spells with Clermont Auvergne and Scotland in the northern hemisphere.
He feels the home nations have all made major strides since a disappointing Rugby World Cup in 2015.
"If you look at what has happened in northern hemisphere rugby since the World Cup - which I think was a bit of a wake-up call - the rugby has improved and they've used that disappointing World Cup to push through," he added.
"So now is an opportunity for northern hemisphere players to prove they can take the All Blacks - and I genuinely believe they can. They have the strength to do it, it's just going to be about how they negotiate those midweek games and the heavy-charged weeks they have before the Test matches. But they are certainly capable of winning."
However, with a punishing schedule awaiting the Lions, Cotter has warned they must prioritise the first Test match of the series over the warm-up games if they are to record only their second ever series win in New Zealand.
"The first Test match is key," Cotter continued.
"The coaching staff and the players will know they have to weave their way through some pretty important [warm up] games.
"If they get through the midweek games without getting too knocked around, then the All Blacks are probably at their most vulnerable in the first Test match of a series.
"But the Lions have to win the first couple of Test matches if they want to win the series. The last Test match - if it's a decider - then New Zealand are going to be up with the whole country behind them."
While Cotter says the Lions must have clarity and direction in terms of their game plan, he also feels they have the individual players to overcome the All Blacks.
"The strategies will I think be relatively simple, but they are a smart group of coaches," he said.
"There is enough power through the Lions team, whether it is midfield or second row. I think with [Maro] Itoje and [George] Kruis the Lions probably have anything as good as the All Blacks. I believe the scrum will put New Zealand under pressure, and I think there is enough depth in that Lions squad to have a powerful bench, and put pressure on New Zealand."
While the Lions have been dealt a hammer blow with Billy Vunipola's withdrawal from the tour, New Zealand have their own injury concerns, with number eight Kieran Read and flanker Jerome Kaino both doubts.
Cotter believes injuries "can go both ways", with the All Blacks also reliant on key players staying fit.
"The All Blacks are reliant on [number eight] Kieran Read, and they are reliant on [second row] Brodie Retallick," he said.
"Injuries can go both ways, and it will be interesting to see whether the All Blacks play their key players for their franchises beforehand. Steve Hansen said he was going to play them but he might change his mind.
"We saw [when New Zealand had] a weakened team a few months back, Ireland were able to take the win off them.
"Is the midfield going to be powerful enough to hold up the Lions? There are a whole lot of questions to be asked, and that's why it's such a fascinating series. It is a powerful Lions outfit going down there, and anything can happen."
Before taking charge of Montpellier in France's Top 14 this summer, Cotter is leading a star-studded Barbarians side on their two match tour.
The legendary invitational side meet England at Twickenham on Sunday before facing Ulster next week.
"I haven't had to do a lot of coaching really," Cotter said.
"It's about putting some simple things in place. The players are really enjoying each other's company, and that's part of the Baabaas spirit.
"It's low-key, with not too much pressure, but it's about putting things in place so we have clarity on the field, and it's good fun."
You can hear more from Vern Cotter on 5 live Rugby from 20:00 BST on Thursday, 25 May.
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A senior UN official in Iraq said she was stunned by accounts of "terrible loss of life", after claims that at least 200 people had been killed in an air strike by the US-led coalition.
US warplanes are supporting the Iraqi Army's mission to retake Mosul from the Islamic State (IS).
US media reports say an investigation is under way.
It is not known exactly when the deaths are alleged to have happened.
However, reporters in western Mosul's Jadideh neighbourhood said they saw 50 bodies being pulled out of buildings on Friday, after they were razed in air attacks earlier in March.
Iraqi forces have been waging a months-long offensive to recapture Mosul, the last IS stronghold in Iraq, which has been occupied since 2014.
The New York Times quoted US military officials saying the coalition was investigating reports of civilian deaths from a strike between 17-23 March.
Colonel Joseph Scrocca, a spokesman for the US-led command in Baghdad, said that "the coalition has opened a formal civilian casualty credibility assessment on this allegation" from Mosul.
"This process takes time, though, especially when the date of the alleged strike is in question," he said.
The UN estimates that 400,000 Iraqi civilians are trapped in the Old City of Mosul as government forces battle to re-capture it.
More than 180,000 civilians have fled the west of the city in the past month, amid fears that an additional 320,000 may follow in the coming weeks.
Residents who have managed to flee say the militants are using civilians as human shields, hiding in houses and forcing young men to fight.
US officials believe there are about 2,000 IS fighters left in Mosul.
Luke Morton, 23, from Smethwick, West Midlands, was washed off rocks at Mwnt on Sunday, 7 August.
Friend Barry McFadden told the inquest at Aberystwyth his friend had insisted the pair walk around a rock along the coast, despite the rough sea.
The waves dragged him off the rocks when the pair got into difficulty.
A conclusion of misadventure was given at the hearing.
Mr McFadden said his friend, who he described as "a bit of an adrenaline junkie", managed to regain his grip a few times before disappearing.
"The last thing he said [before the sea came in] was 'we'll be laughing about this at home tonight'," Mr McFadden said.
He spotted his friend one last time and said he would go and find help before returning to the beach where the emergency services had already been contacted.
"I think I knew at that point I wouldn't see him alive again," Mr McFadden said.
"If I could have helped him I would have helped him," he said addressing Mr Morton's family in the public gallery.
His body was recovered on 1 September.
The cause of death was drowning.
The Irish province had feared losing one of their star players to English Premiership leaders Saracens.
But the Munster management have won the battle to retain the 28-year-old with a deal which will keep him in Ireland until the end of the 2019 World Cup.
Munster have also announced that scrum-half Conor Murray, 26, has signed a fresh three-year deal.
The news that Earls is staying at Thomond Park will delight not just Munster supporters, but Ireland coach Joe Schmidt too, as a move to Saracens had appeared likely.
In the wake of prop Marty Moore agreeing to join Wasps in the summer and Ian Madigan heading to Bordeaux, Schmidt has had to field questions about a suggested 'exodus' of big-name stars to play abroad.
Schmidt indicated fly-half Madigan would make his chances of future Test selection tougher by departing in the summer to play in France.
"There is always concern when we lose the opportunity to manage a player," Schmidt said.
"We get the training volume from the provinces, we know their strength and conditioning programmes, their total training minutes.
"The only experience I have had with it is Johnny Sexton and he came into his first training camp after joining Racing having played 12 games in 11 weeks.
"Is that the best preparation to be fully fit to play an international? That's the risk for us.
"Ian and I had a long discussion about it. When I arrived at Leinster Ian was learning French, so there was an uneasy feeling at that stage.
"But that is because he is one of the most professional preparers for whatever is coming next.
"I know he wants to play at 10, and I think he'll go into a head-to-head duel with Lionel Beauxis and fair play to him if he gets the better of that.
"He won't be out of our thoughts, but Paddy Jackson came off the bench in several of the Six Nations matches last year, and Ian Keatley started against Italy last year.
"So there is competition for Ian, and there's always a risk in him going away."
Trains now run on the Victoria and Central lines on Fridays and Saturdays between 00:30 BST and 05:30.
Transport for London (TfL) said 50,000 people used the Night Tube on Friday. Passenger numbers are expected to reach 200,000 once all five lines are open.
The service had been intended to launch in September 2015 but was delayed due to strikes over pay.
View from the carriage: On board London's Night Tube
TfL said 6,500 people were recording entering Oxford Circus overnight, while 4,250 passengers exited Stratford station.
The city's mayor, Sadiq Khan, said it was "wonderful" thousands of Londoners were able to benefit from the service, claiming the Night Tube would provide a "huge boost" to the capital.
Mr Khan was among those to board the first Victoria line service in the early hours of Saturday.
He chatted to passengers on the train, which departed from Brixton, south London, at 00.34 BST.
Speaking at the launch of the service, he said: "You can feel the buzz, you can feel the vibe.
"People are really excited.
"What's important is we got the detail and the planning right.
"I'm really pleased that 100 days or so after becoming the mayor we've got that right."
Trains are running every 10 minutes on the full Victoria line and on the Central line between White City and Leytonstone.
They now run approximately every 20 minutes between Ealing Broadway and White City and between Leytonstone and Loughton/Hainault.
About 100 British Transport Police officers patrolled the network on the launch of the service.
But Superintendent Chris Horton insisted there was "no reason" why passengers would not be as safe as during the day.
He said the force would focus on "being visible" and ensuring it was "able to intervene in places that are likely to see significant issues".
Plans for a Night Tube service were announced in November 2013, with Transport for London saying there was a "huge demand" due to passenger numbers on weekends soaring by 70% since 2000.
The service was intended to begin in September 2015, but strikes over pay delayed the start by nearly another year.
Unions staged a series of strikes during July and August last year before an agreement was reached in March 2016.
Before leaving office, former mayor Boris Johnson, who had clashed with unions on ticket office closures and Night Tube plans, said he hoped services would get under way by July.
November 2013: Night services are first announced by then-Mayor of London Boris Johnson
September 2014: It is announced that the first Night Tube services will begin in September 2015 - in time for the Rugby World Cup in England
September 2014: The Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union warns that the plans have "not been properly thought through"
April and July 2015: Members of four unions take strike action over proposals
September 2015: London Underground delays the start of the Night Tube until an agreement is reached
February 2016: RMT recommends acceptance of a pay and conditions deal
May 2016: New Mayor of London Sadiq Khan confirms that 24-hour trains will begin in August
August 2016: First Night Tube service begins
The night service will be rolled out on the Jubilee, Piccadilly and Northern lines in the autumn.
There are also plans to expand the service to parts of the Metropolitan, Circle, District, and Hammersmith & City lines after modernisation and on parts of the London Overground in 2017 and the Docklands Light Railway by 2021.
Passengers will pay off-peak fares and day travelcards will be valid but will expire at 04:30.
About 100 police officers will be on patrol to allay any safety fears and eight new bus routes will now run 24-hour services to go hand-in-hand with the Tube night services.
The services are expected to add £6.4bn to the London economy by 2030, creating 500,000 jobs, TfL said.
The figures come from NHS Digital, which oversees cyber security, and show an increase on 16 attacks in 2015.
NHS Digital said the figures showed a "rise in reporting, not necessarily a rise in cyber attacks".
But Oliver Farnan, from the Oxford Cyber Security Centre, said ransomware attacks had become more common.
'The risk is going to increase'
Ransomware is software that locks computer systems and then demands a ransom to unlock the data.
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (OUH) repelled five ransomware attacks in 2016.
"That is something a number of hospitals have seen and is potentially quite worrying," said Dr Chris Bunch from OUH.
He added: "Across the health service we are still to a very large extent paper-based... and as we move increasingly towards digital records the risk is going to increase."
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust reported four ransomware attacks in 2016, and University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust and Kings College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust sustained three ransomware attacks each last year.
No patient data was lost in any of the attacks on the trusts and a spokesperson for Kings College Hospitals Trust said it had a cyber security response plan that it continually reviewed and monitored.
Oliver Farnan from the Oxford Cyber Security Centre, said it was hard to know if enough money was being spent on security in the NHS.
"Money is only really spent on security once everything else is up and running and in place... it always comes second," he said.
But David Emm, principal security researcher at internet security firm Kaspersky Lab, said basic steps such as backing up data could make a difference.
"Ransomware is a very blunt instrument.. .if you have a back-up of data then you are not in a position where people can extort money in that way," he said.
However, Mr Emm said public bodies faced specific challenges, and added that money was an issue.
"They have lots of people accessing the systems, there is lots of data moving in and out of the organisation, that does actually make it harder to secure that information," he said.
NHS Digital said it had established CareCERT which issues notices about the national threat level and publishes advice on good practice.
It said its launch in October 2015 has contributed to the increase in the reporting of cyber attacks, and that more than 100 organisations had received on-site assessments to improve security.
The popular baking contest is moving to Channel 4 after the current series finishes.
Mary said: "What a privilege and honour it has been to be part of seven years of magic in a tent."
Her co-star Paul Hollywood has signed a deal to do three series of the show on Channel 4.
The presenters Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins are also quitting the programme.
Mary added: "My decision to stay with the BBC is out of loyalty to them, as they have nurtured me, and the show."
When filmmaker Joseph Sims-Dennett suffered a nervous breakdown he channelled his energies into making a horror film. Observance was shot on a shoestring budget in Sydney in just eleven days.
In a concrete anonymous city, a private investigator is grieving the loss of his son. Installed in an empty, dirty apartment, he is ordered to spy on a woman living opposite.
Soon black gunk starts to ooze from the walls, animal corpses appear unexplained and his dreams become more and more disturbed.
While the actors speak with an "everyman" American accent 0 an artistic, rather than commercial decision - Sydney-based Sims-Dennett, 27, was inspired by his reflections on Australia.
"Australia broadcasts this laid-back easiness but it is really a very conservative country," says the British-born director. "Art takes off in those periods when you're being stifled and oppressed. There is a sort of darkness that lurks [here] somewhere."
In Sims-Dennett's eyes Sydney is fast becoming a nanny state, suffocated by draconian lockout laws and surveillance, and he touches on these issues in Observance.
Premiering next month in Australia, industry bible The Hollywood Reporter has already dubbed the film a "chilling experience" that grips "viewers by the throat".
Australia is known as the "lucky country", blessed with perfect beaches and weather. Yet over the last decade it has also started to make a name as one of the world's horror capitals.
A turning point was 2005's Wolf Creek. Made with an estimated budget of just A$1m ($750,000, £530,000), it became a box-office hit, grossing $29m worldwide. Other runaway successes include Saw (2004), shot in America but directed by Australian James Wan and now a lucrative franchise.
Wolf Creek "paved the way in terms of theatrical successes," says Causeway Films' Kristina Ceyton, producer of psychological horror hit The Babadook. "The world is very much looking to Australia for interesting new stories."
Colin Cairnes, co-director of Australian horror-comedy 100 Bloody Acres and this month's new release Scare Campaign, agrees. "We do have a reputation [abroad] ... maybe that's because we have a bit more freedom here [that allows] a more distinctive voice. We're not part of the Hollywood machine."
Before the 1970s, horror films were virtually non-existent in Australia; from 1948-68 most were banned. While the US and Europe drew on authors such as Edgar Allan Poe and Bram Stoker, Australia literature was more concerned with exploring brutal tales of pioneer life.
Today that has come full circle. Now much of Australian horror, including Peter Weir's unsettling 1975 masterpiece Picnic at Hanging Rock, taps into "fear of the mysterious and threatening landscape, fear of Australia itself, you might say, a hangover of our colonial past," says Briony Kidd, director of Tasmania's international horror film festival, Stranger With My Face.
Australians, living in one of the world's most urbanised countries, "love but also fear the outback that lies beyond the suburbs," says Cairnes. "In a perverse way, we take some pride in how deadly, how dangerous a place Australia is. If you jump into the wrong creek you could be a goner."
The looming landscape is present across the genre. In Lake Mungo (2008) a clue to a girl's death is found in a famous beauty spot, a vast dry lake. In Black Water (2007) holidaymakers on a fishing trip in the mangroves of northern Australia find themselves prey to a killer crocodile. And in Wolf Creek, based partly on notorious "backpacker murderer" Ivan Milat, travellers in the outback become fodder for gratuitous and violent torture.
"You learn about a culture in a much deeper way because [horror films] are drawing on our own fears," says Sims-Dennett. "The outback is this ancient, flat, eerie piece of land. Its inspires thoughts where you consider yourself and your life and where you are."
But makers of Australian horror films face plenty of challenges. With independent cinemas shutting down, finding distributors domestically is tough. The market for horror remains "underdeveloped" in terms of marketing and theatrical support.
One result is horror films doing poorly at home only to be acclaimed abroad. In the UK The Babadook made more in its opening weekend - $633,000 over three days - than in its entire run in Australia, where it earned just $256,000.
This leaves Sims-Dennett nonplussed. He believes there is something "very specific" about Australian horror. And, like J-Horror in Japan, that it will stand the test of time.
Perhaps Snowtown (2011) sums it up best. The film fictionalises the story of infamous serial killer John Bunting, who stored the bodies of his victims in the vault of a disused bank. In the movie Bunting is asked why he resorts to violence.
His reply? "It's the Australian way."
The party's candidate, Paul Farrelly - its MP since 2001 - is keeping calm and carrying on in the face of an attack from his well-funded political opponents, the Conservatives.
But while Labour has been in retreat in the constituency in recent elections, this time he's finding it more difficult to get rescued from the prospect of defeat.
The seat is number eight on the Tory target list.
It was highly marginal in 2015 so reinforcements were offered and Paul Farrelly scraped home with a 650-vote majority.
This time he has seen no evidence that help will be on its way.
Yet it's much needed. Not expecting a snap election, his agent and secretary have holidays they can't cancel.
He told me: "We are being outgunned. I am hoping we have enough resources to continue the campaign.
"It's an uphill battle like never before. What we are used to in marginal seats is a mass mobilisation from safer seats - and hopeless seats, quite frankly, and that's not happening this time."
This is a seat Labour needs to defend if it is to have a realistic hope of winning the general election.
But then Paul Farrelly doesn't think his party will win that election. He is not campaigning on the national message here: "If I told anyone Jeremy Corbyn was going to be prime minister they would laugh me off the streets.
"The message is to rein in the landslide Theresa May wants. Don't give Theresa May a lapdog parliament."
This is how he puts it in his official campaign literature: "Please don't let May take us over in June."
And while he mentions Theresa May in his leaflets, he doesn't mention his own leader.
"We have limited space on election leaflets and there is no space for Jeremy."
He says he doesn't usually put leaders on leaflets but adds that "Jeremy does not go down well with our core Labour support".
He is fighting a relentlessly local campaign - opposing a potential hospital closure and arguing for better school funding - rather than setting out what Labour would do in government.
And Paul Farrelly is not alone.
Although they are not queuing up to talk to the media, other Labour politicians have taken a similar approach.
I've obtained a script circulating amongst Corbyn-sceptic candidates which advises them to:
The Conservatives believe they have another useful line of attack in Newcastle under Lyme.
Voters here backed Leave in the EU referendum. Paul Farrelly refused to vote for triggering Article 50, which formally began the Brexit process.
The Conservatives' recently selected candidate, Owen Meredith, himself voted Remain in the referendum.
He told me: "Like the prime minister, I support the result of the referendum.
"Like the prime minister I think we can make a success of Brexit. And unlike the local Labour MP I would have voted to trigger Article 50."
And well he might take that line. Though he is also fighting on local issues - he got his first job in the town - he is well aware UKIP isn't fielding a candidate here.
The party got more than 7,000 votes at the last election and as Owen Meredith put it: "Those votes are up for grabs."
But Paul Farrelly's main opponent may be active apathy.
That could sound like a contradiction in terms but I understood it when I paid a visit to the George and Dragon pub in the town centre.
The landlord, the staff, the clientele - mostly postal workers and builders - were pro-Brexit.
But it was concerns about Labour's leader that were influencing their approach to the general election - most were former Labour supporters, and they had taken a decision to stay at home on polling day.
Initially the only proof was the occasional funeral for a Hezbollah fighter killed in Syria and it was impossible to ascertain how many Shia fighters from Lebanon were in Syria or exactly what their role was.
Now for the first time, the BBC has seen direct evidence of Hezbollah's role in some of the key battles as the Assad regime claims to be regaining the upper hand.
And the clearest indication of Hezbollah's involvement has come from the group itself.
In a relatively rare televised speech on Tuesday, the group's head, Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, declared: "Syria has real friends who will not let it fall to the US, Israel or Islamic radicals".
Saying that the armed opposition groups were too weak to bring down President Assad's regime, Sheikh Nasrallah mused that when rebels were threatening to capture villages under (Syrian) government control, it was "normal to offer every possible and necessary aid to help the Syrian army".
Hezbollah has long provided medical, logistical and practical help for Syrian refugees fleeing the fighting.
But in the last week we saw first-hand how, in some areas, Hezbollah fighters were openly and freely crossing the border between Lebanon and Syria - giving training and military support to their allies in Syria.
Here, in the northern Bekaa Valley, the official "border" between Lebanon and Syria means very little to many villages and communities.
Locals have traded, inter-married and moved freely across the valleys and mountains for much longer than the infamous Anglo-French (Sykes-Picot) agreement which, less than 100 years ago, carved up the Middle East along lines that barely recognised realities and relationships on the ground.
It is just across the border, in the pivotal Syrian town of Quseir, that some of the heaviest fighting is taking place.
Not far from Homs, images and testimony from Quseir suggest that Hezbollah fighters are increasingly involved in the fighting itself and in directing inexperienced, irregular pro-government troops.
The Syrian army, large and as well-equipped as it is, is undoubtedly overstretched - trying to contain a two-year-old rebellion across such a large country.
So whatever Hezbollah is able to do in Quseir, Homs and the suburbs of Damascus is an increasingly vital part of the regime's military strategy.
Things on the ground are visibly changing.
Here, in some parts of Lebanon's north-eastern corner, both sides of the border are now, in effect, controlled by Hezbollah and its Syrian allies. They claim to be gaining advantage.
Under the watchful eye of the "popular local committees" we were able to get right up to and across the Syrian border.
On their side of the small stream that officially divides the two countries, Syrian conscripts looked on as we jumped across the gap to meet a contact on the other side.
Abu Mohammed, a fighter with a pro-government Syrian militia unit, would only speak to us on the condition that we were inside Syria.
It was a nervy, brief encounter. The frontline of Quseir is only a few kilometres to the east and the sound of heavy shelling punctuated our interview.
In the cover of a small orchard, and surrounded by uniformed men armed with AK-47 rifles, it was apparent that in this area at least, Hezbollah, the Syrian army and pro-government militias are operating as one.
Despite evidence to the contrary, Abu Mohammed insisted that Hezbollah was not directly involved in the fighting.
"They give us logistical and medical help and they're helping us regain territory but they're not fighting," said the militia leader, his face almost completely covered by a green and white scarf or keffiyeh.
"We're defending our land from the rebels who bomb our villages. But we'll stand up to them and they'll get what's coming to them," he replied when I asked him about fears that the involvement of Lebanese groups like Hezbollah in the fighting would destabilise relations in the fractious border area.
I crossed a small wooden bridge back across the stream into Lebanon as, 170ft (50m) along the road, a small unit of regular Syrian soldiers kept watch at a junction in the road.
In this area at least, the Assad regime is holding ground, even pushing back against previous rebel advances.
But the real fear is that the involvement of Hezbollah, and other Lebanese factions, means the fighting will spill over into Lebanon itself.
It is already happening.
Well inside Lebanon, the Shia town of Hermel has been repeatedly and deliberately targeted by anti-regime rebels in Syria because it supports the Assad regime and is accused of sending fighters across the border.
Locals took me up to the roof of a three-storey house through which a considerably large rocket had crashed just days before.
Luckily no-one was hurt on that occasion but there have been civilian casualties on this side of the border, in addition to the estimated 70,000 killed by the civil war inside Syria itself.
Not everyone here is supportive of Hezbollah's visibly active role inside Syria.
Abu Alawa is a village elder who talks fondly about the cross-border, inter-communal relationships before the fighting began.
"There are more moderate voices within the Shia community who should play a role in resolving the conflict," Abu Alawa says. But his is almost a lone voice in an increasingly sectarian and tense region.
Not only in Syria itself, but in neighbouring Lebanon, the longer the fighting continues then fault lines between Sunni and Shia Muslims are being dangerously exposed.
At Sunni mosques in Lebanon, young men are being radicalised. Particularly in cities like Tripoli, where the sectarian divisions in Syria are mirrored in the city's own tense communities and districts, clerics fire up their followers with calls for Jihad, or holy war.
In recent weeks, several imams have publicly called on young men to sign up and head east to fight.
Critics mock the gesture as a publicity stunt but when I travelled to Tripoli to meet Sheikh Salem Rafii, he said it was a necessary response to Hezbollah's role in the fighting.
"This is a legitimate fatwa - a ruling from God, from the Koran," said the sheikh as we sat in his garden within sight of the mountain range that divided this part of Lebanon from Syria.
"There are oppressed people there [in Syria]. Women and children are being raped, killed and expelled. So any just Lebanese person should go and help them - and will be rewarded by God," he said.
Lebanon's own future is threatened by the turmoil in Syria.
The longer it continues, the more nervous the army and the interested parties on the Lebanese side of the border will get.
Geographically surrounded and historically dominated by its larger neighbour, it was perhaps too much to expect that Lebanon and its own sectarian divided factions, could ever realistically remain immune to events next door.
The Zambians will take a narrow advantage into the second leg, with the South Africans securing what could prove to be a crucial away goal.
On Friday, Zamalek took a big step towards the final with a 4-0 win over Wydad Casablanca in Alexandria - a result which ended John Toshack's reign as coach of the Moroccan club.
In only the second Champions League semi-final involving clubs from southern Africa, it was Zesco United who took the lead with two goals in two minutes from Jackson Mwanza.
He opened the scoring with a glancing header past Uganda goalkeeper Denis Onyango into the far corner of the net with 54 minutes on the clock.
Just a minute later, the 29-year-old then got the slightest of touches to a low Mwape Mwelwa free-kick, deflecting the ball wide of Onyango to send the home crowd into raptures.
Idris Mbombo wasted a great chance to give Zesco United a three-goal advantage four minutes from time when his close-range shot was comfortably saved.
Sundowns immediately counter-attacked and unmarked Zimbabwean Khama Billiat controlled a cross and scored with a low shot from inside the box that went in off a post to reduce Zesco's lead to 2-1.
On Friday, a wonder goal by Shikabala set up Zamalek of Egypt to thrash Wydad Casablanca of Morocco 4-0 in Alexandria, a match which proved to be John Toshack's last as coach of the Moroccan side.
Shikabala ran 56 metres before unleashing a shot from outside the box which flew into the bottom corner of the net at the Borg El Arab Stadium.
Shikabala - whose real name is Mahmoud Abdel-Razek - was outstanding in the first leg of the semi-final and received a standing ovation when substituted 11 minutes from time.
Aymen Hefny, Bassem Morsy and substitute Mostafa Fathy, from a penalty kick, were the other scorers for the five-time African champions, who led 2-0 at half-time.
Zamalek were unrecognisable from the team that failed to impress in the group stage of the premier African club football competition and lost at home and away against Mamelodi Sundowns of South Africa.
A blunder by Senegal-born Wydad centre-back Mourtada Fall led to the second Zamalek goal on 18 minutes.
He failed to control a back pass and Hefny gained possession before scoring with a low shot into the corner past goalkeeper Mohamed Akid.
Wydad, who won the competition 24 years ago, fell further behind four minutes into the second half after Shikabala floated a free-kick into the penalty area, with Morsy nodding into the net.
A disastrous night for Wydad was completed on 73 minutes when Akid fouled Fathy, who sent the goalkeeper the wrong way from the spot-kick as he tucked the ball into the corner.
It was a record Champions League semi-final winning margin for Zamalek, bettering the 3-0 home triumph over JET (now JS Kabylie) of Algeria in 1984.
The second leg of the semi-finals will be played on Saturday 24 September.
The Edinburgh-based firm said it planned to treble its workforce to 30 by the end of this year.
It also plans to move into new headquarters in the Scottish capital, and open a London office.
ZoneFox offers security software to combat insider threats to businesses in the financial, pharma, gaming and other sectors.
Its clients include healthcare firm Craneware, Zenith Bank and Rockstar Games.
The funding round was led by angel investors Archangels, with backing from the Scottish Investment Bank and Borders-based investors TriCap.
ZoneFox chief executive Jamie Graves said: "Insider threats are a serious problem for global enterprise.
"Such is the sophistication of these attacks and the methods used by cyber-criminals, the human mind can no longer be expected to monitor and combat such threats alone.
"Having the funding and support of Archangels, the Scottish Investment Bank and TriCap will allow us to continue to grow and develop ground-breaking solutions that will protect businesses."
Costas Vaxevanis published a list of Greeks with Swiss bank accounts, including a government minister and other prominent figures in public life.
Lawyers for Mr Vaxevanis, 46, argued that the charges were outrageous and said no-one on the list had actually complained of a breach of privacy.
After a one-day trial, a court in Athens found Mr Vaxevanis innocent.
He published the list in Hot Doc, the weekly magazine that he edits.
The BBC's Mark Lowen in Athens says the swift ruling will be an embarrassment to the Greek government.
Greece is being urged by international lenders to crack down on tax evasion as part of far-reaching reforms demanded in exchange for billions of euros of bailout money.
The list of suspected evaders was reportedly leaked by an employee at the HSBC bank and passed to IMF chief Christine Lagarde when she was French finance minister in 2010.
Ms Lagarde apparently handed the list to the Greek authorities, but they took no action.
Two of Greece's former finance ministers have acknowledged seeing copies of the list.
However, Yannis Stournaras, who took office in June, has told parliament he has not seen it.
Mr Vaxevanis said he had published the list because it was his job as a journalist to reveal the truth.
"The three last governments have lied and have made a mockery of the Greek people with this list," he said.
"They were obliged to pass it to parliament or to the justice system. They didn't do it, and they should be in prison for it."
Prosecutors had accused him of publicly ridiculing people and delivering them "to a society that is thirsty for blood".
"The solution to the problems that the country is facing is not cannibalism," the prosecutor said.
But the court took little time in acquitting the journalist, and observers in the courtroom broke out in applause, according to the AFP news agency.
The Coastal Communities grant has been awarded to a group which wants to restore the service between Ferryside and Llansteffan.
The crossing dates back 1,000 years and was a favourite with 19th and early 20th Century tourists from the south Wales valleys during "miners fortnight".
It was discontinued in the 1950s.
This left walkers and cyclists facing an 18 mile (29km) round trip up the estuary.
The grant will allow the group to build a "bespoke amphibious ferry boat" fitted with retractable wheels like an aircraft, to avoid the need for a jetty.
It will initially run daily for eight and a half months of the year, with the aim of an all year-round service in the future.
The project will create five jobs, including two skippers and mates and administrative posts, and it is hoped the ferry will start operating next year.
Speaking on Good Morning Wales, Les Jones from Carmarthen Bay Ferries said the Tywi estuary was a difficult place to run a ferry due to "a very high tidal range, strong currents and shifting sand banks".
He said they had looked at using a conventional boat, but would need to "improve the jetty in Ferryside and build an extremely long one in Llansteffan".
He said the amphibious boat "will be driven on land and will perform as a very fast motorboat when on the water".
It is being designed by a company in Solva, Pembrokeshire.
Rob Bamford, also from Carmarthen Bay Ferries, said they surveyed both communities and found that "there was a good interest for using a ferry if one was in place".
He said it would "bring the communities together" for both locals and tourists, and offer excursions.
The idea was the brainchild of retired Liverpool University professor Kenton Morgan.
He previously said: "It's known there are 400,000 annual visitors to Cefn Sidan beach just along the coast, and tens of thousands of visitors to Llansteffan Castle, Ferryside Castle and Laugharne, with its Dylan Thomas links.
"If the plan is approved, the ferry itself will become a tourist attraction."
But, battling waves as big as houses, the crews of the Holyhead and Moelfre lifeboats made it to the stricken ship.
Now, 50 years on the RNLI marked one of the most remarkable rescues in its 192-year history.
Crew members reunited at an event on Friday to remember the rescue.
Graham Drinkwater, Eric Jones, Jackie Hughes, Will Jones and Brian Stewart - five of the Anglesey crew who braved the conditions back on 2 December, 1966 - were guests of honour at the event in Holyhead.
In a video message played to them, one of the rescued Greek sailors gave thanks to the rescuers for saving his life.
The Nafsiporos' Second Officer Anestis Rokopoulos, now 73, said: "My only message is 'thank you'. I am alive only because of these people. I make a family and I make grandchildren only because of these people."
"We had no control and no steering. The rocks looked like knives. Then from the depths of the sea came these boats and we said, 'They have come for us'," he said.
All 17 crew on board the Holyhead and Moelfre lifeboats were awarded rare medals for gallantry, in an operation that involved three lifeboats over 24 hours.
First to the rescue was the Douglas RNLI lifeboat, under Coxswain Robert Lee, which launched at 08:30 GMT to chase the Nafsiporos as the storm drove her across the sea.
Although a Shackleton aircraft circling above the ship was able to give its position, volunteers on the Douglas boat never saw the vessel, as the bad weather reduced visibility to less than 460m (1,500ft).
Meanwhile, Lt Comm Harold Harvey, RNLI North West's lifeboats inspector, volunteered his services and the Holyhead lifeboat St Cybi was launched at 10:30.
After three hours of searching, the Holyhead crew reached the stricken freighter, which was just eight miles (13km) from the Anglesey coast.
The waves were 10m (35ft) high and the Nafsiporos was rolling and being lifted high in the sea, its huge propellers churning in the air above the heads of the lifeboat crew.
Holyhead crewman Graham Drinkwater was just 19 at the time.
"I always remember the first moment we launched because that was my first time down the slipway," he said.
"Then the actual trip out from the lifeboat station to the area of the casualty was fantastic. Talk about a rollercoaster. I mean, you haven't seen anything 'til you've been out on that."
Mr Drinkwater, who went on to become lifeboat operations manager at Holyhead, added: "I remember the first moment I saw the ship. It was so massive compared to our boat. I got a bit apprehensive at that moment.
"We missed the first time, went round again, had a massive collision with the side of the Nafsiporos and then we were alongside."
It was now gone 16:00 and the sun had set.
One of the freighter's lifeboats had come loose and was swinging, making it difficult for her rescuers to get anywhere near her.
The Greek crewmen on board had to climb down a ladder on the side of the ship, dodging the swinging pendulum of their own lifeboat, and then leap to the RNLI boat, which was also being lifted and dropped by the sea.
Holyhead Second Coxswain William Jones said: "The rise and fall between the ship and lifeboat was enormous. One moment we were looking up at her and the next we were in line with her deck, a matter of around 20 feet or more."
Five crewmen made it to safety, but then the Nafsiporos' lifeboat fell crashing on to the Holyhead boat, damaging it and forcing the crew to withdraw.
The Moelfre lifeboat had already been out since 07:00, assisting two other vessels struggling in the storm.
The crew had barely got back to the station when they were asked to launch again to go to the aid of the Nafisiporos.
Coxswain Dic Evans, who died in 2001, managed to manoeuvre his lifeboat alongside the Nafsiporos.
He pulled another 10 of the Nafsiporos' crew on to the lifeboat's deck, while four refused to abandon ship.
Survivor John Patsoulas later remembered the Moelfre lifeboat crew standing in formation on the lifeboat's decks, linking their arms shoulder to shoulder, waiting to receive the sailors.
He and the other men rescued recalled lifeboatman David Evans, Coxswain Evans' son, as a "bear of a man… big, strong and powerful", who grabbed the sailors and tossed them into the lifeboat "like sacks of corn".
The Moelfre boat was badly damaged and without electrics and lighting, but set course for Holyhead to bring the 10 survivors to shore.
By the time they arrived on land, Coxswain Evans, then aged 61, had been at an open wheel exposed to the hurricane conditions for nearly 13 hours without a break.
The Holyhead crew paused only to have a cup of tea, then launched again to stand by the Nafsiporos through the night until a Dutch tug towed it, and its remaining crew, back to Liverpool the following morning.
Despite the dangerous conditions and near-misses, there were no fatalities or casualties.
Mr Harvey said: "We were all exhausted after 22 hours at sea, and during the night following the rescue many thoughts and silent prayers occupied our minds.
"Once ashore, the rum came out. We were all proud and grateful men, speaking little and bound by the experience of such extreme lifeboat drama and action."
Albert Bunjaku headed Kosovo into the lead just before half-time, shortly after Manchester City's Bursant Celina was sent off for shoving an opponent.
Elbasan Rashani finished off a counter-attack to seal Kosovo's win in stoppage time in Frankfurt, Germany.
The Faroes had Bogi Petersen dismissed 10 minutes from full-time.
"I expected a difficult game and it was even more difficult with 10 players," said Kosovo coach Albert Bunjaki. "We have to work hard but I can say Kosovo has a good future in the football."
Kosovo was accepted as a member of European soccer's governing body Uefa in May, with Fifa accepting them the following week.
The city's council has already capped the number of sex entertainment venues to "nil" and limited the number of bars in the city centre.
Swansea's main casino, Aspers, shut in 2012 saying the £13m venue was not commercially viable - leaving just one other in the city.
In 2005, Swansea was one of eight UK cities to be granted a small casino licence under legislation passed.
Cabinet members at Swansea council will discuss a proposed amendment to its licensing policy on Tuesday that could mean no new licences for casinos would be allowed in the city.
If they back the idea, it will then go out to public consultation before a final decision is made.
Cabinet member June Burtonshaw said: "The proposal to introduce a 'no casino' resolution is part of the council's anti-poverty policy and, if approved, would last for three years.
"It won't affect any existing casinos but it would mean no more would be allowed in Swansea."
She added: "Research has shown that vulnerable families, the unemployed and those living in poverty are most likely to experience the adverse effects of gambling.
"Gambling can lead to debt, divorce, crime and increase the stress of life on a low income, something which is particularly important in the current economic climate.
"Introducing a 'no casino' resolution would clearly support the council's anti-poverty policies and the work we are doing with our partners in tackling social inequality and debt in Swansea."
Last year, sex entertainment venues were banned in Swansea after councillors capped the number at "nil".
They voted to change the current policy from each application being dealt with on its own merits to one where they will "normally be refused". There are currently none in the city after the last licence ran out.
It covers lap dancing, pole dancing, table dancing, strip shows, peep shows and live sex shows.
The council also decided to restrict the number of premises allowed to sell alcohol after a report said Swansea city centre had reached "saturation point".
And last week, a bar became the first to have its bid for extended opening hours rejected since the new saturation policy was introduced.
Mr Pistorius has pleaded not guilty to intentionally killing his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp.
He shot dead the 29-year-old model and reality TV star at his home, saying he mistook her for an intruder.
Estelle Van Der Merwe, a neighbour, said the row had lasted about an hour.
By Pumza FihlaniBBC News, Pretoria
Well into day two of the trial, and a second witness, and another neighbour of Oscar Pistorius, has told the court about a commotion she heard in the early hours of the morning of the day Reeva Steenkamp was killed.
It is still early days, but this the state's argument that Mr Pistorius and his girlfriend of three months had had a terrible row before she died - a version of events the athlete denies.
There are grey skies over Pretoria and it has rained all morning, so unlike the first day of the trial, there are no dancing crowds outside court. There is still much interest in case of the "blade runner". However, as one woman outside court told me: "Everything that is happening today is not going to change anything, the fact is that poor girl is never coming back."
Eyes of the world on a fallen hero
"It seemed like somebody was involved in a fight," said Ms Van Der Merwe, who lives in the same gated Pretoria housing estate as the Paralympic athlete. "People were talking in loud voices."
The argument woke her at about 01:56 local time (23:56 GMT) and lasted about an hour. After that, she heard four loud sounds in succession.
Ms Van Der Merwe was the second witness to take the stand at the murder trial of Mr Pistorius, which began at the high court in on Monday.
The arrest of the 27-year-old double amputee and gold medal winner astounded South Africa.
For the first time in South Africa, parts of the trial are being televised live, although some witness testimony, including that of Ms Van Der Merwe, is being excluded from TV broadcasts.
However, the audio of the entire trial is being aired.
Mrs Van Der Merwe said she had been irritated by the noise of the argument and placed a pillow on her head "in hope of falling asleep again".
Tuesday's hearing adjourned not long after the third witness, Charl Peter Johnson - husband to the first witness Michelle Burger - had taken the stand.
The second day of the trial began with defence lawyer Barry Roux quizzing Ms Burger about her account of hearing a woman's screams, a man calling for help and then four gunshots.
The BBC's Andrew Harding in court says the defence line was clear that as Ms Steenkamp was in a closed toilet with a closed window, the screams the witness said she heard could not have come from her.
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Mr Pistorius was in the bathroom where the window was open so the screams must have come from him.
Mr Roux also suggested expert evidence would prove that Ms Steenkamp would have been unable to scream between shots.
When details of the bullets hitting her head were read out, Mr Pistorius's head dropped into his hands, our correspondent says.
At the start of proceedings on Monday, Mr Roux read out a statement from the athlete, giving his version of events of how Ms Steenkamp had died, saying he believed his girlfriend was in bed when he shot at the toilet door.
State prosecutors say Mr Pistorius planned the killing and shot Ms Steenkamp after a row.
If found guilty of premeditated murder, he could face life imprisonment.
He has also denied charges of illegally possessing ammunition.
There are no juries at trials in South Africa, and his fate will ultimately be decided by Judge Thokozile Masipa.
Much of the case will depend on ballistic evidence from the scene of the shooting, correspondents say.
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Mr Pistorius said in his statement at the start of the trial that he woke in the early hours and walked on his stumps to the balcony, pulled in two fans, closed the sliding door and drew curtains. He said that shortly before he had spoken to Reeva, who was in bed beside him.
He said he rejected prosecution claims that a witness heard arguing coming from the house before the shooting.
Mr Pistorius said he heard the bathroom window sliding open and believed that an intruder, or intruders, had entered the bathroom through a window which was not fitted with burglar bars.
"Unbeknown to me, Reeva must have gone to the toilet in the bathroom at the time I brought in the fans," he said.
Mr Pistorius said he approached the bathroom armed with his firearm, to defend himself and his girlfriend, believing Ms Steenkamp was still in bed.
Both sides agree four bullets were fired. Ms Steenkamp was hit three times.
Mr Pistorius said he fired his weapon after hearing a noise in the toilet which he thought was the intruder coming out of the toilet to attack him and Ms Steenkamp.
He said he was in a fearful state, knowing he was on his stumps and unable to run away or properly defend himself.
Mr Pistorius said he rejected claims that he was on his prostheses when he shot at the door.
A witness told the trial she woke to hear a woman screaming and a man shouting for help. She said that after the screams she heard four shots.
Mr Pistorius said he went back to the bedroom after shooting at the toilet door, still shouting for Reeva. Lifting himself up onto the bed, he felt over to the right hand side of it and noticed Ms Steenkamp was not there.
Mr Pistorius said this was when he realised she could have been in the toilet.
Mr Pistorius said he went back to the bathroom but the toilet was locked, so he returned to the bedroom, pulled on his prosthetic legs, turned on the lights before bashing in the toilet door with a cricket bat.
Forensics expert Johannes Vermeulen told the court that the height of the marks on the door caused by the cricket bat suggest Mr Pistorius was on his stumps at the time.
Mr Pistorius's defence team say he then called security at the gated housing complex and a private paramedic service before carrying Ms Steenkamp downstairs.
A security guard claimed it was the other way round, and he had called Mr Pistorius first after reports of gunfire. However, phone records shown to the court revealed Mr Pistorius called the estate manager at 3:19am, a minute later he called the ambulance service and at 3:21am he called estate security.
A minute later he received an incoming call - estate security calling him back.
According to police phone expert Francois Moller, Mr Pistorius called his friend Justin Divaris a short time later and just after 4:00am he called his brother Carl.
The Intelligence and Security Committee is examining whether laws governing intercept are "still fit for purpose".
The impact on people's privacy will also now be considered by the inquiry.
Concerns arose over "snooping" by the state after data-gathering centre GCHQ was cited in leaks by ex-US security contractor Edward Snowden.
The controversy sparked by Mr Snowden's leaks to the Guardian newspaper prompted the ISC inquiry.
In July, after reviewing GCHQ reports produced with material including US intelligence from its controversial Prism programme, the ISC decided that UK security services had not broken the law in accessing information on UK citizens.
The intercept activities of the UK spy agencies come under three pieces of legislation: The Intelligence Services Act 1994, the Human Rights Act 1998, and the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000.
On Thursday, ISC chairman Sir Malcolm Rifkind said: "In recent months concern has been expressed at the suggested extent of the capabilities available to the intelligence agencies and the impact upon people' s privacy as the agencies seek to find the needles in the haystacks that might be crucial to safeguarding national security.
"There is a balance to be found between our individual right to privacy and our collective right to security.
"An informed and responsible debate is needed," he said, adding that the ISC had "therefore decided to broaden the scope of its forthcoming inquiry to consider these wider questions, in addition to those relating to the existing legislative framework."
He said the inquiry would continue to examine classified information but also invite written evidence "more broadly, including from the public, to ensure that the committee can consider the full range of opinions expressed on these topics".
Mr Rifkind said the committee, which meets in secret, also hoped to hold some future evidence sessions in public.
The ISC was recently given greater powers to scrutinise the work of the security services and last week Downing Street dismissed suggestions that there could be a government review of its role.
Nick Pickles, director of Big Brother Watch, welcomed the ISC announcement but said "such a debate cannot be allowed to take place behind closed doors and without pressing questions being asked about the legal justification for what we know to be already happening at GCHQ and elsewhere".
Shami Chakrabarti, director of civil liberties campaigners Liberty, said: "Some will say better late than never, others fear a tactical whitewash to calm public concern.
"It's certainly significant that the committee feels compelled to dig a little deeper but that's no substitute for much broader public and political debate."
Violet Blades was buried at Hannah Park Cemetery in Worksop two weeks ago but Frank said he got the bill days after.
Clive Hopkinson Funeral Directors said the charge was due to Mr Blades visiting other graves and council staff staying over contracted hours.
Bassetlaw District Council denied this and insisted the bill was because the cortege arrived 45 minutes late.
Mr Blades said there was no mention of time limits either before or after the service.
When the £6,200 bill arrived, it had an "Additional Cemetery Fee" attached.
Mr Blades said : "I just accepted it. I just tried to forget it. It is just other people when I have told them, they have gone 'you are joking'.
"I've just ignored it, what is money at the moment? I am saying this because it might happen to other people."
Daughter Cindy Playfoot said it was "affecting the entire family".
A spokesperson for the funeral directors said: "We incurred a charge of £160 from Bassetlaw District Council due to their gravediggers working beyond their contracted hours when our client wished to visit other family graves following the funeral.
"As with any third-party fee that we pay on behalf of our clients this was included in our final invoice. Our funeral director remained with our client until he was ready to return home, for which we did not charge."
Liz Prime, head of neighbourhoods at Bassetlaw District Council, said she was surprised the charge had been passed on.
"The council has certainly not penalised Mr Blades for spending additional time at his wife's graveside to mourn her loss.
"As a burial authority it is important that we ensure the privacy of every funeral and that no two funerals take place at the same time. The onus is on the respective funeral director to ensure that each ceremony runs smoothly and on schedule," she said.
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Andre Bonjour was giving evidence to the ongoing care abuse inquiry about the arrest of Paul Every a decade ago.
Every was convicted in 2006 of an offence involving indecent images of children.
Mr Bonjour told the inquiry: "I categorically and emphatically deny that I would ever do such a thing."
Every was arrested as part of Operation Ore - a national investigation into online child abuse images - and was sentenced for an online subscription to a pornography website he had had in 1999.
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The folly of allowing Ferguson to wield his power one final time has been exposed with Moyes found to be out of his depth and sacked less than a year into the six-year contract he was awarded last summer.
Now the search starts again and, with even the manner in which United handled the Scot's departure coming under intense scrutiny, they simply cannot afford to make another managerial mistake.
The pressure will be on executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward to deliver as the reliance on Ferguson prevented United spreading the net wider last summer when names such as Pep Guardiola, Jose Mourinho and Carlo Ancelotti could have been taken into consideration.
There may be no Champions League football but Manchester United remain one of the biggest clubs in world football. So who are the names in the frame?
The 62-year-old Dutchman has all the pedigree and a past that suggests he could handle the job at Manchester United.
He has been strongly linked with Tottenham but that has been overtaken by talk he will be the man to succeed Moyes at Old Trafford.
Van Gaal is currently in his second spell in charge of the Netherlands but is stepping down after the World Cup - which in itself might present a problem for United.
If Van Gaal is the man they want he will not be able to cut away from his work with the national side until July, which some saw as one of the origins of the problem with Moyes last summer.
Four Eredivisie titles with Ajax (3) and AZ Alkmaar
One La Liga title with Barcelona
One Bundesliga title with Bayern Munich
Champions League with Ajax
Uefa Cup with Ajax
Two Uefa Super Cups with Ajax and Barcelona
Three domestic cups with Ajax, Barcelona and Bayern Munich
A man who would fulfil the principles of attacking football Old Trafford demands, Van Gaal has had a stellar career at Ajax, Barcelona and Bayern Munich. He won the Champions League with Ajax in 1995 and led Bayern to the 2010 final, where they lost to Inter Milan, after knocking United out along the way.
He is known for his dictatorial approach and fierce discipline but his record of success over the years has made him one of the most respected coaches in world football. And, in the mould of Ferguson, he can be an abrasive figure with the media.
One big plus in his favour would be a close relationship with United striker Robin van Persie after constant rumours that the striker was unimpressed with Moyes.
Van Gaal and Van Persie have been seen watching games together in the Netherlands recently and he has trusted him enough to hand him the captain's armband of the national side.
He is, however, much nearer the end of his career than the beginning. Has he got the time and the patience to carry out the major rebuilding required at Old Trafford?
Lowest available odds: Evens
In an ideal world, the charismatic Borussia Dortmund coach would probably be United's first choice as the replacement for David Moyes.
The 46-year-old has challenged the supremacy of Bayern Munich in winning the Bundesliga twice and taking Dortmund to the Champions League final last season, when they lost to their great rivals at Wembley.
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United's problem is that Klopp is fiercely loyal and only signed a new five-year contract last October. It is believed he has already made it clear he has no interest in taking the job.
Whether United are deflected permanently by this remains to be seen but he would be a hugely popular appointment.
Klopp's teams play fast, aggressive, attacking football in a pressing style he advocates. He would also bring colour, humour and personality to the Premier League.
For now, though, he seems out of reach.
Lowest available odds: 8-1
Carlo Ancelotti's laconic humour and calm demeanour has seen him cope admirably with some of the most fevered atmospheres in European football by enjoying success at AC Milan, Chelsea, Paris St-Germain and now at Real Madrid.
Ancelotti, 54, is a humble figure who was well-liked during his time in the Premier League at Chelsea. He won the league and FA Cup double in his first season and was the victim of a desperately harsh second place when he came up empty-handed in the next season.
He won the Champions League twice at AC Milan, Ligue 1 in France and has now taken Real to the Champions League semi-final.
Coaches have a short shelf life at the Bernabeu, so might the famously relaxed Ancelotti think life may be just a little less intense and pressurised at Old Trafford? He has the track record and reputation that would make him a comfortable fit.
Lowest available odds: 16-1
Ryan Giggs is the most decorated player in Manchester United's history and has the reins, albeit briefly, after being handed control for the final three games of the season after the sacking of David Moyes.
The 40-year-old has been put in place until a permanent appointment could be made - but might he make enough of an impression to be given the job permanently?
13 Premier League titles
Two Champions League
Four FA Cups
Four League Cups
Nine Charity/Community Shields
One Uefa Super Cup
One Continental Cup
One World Club Cup
Giggs was appointed to United's coaching staff when Moyes arrived but has escaped with his reputation untarnished as this grew to be seen as simply a marriage of convenience. The Welshman often seemed at a distance from the decision-making process at Old Trafford.
It is unlikely his turn will come this time because United are sure to seek a new manager with a track record of trophies - another credibility gap Moyes failed to bridge.
Giggs has the benefit of being adored by Manchester United fans and may even call on his former team-mates Paul Scholes and Nicky Butt to help out in these interim weeks.
He might be the romantic choice for many fans but his inexperience surely makes him an unrealistic one.
Lowest available odds: 7-1
The current hot property in world coaching after leading Atletico Madrid to the Champions League semi-finals and the top of La Liga ahead of Real Madrid and Barcelona.
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The 43-year-old Argentine, best remembered for being involved in the incident that saw David Beckham sent off in the France 98 World Cup, has built a team that reflects its coach's character.
Atletico are as intense as Simeone. They steamrollered Barcelona at stages in the Champions League quarter-final with a direct style that also carries great fluency and creativity.
Simeone is another who would be welcomed by Manchester United's fans but a drawback is his lack of English and his growing reputation may attract other clubs - although he shows no signs of wanting to leave what he is building at Atletico.
Lowest available odds: 14-1
Best remembered at Old Trafford for a short spell at Manchester United at the end of his career, when it was fair to say some of the old majesty and authority of his defending had gone.
Blanc is currently in charge at Paris St-Germain and is on course to win Ligue 1 - but their hopes of winning the Champions League were ended by Demba Ba's late goal for Chelsea in the quarter-final.
The former manager of France and Bordeaux, where he also won the title, is a low-key figure but very well respected in the world game.
He would, however, be an outside choice for the United job.
Lowest available odds: 12-1
In his book, Sir Alex Ferguson claimed the Portuguese was the only one of his assistants who could have been Manchester United manager. He had two spells at United, interrupted by an unsuccessful stay at Real Madrid.
Given the failure of Ferguson's last piece of managerial head-hunting with Moyes, it may well be that his advice is given a wider berth this time around.
Lowest available odds: 12-1
Sir Matt Busby returned for a second spell in charge when his succession plan with the appointment of Wilf McGuinness went badly wrong.
Will Ferguson, now a director but still a constant presence at Old Trafford on match-day, be tempted to do the same?
No, he wouldn't.
Lowest available odds: 14-1
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The Spain striker has scored more goals - seven - in his first four Premier League games than anyone before him. Another goal for the Spain striker at Etihad Stadium could see him equal the record of eight - jointly held by City's Sergio Aguero and former Coventry forward Mick Quinn - for a player's first five outings in England's top flight.
On the evidence we have seen so far, and despite a nagging hamstring problem restricting him to a substitute's role in Wednesday's Champions League draw with Schalke, few would back against him getting more than one.
Considering his sensational form since his £32m move from La Liga champions Atletico Madrid this summer, the easy assumption is that Costa is a natural-born goalscorer who has always been a prolific marksman.
That is far from the case, however. Until just over 12 months ago, he had a very different profile and looked more likely to spend his career as a useful but problematic squad player rather than "one of the greatest strikers in the world", as Jose Mourinho recently called him.
Although Costa has always been a tremendously hard-working, committed and team-oriented player, for a long time goal-scoring was by no means his greatest strength - in fact, it was arguably his greatest weakness.
After leaving his native Brazil as a 17-year-old in 2006 to sign for Portuguese side Braga and then joining Atletico a few months later, he was sent on loan to no less than five different clubs and failed to set the world on fire. During his first six seasons in Spain, two of which were spent in the Segunda Division with Celta Vigo and Albacete, Costa's league-scoring tallies were less than impressive: 6-10-8-6-10-10.
With his loan spells doing little to suggest he would ever become a regular starter for Atletico, Costa came extremely close to leaving the club for good in the summer of 2011, a move to Turkish side Besiktas only falling through when he suffered an injury after the deal had been agreed.
In those early days Costa always had potential, and his sheer determination was greatly appreciated by his various managers, but he was also extremely raw and inconsistent - especially in front of goal.
But there is a simple explanation for the striker's late development: until the age of 16, he had essentially been a street player, receiving little in the way of formal coaching and playing virtually no organised football.
Whereas most young players develop their technique under the guidance of qualified coaches and the benefit of professional facilities, Costa learned the hard way on the streets of Lagarto, his small hometown in Brazil.
Rather than scoring feats, the statistics that caught the eye in Costa's early years were his disciplinary problems. The fiery forward received 49 yellow cards across five league campaigns between 2008 and 2013.
His street-fighting mentality and fierce ambition to establish himself as a successful professional was a double-edged sword.
On the one hand, it made him an incredibly hard-working and brave player with little consideration for his own personal safety. On the other, it made him a magnet for trouble, his unquenchable competitive spirit too often crossing the line into outright nastiness. At times, he appeared to be so busy looking for a fight he would forget to play football.
The most unpleasant manifestation came in February 2013, when he embarked upon a running battle in a match against Sevilla which concluded with opposing midfielder Geoffrey Kondogbia receiving a red card for a stamp on Costa and later accusing the Atletico striker of racism.
A few weeks earlier, Costa had enraged Real Betis defender Antonio Amaya by aggressively mocking him for a mistake which led to an Atletico goal, leading Amaya to spit on him in a subsequent encounter and thunder: "Costa has no heart and no shame."
At that time, the Brazil-born striker was firmly established as public enemy number one for opposition fans and even his greatest admirers would have been forced to condemn some of his on-pitch antics.
His temperament was getting in the way of his talent.
The major turning point in Costa's career came in the summer of 2013 when Atletico accepted an offer from Monaco for Radamel Falcao, their leading scorer and attacking focal point.
Suddenly, Costa's role was transformed. Rather than serving as a physical foil for the Colombian's predatory talents, he was now the most important striker at the club, around whom the team's style would be constructed.
The additional responsibility presented a huge challenge, but it also brought a welcome display of confidence and immediately proved to be the making of a significantly improved player.
Another key factor was the huge influence of Atletico boss Diego Simeone, a fellow South American who knows a thing or two about successfully harnessing an aggressively competitive nature. He recognised a kindred spirit in Costa.
Simeone could regularly be seen yelling at Costa from the sidelines during games, beseeching him to calm down and avoid trouble. Motivating Costa has never been a problem, but Simeone managed to channel his energies in a more constructive manner.
He also played Costa cleverly with his media declarations, simultaneously reinforcing his confidence by regularly telling the world how good he was, while also keeping his striker focused by issuing public reminders that he still had a lot of room for improvement.
The combination of Costa's new importance within the team, his greater experience after a late start in the game and his relationship with the father-like Simeone turned him into a far more mature performer, thriving on his new status as Atletico's chief goal-getter.
Costa's rapid improvement saw him score 27 league goals, and 35 in all competitions, to spearhead Atletico's unlikely title triumph last season, and also moved Spain national boss Vicente Del Bosque to persuade him to switch international allegiances from his native Brazil.
After a long and fraught journey, Costa had finally arrived.
Despite his success over the past 13 months, can a player who never registered more than 10 league goals in a season until he was 25 really transform himself into a goal-per-game scorer?
History suggests that kind of dramatic improvement is rarely sustained in the long term, but one man who bucked the trend is former England captain Alan Shearer. The Newcastle legend (206 goals in 404 games) was not a particularly consistent marksman during his early days with Southampton (23 in 118 league games) but became a goal machine after moving to Blackburn (131 goals in 172 games).
Shearer has been impressed by Costa's exploits in England so far, telling Match of the Day: "He is looking the real deal. When it is not going as it should be for Chelsea, they have a goalscorer who can get them out of it.
"He is always available. He always wants the ball to feet and if you want to push him around and bully him, it is all right because he will do the same to you."
While Costa will never shy away from a physical challenge - one of the main reasons he has adapted so quickly to English football - what will happen when English football adapts to him? Will Costa continue to be so successful when Premier League managers have worked out how to negate his strengths?
Costa's struggles on the international stage (he has not scored in seven appearances: two for Brazil and five for Spain) have done nothing to allay suspicions that he is a limited performer who can only thrive in a predominantly counter-attacking team.
Spain, of course, play in a very different manner, and after Valencia striker Paco Alcacer's goalscoring debut against Macedonia earlier this month, Del Bosque now has to decide whether to stick with Costa or switch to a player, like Alcacer, whose abilities are more in tune with his team's short-passing, possession-based approach.
In Spain, many fans are currently siding with the latter option.
In contrast with his difficulties in establishing himself in the international arena, Costa is perfectly suited to the demands of English football.
With fans expecting their teams to opt for all-out attack rather than worrying about the space they leave behind, it's unlikely he will come up against too many of the deep-lying, disciplined defences that cause him trouble.
Instead, the physical and fast-paced style of the Premier League should continue to play to Costa's strengths, finding space in which to operate and bullying opposition defenders out of his way as he charges towards goal.
Chelsea, it is clear, have got themselves an uncompromising striker who will give every ounce of effort for the cause, and who has significantly improved both technically and mentally after struggling during the early part of his career.
Whether he maintains his prolific scoring rate remains to be seen, but the early signs are encouraging.
But amid all the pomp and ceremony of this, the first Olympics behind the Iron Curtain, there was one thing Brezhnev failed to mention in his welcome speech: just a few years earlier, he had seriously considered ditching the whole project.
In 1975, General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party Brezhnev had written to a colleague in the Politburo complaining of the costs involved and warning of possible scandals if Moscow hosted the Olympics.
"Some comrades have suggested to me that if we pay a small fine we could get out of this," he wrote.
Vladimir Putin has taken a very different approach to his Olympic Games.
From the outset, President Putin has been heavily involved in Sochi 2014 - from lobbying the International Olympic Committee to bring the games to Russia, to inspecting construction sites and, more recently, testing out completed sports facilities.
Sochi is his pet project: to show Russia as a great world power, and himself as a great leader.
Yet, curiously, the two things Leonid Brezhnev had feared - spiralling costs and scandals - are now a feature of Vladimir Putin's Olympic Games.
The estimated bill for venues and accompanying infrastructure is an estimated $50bn: Sochi has been described as the most expensive Olympics ever.
As for the list of scandals making headlines in the West, it is almost as long as the ski slopes of Sochi.
It includes allegations of corruption, complaints from unpaid construction workers, concern about the rights of sexual minorities in Russia and worries over security.
"The Russian Olympics is already a scandal," says Liliya Shevtsova, a senior associate at the Moscow Carnegie Centre.
"It is the embodiment of corruption, inefficiency, irrationality, extreme vanity and megalomania. It is a waste of money in a country that cannot afford a decent life for ordinary people. It reminds me of Mussolini and Ceausescu. They also built glamorous projects that are now monuments to absurdity."
The Russian authorities reject accusations that Olympic funds have been mis-spent or stolen.
"The Russian Audit Chamber and the Russian Tax Service have uncovered no cases of corruption linked to Sochi," the President of Russia's Olympic Committee Alexander Zhukov informs me.
Mr Zhukov also maintains it is wrong to include the cost of infrastructure projects in the Olympic bill.
"Sochi used to have just one road. Now around 20 new ones have been built. There's a new sewage system, a new power station, new gas pipes. But these are not Olympic costs. This is the kind of infrastructure which a city like Sochi has to have if it is to attract tourists. This is, after all, the main resort in Russia."
When the USSR hosted the Summer Olympics in 1980, more than 60 countries stayed away in protest at the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
This time around, there will be no international boycott to spoil President Putin's party. Many Western leaders, though, have decided to not to go to Sochi.
"It would be strange if all international leaders were to attend an Olympics," Russian State TV presenter Vladimir Solovyov points out.
"They don't have anything better to do? This isn't about politics and politicians. It's about sport. If President Obama was a participant in the games, if he was competing in the figure skating, then him not coming to Sochi would spoil the pleasure."
On Friday Russian Television will broadcast a documentary about Vladimir Putin's personal contribution to the Sochi Olympics.
In a sneak preview aired this week, the president revealed how he personally had chosen the site for what became the Olympic site.
It reminded me of Peter the Great, the tsar who 300 years ago selected the location for his grand new capital, St Petersburg.
For Tsar Peter, moving the capital from Moscow to St Petersburg was an attempt to move Russia closer to Europe. The new city was his window on the West.
President Putin has said he hopes the Sochi Games will help "build bridges". But these Olympics are unlikely to bring modern Russia and the West closer.
"Putin cannot change the doctrine of his own survival," believes Liliya Shevtsova, "and his doctrine is containment of the West and building Russia as a centre of the traditional civilisation with a galaxy all around. His doctrine already is making us distant from the West, an antithesis to Western civilisation. Sochi cannot change anything."
I drive a few miles north of Moscow to the town of Mytishi, where there is a street called "Olympic Prospekt" - the name dates back to 1980.
A street cleaner is scraping ice off the pavement and local residents bundled up in fur coats are hurrying past grey Soviet-era apartment blocks on their way to the shops or to work.
I get chatting to people here and discover how little interest there is in Sochi scandals.
"I can't wait for the Games to start, especially the ice hockey," says Viktor. "I know that a lot of money has been spent on them. And that might be why the rouble has taken a bit of tumble. But it's probably worth it. The Olympics are a good cause."
"It's not corruption I'm worried about," Elena tells me. "I'm more concerned with how our athletes are going to do. I'm so used to hearing about money being stolen. It's just not news."
President Putin knows that his Olympics have sparked controversy abroad. He is well aware that many Western leaders will not be attending.
But he knows, too, that most Russians will be glued to their TV sets - more concerned with how many medals their country will win, not how much money it cost to put on the show.
In a Moscow art gallery, a pianist is performing America the Beautiful.
The scene is surreal. Above me hangs a sculpture of enormous outstretched arms. To my right is what appears to be a tree of twisted arms and legs for branches. A humongous hand is growing out of the wall.
Amongst these curious limbs stands a brand new statue, just unveiled. It depicts a handshake between the former US President Ronald Reagan and his Soviet counterpart Mikhail Gorbachev.
Back in the 1980s, Mr Reagan and Mr Gorbachev overcame mutual suspicion to end the Cold War: an example which the organisers here hope Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin will follow as they hold their first face-to-face meeting.
"It's our message to them, that 'Guys, we are now reaching a very dangerous line. Very dangerous,'" explains Edward Lozansky, president of the American University in Moscow. "It's not even a red line. It's a double or triple red line. 'So you'd better do something.'"
Those "red lines" run through Syria, Ukraine and the Korean peninsula; through America, too, where Russia stands accused of interfering in last year's US presidential election to the benefit of Mr Trump.
"Of course, Putin is in a much better position," Edward Lozansky believes. "He formulates Russian foreign policy and the country backs him, giving him a free hand. Trump is much weaker. Every time he says he wants to improve relations with Russia, he's accused of being a Russian stooge or Kremlin surrogate."
Last month, the Russian government paper Rossiyskaya Gazeta concluded that "it's impossible to expect anything" from a Putin-Trump meeting, since "…the US administration has its hands and legs tied".
This week the business daily Vedomosti suggested that "experts consider it an achievement the talks are happening at all".
The anchor of Russian state TV's flagship News of the Week show, Dmitry Kiselev, said the most Russia could hope for from the bilateral meeting is that Putin and Trump "get to know each other and agree to meet again".
The tone of the pro-Kremlin media has changed. A few months ago, Russian TV was showering America's president with compliments. Kiselev called him a "real man". More recently, though, the presenter described Mr Trump as "more dangerous" than Kim Jong-un of North Korea.
Following Mr Trump's election victory, Russia was seized with Trumpomania: his portrait slapped on everything from golden iPhones to boxes of sugar cubes.
But US-Russian relations haven't grown sweeter. And that has left some Russians feeling very sour.
In a park in St Petersburg I meet a group of musical Cossacks. Dressed in full military uniforms, they sing a Cossack prayer, beseeching the Lord to bless the people and provide them with food, truth and freedom.
Watching with me is local Cossack chief Andrey Polyakov. I first met Andrey last November. His community had been so excited by the prospect of a pro-Russia US president, it had made Mr Trump an honorary Cossack.
Eight months on, Andrey's group has grown so disillusioned with its American 'colleague' that it has expelled Mr Trump from its ranks.
"The US president has broken his promises. And a man must keep his word," Andrey tells me. "He said relations with Russia would improve, that he would reduce funding for Nato and that he would focus on domestic affairs. Instead, the US continues its aggressive foreign policy, for example in the Middle East."
Of course, being kicked out of the Cossacks is the least of Mr Trump's problems. Of greater concern will be the numerous investigations back home into Russia's alleged links to the Trump team.
Whether it's replacing healthcare or building a wall on the Mexican border, from his Muslim travel ban to improving relations with Russia, Mr Trump is finding that election promises are easy to make, but difficult to keep. For all his pre-election talk of getting along with Moscow, the US President will struggle to strike a grand bargain with President Putin.
And yet in terms of character, the two leaders have much in common and could well develop a personal rapport. They share a suspicion of the mainstream Western media and of liberal society, while both seem to eschew political correctness.
Is that enough to forge a US-Russian partnership?
Back at the art gallery, I meet someone who has experience in bringing east and west closer together.
Suzanne Massie is an American writer who fell in love with the Russian people and Russian culture. As an adviser to Ronald Reagan, she was instrumental in changing his perception of the USSR as an evil empire. She would coach him before his meetings with Mr Gorbachev.
Could Mr Trump be a new Reagan?
"Reagan wanted to learn," Suzanne Massie tells me. "He was a deeply religious man with a very great moral compass."
"And Donald Trump?" I ask.
"Trump ought to curb his instant reactions. He's a man who doesn't have experience with all of this. I hope he can listen carefully to the Russian president and think of the good of, not only our people in the United States, but also the Russian people."
"That's a shame," sighs its director Julia Ducournau as she glances at a recent article about a screening in Los Angeles.
"It clearly doesn't do justice for my movie, which is not a barf fest. I think it's very reductive."
The film, out in the UK this week, tells the story of a vegetarian student, Justine (Garance Marillier), who eats raw meat for the first time during a blood-soaked "hazing ceremony" for new recruits at veterinary school.
Far from making her throw up, the experience leads to a craving for flesh - both animal and human.
The cannibalism scenes in the film were too much for some at the Toronto International Film Festival last year.
It was widely reported at the time that a couple of patrons required medical attention during screening in the festival's Midnight Madness strand.
"This is where the urban legend started," says Ducournau, chewing over the incident with the BBC in London some six months later.
The French filmmaker was at the same screening, but says she did not personally see anyone faint. She was told about it after her on-stage Q&A session.
"I was really sorry about these people," she says. "I think going to the movies should be a celebration. It's always hard when you have people leaving the party."
She is keen to put the whole thing into context.
"At film festivals people tend to see a lot of movies during the day and they don't eat enough, so when you go to a Midnight Madness screening you have to expect this kind of thing."
She is clearly not happy about the type of headlines the film has been receiving.
"It's a shame for my work because some people are going to think this movie is too hard core for them and they won't be able to handle it.
"And some are going to want to see torture porn or a gore fest and they are going to be disappointed. So no-one wins."
Since its premiere at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival almost a year ago, Raw has attracted mostly enthusiastic reviews.
Variety described it as "Suspiria meets Ginger Snaps" and said the gore effects were "so realistic that they are hard to look at".
However, Ducournau asserts that Raw is not a horror movie.
"As much as I'm a fan of horror movies, I did not write this movie to scare people," she says.
"It's a crossover movie for sure between comedy, drama and body horror - that being a sub-genre of horror."
The first horror film Ducournau ever saw was The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Tobe Hooper's 1974 shocker about a family of cannibals.
She was six years old.
"My parents took me to a dinner party and put me in the bedroom in front of cartoons. I changed channels and saw a part of the movie. But I didn't know what I was looking at."
She admits she "got bored" and didn't see the film's most disturbing scenes. Seeing it years later as a teenager, it had a "traumatic effect" on her.
Now 33, Ducournau is coming to the end of an almost year-long publicity trail for Raw and is writing her next film.
All she will reveal is that it's "going to be in the same vein - the same mix of genres".
She'll doubtless be hoping it won't generate the same kind of headlines as Raw.
"It's a shame when I worked so hard to get a balance between genres - and to make it resonate at a human level - to be reduced to a barf bag... but there is nothing I can do about this," she says.
Isn't all publicity good publicity?
"As a director, no," she replies matter-of-factly. "Probably my distributors would say differently."
Raw is out in UK cinemas 7 April.
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Lynne Radke, 53, was reported missing after last seen being seen in John O'Groats on Monday morning.
Police Scotland said the body that has been found has still to be formally identified.
But the family of Ms Radke has been informed.
Due to open in 2018, three new buildings on the site with provide training facilities for pilots and ground crews for the UK's first F-35 Lightning II fighter II aircraft.
Work on building the three facilities will start this month.
The project is being funded by the Ministry of Defence.
The investment has secured RAF Marham's future as the home of the F-35 fighter in the UK.
The 300 jobs will be creating in building the centres.
Defence Secretary Michael Fallon said: "This is an important milestone in the delivery of the UK's new cutting-edge combat aircraft. It underlines the vital contribution British industry is making to the global F-35 programme.
"The planes are part of our plan for stronger and better defence, backed by a budget that is rising this year for the first time in six years, and will keep rising until the end of the decade."
SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon, Labour's Kezia Dugdale, Conservative Ruth Davidson, Lib Dem Willie Rennie and Green Patrick Harvie took turns to quiz each other during the STV debate.
They also took questions from the audience on issues including tax, the budget, healthcare and education.
Further debates are to be held ahead of the Holyrood election on 5 May.
The five leaders clashed for the second time in a week, following a BBC debate alongside UKIP Scotland leader David Coburn.
Mr Coburn was not present at the STV debate, and his attempt to chip in his views through social media via a live streaming app was largely thwarted by technical difficulties.
Tax, an early point of contention in the election campaigns, was the first issue to be discussed, with Ms Sturgeon defending her plans as "fair", noting she was attacked as being both too timid and too radical.
Ms Dugdale, who wants to raise the top rate of income tax to 50p, said the SNP leader "won't ask rich people to pay a penny more", while Patrick Harvie, who backs a top rate of 60p, said there could not be a "status quo tax policy".
Meanwhile, Ms Davidson said it it was "not in the national interest" to have higher taxes in Scotland than in the rest of the UK, and argued that taxes should be about raising money for public services not "punishing people who earn money".
Mr Rennie, whose Liberal Democrats back adding 1p to all income tax bands, added: "Nicola Sturgeon has bellyached about austerity and when she finally gets the chance to do something about it she is frozen to the spot, she's not seizing the opportunity to do something radical, transformational."
The key exchanges came when each party leader was singled out to be questioned by a panel of their opponents.
Ms Davidson came under fire from Ms Sturgeon over Conservative proposals to end free prescriptions and university tuition fees in Scotland.
She said her party would charge students "just over £1,500 a year" for university tuition, to be paid after graduation, and said they wanted to "phase" in prescription charges to a level of "about £8". Ms Sturgeon claimed this made the Tories "the party of hidden taxes".
Ms Davidson hit back that the "cost of university education is 152,000 college places, the cost is the fact that poor people in Scotland are half as likely to be able to get into university as south of the border".
When it came to her turn, Ms Dugdale was questioned on Labour's decision to stand "shoulder to shoulder" with the Conservatives during the 2014 Scottish independence campaign, with Ms Sturgeon asking her to "apologise".
Ms Dugdale said she did not regret voting No and said she would do so again.
Ms Sturgeon's turn to be questioned also featured constitutional exchanges, with Ms Davidson asking her how her plans to build a new case for independence could possibly be seen as respecting the outcome of the referendum.
Ms Sturgeon said she believed that Scotland would become independent within her lifetime and said she needed to persuade more people of that "over the months and years to come".
During Mr Rennie's questioning, he said Ms Sturgeon should be "embarrassed" by her government's record on education, but was attacked by the other party leaders over the Liberal Democrats "propping up" the Conservatives at Westminster from 2010 to 2015.
Ms Davidson also attacked the Liberal Democrats for "flip flopping" on issues including tax and fracking, and quizzed Green party co-convenor Mr Harvie on how he planned to grow Scotland's economy while raising taxes.
Mr Harvie said he would not "shed a tear" at the rich having to pay more in taxes, and said more needed to be invested in sustainable renewable industries.
The closing stages of the debate were also concerned with Scottish independence, with audience members and host Bernard Ponsonby pressing Ms Sturgeon on what the SNP's manifesto will have to say on the topic.
She said she would not reveal the exact wording, but promised to put the issue "in the hands of the people", arguing it would not be fair for her to rule out another referendum.
Ms Dugdale, who said the case for independence had "fallen apart", said Labour's manifesto would rule out another vote on the matter during the next parliament.
Ms Davidson said the SNP leader would "keep Scotland on a knife-edge", which she said was "shameful", and called on her to apologise for not "respecting" the outcome of the 2014 vote.
Gary Carruthers, 35, admitted his guilt and was jailed on Wednesday.
Ch Supt George Clarke said PSNI officers had identified the children in the photos held by Carruthers and have already spoken to their parents.
He said none of those in the images had reported "contact offending".
Mr Clarke also reassured parents of children at the school that Carruthers had not shared the images with anyone else.
Carruthers was caught by police with about 30,000 indecent images of children, some of the victims were as young as two years old.
In a safe at his home, detectives also found computer discs and storage devices, manuals on how to abuse children, and even classroom registers.
He pleaded guilty to possessing the indecent images and was sentenced to three years in prison.
At the time of his arrest, parents at his former workplace were sent a note explaining that there was a child safeguarding issue at the school.
Some parents have told the BBC they were not given enough information about the arrest and trial of the part-time cleaner at their child's school for such serious crimes against children.
They also expressed concern about images of their children being distributed online, with one father asking: "Is my wee girl's face on computer screens in other countries?"
Mr Clarke advised parents at the school that if they have not been contacted by police at this stage, they should not be concerned.
The officer told the BBC that Carruthers "used one of those images to manufacture an image of abuse".
"So he took an abuse image he manufactured on the image of a child at the school.
"He also had a number of other images of children at the school, so any child that is in that group we have identified.
"We have spoken to the child and their parents and none of those have disclosed contact offending, so that should be a reassurance to the parents that we haven't spoken to that they're not in that category."
"It's also very important to note that there's no suggestion whatsoever that he was involved in distribution of these images," he added.
All four members of the band and their manager died in a car crash in Sweden on 13 February 2016.
Guitarist River Reeves' stepmother Sharon Dunne said she and the other families were still in "shock".
She was speaking as five buses bearing a picture of the band were launched in their home town of Warrington.
She said the four piece had been "so full of life" and their deaths "so unexpected that it is like they're just still on tour".
"It's just a really weird feeling - you can't explain it, because you just don't want it to be true, and [there is] always disbelief."
Reeves and his bandmates Jack Dakin, Kris Leonard and Tomas Lowe, were in a car driven by band manager Craig Tarry, which crashed into a raised section of a bridge and plummeted into a canal.
Tests showed no alcohol or drugs in the blood of Mr Tarry.
In December, a coroner has said he did not think it would "ever be known" what caused the crash.
Ben Dunne, the guitarist's father, said he had found strength from the support the families had received.
"When you meet parents who have lost children, there is an immediate connection, but having said that from the wider community, the music community, there's been so much empathy and love towards us," he said.
The Arriva buses, one of which has been converted into a mobile recording studio, have been produced in collaboration with the River Reeves Foundation, an organisation set up by Mr Dunne in memory of his son.
Mr Dunne said the foundation, set up to support young people in the performing arts, was founded to see "good to come to other people".
Adam Fanelli, 31, was found dead at Nash Park travellers' site in Buckinghamshire on 17 March.
Addy McAllister, 34, of Charlesworth Street, Bolsover, and Jemma Price, 30, of Ridgeway, Kensworth, deny murder.
But Mr McAllister told Luton Crown Court it was Mr Price who fought with Mr Fanelli.
The body of father-of-two Mr Fanelli, from Dunstable, Bedfordshire, was discovered in a field next to the travellers' site in Winslow Road in Nash near Milton Keynes.
He had 159 separate injuries and post-mortem tests showed he died from blunt force trauma to the head.
Mr McAllister told jurors Mr Fanelli had bought drugs for him and Mr Price in Dunstable before the three set off for Nash in Mr Fanelli's van.
An argument broke out at the site, between Mr Fanelli and Mr Price, who had armed himself with two knives and punctured three tyres on the van. Mr Fanelli then came towards Mr Price with a drain-pipe.
Mr McAllister said at this point he managed to get the knives and run off, discarding them in a nearby field.
When he returned, he said he found the pair fighting and neither was backing down.
"They were like two dogs fighting," he said.
He tried to intervene, but said he got into the van and drove off fearing for his safety.
When he returned soon after he found Mr Price washing his hands and no sign of Mr Fanelli.
"I asked him what had happened to the lad (Mr Fanelli) and he said he had sent him home," he said.
He learned the next day that Mr Fanelli's body had been found.
The prosecution allege both defendants inflicted a severe beating on the victim.
Aubameyang scored twice to help Dortmund beat Werder Bremen 4-3 - his first coming three minutes before the break and his second from the spot in the 89th minute.
It put the 27-year-old one goal ahead of Bayern Munich's Robert Lewandowski who failed to score in the German champions' 4-1 win over Freiburg.
Aubameyang becomes only the second African player to win the golden boot in Germany after Ghana's Tony Yeboah achieved the feat twice whilst playing for Eintracht Frankfurt - in the 1992-93 season and the following year in the 1993-94 campaign.
Borussia Dortmund's victory over Werder Bremen gave them a third place finish in the Bundesliga and secured their automatic spot in the Champions League group stage.
The Olympic bronze medallist beat the Polish pair Malgorzata Bialecka and Zofia Noceti-Klepacka to take the gold.
The 32-year-old made the most of ideal conditions at Mondello beach to triumph in the winner-takes-all medal race.
"I am really happy - it is something that has always eluded me," said Shaw, who won bronze at the Beijing Olympics in 2008.
"I have finished second a number of times and now all the hard physical and technical work has really paid off."
The RS:X European Championships is the second most important Olympic windsurfing regatta staged by the RS:X class.
Shaw has previously won bronze and silver in the competition.
The 90-tonne installation, entitled Straight, is made from steel rods from buildings damaged in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake.
It forms part of a major retrospective of Ai's work opening at the Academy in London in September.
The show is being mounted in Ai's absence, since he cannot leave China.
Following the Sichuan quake, Ai collected some 200 tonnes of twisted steel rods destined for recycling. They were straightened by hand in his studio in Beijing and returned to the form they would have been in before they were bent by the earthquake.
The resulting artwork is described by the RA as "a sober monument to the victims of the earthquake".
In a statement, Ai said he was "honoured" to have the chance to exhibit at the Royal Academy.
"I'm very happy to be a part of it. This exhibition is my first major survey in London, a city I greatly admire. The selected artworks reflect my practice in recent years, and also include new works made specifically for this show."
Among those new pieces is Remains (2015) - a porcelain work that replicates a group of bones excavated at the site of a labour camp that operated under Communist leader Mao Zedong in the 1950s.
Adrian Locke, co-curator of the exhibition said: "Working with Ai Weiwei has presented us with new challenges but his ability to comprehend space, even without having experienced it first-hand, and the clarity of his vision for the use of that space in relation to his work has been revelatory."
The RA said exhibition was developed in close collaboration with Ai, who "virtually navigated the spaces" from his studio in Beijing.
Ai used a similar method when he helped but together an exhibition of his work at Blenheim Palace last year.
The artist has not been able to leave China since his passport was confiscated four years ago.
An outspoken critic of the Chinese government, Ai was detained for almost three months without charge in 2011. After he was released, he was accused of tax evasion and fined 15m yuan ($2.4m, £1.5m).
As part of his bail conditions, the Chinese authorities imposed a foreign travel ban on the artist.
Ai Weiwei at the Royal Academy runs from 19 September - 13 December 2015.
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The 32-year-old is part of England's World Cup squad but had a medical while on international duty and is believed to have signed a two-year deal.
The Liverpool-born forward spent five years at Anfield as a youth player.
Blackpool: 3 games, 0 goals (1998-2000)
Macclesfield: 49 games, 10 goals (2001-2002)
Stockport: 110 games, 19 goals (2002-2005)
Rochdale: 68 games, 28 goals (2005-2006)
Bristol Rovers: 155 games, 59 goals (2006-2009)
Southampton: 235 games, 117 goals (2009-present)
"I can't believe it. I've loved this club all my life. I left here 17 years ago and I haven't stopped loving it since," said Lambert.
"I have always dreamt of playing for Liverpool, but I did kind of think the chance of playing for them had gone. I didn't think the chance would come.
"I've been trying to keep it as low-key as possible. Only telling close family.
"My mum and dad shed a few tears when I told them, my mum in particular."
Lambert, who has two goals in four England appearances, scored 14 goals in 39 games for Southampton in the past season.
In all, he has netted 117 times in 235 appearances since joining the south coast club from Bristol Rovers in 2009.
Lambert had two years remaining on his contract with Southampton.
"I know how big Liverpool are - and it means everything to me - but I know what is important," he added in an interview with the Liverpool website.
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"I know it's what I do on the pitch and the minutes I play.
"I know that's what matters, and that's what I'll be focused on."
There had been interest in Lambert from other clubs, but it is understood he was only considering Liverpool.
Lambert issued an open letter on the Southampton website in which he thanked the club, the managers he has played under and ex-team-mates during his spell at the St Mary's side.
"The five-year plan when I arrived was to get this club from League One to the top half of the Premier League. Against all the odds we have achieved that," he said.
"Now, under Katharina Liebherr's leadership, the club has the chance for a new plan, a new chapter, and I wish them all the success in the world."
Liverpool are still interested in signing England midfielder Adam Lallana, 26, and Croatia defender Dejan Lovren, 24, from Southampton but they say they would prefer not to conduct "any transfers until the new manager is in place".
The scandal unfolded on Wednesday at St Philip's College, a private school in the outback town of Alice Springs.
The school apologised to the Jewish exchange students who were present.
The principal confirmed the student asked "a respected staff member" for permission to dress up as the Nazi dictator and that she had said yes.
"In a busy school, this student did go to a respected staff member said 'is this OK?' and the staff member said 'yes'," Roger Herbert told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
"Now she is absolutely shattered that she said that, and I'm really concerned about her wellbeing."
Last month a Western Australian mother was criticised for painting her white son's skin black in tribute to his idol, Australian Rules player Nic Naitanui.
Mr Naitanui, who is of Fijian heritage, said on Twitter that he did not believe there was any intentional offence but said the boy's mother should "reflect and choose an alternate method next time".
The man was walking along Union Street close to the "four corners" at about 23:25 on Wednesday when he was attacked.
Police Scotland said the suspect then headed off towards Argyle Street where he may have got into a taxi.
Officers believe the attacker had a three-wheel shopping trolley or support frame with him at the time.
It is also thought he was in the company of two other men who were not involved in the incident.
He is described as a white man aged 20-25, of medium height and build. He was wearing dark clothing with white trainers and a Tammy hat.
The victim is being treated at Glasgow Royal Infirmary where his condition has been described as stable. Police have appealed for witnesses to contact them.
He said he could not remember meeting the band Spirit, who claim the band stole their guitar riff for Stairway to Heaven in the 1970s.
"I don't have a recollection of almost anyone I've hung out with," Plant said, causing roars of laughter in the court.
The case was brought on behalf of Spirit's late guitarist, Randy Wolfe.
His estate claims the opening riff of the 1968 song Taurus is fundamentally the same as the iconic opening bars of Stairway to Heaven. Defence lawyers argue the chord progression in question is very common and has been in use for more than 300 years.
The prosecution has argued Led Zeppelin became familiar with Spirit's song after the two bands played on the same bill in Plant's hometown at the Birmingham club Mother's in 1970.
Spirit's bassist Mark Andes testified last week he met Plant at the show and played snooker with him afterward.
Plant insisted he had no memory of that night, saying that in all the "hubbub and chaos" it would be hard to remember a one-off meeting 40 years ago.
"I can't actually recall Spirit or anyone playing there with the passing of time," he said.
Plant partially attributed his lack of memory to a bad car crash on his way home from the club. Both he and his wife suffered head injuries in the accident, he told the court, after the windshield of his Jaguar was left "buried" in his face.
The singer-songwriter also spoke at length about the creation of Stairway to Heaven.
He reiterated the assertions made by his bandmates Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones that the song began at the country estate Headley Grange and not the Welsh cottage Bron-Yr-Aur, contradicting decades of Led Zeppelin mythology.
"One evening, Jimmy Page and I sat by the fire going over bits and pieces," Plant testified, explaining the band had worked on several other songs that night, including Misty Mountain Hop and Battle of Evermore.
He recalled when guitarist Jimmy Page played the introduction to the song, things had started "rolling pretty fast".
"It was quite a thing," Plant said, to "see it develop into something I couldn't imagine".
He retired to another room to work on the lyrics, inspired by the "pastoral areas of Britain I love", and initially came up with a "little couplet" to open the song.
When asked what the couplet was, Plant replied "Oh, gosh" before half-singing, half-speaking the lyrics: "There's a lady who's sure all that glitters is gold and she's buying a stairway to heaven."
Plant's lawyer, Peter Anderson, also asked the vocalist whether he could read or write music. "I haven't learned yet," he replied laughing - the insinuation being that, even if he had wanted to copy Taurus, he could not have transcribed the guitar riff and given it to Jimmy Page.
Page later took the stand himself, and spoke further about the creation of Stairway, which he described as "an ambitious piece".
Jurors listened to demo recordings of the song, and heard Page describe how he worked to create a song that built from the gentle acoustic opening to a thrilling electric guitar solo.
The tapes showed how the song developed, including a guitar part that Page later discarded. The lyrics were not fully formed, with Plant's hook, "it makes me wonder" notably absent.
The song was also in a different key - and Plant screwed up his face when the court heard a strained, poorly-pitched note in the final tape.
After playing the nascent recordings, Anderson aired the full, finished, eight-minute version of Stairway to Heaven for the jury.
Afterwards he asked Page one simple question: Is this Stairway to Heaven, as written by Page and Plant? "Yes, it is," Page answered. With that, the defence rested their case.
The jury is expected to start their deliberations on Wednesday.
Lawyers for Page and Plant had previously asked Judge R Gary Klausner to rule on the case without sending it to the jury, but he refused the request.
An oystercatcher has made its home on "Attenborough's Walk" at Cley Marshes, which was opened on 12 June.
The path connects the marshes with another Norfolk Wildlife Trust site, Salthouse Marshes.
The protected bird's chicks are expected to fledge "in a couple of weeks", when the path will reopen.
"Oystercatchers are large black and white wading birds with a long, orange-red bill and reddish-pink legs," said Salthouse Marshes warden Adam Pimble.
"It has chosen to nest on the path and as it is a protected bird this means we have had to close the footpath."
Norfolk Wildlife Trust bought the stretch of land in 5 miles (8km) of protected coastal sites in 2012 following a £900,000 public appeal and a Heritage Lottery Fund grant.
Mohammed Emwazi was born in Kuwait in 1988 and came to the UK in 1994 when he was six years old.
He was educated at the Quintin Kynaston Community Academy in St John's Wood, north London.
The then headteacher, Jo Shuter, has told the BBC that she never suspected that the "reasonably hardworking" pupil would become the man we know him to be today.
Emwazi was 14 when Ms Shuter arrived at the school and she found him to be a quiet young man, with caring responsibilities outside of school as the oldest of a number of siblings.
"He had adolescent issues," she said. "Particularly at that age - year nine, particularly the boys, is a time when the hormones start raging, and he had some issues with being bullied, which we dealt with.
"By the time he got into the sixth form, he, to all intents and purposes, was a hardworking aspirational young man who went on to the university that he wanted to go to. "I can't stress enough, he wasn't a huge concern to us."
He later graduated in computing from the University of Westminster in 2009 and his final address in the UK before he went abroad was in the Queen's Park area of north-west London.
Emwazi came to the attention of the security services during the same year as MI5 and other agencies monitored suspected extremists linked to foreign fighters joining al-Shabab in Somalia.
Going by the name Muhammad ibn Muazzam, he had travelled to Tanzania with another Briton, known as "Abu Talib" and a third man, a German convert called "Omar".
Once they arrived, they were denied entry and interrogated and Emwazi later claimed to Cage, a campaign group in London, that they had been subject to harassment and abuse.
But a police officer in Tanzania has told the BBC that Emwazi was deported for being drunk and abusive,
The officer said Emwazi "brought chaos to the airport" by being "rough and noisy" and that he behaved "like alcohol was involved".
His behaviour led him to being refused entry to the country, along with his two friends.
Emwazi later said he had been threatened at gunpoint and was told to ask the British government why he had been stopped.
But Tanzanian immigration commissioner Abdullah Khamis Abdullah said no instructions had been issued from any other country to stop Emwazi.
And the arresting officer said Emwazi was not tortured, as he later claimed.
Cage said that Emwazi was questioned by both Dutch and British security services as he returned home via The Netherlands. The account he gave to the campaign group includes allegations that MI5 spoke to his fiancee - and she then ended the relationship. Emwazi himself was not charged with an offence.
Wider network
But MI5's view was that this had been no innocent post-university safari holiday. He was considered an associate of a number of high-profile suspected jihadists whom they were tracking across the world.
One of them was a married man with two children whom we can only identify as "CE". He was placed on a control order in 2011 and forcibly relocated from London. During his legal challenge against the house-arrest style conditions, the security service's lawyers argued that his network included, amongst others, Mohammed Emwazi, "BX", J1 and Bilal Berjawi.
All of these men were said in court to be involved in the "provision of funds and equipment to Somalia for terrorism-related purposes and the facilitation of individuals' travel from the United Kingdom to Somalia to undertake terrorism-related activity".
BX - now known to be a man called Ibrahim Magag - went on the run and is widely thought to have reached Somalia.
Bilal Berjawi, another Londoner, also succeeded in reaching the Horn of Africa. The ethnically Lebanese man had dual nationality and the Home Secretary stripped him of his British citizenship. Some time later he was killed in a US drone strike on militant targets.
As for J1, in a 2013 court ruling on attempts to deport him the Court of Appeal described the Ethiopian as someone who had "thrown in his lot with a group of Islamist extremists who are committed to terrorism". J1 is, in turn, linked to some of the men jailed for the failed suicide attacks on London on 21 July 2005.
Mohammed Emwazi timeline:
Source: Cage, London-based campaign group
'Jihadi John' movement mapped
Between late 2009 and early 2010, Mohammed Emwazi returned to Kuwait to stay with his father's family and, according to reports, look for a new life in the Middle East.
The family are of Bedoon ethnicity - a group that is marginalised in Kuwaiti society. He was looking for a good computing job and was, according to Asim Qureshi of Cage, planning to marry and settle down.
He spent three months working as an IT salesman before returning to the UK - but he never returned.
According to Cage, he was prevented from returning to Kuwait when he was detained for six hours at Heathrow. He alleged that he was assaulted by an officer.
Cage claims that he became desperate to leave the UK and that in 2013, he changed his name by deed poll to Mohammed al-Ayan and tried once more to travel to Kuwait. But he was stopped again. His parents reported him missing in August. Four months later police are said to have told the family that he was in Syria, although the family thought by now that he was doing aid work in Turkey.
We do not know exactly when he entered the war zone but he was first reported to be in Idlib in the same year, assisting in guarding Western hostages.
In August 2014, he appeared in the video which shows the murder of US journalist James Foley - and then over the subsequent months, similar films showing the killing of Steve Sotloff, David Haines and Alan Henning. In none of these videos is it clear whether it is the masked man or another person off camera who kills the victims.
But in November 2014, the same militant features in a hostage death video - and this time he appears to be carrying out the killing of a Syrian military officer. He also stands over the severed head of American Peter Abdulrahman Kassig.
Two months later the man features in another video in which he kills the Japanese hostage, Kenji Goto. This January 2015 video was the last appearance of the masked killer. A British newspaper later reported that it had seen new footage of Emwazi "unmasked" - although it was unclear when the video had been shot or whether the man in it was definitely Emwazi.
In her interview with the BBC, Emwazi's former headteacher Jo Shuter said: "I can't even begin to say the shock and the horror that I feel.
"Even now when I'm listening to the news and I hear his name I feel the skin on the back of my neck stand up because it is just so far from what I knew of him and it is so shocking and so horrendous the things that he has done."
Evans, 20, and 21-year-old Smith came through the Pontypridd schoolboy ranks and the Blues academy.
"They are both very hard-working, diligent and dedicated players," Blues coach Danny Wilson said.
"There are is still plenty for them to learn but they can certainly go a long way if they continue their progress here."
Smith made his senior Blues debut in 2014 and has made 10 appearances for the region this season.
"I'm happy with the progress I'm making at Cardiff Blues and have been involved a lot this season," Smith said.
"There is a lot of competition for centre places and that is only good. It drives me on and I'm also learning from the other boys."
Evans has made 22 appearances for the Blues and has featured in consecutive Junior World Championships for Wales' Under-20 side.
"The coaches here really know their stuff and that's had a big influence on my decision," Evans said.
"I've been with Cardiff Blues since I started and I'm really looking forward to what the next few years hold."
The sequel to 1996's Trainspotting sees most of the original cast reunited with director Danny Boyle.
Kate Muir of The Times said the film was "like riding a tragi-comic wave".
"The original actors have matured well, and while the lunatic enthusiasm of their youth has disappeared, they give their nuanced all here," she added.
Based on the Irvine Welsh novel Porno, T2 Trainspotting is set in the present day with the main characters now in middle age.
Ewan McGregor, Jonny Lee Miller, Robert Carlyle and Ewen Bremner have all reprised their roles for the new film.
Writing in The Guardian, Peter Bradshaw said: "Reuniting the cast of Trainspotting for a new adventure 21 years on could have gone badly.
"But Boyle and his four musketeers give it just the right frantic, jaded energy and manic anxiety."
He added that while "T2 isn't as good as T1", it "has the same punchy energy, the same defiant pessimism, and there's nothing around like this".
Analysis by Neil Smith, BBC entertainment reporter
Boyle's masterstroke is to tackle the passing of time head-on. Where the characters in the original film were blissfully insouciant about their self-destructive hedonism, they are here all too aware of the cul-de-sacs and dead ends at which they've now arrived.
They are, to quote T2's most striking line, "tourists in their own youth" - a description that applies just as much to the audience member who goes to the film hoping to have the same giddy high they experienced two decades ago.
Overall, is it as good as the original? The answer is no - but it comes pretty darn close.
Read the full review.
However, The Scotsman's Alistair Harkness was less positive about the film, awarding it three stars.
"The best that can be said about the new film is that it hasn't completely tarnished the original," he wrote.
"Boyle's frenetic, collage-like directing style gives the film a trying-too-hard feel and even though some of it does jolt T2 to life, the cast doesn't always have the emotional range to make it cohere."
The Telegraph's Robbie Collin also gave the movie three stars.
"There's no chance of its successor matching that legacy, but it won't tarnish it either. Though the film feeds on its forerunner, it's worthwhile on its own terms," he said.
The Hollywood Reporter's Neil Young wrote: "T2 never threatens to find its own distinctive voice."
He also pointed out the female characters "are very much on the sidelines, even more so than in Trainspotting".
"Kelly MacDonald pops up for a one-scene, two-minute cameo (which nevertheless somehow nabs her fifth billing)," he said.
But the Scottish Daily Record's Chris Hunneysett was more positive, calling the film "an addictive hit of pure cinema".
He said that while it "won't capture the youthful zeitgeist the way Trainspotting did", Boyle "has created an unapologetically abrasive tale of longevity, loyalty and friendship".
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It didn't take long for him to dive into his celebrations, popping into an ice bath with the Wimbledon trophy.
Andy's mum Judy was also close by to join in with the triumph.
Not all Murray's family were able to witness his big day first hand - his grandfather Roy missed the Wimbledon final to look after his dog.
The morning after, twice Wimbledon champ Murray revealed on a Facebook Live that there had been some good celebrations and he now can't wait to go to Rio for the Olympics.
Meanwhile, all the jubilation brought to mind some of Andy Murray's other high times on social media.
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Members of the Unison union want extra pay for tasks which they say are "dirty, unpleasant, involve regularly working outside or heavy lifting".
They began boycotting some duties in January and staged a walkout in March.
The janitors work for Cordia, a body of Glasgow City Council, which said it was working to ensure schools ran as normal but could not rule out some disruption.
A council spokeswoman said: "This dispute is between the employers, Cordia, and the section of janitors who are members of the union, Unison.
"Contrary to the impression given in sections of the media it does not involve every school janitor and is inaccurate to say that there have been no discussions to try to settle the dispute.
"The council will continue to work with Cordia to ensure that our schools and nurseries will be open for business as usual."
The spokeswoman added: "Our expectation is that all Breakfast Clubs will operate as normal during the three-day industrial action.
"However, parents and carers need to be aware that this is subject to change at short notice depending on local arrangements and circumstances."
A spokesman for Cordia said the employer had "exhausted each of the stages of its formal grievance process with the janitorial staff".
He said: "The organisation is working closely with Glasgow City Council Education Services to ensure there is minimal disruption at affected schools.
"Parents should be reassured that any playground matters will be addressed by appropriately-trained personnel and that office staff are still on-site for school entry procedures.
"It must also be noted that while pupil welfare is of paramount importance to Cordia employees based in schools, any safety-related issues such as fire precautions are always the responsibility of the head teacher and their staff who will continue to carry out full risk assessments throughout the duration of strike action."
Unison said janitors were entitled to a Working Context and Demands Payment which ranges from about £500 to more than £1,000.
The union said that since members began boycotting certain duties, schools and playgrounds were not being cleaned as quickly and thoroughly as previously.
The union said: "Unison has apologised to parents and carers for any inconvenience caused during the dispute.
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"The union has advised parents and carers to check that hazards are not occurring in their school".
Unison said possible hazards included "glass, excrement, drug paraphernalia" and warned of the dangers of sickness not being cleared within schools "immediately or without proper protection".
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"I respect the people who have them, but I think those views are just flat out wrong." - to CBS News, 2008
"Get over it."- on numerous occasions
"Never compromise your principles, unless of course your principles are Adolf Hitler's, in which case you would be well advised to compromise them as much as you can."- in a speech at his granddaughter's graduation, 2015
"I love to argue. I've always loved to argue. And I love to point out the weaknesses of the opposing arguments. It may well be that I'm something of a shin kicker. It may well be that I'm something of a contrarian." - to CBS News, 2008
"A man who has made no enemies is probably not a very good man." - in an interview with Charlie Rose, 2012
"What is a moderate interpretation of the text? Halfway between what it really means and what you'd like it to mean?" - in a speech to the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2005
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Home striker John Rooney was denied from the spot by Welling keeper Marek Rodak but soon redeemed himself with a curling shot from 12 yards.
The 25-year-old doubled Chester's lead as he fired in James Alabi's cross before turning provider for Kane Richards to net the third.
Tom Shaw wrapped up the win as Welling managed just one shot on target.
Victory moves Chester five points clear of the National League relegation places with two games to play while Welling slip back into National League South for the first time since the 2012-2013 season.
The pictures also offer stunning views of the dwarf planet's rugged mountains and its sweeping plains.
New Horizons acquired a mass of observations as it whipped past Pluto on 14 July, at a distance of 12,500km.
Scientists say the haze provides further evidence for the equivalent on Pluto of Earth's water-cycle, but involving exotic types of ice.
The spacecraft began a year-long data dump earlier this month, allowing scientists to resume their analysis of the world's fascinating topography and tenuous atmosphere.
A new, oblique view of Pluto's crescent was downlinked to Earth on 13 September. Dramatic backlighting from the Sun helps highlight the dwarf planet's diverse terrain and more than a dozen layers of haze in its atmosphere - extending from near the ground to at least 100km (60 miles) above the surface.
Prof Alan Stern, the mission's chief scientist, said: "This image really makes you feel you are there, at Pluto, surveying the landscape for yourself."
He added: "But this image is also a scientific bonanza, revealing new details about Pluto's atmosphere, mountains, glaciers and plains."
The picture also shows a bank of fog-like, low-lying haze illuminated by the setting sun against Pluto's dark side, and interfused with shadows from nearby mountains.
"In addition to being visually stunning, these low-lying hazes hint at the weather changing from day to day on Pluto, just like it does here on Earth," said mission scientist Will Grundy, from the Lowell Observatory in Arizona.
Along with other observations, the image hints at an Earth-like hydrological cycle involving frozen nitrogen and other soft ices.
"Driven by dim sunlight, this would be directly comparable to the hydrological cycle that feeds ice caps on Earth, where water is evaporated from the oceans, falls as snow, and returns to the seas through glacial flow," explained Alan Howard, a team member from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.
Prof Stern commented: "Pluto is surprisingly Earth-like in this regard, and no one predicted it."
Pictures of the dwarf planet released last week by Nasa revealed a field of dark, aligned ridges, which look like wind-blown dunes.
New Horizons is next scheduled to visit a second icy object in the distant region of our Solar System known as the Kuiper Belt.
The US space agency will carry out a review of the plan to fly by the comet-like 2014 MU69 before officially approving the mission's extension.
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The sale of seven lots - including two golds and a silver from the Munich Games - fetched $183,300 (£147,000) for Korbut. The most expensive item was her team gold ($66,000).
Born in Belarus, she moved to the US in 1991. Now 61, she lives in Arizona.
Russia's Gazeta.ru news reports that she has had financial difficulties.
"Medals saved Korbut from hunger," said the Gazeta.ru headline.
In 1972, at the height of the Cold War, Korbut's breathtaking gymnastics won millions of admirers in the West when she was just 17.
Just 1.5m tall (4ft 11), she was nicknamed "the Sparrow from Minsk". Her captivating smile and quirky charm helped to turn her into an Olympic legend.
She won three golds (team, balance beam and floor exercise) and a silver at the 1972 Munich Olympics. In 1976 she won another gold and a silver at the Montreal Games.
Heritage Auctions, organiser of the sale, says "there is hardly a gymnast alive who doesn't credit this tiny force of nature for the explosion of the sport's popularity on a global level".
The sale items included one of her performance leotards, her 1972 BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award, various Soviet medals and a sports magazine cover signed by her.
The Korbut Flip was a spectacular trick that she performed on the asymmetric bars - a trick now banned from the Olympics as it is considered too dangerous.
The flip can be seen on YouTube - it begins with a somersault on the top bar.
From 1978 to 2000 Korbut was married to Leonid Bortkevich, a famous Soviet-era folk singer, with whom she moved to the US after the USSR's collapse in 1991. She has a son called Richard.
The jab for the human papilloma virus (HPV) - linked to cervical cancer - has been given to schoolgirls since 2008.
Expert advice has said vaccination can offer protection against other types of cancer commonly seen in gay men.
An advisory committee also recommended it for sex workers and people who are HIV positive, but is still considering its merits for adolescent boys.
Mr Drakeford said a targeted programme for sexually active gay men under 45 would be introduced following the recommendation of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), which advises all UK governments.
"Men who have sex with men are a group who receive little indirect protection from the highly-successful HPV vaccination programme for adolescent girls," he said.
"I'm pleased to announce that I have approved the introduction of a new targeted HPV vaccination programme for men who have sex with men up to the age of 45.
"We will now give careful consideration about how this programme will be delivered and will make a further announcement in due course."
A JCVI recommendation on whether to offer the HPV vaccine to all adolescent boys is expected in early 2017.
Several organisations including Tenovus Cancer Care have called for the vaccine to be given to boys to protect them from head and neck cancer.
Dr Ian Lewis, director of research and policy at Tenovus, said: "Whilst this announcement is a step forward this change in policy does not go nearly far enough.
"We believe that this vaccination programme should be extended to cover adolescent boys at the same time as girls already receiving the vaccination in schools.
Welsh government has an opportunity to take this recommendation a step further and ensure that Wales is a world leader in preventing potentially epidemic cancers."
Charlotte Bevan, 30, disappeared from St Michael's Hospital with her daughter, named Zaani Tiana, between 20:30 and 21:00 GMT on Tuesday.
Officers have cordoned off an area in the grounds of Clifton Observatory above the gorge.
Avon and Somerset police said Ms Bevan's family had been informed.
A formal identification of the body is due to take place later on Thursday. The search for baby Zaani is "still continuing", police said.
"We are searching in the same area along with police dogs from South Wales Police. We are only searching in that area," he said.
Mountain rescue teams and the police helicopter were also involved in the search at the observatory.
On Wednesday, CCTV footage was issued showing the 30-year-old mother leaving hospital.
Ms Bevan did not have a coat or shoes and is thought to have been wearing hospital slippers, while her baby was wrapped only in blankets.
The night she went missing temperatures in Bristol were close to freezing.
Police, her mother and her boyfriend Pascal Malbrouck made a direct appeal for her to get in touch at a press conference on Wednesday.
A spokesman for University Hospitals Bristol, which runs St Michael's Hospital, said Ms Bevan had discharged herself for "reasons unknown" and there had been no signs she was planning to leave.
"Charlotte and her baby were seen by staff at 20:30. When staff went to check on her at 21:05 they found Charlotte and her baby missing and immediately sounded the alarm," he said.
The hospital said access to the maternity unit is controlled by a "door release" and CCTV. It is not clear how Ms Bevan was able to leave.
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Chris Basham, Stefan Scougall and Kieron Freeman also found the net for Chris Wilder's men.
The visitors had an early opening when Ollie Palmer forced his way through in the area and forced debutant Aaron Ramsdale to make a save.
United then took control and Basham scored with a close-range header in the 22nd minute after John Fleck darted into the area and delivered a pinpoint cross.
Midfielder Scougall increased United's lead 17 minutes later after Mark Duffy's free-kick caused problems for the opposition defence.
Freeman added a third goal with a diving header from Chapman's cross in the final minute of the half.
Chapman slipped the ball past Alex Cisak to score following a good run into the area nine minutes after the restart and then found the net again 15 minutes later after meeting a David Brooks cross.
Chapman completed his treble in stoppage time, chipping over Cisak following a defensive error.
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Match ends, Sheffield United 6, Leyton Orient 0.
Second Half ends, Sheffield United 6, Leyton Orient 0.
Goal! Sheffield United 6, Leyton Orient 0. Harry Chapman (Sheffield United) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the high centre of the goal.
Foul by John Fleck (Sheffield United).
Callum Kennedy (Leyton Orient) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Sheffield United. Conceded by Nicky Hunt.
Attempt saved. Harry Chapman (Sheffield United) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Harry Chapman (Sheffield United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Robbie Weir (Leyton Orient).
Attempt blocked. Sandro Semedo (Leyton Orient) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Substitution, Leyton Orient. Jens Janse replaces Tom Parkes because of an injury.
Attempt blocked. Benjamin Whiteman (Sheffield United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Paul McCallum (Leyton Orient) header from the centre of the box is too high.
Foul by Benjamin Whiteman (Sheffield United).
Robbie Weir (Leyton Orient) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Benjamin Whiteman (Sheffield United).
Jordan Bowery (Leyton Orient) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Gavin Massey (Leyton Orient) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Daniel Lafferty (Sheffield United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Gavin Massey (Leyton Orient).
Daniel Lafferty (Sheffield United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Jordan Bowery (Leyton Orient).
Substitution, Sheffield United. Benjamin Whiteman replaces Paul Coutts.
Foul by Jack O'Connell (Sheffield United).
Nicky Hunt (Leyton Orient) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Leyton Orient. Paul McCallum replaces Jay Simpson.
Goal! Sheffield United 5, Leyton Orient 0. Harry Chapman (Sheffield United) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by David Brooks.
David Brooks (Sheffield United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Gavin Massey (Leyton Orient).
Corner, Leyton Orient. Conceded by Chris Basham.
Attempt saved. Paul Coutts (Sheffield United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Foul by Paul Coutts (Sheffield United).
Jay Simpson (Leyton Orient) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner, Sheffield United. Conceded by Tom Parkes.
Attempt blocked. John Fleck (Sheffield United) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Corner, Sheffield United. Conceded by Robbie Weir.
Attempt blocked. David Brooks (Sheffield United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Substitution, Sheffield United. David Brooks replaces Mark Duffy.
Attempt blocked. Caolan Lavery (Sheffield United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Attempt saved. Alan Dunne (Leyton Orient) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
IBF world champion Selby says he was willing to take less than 75% of the purse and to fight in Warrington's hometown, but talks have broken down.
"This is a simple case of one fighter, Josh Warrington, losing his bottle at the thought of facing me," said Selby.
"The fact is the fight was there to be made, but this is the end of the saga."
Selby, who made a second successful defence of his crown last month with a unanimous points win over American Eric Hunter, had told the BBC he thought a fight with Warrington needed to be made "now or never".
"There is surely nothing worse than a boxer talking the talk, telling all his fans this is what he wants to happen, then pulling out?" Selby said.
"It has happened many times before in boxing and unfortunately it has happened again as Josh Warrington is running scared.
"The excuse is he wants to get married towards the end of August and needs to concentrate on that. I've heard some pretty feeble reasons before for running away from a fight but that's a new one even on me."
Selby, who won the IBF title a year ago, has already defended his title in the US against Fernando Montiel and was seeking a UK test this summer. His rivalry with Warrington heated up after the Yorkshire boxer described Selby as 'boring.'
"I was more than happy to give Warrington a better than 25% stake of the purse as he would not have been my mandatory challenger, but even that didn't bring him to the negotiating table," he said.
"I was looking forward to the challenge of silencing Warrington's Leeds fans. I would have taken him apart because I belong on a different level to him.
"To all the Warrington fans in and around Leeds, I can only say I'm sorry the fight isn't going ahead, but the blame for that isn't mine.
"I was happy to come to Leeds to fight their man, but Josh Warrington doesn't want anything to do with me in a ring. Those are the simple facts. Warrington's supporters can draw their own conclusions.
"As far as I'm concerned that's the end of the Selby v Warrington saga. I will now move on to the big fights and biggest tests in the featherweight division. His only chance of facing me is to get into my mandatory position and then he can take his 25% split of the purse."
Mr Puri made the comments at Delhi's Ramlila ground when activist Anna Hazare was on a 12-day hunger strike.
Mr Puri described MPs as "illiterate, rustic and useless".
MPs have protection from insults and parliament sent Mr Puri a notice asking him to explain his comments.
A spokesman for Mr Puri confirmed to the BBC that the actor wrote a letter to the speaker about a month ago, but refused to divulge the details.
"We have tendered an unconditional apology," he said.
The Hindustan Times newspaper reports that the Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar is expected to close the case and pardon the actor.
Parliament has the power to summon individuals for a reprimand if they refuse to apologise.
A string of corruption scandals has angered many Indians and Mr Hazare's campaign had received widespread support and a great deal of media coverage.
Mr Puri had taken the stage and addressed the crowd during Mr Hazare's fast.
"Look at the way they [MPs] fight with each other. They throw chairs, mikes at each others," he had said.
After his comments were criticised by several MPs, Mr Puri apologised.
"I am unhappy with myself over two of the terms that I used. The first is 'uneducated' and the second is 'useless'. I agree I could have used better language, but I was caught in the moment and so used those terms," he told the IBN7 news channel.
Om Puri has acted in both mainstream and art films in Bollywood.
He has also appeared in several British films, like Jewel in the Crown, Gandhi and City of Joy, and BBC TV's Canterbury Tales.
He was awarded an honorary OBE for his contribution to the British film industry in 2004.
The view from the remote village of the surrounding lush green mountains is scenic. But it can be deceptive.
The village happens to be located just a few hundred metres from the heavily militarised Line of Control, the de facto boundary dividing Kashmir between Pakistan and India.
The mountains are dotted with army check posts.
Random violence by trigger-happy troops is a constant threat here.
The most recent death came on 8 August. The victim was a young woman, a mother of a four-year old child.
The villagers were celebrating a family wedding at night when a sniper bullet shot her dead, says her husband, Tariq Mohammed.
"The fire came from there," he says pointing to an Indian army post overlooking the village. "They [the Indians] turned our celebrations into a mourning, and for no reason."
More than two weeks after the killing, Mr Mohammed is struggling to come to terms with his loss. He feels angry towards India, but also blames Pakistan for failing to protect its people.
"We are squeezed between these two armies and paying the ultimate price," he says. "They say they are fighting for Kashmir, but neither of them really cares about the Kashmiri people."
It's a similar story on the other side of the 740km (460 mile) Line of Control.
The two armies frequently trade heavy gunfire and mortars, violating a ceasefire agreed back in November 2003. Recent violence has left scores of civilians dead on both sides, with each blaming the other for "unprovoked" attacks.
After a 10-minute walk further up the hill, we pass through maize fields and a fresh water stream to arrive at another house.
There, we meet Javed Ahmed, a retired soldier. On a table in front of us, he lays out spent mortar shells and other Indian ammunition he has collected from attacks on his neighbourhood.
Over the years, he has lost his uncle in cross-border firing. In other attacks, some of his relatives were wounded, livestock lost and property destroyed.
"No one from the state government of Pakistan-administered Kashmir came to check up on us," he says dejectedly.
"We were never offered any monetary compensation, even though we are ones living on the frontline in Pakistan's fight with India over Kashmir."
The fear and intensity of recent cross-border attacks was so unsettling, it forced hundreds of villagers to leave their homes in search of safer surroundings.
Since mid-August, about 260 families have relocated to the outskirts of Nakyal town, essentially taking over a hilly slope of tall pine trees to set up makeshift camps - mainly on a self-help basis.
But in the absence of any government help, the camps make for a miserable existence.
"My children are terrorised and traumatised by all that mortar shelling. Sometimes, they can't eat or sleep. I can't take them back to the village," says Zulekha Khatoon, a mother of four children.
Tears roll down her cheeks as she adds: "This is no way to bring up children. We feel like we've been abandoned by the (Pakistani) authorities."
This feeling of having been let down is widely shared in Pakistani-administered Kashmir today.
One reason it probably goes unreported is because the Pakistani state likes to have a firm grip over its Kashmir narrative. It does this by denying independent journalists access to the region and by making it difficult for them to work there.
Many journalists reporting on Kashmir experience intimidation and harassment from the Pakistani army - something our team was also subjected to while we were there.
It seems the human cost of the Kashmir conflict on this side of the de facto border is greatly underestimated, and frequently hidden from the public eye.
Sgt Stephen Chilton is seen using an unapproved neck lock to restrain a youth in a cell in CCTV footage from a Nottinghamshire Police custody suite.
An expert witness said the technique was justified because the suspect tried to attack the sergeant.
Sgt Chilton denies gross misconduct and the hearing continues.
His actions at Bridewell custody suite carried the risk of serious injury or even death, the hearing was told.
The date of the allegation was 9 January 2014.
It is the first time Nottinghamshire Police has held a misconduct hearing in public.
But it's not all about models, fast cars and cash.
Two scientists in the UK are using rap lyrics to treat depression, addiction and bi-polar disorder.
"Hip Hop Psych is opening up a new culture which branches across medicine and hip-hop with amazing responses," neuroscientist Dr Becky Inkster from Cambridge University tells Newsbeat.
"I've always been a huge fan of hip-hop, I didn't even live in a community where it was popular.
"My first album was Basement Flavor featuring MC Lyte."
She's a big fan and so's her colleague.
"I've been listening to hip-hop since its inception," says consultant psychiatrist Dr Akeem Sule, who usually works at South Essex Partnership NHS Trust but is also a tutor and honorary visiting research associate at Cambridge University's department of psychiatry.
"I wanted to be a rapper, but my parents wanted me to do psychiatry. I'm from Nigeria. You did what your parents said."
He says academics often "jump on the bandwagon" but don't understand the culture.
Together they're using hits from the likes of J Cole and Professor Green to get people with mental health problems to open up.
J Cole's been part of online magazine Soul Culture's mental health campaign #OKNotToBeOK.
"When you listen to the album you'll notice how it flows from darkness to light, from hell to heaven, depression to happiness," J Cole said ahead of the release of his second album Born Sinner in June 2013.
"It literally was a way out… I'm writing my way out of a negative place, a darker place."
At their Hip Hop Psych events, which they run separately from the university, they also refer to Lullaby by Professor Green.
He fronted Radio 1 documentary Suicide Survivors and opened up about his own experience of his dad taking his own life when the rapper was 24.
"Writing lyrics helps me get issues out of my head, where they get mumbled and jumbled," said Pro Green, whose real name is Stephen Manderson.
"When you put your thoughts on paper, it helps you get them out, so you have something to look at, and analyse."
Just like the professionals, many young patients find it hard to explain what's going on with them.
"But if you ask them to rap. They can rap," says Dr Akeem.
"You find this rich narrative. They open up more."
It's already working for Ice, who's 26.
He went into hospital 12 years ago with mental health issues.
He's on medication for paranoid schizophrenia and has counselling, but it's rapping, he says, that really helps.
"It puts my mind at rest," he says. "One day people will like my music. I can be a role model to people going through trials and tribulations."
And 26-year-old Stickz told Newsbeat that four years ago he had a breakdown and ended up in hospital.
He was diagnosed as bi-polar and says rapping has definitely helped him find his confidence and find his personality again.
"Instead of speaking about things that I've gone through or having to explain, I rap about it," he says.
Ice and Stickz are part of Key Changes, a charity which uses hip-hop and other urban music styles to help young people in hospital and the community to express their thoughts and feelings through lyrics and music.
"We've used this as a passion and a vehicle to connect with young people," says Dr Inkster.
"It's hard to make contact with them and hard to transfer the knowledge but using hip-hop means they discuss things and they flow.
"For instance, we can be having a conversation about who's better - Nas, Biggie or Tupac - and that can really open up the conversation."
But she's quick to point out that it's not just for young people.
"A high ranked professor who doesn't like hip-hop saw what we do and he says he went home and talked to his son about Stan by Eminem. It changed the way he talked to his son and he connected with him."
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Now it has been announced that the actor who uttered those familiar words "Yes M'Lady" is to reprise the role in a remake of the 1960s TV series.
David Graham is the only original cast member to return in Thunderbirds Are Go! which will air on ITV in 2015.
Former Bond actress Rosamund Pike will play Lady Penelope.
The new show, now in production, will be a mix of CGI animation and live-action miniature sets.
"I am triple chuffed to be on board the new series of Thunderbirds Are Go! and reprising my role of dear old Parker with such a distinguished cast," said Graham.
"My driving skills are in good nick and I am delighted to be behind the wheel again with M'Lady."
Rosamund Pike, who starred in 2002's Die Another Day and the recent sci-fi comedy film The World's End, said she was "very excited to bring Lady Penelope's wry wit and taste for adventure" to a new generation.
"Exploring the scenes with David Graham has been an absolute delight. The scripts are very modern, very fresh and very funny. We're all eagerly anticipating our next stint in the recording studio!"
Thunderbirds, created by Gerry Anderson and his second wife, Sylvia, was first broadcast on ITV in 1965. Anderson died last year aged 83.
Featuring the Tracy family's emergency rescue service and their catchphrase "Thunderbirds are go!", the "supermarionation" puppet show became popular again in the 1990s.
It spawned two films in the 1960s, as well as a live-action movie adaptation in 2004.
The new voice cast also includes Kayvan Novak as inventor Brains; Thomas Brodie-Sangster as Tracy brothers Gordon and John; and Rasmus Hardiker as the Tracy brothers Alan and Scott.
The fifth Tracy brother, Virgil, will be played by David Menkin. Tracy Island matriarch Grandma Tracy is voiced by Sandra Dickinson and the villainous The Hood is played by Andres Williams.
A number of new characters not in the original series will also be introduced.
Thunderbirds Are Go! is produced by ITV Studios and New Zealand-based Pukeko Pictures, with the Weta Workshop (Avatar, King Kong, The Lord of the Rings) designing the series and producing the miniatures.
The 26 episodes will debut on ITV and CITV Channel.
Jason North, 42, of Macclesfield, Cheshire, was on holiday on Gower with his wife and two children when he drowned on Saturday.
South Wales Police said he entered the water at Three Cliffs Bay because he feared his children were in difficulty.
His death is not being treated as suspicious.
Mr North was taken to Swansea's Morriston Hospital, where he later died. His death is being investigated on behalf of the coroner.
A number of people who were on the beach helped to get his children, a boy and a girl, out of the water.
New Zealander Parkes started every Pro 12 game in the 2015-16 season as Wales duties and injuries ruled out Scott Williams.
But the return of Jonathan Davies from France and Williams' improved fitness mean competition will be tough.
"You just get stuck in and if you get the nod, good," Parkes said.
"And if you don't you just go and support your team.
"I think it's good to have some healthy competition with players pushing against each other.
"Listen, Jon [Davies] - well all the midfielders - are good players and it's just very exciting."
Parkes was voted player of the season after appearing in 26 League and Cup games for the west Wales region.
However, he might not make the starting XV if Williams and 2013 British and Irish Lion Davies - who has rejoined from Clermont Auvergne - are both fit.
And even though it may mean a lighter workload, the Kiwi who joined Scarlets in December 2014 is determined to make his mark.
"You want to be playing - even though it was getting a bit hectic towards the end of last season - but I guess that's what you're doing," he added.
"And you love doing it so you want to be out there running around and hopefully just performing as well as you can."
Scarlets were Wales' top team in the Pro 12 and the only one to qualify for the European Champions Cup.
Their reward was to be drawn in the same qualifying pool as reigning champions Saracens, Toulon who won the tournament the previous three years, and Sale Sharks.
Despite the "pool of death" draw, Parkes is looking forward to the challenge.
"I think it's more exciting than anything else," he said.
"They're the teams you want to be playing against and it's going to be a tough ask but it's exciting and hopefully we can go out there and out some good performances in and you never know what could happen."
Asked if Scarlets would improve on their disappointing campaign in 2015-16 when they lost all their pool games, Parkes replied: "I don't know. Only time will tell on that.
"Certainly we've got a good squad and we're building nicely and we'll just have to wait and see we'll be able to go quite well this next year."
The defeat, which followed Saturday's 4-1 home loss to Wigan Athletic, was Swindon's heaviest since a 7-1 reverse at Nottingham Forest in February 2006.
Williams' side had not lost in seven games prior to the Easter weekend.
"I'm the first person that needs to be held accountable for this performance," he told BBC Wiltshire.
"I don't fully understand the reason for the incredibly poor performance. I know we are missing some important players but there is no reason why we should perform that badly.
"I can only imagine it is a lack of concentration, that peoples' minds have wandered, because they feel like they have nothing left to play for. That is not acceptable.
"I would even question whether one of two were 100% focused on the game. That should hurt the players."
In their back-to-back losses to Wigan and Scunthorpe, Swindon conceded more goals than they had in their previous 10 matches.
"I'm shocked at some of the incredibly lacklustre performances and what appeared to be some people downing tools at one point in the game," Williams continued.
"What you are doing is showing everybody that, when things get tough, you're not the type of character that is able to dig in deep.
"I apologise to the fans that came to watch us and support us and expect to see total commitment from the players. I need the players to respond and to try to bounce back from this."
Swindon host Fleetwood on Saturday before trips to Oldham and Bradford on 5 and 9 April respectively.
Three Court of Appeal judges decided that the tax office had pursued the wrong party for the tax.
The purchaser, a firm owned by the Qatar Investment Authority, had used a type of Islamic finance that meant a bank actually owned the property.
HMRC said it was "disappointed" by the ruling.
"The Court of Appeal ruling supports our view that SDLT [stamp duty land tax] is payable. We are disappointed that the decision makes that tax much harder to collect so we are considering an appeal," HMRC said.
The judges' decision is likely to reignite criticism of the complexity of the UK tax system, if HMRC itself can be caught off guard. It will also expose alternative financing arrangements to more scrutiny from tax campaigners.
In the ruling, Lord Justice Lewison said there was "nothing surprising" about which firm HMRC should have pursued for the tax.
Project Blue, the investment vehicle ultimately owned by the Qatari ruling family, claimed that HMRC was now out of time to pursue Masraf al Rayan, a Qatar-based bank.
The result, and how it was arrived at, shows that HMRC needs more resources to do its job, said Richard Murphy, director of Tax Research UK.
"This needs to be a serious kicking for the people involved including the senior management of HMRC," he said. "We cannot run a tax authority on the cheap."
The tax office had won a decision in a tribunal in December 2014 for £38m stamp duty land tax to be paid, based on a £959m purchase price for the site. However, this decision was then taken to the Court of Appeal.
HMRC then sought stamp duty land tax worth £50m against the £1.25bn paid by the bank to Project Blue - a figure that as well as the £959m purchase price included tax and further development costs.
Project Blue had used a type of finance that complied with Islamic law, which forbids lending money for interest. It used an arrangement called Ijara.
"Under an Ijara arrangement a bank or other financial institution buys the asset that the customer wishes to acquire and then leases that asset to him," said Lord Justice Lewison in the judgement.
"The rent is calculated in such a way that the bank will receive a return on its investment. The customer will also have an option to buy the asset. However, it is critical to appreciate that the bank will be the real owner of the asset for the term of the lease, and the customer will not."
Qatar is now a large player when it comes to investments in London. It is a joint owner of the Shard, has a 20% stake in the owner of Heathrow airport and a significant stake in Barclays after helping the bank avoid a government bailout in 2008.
Project Blue said in a statement: "In good faith, Project Blue Ltd paid the full original sum demanded in advance of the First Tier Tribunal hearing in 2013. We welcome the important clarifications provided by the Court of Appeal. Project Blue Ltd has always fully complied with all UK taxation matters and will continue to do so."
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Seamer Broad, 31, moved ahead of Botham's 383 wickets in the first-Test win against West Indies at Edgbaston.
He is second only to team-mate James Anderson, who has 492.
"I have a lot of cricket left in me," said Broad. "I'm really enjoying being a part of this team and hopefully have a few more miles in the tank."
He added: "I'll be 33 in 2019. I certainly hope that my performances will keep improving so that I'm part of that 2019 Ashes."
Broad, who made his debut in 2007 and has 107 Test caps, claimed his 384th wicket by bowling Shane Dowrich on the third evening.
He finished with 3-34 in the second innings and 5-81 in the match as England took 19 wickets on Saturday to condemn West Indies to defeat inside three days.
Among pace bowlers, only 35-year-old Anderson, with 127 caps, has played more Tests for England than Broad.
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"It's hard to look too far ahead," said Nottinghamshire's Broad. "You don't know if you'll have luck with injuries, for example.
"I'll play as long as my competitive spirit and drive is there, because that's what gets me up in the morning. As soon as that goes, I'm gone."
England, who hold the Ashes, travel to Australia for a five-match series that begins in November. The sides meet again in England in 2019.
They play two more Tests against West Indies before the trip down under, and Broad does not want to be rested for the remaining matches at Headingley or Lord's.
"This winter is a hugely exciting one," he said. "The two teams are very similar so it should be a belter.
"I will politely be suggesting that I will be having sufficient rest in September and October to be available for the next two Tests against West Indies."
Botham, who watched Broad pass his tally from the Sky Sports commentary box, described it as an "absolutely brilliant" moment.
The legendary all-rounder, an England team-mate of Broad's father Chris, also scored 5,200 runs, including 14 centuries, in a glittering Test career from 1977 to 1992.
"He has been a big influence on me," said Broad.
"He is a huge legend of English cricket and someone who has given a lot back to this team.
"In the past couple of years he has spent more time in the changing room and the guys really listen to him."
Meanwhile, West Indies part-time off-spinner Kraigg Brathwaite has been reported for a suspect bowling action.
The 24-year-old, who bowled six overs at Edgbaston, must have his action tested within 14 days but is still allowed to bowl during that time.
The second Test at Headingley begins on Friday.
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Patricia Jazmín Ibarra was 18 when she left on the morning of 7 June 2011 to go to work at a mobile phone shop in the centre of Ciudad Juárez.
"They stole her," says her mother, who has given up her job to look for Patricia Jazmín.
Ms Apodaca knows that many of the young girls who disappeared from Ciudad Juárez were eventually found dead.
The city on the Mexican-US border is located on a key route for drug smuggling and human trafficking.
In the 1990s, Ciudad Juárez became infamous for the staggering numbers of young women who disappeared from it, and between 2008 and 2011 the city held the dubious title of murder capital of the world.
"They never find them alive. They find only bones, this is how they give them back to their families," Ms Apodaca says of the many women who have gone missing.
"You never have the certainty that it is your own daughter."
It is people like Ms Apodaca that Dr Alejandro Hernández Cárdenas is trying to help.
He works as a forensic doctor at the prosecutor's office and has developed a special technique to rehydrate corpses in order to help identify them.
The technique is so innovative that last year the Mexican Institute for Industrial Property gave him a patent for his secret formula.
Forensic experts have used glycerine injections to reconstitute fingers to get prints for over a century. But that technique does not work for entire bodies.
DNA testing can help, but in order to identify bodies, samples from two direct family members are needed for comparison.
With the rehydration process, the body can regain most of its original condition so families can identify it.
"I think I am doing this work because I was affected by the idea of these bodies going to mass graves or their families not being able to mourn properly," Dr Hernández says.
The rehydration technique has also helped provide key leads in criminal investigations.
When Dr Hernández rehydrated a corpse in the state of Queretaro, in central Mexico, he discovered unusual lesions on its skin, which later led to an arrest being made.
The doctor was told that his help was key in bringing the murderer to justice.
Dr Hernández, 59, says that he first thought of becoming a forensic expert when he was 18 and studying to be a dentist while also driving an ambulance to help provide for his young family.
One night in 1977, he was called out to a train accident that had killed 35 people and had left most of the victims unrecognisable.
"When the forensic doctor arrived, he told us to check their teeth," Dr Hernández recalls.
He helped out at the morgue for four or five days, while the victims' families were waiting for news outside.
While the task may seem gruesome to some, it inspired in Dr Hernández a desire to help identify victims of crime.
After becoming a dentist and eventually joining the forensic lab, he started experimenting with his rehydration technique.
He used pig skin and human fingers he kept in glass jars and checked on them daily.
One day in 2004 he was inspecting seven jars. When he took out the finger from the fourth jar, it looked perfect.
"It was like a new finger. I couldn't believe it," he says.
At first he thought it was too good to be true and suspected his colleagues of playing a trick on him. But when he confronted them, one told him: "We don't mess with them, they smell too bad."
He had found the magic formula and four years later managed to rehydrated a full corpse.
In recent years, Dr Hernández has been applying his technique more and more to migrants found dead in the border area.
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Ciudad Juárez is one of the main crossing points to the US and more than 6,000 bodies have been recovered from along the border since the 1990s.
The bodies are often found in mass graves and are often hard to identify because they have been mutilated or are mummified because of the harsh weather conditions.
Because there is no investigation unit at the forensic lab where he works, Dr Hernández has been financing his research himself, paying for the chemicals and working on it in his spare time.
He hopes that someone will take an interest in his research but ultimately wishes for less rather than more work. "It's not that I am lazy, it's just that when I have a lot of work it means that a lot of people have died," he explains.
"I would prefer not to have found this formula - if it meant that those people had never died."
Irene Caselli was in Ciudad Juárez as an Adelante Latin America Reporting Fellow with the International Women's Media Foundation.
They discussed the issue as Tata Steel prepares to start the formal process of selling its UK plants on Monday.
During a debate on Sunday Politics Wales, spokespeople gave their thoughts ahead of the assembly elections.
Their views varied on help that could be offered to companies.
Plaid Cymru's Adam Price said the same strategy for helping companies that was used in the 1970s and 80s is still seen, with governments giving grant aid.
He said politicians should instead work more closely with companies, management and the workforce to "come up with a sustainable long-term solution".
UKIP's Sam Gould said the hands of governments are tied to a certain degree, with EU state aid rules limiting the amount of help they could give to companies in financial trouble such as Tata.
He added EU procurement rules also prevented governments from having a preference for using Welsh steel in projects.
The 21st Century Schools programme has seen £2bn invested in infrastructure in Wales, said Labour's Eluned Morgan.
"We've got to use procurement as a tool to really build companies within Wales. We need to be more creative," she said.
The Liberal Democrat's Eluned Parrott said many of Wales' most economically deprived areas are not in the south east and there should be a "slightly broader" stance on infrastructure investment.
She said government needs to ensure that people and goods can move freely around different areas of Wales.
Conservative David Melding said business rates need to be reduced, with training and support provided to help small and medium-sized businesses.
He also believes more should be done to "look after" companies that come to Wales, while the country should be marketed better to draw further investment.
Blackwell is in an induced coma after a small bleed on his brain was found.
Ex-super-bantamweight Oliver suffered life-threatening head injuries in a European title fight in 1998, aged 22.
"The swollen eye effectively brought the doctor in and the doctor stopped the fight. That probably saved his life," Oliver told BBC Wiltshire.
"In round seven, Eubank had a big round and that is when maybe the referee could have jumped in and stopped the fight.
"But there was never any time that Blackwell looked in any serious trouble so the referee let it go on [until the swollen eye]."
Referee Victor Loughlin stopped Saturday's fight in round 10 on the advice of the ringside doctor.
The British Board of Boxing Control said it was satisfied with how Saturday's bout was handled, after suggestions from Eubank Jr's camp and some pundits that the fight should have been stopped sooner.
At the end of the eighth round, Chris Eubank Sr - a former world champion - told his son to aim his shots at Blackwell's body rather than his head.
Oliver was defending his European title at London's Royal Albert Hall in May 1998 against Ukraine's Sergei Devakov, who knocked him down in the 10th round.
He was given oxygen by paramedics in the ring and, after 15 minutes of treatment, was taken to Charing Cross Hospital, apparently unconscious and wearing a neck brace.
The British fighter later had a blood clot removed from his brain and went on to make a full recovery, but retired from boxing.
As well as wishing 25-year-old Blackwell a full recovery, Oliver also hopes the Wiltshire middleweight will find "direction in life" in the future.
"This is a young kid who is at the top of his career and it's going to all be taken away from him," Oliver said. "He's a kid that is on his way up. It's going to be very difficult for him.
"For me, to be told I could never box again was very, very difficult. Every boxer wakes up, trains, trains again and then goes back to sleep, so there is a massive hole in your life that you have to fill."
Oliver continued: "For Nick, who is currently in the biggest fight of his life there battling away in hospital - and please God, he comes through and makes a full recovery. He will need to then find some direction in life."
The 28-year-old's latest video, featuring his skills on the mountains on the Isle of Skye, has been watched more than 12 million times on YouTube since it was published last week.
In the film, MacAskill rides along and jumps between the crags off the mountain, which is 992m (3,255ft) at its highest point.
He told Radio Scotland's Fred MacAulay: "The main action plan when I am riding along the high stuff is just not to fall off. I picture it just like a pavement."
A BBC One Scotland documentary featuring the story of the stunt rider's latest film entitled Danny MacAskill - Riding the Ridge will be shown on Friday, 10 October, at 19:30.
MacAskill shot to fame in 2009 when he showcased his skills in Edinburgh.
Earlier this year, he performed stunts on the Finnieston Crane in Glasgow for short films which were shown during the Commonwealth Games.
The BBC documentary follows MacAskill and his team as he tackles the mountain range on Skye, where the stunt rider is from.
He said: "It was a pretty special project for me. I have wanted to ride up there for years.
"I spoke with (filmmaker) Stu Thomson earlier this year and we decided to go and do it. It was really good fun, and we were so lucky with the weather.
"The whole project was a labour of love. I wanted to show off the Cuillins and Skye for the amazing place it is."
MacAskill told the Macaulay and Co programme that The Ridge took six days to make, and revealed the bike he uses in it is worth almost £8000.
In one of the most memorable moments of the film, MacAskill bounces the front wheel of his bike off a fence and flips over the barrier before settling down on the beach.
He added: "I think every mountain biker has had a run in with a fence at one point, and I always thought 'could I use that - the bounce of the fence - to have the front wheel flip over the top'.
"It worked out, which is good."
ParalympicsGB surpassed their London 2012 medal tally of 120 on day nine of the Games in Rio and finished with 147, second in the medal table behind China.
They also matched the highest number of gold medal sports at a Paralympics with 11, matching China at Beijing 2008.
Kadeena Cox, who won golds in athletics and cycling, will carry the British flag at Sunday's closing ceremony.
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The 25-year-old is the first Briton to triumph in two different sports at the same Games since 1988.
"It's a great feeling to know that I'll be standing at the front of such an exceptional group of athletes from GB, to represent what has been such a successful and high-achieving team," she said.
"I only originally expected just to get to Rio, let alone win medals, so to do this is the icing on the cake of an amazing Games. I couldn't have imagined this in my wildest dreams. To do something as special as carrying the flag is incredible."
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Penny Briscoe, chef de mission for the British team, said: "Kadeena's achievements in Rio have been absolutely remarkable, and she is the perfect choice to be our flagbearer."
"To strike gold in two sports is no mean feat, and it pays tribute to her talent, pride and determination and also the work of British Athletics and British Cycling, with the support of National Lottery funding, to help her achieve and surpass her goals.
"As the Games draw to a close we can begin to reflect on the exceptional performances of our athletes and this incredible medal haul. The Closing Ceremony is the perfect way to kick off the celebrations for this record breaking team. I am so proud of each and every member of the team."
Elizabeth Hudson, BBC Sport in Rio:
British Paralympic Association chief executive Tim Hollingsworth said the GB team's performance in Rio was no fluke, but the figures still make very impressive reading.
The team, often described as the strongest ever and the best prepared, won 12% of the total number of gold medals available - the best since way back in 1968, a completely different era in Paralympic sport.
Finishing second in the medal table behind China, they set 49 Paralympic and 27 world records. Both the oldest (Anne Dunham) and youngest (Abby Kane) competitors on the team claimed medals, and 11 sports won gold medals with a record-equalling 15 securing at least one medal.
Yes, the total may have been different if the Russian team had not been banned from competing, but you can only beat what is in front of you, and this was a truly spectacular performance from the 264-strong squad.
This GB team has set a new standard and as one Games closes, plans for the next summer Games in Tokyo are well under way. Now the challenge will be to maintain momentum and rise to the occasion once again in 2020.
Yn yr adroddiad mae'r pwyllgor yn nodi nad oes amserlen genedlaethol wedi ei osod ar gyfer cael gwared a'r afiechyd yng Nghymru yn wahanol i Loegr, Iwerddon a Seland Newydd.
Ond bydd angen monitro rhaglen y llywodraeth meddai'r ddogfen ac os nad yw'n gweithio byddai angen ei newid neu ei stopio.
Mae Llywodraeth Cymru'n dweud y bydd gweinidogion yn astudio'r argymhellion ac yn gwneud datganiad ar y mater cyn y gwyliau haf.
Ym mis Hydref y llynedd fe gyhoeddodd Llywodraeth Cymru ei bod yn ystyried caniatáu dal moch daear mewn cewyll ac yna'u difa ar ffermydd lle roedd na broblem hir-dymor gyda'r diciâu a lle roedd mesurau eraill wedi methu.
Ond fyddai na ddim rhaglen swyddogol o ddifa moch daear, fel sy'n digwydd mewn rhannau o Loegr.
Mae'r Llywodraeth wedi bod yn ymgynghori ar y cynlluniau ac mae disgwyl iddyn nhw gyhoeddi eu mesurau terfynol ym mis Mehefin.
Fe gyhoeddodd y llywodraeth hefyd y byddai ardaloedd TB Isel, Canolig ac Uchel hefyd yn cael eu sefydlu ar draws Cymru yn dibynnu ar ba mor gyffredin yw'r afiechyd er mwyn ceisio atal yr afiechyd rhag lledaenu.
Mae hyn yn rhywbeth sydd yn cael ei gymeradwyo gan y pwyllgor Newid Hinsawdd, Amgylchedd a Materion Gwledig.
Fe aeth yr Aelodau Cynulliad ati i gynnal ymchwiliad yn edrych ar TB ac yn benodol y dystiolaeth wyddonol, y dulliau sydd wedi eu defnyddio yn y gorffennol i geisio dileu'r afiechyd a chyfeiriad y llywodraeth i'r dyfodol.
Roedd y pwyllgor hefyd yn edrych ar y dystiolaeth mewn gwledydd eraill.
Roedd y mater iawndal yn un pwnc wnaeth godi yn ystod yr ymchwiliad.
Yn ôl yr adroddiad mae bron £150 miliwn wedi ei dalu i ffermwyr yn y 10 mlynedd ddiwethaf sydd wedi lladd eu hanifeiliaid trwy'r rhaglen i ddileu TB.
Ond mae Llywodraeth Cymru yn cynnig gostwng y swm uchaf maent yn talu o £15,000 i £5,000 ac un rheswm am hyn yw'r cyllid Ewropeaidd maent yn disgwyl ei golli pan fydd Prydain yn gadael yr Undeb Ewropeaidd.
Dywed yr adroddiad bod hi'n "bwysig bod y Llywodraeth yn talu iawndal digonol i ffermwyr".
Dywedodd cadeirydd y pwyllgor,yr Aelod Cynulliad Jenny Rathbone: "Rydym am weld Cymru'n cael ei datgan yn wlad sy'n rhydd o TB cyn gynted ag y bo modd, ond yn cydnabod bod lefel y cydweithrediad sydd ei angen i gyrraedd yno yn sylweddol.
"Daethom i'r casgliad bod angen strategaeth ar ei newydd wedd sy'n cynnwys dull rhanbarthol at ddileu TB, cyfyngiadau o ran symud ar fuchesi sydd wedi'u heintio a masnachu yn seiliedig ar risg ymhlith opsiynau eraill.
"Mae angen hefyd i gadw llygad barcud ar reoli buchesi godro mwy o faint ac unrhyw gyswllt gyda'r slyri a gynhyrchir ganddynt."
12 argymhelliad sydd yn yr adroddiad sydd yn cynnwys:
The ex-Scotland striker pounced to lift the ball home, but within 12 minutes Killie were behind to goals from Christopher Routis and Alex Schalk.
Gary Dicker levelled for a persistent home side on the hour mark.
And Sean Longstaff struck low beyond Scott Fox in stoppage time to snatch three vital points for Killie.
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Kilmarnock could scarcely have hoped for a better start to the match, as Boyd struck before many fans had taken their seats.
After the Scottish Cup exit to Hamilton Academical and the midweek departure of star man Souleymane Coulibaly, it was a much-needed lift for the Kilmarnock followers.
But the sense of urgency and belief with which the home team started the game took County only seven minutes to puncture and a further five to deflate entirely.
As the home crowd got on the players' backs, so the confidence drained, passes went astray and the visitors took advantage of the malaise.
Ross County are too good an attacking team to be fazed by the concession of an early goal and the manner in which they responded underlined their own self-belief.
In Routis they have acquired a creative midfielder with an ability to sniff out goalscoring opportunities and he did so for the third time in two games to draw his side level.
And sensing Killie's nerves beginning to jangle, they quickly struck again through Schalk.
Playing on the counter-attack they threatened to put the game beyond Lee Clark's side, who slowly edged their way back into the game.
Clark had expressed optimism that his new-look squad could push for a place in the Premiership top six rather than be forced to fight a relegation battle.
And as the game wore on, his new signings - Cal Roberts, Longstaff and Kristoffer Ajer - grew in influence, although Karleigh Osbourne was subbed early on, having looked vulnerable.
Their equaliser was thoroughly deserved and hinted at better things to come.
Longstaff's winner provided further proof of that and if Clark can secure some of the Coulibaly cash to bolster his striking options, the top six may well be a realistic goal.
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Kilmarnock assistant manager Lee McCulloch: "After scoring the early goal, the next 10 minutes, we were all over the place. We got it back together, got the ball down, and passed it.
"The young lads (new signings) have come in and made a difference, we're looking more energetic, and we've got a good shape to us. It's all about picking up points and it's brilliant to get those three today."
Ross County manager Jim McIntyre: "The second goal was a big goal. It's a corner kick, we drop the runner and he scores, and that gave Kilmarnock impetus.
"And again, for the third, we've got a throw-in, easy possession, it's a misplaced pass, indecision, and we're punished again.
"It's really disappointing, because after the early goal, our response was fantastic. We looked as if we could go on and score more.
"We were very, very guilty of making poor decisions in the second half. You've got to credit Kilmarnock for putting us under a lot of pressure, but it was coming from us being slack in possession."
Match ends, Kilmarnock 3, Ross County 2.
Second Half ends, Kilmarnock 3, Ross County 2.
Iain Wilson (Kilmarnock) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Craig Curran (Ross County).
Goal! Kilmarnock 3, Ross County 2. Sean Longstaff (Kilmarnock) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Jordan Jones.
Attempt saved. Rory McKenzie (Kilmarnock) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Attempt missed. Michael Gardyne (Ross County) right footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Jay McEveley (Ross County) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Jordan Jones (Kilmarnock) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jay McEveley (Ross County).
Attempt missed. Liam Boyce (Ross County) header from the centre of the box is too high.
Substitution, Kilmarnock. Nathan Tyson replaces Kris Boyd.
Foul by Steven Smith (Kilmarnock).
Martin Woods (Ross County) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Rory McKenzie (Kilmarnock).
Craig Curran (Ross County) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Rory McKenzie (Kilmarnock) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Rory McKenzie (Kilmarnock).
Jim O'Brien (Ross County) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Ross County. Michael Gardyne replaces Ryan Dow.
Jordan Jones (Kilmarnock) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Kenny van der Weg (Ross County).
Substitution, Ross County. Craig Curran replaces Christopher Routis.
Goal! Kilmarnock 2, Ross County 2. Gary Dicker (Kilmarnock) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Kris Boyd.
Corner, Kilmarnock. Conceded by Kenny van der Weg.
Attempt blocked. Kris Boyd (Kilmarnock) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked.
Corner, Kilmarnock. Conceded by Paul Quinn.
Corner, Kilmarnock. Conceded by Scott Fox.
Attempt saved. Kris Boyd (Kilmarnock) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Attempt missed. Rory McKenzie (Kilmarnock) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high.
Corner, Kilmarnock. Conceded by Jay McEveley.
Substitution, Kilmarnock. Jordan Jones replaces Callum Roberts.
Substitution, Ross County. Jim O'Brien replaces Alex Schalk.
Attempt missed. Callum Roberts (Kilmarnock) right footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses the top left corner.
Attempt missed. Christopher Routis (Ross County) right footed shot from long range on the right is too high.
Second Half begins Kilmarnock 1, Ross County 2.
First Half ends, Kilmarnock 1, Ross County 2.
Liam Boyce (Ross County) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Corner, Kilmarnock. Conceded by Jay McEveley.
Attempt saved. Sean Longstaff (Kilmarnock) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
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It ruled that terminations are justified after rape, if the mother's life is at risk or if the foetus is not expected to survive the pregnancy.
The law was approved after two years' debate in the Chilean Congress but had been challenged by conservatives.
Chile had been one of seven Roman Catholic countries with an abortion ban in all circumstances.
They are Chile, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Malta, The Vatican and Dominican Republic.
The current law in Chile was put in place during the military government of Augusto Pinochet.
Chile abortion bill: 'My pregnancy was torture'
News of the judges' ruling by 6-4 led to celebrations among left-of-centre and centrist parties in central Santiago. It was also welcomed by women's and rights groups.
The court heard the arguments of more than 130 concerned organisations before making its ruling, which removes the last major hurdle for the bill to become law.
Chile legalised abortion for medical reasons in 1931 but it was banned totally in 1989 under Gen Pinochet.
Lawmakers have since 1991 introduced dozens of bills to ease the restrictions, but all were blocked by right-of-centre parties and the church.
The cause of the reformers was boosted in 2013 with the election of President Michele Bachelet, a keen supporter of a woman's right to choose whether or not to have an abortion. The move to ease abortion restrictions is seen as her swansong as she leaves office.
BBC Latin America analyst Candace Piette says that the ruling is a watermark for reproductive rights in the four countries of Latin America which have a blanket abortion ban.
Even though an estimated 70% of Chileans are in favour of lessening the restrictions, abortion remains deeply controversial.
Under existing legislation, both doctor or patient can face up to five years in prison. In the four years up to 2014, 73 people were jailed.
Recently the courts have tended to order therapy for women instead of prison.
Despite the risks, reproductive rights organisations say up to 70,000 illegal abortions take place every year in Chile.
One of the most common methods is taking a pill intended to treat ulcers or by obtaining pills on the online black market.
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The 25-year-old British number two beat the Czech 6-4 7-6 (7-3) despite going 4-1 down in the second set and being broken when serving for the match.
Watson will reach the first round if she beats Richel Hogenkamp on Friday.
Dutchwoman Hogenkamp, 25, won their only previous meeting in last year's US Open first round and is 13 places above Watson at 105 in the world rankings.
Watson missed out on direct entry to a Grand Slam for the first time in three years after slipping down the rankings.
But she has qualified successfully three times before for Roland Garros, reaching the second round five times.
Meanwhile, British number four Laura Robson is to work with the academy co-founded by Stan Wawrinka's coach Magnus Norman.
Robson, who has suffered injury problems over the last couple of years, returned to the world's top 200 by winning a tournament in Japan last week.
Unsubstantiated allegations say Russia has embarrassing information about him.
Without referring to the stories, the president-elect tweeted: "FAKE NEWS - A TOTAL POLITICAL WITCH HUNT!"
Mr Trump is due to hold a news conference on Wednesday, nine days before he takes office.
It was meant to be about his attempts to separate himself from his business commitments, to address concerns about conflicts of interest.
But it now comes at an awkward time for the Republican president-elect.
As well as the allegations of a personal nature, the media reports also allege secret communications between the Trump presidential campaign and Moscow.
The US intelligence agencies reportedly presented the information to the president-elect and his predecessor at the White House, President Barack Obama.
They were said to be attached to a wider classified report into alleged interference by Russia into the US election.
But there has been nothing said publicly by the US intelligence community to support these unsubstantiated claims.
In recent weeks, Mr Trump has been under pressure to concur with the findings of US spy agencies who say Russia was behind the hacking of Democratic Party emails during the presidential campaign.
They say the order came from the Kremlin to sway the election for Mr Trump and away from his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton.
But so far he has failed to explicitly agree with the conclusions of the intelligence services.
And he has condemned those who oppose good relations with Russia as "fools".
Russia has denied any involvement in the hacks and accused the US of conducting a witch hunt.
Sources: New York Times, CNN
The fall of three places puts them in a slot they have not occupied since the aftermath of Kevin Keegan's tenure.
1 Spain 1514 (1)
2 Argentina 1263 (4)
3 Germany 1261 (2)
4 Italy 1199 (6)
5 Colombia 1180 (3)
6 Belgium 1159 (10)
7 Uruguay 1126 (12)
8 Brazil 1067 (9)
9 Netherlands 1058 (5)
10 Croatia 1051 (8)
Previous ranking in brackets
Despite a quarter-final exit at Euro 2012, Roy Hodgson's side reached third in August last year - an all-time high.
Wales are 52nd, the Republic of Ireland 59th, Scotland 63rd, all having slipped further down the list, while Northern Ireland rose 23 places to 86th.
The Northern Irish improvement is particularly ironic given their ignominious 3-2 defeat this week by Luxembourg, who sit 127th in the rankings and whose last home World Cup qualifying victory had been in 1972.
Spain - who won the last two European Championships and the 2010 World Cup - have now held top spot in the table since September 2011, while Argentina moved up two places to second.
Uruguay have jumped into the top 10 after rising five positions to seventh.
Belgium's rise continued as they moved up to sixth - a four-place improvement - but the biggest climbers of all inside the top 20 were the USA, who leapt from 19th to 13th.
The striker was wearing the red number 10 shirt as he scored his famous Wembley hat-trick against West Germany.
It was expected to fetch up to £500,000, but Sotheby's said the bidding failed to meet the reserve price despite "a great deal of interest".
The victory, 50 years ago, remains England's only World Cup win.
Hurst's third goal, scored in extra time, prompted Kenneth Wolstenhome's BBC commentary: "They think it's all over… it is now!"
Hurst was a prolific goal-scorer at club level, scoring 40 goals in 59 games for West Ham during the 1965-66 season, but he began the 1966 World Cup as a squad member.
He was awarded a place in the starting line-up only when the nation's top goal-scorer, Jimmy Greaves, suffered an injury ahead of the quarter-finals.
Hurst went on to score in the 18th minute of the final, and then twice again in extra time, in England's 4-2 victory.
Sotheby's estimated the shirt would sell for £300,000-£500,000.
It is believed to have been first auctioned at Christies in 2000, when it was sold for £91,750 to a private collector.
It was then bought in 2008 by an Oxfordshire-based property investor Andrew Leslau for an undisclosed sum on behalf of international investors.
Mr Leslau insured the shirt for £1m, calling it "the most important shirt in English football history".
Gabriel Heaton, from the auctioneers, said the shirt represented a "legendary moment in the annals of English football, and a sporting achievement that has never been repeated in half a century."
Carl Scott's body was found in Birch Court, off Thurmond Road, Winchester.
Mr Scott, from Winchester, died some time between 12 February and 22 March, when his body was discovered by a member of the public, a court heard.
David Gray, 35, of no fixed address, was remanded in custody until a case management hearing at Winchester Crown Court in August.
A provisional trial date was set for 4 December.
Prince Charles visited Stebonheath Primary School, Llanelli, where he was shown a water catchment system and was treated to a concert.
He later met the youth team at Llandovery Rugby Club, Carmarthenshire, of which he is a patron.
The prince also visited Aberdare's Prysmian Cables & Systems in Rhondda Cynon Taff.
And he was given a tour of parachute manufacturer Airborne Systems in Llangeinor, Bridgend county, where he met staff and apprentices.
The number of diverts was nearly double the level in the previous three winters and has prompted warnings about the pressures facing the health service.
Hospitals said closures were a last resort but had to be done to maintain safety in A&E.
But paramedics warned it had the knock-on effect of slowing their ability to get to the sick and injured quickly.
Ambulance crews have failed to hit any of their response time targets since May 2015, with latest figures showing that a third of the most critically ill patients wait longer than eight minutes for a 999 response.
Richard Webber, from the Royal College of Paramedics, said that while he was "sympathetic" to the problems hospitals were facing, the diverts were a significant cause of delays in reaching "seriously ill and injured patients".
"There is a double whammy in that not only do crews have to drive further away once a divert is implemented - [but] once that's happened, an ambulance crew will then also need to travel further to get back to their own area to respond to the next call."
The figures, compiled by the Nuffield Trust think tank from official NHS data, showed there were 478 diverts in December, January and February.
That compared to 265 the winter before, 258 in 2014-15 and 225 in 2013-14.
Prof John Appleby, of the Nuffield Trust, said tackling the issue should be an "urgent priority".
"The extra time crews are having to spend on the road is not helping the ambulance service's ability to meet its response time targets," he said.
He also said his research showed there was low morale among ambulance staff, which he said was worrying.
The diverts normally last only a couple of hours and are put in place to allow A&E staff to reduce the queues of patients waiting for treatment.
When a divert is put in place, ambulances are routed to other nearby hospitals.
Five hospital trusts accounted for nearly half of the diverts. These were:
Saffron Cordery, of NHS Providers, which represents hospitals, said the trend was "stark".
"Diverting ambulances to other hospitals is disruptive for paramedics and bad for patients.
"The sharp increase in the number of diversions is very worrying. Further steps will be needed across health and social care to address these pressures."
NHS England pointed out many of the diverts would be to hospitals close by so patients were not being sent to hospitals a long way from their homes.
In a statement, the organisation added too many ambulances were being dispatched to simply try to hit targets - and it was now reviewing the system to see if there was a more efficient way of running the service to relieve the pressure.
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Azelle Rodney, 24, was killed in Mill Hill, north London, in April 2005.
Anthony Long told the Old Bailey he made the split-second decision to open fire as he thought his colleagues were in "imminent" danger.
Mr Long, 58, allegedly took just six hundredths of a second to open fire on Mr Rodney in a police operation to foil an attempted robbery.
The trial heard he fired off eight shots in 2.1 seconds, six of which fatally injured Mr Rodney, who was the back seat passenger of a Volkswagen Golf, which was boxed in during the "hard stop" by armed police in Hale Lane.
In making the split-second decision to open fire, the prosecution asserted Mr Long would not have had time to see whether Mr Rodney was doing anything that might pose a risk to the public and police.
But retired Mr Long, who was commended seven times during his distinguished 33-year career with the force, maintained he believed his colleagues were in danger.
Following the verdict, Mr Long said: "I am very grateful to the jury for returning a not guilty verdict.
"It has been very difficult facing trial for something that happened 10 years ago when I had acted to protect the lives of others as a part of my job and based on my training and experience.
"Police firearms officers do not go out intending to shoot people and, like me in this case, have to make split second life or death decisions based on the information available to them at the time.
"I want to thank my family and friends who have stuck by me and supported me during this difficult time."
Why was a former police firearms officer found not guilty of the murder of a suspect he shot six times - a shooting that occurred a split second after the target came into view?
A police officer can only justifiably open fire if he or she genuinely believes that the trigger must be pulled to protect either himself, his colleagues or the public.
But what if the officer was mistaken or acted in more complicated circumstances?
That rule of genuine belief remains key - and the law allows for genuine belief being the product of panic or misinformation.
But crucially, the jury, who watched complex forensic reconstructions of the scene, had to be absolutely sure that the officer knew that he didn't need to open fire - and that was a conclusion they ultimately could not reach - bringing this exceptionally long and controversial case to a close.
Police shooter evidence explained
Details of Mr Long's operational history, which included an incident in which he shot two other suspects dead, were not divulged in evidence.
At the conclusion of the inquiry, Mr Rodney's mother Susan Alexander had said of her son's "wholly avoidable" death: "The fact that he was strongly suspected of being involved in crime does not justify him or anyone else being summarily killed."
At the time, police intelligence had suggested the gang was armed with at least one deadly machine gun as they prepared to strike a gang of Colombian drug dealers in Edgware, north London, on the evening of Saturday 30 April 2005.
However, a search of the car later revealed that although there were three weapons, none were automatic and only one was loaded, the Old Bailey heard.
After deliberating for 12 hours and nine minutes the jury found Mr Long not guilty of murder.
The jury was not told the outcome of a judge-led inquiry in 2013 that concluded the shooting was not legally justified and Mr Long's accounts of what he saw in the seconds before opening fire should not be accepted.
After the verdict, Mr Rodney's mother Ms Alexander repeated her view that her son's death was "wholly avoidable" and she was still waiting for an unreserved apology from the police and Independent Police Complaints Commission.
"Almost exactly two years ago, I welcomed the thorough and excellent public inquiry report of Sir Christopher Holland published on 5 July 2013," she said.
"I said then that I hoped the report would be ground-breaking and cause a shift in thinking by the police.
"I am still unclear on whether the police fully accept the recommendations made two years ago and that similar deaths in the future have been made less likely."
BBC Home Affairs Correspondent Danny Shaw said the verdict would be a huge relief to the Met Police, with there being serious concerns a guilty verdict would have led firearms officers to withdraw from the role.
Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Patricia Gallan said: "Police officers are not exempt from the law, and would not wish to be.
"However, standing trial for murder will have been a very stressful and difficult time for Tony Long, a police officer for over 30 years.
"This must also have been a difficult time for Mr Rodney's family. The Metropolitan Police regrets Mr Rodney's death, and we express our full sympathy to his family."
Sherwood MP Mark Spencer said the deaths of the cats in Calverton, Nottinghamshire, appear to be linked.
He has taken the issue to Parliament, where there will be an adjournment debate in Westminster Hall on Tuesday.
The RSPCA, which is investigating the cat deaths, said it was unusual to have so many in one area.
Mr Spencer, who has a cat called Parsnip, said: "If it is malicious then that is a very serious criminal offence.
"People are genuinely worried. They don't want to let their cat out in case they don't see them again."
The issue to be debated is the "control of antifreeze products and protection of animals".
Antifreeze contains ethylene glycol which forms crystals inside the animals, damaging kidney tissue and causing kidney failure.
Symptoms of poisoning include lethargy, vomiting and appearing groggy or drunk.
On Saturday, Mr Spencer called a public meeting about the Calverton cat deaths, which began in the summer.
Nick Lawlor, who was at the meeting, said the culprit needs to be caught.
His son's cat, Piper, died in a suspected poisoning.
"They've got to pay for what they've done. You can't kill kids' pets," he said.
"Her eyes were rolling around her head, she was fitting. She passed away within a couple of hours.
"Personally I'm not a cat person. I've got a Staffie [but] what I saw the cat go through hurt."
McNamara declared in midweek that he would resign if the Minstermen failed to get a "positive result" from the trip to Braintree, and was just moments away from York's first win in 30 away league games thanks to Simon Heslop's early strike.
But Lee Barnard tucked home an 88th-minute penalty to leave McNamara to ponder his future, with York winless in seven games and just above the drop zone.
The former Celtic player had made his win-or-bust call in the wake of a 6-1 defeat to lowly Guiseley on Tuesday night, and he was indebted to his goalkeeper Kyle Letheren, who saved a 12th-minute Simeon Akinola spot-kick and then made a string of saves before Braintree finally broke through.
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Match ends, Braintree Town 1, York City 1.
Shaun Rooney (York City) is shown the yellow card.
Second Half ends, Braintree Town 1, York City 1.
Goal! Braintree Town 1, York City 1. Lee Barnard (Braintree Town) converts the penalty with a.
Substitution, Braintree Town. Lee Barnard replaces Oliver Muldoon.
Substitution, Braintree Town. Reece Hall-Johnson replaces Harry Lee.
Substitution, York City. Daniel Nti replaces Richard Brodie.
Chez Isaac (Braintree Town) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Braintree Town. Michael Cheek replaces Jack Midson.
Second Half begins Braintree Town 0, York City 1.
First Half ends, Braintree Town 0, York City 1.
Richard Brodie (York City) is shown the yellow card.
Penalty missed! Bad penalty by (Braintree Town). should be disappointed.
Goal! Braintree Town 0, York City 1. Simon Heslop (York City).
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
Graham Gregory, 80, of Brickfield Park Drive, York, is accused of assaulting a girl in 1990 on the Isle of Man.
Mr Gregory appeared at Douglas courthouse on Thursday and was released on bail until a hearing on 2 February.
Det Sgt Nick Haxby said the Public Protection Unit is "working closely with the diocese in relation to the allegation and investigation".
St Helens Council, which was originally sceptical about the deal, joined Liverpool, Knowsley, Sefton, Wirral, and Halton in Cheshire in ratifying the plan at a meeting on Thursday.
The deal secures nearly £1bn of extra funding over the next 30 years.
Like Greater Manchester, Sheffield, the North East and Tees Valley, it will have an elected mayor.
Former devolution sceptic Councillor Barrie Grunewald, leader of Labour-controlled St Helens, called for an interim mayor before voters elect a mayor in 2017.
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Mr Grunewald said council leaders had not discussed the option yet but added: "My personal view is that we do need to move to an interim mayor model.
"We've signed the deal, the hard work has been done, let's implement it, let's get capacity into the system and let's bring that economic regeneration to all of the city region," he said.
Baroness Doreen Lawrence headed the 10 women 'game-changers', which included activists and chief executives.
Home Secretary Theresa May, who appeared on the 2013 Woman's Hour Power List, branded her "an example" to all.
But Baroness Lawrence said she would give up all her achievements to have an ordinary life with family around her.
"I know I have worked extremely hard over the years to bring to the attention of the authorities what happened to my son," she said.
"But I would give all of those things up just to have an ordinary family life and to have my family around me. So it's fantastic that this is it, but I would rather not."
Baroness Lawrence's son Stephen was stabbed to death in an unprovoked racist attack in 1993.
He was 18 when he was attacked by a group of up to six white youths as he waited at a bus stop in Eltham, south east London on April 22.
It took more than 18 years to bring two of his killers to justice - in a fight largely fought by Baroness Lawrence.
The list of game-changers was compiled by a judging panel appointed by Woman's Hour.
The home secretary, who came second in the inaugural list last year, said Baroness Lawrence had been faced by a "terrible tragedy", yet picked herself up and carried on fighting to ensure that justice could be done.
"What is most striking about this woman is the great strength that she has shown over decades - strength to carry on, to keep on going, even in the most difficult times when all seemed impossible," Mrs May said.
"Also striking is the persistence that she has shown, because she has never given up. And finally, what is most impressive about this game-changer is that throughout it all, over the years, despite blow after blow, she has dealt with everything with absolute dignity."
The power list of 10 included women involved in issues such as child poverty, female genital mutilation (FGM) and internet safety.
The women, described as "game-changers", were revealed in a special live broadcast of Woman's Hour.
Accepting the honour, an emotional Baroness Lawrence said her fight for justice was not over. She urged young people to have the confidence to challenge racism and called for the Metropolitan Police to "hold up their hands" and admit their wrongdoings.
A public inquiry was launched last month following revelations that an undercover police officer spied on the Lawrence family during an investigation into Stephen's death.
An earlier probe by Sir William Macpherson had identified "institutional racism" within the Met. The Macpherson report found a collective failure to provide appropriate and professional service to people because of the colour of their skin.
Baroness Lawrence told Woman's Hour: "I'm satisfied in a way that at last I can say there are two people serving a sentence for his murder.
"But I think what I would like to see, even during the trial we found those individuals were still sticking two fingers up at the authorities, they thought no way would they have gone to prison.
"Even the others who were there, they are living their lives and getting on having families. That has been denied me and my children have been denied having an older brother.
"So to say that I'm satisfied with justice, partly. Because I think it is only partly done that I am. And I shouldn't have to keep fighting, I really shouldn't have to."
Journalist Emma Barnett, who chaired the judging panel, said it was "no easy feat" to come up with 10 women who "changed the game".
"The ambition for this year's list was to capture a snapshot of a moment in time - of those particular 'games' in 2014 that need changing and the women making a real difference in those fields," Ms Barnett said.
"FGM is now taken seriously by politicians, while internet safety and child poverty are among the biggest problems society faces, and we have highlighted the women leading the charge to make sustainable changes in these areas and seven others."
The rest of the judging panel comprised barrister and former council leader Heather Rabbatts, writer Reni Eddo-Lodge, journalist Rachel Johnson and campaigner Liz Bingham.
Here is the top-10 list they compiled:
The Scottish government announced in January it was imposing a moratorium on granting consents for shale gas and coalbed methane developments.
It said further research and a public consultation needed to be carried out.
The new group, SNP Members Against Unconventional Gas (SMAUG), wants a ban on all "unconventional" fossil fuels.
Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is a technique designed to recover gas and oil from shale rock by drilling down into the earth and using a high-pressure water mixture directed at the rock.
The Scottish government said at the start of the year it would not issue any new licences while work on the environmental and health implications of the controversial gas drilling technique were carried out.
A vote will be held at next month's SNP conference calling for it to be extended to include underground coal gasification.
One of SMAUG's founding members, Iain Black, from the SNP's Forth branch, said: "Scotland already has more oil and gas than it can burn if we are going to halt damaging climate change.
"We can burn North Sea gas or we can burn gas from fracking but we can't burn both. Why would we choose the one that pollutes our waterways, damages the earth under our homes and damages our health and damages our food and drinks industry?"
The Scottish Greens welcomed the new SNP pressure group, which also calls for the banning of underground coal gasification (UCG).
The party's economy and energy spokesman Patrick Harvie said: "Communities across central Scotland threatened by fracking and coal gasification are being left in limbo by SNP ministers trying to face both ways in the run up to an election.
"SMAUG is right to agitate for an outright ban. Ministers have the power to end this dangerous distraction right now."
Mr Harvie added: "The SNP only seem able to go so far as permitting a motion at their conference which merely invites ministers to consider extending their temporary moratorium to include coal gasification.
"This is far short of the permanent ban that our communities want.
Flick Monk of Friends of the Earth Scotland said : "It is clear that local communities do not want their health and environment damaged by energy companies aiming to extract gas at any cost.
"SNP branches from all over the country have proposed a range of resolutions for the party conference calling for a complete ban on all unconventional fossil fuels.
"All eyes will now be on the party conference as SNP members will get the chance to debate how to go beyond the current moratorium and ban unconventional fossil fuels outright."
An SNP spokesman said: "There are a range of views across Scotland on issues around unconventional oil and gas, which is why the Scottish government has put in place a moratorium on fracking to allow a full public consultation where all views can be heard and all evidence can be considered.
"This has been welcomed by people on all sides of the fracking debate - and stands in stark contrast to the gung-ho approach favoured by the UK government."
Labour said SMAUG has further exposed "the SNP's attempt to face both ways on fracking" after Ineos chief executive Jim Ratcliffe reportedly received assurances from the Scottish government that "they're not against fracking".
The party's environmental justice spokewoman Sarah Boyack said: "During the general election SNP MPs campaigned on an anti-fracking platform, but behind the scenes there are allegations that big businesses are getting nods and winks from senior SNP ministers that Scotland was open for business on fracking.
"Under Scottish Labour's plan, no fracking will take place in Scotland without the local community affected giving its approval in a referendum. We will give Scots a local veto over fracking. It is clear that the SNP will not."
The 27-year-old's contract with French club Toulon expires in the summer.
Halfpenny, who scored 16 points in Toulon's European Champions Cup win over Scarlets on Sunday said his international career was a major consideration.
"I'm weighing up everything. Hopefully I can make a decision very shortly," he said.
Should he decide to remain in France, Halfpenny would rely on a wildcard pick to play for Wales under terms of the Welsh Rugby Union's senior player selection policy.
"I want to be playing top-flight rugby but the biggest consideration is obviously the wildcard," Halfpenny said.
"International rugby is hugely important for me and I have to consider that."
Halfpenny said in late October he would decide whether to stay with Toulon or return to Wales "in the next month or so" following the autumn Test series.
Former Toulon head coach Diego Dominguez said earlier in October he was confident Halfpenny would stay with the former European champions, whom he joined in 2014
"I know I said I was going to focus on the internationals and then think and that's what I'm doing now, going through that process of making a decision," Halfpenny added.
"My agent's looking at the options and hopefully he can get them on the table and I'll have a look at my options and make a decision then."
Halfpenny said it was "good fun" facing a number of his Wales team-mates in Toulon's 31-20 win over Scarlets.
The former Cardiff Blues player scored 16 points in a victory which lifted the three-times champions to nine points in the pool, five behind defending champions Saracens.
"We'll enjoy this win and then look to prepare heading to Wales next week," Halfpenny added.
"The Scarlets will look to come out fighting and it's going to be tough there. They've got quality across the park.
"All we can do is take each game as it comes. We know the task ahead of us is a huge challenge.
"We're trying to build, week on week, game on game.
"If we continue to improve then hopefully we can achieve what we set out to do and that's to advance in this competition and challenge for the title."
The new roles come on top of 100 jobs announced by the company in November, as they expand their operations in Forres.
The latest posts range from customer services to senior management positions.
Capita said in a statement it hoped to have all the new staff on board by the spring.
Capita Scotland chief executive Steve Langmead said: "The 140 new roles will mean that Capita now employ 300 people in Moray and over 500 in the north of Scotland.
"The high quality of people available in the north of Scotland, coupled with the excellent support we receive from the Scottish government, is making this a very attractive area for continued expansion."
Fears about employment in Moray were raised in July last year when RAF Kinloss stopped functioning as an airbase.
Following the UK government's Strategic Defence and Security Review, the base is to become an army barracks.
SNP Moray MP Angus Robertson said Capita's commitment to Forres was "extremely important" for the local economy, especially given the major reduction in forces personnel at Kinloss.
Capita employs more than 4,000 people in Scotland in a wide range of businesses, including life and pensions administration, property consultancy, IT services, recruitment and occupational health services.
Neil Rhodes posted a message on his Twitter page claiming police officers in Lincoln and Boston "ended up working as ambulances last night".
He added that the East Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS) "needs to be properly resourced".
EMAS said it was awaiting more information from Mr Rhodes "about which incidents he is referring to".
Pete Ripley, associate director of operations at EMAS, said: "We work closely with our colleagues in the Police to ensure that patients they encounter are properly assessed by our control team to determine what response they need."
Mr Rhodes is retiring from his post in February after serving as a police officer for 31 years.
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The former IRA leader turned politician died on Tuesday.
"After all the breath he expended cursing the British, he worked with two prime ministers and shook hands with the Queen."
He thanked First Minister Arlene Foster for attending the funeral.
He also thanked Taoiseach Enda Kenny for the speech he made beside President Trump on St Patrick's Day about immigrants.
The schemes, based in Fife, Edinburgh and Glasgow, focus on giving a "fuller role" to "some of the most overlooked people in our society".
Alison Magee, who chairs BIG Scotland, said it wanted to help people who might feel "excluded, alienated or isolated".
She said the grants would mean "people really do a have a greater chance to be all they can be".
In Fife, two projects share awards worth more than £1.2m.
West Fife Enterprise Limited, based in Newmills, works across former coalmining communities to support, help and advise people who are neither employed nor in education or training.
Chief executive Alan Boyle said the funds would help them to continue to support disadvantaged young people to "find their place in the modern workforce".
One person to benefit from the service already is Rebecca Vickers, 20, who is studying an applied science course at Carnegie College in Dunfermline.
"Working with the team here, little by little, I've begun to believe in myself and now I'm on course, if I work hard, to go onto Dundee University," she said.
"My dream job is to be a zoologist but there was a time when I couldn't ever believe that would happen."
The Princess Royal Trust Fife Carers Centre receives an award of £472,731 to continue its work with families.
It said it would help to meet a "rising demand for support and information".
In Glasgow, a grant of £193,000 means the St George's and St Peter's Community Association (SGSPCA) Daffodil Club can continue to expand.
It offers older people a place to meet and learn while also gaining information in terms of income and services available to them.
The final group to benefit is the Edinburgh-based Living Memory Association which has been awarded £372,314 for its "memory exchange" project.
It will work with older people using "reminiscence activity" to build confidence and self-esteem and help to keep minds active.
Stuart Nelson was killed in an accident at about 17:10 on Tuesday at Cuttle Hill Farm in Crossgates.
He died at the scene and police are investigating the circumstances.
A Police Scotland spokesman said: "Police in Fife are investigating after a child was killed during a collision on a farm in Fife. A three-year-old boy sustained fatal injuries."
Liz Beattie, Crossgates and Mossgreen Community Council vice-chairman, told the BBC Scotland news website she knew Stuart's grandparents.
She said: "The family are highly thought of and respected within the community.
"Obviously our thoughts are very much with them at this time."
Alistair Bain, councillor for Cowdenbeath - which includes Crossgates - described Stuart's death as tragic.
He said: "This was a farm accident, they do happen and its tragic. I know Richard helps out in the village when he can.
"I'm sure everyone is devastated and all our thoughts are with little Stuart's parents, Richard and Linzi at this time."
Rev Gavin Boswell, minister of Crossgates Church, said: "This is a tragedy that has left members of the close knit community shocked and stunned.
"It is truly heartbreaking to lose a child under any circumstances.
"Our thoughts and prayers go out to the family at this extremely difficult time".
Sylvan Parry, 46, of Caernarfon, Gwynedd, denied trying to kill Fiona Parry on 3 September.
But a jury at Mold Crown Court found him guilty by a majority of 10 to two, on Thursday.
Judge Eleri Rees directed that jurors could give a majority verdict after two hours and 15 minutes of deliberations.
She added that Parry would be sentenced on Friday.
Mother-of-six, Mrs Parry, suffered life-changing injuries in the attack.
Speaking outside court, following the verdict, she said: "I hope he does get a life sentence for what he has done to me."
The prosecution earlier told the court Mr Parry used "considerable force" and only stopped when on-duty fire officers who had witnessed the attack intervened.
Witnesses saw him kick her "like a footballer taking a penalty" and he had to be stopped from stamping on her head.
Prosecuting barrister Sion ap Mihangel said: "This was clearly an attempt by this defendant to kill his wife. It was only because of the intervention of others that he did not succeed in killing her."
The incident happened on the first day of the new school term.
As the couple made the short walk from their house with their baby in a pram and two children, Mr Parry started behaving "aggressively" and issued threats to his wife before attacking her, Mr ap Mihangel told the court.
In a video interview, Mrs Parry told police she could not remember anything that happened that day because of a brain injury sustained during the attack.
Mr Parry said he had "lost it" in a "moment of madness" but did not intend to kill her. The jury was also told he was "deeply ashamed" by his actions.
He admitted wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm but he was found guilty of the more serious offence.
Up to 11,000 jobs will be lost across the UK after efforts to find a buyer for the store failed.
BHS went into administration in April. A number of offers were made to buy the department store chain but none of them were accepted by administrators.
The company has stores in Belfast, Holywood, Newtownabbey and Lisburn.
All 163 BHS stores will be holding closing sales over the coming weeks.
The Premiership's bottom club remain seven points adrift with four matches to play and must face the top three.
Charlie Sharples, Billy Burns and Lewis Ludlow's tries gave visitors Gloucester a win that moved them up to eighth.
Max Crumpton crossed late on for Bristol before Jonny May broke quickly to clinch Gloucester a bonus point.
With away games to Exeter and Saracens to come either side of hosting leaders Wasps, Friday's defeat left Bristol needing to stun at least one of the title contenders if they are to avoid an immediate return to the second tier.
After Burns had kicked Gloucester ahead with an early penalty, full-back Jason Woodward missed two kicks for the hosts before fly-half Billy Searle made it 3-3 from the tee.
Sharples - only on the field as a temporary replacement while England wing May received a head-injury assessment - was then fed by Tom Marshall and crossed in the corner and Burns' sweetly-struck conversion made it 10-3.
In a bruising first half that included several delays for medical treatment - the lengthiest of which saw Bristol's Tusi Pisi stretchered off - both sides traded further penalties as Gloucester's Marshall ended the half in the sin bin after a deliberate knock-on.
After the break, Burns capitalised on a mistake from Luke Arscott to extend Gloucester's lead and Ludlow added a third try when he powered over after a driving maul.
Replacement hooker Crumpton's score offered the hosts some consolation but, as they pushed for a seemingly-unlikely losing-bonus point, they were further punished as the Cherry and Whites' swift late counter gave May time and space to add their fourth.
Victory ended Gloucester's run of six away league games without victory - including five straight away defeats - and moved them to within four points of the top six.
Bristol interim head coach Mark Tainton: "We created opportunities and field position, but we didn't execute, and Gloucester did.
"We are getting in the right areas of the field, but we are not executing, and when we turned the ball over or made a mistake, we got punished.
"We can't hide away from it. We've got four games left, three of them against the top three teams in the Premiership, so it is going to be very difficult to get something from them.
"But speaking to the players, we are going to try and fight right to the very end.
"A point or two points from some of those games, and who knows what is going to happen come the final week of the season."
Gloucester interim head coach Jonny Bell: "We soaked up a lot of pressure. We knew Bristol would come hard at us, and we had to defend very well.
"We are not getting ahead of ourselves. We've talked about the next four or five weeks being like a mini-season for us, and we are clearly delighted to get the win.
"A couple of weeks ago (Gloucester lost at home to Harlequins) has come and gone, and there is a lot of water under the bridge since then. It shows a huge amount of character in the side."
Bristol: Woodward; Wallace, Hurrell, Pisi, Lemi; Searle, Mathewson; Bevington, Jones, Cortes, Phillips, Sorenson, Jeffries, Lam, Eadie.
Replacements: Crumpton, O'Connell, Ford-Robinson, Crane, Fenton-Wells, Williams, Tovey, Arscott.
Gloucester: Marshall; May, Trinder, Symons, Halaifonua; Burns, Heinz (capt); McAllister, Hibbard, Hohneck; Savage, Thrush; Kalamafoni, Rowan, Morgan.
Replacements: Matu'u, Thomas, Doran-Jones, Denton, Ludlow, Braley, Twelvetrees, Sharples.
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Two pine trees were attacked last month in West Cliff Green, Bournemouth, Dorset, close to the site of the former St George's Hotel - both trunks had up to 15 holes drilled in them.
A third pine has since been attacked and a "crystal-like" substance has been found on its trunk.
The substance is now being tested.
Andy McDonald, head of parks at Bournemouth Borough Council, said he had "strong suspicions" the trees had been poisoned - possibly by pouring a substance into the drilled holes.
The authority said it also hoped to install CCTV cameras in the area in a bid to prevent further tree attacks.
It added the latest attack was likely to have been carried out in the past two weeks.
Dorset Police said it was investigating the damage, but no arrests had been made.
Chris Colledge, from West Cliff Residents' Association, said: "The local community are absolutely lost for words as to how anybody could want to destroy such a beautiful pine."
The two affected maritime pines and one Scots pine, which are on public land, are each up to 40 years old but are not subject to preservation orders.
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Larissa Muldoon's converted first-half try, against a Mahalia Murphy score, had Ireland 7-5 ahead at the interval.
Shannon Parry's touchdown edged the Wallaroos in front but replacements Ciara Griffin and Sophie Spence crossed to put Ireland on the road to victory.
The 2014 semi-finalists survived a late scare after prop Hilisha Samoa's try was converted by Ashleigh Hewson.
Ireland face Japan in their second group match on Sunday at the same venue, the UCD Bowl in Dublin, while Australia must try to re-group against France.
Defending champions England opened up this year's tournament by running in 10 tries in a 56-5 victory over Spain, while the USA beat Italy 24-12 in the other Pool B match.
New Zealand and Canada are the favourites to progress from Pool A and both started with victories, the Black Ferns beating Wales 44-12 and Canada winning 98-0 against newcomers Hong Kong, while France thrashed 14-woman Japan 72-14 in the other match in Pool C.
Bereft of regular captain Niamh Briggs because of an Achilles injury, Ireland were led into the tournament by Claire Molloy as they set out to at least match their achievement of three years ago, when they lost to England in the last four.
Ireland, the 2013 and 2015 Women's Six Nations champions, went in as strong favourites, even though opponents Australia are just one place below them in the world rankings, in sixth.
Their opponents had lost all five matches they had played since the 2014 competition, albeit against highly ranked sides in England, Canada and New Zealand.
Australia have been concentrating on the Sevens version of the game, winning gold at the first Olympic tournament in Rio in 2016.
Yet they dominated territory and possession in the opening 10 minutes, before Ireland started to pile on the pressure.
Scrum-half Muldoon found a gap in the Australian defence midway through the half as she picked up and darted over for the match's first try, Nora Stapleton converting.
Australia were matching the Irish for physicality and responded eight minutes later when Murphy went over at full pelt in the corner after full-back Samantha Treherne sent an accurate looping ball over to the winger following a quick throw from a lineout.
Treherne was unable to add the extra two points after the ball fell off the tee just as she was about to kick the conversion.
Australia captain Parry barged over from close range 15 minutes after the resumption to nudge her side three points ahead, Treherne fluffing the conversion well wide of the posts.
A powerful drive by Ireland's forwards helped Griffin barge over for a converted try and Ireland looked to be well in control when Spence was adjudged by the television match official to have grounded the ball in the corner with 10 minutes left.
Soon after, Samoa managed to twist and turn and dot the ball down at the other end despite the attention of four Irish defenders who were unable to halt the progress of the Australia prop.
"That was a tough match. We knew Australia would be a physical side and they really put it up to us," Ireland captain Molloy told ITV after the game.
"I am proud of the grit, resilience and resolve shown by the girls. We knew we would create scoring opportunities if we stuck at it."
Ireland: H Tyrell; E Considine, J Murphy, S Naoupu, A Miller; N Stapleton, L Muldoon; L Peat, C Moloney, A Egan, P Fitzpatrick, ML Reilly, A Baxter, C Molloy, H O'Brien.
Replacements: L Lyons, R O'Reilly, C O'Connor, S Spence, C Griffin, N Cronin, K Fitzhenry, M Coyne.
Australia: S Treherne; N Marsters, K Sauvao, S Williams, M Murphy; T Pomare, K Barker; L Patu, C Campbell, H Samoa; C Butler, M Boyle; M Gray, S Parry (capt), G Hamilton
Replacements: E Robinson, V Tupuola, H Ngaha, R Clough, A Hewett, F Hake, S Riordan, A Hewson.
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The advert, which appeared in Elle UK magazine, featured a photo of a woman whose rib cage was visible and appeared prominent, the regulator said.
It upheld a reader's complaint that the advert was "irresponsible" for using a model who appeared unhealthily thin.
Yves Saint Laurent (YSL) and Elle UK declined to comment on the ruling.
The ASA said YSL "indicated that they did not agree with the complainant's view that the model was unhealthily thin" but did not provide a detailed response.
Elle UK told the watchdog it had no comment to make on the complaint.
The ASA said the model's pose and the lighting drew particular focus to her chest, where her rib cage was visible and appeared prominent, and to her legs, where her thighs and knees appeared a similar width.
It said: "We therefore considered that the model appeared unhealthily underweight in the image and concluded that the ad was irresponsible."
It ruled that the advert must not appear again in its current form, adding: "We told the advertisers to ensure that the images in their ads were prepared responsibly."
The charity Anorexia and Bulimia Care (ABC) said it hoped the ASA's ruling sends a "clear message" to other media and fashion companies, which it said have a "great responsibility".
An ABC spokesperson told the BBC: "We applaud the ASA for taking the necessary action to ban the YSL advert on the grounds of it being 'irresponsible.'
"While eating disorders are most often caused by underlying emotional issues or events, the impact of the media on vulnerable young people can act as a dangerous catalyst - triggering disordered thinking and behaviour.
"Adverts using underweight models are promoting a distorted image of beauty and yet this has become the norm in the UK."
The ASA's ruling came as figures from the NHS showed that the number of hospital admissions across the UK for teenagers with eating disorders has nearly doubled in the last three years.
The Royal College of Psychiatrists said much of the increase was down to social pressure made worse by online images.
College spokesperson Dr Carolyn Nahman said she was worried about what she described as the sometimes fatal consequences of vulnerable teenagers putting themselves under pressure by looking at pictures of "ideal bodies" repeatedly on social media.
The eating disorder charity Beat cautioned that the rise in disorders reported by the NHS could also be due to better diagnosis and awareness, but said it showed it is "vital" that we protect young people from "excessive influences".
A Beat spokesperson told the BBC: "The ASA ruling is not about whether this person in the picture is healthy, but whether the images of her are being used in a way that can have an irresponsible effect on others and we are really pleased to see that they are taking action to uphold their responsibility for the social impact of adverts, as well as judging whether they are legal, decent, honest and truthful."
The charity said that the "constant portrayal" of a very slender look needs to challenged in order for young people to grow up with a robust sense of self-worth.
In April, French MPs approved a law to ban the use of catwalk fashion models deemed to be excessively thin.
Under the new law, modelling agencies which employ models below a certain Body Mass Index (BMI) level face fines or prison terms.
The law also penalises magazines which fail to state when photos have been retouched - with a fine of €37,500 or up to 30% of the amount spent on the advertising featuring the model.
Ian Twinn, direct of public affairs at Isba, a trade body which represents advertisers, said Wednesday's ruling from ASA was "useful in drawing a line over which advertisers must not cross".
He added: "But there can be no simple template. Some people are naturally thin, some of us are sadly not. Advertisers and regulators need to apply common sense, as the ASA has, and not vilify the thin, the rounded and the simply overweight."
Earlier this year, a campaign for the YSL perfume Black Opium was cleared by the ASA in January following complaints that it glamorised and trivialised drug use and addiction.
The French designer Yves Saint Laurent made his name when Christian Dior picked him to become his assistant at the age of 17. When Dior died three years later, Saint Laurent took over the Dior house.
He went on to co-found what was to become the multi-million-pound Saint Laurent fashion and perfume empire in 1962. He died in 2008.
The first major UK exhibition of the fashion of Yves Saint Laurent is to be staged at the Bowes Museum in County Durham next month.
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Eriksson, the head coach of leading Chinese Super League team Shanghai SIPG, believes everything is now in place for China to succeed.
"This season it's gone crazy, totally crazy," said the Swede, 68.
"The president of the country is pushing for football. And if the government push for something in China things will happen."
While China excel at the Olympics and Paralympics, its men's team have only qualified for one football World Cup, in 2002.
But Eriksson believes that record will change and says winning the tournament is a realistic target.
The former Manchester City and Leicester City manager, who led England from 2001 to 2006, added: "Why not? Not the next World Cup. It will take 15, 20 years at least."
China's government set out plans in April to become a "world football superpower" by 2050, with a drive to get 50 million children and adults playing the game by 2020.
The head of China's Super League, Ma Chengquan, says his country sees hosting the World Cup as a catalyst that would improve the popularity of the game and the fortunes of the national side.
"After Qatar in 2022, for China our earliest target will be in 2030," he told BBC Sport in a rare interview.
"A country's capability to host such a big tournament depends on whether a country has developed to a certain level, it has the financial ability and can also provide facilities such as proper stadiums.
"Stadiums are not a problem for China - it has already hosted the 2008 Olympics and it's going to host the 2022 Winter Olympic Games.
"It's more important right now for China to improve the level of our national team so it can perform better at the World Cup and so we can prepare for it."
Other targets established by the Chinese government include:
China's government also wants to diversify the Chinese economy by building a vast £550bn sports industry, with football set to play a leading role.
"The sports industry plays an important role in the economic development of a country, but in China the CSL was quite weak. So we really want to improve it and make it better," said Ma.
"We want CSL to be a leading example of the sports industry and to help the development of economic growth in China."
The growth in the CSL has seen some of the biggest names in world football sign for Chinese clubs in recent years.
In January, Brazil international Ramires joined Jiangsu Suning from Chelsea for £25m, while Argentina's Ezequiel Lavezzi left Paris St-Germain for Hebei China Fortune for a reported fee of £23.5m
China's transfer record was broken three times in 10 days during the most recent window.
It culminated in Liverpool being beaten to the signature of Alex Teixeira when the 26-year-old forward moved from Shakhtar Dontesk to Jiangsu Suning for a fee of £38.4m.
Speaking to BBC Sport, one of China's leading agents has warned fans of European clubs to expect more big names to head east.
"It's going crazy right now. We have a saying that the only two players who are not coming to China right now are Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi," said Romain Woo, the founder of Van Hao sports agency.
"The other names? It's all highly possible. I know most of the big agents in Europe and they are all trying to push their clients to China right now if they're not having a good time in Europe."
Woo manages more than 50 of China's leading players and says Chinese clubs have also rejected transfer approaches from leading European clubs.
"Three of my players got chances to go to FC Copenhagen, to Real Madrid and Chelsea," he said.
"The problem is that they are way too important to their clubs here and they don't care about how big the transfer fee is."
That points to the collective will within China to set aside personal agendas and play a role in the government edict to improve the national team's fortunes.
"Maybe when their contract has expired or at another stage of Chinese football they can go," Woo said.
"But now it's a different stage of Chinese football and we want to keep all our best players in the league."
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Pistorius has spent 10 months in jail for shooting dead his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, after his conviction for manslaughter last year.
The Olympic athlete insists he mistook Ms Steenkamp for an intruder.
State prosecutors want his conviction to be reviewed and converted to murder, with a minimum sentence of 15 years.
Pistorius was jailed for five years in 2014 for the culpable homicide of Reeva Steenkamp, a charge equivalent to manslaughter.
Under South African law, Pistorius is eligible for release under "correctional supervision", having served a sixth of his sentence.
After being freed, he would serve the rest of his term under house arrest.
During sentencing, Judge Thokozile Masipa said the state had failed to prove Pistorius' intent to kill when he fired.
His defence team now has a month to file its response.
Ms Steenkamp's parents have said that the time he has served is "not enough for taking a life".
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The 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.
In March a Johannesburg court blocked his legal team's attempts to stop the prosecutors' appeal.
Pistorius was born without the fibulas in both of his legs, and had surgery to amputate both below the knee while still a baby.
He 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.
A self-governing commonwealth of the United States since 1976, the islands lie just 1,500 miles south of the Japanese coast.
Those born on the islands are US citizens but not eligible to vote in US presidential elections. The territory receives millions of dollars in aid from Washington.
Most of the population live on the island of Saipan and only four other islands are populated. Native Micronesians outnumber the indigenous Chamorro and Carolinian populations.
Population 63,500
Area 457 sq km (176 sq miles)
Major languages English, Chamarro, Carolinian
Major religion Christianity
Life expectancy 74 years (men), 80 years (women)
Currency US dollar
Head of State: Barack Obama
Head of government: Ralph Torres
Ralph Torres was sworn in as governor of the Northern Marianas in December 2015 following the sudden death of his predecessor Eloy Inos.
At 36, he became the youngest governor in Northern Marianas history.
During his inaugural speech, Mr Torres pledged "to do what's right".
The Northern Marianas government has sought to rebuild public trust since former governor Benigno Fitial was convicted of corruption in 2015.
Broadcasting is regulated by the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
Henshall joined Manchester City at the age of 16 from Swindon Town before moving to Ipswich in 2014 without playing a first-team game for City.
The 22-year-old was at Scottish side Kilmarnock last season before being released at the end of the term.
Former Colchester United youngster Sanderson, 23, has most recently been playing in Greece for Chania.
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Throughout 2015, the cameras will be positioned at 84 locations, allowing a team of scientists to record the type of animals passing through the area and where they make their home.
In the first four months since the cameras were deployed, the team has "trapped" more than 10,000 images of animals, suggesting the 30km zone, established shortly after the April 1986 disaster when a nuclear reactor exploded, ejecting radioactive material across the surrounding terrain and high into the atmosphere, is now home to a rich diversity of wildlife.
The network of cameras is gathering data that will help scientists choose the most appropriate species to fit with collars that will then record the level of radioactive exposure the animal receives as it travels across the zone.
"We want an animal that moves over areas of different contamination - that's the key thing we need," explained project leader Mike Wood from the University of Salford, UK.
"So we would consider some of the larger animals, such as wolves, because they would be ideal because the way the animal moves through the areas actually affects its contamination levels."
Commenting on the herds of Przewalski's horses, Dr Wood observed: "They seem to have adapted quite well to life within the zone.
"From the images from our cameras, they are clearly moving around in quite large groups," he told BBC News.
Dr Wood's team's project is part of a five-year research programme called Transfer, Exposure, Effects (Tree), which will aim to "reduce uncertainty in estimating the risk to humans and wildlife associated with exposure to radioactivity, and to reduce unnecessary conservatism in risk calculations".
Most of the fieldwork will be carried out within the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ).
Late last year, one of Dr Wood's Ukranian colleagues - Sergey Gashchak - captured what was believed to be the first photographic evidence of brown bears within the CEZ.
But the tantalising glimpse of the bear is not enough to make it a candidate to fit with a collar.
Fitting collars to smaller animals, such as a fox, has disadvantages - such as limiting the size of the battery pack that can be fitted within the collar. Larger mammals are not without problems either.
"Once you start considering larger animals then it would be necessary to bring in a trained marksman," observed Dr Wood.
"There are difficulties with using firearms in Ukraine and will require additional permits to be put in place."
This means the team currently favours using bait to trap animals in cages, which will allow them to be fitted with the collars and for the individuals to be assessed by a vet before being released.
Illegal poaching is a problem within the CEZ, and one image captured by the cameras suggested that the elk in question had a narrow escape.
Dr Wood said that the team had to bear in mind the activity of poachers when they chose the most suitable species to wear the collars.
He explained that if the animal was killed then it would mean that the collected data would be limited or lost.
He added: "However, this is a concern that could be applied to any of the species because poachers going into the zone are unlikely to be overly selective."
"This image is a great example of how you could be going through an area and have a lynx just 20 or 30 yards away from you, yet you'd have no idea it was there," said Dr Wood.
"They can literally disappear into the background as they are so well camouflaged in this environment."
It also highlights why the camera traps, which will be capturing images until October 2015, are an important tool for the researchers.
They provide a more representative picture of what animals are found in an area, and whether they regularly visit particular locations.
Once the team has collected images from the 84 randomly selected locations across the exclusion zone, the next stage of the project - which is being undertaken by researchers from the University of Salford, the UK's Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, and the Chornobyl Centre - will be to fit tagging collars to the selected species.
This is expected to be carried out during 2016.
The proposed 40,000-seat building in Old Oak will replace the club's current Loftus Road ground, in Shepherds Bush.
The stadium will be part of a regeneration of the area, which is provisionally called New Queens Park.
"Loftus Road is - and always will be - a special place for the club and our supporters, but we need more than an 18,000 capacity," QPR chairman Tony Fernandes said.
"With no option of expanding here, we have to look elsewhere and we welcome the Mayor's and Hammersmith & Fulham Council's commitment to regenerate the area.
"Not only will this give us a top-quality stadium to cater for QPR's needs as the club progresses and grows over the years ahead, but we are very excited about being the driving force behind creating one of the best new urban places in the world."
The plans include a residential area with 24,000 new homes and a commercial space which will include a 350-room luxury hotel, studios, offices, cinemas and restaurants.
The regeneration is expected to generate 50,000 jobs.
Chief executive Philip Beard wants the new ground to retain some of the characteristics of Loftus Road.
He said: "We will look to build a stadium QPR fans and local residents can be proud of.
"Loftus Road is renowned for its atmosphere and with the help of our supporters, replicating that at our new stadium will be one of our top priorities."
Fernandes completed his takeover of the club, who were relegated to the Championship last season, in August 2011.
He first revealed the club were looking at alternative sites to Loftus Road in West London in November 2011 and Rangers confirmed they were in talks about the Old Oak site since August.
Antony Spencer, who is developing the masterplan for the project along with Sir Terry Farrell, said the area will be a "vibrant" development.
Old Oak is an area of industrial and railway land in between Old Oak Common Lane, Wormwood Scrubs, Scrubs Lane and Willesden Junction in west London. It is the site of a proposed new hub station for the HS2 rail line north, which will also incorporate the trans-London Crossrail project. It is two-and-a-half miles from QPR's current ground at Loftus Road.
"We are talking to a number of world-class architects to design iconic tall buildings akin to New York, the Far East and London's finest, as well as improving and incorporating the waterside environment of the Grand Union Canal."
He added: "We are now in a position to forge ahead as we have secured strategic land holdings in excess of 100 acres. We are confident of securing a planning permission by early 2015 and starting development shortly afterwards."
QPR is working with the Greater London Authority (GLA) and Hammersmith and Fulham Council on the plans, which need planning approval.
As part of the proposed redevelopment scheme, Old Oak is to be the main hub station in the capital for the HS2 high-speed rail project.
The GLA recently consulted residents on the plan for Old Oak, which it says will improve the local economy and see thousands of homes built.
If plans do go ahead, the area would be redeveloped by 2043, with the station open in 2026.
Welsh Secretary Alun Cairns said he would scrap his ability to block some laws made in Wales about water.
He said the decision puts right a "long outstanding injustice" 50 years after the flooding of a Gwynedd village to create a reservoir to supply Liverpool.
The Welsh Government said it had called for the devolution of these powers "for some time", so welcomed the move.
In 1965, the village of Capel Celyn was flooded to create the Tryweryn reservoir to provide Liverpool with water, under a law passed in 1956.
Mr Cairns told BBC Radio's Good Morning Wales programme the changes settled an injustice "where Wales was failed".
"Every secretary of state up until now has ducked this tough issue whereby water within Wales and England is inter-related" he said, saying intervention powers over water legislation were maintained "from Ron Davies to Peter Hain".
Why does it matter that the UK government will no longer be able to block some Welsh laws on water?
There is the symbolism.
Today, planning laws might stop another Tryweryn but water remains a sensitive political issue.
It is also significant that Whitehall - after bruising negotiations between the Wales Office and DEFRA - has agreed to give up its veto.
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The changes will be made as amendments to the Wales Bill, which is being debated in the House of Lords on Tuesday.
The Welsh secretary's powers to intervene on water-related legislation will be replaced by a legal agreement between the Welsh and UK governments.
The Wales Office said it was too early to say exactly when that would be, but said there would be no cost to the taxpayer and no change in how customers in England and Wales receive their water.
Former Plaid Cymru leader Lord Wigley said: "Plaid has fought hard over many years to get a fair settlement for Wales regarding water and to ensure that never again can a Tryweryn-type issue arise.
"I look forward to seeing exactly what the government has to say on Tuesday."
The changes will take effect once a formal agreement between the UK and Welsh governments has been signed.
A Welsh Government spokesman said: "We look forward to receiving further details on this as soon as possible."
The decision follows pressure from the Welsh Government and from opposition politicians who believe the Wales Bill leaves too much power at Westminster.
Hughes, 21, made his debut at the age of 16 during manager Steve McClaren's first spell in charge and has already played 170 games for the club.
McClaren told the official website: "We're all thrilled Will has committed his future until at least 2020.
"Will is an exciting young talent and a really important player."
Levi-Blu Cassin was found dead at an address in Nightingale Avenue, Castle Bromwich, on February 20 last year.
Danielle Cassin, 26, and Mark Piper, 31, will appear at Birmingham Magistrates' Court on Friday, West Midlands Police said.
Both are also charged with neglect and causing or allowing the death of a child.
Police said a post-mortem found Levi-Blu had died as a result of "substantial abdominal injuries".
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Here is a selection of pictures capturing the fall-out as more than 1,000 people were evacuated, tens of thousands left without power and streets left under water.
The 42-year-old Scot joined the Shots last April and guided the side to safety this season.
"I had to make a decision for my family," he said.
"The board have given me their full backing throughout the season, but also have understood why I needed to make this decision to return to Scotland."
The former Dundee and Alloa boss has won 15 of his 45 league games at Aldershot and will take charge of the side for the last time at Bromley on Saturday.
The Hampshire side are 16th in the table heading into the final day of the season.
"I would like to thank Barry for his honesty in making what must have been a very difficult decision," Shots chairman Shahid Azeem said.
"We are sorry to lose him but recognise that some things are more important than football."
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Mark Hughes scored for the hosts in the 72nd minute with a low right-foot shot from the edge of the box.
Josh Robinson was sent-off on 87 but O'Carroll levelled after Paul Heatley was brought down by Liam Bagnall.
Ryan Harpur scored a hat-trick as Dungannon leapfrogged Ballymena into eighth with a 4-2 win at Warden Street.
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For the Sky Blues, it was a fifth consecutive league defeat, while the Swifts have now taken 10 points from their last four Premiership outings.
Andy Mitchell swivelled and volleyed into the net when the ball fell to him in the fifth minute, for his 13th goal of the season.
Harpur netted a 15th-minute penalty after he was fouled by Dwayne Nelson, then David Cushley pulled one back with a low left-foot shot into the bottom corner after good build-up play.
Allan Jenkins equalised by rounding Andy Coleman and slotting into the empty net a minute before the interval.
Harpur dinked the ball over Nelson as he came off his line in the 54th minute and completed his treble three minutes later by slotting in left-footed.
Warrenpoint went into their game against the champions at Milltown with a record of five wins and three draws from their previous nine league fixtures, having conceded just once in six Premiership matches.
In the first half, Heatley headed over from a Forsythe cross and the latter then nodded over from Michael Carvill's delivery.
Hughes's strike looked to have earned Barry Gray's side victory and Crusaders' woes deepened when Robinson was dismissed for bringing down John McGuigan as he bore down on goal.
Substitute O'Carroll's late spot-kick salvaged an unlikely point for Stephen Baxter's outfit and 'Point remain 11th in the table.
A new law comes into force in April which makes is compulsory for all dogs to be tagged.
It is hoped this will help to trace lost or stolen dogs and hold irresponsible owners to account.
Microchipping dogs is a quick procedure which involves putting a tiny device between the animal's shoulders.
It can then be easily scanned to show up basic information about the dog, such as who its owner is.
Microchipping will be offered for free at many vets across the country and some animal charities such as the Dogs Trust rehoming centres in Glasgow and West Calder.
About two-thirds of dogs in Scotland have already been microchipped voluntarily.
Owners who do not comply by April could face a fine of up to £500.
A public consultation in 2014 showed that more than 83% of those who took part favoured making microchipping compulsory.
The new law is set to be introduced in England and Wales at the same time.
The 24-year-old signed a short-term deal in July following his release by the Premier League club.
That was cut short by a hamstring injury sustained on his debut, but he has now signed again until January.
Manager Mark McGhee told the club website: "We look forward to continuing to work with Lee for the duration of his contract and hopefully beyond."
Lucas' career has been hampered by injuries since he made his solitary Swansea appearance as a substitute in 2011.
Before joining Well, the Welshman had played only three other senior games, one during a loan spell at Burton Albion in 2012 and two on loan at Cheltenham in 2014.
But McGhee was impressed by the midfielder on trial - and in a Well debut cut short by injury in July during a 3-1 League Cup win over Annan Athletic.
"He'll be a valuable addition to our squad," said McGhee.
"As we've seen in recent weeks, injuries can hit at any point and Lee adds depth to the squad as well as bringing real ability and a great option.
"He is a technical midfielder, a good passer - a little different to what we have."
Lucas said: "Now that the contract is all sorted and done, I can just focus on my football and enjoy my time here even more."
Home captain Taylor made 85 as West Indies posted 223-6, helped by four dropped catches and a missed stumping.
The tourists were well placed at 133-1 in Kingston after half-centuries from Tammy Beaumont and Lauren Winfield.
But five run-outs and three wickets from Taylor saw England bowled out for 181 and the series levelled at 2-2.
The fifth and deciding match will be at the same Sabina Park ground on Wednesday.
West Indies' win not only keeps the series alive, but also means England cannot secure World Cup qualification in the Caribbean, having lost the second of the ICC Women's Championship fixtures.
Though the tourists were disadvantaged by losing the toss - all four matches in the series have been won by the side batting first - they were hampered by their own mistakes in the field and running between the wickets.
But that is to take nothing away from Taylor, whose 129-ball knock was both imperious and chanceless.
No team had ever overhauled a score of more than 222 to win a women's ODI in the Caribbean but, for some time, that record looked under threat.
England openers Beaumont (57) and Winfield (51) shared 95, with Beaumont in particular showing power down the ground in a 52-ball half-century.
After she was caught and bowled by Taylor, Heather Knight joined Winfield in a stand of 38 until England imploded in spectacular fashion.
Winfield was run out in a mix-up with Knight, Danni Wyatt fell in the same fashion, Georgia Elwiss was short of her ground after a poor call and Brunt was stranded in another breakdown in communication.
By the time Taylor had Knight caught and bowled for 36, England had lost four wickets for four runs and the game was as good as gone.
Fittingly it was a fifth run out that ended the match, Taylor - who took 3-22 - was involved yet again with a direct hit that accounted for Laura Marsh.
Taylor's superb bowling and fielding display followed a second half-century of the series that anchored the Windies on a sluggish Sabina Park surface.
After the hosts collapsed to 108 all out in losing the third ODI, Taylor displayed a new approach of careful accumulation with occasional shows of aggression, initially in a partnership of 69 with Shaquana Quintyne.
England's first dropped catch - Hayley Matthews put down by Marsh - cost them only one run, but it was only when Quintyne was brilliantly caught in the deep by Wyatt off Knight that the errors began to creep in.
Alex Hartley did not get hand on a skier off Deandra Dottin - reprieved on two before going on to make 18 - while Merissa Aguilleira could have been stumped by Amy Jones on nought and was then dropped on three and 11, both times by Jenny Gunn. She went on to make 32.
Aguilleira added 45 with Taylor, who missed out a century when she miscued Knight's off-spin to extra cover.
There was still time for the swift running of Stacy-Ann King and Shemaine Campbelle to visibly frustrate England, but that was nothing compared to the disappointment that was to come.
England opener Tammy Beaumont told BBC Sport: "We played 90% of the game how we want to play, but the 10% has let us down - poor decisions for the run-outs and a few dropped catches in the field.
"Being 90-0 and all out for 181 is not ideal. We know how hard it is to come in on these wickets, so myself and Lauren Winfield have to go on in the way that Stafanie Taylor did.
"It was nice to get off to a quick start, but I was very annoyed when I got out. I wanted to go on and bring the game home for the team, so that is something I have to look at in the next game."
West Indies captain Stafanie Taylor: "I wasn't nervous, they actually got a brilliant start that the openers gave them but we just needed a breakthrough.
"We actually watched a movie last night, one of those movies where you never give up and I think it actually came true today."
Ex-England batter Lydia Greenway on BBC Test Match Special:
Lauren Winfield and Tammy Beaumont gave England a great platform but mistakes, which they know shouldn't have happened, let West Indies back into the game.
England are a team with a huge amount of character. They've got two days, and they'll look to come back fighting.
You have to address what's happened, whether that's chatting with team-mates or coaches, but don't dwell on it too much. They have to hit training hard, and make sure they're mentally prepared going into the last match.
But while the number of British households getting their milk delivered has declined dramatically in the past 20 years - we shouldn't write off the milkman just yet.
At 7am on a cold weekday morning, Colin Chesnaye is three hours into his round through Victorian terraces and modern estates. With the ease of a man who has done this job for 37 years, he pulls up at each house and hops out of the float.
He brings glass bottles to houses and packs of plastic cartons to schools.
Tucked into a compartment in the front of his float are two ledgers containing the handwritten detail of every customer and how much money they owe. But he seldom has to check an order - it's all in his head
But it's more than just a delivery service.
"We're the fourth emergency service," he tells me.
"I had one person, she was always leaving the empty bottles out. This particular day there were no empty bottles… I popped my head through the letterbox and saw her unconscious.
"The paramedics said I saved her life."
Although Colin's milk round isn't often as eventful as that, he's always happy to help out with any heavy lifting or jobs around the house.
"I'm always saying that to people, especially older people, leave a note in the bottle - 'milkman please knock'."
But fewer of us are taking up the kind of services Colin has to offer.
But there's a core group of loyal customers who feel the extra pennies are worth it to have a separate milk delivery.
Paul Lough, depot manager at Parker Dairies in Walthamstow, East London has seen has seen the company's milk delivery business stabilise over the past five years. it now delivers to 12,000 customers a week.
"We get a lot of love from the hipsters…people like the eco stuff, the glass bottles, the electric milk float and supporting a local business."
Paul says that people will pay a higher price for milk because of the personal service they bring, especially important to older and more vulnerable customers.
"Every one of our milkmen will have two or three customers on their round and the only human contact they'll have all week will be the milkman."
Although there are several small dairies around the country, the largest market share in milk delivery is controlled by Milk & More, which was taken over by the dairy giant Muller Milk & Ingredients in 2015.
Milk & More employs 1,250 milkmen and delivers to 600,000 homes, the majority of these in England. Although the firm declined an interview, it said it would continue to deliver milk.
But impressive customer service and nostalgia for a bygone era are not enough to guarantee the survival of the milkman, the business has had to adapt.
Some milkmen start their rounds as early as 11pm because there isn't anybody at home to take in the milk after 8am, and they provide an increasing range of goods - anything from compost for the garden to toilet roll - along with the milk.
The milk doorstep delivery business is tapping into the growing trend for grocery home delivery.
The idea of having our food brought to our doors has made a comeback thanks to the the likes of Ocado, Tesco and Sainsbury - and now Amazon is joining in through a deal with Morrisons.
By 2020 it is predicted that we'll have 9% of our groceries delivered. Technology is a key driver of online shopping and home delivery and new developments will continue to change the business.
"We are in an experimental phase - we're going see a lot more innovation around food and drink online," says James Walton, chief economist at the research charity IDG.
He says technological innovation could help the grocery business to address the thorny problem of the expensive "last mile" in the delivery process. Increased digital connectivity could allow retailers to become much more flexible in how they respond to the demands of customers.
Firms could in future outsource delivery using a model similar to that used by the cab company, Uber. "Those who have a vehicle heading in the right direction might say, we can handle that," says Mr Walton.
That might be a digital innovation too far for the milk delivery business, which relies on our love of the friendly, local milkman checking up on us. But it is starting to embrace the digital era - many customers can now order and pay online.
"We're just getting into Twitter and websites and Facebook," says Parker Dairies' Paul Lough. "We have trained one of our blokes up to read emails."
Walthamstow resident Roz Collier, who started having her milk delivered three months ago primarily to support a local business, uses Twitter to order her milk.
"I tweeted last Thursday night with a change to my Friday order and they got back to me and informed the milkman immediately. My only wish is for them to take online payments instead of cash."
Despite the industry's best efforts to move with the times, and to compete with the supermarkets, the future of the traditional milkman remains uncertain.
But Paul says that is nothing new and recalls the day he started: "A couple of the yard men came up to me and said I don't know why you bothered - it's got five years."
That was 24 years ago and he's still there.
Marcus Williams, 23, and Alex Way, 22, demanded money when they woke the victim up at about 01:00 GMT on 16 April, last year, and stole £250.
The pair admitted the St Mellons robbery at Cardiff Crown Court.
Williams, of no fixed abode, was jailed for five years and four months and Way, from St Mellons, received four years and 10 months.
The body of Rhys Jack was recovered from the disused quarry in the Backtown area of Strabane on Tuesday afternoon.
Parish priest, Fr Michael Doherty, said both of the teenager's parents had lost family members through drowning.
His mother lost her five-year-old brother about 40 years ago, while his father's uncle drowned in recent years.
Fr Doherty has been with members of the Jack family since the tragedy began to unfold on Monday evening.
The 17-year-old was in the quarry with three teenage friends when they fell into the water from a makeshift raft.
His three friends, who were later rescued, had frantically tried to save him.
Fr Doherty told BBC Radio Ulster's Evening Extra programme that Rhys's parents, Elaine and Mark, identified his body at the quarry shortly after it was recovered by search teams.
He said: "They knew over the past day, or from about eight o'clock last night (20:00 BST) that although they would have liked to have thought there was a chance he would be still alive, they knew that he was gone and their hope was that the body would be found sooner rather than later."
The priest said that their "deep sadness" at losing their son was mixed with "relief".
He explained that the corpse of Elaine Jack's young brother had never been found, so they were relieved that Rhys's body had been recovered.
He also said it was his understanding that Mark Jack's uncle had drowned in the River Finn a number of years ago.
Fr Doherty was the Jack family's parish priest and had baptised Rhys 17 years ago.
He was also a chaplain at the teenager's school.
The priest said the three friends who had tried to save Rhys were "traumatised and upset".
He described the atmosphere in Rhys's school as "subdued" and said staff had tried to make special arrangements for those taking exams.
The Red Devils were the better of two sides desperately out of form and in Collins had their match-winner.
Crewe, under the spotlight for off-the-pitch headlines, are fighting to keep skipper Ryan Lowe from taking up the offer of a coaching post at Bury. The veteran striker was included in the starting XI, but it was Crawley who posed most of the threat.
Josh Payne fizzed a low 20-yard drive past the post before some poor control by Perry Ng allowed a routine cross to drop into the path of Collins, who lashed home the 21st-minute opener.
Enzio Boldewjin spurned a great chance to extend Crawley's lead six minutes before the break when he shot straight at Ben Garratt.
Crewe improved marginally after the restart with Danny Hollands firing over and Chris Dagnall going close. But they lacked a frontman of the calibre of Collins whose intelligent cut-back set up winger Jordan Roberts for a first-time shot which was drilled inches past the far corner.
And the former Shrewsbury and Swindon striker collected his second in the 76th minute after Garratt's loose pass out from the six-yard box was seized on by Billy Clifford who cut the ball back for Collins to sweep home.
Report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Crewe Alexandra 0, Crawley Town 2.
Second Half ends, Crewe Alexandra 0, Crawley Town 2.
Harry Davis (Crewe Alexandra) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Billy Clifford (Crawley Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Harry Davis (Crewe Alexandra).
Attempt missed. Billy Clifford (Crawley Town) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Attempt blocked. James Collins (Crawley Town) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Corner, Crewe Alexandra. Conceded by Jimmy Smith.
Attempt blocked. Perry Ng (Crewe Alexandra) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked.
Foul by Adi Yussuf (Crawley Town).
Perry Ng (Crewe Alexandra) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Adi Yussuf (Crawley Town) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by George Cooper (Crewe Alexandra).
Attempt missed. Chris Dagnall (Crewe Alexandra) header from very close range is just a bit too high.
Substitution, Crewe Alexandra. Ben Nugent replaces Danny Hollands.
Substitution, Crawley Town. Adi Yussuf replaces Jordan Roberts.
Attempt saved. George Cooper (Crewe Alexandra) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Substitution, Crewe Alexandra. Charlie Kirk replaces James Jones.
Corner, Crewe Alexandra. Conceded by Andre Blackman.
Jordan Roberts (Crawley Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Perry Ng (Crewe Alexandra).
Bobson Bawling (Crawley Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Oliver Turton (Crewe Alexandra).
Foul by Josh Payne (Crawley Town).
Danny Hollands (Crewe Alexandra) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Goal! Crewe Alexandra 0, Crawley Town 2. James Collins (Crawley Town) right footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Billy Clifford.
Foul by Josh Yorwerth (Crawley Town).
Perry Ng (Crewe Alexandra) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Substitution, Crewe Alexandra. Callum Ainley replaces Alex Kiwomya.
Foul by James Collins (Crawley Town).
Jon Guthrie (Crewe Alexandra) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Crawley Town. Bobson Bawling replaces Enzio Boldewijn.
Corner, Crewe Alexandra. Conceded by Mark Connolly.
Attempt missed. Jordan Roberts (Crawley Town) left footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right.
James Collins (Crawley Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Jon Guthrie (Crewe Alexandra).
Corner, Crewe Alexandra. Conceded by Andre Blackman.
Foul by Josh Payne (Crawley Town).
Danny Hollands (Crewe Alexandra) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Enzio Boldewijn (Crawley Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Of the 22.6 million households in England, 7.4 million owned their property outright, and 6.9 million had a mortgage, the English Housing Survey showed. The rest rented their homes.
This marked a shift from an equal level among owners a year earlier.
The data also shows that the younger generation are struggling to own.
In 2013-14, some 48% of households made up of 25 to 34-year-olds rented their home from a private landlord.
This had risen from 45% a year earlier, and from 21% in 2003-04.
Over the same 10 years, owner occupation in this age group dropped from 59% to 36%.
Campbell Robb, chief executive of Shelter, said: "The shortage of affordable homes is leaving young adults with no choice but to remain stuck in their childhood bedrooms, or face decades paying out dead money to landlords."
Culture Minister Ali Jannati said flights would only resume once those responsible had been punished.
The teenagers allege that before returning to Tehran from the Umra, or lesser Islamic pilgrimage, in March they were abused by security officials at Jeddah airport.
The move is likely to deepen tensions between the two regional powers.
They are currently at odds over the conflict in Yemen, where a coalition led by Sunni Muslim-ruled Saudi Arabia is carrying out air strikes on Shia Houthi rebels, which the US says are receiving military assistance from Iran. Iran and the Houthis deny this.
On Saturday, hundreds of people protested outside the Saudi embassy in Tehran and demanded that the Iranian government "end the unnecessary Umra".
On Monday, Mr Jannati told state television: "I have ordered the Hajj and Pilgrimage Organisation to suspend the Umra until the criminals are tried and punished."
"Considering what has happened, Iranians' dignity has been damaged and a public demand has formed," he added.
The minister said Saudi officials had "promised to punish the persons in custody".
"They even asserted that they would execute them, but nothing has been done in reality so far."
Each year about 500,000 Iranians undertake the Umra, an optional pilgrimage that can be undertaken at any time of the year other than during the main pilgrimage, or Hajj.
Although the Umra includes some of the rituals of the Hajj, which every sane adult Muslim must undertake at least once in their lives if they can afford it and are physically able, they are shortened and there are fewer of them.
The man who gave his name as Franck, told the newspaper Nice-Matin how he climbed onto the step below the cab and punched the driver through a window.
The driver picked up a pistol and tried to shoot Franck, but could not fire it.
Eventually, Franck was hit over the head with the pistol and he fell off.
Nice-Matin said Franck had huge bruises on his back, a broken rib and a left hand swollen from the punches he threw.
At least 84 people, many of them children, were killed when the lorry ploughed into a large crowd watching a night-time fireworks display on the seafront Promenade des Anglais on Bastille Day.
The driver, a Tunisian resident in Nice called Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, also fired at people with his pistol before being shot dead by three policemen.
Grainy mobile phone video shows a man on a scooter driving alongside the moving lorry. He dumps the scooter, continues on foot and makes it onto the running board next to the driver's window. The man then falls off and appears to end up under the wheels of the lorry.
It was widely thought that he was among the dead until Nice-Matin published the interview with Franck, a local airport worker in his late 40s, on Thursday.
"In my mind I had images of bodies flying everywhere. I immediately understood what was happening," he told the newspaper.
Clinging on to the lorry's left door, Franck punched Lahouaiej-Bouhlel with his left hand through the open window.
"I hit and hit and hit him again with all my strength," he said.
"I hit him in the face but he said nothing, he did not flinch. He had his gun in his hand and pointed it in my face. He pulled the trigger but it did not work."
In the end, Lahouaiej-Bouhlel hit him on the head with the pistol and he fell off.
Franck said that at the time he was "clear-headed and ready to die".
A cyclist also tried to climb into the cab shortly before Franck.
Alexandre Migues told Nice-Matin on Sunday that he clung onto the door handle and tried to open it several times, but was forced to let go when Lahouaiej-Bouhlel picked up the pistol and pointed it at him.
Although he was disappointed that they did not stop Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, Mr Migues said videos of the incident showed he and Franck succeeded in slowing down the lorry and giving people more time to flee.
Ruairi Corrigan's goal helped Fermanagh lead 1-2 to to 0-1 and while Benny Heron netted for Derry, the Ernemen still led 1-6 to 1-5 at half-time.
However, Cailean O'Boyle's goal helped Derry hit an unanswered 1-3 as they took control early in the second half.
Mark Lynch's fisted third goal put further daylight between the teams.
The final scoreline was flattering for Derry as Fermanagh had looked the better side in the opening period as the Oak Leafers were guilty of giving the ball away on numerous occasions.
However, Fermanagh paid for missing a couple of gilt-edged goal chances while, in contrast, Derry took their goal opportunities to put the game to bed in the second half.
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As Fermanagh made the better start, scores from Sean Quigley and Ruairi Corrigan gave them an immediate two-point advantage and Fermanagh led by four when Corrigan netted after being set up by Paul McCusker.
Two of Fermanagh's early scores could - and probably should - have been goals with Ruairi Corrigan and Declan McCusker efforts skimming over Thomas Mallon's crossbar.
Derry struggled to curb Eoin Donnelly's midfield excellence early on but as Fermanagh paid for dropping a number of chances short, the Oak Leafers fought gave to take a scarcely deserved lead in the 25th minute as Heron blasted to the net.
Points from Tomas Corrigan and Aidan Breen restored's Fermanagh lead at the break but the game turned dramatically in Derry's favour after the restart as they hit an unanswered 1-3 with O'Boyle fisting their second goal.
With Damian Barton introducing the influential Mark Lynch at half-time, Derry were a different side in the second period as a succession of long balls launched towards O'Boyle caused major problems for the Erne defence.
Fermanagh's last chance came and went as Mallon made a fine save to push away at Conall Jones goal effort to keep Derry 2-9 to 1-7 ahead.
After a couple of James Kielt frees extended Derry's lead, the margin became 10 in the 52nd minutes as Lynch beat Fermanagh keeper Chris Snow to a high ball as he knocked ball and man to the net.
Emmett Bradley's midfield excellence was a feature of Derry's impressive second half, as he also contributed a couple of glorious towering points.
WEEKEND ALLIANZ FOOTBALL LEAGUE RESULTS
Saturday
Division 1
Down 0-07 3-15 Donegal
Dublin 2-14 0-14 Kerry
Sunday
Division 1
Cork 1-18 0-12 Mayo
Roscommon 1-09 2-10 Monaghan
Division 2
Derry 3-13 1-10 Fermanagh
Meath 1-10 0-08 Armagh
Tyrone 0-10 0-08 Cavan
Laois 1-10 3-12 Galway
Division 3
Clare 1-11 0-07 Sligo
Limerick 1-12 2-09 Tipperary
Offaly 0-12 0-10 Longford
Westmeath 0-11 2-09 Kildare
Division 4
Louth 2-09 0-09 London
Carlow 0-10 1-12 Antrim
Wexford 0-14 1-10 Leitrim
Wicklow 0-13 1-08 Waterford
The attack was carried out by suspected Boko Haram gunmen.
A government spokesman said the Islamist group was spreading terror by targeting civilians.
Boko Haram has been waging an insurgency since 2009 and is seeking to create an Islamic state in northern Nigeria.
The attack happened on Sunday but news only emerged on Thursday after survivors reached the city of Maiduguri.
So far there has been no official claim of responsibility from any group.
Government spokesman Mike Omeri released a statement condemning the "deplorable act" late on Thursday.
"It is impossible to verify the number of those missing at this early stage because it is presumed that many civilians fled during the attack," he said.
One witness, who said he helped bury 33 bodies, told the BBC that about 200 women and children had been kidnapped from Gumsuri village in the north-eastern Borno state.
There have been an increasing number of attacks in Nigeria since three states - Borno, Adamawa and Yobe - were put under emergency rule more than 18 months ago.
The kidnapping of more than 200 schoolgirls by Boko Haram in April from the town of Chibok in Borno state sparked international outrage.
Who are Boko Haram?
Profile: Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau
The High Hedges (Scotland) Act 2013 will provide a solution when problems are caused by hedges which grow over two metres tall and block out light.
The bill defines what a high hedge is and sets out a process to resolve disagreements between neighbours.
It will come into force on 1 April, following unanimous backing from MSPs.
Local Government and Planning Minister Derek Mackay said the legislation would "provide a route by which neighbours involved in a dispute can resolve the issue".
He said: "Unlike fences or walls that require planning permission if they are over two metres tall, there is no restriction on planting trees or shrubs to form a hedge, which, if planted in an unsuitable location, or not maintained, can cause disputes between neighbours.
"There remains an expectation that people should take all reasonable steps to resolve the issue themselves. However, there may be occasions when this isn't possible.
"In those situations, the act will allow people to make an application to their local authority to intervene, and if the hedge is a barrier to light, then action can be taken."
The act will give homeowners and occupiers the right to apply to their local council for a high hedge notice and empowers the authority to enforce decisions made in relation to high hedges in their local area.
Guidance has been issued to all of Scotland's councils on their responsibilities under the act. They will act as independent and impartial adjudicators, taking into account the positions of each party in a dispute, before making a decision.
If householders fail to comply with the new law, the council could use its powers to enter the land, carry out work on the hedge itself and charge the owner for any expenses.
Laws on high hedges have been adopted in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, as well as on the Isle of Man.
She didn't like the way she was being treated, so she embarked on a dangerous journey to the UK.
Ruth has been telling Newsround's Hayley her story...
Three-thousand children arrived in the UK alone last year.
Many of them are migrants or refugees escaping war or devastation in their home countries. They've travelled thousands of miles across deserts, mountains and seas.
When they get to the UK they are often tired and afraid.
They are taken by immigration officers or police to a safe place where they are asked lots of questions.
This is so that the people in charge can understand how old the child is, where they have come from and what they will need to keep them healthy and safe.
If the child is under 17, they are given leave to remain, which means they can stay in the UK and will be looked after until they are old enough to look after themselves.
This often means they are placed with a foster family who look after them as though they are part of their family. They can start going to a local school and they can start to make a life for themselves here in the UK.
Many of the children stay around Kent and Dover in the south of England because that is where they first arrive. In the past year Kent has placed nearly 1,000 children in homes in that area.
I have spoken to 12 children. All of them have come from various countries ranging from Eritrea and Sudan to Syria and Afghanistan.
One of them was Ruth. Like many of the child refugees here, she travelled thousands of miles alone and experienced many difficult things along the way.
Ruth told me about her life when she was 14. She lived in the countryside in Eritrea. She told me how she often helped her mum by chopping wood and getting water from the river.
But this was no easy task. The river was a three-hour walk away and carrying a heavy load was very tiring for Ruth.
Ruth's dad left home many years ago. He was taken to join the army of Eritrea - many poor people are forced to join up against their will.
Ruth has not seen her dad since and doesn't know where or how he is.
Talking to Ruth, I could tell she is a brave and strong girl and she didn't like the way she was treated in Eritrea. She loved going to school but was told she either had to marry someone she didn't know or join the military.
She told me she was very afraid of both options so she decided to leave Eritrea and search for a better life in another country.
She left her home in the middle of the night. She couldn't tell her family she was leaving because she was afraid they would be hurt if anyone from the military found out.
Also she knew they would be upset. So she left in secret with nothing more than the clothes she was wearing. She met up with two friends and they walked towards the border with Sudan.
Ruth told me that she was very scared. She was scared of getting caught or being put in prison and hurt.
One of the scariest parts was when she travelled through the forests of Ethiopia. She could hear hyenas and she had to hide behind trees and just hope that they wouldn't find her.
After that, she met many people in camps hidden in the forest. With these people she travelled over the desert to Sudan. It was so hot that many of the people she was walking with died beside her.
Ruth was mostly scared of the Sudanese people. She said they hated her because she was Christian; they would often hurt her and bully her.
In Sudan, Ruth was put into a small house with hundreds of other people. She wasn't allowed to speak or to go outside. She was beaten and hurt by the people in charge of this house.
After a month, Ruth was put in a lorry with about 250 other people and sent to Libya. The lorry was piled with people inside and out. There was no room for her to sleep or sit and she was not allowed out - not even to go to the toilet.
She was in the lorry for three weeks and some people died.
When she got to Libya she was put in a camp. She lost her friends and she said she was very lonely. Without any money, she had little hope of getting out of the camp and every night she cried.
In this camp, Ruth got one glass of water and one piece of bread to share with a group of people.
After three months, she finally managed to escape to the coast. She told me how amazed she was to see the sea - it was so big and black with huge fish that she had never seen before.
Ruth got on board a boat. It was only about four metres long but held 500 people. This, she said, was when she was most scared.
She thought she would die as she was crushed and had no water on a very long and dangerous journey. Many of the people in the boat did die on that journey.
Luckily, she was eventually rescued by an Italian rescue boat.
But when she got to Italy it was not much better. She was ill and had nowhere to go. She slept on the street in the rain and the cold.
She then managed to get on to a train to France. Here she was taken to a camp where every night she tried to board a lorry to get to the UK.
But most nights she was caught and taken back to the camp. Then one night she managed to get inside a box in a lorry that was headed to England.
When she arrived in England she told me she was nervous. It was raining and a police officer found her and asked her lots of questions. But soon after that, things started to look better and she was placed with a foster family, which is where she lives now.
Ruth now goes to college and church and has many friends. She told me that she still misses her family but she's glad she isn't in Eritrea. She now loves studying and wants to be a nurse when she's older.
It was very difficult for Ruth to tell me her story. But she's a strong girl and she wants people to know what thousands of kids like her go through every year to get to safety.
When the general election exit poll was revealed at 10pm, the pound immediately dropped by 2% as investors took a position that a hung parliament was a possible outcome of the general election.
Why would that cause the currency to decline?
Because a hung parliament means that the government's direction of travel would be less certain.
Deals would have to be done, and those vital Brexit negotiations possibly become all the more difficult.
The future of the UK economy could be confused by a fog of political to-ing and fro-ing.
Nervousness would increase and investors in charge of large amounts of global capital could decide to move their money to more attractive markets, such as the eurozone where growth has picked up and political risk (the major Dutch and French elections are behind us for example) has reduced.
In any election investors would rather a large majority, frankly for either the Conservatives or for Labour, as that means the threat of another general election recedes.
The direction of travel for the economy also becomes more certain.
Now, since that exit poll, the first results have suggested that the Conservatives may be doing slightly better than that exit poll suggested.
The pound has also rallied a little.
What looks likely, though, is that the result is going to be tight, and whoever forms the next government will not have the certainty investors would prefer.
Sterling fell 1.5% against the US currency on Sunday to its lowest level since the flash crash in October.
Analysts said traders were reacting negatively to reports that the prime minister would signal plans on Tuesday to quit the EU single market.
The pound has now dropped about 20% against the dollar since the referendum when it fell to 31-year lows.
The pound also dropped to a two-month low against the euro on Sunday, falling to about €1.13.
Several of Sunday's newspapers claimed Mrs May would outline a "hard Brexit" approach, a term used to imply prioritising migration controls over single market access.
Downing Street has described this as "speculation".
However, reports of the UK leaving the single market are "like kryptonite" to traders who back the pound, said Kathleen Brooks, an analyst at City Index.
"The FX market has spoken, and, as of Sunday night, it is not confident that Theresa May can deliver the necessary clarity and confidence when she lays out her Brexit plans in a speech on Tuesday," Ms Brooks said.
The "Brexit theme as bad news for the pound is such an ingrained trend" now that every headline can "generate another wave of selling", she added.
The pound has been volatile since the Brexit vote, partly due to uncertainty about the economic impact if the UK gives up its tariff-free access to the EU.
It reached its lowest level in the early hours of 7 October when a flash crash during Asian trading saw it drop below $1.18.
A report on Friday said the abnormally large swing was due to a range of factors, including the time of day.
Trading in the pound can be more volatile in Asian markets, when key sterling counter traders in London and other important Western markets are not operating.
Drawing on the film's famous droid R2-D2 and Death Star, the service hopes to bring people's attention to the use of smoke alarms in their homes.
SFRS North media officer Duncan McKenzie came up with the idea and colleague Gail Gleeson did the artwork.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens opened earlier in UK cinemas.
The film includes members of the original cast, such as Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher, as well as newcomers Daisy Ridley and John Boyega.
Mr McKenzie said: "We are constantly trying to come up with new ideas to grab people's attention and we have a lot of talented people in the corporate communications team who come up with various ideas throughout the year."
The Star Wars-themed messages aim to encourage people to have smoke alarms fitted in their home, and to make sure that those already installed work properly.
The headlines have been seized by his warning that up to 15 million UK jobs could be replaced by robots, but the focus on that (admittedly very large) number, risks missing some of the nuance of a, typically, thought-provoking speech.
It is certainly not every day that a senior economic policy maker can be heard publically wondering if maybe the Luddites "had a point after all".
He argued, correctly, that over the very long-term the level of technological change is probably the most important factor affecting the jobs market.
The story of human economic development is the story of ever increasing labour-saving technology and ever rising productivity.
An organised band of English mechanics and their friends, who set themselves to destroy manufacturing machinery in the Midlands and north of England between 1811 and 1816.
The term has come to mean one who opposes the introduction of new technology, especially into a place of work.
Read more about the Luddites
Since around 1750, productivity has grown by an average of 1.1% per year - a pace that means it improves by around a third with each generation.
Each wave of new labour-saving technology has been met with public anxiety on the impact on jobs and in the long run, each round of worry has proved to be misplaced.
In terms of economic theory, labour-saving technology has two impacts: a displacement effect and compensation effect.
By definition, labour-saving technology (whether the Spinning Jenny of the 1760s, the industrial robots of the later 20th century or the automated check-out of modern shops) means less labour is required to produce a given level of output.
That is the displacement effect, the way in which new technology "destroys jobs" or, more neutrally put "displaces labour".
But as labour is displaced, workers become more productive (if the same amount of output is being produced with fewer workers) and that rising productivity means higher wages and more economic demand.
That rising demand can create new markets for new goods and services and ultimately new jobs. That is the compensation effect.
In the longer run, the story of the labour market and technology is the story of the compensation effect trumping the displacement effect.
In each round of technological change, jobs have been lost but ultimately new jobs have been created.
That might be a reason to not lose sleep about the robots taking 15 million jobs.
That would be the conventional economic answer anyway, but Haldane thinks the Luddites might - 200 years later - have had a point.
By zooming in on periods of intensive technological change and looking at what happened to jobs and wages in particular industries, Haldane has argued that the adjustment process is rarely smooth.
Take the early to mid-19th century for example.
As technology and productivity took off, it was more than a generation before real wages followed.
Economics historians have called this real wage stagnation Engels' pause after Friedrich Engels, who chronicled the flatline in wages.
When he co-wrote the Communist Manifesto 1848, Engels had observed a multi-year disconnect between wages and productivity - a period in which (in theoretical terms) the displacement effect was trumping the compensation effect.
Just as the Manifesto was published, real wages finally began rising.
At the dawn of what is being called the "Second Machine Age", it isn't inconceivable that something similar could happen - that displacement could trump compensation and the introduction of more labour-saving technology could suppress wages and hold down employment.
In the long run that might be reversed but then again, as celebrated economist John Maynard Keynes said: "In the long run we're all dead."
All which might seem like an interesting topic for a seminar room, but one with little practical application to monetary policy, especially at a time when UK employment is at a seven-year high and productivity growth has been exceptionally weak.
Haldane's speech was entitled "Labour's share" and it is the labour share - the percentage of national income swallowed up by wages - that makes this relevant to interest rates.
The labour share in the UK - and across developed countries - has been falling since the 1970s.
There is an active debate as to what has driven that but one factor - which Haldane has highlighted - is technology.
The Bank of England's forecasts suggest that inflation will gradually rise from around 0% currently to its target of 2% in the coming two years.
For that to happen though, they are forecasting that a tighter jobs market will push the growth of real wages above the growth of productivity which in turn will generate domestic cost pressures and help push inflation upwards.
To put it another way, the Bank of England is forecasting that the labour share of national income will rise moderately.
And it needs that rise to happen to hit its inflation targets.
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Haldane - the most dovish member of the Monetary Policy Committee - sounds less convinced.
He wonders if technological change could suppress wage growth by holding down the labour share and keeping inflation lower than where the Bank wants it to be.
But - as I have written rather too often recently - there is another factor at play: demography.
The working age share of the UK population is falling and the global over-supply of labour driven by the entry of China into the world economy looks to be ending.
It is certainly possible that shifting demographics could put upwards pressure on the labour share (if there are comparatively fewer workers they can charge more for their services) just as it is possible that labour-saving technology could put downward pressure on the share.
It is the interaction of these two global trends - demographics and technology - that will help determine the ultimate bargaining power of labour just as much as the more familiar considerations of national policy.
Policymakers, both in central banks and in governments across the West, could be facing a headwind and tailwind as they try to navigate a future path on wages and inflation and sailing in those conditions will be very tricky.
Robert Worrall, 30, from Beare Green, died at the scene on the A24 near the Esso Petrol Station in the village at 01:25 GMT on 9 November.
A man aged 50 from the Dorking area has been arrested on suspicion of failing to stop at the scene of an accident.
He has been bailed until 13 January, 2015. A 47-year-old woman from Horley is on bail until 9 December.
She was arrested on suspicion of drink driving and failing to stop at the scene of an accident.
Mr Worrall had worked for 10 years as a gardener at Dorking grounds maintenance company Groundscapes.
His family said snowboarding was a huge passion of his and he enjoyed many holidays with friends in Austria and France.
Det Sgt Stuart Hinton had praised the Tory MP for his "candour" at a meeting after the incident before telling the BBC he had been evasive, a tribunal heard.
However, the officer's barrister said hindsight had supported his view.
Det Sgt Hinton has been cleared of breaching policing honesty standards.
Mitchell called PCs plebs, judge says
'Plebgate' row: Timeline
Transcript and audio of the Andrew Mitchell police meeting
The "plebgate" row centred on a 15-second confrontation in September 2012 between Mr Mitchell and PC Toby Rowland, in which - according to the Sun newspaper - the then Conservative chief whip called the officer a "pleb" for his refusal to permit him to cycle through the main gates at Downing Street.
Mr Mitchell was forced to resign from the cabinet over the row but vowed to clear his name in the libel courts, launching an action against the Sun.
But a judge ruled in 2014 that the MP probably had called PC Rowland a "pleb" and Mr Mitchell was ordered to pay damages as well as the Sun's legal costs.
A gross misconduct case against serving Warwickshire Police officer Det Sgt Hinton heard he and two Police Federation members met Mr Mitchell on 12 October 2012 at his constituency office, weeks after the incident at Downing Street.
A recording of the meeting showed Det Sgt Hinton thanking Mr Mitchell for his "candour", later telling him, "Everybody can have a bad day" after the MP had admitted to swearing at a police officer but had denied calling him a "pleb".
But the hearing heard Det Sgt Hinton told BBC Radio 5 Live the following day: "He [Mr Mitchell] still won't say exactly what he did say, which suggests that the officer's account is more likely to be the accurate one."
In that interview Det Sgt Hinton, described by colleagues as a "model detective", also called for Mr Mitchell to resign.
In his closing statement to the panel, presenting officer Aaron Rathmell said the officer had "passed judgment" and not given a fair and accurate account of the meeting.
But the detective's barrister Adrian Keeling said a man of "integrity" had been charged with "inaccurately reporting the lies told by a dishonest man".
"Hindsight absolutely supports Sgt Hinton's honest, accurate and candid view, relying on his good sense and judgement, which no doubt he's relied upon all these years [as a detective]," said Mr Keeling.
A string of glowing references from senior officers, including a retired chief constable, had also described Det Sgt Hinton's character as "beyond reproach".
A misconduct panel at the force's former headquarters found his on-air comments did not amount to dishonesty, discreditable conduct or a breach of integrity.
A further 246 students said that they had been the victim of an attempted sexual assault.
The findings are revealed in the Student Consent Research Collaboration (SCORE) 'Stand Together' report.
Almost 3,100 students, 12.5% of QUB student population, answered the survey into non-consensual sexual experiences.
The results of the survey, that was carried out in 2016, have just been released.
Almost 6% of respondents - 169 - said they had experienced "at least one episode of sexual penetrative assault".
The vast majority of students who reported that experience - 85.8% - were female and three-quarters of them said they knew the perpetrator.
Despite this, fewer than 5% said they had reported it to the PSNI.
About one third of the 3,100 respondents said they had experienced "unwanted touching of a sexual nature".
One in 10 said they had "received unwanted media images of genitals".
Just over 2% of respondents also said that sexual photographs of themselves had been shared without their permission.
The survey also suggested strong links between drinking alcohol to excess and non-consensual sexual experiences.
Over two-thirds of those who reported being sexually assaulted, for instance, said they had been intoxicated, while almost 60% said the perpetrator was intoxicated.
The report's authors said that while that indicated "strong links between alcohol usage and the occurrence of sexual assault," this should not be interpreted as "victim-blaming".
The Stand Together survey was an online survey carried out among QUB students throughout February and March 2016.
It asked respondents a series of 24 questions about their experience of sexual violence and consent while at QUB.
While the survey was self-selecting, it is the first of its kind to be carried out in Northern Ireland.
The number of respondents was also significantly higher than similar previous surveys carried out at Edinburgh University and Cambridge University.
About two thirds of respondents were female and one third were male.
Its authors have called for better education on sexual consent, including better relationships and sexuality education (RSE) in schools.
They have also called for it to be made easier for victims to report allegations to the university authorities and improved support for survivors.
Eimear Haughey, the founder of SCORE, said there was a lack of clear understanding around sexual consent in Northern Ireland.
"Young people deserve a level of education about consent which would allow them to know what sexual assault is and if it has happened to them," she said.
"This is the beginning of a journey to improve support for survivors of sexual violence, enhance young people's understanding of sexual consent and ultimately lower the rates of sexual crimes."
"This is the first step to building a safer society for all, and this work must be continued."
The Students' Union at QUB also plans to offer "educational workshops" on consent when the new university term begins in October 2017.
However, these will not be compulsory.
The 'Stand Together' survey was student-led, but was overseen by an advisory board.
The board included QUB academics and external organisations such as the Public Health Agency, Nexus NI, the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust and the Rowan sexual assault referral centre.
Chloe Rutherford, 17, and Liam Curry, 19, both from South Shields, were among 22 victims killed in the Manchester Arena explosion on 22 May.
In a joint tribute, their relatives said they both "adored each other" and wanted to be "together forever".
The couple's families and friends wore pink and blue for the funeral service at St Hilda's Church.
The Rev Fr Chris Fuller addressed the mourners who packed the church and several hundred outside, telling them: "Chloe and Liam were and still are an image of love.
"Inseparable in life, inseparable in death, inseparable now with the angels of heaven."
The service was followed by private cremations at South Tyneside Crematorium.
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Family members and friends began arriving at St Hilda's Church in South Shields more than an hour before the service began.
When the church was full, groups gathered outside in the sunshine with their arms around each other, listening to the service on loudspeakers.
The black of traditional funeral dress was brightened by splashes of pink and blue, as requested by the families of Chloe and Liam.
Arriving together the funeral cars were filled with flowers spelling out "Son Liam" and "Sis", while a picture of the smiling young couple was positioned by the roadside.
As their two white coffins were carried in, people stopped on the pavement and bowed their heads as One Last Time sung by South Shields-born Stacey Ghent echoed across the street.
Music was a poignant part of the service. Perfect by Ed Sheeran was played, as well as a recording of the talented Chloe Rutherford singing Somewhere Only We Know.
Liam, a former pupil of Gateshead College, was studying for a degree in sport and exercise science at Northumbria University. Chloe was studying music at college and worked part-time at Westoe Travel.
He is the latest in a number of key figures to say they will not stand for the post vacated by Johann Lamont.
Earlier, MSPs Kezia Dugdale and Jenny Marra ruled themselves out.
And the party's acting leader, MP Anas Sarwar said he wanted to concentrate on General Election planning.
Scottish Labour's health spokesman, MSP Neil Findlay - who is seen as a potential candidate - had urged Mr Brown to take over the reins.
But a source close to the Fife MP told the BBC: "For the past four years and on every occasion that he has been asked, Mr Brown has made it clear that he is not returning to frontline politics. That position has not changed."
At Westminster, it is thought that the shadow international development secretary, Jim Murphy, is the most likely candidate.
Labour MSPs were to meet in Glasgow at lunchtime to discuss Ms Lamont's departure after nearly three years as leader. Labour MPs will later meet in Westminster to discuss the party's future north of the border.
The party has confirmed that MSP Jackie Baillie will speak for Labour at first minister's questions this week, although it has not said if this will continue to be the arrangement until a new leader is chosen.
A new Scottish leader, who could be an MP, MSP or MEP, is due to be in place by 13 December.
Speculation is mounting about who might stand.
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Meanwhile, shadow chancellor Ed Balls rejected Ms Lamont's claim that the UK party treats Scotland like a "branch office".
In her resignation letter, the outgoing leader senior said members of the party had "questioned" her place and that she was taking herself "out of the equation" so it could decide the best way forward.
In an earlier interview with the Daily Record, Ms Lamont branded some of her Westminster colleagues as "dinosaurs".
But Mr Balls insisted: "We're a UK party but have a really vibrant and dynamic Labour party in Scotland."
Voters wanted a leader who would be "a strong voice for Scotland", he added.
Labour MP Katy Clark said the Scottish party needed "a significant move to the left".
She told the BBC's Daily Politics: "The Scottish Labour Party already has a different policy, for example, on Trident.
"We vote against Trident at our conferences and we can't ignore that because that's where the Scottish people are, and in every opinion poll since the 1950s the Scottish people said they don't want nuclear weapons."
However, former Labour Home Secretary David Blunkett told the programme: "We can't have a different policy on Trident in Scotland as we have in England and Wales because it's a defence policy."
Mr Blunkett also dismissed the notion that Gordon Brown would want to lead Scottish Labour.
The group Labour for Scotland, which includes former MSPs Frank McAveety and Pauline McNeill, has called for the Scottish party to become fully autonomous from the London leadership and back full devolution of income tax and welfare.
The group is backed by MSPs Michael McMahon and Cara Hilton.
Meanwhile, Ms Baillie has denied there were factions of Labour MSPs and MPs within the party, and insisted they were "joined at the hip" in doing the best they could.
She told BBC Radio Scotland's Good Morning Scotland programme that it was natural for there to "always be" a debate between MPs and MSPs, but she denied there had been the levels of interference stated by Ms Lamont.
Ms Baillie said: "Whether you are an MP or MSP in Scotland you are representing constituents in Scotland.
"It doesn't matter what chamber you are in, you are absolutely joined at the hip in wanting the best that we can."
Ms Baillie has ruled herself out of the contest, saying she would rather play a "supporting role" than be leader.
She told presenter Gary Robertson: "I believe we should have a very open contest and I look forward to a number of different names emerging, be they MPs, MSPs or indeed MEPs, who are entitled to stand as well.
"But I think it would be really helpful to have a debate in the party where we have quite a lengthy nominations process that tries to balance a speedy transition, but yet a clear desire for the members to have their voice heard.
"I think you will see a number of people coming forward in the coming days and I look forward to that very much."
The Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, which is currently under construction, is part of a $12bn (£8bn) investment project to boost power exports.
The Blue Nile is one of two major tributaries of the Nile - one of the world's longest rivers.
Egypt and Sudan object to the dam.
They say it violates a colonial-era agreement, which gives them rights to 90% of the Nile's water.
The Grand Renaissance Dam, which is being built in the Benishangul-Gumuz region bordering Sudan, will eventually have a 6,000 megawatt capacity, according to the Ethiopian government. This is the equivalent of at least six nuclear power plants.
"The dam is being built in the middle of the river so you can't carry out construction work while the river flowed," Mihret Debebe, chief executive officer of the state-run Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation, told the Reuters news agency.
"This now enables us to carry out civil engineering work without difficulties. The aim is to divert the river by a few metres and then allow it to flow on its natural course."
Ethiopia claims to be the source of about 85% of the total water in the Nile.
The Blue Nile originates in the country's Lake Tana and flows hundreds of miles north into Sudan and then Egypt before eventually flowing into the Mediterranean.
Egypt is particularly dependant on the water supply, with growing populations placing it under increasing strain, although Sudan also relies on the source.
Egypt's Deputy Foreign Minister for African Affairs, Ali Hifni, said that the diversion of the river was not something to worry about, according to the Egyptian state-run news agency Mena.
But Mr Hifni said that the dam itself was of concern.
Experts from Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan are set to announce findings of a study into the impact of the Ethiopian dam on the Nile's flow in the coming weeks.
Ethiopia's energy minister, moved to dispel fears over the dam's impact, Reuters reports.
"The dam's construction benefits riparian countries, showcases fair and equitable use of the river's flow and does not cause any harm on any country," Alemayehu Tegenu said.
Lawmakers approved the bill, amending the 1955 marriage act, despite opposition from Christian lobby groups.
The bill was passed with a wide majority, with 77 votes in favour and 44 against.
Hundreds of jubilant gay-rights advocates celebrated outside parliament after the bill was passed, calling it a milestone for equality.
People watching from the public gallery and some lawmakers immediately broke into song, singing the New Zealand love song "Pokarekare Ana", AP news agency reported.
Some opinion polls have suggested that about two-thirds of New Zealanders support the reform, although others polls suggest the public are more divided.
Parliamentarians were allowed a conscience vote, and, crucially, the reform had the backing of both the Prime Minister John Key and leader of the opposition David Shearer, the BBC's Phil Mercer in Sydney reports.
Celebrations have been held in pubs and clubs in the capital Wellington, our correspondent adds.
Same-sex civil unions have been legal in New Zealand since 2005.
"In our society, the meaning of marriage is universal - it's a declaration of love and commitment to a special person," Labour MP Louisa Wall, who introduced the legislation, said.
"Nothing could make me more proud to be a New Zealander than passing this bill," she added.
Drag artist Jake Andrew said he learned of the news at a club in Hamilton.
"We cheered, yelled, cried and sang - it was just amazing," he told the BBC.
"I am so happy, not only because I can now marry the person I love, but because New Zealand has moved a step further towards gay and lesbian people becoming completely equal with the rest of our society."
Tania Bermudez and Sonja Fry, a same-sex couple, said the bill was about human rights.
"It means that we can actually call each other wife," Ms Fry said.
However, Conservative Party leader Colin Craig said there were many people who disagreed with the bill.
"We're seeing the politicians make a decision tonight that the people of this country wouldn't make," he said.
Bob McCoskrie, founder of the lobby group Family First, said the bill undermined the traditional concept of marriage.
"Historically and culturally, marriage is about man and a woman, and it shouldn't be touched," he said.
New Zealand becomes the 13th country to legalise same-sex marriage.
Other countries include the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Canada, South Africa, Argentina and Uruguay.
French and British lawmakers have also voted in favour of legislation allowing gay marriage, although the bills have not yet been passed into law.
No other country in the Asia-Pacific region allows gay marriage.
Australian members of parliament overwhelmingly voted against a bill that would have legalised same-sex marriages in September. However, some states allow civil unions for same-sex couples.
China does not allow gay marriage. However, transsexuals who have undergone surgery are able to marry someone of the opposite sex, provided their new gender is verified by the local public security authorities.
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The officer, thought to be in her 50s, was assaulted on Monday as she escorted a prisoner between Blackfriars Crown Court and a prison van.
She is in a critical condition in hospital.
Humphrey Burke, 22, of no fixed abode, was charged with grievous bodily harm. He will appear at Camberwell Green Magistrates' Court on Wednesday.
Yn ôl pennaeth Dysgu Cymraeg Gwent, sy'n darparu gwersi Cymraeg i oedolion yn siroedd Mynwy, Blaenau Gwent, Casnewydd, Caerffili a Thorfaen, mae anawsterau wrth geisio dod o hyd i ddigon o diwtoriaid.
Dywedodd Geraint Wilson-Price wrth Cymru Fyw bod y galw ymhlith oedolion am wersi wedi cynyddu 36% ers y llynedd.
Mae'r Ganolfan Dysgu Cymraeg Genedlaethol yn dweud bod eu ffigyrau diweddaraf yn cadarnhau'r cynnydd sylweddol yn y nifer sydd eisiau dysgu Cymraeg yn y de-ddwyrain, a bod y cynnydd yn drawiadol o'i gymharu â gweddill Cymru.
Mae Llywodraeth Cymru, sy'n ariannu'r ganolfan, yn dweud bod y cynnydd i'w groesawu a bod ymroddiad i sicrhau bod pawb sydd am ddysgu'r iaith yn cael y cyfle i wneud hynny.
Dywedodd Mr Wilson-Price: "Mae'n argyfwng heb os. Ar hyn o bryd mae yna bobl sydd am sefydlu dosbarthiadau ond ni methu gwneud hynny.
"Mae'n rhaid i ni aros tan Medi i weld a oes modd aildrefnu, llenwi'r bylchau ond o bosib bydd y diddordeb wedi pylu erbyn hynny.
"Mae yna dwf naturiol wedi bod. Ond hefyd mae yna alw mawr wedi bod yn ardal y Fenni, a hynny ers yr Eisteddfod Genedlaethol yn 2016.
"Mae yna fwy o ymwybyddiaeth o'r iaith, a phobl eisiau gwybod mwy a chael y cyfle i'w dysgu."
Yn ôl Helen Prosser o'r Ganolfan Gymraeg Genedlaethol, mae'r sefyllfa yn yr ardaloedd sydd dan ofal Dysgu Cymraeg Gwent yn un trawiadol.
"Rydym wedi gwirio'r ffigyrau ac mae'r sefyllfa yn wahanol, mae yna gynnydd yn y galw ac mae yna brinder o ran tiwtoriaid," meddai.
"Mewn llefydd eraill fel cymoedd y de, sydd yn draddodiadol wedi wynebu problemau o ran tiwtoriaid, mae Prifysgol De Cymru ym Mhontypridd wedi llwyddo recriwtio mwy o diwtoriaid."
Ond ychwanegodd bod yn rhaid cofio eu bod yn agos i lefydd fel Caerdydd lle mae ffynhonnell o diwtoriaid posib.
"Mae Coleg Gwent wedi gwneud gwaith gwyrthiol, ond mae hi'n broblem. Mae hi'n anodd," meddai Ms Prosser.
Dywedodd hefyd bod yr Eisteddfod Genedlaethol yn Y Fenni wedi codi ymwybyddiaeth yn Sir Fynwy.
"Rhywbeth arall sydd wedi profi'n annisgwyl yw'r gwersi Cymraeg dwys iawn sydd wedi dechrau yn yr ardal eleni, naw awr o wersi bob wythnos ac mae'r rhain wedi profi'n boblogaidd iawn," meddai.
Mae Llywodraeth Cymru wedi dweud eu bod eisiau gweld nifer y bobl sy'n siarad Cymraeg yn cyrraedd miliwn erbyn 2050.
Gwnaeth Carwyn Jones y cyhoeddiad yn ystod yr Eisteddfod 'nôl ym mis Awst 2016.
Yn ôl cyfrifiad 2011, roedd 19% o boblogaeth Cymru, 562,000, yn siarad yr iaith.
Dywedodd llefarydd ar ran Llywodraeth Cymru eu bod yn croesawu'r ffigyrau ac yn croesawu'r ffaith ei fod mewn ardaloedd lle nad yw'r Gymraeg wedi bod yn brif iaith draddodiadol ers peth amser.
Ychwanegodd y bydd y llywodraeth yn ymrwymo i sicrhau bod y gwahanol sefydliadau yn cydweithio er mwyn sicrhau fod pawb sydd am gael dysgu'r iaith yn cael y cyfle i wneud hynny. Yn ôl cyfrifiad 2011, roedd 19% o boblogaeth Cymru, 562,000, yn siarad yr iaith.
Dywedodd llefarydd ar ran Llywodraeth Cymru eu bod yn croesawu'r ffigyrau ac yn croesawu'r ffaith ei fod mewn ardaloedd lle nad yw'r Gymraeg wedi bod yn brif iaith draddodiadol ers peth amser.
Ychwanegodd y bydd y llywodraeth yn ymrwymo i sicrhau bod y gwahanol sefydliadau yn cydweithio er mwyn sicrhau fod pawb sydd am gael dysgu'r iaith yn cael y cyfle i wneud hynny.
Dywedodd Llyr Gruffydd llefarydd Plaid Cymru ar addysg gydol oes "nad yw Llafur wedi sylweddoli cymaint o her yw cyrraedd y nod sy'n gofyn am greu tua 18,000 o siaradwyr Cymraeg ychwanegol bob blwyddyn dros y tri degawd nesaf.
"Mae gan addysg Gymraeg i oedolion ran allweddol i'w chwarae yn yr ymdrech honno, a rhaid troi pob carreg i sicrhau fod yr adnoddau a'r ddarpariaeth angenrheidiol ar gael ym mhob rhan o Gymru.
"Fedrwn ni ddim bodloni ar sefyllfa ble mae'r galw yn mynd heb ei ateb."
Sloan clocked 1:47.41 to take 0.53 off Harrison's mark as he moved into the top 10 in this year's world rankings.
The Bangor man, 23, set the time in the morning heats before winning the evening final in 1:47.77.
That left him ahead of Bangor team-mate Jack Millan [1:51.03].
Sloan's time puts him in line to compete at both the World Championships in Budapest and the World University Games in Taiwan.
Sloan and Millan were also part of the Bangor relay team which took almost five seconds off the Irish 400m freestyle club record.
The Bangor quartet downed UCD's 2016 record of 3:28.07 to set a new time of 3:23.38.
Conor Ferguson retained his Irish 100m backstroke title in 54.61 seconds.
His time was well under the European and World Junior Championships consideration times.
Larne star Danielle Hill won the women's event in 1:02.32 touching ahead of Stirling's Natasha Hofton [1:02.68].
Lisburn's Daniel Wiffen swam under the European Youth Olympics consideration time to take gold in the 1500m freestyle in 16:12.99 while his team-mate Rachel Bethel won 800m freestyle gold in 9:00.19.
Bethel then returned to win the Irish national title in the women's 200m Freestyle, in 2:03.37, finishing behind Paralympic Great Britain gold medallist Bethany Firth from Newtownards.
Sligo woman Mona McSharry broke Sycerika McMahon's Irish junior 50m breaststroke record set in 2011 by 0.15 as she took the title in 31.34.
But Russian officials immediately complained the inquiry was biased, keen to absolve the Moscow government of any blame.
And deep within the report, months of disagreement are revealed between the Russians and the Dutch Safety Board (DSB) in what soon resembles a blame game.
Under the rules of international crash investigations, the DSB has no authority to apportion blame, although board chairman Tjibbe Joustra said later that pro-Russian rebels had been in charge of the area from where the fateful missile was fired.
For months, Russian experts directly challenged the DSB's findings, and all the while the Russian arguments constantly appeared to change.
It was like a high-stakes game of chess: one side waiting for the other to move, then analysing it and trying to hit back with a counter argument.
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Ukraine's government and several Western officials have said the missile was transported into a rebel-held area from Russia. The Dutch-led criminal investigation has already published photos of the launcher being moved around rebel areas.
But Moscow has always denied having anything to do with the tragedy.
A few days after the air crash Russia's Ministry of Defence suggested the Boeing 777 was downed by an air-to-air missile. It said Russian radar had spotted a Ukrainian fighter jet 3-5km (2-3 miles) away from the plane.
In July 2015, Russia's investigative committee repeated the allegation, saying the missile "was not produced in Russia". And this version was widely promoted by Russian state TV, with one channel even showing an experiment involving a fighter jet firing on an old plane.
But then the story switched, and Russian missile company Almaz-Antey blew up another plane to prove MH17 had been downed by a BUK surface-to-air missile.
In another apparent chess move, Moscow was now arguing that MH17 was brought down by a rocket launched from Ukrainian government-held territory, although it acknowledged it was missile made by Almaz-Antey.
As the Dutch Safety Board prepared its report, several meetings were held with Russian specialists, who analysed the information they were given and at their last joint meeting questioned the Dutch findings. The Russian team put forward three arguments:
It was time for the Dutch to respond. And, in the very final pages of the report (p94), they do.
First, the DSB says the Russians had relied on an inappropriate method to decide exactly where the warhead exploded.
The inquiry team used a "stringing method" to determine the trajectory of the missile parts that hit the plane. Specialists used three-dimensional scans and fibreglass rods and then set up a network of lines of string.
While this helped explain the general direction that fragments inside the warhead hit the plane, the Dutch insisted it could not determine exactly where the warhead blew up because that trajectory changed dramatically after impact.
Although the Russians did consider the impact inside the fuselage, the DSB pointed out that the fragments of the warhead that penetrated the plane changed direction and ricocheted.
The two sides' difference of opinion on where the warhead exploded is key to their disagreement on other findings.
Because the Russian detonation point is closer to the plane, their experts came to a different conclusion about the type of warhead, and the number and weight of destructive fragments inside it.
Almaz-Antey, which produces the BUK launcher and anti-aircraft missiles, and the Ukraine Research Institute were both asked by the DSB to calculate the path of the rocket.
The Russian specialists worked out a wide area to the south and south-east of the town of Snizhne. The Ukrainians determined a significantly smaller area but within the area identified by the Russians.
Based on that, the Dutch Safety Board calculated a large area from which the missile may have been launched. It is almost twice the size of the area calculated by the Russians.
However, after the Russians presented their findings to the DSB, they used their own simulation to argue that the missile must have been launched further west, from Zaroshchenske, which was at the time in Ukrainian-controlled territory.
This village lies some 20km (12 miles) away from the area that Almaz-Antey first suggested the DSB.
It was, apparently, another Russian move in this weird, chess-like investigation.
Almaz-Antey has now accused the DSB of misinterpreting the Russian calculations in an "impressive example of dishonest use of our documents".
Its specialists insist the missile launch area mapped out in the report had never been submitted to the Dutch, and in any case the original Russian calculations were based on "faulty conditions" provided by the DSB.
The two sides are now completely at odds.
The Dutch say that the Russians have simply got it wrong, basing their "calculations on an incorrect detonation point and orientation of the weapon resulting in an incorrect missile trajectory".
This game of chess is far from over and the stakes are rising. The international criminal investigation will be published in 2016, and that will apportion blame.
The report, led by the universities of Stanford, Princeton and Berkeley, said vertebrates were disappearing at a rate 114 times faster than normal.
The findings echo those in a report published by Duke University last year.
One of the new study's authors said: "We are now entering the sixth great mass extinction event."
The last such event was 65 million years ago, when dinosaurs were wiped out, in all likelihood by a large meteor hitting Earth.
"If it is allowed to continue, life would take many millions of years to recover and our species itself would likely disappear early on," said the lead author, Gerardo Ceballos.
The scientists looked at historic rates of extinction for vertebrates - animals with backbones - by assessing fossil records.
They found that the current extinction rate was more than 100 times higher than in periods when Earth was not going through a mass extinction event.
Since 1900, the report says, more than 400 more vertebrates had disappeared.
Such a loss would normally be seen over a period of up to 10,000 years, the scientists say.
The study - published in the Science Advances journal - cites causes such as climate change, pollution and deforestation.
Given the knock-on effect of ecosystems being destroyed, the report says benefits such as pollination by bees could be lost within three human generations.
Stanford University professor Paul Ehrlich said: "There are examples of species all over the world that are essentially the walking dead.
"We are sawing off the limb that we are sitting on."
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) says at least 50 animals move closer to extinction every year.
Around 41% of all amphibians and 25% of mammals are threatened with extinction, it says.
According to the IUCN, the lemur faces a real struggle to avoid extinction in the wild in the coming years.
The group says that 94% of all lemurs are under threat, with more than a fifth of all lemur species classed as "critically endangered".
As well as seeing their habitat in Madagascar destroyed by illegal logging, lemurs are also regularly hunted for their meat, the IUCN says.
What were the five mass extinction events?
Last year, a report by Stuart Pimm, a biologist and extinction expert at Duke University in North Carolina, also warned mankind was entering a sixth mass extinction event.
But Mr Pimm's report said the current rate of extinction was more than 1,000 times faster than in the past, not 114, as the new report claims.
The new report's authors said it was still possible to avoid a "dramatic decay of biodiversity" through intensive conservation, but that rapid action was needed.
The annual study by the Family and Childcare Trust found the cost of an after-school club went up 8.5% in Scotland over the last year.
In England, increases averaged at 2.1% and in Wales costs fell.
Rates paid by Scottish families are now higher than anywhere in the UK apart from London, the trust said.
According to the survey, 15 hours in an after-school club in Scotland now costs an average of £53.21.
The chief executive of the Family and Childcare Trust, Julia Margo, said there was growing concern about the "unaffordability" of childcare for Scottish parents.
"While we warmly welcome recent commitments from the Scottish government to increase the hours of free early education, we urge it to address the rising cost of childcare and make the flexibility of childcare provision a top priority," she said.
"It is also essential that the Scottish government strengthens legislation on local authorities to provide enough childcare for working parents in order to tackle the serious gaps in Scotland's childcare provision."
Currently, all three and four-year-olds in Scotland get 600 hours of free early education per year and the Scottish government has committed to extending this to 1,140 hours by 2020.
The trust's survey found that price increases in Scotland were not just isolated to after-school clubs, with costs rising for other types of childcare provision as well.
A part-time nursery place for a child over two increased to £104.06 per week - an increase of 4.1% since 2015 - and childminder fees rose by 2.7%, despite only marginal increases in the rest of Britain.
Researchers said finding childcare could also be difficult in Scotland, with only 13% of local authorities reporting they had enough provision for parents who work full-time.
But the National Day Nurseries Association Scotland said its own survey, which will be published in March, found costs were only rising by an average of 1.8% in Scotland.
It added, however, that bigger increases over the next few years were likely because of the impact of the National Living Wage.
The association's research found average nursery occupancy was at 77%, with plenty of capacity to offer more funded places to three and four-year-olds.
Chief executive Purnima Tanuku said: "Childcare in Scotland needs to be led by parental choice rather than local authority choice. This lack of continuity leads to children being moved around different settings to take advantage of funded places.
"Nurseries are keen to offer funded places, but need to be given the opportunity to do so. They also need the fees given through local authorities to cover their delivery costs, so they can maintain high-quality early education and keep their businesses sustainable."
In a career spanning some 60 years, Michelmore anchored coverage of events including the Apollo moon landings and two general elections.
Known for his unflappable style, he interviewed figures including Prince Charles, Prime Minister Harold Wilson and a 17-year-old David Bowie.
BBC director general Tony Hall said he was an "outstanding broadcaster".
His "personal approach" recast the role of the TV presenter at the BBC, Lord Hall said.
Best known as host of the current affairs programme Tonight from 1957 to 1965, Michelmore brought a more informal style to news presenting.
Studio equipment appeared in shot and Michelmore often presented items while perched on the edge of his desk.
In his later life, Michelmore went on to present Holiday on BBC One and was still broadcasting in his 80s, long after the last Tonight.
He also anchored major live events, including news of the assassination of President John F Kennedy in 1963, which broke while he was live on air, and the return of the of the damaged Apollo 13 spacecraft.
His son Guy told the BBC his father died at Petersfield Hospital in Hampshire after being admitted last week.
Born in 1919 in Cowes on the Isle of Wight, Michelmore joined the RAF and was commissioned during World War Two.
He made his first broadcast for the British Forces Network in Hamburg, and soon began appearing on air in a variety of roles - including in radio dramas and presenting a weekly gardening slot.
His big break came when he was asked to fill in at the Hamburg end of popular BBC radio show Two-Way Family Favourites.
The programme went out on Sunday lunchtime on BBC radio and linked members of British forces serving round the world with their families at home.
He went on to marry the show's London anchor, Jean Metcalfe, who died in 2000. He later said it was "love at first hearing".
He joined the BBC first as a reporter in the South West of England, before moving into current affairs presenting.
During his career, he fronted numerous programmes, including Highlight, 24 Hours, and Tonight - where he coined his famous sign-off: "The next Tonight will be tomorrow night - goodnight."
His calm and collected style meant he was the perfect choice to anchor general election results coverage, which he did in 1966 and 1970.
But he was shaken when he was sent to cover the 1966 disaster at the Welsh village of Aberfan, where a slag heap had collapsed on to a junior school, killing 116 children and 28 adults.
"Never in my life have I seen anything like this. I hope I shall never see anything like it again," he said in his report.
He won a number of awards, and was made a CBE in 1969.
Paying tribute, Tony Hall said: "It's impossible to overestimate just how important a national figure he was at a time when there were just two channels.
"I still remember as a boy watching Cliff Michelmore presenting Tonight live five times a week in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
"He was natural, warm, engaging - he was utterly himself and showed he was one of us. His personal approach recast the role of the TV presenter at the BBC and he was loved by audiences for it."
The crash happened on an unclassified road between West Stafford bypass and Crossways, near Dorchester, on 14 March.
A silver Nissan X-Trail was in collision with a white Iveco van.
The 77-year-old driver of the Nissan, who was from the local area, suffered serious injuries and has since died in hospital.
His front-seat passenger - a 76-year-old woman also from the local area - and the van driver both suffered serious injuries but are recovering.
Dorset Police said no arrests had been made.
The Scottish government money will help mark the origins in 1947 of the Edinburgh International, Fringe and Film Festivals.
It takes total government support for the capital's festivals next year to £2.3m.
And it builds on the £90,000 announced previously for the Hogmanay fireworks.
Culture Secretary Fiona Hyslop said: "Edinburgh's Festivals provide an excellent platform to promote Scotland's rich culture, heritage and distinct identity on the world stage.
"Every year they generate tremendous cultural energy and activity, attracting around 4.5 million attendances, providing jobs, supporting our tourism industry and contributing £313m to the Scottish economy.
"Through our expo fund the Scottish government has provided more than £17m over eight years to support artists to create and showcase their work to the world.
"I am pleased to announce today we will enhance our support for the festivals with an additional £300,000 next year to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the founding festivals, led by the Edinburgh International Festival.
"In line with the commitment we set out in our current programme for government, this extra funding will support the festivals to deliver innovative work and create performances that will catch the imagination of our international audiences. This underlines the government's commitment to supporting the festivals to grow, and our artists to thrive."
Festivals Edinburgh director Julia Amour said: "Over 70 years, Edinburgh's Festivals have become Scotland's globally renowned meeting point for arts and creativity.
"We are delighted to be able to celebrate this anniversary and share Scotland's cultural riches with the wider world, thanks to enhanced support from the Scottish Government's Edinburgh Festivals Expo Fund.
"This investment in maintaining our unique cultural edge will help make our 70th year the start of an exciting new chapter for the world's leading festival city."
"I called up several landlords who had listed rooms for rent," Sunil, a Sri Lankan who spent eight years living in the UK, said.
"Things would start out OK, maybe because of my [Western] accent - but the moment they heard my name, they'd blank out. Many said 'sorry, we don't rent to these people', or 'sorry, no room for Indians'."
Sunil, a civil engineer who arrived in 2012, said he was rejected by at least four landlords.
"I told them that Sri Lanka was not India, that I wouldn't eat or cook in the apartment, and that I would be outside all day. But still, they wouldn't offer me a room," he said.
"At that point, I got fed up and decided to only try Indian landlords. I was invited to viewings right away."
Sunil is not alone. A quick glance at online rental listings shows many that include the words: "no Indians, no PRCs [People's Republic of China]", sometimes followed by the word "sorry".
A count on 24 April found that there were more than 160 housing adverts on the website PropertyGuru that clearly stated that the landlord did not wish to rent to Indians and/or mainland Chinese.
The issue appears more common with less expensive properties and on sites where content is posted directly by users, such as Gumtree.
Article 12 of Singapore's constitution says:
(1) All persons are equal before the law and entitled to the equal protection of the law.
(2) Except as expressly authorised by this Constitution, there shall be no discrimination against citizens of Singapore on the ground only of religion, race, descent or place of birth in any law or in the appointment to any office or employment under a public authority or in the administration of any law relating to the acquisition, holding or disposition of property or the establishing or carrying on of any trade, business, profession, vocation or employment.
Experts say the article can be used by a citizen against the state, but cannot be relied upon to seek legal redress against another individual or legal entity.
The UN has noted that article 12(2) does not extend its protection to non-citizens of Singapore.
It is not clear how many foreign workers have been affected. However, several expatriates have described experiencing varying levels of discrimination.
One Indian expat said his agent told him that many landlords would refuse to rent to him because "Indians always cook smelly curries". Another Briton of South Asian descent did not experience any direct discrimination, but was warned by his agent that some landlords could be difficult.
It was something I experienced too, albeit indirectly. When I searched for a flat, my housing agent received a phone call from one landlord who was worried that I was from mainland China, presumably after they learned about my Chinese ethnicity.
I listened to them discussing my background for what felt like an agonisingly long time. After she hung up, I asked her if it would reassure the landlord if they knew I was British.
"It doesn't matter," she said. "They may still think you're a PRC who obtained a British passport."
Mathew Mathews, a senior research fellow at the Institute of Policy Studies, says: "There are stereotypes that people have about different immigrant groups and how responsible they are in terms of the upkeep of a rented apartment.
"There are notions of which groups take care of their homes better, and what cooking supposedly leaves permanent smells in the house. People have notions about what would devalue the property."
Charlene, an estate agent, said it was common for landlords to prefer not to rent to tenants from India or mainland China because such tenants "are not people who are house proud".
"Many don't clean weekly, and they do heavy cooking, so dust and oil collect over the months. They may use a lot of spices that release smells people don't like."
There are also fears that those tenants will illegally sublet to others, she said, adding: "Cleanliness and culture is a very strong factor."
Another estate agent made similar points, saying that landlords were less willing to rent to Indian and mainland Chinese tenants as they believed they would not maintain the property well.
Singapore is an ethnically diverse nation, consisting of 74% Chinese, 13% Malay, 9% Indian and 3% from other groups. However, as 90% of Singaporean households own their homes, a significant portion of renters are foreigners.
Immigration has also become a sensitive issue, amid concern over living costs and rising housing prices, which many locals blame on foreigners.
While many landlords appear to be concerned about heavy cooking in their kitchens, tens of thousands of Singaporeans launched an online campaign to "cook a pot of curry" in August 2011.
The campaign was prompted by media reports of a disagreement between a Singaporean Indian family and an immigrant family from China, over the smell of curry from the Indian family's home. Following mediation, the Indian family agreed to cook curry only when the Chinese family were not home.
"At that point in time, there was a sense among people that there was some kind of injustice committed," says Alfian Sa'at, a local playwright who wrote the play Cook a Pot of Curry (pictured) following the incident.
"People felt it seemed as if it was OK for [the foreigners] to somehow reject curry, which a lot of Singaporeans believe is part of Singapore's society, no matter what ethnic background you're from. There was a sense that the government had favouritism towards new immigrants at the expense of native, Singapore-born residents."
However despite the support expressed for the Singaporean Indian family, it appears that both race and nationality remain important to many landlords. "It is likely that people tend to want to rent out only to people of the same race," Mr Sa'at says. "This is a tricky issue, because obviously a lot of landlords are [Singaporean] Chinese."
Eugene Tan, Associate Professor of Law at Singapore Management University, says: "In the current state of ambivalence towards immigration in Singapore, my sense is that race and country of origin have taken on a stronger accent with regards to how landlords may view Indian/PRC tenants."
Singapore's government places a strong emphasis on racial harmony. Studies suggest that there is relatively little racial discrimination in the public sphere, but things can be different in private.
"The Singaporean state has considerably influenced Singaporeans' willingness to work and be alongside those who are racially different," Dr Mathews says. "Singaporeans have learned to accept the realities of living in a multi-racial and multi-religious society. The private sphere, however, is one which the state has not tried to influence."
A landlord's choice of tenants "would probably fall within people's private spheres in terms of who they would choose to come into their home space".
Attitudes to race came to the fore in December, when hundreds of foreign workers from India and South Asia rioted after an Indian national was killed in a bus accident. The incident sparked a strong response on social media - many made comments denouncing foreign workers, although many others also spoke out against racism.
Of course, rental discrimination exists in many countries. A BBC study in October found that several estate agencies in London would refuse to rent to African-Caribbean people at the landlord's request.
However, while the UK has legislation banning discrimination on ethnic or nationality grounds, covering situations including "buying or renting property", Singapore offers fewer legal protections.
"There is no specific anti-discrimination law that can be used by non-citizens," says Prof Tan.
"Even if there is an anti-discrimination law, there is the challenge of proving discrimination… Indication of tenant preferences in rental advertisements may not amount to discrimination."
In a statement, PropertyGuru said discrimination on the basis of ethnicity or nationality was "absolutely not" allowed under its guidelines.
"There is a whistle-blowing feature for viewers... to report [content] that may be objectionable or derogatory," it said, and objectionable statements would be removed.
Around 1% of listings on its site contained objectionable content, it added.
The Council for Estate Agencies (CEA), a government body that regulates the real estate agency industry, has guidelines stating that agents should "advise their clients against placing advertisements that are discriminatory, offensive or stereotyped in nature against any particular race, religion or group in society".
In a statement, the CEA and the Ministry of National Development said: "We do not condone racial discrimination. There are advertising guidelines in place.
"Some landlords have explained that they face practical considerations renting out their properties, leading to certain requirements in rental transactions."
The statement added: "The Government will continue educational efforts on the importance of mutual respect to preserve ethnic harmony."
Prof Tan believes that the discrimination will reduce over time.
"With more apartments coming on stream in the next few years, landlords cannot afford to be so choosey," he says.
Sunil also believes that views may change over the decades.
"All the landlords who rejected me were from older generations, but I find I'm not treated differently at work, where the people are younger. I think attitudes are changing, it will just take some time."
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The 20ft (6m) tall Giant's Chair was dismantled and burnt last month after it became unstable.
Some of the oak timbers were turned into charcoal for use by the local community.
Members of the Mindspace group, who have dementia, were the first to use it as a drawing material.
Artist Onya McCausland said she was "astonished" by the quality of charcoal produced.
"Not only was there a lot of it produced, but it was really well charcoaled.
"I couldn't believe how well it was drawing. It's deep, dense, charcoally black.
"It's really lovely that members of Mindspace were the ones to get to work with it first."
The chair was crafted out of local oak by Czech artist Magdalena Jetelova in 1986, who always intended for it to be turned into charcoal.
The artworks will be exhibited at the Forest of Dean Sculpture Trail and at ArtSpace Cinderford next year.
A limited amount of the charcoal will be made available to the general public to create their own works.
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The Swede carded a joint-record eight-under-par 63 in the final round at Royal Troon in 2016 to win The Open by three shots after an enthralling final-day tussle with Phil Mickelson.
"I don't know which is going to be harder, winning the Claret Jug again or going skydiving - that thought scares me a little bit," he said. "It won't stop me from trying though."
Stenson, 41, has relished carrying the Claret Jug around the world - he has even taken it jet-skiing - and said he was sad to hand it back to the tournament organisers.
"It had become like part of the family," he said. "It's an iconic trophy. It's been the busiest year, but also the best year in my professional career."
Stenson will partner former world number one Jordan Spieth in the first two rounds at Royal Birkdale, a player he is seeking to emulate as a multiple major winner.
"Once you win one, obviously that's off your shoulder," he said.
"I think that's pretty much what we're aiming for, a few more chances to win more major championships."
For his part, Spieth is aiming to bring an end to the streak of first-time major winners that started with Jason Day's 2015 PGA Championship win and most recently saw Brooks Koepka win the US Open.
The run of first-time winners now spans seven majors, and 23-year-old Spieth believes it underlines just how hard it is for one player to dominate.
"It's very tough to do," the American said. "You have to have a lot of things go right at the right times.
"Guys are winning younger, playing more fearless, even in major championships. I think it's going to be a very exciting time.
"You'll see a group of 10 to 12 guys over the next 15-20 years, that are going to have a lot of different competitions that come down the stretch with each other.
"It's different than one person being the guy to beat. But I think it's exciting."
England's Chris Wood, and Americans Mark O'Meara and Ryan Moore will be the first group away at 06:35 BST.
Stenson and Spieth get under way at 09:47, alongside South Korea's Kim Si-woo.
Party sources, though, insist that no British troops would be involved.
Sources near shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn say they are not ruling out backing an extension of UK air strikes against Islamic State to Syria.
Leader Jeremy Corbyn is opposed to such action, but some Labour MPs have told the BBC they would defy him in a vote.
The government is expected to draw up proposals within the next few weeks for missile attacks in Syria.
Defence Secretary Michael Fallon has said parliament needs to "rethink the absurdity" of RAF jets being able to bomb IS targets in Iraq but not Syria.
In July, acting Labour leader Harriet said Islamic State had to be "stopped" and Labour would look "very seriously" at any proposals brought forward by the government.
She said the situation was different from that in 2013, when Labour voted against air strikes against the Syrian regime of President Bashar al-Assad, because IS was a terrorist organisation.
New leader and veteran anti-war campaigner Mr Corbyn has made clear his opposition to the move - but the BBC understands the party has not changed its position since his election.
Sources close to Mr Benn say they will examine any proposals from the government that have a clear legal basis and objectives.
More than 200,000 Syrians have been killed since civil war broke out in 2011. The conflict between rebel forces and the Assad government has been compounded by the rise of terror group Islamic State, which took control of swathes of the country in 2014.
Millions of people have been displaced - some are living as refugees in the region, while many others are attempting to reach Europe.
Prime Minister David Cameron is meeting world leaders at the UN in New York to discuss the Syrian crisis.
The BBC understands that on Monday, Mr Benn and Mr Corbyn will urge him to push for a UN Chapter 7 Resolution.
That could see Western troops on the ground in Syria but only in a peacekeeping capacity.
The plan is similar to an idea put forward by the Conservative former International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell, and backed by Boris Johnson last week.
Mr Mitchell told the BBC that creating "humanitarian safe enclaves" was the best way to protect the Syrian people and stop the refugee crisis that stemmed from the conflict there.
He said "ideally" Britain would not be required to put troops on the ground, and instead personnel from the UN, EU, Arab League and others should be involved.
Mr Cameron is expected to call for a renewed diplomatic drive to end Syria's civil war during his UN meetings.
UK officials have signalled that he will drop his opposition to Mr Assad playing a role in any transitional government, but the prime minister has insisted Syria's president "can't be part of Syria's future".
Meanwhile, France has carried out its first air strikes against IS militants in Syria.
Mold Crown Court heard victims were passed around a group of men at the Wrexham home of Gary Cooke, 64, in the 1970s and 80s.
Mr Cooke and six co-defendants, are on trial and deny a range of sex offences against boys aged 10 to 15.
The court heard boys were plied with drink and drugs before being assaulted.
Prosecutor Eleanor Laws QC said the case centred on the home of Mr Cooke and, apart from Keith Stokes, all the defendants had some sort of connection to him.
"This case is concerned with the activities of a predatory paedophile ring," she told the jury.
"The boys were young, vulnerable, sometimes isolated by family circumstances and manipulated by Gary Cooke and others."
The court heard the boys were groomed by being offered treats such as cinema trips and given attention, which all led to "grave sexual abuse".
One of the defendants who visited Mr Cooke's addresses was teacher and care home owner Roger Griffiths, a convicted paedophile, the court was told.
The jury heard Mr Griffiths owned Gatewen Hall children's home in Wrexham from 1977 to 1983 and was a teacher at Wrexham Special Education Centre, which has since closed down.
Miss Laws said that police records revealed Mr Griffiths was convicted in 1999 of indecent assault, a serious sexual assault and cruelty to a child.
The case has been bought as part of Operation Pallial, the National Crime Agency's investigation into historical child abuse.
The trial continues.
Officers also seized 11 vehicles when they conducted searches at premises on Coolderry Road and Larkins Road on Monday.
Four people have been arrested and remain in custody.
Those being questioned are a woman aged 31 and three men aged 23, 31 and 67.
In addition, computers, documentation and a quantity of wine were seized during the search operation.
The operation was conducted by the PSNI's Reactive and Organised Crime Branch
Insp Lorraine Dobson said: "We seized in excess of 1000 gas cylinders and 11 vehicles including a curtain-sided lorry and G-Power forklift."
She said the Health and Safety Executive has been notified about the investigation.
The aim of the redundancy scheme is to cut around 3,000 civil service jobs.
The first 1,200 civil servants are due to leave on 30 September.
But that is now uncertain due to the Stormont Executive's continuing disagreement on welfare reform and the budget.
Dr Malcolm McKibben told a Stormont committee on Wednesday that "we can't go past the end of August in terms of confirming if they're leaving or not.
"People clearly have plans made if they are allowed to exit," he said.
The voluntary redundancy scheme was part of the Stormont House Agreement. It was struck between the Executive parties and the British and Irish governments in December.
The scheme allowed the Executive to borrow up to £700m to fund 20,000 redundancies across the wider public sector.
But with the welfare reform part of the agreement collapsing it is doubtful if the redundancy scheme can proceed as planned.
More than 7,000 civil servants expressed interest in the scheme and 1,200 of those have been told they can leave, depending on funding.
If the Executive is not allowed to borrow the money it would have to pay for the scheme by making cuts to day-to-day departmental spending.
Dr McKibben raised the prospect that there could be negotiations with the Treasury to allow the scheme to proceed as planned, even if the rest of the Stormont House Agreement is not implemented.
"If the welfare reform issue isn't sorted out in the near future clearly we're going to have to engage with the Treasury to see if access to this money can be maintained.
"Whether or not they will allow that to be pulled out of the Stormont House Agreement I don't know."
Cardiff City forward Lee Tomlin, 28, and Accrington Stanley striker Billy Kee have been charged with inflicting grievous bodily harm without intent.
They are due before Leicester Magistrates' Court on 18 September.
Mr Tomlin, who used to play for Bristol City, and Mr Kee, 26, will continue to play for their respective teams, said their clubs.
A spokesman from Cardiff City FC said: "Lee will continue as part of the first team squad and, as such, has travelled for this afternoon's game with Wolverhampton Wanderers."
A spokesman from Accrington Stanley said: "Billy will continue to be available for selection for Accrington Stanley.
"The club will not comment further on this incident at this time."
Almost 137,000 candidates have received full results of their Nationals, Highers and Advanced Highers.
The pass rate at National 4 was 92.8% although there was a significant drop in entries.
More than a third of students opted to receive the news by text or email with the remainder being notified by post.
The Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) said the results, which overall were broadly in line with 2016, were evidence of a stable system.
136,889
candidates
150,010
Higher passes
77% Higher pass rate (A-C)
77.2% Higher pass rate last year
116,032 National 4 entries
122,961 National 4 entries last year
An analysis of the marks required for a C pass at Higher suggests there are no subjects where the pass mark has had to be raised or lowered dramatically.
There was no repeat of the situation two years ago, when the Higher Maths pass mark was cut to 35% because it was much harder than usual.
Figures from the SQA revealed:
Education Secretary John Swinney congratulated students and teachers for their "hard work and effort".
On a visit to Bannerman High School in Baillieston, Glasgow, Mr Swinney said: "The whole country should rightly be proud of the excellence and achievement in Scottish education demonstrated by these results.
"We expect to see small variations in pass rates year-on-year, which demonstrate the high standards, strength and integrity of our national qualifications. This is of paramount importance.
"The much greater range of qualifications and skills-based awards demonstrates Curriculum for Excellence is successfully meeting the needs of young people and giving them the best chance of success in further learning, life and work. It is the right reform for Scottish education.
"The further steps we have set out to close the attainment gap and raise standards for all will build on these solid foundations."
Exam passes are high by historic standards, more youngsters are staying on at school and going to college or university.
Is this a good thing in itself? Or is the education system simply having to adapt to the fact that in the modern world there are fewer good jobs for young people, and that unskilled jobs are disappearing?
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Dr Janet Brown, SQA's chief executive and Scotland's chief examining officer, also congratulated students on their hard work and dedication.
"Whichever route is taken from here, whether that be the world of work, training or education, they can take immense pride in their achievements," she said.
"Recognition and praise should also go to the teachers, lecturers, parents and carers who have supported their young people in their accomplishments."
Larry Flanagan, general secretary of Scotland's largest teaching union, the EIS, said the results came against a background of increasing workload for teachers.
He said: "Scotland's teachers have again gone that extra mile to support their students' learning, despite the enormous workload pressures faced by the profession.
"However, the EIS expects to see a significant reduction in workload over the forthcoming session and will hold both the Scottish government and the SQA to account on delivering the promised reduction in the assessment burden on both staff and pupils. Frankly, the goodwill of teachers has run out."
Royal Mail said it had planning teams working for months to make sure the delivery of results went smoothly.
A free helpline is available on 0808 100 8000 for anyone seeking practical advice regarding their results.
A spokeswoman for Colleges Scotland said students should not be discouraged, even if they failed to perform as well as they had hoped.
"Some may not have received the results they were hoping for and it's important to know there are a myriad of opportunities available should they look to a college route to develop their skills and progress towards employment or higher education," she said.
Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale wished pupils good luck, and urged anyone worried about their results to call the helpline.
Operated by Skills Development Scotland, the helpline will be open from 08:00 until 20:00 on Tuesday and Wednesday and between 09:00 and 17:00 until 16 August.
The group's acting director of operations James Russell said: "Our message for those young people and their parents and carers as the results arrive is not to panic.
"Everything might seem overwhelming at that point. Our experienced advisers are there to help and have information on all the options and opportunities young people can consider."
The 25-year-old was injured during his side's 2-0 home defeat by St Johnstone in the Scottish Premiership.
Manager Jim McIntyre told BBC Scotland: "We will know more about Liam's injury later on.
"But we think it is a medial ligament injury and we are hoping he's not out too long."
Boyce, 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.
And he was named in Michael O'Neill's squad on Thursday for the Group C double header on 8 and 11 October.
But he had to be helped off the field five minutes before the end of County's match on Saturday.
Boyce collided with Zander Clark as the goalkeeper parried a shot from Chris Burke, the former Scotland winger making his debut for County.
Northern Ireland are already without Will Grigg, with the Wigan Athletic striker having been left out for family reasons.
Sculptor and former art teacher Neil Buxton was diagnosed with late stages of prostate cancer after being rushed to hospital on Christmas Eve 2012.
Mr Buxton and a specialist at Inverness's Raigmore Hospital believe that staying active aids his survival.
The car, called Scot Special, passed its first MOT this month.
It is more than three years since Mr Buxton, 66, from Dulnain Bridge, in the Cairngorms, was found to have a tumour compressing his spinal cord.
The cancer was so aggressive he was given radiotherapy treatment all at once that Christmas Eve.
Mr Buxton said: "The consultant told me, at the time, that I would live up to three years.
He added: "Last autumn he admitted he hadn't expected me to live beyond six weeks because of my spinal cord compression."
The former schools art teacher had owned classic cars in the past and got the idea to build a car after overhearing a conversation in hospital.
He said: "There were two cancer patients of a similar age to me and they were talking about all the cars they had owned over the years.
"I then had this idea that I wanted to build a car. I had this idea for car of a design similar to the distinctive shapes of racing cars of the 1950s.
"I didn't start the car until November 2013 as previously I struggled to walk and it took a long time to come to terms with my illness."
After buying a Triumph Spitfire chassis, Mr Buxton began building the car, drawing on skills and tools used to create his metalwork sculptures.
Some of the internal body work was made from scrapped washing machines.
Mr Buxton said: "In the early stages I could only manage half an hour a day and slowly my strength increased, allowing me to work up to two to three hours a day.
"I MOT'd it this month."
Mr Buxton, who continues to receive hormone therapy every four weeks and morphine to reduce the pain, was encouraged to tell his story by his consultant, Dr Neil McPhail.
"The cancer is still there, and it will still get me," said Mr Buxton. "But working on the car has helped to keep it at bay."
Dr McPhail said: "Neil is a remarkable chap. To not only be fully mobile but building a car is amazing.
"He is an inspiration to others. Staying mentally and physically fit can help improve your quality of life.
"This shows that men who have advanced prostate cancer can still have some of the best years of their lives ahead of them. It also shows the importance of keeping active and busy when the cancer is under good control."
Dr McPhail added: "It is really important that people recognise the symptoms of malignant spinal cord compression.
"If you have cancer and develop severe back pain please contact your GP urgently.
"We would also ask that if men are having problems urinating and develop new back pain again please contact your GP urgently."
In a statement published online they say they will continue to work together on The Muppets.
They released the same statements on their Twitter accounts explaining they had been "squabbling".
``People change. So do frogs and pigs...we were together for a long, long time and it's personal,'' Kermit said.
Obviously, it's a break up of two characters who aren't real but people still think it's a big deal.
The new series of The Muppets will air this autumn in the US.
The 24-year-old, whose previous clubs include Oldham, Barnsley and Bury, impressed during a trial.
Brown, the younger brother of former England defender Wes, was signed in time for him to be available for Saturday's game against Scunthorpe.
"He adds weight to our squad and knows the division well," manager Chris Wilder told United's website.
"He has done everything we have asked of him, trained well and impressed.
"His pedigree is good and this is an opportunity to earn a longer deal."
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O'Carroll had just finished performing his stage show Good Mourning Mrs Brown in Rhyl on Saturday when he pledged the money for the lifeboat charity.
The 61-year-old, who plays Agnes Brown in the hit TV show, also collected £600 from the audience at Rhyl Pavilion.
"The RNLI would like to thank Brendan O'Carroll for his generous donation to Rhyl RNLI," said an RNLI spokesperson.
O'Carroll, whose female alter-ego helped him win the 2016 National Television Award for best comedy, was in Wales doing a preview of his stage show before a year-long UK arena tour.
He had offered Rhyl RNLI the chance to collect donations at his Saturday night show and, following the performance, he told the sell-out audience at the theatre that he would make a £10,000 contribution.
A Rhyl Pavilion spokesman said "there was a massive round of applause from the audience" and added "it was fantastic and showed great support for our local volunteers".
The donation from the Irish comedian, who fronts the new BBC One Saturday night TV show All Round to Mrs Brown's, is expected to go towards Rhyl RNLI's new £2.2m Shannon class lifeboat.
The Hinkley Point C party had been cancelled at the very last minute by a nervous UK government.
After years of delay, EDF management had finally managed to convince its own board (just) that constructing the world's biggest nuclear power station wouldn't bankrupt the company.
It was now Theresa May's turn to waver.
There was plenty to think about. A contract that locked in an electricity price more than double the current cost. The commitment to growing Chinese involvement in the UK's nuclear industry, and the voices pointing out that other options for low carbon electricity were getting cheaper all the time.
All good reasons to hit the pause button. There seemed little chance of renegotiating the price (after EDF's struggle with its own board) or the participants in the project (without mortally offending the Chinese) so many thought the deal looked dead.
Nothing has changed in the six weeks since - so why is it almost certain this deal will now get the green light?
First, there has been the lack of anti-Hinkley spinning from the new brooms at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. Last week, the Secretary of State, Greg Clark, and senior civil servants hosted journalists for a get-to-know-you session.
If Hinkley was dead you can be sure that the subliminal chat would have been how the energy market had changed, new options were available, delays at other EDF sites were a big worry etc. There was none of that.
In the Commons today, Greg Clark reiterated that new nuclear was a vital part of the UK's energy mix.
If that's true and the government acknowledges our power generation capacity is creaking, that means it thinks it still needs Hinkley.
Secondly, EDF has already spent £2.5bn on developing the project. Clearing earth, building a concrete factory and providing top-notch bat and hedgehog facilities doesn't come cheap.
Does the government really want to face a compensation claim from EDF? If so, that could mean spending £2.5bn on NOT building infrastructure.
Third, Theresa May has had a chance to deal with China's top brass directly. Meekly nodding through a project developed by two previous governments without acknowledging the parties had changed would arguably show weakness.
With China now added to the project, it seems reasonable to want a personal chat with Mr Xi to remind him who the customer is.
After G20 she has now done that and will no doubt tell us that she has received all sorts of assurances that China does not present a security risk.
Fourth, EDF went to the trouble of announcing a Welsh steelmaker as the preferred bidder on a £100m steel order for Hinkley just last week.
Granted, that may have been another nudge from EDF and the subcontractors to the government to highlight the benefits to a particularly beleaguered industry of Hinkley.
BUT after the embarrassment last time, one feels that it wouldn't be worth going through the motions unless they were fairly confident.
Theresa May will still be under some pressure to justify her spanner-throwing antics of late July. So we can expect a series of reasons why the delay was necessary and unexpected benefits of going ahead.
We may hear of an unexpectedly high level of involvement for British contractors (as in the Welsh steel example above) and a mechanism to return excess EDF profits to UK consumers.
Although there is anecdotal evidence of the first being true, there is already a mechanism in the existing deal to achieve the second.
None of that will appease the project's many critics who say that this is a project from a bygone age - a dinosaur in a digital, dynamic and decentralised age of power.
Those voices will continue to be heard at their loudest when the inevitable hiccups delays and controversies emerge in the future.
When they do, it's not clear how much it will help Theresa May to be able to say she gave the tyres a jolly good kick.
The 27-year-old, who can also play at scrum-half, came through Wakefield's academy and left the club in 2013 to join the Giants.
He has also previously had spells at Doncaster, Sheffield and Castleford.
"I am happy to have signed a deal at Wakefield, it is a club that is moving forward both on and off the field after creating a strong squad," said Wood.
Last month the union staged a two day national strike over a 1.1% pay offer which the Universities and Colleges Employers Association say is "good".
UCU general secretary Sally Hunt has described the offer as an "insult".
But the employers say it is at or even beyond the "limit of affordability" for some institutions.
Last week the union's annual congress voted to escalate the programme of industrial action, disrupting open days and graduations over the summer and threatening a marking and work-setting boycott in the autumn.
UCU says staff have taken a real-terms pay cut of 14.5% since 2009 while university bosses had a rise of more than 6%.
The union adds that almost half (49%) of university teachers are on insecure contracts with female academics paid on average £6,000 less each year than their male counterparts.
The Winchester walkout coincides with an open day at the university.
The UCU says members will be on picket lines from 08.30 BST to lobby parents and prospective students about their fight for fair pay.
"Parents would be shocked to learn that their children are likely to be taught by staff on zero-hours contracts," said Winchester branch leader Mick Jardine.
Ms Hunt said universities should "recognise that staff will no longer accept their pay being held down while a few at the top enjoy the rewards of increased money for universities".
She added: "Nobody wants to take industrial action, but clearly enough is enough."
Prof Elizabeth Stuart, Winchester's deputy vice-chancellor, said the the open day would go ahead but the university was "deeply disappointed" by the strike.
"Such action will do nothing to influence the national cause, as it is a local action.
"What it may do is impact upon the ability of some programmes to recruit and therefore put jobs at risk," said Prof Stuart.
The employers' association said UCU's attempts to disrupt the open day were likely to be ineffective as only about a quarter of staff are members.
A spokesman said last month's two-day strike had also resulted in "no to low" disruption at higher education institutions.
He urged the union "to conduct a consultation that enables their members to consider all the elements of the full, fair and final offer that is on the table."
Even better news for the Moray side was that the leading Loons were beaten 1-0 at home by Arbroath.
The Red Lichties are third after Clyde lost 2-1 away to Montrose, who move off the bottom above Stirling Albion.
Albion lost 2-0 to Edinburgh City, now unbeaten in six league games, while Annan Athletic beat Cowdenbeath 2-0.
At Borough Briggs, Elgin did the damage in the first quarter, with Sutherland notching his first before Brian Cameron took on the striker's pass to power past Kevin Walker.
Sutherland made it 3-0 after the break from the penalty spot and Brian Cameron added to Elgin's tally with a smart finish.
Dan Moore was set up by Sutherland for the fifth before the striker went three clear at the top of the scoring charts by completing his hat-trick shortly after - his 11th goal of the season.
At Station Park, Ryan McCord was Arbroath's late hero, breaking a deadlock that had lasted 85 minutes.
The striker headed in Josh Skelly's centre to further dent the league leaders' imperious start to the season.
Montrose managed a rousing win over Clyde, with Gary Fraser breaking the deadlock for the Gable Endies from the penalty spot after Martin McNiff tripped Callum MacDonald.
The felled player committed a handball in his own area after the break and Peter MacDonald levelled with another penalty.
However, Graham Webster grabbed the close-range winner for Montrose from Cammy Ballantyne's pass.
Edinburgh cruised to victory over Stirling in the capital to move above Cowdenbeath into seventh place.
City led on the half-hour when Ouzy See profited from Mark McConnell's delightful through pass to prod home.
Dougie Gair made the game safe late on with a neat dispatch from 20 yards.
Annan saw off visitors Cowdenbeath to move above Berwick into fifth spot.
Darren Ramsay scored the first then turned provider on the hour, crossing for Steven Swinglehurst to double the Galabank side's advantage.
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Both goals came late on to condemn the visitors to a fourth league defeat of the season.
Saraiva struck from 25 yards out to open the scoring.
Kandi came off the bench to profit from a rebound of Gozie Ugwu's shot and seal the win.
Match ends, Woking 2, Wrexham 0.
Second Half ends, Woking 2, Wrexham 0.
Goal! Woking 2, Wrexham 0. Luke Chike Kandi (Woking).
Substitution, Wrexham. Bradley Reid replaces John Rooney.
Substitution, Wrexham. Rob Evans replaces Tyler Harvey.
Goal! Woking 1, Wrexham 0. Fabio Saraiva (Woking).
Substitution, Woking. Luke Chike Kandi replaces Delano Sam-Yorke.
Joey Jones (Woking) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Substitution, Wrexham. Gerry McDonagh replaces Shaun Harrad.
Keiran Murtagh (Woking) is shown the yellow card.
Tyler Harvey (Wrexham) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Dennon Lewis (Woking) is shown the yellow card.
Second Half begins Woking 0, Wrexham 0.
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Figures from the Department for Communities and Local Government show more than half of councils in England recorded a rise in rough sleeping compared with the year before.
The homelessness charity Crisis said it was rising at an "appalling rate".
The government said it was determined to help the most vulnerable and was investing £550m to tackle the problem.
Jon Sparkes, the chief executive of Crisis, said: "Behind these statistics are thousands of desperate people, sleeping in doorways, bin shelters, stations and parks - anywhere they can find to stay safe and escape the elements.
"Rough sleeping ruins lives, leaving people vulnerable to violence and abuse, and taking a dreadful toll on their mental and physical health. Our recent research has shown how rough sleepers are 17 times more likely to be victims of violence. This is no way for anyone to live."
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Official figures show rough sleeping has more than doubled since 2010, when 1,768 people were recorded.
Outside London, the number of people on the streets rose 20% since 2015, whereas in the capital it was 3%.
There were 174 councils out of 326 who recorded rises.
And for the first time they include details of gender, age and nationality of those seen on the streets.
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288 under 25
714 from other EU countries
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Separate statistics showed more than 114,000 households in England turned to councils for help in 2015-16 because they were losing their home.
Research by St Mungo's, the homelessness charity, found four in 10 rough sleepers had mental health problems, 41% needed help with alcohol dependency and 31% with drug abuse.
Its chief executive, Howard Sinclair, said cuts in welfare and services covering mental health, drug and alcohol abuse had contributed to the rise.
He said: "There is no single reason. People who end up on the streets are not just homeless and getting somewhere to stay is not the only problem.
"We have seen cuts to services as part of the austerity agenda but also a lack of affordable housing, particularly in the south."
Labour's shadow housing secretary John Healey said: "It is a national scandal that in England in the 21st century the number of people forced to sleep rough on our streets is spiralling upwards - and this is only the tip of the iceberg."
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has committed to invest £50m to help homeless people.
James Murray, deputy mayor for housing and residential development, said: "The figures we use in London show that rough sleeping continues to rise in the capital, which is shameful in one of the richest cities in the world. Sadiq has been clear that it will take a long time to turn things around."
The housing charity Shelter blamed "the lack of affordable homes coupled with cuts to welfare" for the "tragic" situation.
Crisis said there was "no time to waste".
Mr Sparkes added: "We need the government to take action on this issue, and we stand ready to work with officials to plan and deliver an ambitious new approach.
"The government has already shown leadership on plans to expand homelessness prevention, and in light of today's figures, we hope they will now extend this approach to helping those on the street."
A spokesman for the Department for Communities and Local Government said: "This government is determined to help the most vulnerable in society, which is why we're investing £550m to 2020 to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping.
"Homelessness is more than just a housing issue so we are now funding projects in 225 local authorities to help those people at risk of becoming homeless, already sleeping rough or those with complex needs, to get back on their feet."
He said the government was also supporting the Homelessness Reduction Bill, proposed by Conservative MP Bob Blackman, to give people help earlier to avoid becoming homeless in the first place.
The Local Government Association, which represents councils, called for the government to give them powers and funding to build affordable homes.
Councillor Martin Tett, its housing spokesman said: "This is vital to end homelessness."
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The "distressed" sheep was spotted "stuck fast" in the middle of a field near Ware in Hertfordshire on Thursday.
"She wasn't the smartest in the flock," RSPCA rescuer Kate Wright said.
"There's no fence most of the way along the field, yet she managed to find a tiny bit to get trapped in. She only had to walk around it." The freed ewe was unharmed and returned to the flock.
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Ms Wright said the ewe could have been badly cut had she not been spotted by passing walkers.
"She had her head through one of the square meshes of this 'stock fence' and became stuck fast.
"When I arrived she was bleating in distress and really panicking. There were sharp wires in the fence and I have no doubt she would have hurt herself had she been left in that panicked state for much longer," she said.
Once cut free, the ewe "went charging straight off to rejoin her flock - danger averted," Ms Wright added.
Now, 100 years later, the London Transport Museum has sent one of the original battle buses - No. B2737 - across the channel to commemorate the centenary of the Battle of the Somme.
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Packed with men, the cheery red paint replaced by utilitarian khaki, and with the windows boarded over, the vehicles bore little resemblance to the omnibuses familiar to London.
When, in 1916, enlisted men boarded, it's unlikely they realised the ride would culminate in 141 days of horror, in which more than one million people would be killed.
The Battle of the Somme was one of the bloodiest. For five months the British, French and Commonwealth troops fought the German army on a 15-mile front in northern France.
Once in France, although the majority of buses were used to transport soldiers, others were adapted for a wide variety of purposes, including pigeon lofts, engineering workshops and even touring cinemas.
Pte George Gwynn was a driver sent to Ypres in Belgium with his bus. He gave a recorded interview, which can still be heard, to the Imperial War Museum in 1985, when he was 95, describing how the vehicle was his only shelter.
"I slept at the roadside on those buses, with no cover. We ate on board.
"Each night in the winter we had to get out of our beds and start the engine every two hours. We had to be ready at any time to rush out and pick troops up from their billets.
"We came under fire every night and think 'game over'. The driver of the bus in front of mine was killed. Every night we had something like that."
Pte Gwynne, whose job also entailed taking injured men to field hospitals, recalled driving past "fields full of men, they'd been gassed. All the men just lying on their backs".
According to the London Transport Museum, this year's tour paid tribute to the transport workers who served during the war.
The bus - one of only two working 1914 B-types buses in the world - operated between Barnes and Liverpool Street and was transformed by the museum into a military troop carrier exactly like the ones that went to war.
It travelled along key locations from the battle, from Gommecourt in the north to Maricourt in the south.
Sam Mullins, director of the museum, said more than 1,000 London buses were requisitioned for war service - about one third of the London fleet - in many cases with their civilian drivers and mechanics.
Most vehicles went to France and Belgium, though some travelled as far as Greece.
The progress of the bus at the Somme, with information and photos, can be followed on Twitter.
The scheme was launched in 1981, during the military government of General Augusto Pinochet.
Protesters say some 10 million people who joined have now been left with very low retirement incomes - less than minimum wage in many cases.
They are calling for President Michelle Bachelet to scrap the scheme.
The Chilean pension fund system has been praised by pro-market politicians and economists across the world.
But critics say it pays many contributors less than the minimum wage, far less than the 70% of final salary originally intended.
President Bachelet, who is left wing, announced a number of reforms earlier this month to try to boost the income of pensioners.
She proposed an increase in employer's contributions and a reduction in commissions paid to the fund managers.
But protesters want the Pension Fund Administrators (or AFP) scheme to be scrapped altogether.
Leaders of the No More AFP movement have called a nationwide strike on 4 November.
Mae hi ei hun wedi dysgu llawer, meddai, o wylio'r rhaglen fydd ar BBC One Wales nos Fawrth, 4 Ebrill, Richard and Jaco: Life With Autism.
Mae'r rhaglen yn canolbwyntio ar brofiadau Richard Mylan, tad Jaco, sydd hefyd yn actor, a'i obeithion a'i bryderon am ddyfodol ei fab wrth iddo symud o'r ysgol gynradd i'r ysgol uwchradd.
Mae Catrin a Richard wedi gwahanu a Jaco'n rhannu ei amser rhyngddyn nhw gan fyw wythnos ar y tro gyda'r ddau.
Mae Catrin, sy'n adnabyddus am chwarae rhan Cadno ar Pobol y Cwm, yn ymddangos yn y rhaglen hefyd ac yn cyfaddef ei bod wedi trïo peidio â meddwl am ddyfodol ei mab 11 oed hyd yma.
"Fel dwi'n deud yn y rhaglen dwi bron yn trïo peidio meddwl am y peth, ond fydd rhaid imi ddechrau meddwl am y dyfodol - dwi jyst yn gobeithio y bydd o'n gallu byw ar ben ei hun," meddai Catrin sydd hefyd yn fam i ferch fach dair oed.
Mae Jaco wedi setlo yn dda yn yr ysgol uwchradd erbyn hyn, ond mae'r cyfnod yn y rhaglen yn garreg filltir iddo fo a'i rieni wrth iddyn nhw ddechrau wynebu sut fywyd fydd ganddo fel oedolyn.
Er bod Jaco wedi dechrau siarad ar adeg normal, fe ddechreuodd ei iaith slofi ar ôl tua 18 mis meddai Catrin ac roedd hi'n gwybod bod 'na rywbeth o'i le.
"Dwi'n cofio gofyn i'r ymwelydd iechyd, a dweud mod i'n poeni bod 'na rywbeth ddim yn iawn a 'nath hi ddweud 'Na, na, mae'n hollol iawn, mae o'n hitio'r milestones mae o fod i hitio efo geiria a phetha felna'.
"Roedd hi'n dweud wrtha' i am beidio poeni.
"Nes i ofyn iddi tua tair neu bedair gwaith a hithau'n dweud wrtha i am beidio poeni. Ond yn y diwedd, fe wnaeth hi fy referrio i weld paediatrician wedyn a nath o gynyddu o fanna, ac mi gafodd wahanol brofion.
"Ond ro'n i'n gwybod beth bynnag - mae ei gefnder bach o yn awtistig hefyd ac roedd o wedi cael diagnosis cyn Jaco.
"Oni'n gwybod be' oedd o mewn gwirionedd ond ro'n i eisiau diagnosis yn bennaf er mwyn iddo fo gael statement i gael help yn yr ysgol - hwnna oedd y peth pwysicaf."
Mae cael y datganiad yma'n golygu fod Jaco yn cael help unigol gan athro neu athrawes yn y dosbarth.
Y diagnosis gafodd Jaco i ddechrau oedd PDD (Pervasive Development Disorder). Erbyn hyn, dydi'r categori hwnnw ddim yn cael ei ddefnyddio ac mae'r diagnosis yn dod dan ambarél cyffredinol Anhwylder Sbectrwm Awstistig (Autistic Spectrum Disorder).
"Cyn i fi gael plentyn awtistig," meddai Catrin, "o'n i 'di gwylio rhaglenni am blant efo'r cyflwr ac oni'n meddwl eu bod nhw jyst wedi eu cau yn eu byd bach eu hunain ac yn y blaen. Ond dydi Jaco ddim fel'na.
"O'n i hefyd yn meddwl nad oedden nhw'n gallu dangos empathi - ond mae o yn gallu. Os ydi rhywun yn mynd yn ypset, mae o'n poeni am bobl ac yn mynd yn ypset drostyn nhw."
Un o brif nodweddion ei gyflwr ydy ei fod yn hoffi trefn a phatrwm, ac rydyn ni'n gweld yn y rhaglen ei fod yn hoffi ymweld â Marchnad Caerdydd i weld y stondinau'n cau ac yn arbennig i glywed y gloch yn cael ei chanu ar derfyn dydd.
"Mae o'n licio trefn i bob dydd. Mae 'na rwtîn mynd i'r gwely: dwi'n gorfod mynd a fo fyny, mae o'n gofyn be' sy'n digwydd fory a dwi'n rhestru be fyddwn ni'n ei wneud.
"Os oes rhywbeth yn digwydd sy'n wahanol i be dwi wedi ei ddweud, mae'n mynd yn flin. Os dwi wedi dweud ein bod ni'n mynd i parc a'i bod hi'n bwrw, a dydan ni ddim yn gallu mynd, mae hynny'n chwalu ei frên o."
Yn y rhaglen rydyn ni'n gweld Jaco yn ffilmio popeth ar ei ffôn ac yn gwisgo clustffonau am ei glustiau - mae'n clywed sŵn yn uwch na'r rhan fwyaf o bobl ac mae'n gallu brifo ei glustiau.
Pan roedd o'n fach roedd hyn yn golygu na châi Catrin chwerthin am fod y sŵn yn ei ddychryn, na gweiddi mewn gemau pêl-droed neu rygbi.
Mae hefyd yn ei chael yn anodd delio efo pethau fel pryfaid neu bili pala - unrhyw beth sydd y tu hwnt i'w reolaeth.
"Ond heblaw am hynna, 'sgynno fo ddim problem ymddygiad - mae o'n hogyn bach da, ufudd. Dim ond os nad ydi petha'n mynd ei ffordd o mae o'n gallu cael meltdowns," meddai Catrin.
Mae Jaco yn mynd i uned arbennig mewn ysgol arferol ar hyn o bryd ond yn y rhaglen mae Richard yn mynd i weld ysgol arbennig hefyd ac yn siarad gyda dyn ifanc ag awtistiaeth sydd mewn swydd weinyddol ac un sy'n siaradwr cyhoeddus.
Roedd hyn yn agoriad llygiad i Catrin ac mae'n gobeithio y bydd yn gwneud yr un fath i wylwyr y rhaglen.
"Gobeithio bydd y rhaglen yn codi ymwybyddiaeth o be sydd 'na ar eu cyfer nhw - tra maen nhw yn yr ysgol a tu allan i'r ysgol hefyd.
"Mae hyd yn oed wedi gwneud hynny i fi wrth wylio'r rhaglen, dwi wedi dysgu am yr ysgol arbennig ac yn y blaen.
"Mae o wedi gwneud ifi feddwl, felly gobeithio g'neith o wneud yr un peth i bobl eraill."
It was closed from junction 24 Coldra to 28 at Tredegar Park from 21:00 GMT on Friday to 03:40 on Saturday.
Officials said it led to very slow traffic as motorists were forced to come off the motorway.
A diversion using the A48 through Newport was put in place as emergency repairs were carried out.
Northern Ireland has been given the power to set its own rate and is set to cut the tax businesses pay on their profits to 12.5% by 2018.
However, last week the chancellor said the GB rate will fall to 17% by 2020.
Caroline Keenan of ASM accountants told the BBC's Inside Business programme it "dilutes" Northern Ireland's advantage.
Q&A: Corporation tax in Northern Ireland
She said the cut in the GB rate - announced by Chancellor George Osborne as part of last week's budget - had come as a surprise.
"I don't think it's a good move, from the point of view that it dilutes the potential that we have," Ms Keenan said.
"We're going to be competing with England, Scotland and Wales and, that differential, I don't think it's even going to cut it."
She said Northern Ireland needed "a cocktail of measures" in order to attract foreign direct investment (FDI), on top of having the lowest corporation tax rate in the UK.
"I've worked with many FDI companies over the last number of years and it's the whole range of the skills, the infrastructure, it's property."
Caroline Keenan's interview will be broadcast as part of Inside Business at 13:30 GMT on Sunday 20 March.
Abubakar Shekau leads the militant group, while Abubakar Adam Kambar and Khalid el Barnawi are thought to have ties with a branch of al-Qaeda.
The move means any assets belonging to the men in the US will be frozen, and contact with US citizens banned.
Boko Haram has said it carried out a number of attacks against churches and other establishments since 2009.
More than 640 people have died in the country so far in 2012 in attacks blamed on the group.
The BBC's Kim Ghattas, in Washington, said the move was likely to have little effect on the three men.
She said it was more of an attempt to help stop sectarian violence in the country.
Boko Haram carried out a series of attacks against churches on Sunday, sparking a wave of sectarian reprisals.
Gun battles also broke out in Damaturu after attacks by the group against security forces.
Boko Haram, whose name means "Western education is a sacrilege" in the Hausa language, is based in the dominantly Muslim north of Nigeria.
The south of the oil rich country is mostly Christian.
It is thought some members of Boko Harem have connections with al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, a group already designated as a terrorist organisation by the US.
A total of 36,997 homeowners had their mortgages approved, the British Bankers' Association (BBA) said.
That is the lowest figure since January 2015, and a 21% drop on August 2015.
The number of people borrowing to buy a house or flat has been falling since April, when there was a rush to buy property ahead of stamp duty changes.
"Mortgage borrowing is growing at a slower pace than it has for the last few months reflecting both the slowdown in housing market growth after the April spike and broader trends in the sector," said Rebecca Harding, chief economist at the BBA.
The figures do not include lending by UK building societies, which account for about a third of mortgage borrowing.
However, UK consumers are continuing to borrow more through loans and overdrafts.
The total amount of consumer credit grew by 6.4% in the year to August, the fastest rate of growth for nearly 10 years.
"Given the low interest rate environment and high levels of confidence during the summer, the strong credit growth can be interpreted as strong consumer sentiment," said Ms Harding.
Economists said consumer confidence had recovered since the vote to leave the European Union.
"Consumers were clearly prepared to continue borrowing and spending in August, and it is notable that confidence recovered to a significant extent after slumping in July in the immediate aftermath of the Brexit vote," said Howard Archer, chief European and UK economist at IHS Global Insight.
However, he predicted that such confidence could run out of steam in the months ahead.
"Consumers are likely to face diminishing purchasing power over the coming months as inflation rises and earnings growth is limited by companies striving to limit their costs."
He said unemployment was likely to rise, and predicted that inflation could hit 3% by the end of next year.
Wales' Hazardous Area Response Team (Hart) needs to get the casualty to hospital within the "golden hour", giving him the best chance of surviving his injuries.
Fortunately, "Neil" is a mannequin and the "collapsed building" is a pile of rubble at the team's Bridgend headquarters.
On a damp and grey Monday morning at the Brynmenyn industrial estate, white watch, one of Hart's seven teams has begun a week-long training programme. The elite team train for one week in every seven.
All experienced ambulance staff, they are specially trained to attend hostile or hard-to-access incidents and provide medical treatment to casualties from the moment they arrive, giving patients a greater chance of survival.
Before the service was created in 2012, paramedics had to wait for firefighters to bring victims out to safety before providing medical treatment.
Responding to chemical, biological, radioactive, nuclear, firearm and terrorist incidents is also part of the team's brief.
Difficult terrain, sleep deprivation, exhaustion from wearing heavy suits and dehydration caused by some of the breathing kit can make already challenging environments even more difficult.
Hart's white watch has been working together since the service was created three years ago and there is a strong sense of camaraderie amongst the team, with lots of jokes at each other's expense doing the rounds.
Together, they have attended some of Wales' most high profile incidents.
Neil McKay
Rebecca Owen
Martyn Sullivan
David Wookey
Gavin Quinn
In 2012 Hart took part in the search for five-year-old April Jones from Machynlleth.
Clinical team leader Gavin Quinn, 46, said the search in Powys was particularly "physically and mentally demanding" for the team.
Paramedic operative Neil McKay, 40, agreed: "It was quite harrowing, quite surreal really.
"After seeing it for so long on the TV, to actually go to Machynlleth and assist with the search was hard.
"There was a lot of trekking through mountains and the terrain was quite difficult and involved water and cave searches.
"Her mum was there helping to make food for everybody."
April's body was never found, but bone fragments discovered at a cottage near Machynlleth helped convict 46-year-old Mark Bridger of murder.
In 2013 Hart rescued casualties from floods in Rhyl, Denbighshire, and attended Rhws Primary School, Vale of Glamorgan, after an out-of-control car injured a school lollipop lady and five children.
More recently, in June the team was called to a rock fall in Llantwit Major, Vale of Glamorgan which killed a 23-year-old woman and in July they went to the Brecon Beacons after lightning strikes left two men dead.
Day-to-day they witness catastrophic accidents and family tragedies, from a man who has jumped in front of a train, a teenager killed in a car crash to a father killed in an industrial accident.
Between April 2014 and the end of March 2015, Hart attended 2,226 calls, ranging from multiple vehicle collisions to natural disasters.
Despite the distressing incidents they regularly encounter, the team said they had never taken up the offer of counselling.
"Sometimes the situations we encounter can be quite traumatising", Mr McKay said.
"You try not to take that home with you. Instead we all talk about it in the station and have a good chat."
Deputy team leader Martyn Sullivan, the oldest member of Hart at 56, said the call-outs involving children could be the toughest.
"I was called out years ago to a woman with two kids. One of them had stopped breathing," he said.
"I worked on the child for a long time but it was too late. That was hard. I hadn't long had my own kid."
He has come up with a unique way of dealing with children who find themselves in a stressful environment; he always carries a puppet called Sweep, from The Sooty Show, which he said can help him get on a level with a child and provide a welcome distraction.
Every six months the team's stamina and fitness is tested.
Each team member has 14 minutes to complete a series of tasks while wearing full incident ground kit.
It involves a step-up test, a distance walk while wearing a 25kg (55lb) vest, a weighted mannequin drag and a dexterity test.
But what of Neil, the man trapped in the collapsed building?
Mr Sullivan explains: "We located the casualty who had a fractured leg and arm.
"We maintained the airways and the patient was packaged. From the time the team went in it took 16 minutes to get the patient out.
"This wouldn't have been possible years ago. Before we would have had to rely on the fire brigade, which did a good job, but now we can take all our equipment and start medical treatment from the moment we arrive, giving the patient a greater opportunity of survival.
"Sixteen minutes to go in, package a patient and get them in an ambulance, you can't ask for better than that."
The bridge will connect the Princes Quay shopping centre with the Marina. Work is expected to start next year.
A lane in both directions will be closed until 9 December.
Highways England said it would allow contractors to safely investigate "around the location of the new bridge".
Lanes will be closed between the exit and entry slip roads at Mytongate Gyratory, at the Ferensway junction, to allow contractors to dig bore holes in the centre of the roundabout, a spokesperson said.
The ground investigation work is due to finish by the end of January while the bridge is expected to be completed by Easter the following year in time for the port's 2017 City of Culture celebrations.
Project manager Jimmy Holmes said: "We will work hard to keep disruption to a minimum and thank drivers and residents for their patience while we carry out this work."
Michael McCabe, 37, of no fixed address, pleaded guilty to racially aggravated criminal damage and two other counts of criminal damage.
Mobile phone footage shared on social media showed him damaging cars near St Margaret's Way in Leicester, during the afternoon rush hour on 4 August.
McCabe was also convicted of two assaults at Glenfield Hospital.
Leicester Magistrates' Court heard that McCabe started shouting racial abuse at a couple in one of the vehicles and as the driver tried to drive away slowly, he punched the windscreen and damaged the wipers.
The couple said the language he used "scared" them.
McCabe jumped on to two other cars, hitting their windscreens, before police arrived.
The court heard he kicked out at officers and there was a scuffle on the floor before he was taken into custody.
Magistrate Paul Forrester-Brown was told McCabe quickly admitted causing criminal damage and said he could not remember much of what happened as he had drunk one and a half litres of vodka and beer.
The nine week sentence was given for what were described by Mr Forrester-Brown as "unprovoked assaults".
McCabe, who appeared via video link from Lincoln Prison, was also found guilty of punching a patient and a nurse at the Bradgate Mental Health Unit at Glenfield Hospital on 13 August.
The 22-year-old will see out the remainder of his contract with Connacht who are in contention for Pro12 and European Challenge Cup honours.
He looks set to fill the void left by the impending departures of Ian Madigan and Ben Te'o.
Henshaw, a regular in Joe Schmidt's Ireland squad, has won 17 caps.
The Athlone man has formed an effective centre partnership with Jared Payne for Ireland, the pair teaming up in midfield for the eighth time in Saturday's 10-9 defeat by France in Paris.
"I would like to thank Connacht Rugby, the IRFU and Leinster for allowing me to consider my future," said Henshaw.
"This has been a long and difficult process and while I am sorry to be leaving Connacht I look forward to the next chapter of my rugby career at Leinster.
"The support I have enjoyed from the fans in the Sportsground and throughout the province is something that I really value and I want to thank them for four great years."
Leinster head coach Leo Cullen commented: "We are delighted to have secured Robbie's signature for the next three seasons. He is a huge talent and we have all seen that over the last few weeks and months with Ireland in the Six Nations and during the World Cup.
"We look forward to welcoming him into Leinster when this season is over and I am sure that our supporters would echo that view."
The incident involving a silver Mazda and black Kia happened close to Beran garage in Deiniolen, near Caernarfon, at about 08:30 GMT.
North Wales Police has advised motorists to avoid the area as the road has been closed.
Witnesses have been asked to contact police on 101.
But Taylor Swift has hit back at claims she only writes songs about her ex-boyfriends.
"No-one says that about Ed Sheeran. No-one says that about Bruno Mars," she said in an interview with Australian radio station 2DayFM.
"Frankly, that is a very sexist angle to take."
The 24-year-old added: "I have a really strict personal policy that I never name names. So anybody saying that a song is about a specific person is purely speculating."
But despite never naming names, many people think much of Swift's back catalogue is linked to past relationships.
"My first album came out when I was 16," she said.
"Then what happens is, as you get more successful, you have more and more people paying attention to what you're doing. All of a sudden the perspective has changed.
"They use you writing songs about your life as a way to play detective.
"You're going to have people who are going to say, 'Oh, she just writes songs about her exes'.
"No-one says that about Ed Sheeran. No-one says that about Bruno Mars. They're all writing songs about their exes, their current girlfriends, their love life and no-one raises a red flag there."
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Mark Sampson's side will host Italy at Port Vale's Vale Park on Friday, 7 April, three days before meeting Austria at MK Dons' Stadium MK.
Their opening match of Euro 2017 is against Scotland in Utrecht on Wednesday, 19 July.
England are in the United States for the SheBelieves Cup.
There they will face the three top-ranked teams in the world - the USA, Germany and France.
They face France in their opening match, in Pennsylvania on 1 March
They will then face the hosts and world champions in New Jersey on 4 March, and European and Olympic champions Germany in Washington on 7 March.
It includes a 12,500-seat concert hall, conference centre and hotel and will sit between the existing Baltic arts centre and Sage music venue.
Gateshead Council will invest £25m in the project with the rest of the money coming from the private sector, including venue operator SMG.
The scheme will mean the closure of SMG's 11,500-seat arena in Newcastle.
Detailed plans have yet to be drawn up, but it is hoped the new complex will open in 2021.
The council said it expected the 10-acre (four hectare) scheme would create more than 500 jobs and provide a boost to the North East economy of about £30m a year.
Martin Gannon, leader of the Labour-controlled authority, said: "We've wanted to regenerate and revitalise this key site on Gateshead Quays for a long time and internationally recognisable facilities of this scale have always been our long-term aspiration.
"Not only will they bring new life to the area, but they will bring new jobs and significantly boost the local and regional economy.
"We're now more confident than ever that we can finally push forward with our exciting plans for this £200m site.
"Working closely with our development partners, SMG Europe, local partners and the private sector, it really is time to give the North East another landmark destination and complete the picture of this truly unique, riverside site."
Part of the plan is to close the nearby Metro Radio Arena in Newcastle - conceived by former Animals member Chas Chandler which opened in 1995.
Executive vice president of SMG Europe John Sharkey said: "The Gateshead Quays development site is truly a unique location which will offer visitors a whole new experience.
"Our new entertainment, conferencing and exhibition facilities, standing shoulder to shoulder with Sage Gateshead and Baltic will, we firmly believe, further cement Gateshead Quays as a popular and stunning world-class cultural destination."
Newcastle City Council said it would now be considering what to do with the current arena site.
The bird, named Bud, was found with a damaged wing on Mull last August and rescued by the Scottish SPCA.
The charity worked with Raptor World and the RSPB to help it overcome the injury and a subsequent leg break.
Bud was freed on 13 March - the first time the Scottish SPCA has returned an injured golden eagle to the wild.
Colin Seddon, manager at the charity's National Wildlife Rescue Centre in Clackmannanshire, said the juvenile golden eagle had been found by a farmer on Mull.
"Bud was found to have soft tissue damage to his wing which took a long time to heal and unfortunately once he had fully recovered he broke his right leg in a freak accident," he said.
"The break was repaired by a vet using an external fixator and as the healing process was very long Bud was kept with us over winter.
"We had to carefully choose the best time and place to release Bud and following discussions with David Sexton of the RSPB and Stewart Millar from Raptor World, we decided to take him back to a location close to where he was found."
Mr Seddon said they had to wait for a "reasonable weather window" to release Bud.
"We didn't want to release him in a period of heavy rain as he may not have been able to hunt," he said.
"We also had to avoid strong winds because, as an inexperienced flyer, Bud would have been blown away from the release site where support food and monitoring is being provided by the RSPB."
Mr Seddon added: "Bud is the first ever golden eagle we've been able to release back into the wild and everyone involved is extremely pleased with the outcome.
"It is rare for us to rescue golden eagles as there are so few of them in Scotland and because they tend to live in remote areas they often die before they are found if they become sick or injured."
He was struck by an upright section of the post, which narrowly missed a group of people when it came "crashing down" at Shrewsbury Rugby Club.
The 46-year-old had been watching his son play for the under-12s visiting side, Oswestry.
The club, which has suspended all matches, said he was now "conscious and speaking" and under observation.
Meanwhile, Shropshire Council said its public protection team was investigating the incident.
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The Rugby Football Union has been informed and the club said all games would be postponed until safety checks were carried out.
Nigel Dolman, a BBC reporter who was at the ground, spoke to spectators who had seen the accident.
"Part of the upright post came crashing down, narrowly missing a group of spectators, and hit the man on the head," he said.
He said there had been a "light wind" but the incident was not thought to be weather-related.
The reporter, who helped carry the ambulance trolley across the muddy field, said about 15 to 20 people had been watching the match.
An off-duty hospital trauma specialist, who had been watching a different game, treated the man until paramedics arrived.
An ambulance crew were at the scene just after 11:50 GMT and took the victim to Royal Shrewsbury Hospital.
Club chairman Giles Alton, who has been speaking to the man's wife at the hospital, wished him a speedy recovery. He said the exact nature of his injuries was not yet known.
The Centre for Computing History in Cambridge raised £100,000 since 10 March, and this will be matched by software company Red Gate.
It will pay for refurbishments and a new exhibition charting "the global impact of the computing revolution".
Museum director Jason Fitzpatrick said: "We are deeply grateful."
The museum opened in 2013, having moved from its old home in Haverhill, Suffolk, and features about 800 computers as well as old mobile phones and games consoles.
Mr Fitzpatrick said: "In its present condition, this building fails to do justice to the richness and variety of the collection.
"Although visitors can see, touch and use many of the superstar machines of the 70s, 80s and 90s, we lacked sufficient funds to show how each of these computers represents a step towards the small, powerful, multi-purpose devices most of us use today."
He said the new Tech Odyssey exhibition would help "tell the inspirational and epic story of the computing revolution to anyone - young and old, techie and no-geek alike".
The tourism body said there were 214,000 visits from China in January-September last year, up 37% from 157,000 in the same period of 2014.
Visitors spent £435m, an average of £2,032 per visit, up 4% on the year before, the organisation said.
The culture secretary said it was "great news" for the UK economy.
"We are making it even easier for Chinese tourists to come and enjoy the best of Britain and our recently launched two-year visa scheme will encourage even more to visit," John Whittingdale said.
The new two-year visa system for Chinese nationals visiting the UK was launched last month.
VisitBritain director Patricia Yates said: "China is the world's largest outbound market and a huge tourism opportunity for Britain."
She said Chinese New Year, on 8 February, was traditionally one of the busiest travel times for Chinese tourists.
"We want Britain to be at the top of their list as a must-go now destination," she said.
VisitBritain's latest figures from the International Passenger Survey also showed 2.6 million visits were made from the US during the first nine months of 2015 - up 7% on the year to levels not seen since 2007.
From January to September, there were also 2.6 million visits made from Germany, 3.2 million from France, 569,000 from Canada, 273,000 from the United Arab Emirates and 116,000 from Saudi Arabia.
Shelvey, 24, was charged over an incident involving Wolves' Moroccan midfielder Romain Saiss in September.
"I strongly maintain that I did not use the offensive language that has been alleged," said Shelvey.
The Englishman was also fined £100,000 and ordered to attend a Football Association education course.
Shelvey added: "I am very disappointed and frustrated with the outcome of the hearing.
"Despite my strong disappointment, we think an appeal is very unlikely to change the panel's decision on the case, so I have decided not to take that option."
Newcastle manager Rafael Benitez said: "Jonjo has maintained his position from the outset and as such has received our full support. Despite this issue going on in the background he has continued to train and play really well.
"Now he has made the decision not to appeal the verdict we can focus on the upcoming games without uncertainty and distraction."
It is understood the FA - which also had a right of appeal against the independent panel's sanction if it felt it was inappropriate - will not be contesting the ban either.
Newcastle were losing to Wolves in their Championship match at St James' Park on 17 September, when an incident occurred between Shelvey and Saiss in the 87th minute.
In charging the former Liverpool and Swansea player, the FA said his misdemeanour was an "aggravated breach" of rules, and that it "included reference to ethnic origin and/or race and/or nationality".
BBC Sport's Pat Murphy said the matter was brought to referee Tim Robinson's attention by one of Saiss' team-mates immediately after the game.
FA guidelines, which were revised in 2013, state any player found guilty of racially abusing an opponent or discriminating on religion, sexuality or disability, should be banned for at least five games.
Prior to that, Chelsea's John Terry was handed a four-match ban and a £220,000 fine for racially abusing QPR defender Anton Ferdinand, while Liverpool's Luis Suarez received an eight-match suspension and a £40,000 fine for his abuse of Manchester United's Patrice Evra - both in 2011.
Jackson Irvine's first half strike gave the hosts the advantage despite Cardiff creating several first half chances.
Lucas Akins headed home just after the break as Burton secured a third victory of the season.
Cardiff remain in the Championship relegation zone in 23rd position while Burton are up to 18th.
The victory saw the Brewers keep their first clean sheet in eleven league games, while the Bluebirds have now lost six of their last seven Championship contests.
Cardiff boosted by the return of England striker Rickie Lambert, started the busier of the two sides and almost opened the scoring on six minutes when Lambert freed Stuart O'Keefe, but he was denied by a terrific stop from Jon Loughlin, low to his left.
REACTION: Burton Albion first-team coach Andy Garner speaks to BBC Radio Derby
That was as close as Cardiff came before they fell behind, a failure to clear a set piece proving costly when Irvine fired home through a crowd.
Trollope's side thought they had won a penalty on 32 minutes when ex-Cardiff defender Ben Turner challenged Craig Noone, but the referee waved away the protests.
And any hopes Cardiff had of a second half revival were distinguished four minutes after the break when Akins was given too much space in the City penalty area and was able to head past Ben Amos.
McLaughlin's fine stop to deny Peter Whittingham was the closest Cardiff came in a second period where the Brewers looked comfortable in defence.
Burton Albion first-team coach Andy Garner:
"It was incredibly important for us to get the win heading into the international break.
"We looked at these games against QPR and Cardiff over this week and I think we would have settled for four points out of six coming off the back of two defeats.
"There is still a lot more to come from this group. We got stuck in the middle a bit in the last 10 minutes between going for a third goal or making sure we got the clean sheet.
"Today is a fantastic clean sheet for us. The back three and the keeper all did their jobs very well."
Cardiff head coach Paul Trollope:
"We came off the back of a disappointing game against Derby but a good away win at Rotherham last week.
"We were trying to build upon that on the road but we shot ourselves in the foot conceding, from our point of view, a soft goal in the early period of the game.
"That was backed up by a disappointing goal from a set play early in the second period that killed any real hopes of getting back into the game despite there still being a long time left."
Match ends, Burton Albion 2, Cardiff City 0.
Second Half ends, Burton Albion 2, Cardiff City 0.
Ben Amos (Cardiff City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Tom Flanagan (Burton Albion).
Attempt blocked. Tom Flanagan (Burton Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Will Miller.
Offside, Cardiff City. Lee Peltier tries a through ball, but Kenneth Zohore is caught offside.
Foul by Kenneth Zohore (Cardiff City).
Matthew Palmer (Burton Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Kenneth Zohore (Cardiff City) header from the right side of the six yard box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Peter Whittingham with a cross following a corner.
Substitution, Burton Albion. John Mousinho replaces Hamza Choudhury.
Corner, Cardiff City. Conceded by Matthew Palmer.
Attempt saved. Craig Noone (Cardiff City) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Stuart O'Keefe.
Jackson Irvine (Burton Albion) is shown the yellow card.
Attempt saved. Peter Whittingham (Cardiff City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Kenneth Zohore.
Offside, Cardiff City. Kenneth Zohore tries a through ball, but Craig Noone is caught offside.
Substitution, Cardiff City. Kenneth Zohore replaces Rickie Lambert because of an injury.
Substitution, Burton Albion. Tom Flanagan replaces Chris O'Grady.
Attempt blocked. Rickie Lambert (Cardiff City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Chris O'Grady (Burton Albion) left footed shot from the left side of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Will Miller with a through ball.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Craig Noone (Cardiff City) because of an injury.
Attempt blocked. Sean Morrison (Cardiff City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Frederic Gounongbe.
Corner, Cardiff City. Conceded by Tom Naylor.
Substitution, Burton Albion. Will Miller replaces Jamie Ward.
Attempt saved. Rickie Lambert (Cardiff City) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Frederic Gounongbe (Cardiff City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Kyle McFadzean (Burton Albion).
Corner, Cardiff City. Conceded by Kyle McFadzean.
Offside, Burton Albion. Chris O'Grady tries a through ball, but Jamie Ward is caught offside.
Foul by Frederic Gounongbe (Cardiff City).
Kyle McFadzean (Burton Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Cardiff City. Frederic Gounongbe replaces Lex Immers.
Substitution, Cardiff City. Kadeem Harris replaces Joe Ralls.
Corner, Cardiff City. Conceded by Ben Turner.
Attempt blocked. Jamie Ward (Burton Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Hamza Choudhury.
Rickie Lambert (Cardiff City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Ben Turner (Burton Albion).
Foul by Jamie Ward (Burton Albion).
Peter Whittingham (Cardiff City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Goal! Burton Albion 2, Cardiff City 0. Lucas Akins (Burton Albion) header from the right side of the six yard box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Kyle McFadzean with a headed pass following a set piece situation.
The Graan Abbey nursing home in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, provides care to more than 80 elderly people.
The inspection was triggered by a whistleblower who raised concerns over several issues including the respect and dignity of elderly patients.
The nursing home has now been served with an enforcement notice.
An announced inspection was carried out by the Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority (RQIA), after it was contacted by the whistleblower in April.
RQIA inspectors found a number of breaches to health and safety regulations when they visited the nursing home.
They also discovered some patients dressed in day clothes but still in bed by mid-morning, as staff did not have time to move them to the day room.
Inspectors were also concerned about some unattended medication; cold food including porridge being served; out-of date care records and insufficient staff training.
Despite the owner being advised to address these issues urgently - when inspectors returned in June, the nursing home had not complied with the recommendations.
The home has now been served with an official warning. This is the first stage in a series which could potentially lead to a home's closure.
While many homes receive warnings, this one is significant as the regulators acted swiftly after being contacted by a whistleblower.
In a statement, the owner of Carewell Homes, Tom McCaffrey, said the business had been established since 1990, and since then "had complied with all nursing home and residential home regulations".
"Just last week, Graan Abbey Nursing Home was issued a failure to comply notice," he said.
"We cannot comment further on this as we have 30 days to make representation to RQIA.
"We are continuing to provide the highest standard of care to our clients and in accordance to their assessed needs and wishes, at Graan Abbey, Millcroft and Millverne."
Aidan Hanna of Patients First, an organisation which campaigns for openness in the health service and gives support to whistleblowers, said he was positive that the RQIA had acted on the concerns raised.
"The issues that the whistleblower raised were found by the inspector when they went into the home, so the RQIA have acted swiftly," Mr Hanna said.
He added that the complaints process was becoming easier.
"Hopefully things are changing with families, patients and staff speaking out if they are unhappy with their care."
The country has been off-limits since March 2009, when Sri Lankan cricketers and officials were attacked by gunmen.
Lahore will host a one-day international on 29 April and a Twenty20 match 24 hours later.
"The public of Pakistan have been deprived of cricket and we felt that we needed to support them," said Bangladesh official Mustafa Kamal.
The Bangladesh Cricket Board president added: "The reception we received when we toured Lahore and Karachi on our security visit was overwhelming."
During the 2009 attack on the Sri Lanka team six policemen and the team coach driver were killed, while seven cricketers and an assistant coach were injured.
In December, the Pakistan Cricket Board expressed confidence that international cricket would return to the country in 2012.
All of Pakistan's 27 Tests and 67 one-day internationals since the terror attacks have been played on foreign soil.
The UAE has served as Pakistan's temporary home, and played host to England earlier this year, while Lord's and Headingley were the venues for two Tests against Australia in 2010.
The Chiefs fly-half stretched for the only try in the opening stages, before adding two penalties to give the hosts a 13-3 lead at the break.
Adam Thompstone had a try disallowed for the Tigers, who had only two Owen Williams penalties for their efforts.
The win moves Exeter to second, two points off leaders Saracens, while Leicester drop to fourth.
A superb defensive effort from Rob Baxter's side laid the foundations for victory as the Tigers struggled to break them down.
After a bright opening, Exeter turned down the opportunity of three points from a penalty and kicked to touch, and their endeavour was rewarded when Steenson touched down from close range following some excellent driving mauls.
Thompstone looked to have got Leicester back in the game with a stunning long-range effort, but James Short's leg prevented him from grounding the ball.
It took until the 63rd minute for the next points in the second half when Williams knocked over his second penalty, while Steenson added his final two penalties in the closing stages as they closed the game out to get their first league win over the Tigers in four seasons.
Exeter head coach Rob Baxter:
"For me the most pleasing thing is that we didn't buckle in the moments of pressure, that is typically where we have failed against Leicester in the past.
"We have always been able to score some points but there have been moments in the games where they have seized momentum from us and rammed it home.
"Gareth Steenson was fantastic and the scrum was too and I think the whole pack stood up really well and we dominated them in that area."
Leicester director of rugby Richard Cockerill:
"You have to give credit to Exeter as we were on the back foot for a lot of the game.
"We struggled at set piece today and we couldn't get a foothold in the game and that cost us.
"It's round four, there's a long way to go and we've got a lot to get better at."
Exeter: Dollman; Nowell, Slade, Whitten, Short; Steenson (capt), Chudley; Hepburn, Cowan-Dickie, Francis, Lees, Welch, Ewers, Salvi, Armand.
Replacements: Yeandle, Rimmer, Low, Atkins, Waldrom, Lewis, Hill, Jess.
Leicester: Veainu; Thompstone, Smith, Bai, Goneva; Williams, Ben Youngs; Balmain, Tom Youngs, Cole, Barrow, de Chaves, Croft, McCaffrey, Crane.
Replacements: Thacker, Brugnara, Pasquali, Fitzgerald, Pearce, Kitto, Betham, Tait.
Attendance: 10,102
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Soul singer Al Green, 9 to 5 star Lily Tomlin and ballet dancer Patricia McBride were also saluted at the White House ahead of a gala concert.
Sting, 63, said it was "rare" for an Englishman to receive the honour.
"I'm not sure when I'll wear it again, but I think I look rather fetching in it," he said of his rainbow ribbon.
The former Police frontman is set to join the cast of his Broadway musical The Last Ship, about shipbuilding in the north east of England.
Hanks, who won Oscars for his roles in Philadelphia and Forrest Gump, said he "couldn't believe it" when he was told he was among the honourees.
Tomlin, 75, also admitted she had been surprised by her selection, saying she had "never been privy to the insider's circle".
Sunday's White House reception saw this year's recipients presented with their ceremonial ribbons by President Obama.
The event preceded a concert at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts which saw Lady Gaga, Bruce Springsteen and Bruno Mars sing Sting's hits.
The musician told reporters it was "quite something [to] have other people sing my songs and have to do virtually nothing but smile".
Jennifer Hudson and Usher kicked off proceedings with a medley of Green's hits, before film director Steven Spielberg described Hanks as "America's favourite son".
"Tonight, Washington puts the arts above politics," said host Stephen Colbert. "Because no matter what party you belong to, everybody wants a selfie with Tom Hanks."
The John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts has been honouring stars of the stage, screen and concert hall since 1978.
This year's concert, which also featured appearances by Earth, Wind and Fire, Jane Fonda and Glee actress Jane Lynch, will be broadcast on the CBS network on 30 December.
Hanks was joined in Washington by his actress wife Rita Wilson, who is set to follow her husband onto the Broadway stage.
Following Hanks' 2013 appearance in Nora Ephron's play Lucky Guy, Wilson will appear in Larry David's new comedy Fish in the Dark from 2 February.
Brian Graham opened the scoring after just eight minutes and Chris Higgins turned a John McGinn effort into his own net just before the break.
David Gray prodded in the third goal seven minutes into the second half.
Martin Boyle, who missed several good chances in the first half, completed the scoring from 12 yards.
With nearest challengers Dundee United dropping points at Cappielow, it was a good day for Neil Lennon's men.
Queen of the South topped the table at one stage but remain sixth after their fifth successive league defeat.
Hibs started at a great tempo, with Andrew Shinnie and Boyle combining to test goalkeeper Lee Robinson in the opening minute. But the home fans didn't have to wait too long for the opener.
Darren McGregor's shot was blocked a yard off the line by Grant Anderson but Graham, making a rare start up front, was at hand to knock the ball high into the net.
Boyle's pace was causing all sorts of problems for Queens and twice when clean through on goal he was denied by Robinson.
There was a warning for the hosts when Mark Millar's strike crashed off the base of the post. However, Hibs continued to dominate and notched a second on 42 minutes.
McGinn fired in a shot from 12 yards on the angle that looked net-bound but was helped over the line by Higgins.
Boyle had a glorious chance to score number three before half time but inexplicably scooped the ball over the crossbar from six yards out with the goal gaping.
Within eight minutes of the second half Hibernian did find the net for the third time. A corner was swung low into the box from the right and captain Gray flicked the ball home with an outstretched left leg.
Lennon decided to give Jason Cummings a run from the bench with the points safe but it was the player keeping the club's top scorer out of the team who had the final say.
Boyle once again skipped between two Queens defenders on the edge of the box before smashing the ball home.
Hibernian manager Neil Lennon: "It was one of the best performances in my time as a manager. I thought we were awesome today. It could have been five at half-time. We never took our foot off the pedal. Some of our attacking play was outstanding. We looked a very very good side today. We looked strong, we looked quick, we looked hungry, everything you want as a manager.
"I think we got what we deserved. I think Martin Boyle could have had four before half-time. It was a wee test of his character. He could have sat in the dressing room at half time and felt sorry for himself but he came out and scored a great goal.
"That is the benchmark now. I asked them in the dressing room Can you live up to that? We have been playing well now for some time but nobody wants to listen. I think anyone here today could see we are a good side."
QotS caretaker boss Jimmy Thomson: "We were under no illusions coming here. Hibs are a good team but when you give them a goal after seven minutes it makes it very difficult. I think it was individual errors. When you ask people to pick people up at corners and they don't do it you have problems.
"Our league position will not be defined by playing here and not getting a win. I wouldn't be interested in the job full time. I have other things going on but taking the job would be very restricting."
Match ends, Hibernian 4, Queen of the South 0.
Second Half ends, Hibernian 4, Queen of the South 0.
Corner, Hibernian. Conceded by Jordan Marshall.
Attempt blocked. David Gray (Hibernian) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is blocked.
Corner, Hibernian. Conceded by Jordan Marshall.
Attempt blocked. Jason Cummings (Hibernian) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked.
Corner, Hibernian. Conceded by Darren Brownlie.
Attempt saved. Kyle Jacobs (Queen of the South) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Foul by Brian Graham (Hibernian).
Andy Dowie (Queen of the South) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Hibernian. Marvin Bartley replaces Martin Boyle.
Attempt missed. Jordan Marshall (Queen of the South) left footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Foul by Brian Graham (Hibernian).
Lee Robinson (Queen of the South) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Martin Boyle (Hibernian) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Dean Brotherston (Queen of the South).
Andrew Shinnie (Hibernian) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Mark Millar (Queen of the South).
Brian Graham (Hibernian) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Darren Brownlie (Queen of the South).
Substitution, Queen of the South. Steven Rigg replaces Derek Lyle.
Substitution, Hibernian. Jason Cummings replaces John McGinn.
Corner, Hibernian. Conceded by Andy Dowie.
Attempt saved. Andrew Shinnie (Hibernian) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt missed. Derek Lyle (Queen of the South) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Goal! Hibernian 4, Queen of the South 0. Martin Boyle (Hibernian) right footed shot from the right side of the box to the high centre of the goal. Assisted by David Gray.
Foul by John McGinn (Hibernian).
Jordan Marshall (Queen of the South) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt saved. Brian Graham (Hibernian) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Substitution, Hibernian. Dylan McGeouch replaces Fraser Fyvie because of an injury.
Delay in match Fraser Fyvie (Hibernian) because of an injury.
Lee Robinson (Queen of the South) is shown the yellow card.
Andy Dowie (Queen of the South) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Martin Boyle (Hibernian) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Andy Dowie (Queen of the South).
Attempt saved. Martin Boyle (Hibernian) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Andrew Shinnie (Hibernian) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Lyndon Dykes (Queen of the South).
Goal! Hibernian 3, Queen of the South 0. David Gray (Hibernian) left footed shot from the right side of the six yard box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by John McGinn with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Hibernian. Conceded by Lyndon Dykes.
The decision leaves in place a lower court ruling that allows local governments some leeway in regulating the high-powered weapons.
Two conservative justices said that they would have heard the case, and had they done so, struck down the ban.
The decision comes days after mass shootings in California and Colorado.
The city of Highland Park, a suburb of Chicago, passed a law that bans semi-automatic weapons and large-capacity magazines in 2013.
A federal appeals court upheld that law in a ruling that was challenged by an Illinois gun owners association.
The high court has considered taking on the case for two months, and a delay in deciding whether to take it on seems to be because Justice Clarence Thomas was finishing his opinion.
He and Justice Antonin Scalia said the federal appeals court's ruling "flouts two of our Second Amendment precedents".
In the opinion, Mr Thomas did not mention any mass shootings that involved semi-automatic weapons, and said the Chicago-area ban "is highly suspect because it broadly prohibits common semi-automatic firearms used for lawful purposes" by about five million US citizens.
Similar laws in Connecticut and New York were upheld by a New York federal appeals court in October.
In all, seven states plus Washington DC have passed laws that ban the weapons.
Since two landmark rulings that ensured the right to own a handgun to defend one's home, the Supreme Court has regularly turned away challenges to gun laws.
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Army veteran Ricky Best, 53, was killed when he intervened to protect two young women from anti-Muslim abuse last week.
Portland Police have released an image of a man they say carried Mr Best's backpack from the scene.
Mr Best and fellow victim Taliesin Myrddin Namkai-Meche have been widely hailed as "heroes" for their actions.
Officers said the backpack contained "personal items important to the Best family".
The department's official spokesman, Sgt Pete Simpson, tweeted: "Find this man Portland. This family has already suffered too much pain."
Sgt Simpson told Portland's KOIN-6 television: "We really kind of want to lean on the humanity if there is any there."
"Turn yourself in, bring the property back so this family can have it," he said in an appeal to the thief.
The attack happened on 28 May on Portland's Max train, when a man began shouting "hate speech" at two young women on the train, one of whom was wearing a hijab.
When passengers attempted to intervene to protect the pair, the man produced a knife and stabbed three people, killing two.
One of the two women, 16-year-old Destinee Mangum, said: "Without them, we probably would be dead right now."
Jeremy Joseph Christian, 35, has been charged with murder, attempted murder, possession of a weapon and intimidation.
During a brief court appearance on Tuesday, he made no plea, but instead shouted slogans such as: "You call it terrorism. I call it patriotism" and "death to the enemies of America".
He is due to appear in court again on 7 June.
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Simon Crump and Calvin Payne were arrested over a campaign to protect a 100-year-old plane tree on 2 November.
Protesters gathered outside the city's magistrates' court ahead of the men's appearance on Thursday.
Mr Payne, 44, and Mr Crump, 56, pleaded not guilty to the charges and will stand trial on 9 March.
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The two men, both from Sheffield, were charged under Section 241 of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992, following the protest against plans to cut down the tree in Marden Road, Nether Edge.
The tree was cut down as part of a £2bn scheme to improve streets and get rid of diseased, damaging or dangerous trees.
As a result of the ongoing campaign to protect many of the city's trees, the council set up an independent panel to advise on proposed tree works which attract a certain level of opposition.
In a speech in Nairobi, he said his father's homeland had "come so far in just my lifetime".
But he also said corruption, terrorism and tribal or ethnic division were threats to its future.
"Kenya is at a crossroads, a moment filled with peril but enormous promise," he said.
Young Kenyans nowadays did not have to serve a colonial master or leave the country - like his grandfather and father had had to, Mr Obama said.
"Because of Kenya's progress, because of your potential, you can build your future right here, right now," he said to applause from a huge audience at a sports stadium in the capital, Nairobi.
But he warned that despite the country's political stability, tribal and ethnic divisions could be stirred up.
"A politics that's based on only tribe and ethnicity is doomed to tear a country apart. It is a failure - a failure of imagination," he said.
However, he praised the country for emerging from the ethnic violence that erupted after the disputed 2007 election.
President Obama also warned that the "cancer" of corruption was costing the country 250,000 jobs.
And he condemned the repression of women - including female genital mutilation and forced marriage, which he said did not belong in the 21st Century - adding that the best use of development aid was to spend it on girls' education.
He also urged Kenya to "embrace diversity", a clear reference to gay rights.
Security has been tight for Mr Obama's two-day visit to Kenya.
The trip, which began on Friday, is his first visit as president to the land where his father was born.
Mr Obama has now flown to Ethiopia, the first US president to visit the country. He will also become the first US leader to address the 54-member African Union (AU) on Tuesday.
AU Commission chief Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma described the trip to Ethiopia as a "historic visit" that would "broaden and deepen the relationship between the AU and the US".
On Saturday, Mr Obama praised Africa's economic and business potential in a speech at a business summit.
He also visited a memorial for those killed in the 1998 US embassy bombing in Nairobi.
After holding bilateral talks, President Obama and President Kenyatta said they were "united against terrorism".
But they differed sharply in their positions on gay rights. While Mr Obama spoke strongly against discrimination, Mr Kenyatta said Kenya did not share the same values.
Campese, 31, has been out since June after rupturing his anterior cruciate ligament.
"He's out in Australia at the moment and is getting some very good treatment," Chester told BBC Radio Humberside.
"He's ahead of schedule and we're confident that he will be right for game one."
Fellow Robins half-back Albert Kelly also missed the closing stages of the season with a knee injury.
The 24-year-old scored 15 tries in 20 Super League appearances in 2015 and Chester believes the team's chances will be boosted by having the duo available more regularly.
"His knee's fine and he's fit and raring to go," Chester said.
"We just need to make sure that those two guys are out there on the field at the same time next year because we are a better team when they are playing well."
He added: "Albert's a player I'd like to see here long-term. We've got to make him as happy as possible and I'm confident if we do that then he'll be here for a long time."
The Ordsall Chord will link Piccadilly and Victoria but has 30 "heritage assets" on the route.
Critics focused on the former Liverpool Road station - a terminus on the world's first passenger railway which opened in 1830 - which will be cut off.
A judicial review of the government's backing of the scheme was unsuccessful.
Ministers had decided the public benefits associated with the Ordsall Chord outweighed any harm to the site.
And the judge said she could find "no flaw" in the government planning inspector's conclusions.
As a result of the new rail link, Manchester's Museum of Science and Industry (MOSI) will lose its connection to the main line.
The museum's site is part of the former Liverpool Road Station, the original Manchester terminus of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway.
The station, the house in which the station master once lived and a warehouse building dating to 1830 are all Grade I listed and sites of pilgrimage for railway buffs.
Construction of the line will also involve the demolition of the Girder Bridge and the Cast Iron Bridge.
Mark Whitby, a former president of the Institution of Civil Engineers, said in his challenge that running the new line further to the west, across Middlewood Locks, would cause far less damage to the historic buildings.
Not enough account had been taken of the serious harm that would be caused, he warned.
But Mrs Justice Lang said the governmentinspector, Brendan Lyons, had given "considerable weight and importance" to the desirability of preserving them.
The viaduct will enable an extra two fast trains per hour between Manchester Victoria and Liverpool and Leeds and Manchester, plus a direct service through Manchester city centre to Manchester Airport.
The scheme is part of the multi-million pound Northern Hub upgrade for rail services across the North of England.
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Head coach Eddie Jones has confirmed Daly, 24, will make his first international start, replacing Bath's Jonathan Joseph at outside centre.
Wood, 30, will line up at open-side flanker for his first England appearance in more than a year.
Debutants Kyle Sinckler, Nathan Hughes and Ben Te'o are named on the bench.
Jonny May returns on the wing, while second row Courtney Lawes wins his 50th cap.
Daly, who has won five caps as a replacement, will form a new midfield partnership with Saracens' Owen Farrell.
"We've picked a matchday 23 with a blend of experience and youth," said Jones.
The Australian is without injured back-row contenders James Haskell, Maro Itoje, Jack Clifford, Sam Jones and Mike Williams, while winger Anthony Watson has a broken jaw.
"It's a fantastic opportunity to show how much depth we have in English rugby," added Jones.
"With a few influential players not available for selection, this is a great opportunity for some of the new faces to put both feet forward and we're backing them to do the job for us."
With Daly starting, Joseph - who had been struggling with a groin injury - drops to the bench.
Former England captain Mike Tindall told BBC Radio 5 live Daly's selection was not a big shock.
"I was lucky to play with him at Barbarians - he's just got a fantastic skill-set and the ability to beat people," said the World Cup winner.
"Elliot is a little bit more classy. He will beat you by subtlety rather than when Jonathan Joseph will stand up and go around you."
Back row Josh Beaumont and hooker Tommy Taylor are the two players to drop out of Jones' initial 25-man squad, but will travel as reserves.
South Africa are experiencing their worst run of results for a decade, having lost five of their past nine matches, including a record 57-15 home defeat by New Zealand.
Former Springbok Hennie le Roux believes the visitors are "ripe for the taking".
South Africa head coach Allister Coetzee has given a debut to centre Francois Venter, who lines up in the midfield alongside Damian de Allende.
Coetzee has opted for a heavy forward pack, with lock Pieter-Steph du Toit and Willem Alberts selected on the flanks.
"This game cannot be played without physicality or gainline dominance," Coetzee said. "This pack of forwards that we have selected suits the way we want to play."
Coetzee also says he accepts the criticism of his side from former Springbok players, but is confident his team is moving in the right direction.
"We live in a country of opinions - but we draw belief from within," he added.
"There is a plan, the players understand the plan and we are putting everything into getting the execution of the plan right."
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After struggling to settle on a gameplan so far this year, Coetzee's selection suggests the Springboks are reverting to type.
With three locks in the forward pack, South Africa will target England in the set-piece, and with wet weather forecast at Twickenham, we could be in for a tightly-fought, attritional encounter.
England are heavy favourites for good reason, but while South Africa have been poor so far in 2016, no side with the likes of Tendai Mtawarira, Eben Etzebeth, Lood de Jager and Willem Alberts should be taken lightly.
England team: Mike Brown (Harlequins); Marland Yarde (Harlequins), Elliot Daly (Wasps), Owen Farrell (Saracens), Jonny May (Gloucester Rugby); George Ford (Bath Rugby), Ben Youngs (Leicester Tigers); Mako Vunipola (Saracens), Dylan Hartley (Northampton Saints), Dan Cole (Leicester Tigers); Joe Launchbury (Wasps), Courtney Lawes (Northampton Saints); Chris Robshaw (Harlequins), Tom Wood (Northampton Saints), Billy Vunipola (Saracens).
Replacements: Jamie George (Saracens), Joe Marler (Harlequins), Kyle Sinckler (Harlequins), Dave Attwood (Bath Rugby), Nathan Hughes (Wasps), Danny Care (Harlequins), Ben Te'o (Worcester Warriors), Jonathan Joseph (Bath Rugby).
South Africa team: Willie le Roux (Canon Eagles), Ruan Combrinck (Xerox Golden Lions), Francois Venter (Toyota Free State Cheetahs), Damian de Allende (DHL Western Province), JP Pietersen (Leicester Tigers), Patrick Lambie (Cell C Sharks), Rudy Paige (Vodacom Blue Bulls); Tendai Mtawarira (Cell C Sharks), Adriaan Strauss (Vodacom Blue Bulls), Vincent Koch (Saracens), Eben Etzebeth (DHL Western Province), Lood de Jager (Vodacom Blue Bulls), Willem Alberts (Stade Francais), Pieter-Steph du Toit (DHL Western Province), Warren Whiteley (Docomo Red Hurricanes).
Replacements: Bongi Mbonambi (DHL Western Province), Steven Kitshoff (Bordeaux), Lourens Adriaanse (Cell C Sharks), Franco Mostert (Ricoh Black Rams), Nizaam Carr (DHL Western Province), Faf de Klerk (Xerox Golden Lions), Johan Goosen (Racing 92), Lionel Mapoe (Kubota Spears).
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Mae dyfodol y cyhoeddiad yn ansicr gan fod Tindle, y perchnogion presennol, yn trafod trosglwyddo'r papur i berchnogion newydd erbyn diwedd Mehefin.
Mae disgwyl i Tindle wneud datganiad yn fuan ynglŷn â dyfodol y papur.
Dywedodd Cymdeithas yr Iaith bod "achos cryf" dros roi mwy o arian i'r Cymro.
Cafodd Y Cymro ei gyhoeddi am y tro cyntaf yn 1932, ac mae ei swyddfeydd presennol ym Mhorthmadog.
Dywedodd Carl Morris, llefarydd cyfryngau Cymdeithas yr Iaith: "Credwn fod achos cryf dros gynyddu'n sylweddol y gefnogaeth ariannol i'r Cymro fel bod modd diwygio a buddsoddi i ddatblygu'r papur a'i wefan ymhellach, gan gydweithio gydag eraill lle bo'n bosibl.
"Mae'n bwysig iawn i'r llywodraeth sicrhau bod sawl ffynhonnell newyddion Cymraeg, yn lle ein bod yn gorfod dibynnu ar un neu ddau ddarparwr.
"Yn nhermau darlledu cenedlaethol, y BBC yw'r unig ddarparydd newyddion Cymraeg ac mae hynny'n peryglu democratiaeth. Mae angen ymyrraeth y Llywodraeth er mwyn sicrhau nad oes rhagor o ganoli yn digwydd."
Mewn ymateb, dywedodd llefarydd ar ran Llywodraeth Cymru: "Mae cefnogaeth Llywodraeth Cymru i'r diwydiant cyhoeddi yn cael ei sianelu drwy Gyngor Llyfrau Cymru a nhw sy'n penderfynu pa deitl sy'n cael faint o arian ac ar ba sail."
Dywedodd llefarydd ar ran y Cyngor Llyfrau: "Rydym yn croesawu'r ffaith bod grŵp newydd â diddordeb mewn cyhoeddi'r Cymro.
"Byddwn yn eu cyfarfod yn fuan a disgwylir cais ffurfiol ganddynt am gymhorthdal."
Fell, who was the county's top scorer in the County Championship in 2015, had an operation in October after a tumour was discovered.
"I got the results on 1 November and they broke the good news that it hadn't spread," the 22-year-old said.
"It was really the best news that I could have hoped for."
Fell is now back in training at New Road and is set to spend part of the winter in Australia playing grade cricket in Perth.
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"I was quite lucky. I was fairly stupid in the fact I didn't get it checked straight away," Fell said.
"When they did analyse the tumour, it was fairly big at the stage they operated.
"I think if I had left it any longer and I had gone to Australia without being checked, who knows how bad it could have been.
"Because I felt no different, that is why I didn't bother to get it checked sooner than I did."
Fell has chosen not to follow up his operation with any further treatment on the advice of his specialist.
"I was recommended by the professor I saw that if you can avoid chemotherapy it is definitely something I should do - especially as a sportsman - as the side effects and consequences can be quite severe," he said.
"It is something I want to avoid. I've been told there is a 65% chance it is all clear and a 35% chance it can come back and if it comes back, it will most likely be in the next three months and then I would have to go through three cycles of chemotherapy as opposed to two now.
"I've got back into training which has been a bit of a shock to the system this week but it's great to be back - playing cricket is the best thing about it."
More on this story and others around Herefordshire and Worcestershire.
For Chinese shares though, the first trading session of 2016 has resulted in more of the same.
More panic, more pessimism and more people selling their shares because of - well frankly, other people selling their shares.
So why did Chinese shares fall by 7% today, causing trading to be halted? And what does it say about confidence in the Chinese market and more importantly - the economy?
Here are four things you should know about the stock market falls in China today:
This was what most analysts said was the reason behind why shares fell. Manufacturing data contracted again - for the tenth straight month. The figures are further demonstration of the ongoing narrative about China's economy, that state led investment into manufacturing is slowing down and that the economy is transitioning into services. China releases services data on Wednesday - which should show things are improving.
This was the first day that China's new "circuit breaker" came into effect, and that's why when shares plunged by 5% trading was halted by 15 minutes. When trading resumed, and shares continued to fall by 7%, trading was suspended altogether. The measures were created last year after the stock market crash in China, but only came into effect today. Circuit breakers in themselves aren't unusual - lots of countries have them for individual stocks, or for a few minutes - but it is unusual to stop trading altogether for a share fall of 7%. An indication perhaps of just how much the authorities want to avoid another crash.
There was a sharp depreciation in the yuan just ahead of the plunge in Chinese shares. China cut the yuan's value against the dollar, making it weaker than 6.5 for the first time in more than four-and-a-half years. There's speculation that the People's Bank of China has abandoned trying to hold the yuan up against the dollar, which means it's signalling that it won't step in to shore up the yuan. There are concerns that this indicates money is flowing out of China, and that the fall could get out of control. Some investors may be worried about what would happen if the yuan continues to weaken - and the fact that policy makers are allowing it to weaken shows they're concerned about the economy's outlook too.
There's nothing like the herd mentality to get things started for the new year. Retail investors in the Chinese stock market are often driven by sentiment and tend to follow the crowd. When they hear of some bad news from brokers or their friends, and other people start selling - they start selling too. Falling prices attract more people to dump their stocks, and although shares are still above their lows, authorities will be keen to avoid the kind of share market crash we saw last summer.
So what do today's falls tell you about the fate of the Chinese economy in 2016? Well, nothing you didn't know already. China is slowing down, people are nervous and that means volatile trading for the rest of the year.
Happy New Year everyone. If the first day of trading is anything to go by, it is definitely going to be an interesting one.
Heurelho Gomes guessed correctly to save both penalties from Berahino in the 67th and 87th minutes.
Ben Watson got the FA Cup semi-finalists' winner, volleying home a near-post corner in the first half.
The result moves Watford above West Brom into 12th on 41 points, 11 points clear of the relegation zone.
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History repeated itself for Gomes as the Brazilian became the first goalkeeper to save two penalties in two Premier League games.
He first achieved the feat playing for Tottenham against Sunderland in 2010, saving twice from Darren Bent.
Gomes conceded the first penalty against West Brom, tripping Berahino in the area, after the striker latched on to a through ball from Stephane Sessegnon.
But Gomes dived to his right to save the 22-year-old's shot.
Then 20 minutes later, Sessegnon was brought down by Etienne Capoue, and Berahino once again stepped forward to take the spot kick.
This time Berahino shot to the bottom left corner, but with little power, and Gomes was there again to save the day for Watford.
In eight days' time Watford face Crystal Palace at Wembley for a place in the FA Cup final.
Manager Quique Sanchez Flores had warned his players against becoming distracted by their trip to Wembley, but they put in a composed performance at The Hawthorns.
Flores made four changes from the side that drew 1-1 with Everton last weekend but he was still able to field a strong starting XI with top-scorers Troy Deeney and Odion Ighalo up front.
That pair failed to see much of the ball, with just one shot on target between them.
Instead it was Watford's rearguard effort that saw them home, defending deeply against a West Brom side who enjoyed the lion's share of possession.
The home side struggled in the final third and the two penalties aside, it was Gareth McAuley who had the best chance early in the second half, seeing his header was tipped over the bar by Gomes.
Gomes told BBC Radio 5 live: "I did the same against Sunderland [in 2010] but that was a different feeling as we lost the game. This means a lot - it is great for me and most importantly great for the club.
"There is always more responsibility on the player taking the penalty than on me. He has the possibility to shoot anywhere and I need to be prepared to react quickly.
"I always try and wait for the penalty taker's decision. I never think about what he will do, I just waited for him."
West Brom manager Tony Pulis: "It's a cruel game at times. I thought we played really well today - 40 crosses, two penalties - but it was just not our day."
"Good strikers miss penalties, and Saido is a good player - this will only make him better and stronger. He just has to bounce back. The players have been great with him and he will feel it as much as anyone.
"Saido wanted to take [the second penalty], and some top, top players have missed penalties, players who have had the nous to take the next one and that is what Saido did. I hope if we get another penalty in the next few games he is the one to smash it in."
Watford manager Quique Sanchez Flores: "It was strange match - not too much football and both teams did not play really well.
"I'm not sure if we have enough points but what is most important is that we have to keep improving. It's creating a very good atmosphere around the team and will be important for the next match."
Watford have a trip to Wembley on Sunday for the FA Cup semi-final at 16:00 BST. The Hornets' next Premier League game is against relegated Aston Villa on 30 April. With 41 points, Watford look sure to play successive Premier League seasons for the first time.
West Brom, who are on 40 points and also look safe, face a trip to Emirates Stadium to play Arsenal in the league on Thursday evening.
Match ends, West Bromwich Albion 0, Watford 1.
Second Half ends, West Bromwich Albion 0, Watford 1.
Attempt missed. Craig Dawson (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Stéphane Sessegnon.
Foul by James McClean (West Bromwich Albion).
Odion Ighalo (Watford) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Substitution, Watford. Valon Behrami replaces Jurado.
Foul by James McClean (West Bromwich Albion).
Etienne Capoue (Watford) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Mario Suárez (Watford) left footed shot from the left side of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Odion Ighalo.
Attempt blocked. Mario Suárez (Watford) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Troy Deeney.
Penalty saved! Saido Berahino (West Bromwich Albion) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, right footed shot saved in the bottom right corner.
Troy Deeney (Watford) is shown the yellow card.
Penalty West Bromwich Albion. Stéphane Sessegnon draws a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty conceded by Etienne Capoue (Watford) after a foul in the penalty area.
Corner, West Bromwich Albion. Conceded by Miguel Britos.
Foul by Callum McManaman (West Bromwich Albion).
Odion Ighalo (Watford) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Craig Dawson (West Bromwich Albion).
Jurado (Watford) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Stéphane Sessegnon (West Bromwich Albion) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Etienne Capoue (Watford).
Callum McManaman (West Bromwich Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Mario Suárez (Watford).
Foul by Craig Gardner (West Bromwich Albion).
Etienne Capoue (Watford) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Jurado (Watford) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.
Foul by Callum McManaman (West Bromwich Albion).
Nyom (Watford) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, West Bromwich Albion. Craig Gardner replaces Claudio Yacob.
Attempt missed. Craig Dawson (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from the right side of the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by James McClean with a cross.
Stéphane Sessegnon (West Bromwich Albion) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Ben Watson (Watford).
Foul by Craig Dawson (West Bromwich Albion).
Jurado (Watford) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Jurado (Watford) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Etienne Capoue.
Corner, West Bromwich Albion. Conceded by Jurado.
Substitution, West Bromwich Albion. Callum McManaman replaces James Chester.
Substitution, West Bromwich Albion. Victor Anichebe replaces Salomón Rondón.
Attempt missed. Salomón Rondón (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right.
Penalty saved! Saido Berahino (West Bromwich Albion) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, right footed shot saved in the bottom left corner.
The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) announced the measures in its final UK air show safety regulation review following the fatal disaster in 2015.
It will also strengthen the requirements of post-display reports to "reflect the importance of feedback".
A vintage Hawker Hunter jet crashed on to the A27 on 22 August, killing 11.
The aircraft had been performing aerobatics at the annual Shoreham Airshow when it plummeted to the ground.
This year's show has been cancelled.
The head of the CAA, Dame Deirdre Hutton, said the measures were being brought in so the public had "every confidence that UK air shows meet the highest safety standards".
She added: "We began this review immediately after the accident at Shoreham last summer with the sole purpose of doing all that we can to make UK civil air shows even safer.
"It has been an extensive review, looking closely at all aspects of air show safety to identify any areas where the system can be strengthened.
"Air shows are enjoyed by millions of people up and down the country and we want them to be successful."
The "enhanced measures" include:
The CAA said restrictions introduced following the crash in August would remain in place until the Air Accidents Investigations Branch (AAIB) had published its final report.
These measures saw Hawker Hunter jets grounded, ex-military jets restricted to fly-pasts over land and air shows subject to enhanced risk assessments.
The CAA also increased its air show charges from 1 April - by up to £2,695 for larger displays - to fund the measures.
Sywell air display in Northamptonshire will not go ahead because of the "likelihood of much higher CAA fees" and the people behind a display at Thockmorton in Worcestershire have threatened to cancel their event.
Organisers of the Manchester Airshow have blamed the timing of the review on the cancellation of its event this year.
Dame Deirdre said the CAA was working with the air-show community to make sure the "measures are implemented" for the upcoming display season and beyond".
The CAA is responsible for allowing air shows to go ahead and monitoring their safety.
She died in a nursing home in Osaka, the city she was born in on 5 March 1898.
She is survived by three children, four grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
Ms Okawa was recognised in 2013 as the world's oldest living person, as well as the world's oldest living woman, by Guinness World Records.
While celebrating her birthday earlier this month, Ms Okawa said that 117 years did not seem such a long time.
She also said the key to a long life was getting at least eight hours of sleep a night and eating sushi - her favourite food.
She said she particularly enjoyed mackerel on vinegar-steamed rice.
Her birthday celebration was shown on national television in Japan.
Born to a kimono-maker, Mrs Okawa married her husband Yukio in 1919. They lived in Kobe where he ran a business. When he died in 1931. she moved back to Osaka.
She lived across three centuries, seeing four emperors of Japan, six British monarchs, and 20 US presidents.
Craig Glenday, the editor-in-chief of Guinness World Records, said previously of Ms Okawa: "Her impressive longevity... is an inspiration and a testament to the Japanese lifestyle."
Ms Okawa's name has since been taken down for the entry for the world's oldest living person on the organisation's site.
It is not yet known who now holds that record, but the site does state that the oldest living man is Sakari Momoi, also of Japan, who turned 112 in February.
The oldest person who has ever lived according to Guinness was Jeanne Calment of France, who lived 122 years and 164 days. She died in August 1997.
The company said net profits rose to €1.6bn (£1.1bn), up from €1.3bn a year earlier, when it was hit by one-off charges.
The Munich-based carmaker reaffirmed its forecast for increased sales and profit for the full year.
But it warned about the impact of the slowdown in China's economy and of increased competition in the US.
BMW added that it had not been asked to talk to US regulators about emissions testing in the wake of the VW scandal.
BMW said sales for July to September in Europe, the destination of more than 40% of its deliveries, were up 6.9% to 545,062 vehicles.
But it noted that increasing competition in the US, spending on new products and technology, rising personnel costs and slowing demand in China could weigh on its profits for the rest of the year.
"The results are good but the forward perspective looks mediocre," said Frankfurt-based Bankhaus Metzler analyst Juergen Pieper. "The outlook doesn't reveal a particularly large amount of optimism and I don't see great momentum in 2016."
A spokesman for BMW said the company had not been asked to talk to the US regulator that caught rival carmaker Volkswagen cheating emissions tests.
"We have made our vehicles available," the spokesman said when executives were asked on a conference call about BMW's own test results.
"The EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) has tested them. We have not received any indications one way or the other.
"There have been no talks with the EPA," he added.
The 17-year-old attacking midfielder, who signed a new contract at Forest earlier this week, has joined the Daggers until 2 April.
He could make his senior debut in Saturday's League Two match at home to York City.
Cash will link up with Joe Worrall, who is also on loan at the east London club from Forest.
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The work has busted a myth that the snakes suffocate their victims.
Researchers took measurements - including blood pressure and heart activity - from anaesthetised rats gripped by the snakes.
This showed that the lethal grip restricted blood flow severely enough to cut off the blood flow supplying oxygen to its vital organs.
The findings are published in the Journal of Experimental Biology.
This "circulatory arrest", the scientists say, is a much more efficient, rapid and definite way of finishing off prey than expected.
As the lead researcher, Prof Scott Boback, from Dickinson College in Pennsylvania, explained, restricting blood flow to the brain would also make a rodent "pass out within seconds".
The researchers believe that recording during a constriction could reveal useful details about how crush injuries cause complex tissue damage in humans.
But Prof Boback and his team are interested primarily in the fundamental question of how and why these snakes evolved their unique killing method.
"The thing I find fascinating is that all snakes have is their mouth to engage with prey," said Prof Boback.
"A [constrictor] has to hold a potentially dangerous animal right next to it.
"And that animal's fighting for its life, so it will absolutely take chunks out the snake if it can."
He and his colleagues realised that, in order to measure this life-or-death battle, they would need to record the very point of death of the prey.
They presented anaesthetised, unconscious lab rats to boa constrictors, and recorded from the rats' arteries and heart as they were squeezed.
The scientists also took blood samples before and after, revealing how the blood chemistry of a constricted victim changed.
From this, they concluded that the constriction "shuts off" blood flow and oxygen supply to the organs.
And this lack of oxygen, or ischaemia, rapidly destroys the tissue of the oxygen-hungry brain, heart and liver.
"If the snake is wrapping around the chest, it could also be limiting breathing, too," said Dr Boback.
"But an absence of blood flow will cause death more rapidly than suffocation.
"So it could be considered a much more precise and efficient method of killing."
This study is the first to test for this circulatory arrest directly - measuring from the body of the snake's prey.
Prof Brad Moon, from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, has studied snake movements, including constriction, for two decades.
He said the study showed constrictors could "squeeze prey hard enough" to interfere with blood pressures, blood gases, blood chemistry, and even heart function.
"It isn't the first test of circulatory arrest from constriction," Prof Moon told BBC News, "but it is the first direct test that measured blood pressures and [heart activity].
"It shows that constriction is stronger, faster and more effective than expected."
In a previous study, the same Dickinson College team discovered that the snakes were able to sense their victim's heartbeat, and stopped squeezing only when it stopped.
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The number working in Wales has fallen 42% in recent years, but the workload had increased tenfold, it has claimed.
And the union has also said district nurses would prefer to have more time to spend with each patient.
The Welsh Government said the number of nurses working in the community had increased overall.
Peter Meredith-Smith, associate director of employment relations at RCN Wales, said: "We do have concerns as to whether there is enough investment in the nursing workforce within our community services to ensure the highest quality of care to Welsh citizens.
"We also have real concerns about the pressure being experienced by frontline nurses working in community settings.
"They are, without doubt, over-worked and have less time to spend with each patient than they would wish to have."
BBC Wales' new political programme on S4C, O'r Senedd, spoke to Sian Lewis - a district nurse in Cardigan - who said her team's caseload had "doubled" over the past 10 years, seeing about 50 patients a day.
"Trying to fit 50 people into a day means we're busy and we have to drive quite quickly from one to another," she said.
"People's expectations are huge and sometimes we can't meet those expectations because we're so busy."
A Welsh Government spokesman said: "Health boards are keen to develop a more effective skills mix at local level, using highly-experienced district nurses to direct, lead and advise community nursing teams.
"As a result, the overall number of nurses providing community services has increased by 17% over the past six years."
Last week, Health Secretary Vaughan Gething announced £95m to train more healthcare professionals, including district nurses.
I spent a morning with Sian Lewis, a district nurse in the Cardigan area.
She told me things were "much busier" now than when she first started working in the community 10 years ago.
"Paperwork is more of a thing now and the patients have all got older so there's more of them with chronic conditions," she said.
There was a warm welcome waiting when she arrived at Tom and Muriel James' home.
Mr James, 92, said he would be in a home if it was not for the district nurses and his wife called them "angels".
Ms Lewis' visits mean the couple can avoid having to go to hospital or their GP surgery.
There is a political push to reduce pressure on other parts of the health service by providing more care in the community.
But that, of course, places greater strain on those nurses who travel from one home to another and whose caseloads are not limited to the number of beds on a hospital ward.
Hywel Dda University Health Board, which is responsible for NHS care in the area, said it had developed a number of "new and exciting" services to support district nurse teams and these all work in an "integrated way to provide the highest level of community care".
"The health board is very proud of the quality of the work accomplished by our district nurses and we wish to reiterate our gratitude on behalf of our patients and partners," said a spokesman.
O'r Senedd is on S4C at 22:00 GMT on Tuesday 28 February
McLaughlin made 200 appearances for the Cod Army after joining the League One club from Shrewsbury in July 2012.
The Northern Ireland international featured in 42 games in all competitions last season.
"He's a solid, reliable right-back, who is first and foremost a very good defender," Millwall manager Neil Harris told the club website.
The 25-year-old has won 26 caps for Northern Ireland, with his only goal to date coming in the 4-0 World Cup qualifier win over Azerbaijan in Belfast in November.
McLaughlin made his debut as a substitute against Italy in October 2011 and was part of manager Michael O'Neill's squad at the Euro 2016 finals in France.
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Since 2014, midwives at Westmorland General Hospital's Helme Chase unit have been on call overnight and at weekends if there are no patients to care for.
The University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust said it has saved 3,000 working hours.
The NHS Cumbria Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) wants the change made permanent.
Eleanor Hodgson, director of children and families for the CCG, said the majority of mothers now have their babies at consultant-led maternity units at Barrow and Lancaster.
She said: "The interim change (at Helme Chase) released more than 3,000 clinical hours in the first 15 months alone.
"This has enabled the Trust to use its midwives more effectively to improve the maternity care it provides and now we are proposing that the on-call arrangement is made permanent."
About 10 babies a month are born at Helme Chase, which can be used by women assessed as having a low risk pregnancy.
In 2013 the average was 17.
The CCG is holding a six week consultation.
Liberal Democrat MP for Westmorland and Lonsdale Tim Farron has previously criticised the changes to working hours saying the unit should be staffed 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
More than 1,000 people have signed a petition started by the MP.
Paul Bradley, 53, was sentenced to eight months in prison suspended for 24 months after admitting causing death by careless driving.
Mariola Martin from Swindon died on the A303 Mere Bypass in July 2014.
She had stopped on the inside lane where her Mazda MX-5 was struck from behind by the articulated lorry.
At a Winchester Crown Court hearing, Bradley - from Cullompton in Devon - was also disqualified from driving for 30 months from his original suspension date.
Ivor Bethell was charged following enquiries as part of Operation Daybreak, which was originally set up to investigate historical child abuse at Nottinghamshire children's homes.
However, the BBC understands his alleged offences are not related to abuse in children's homes.
All the offences relate to one victim.
The 61-year-old, of Barnhill Road, Wembley, was due to appear at Mansfield Magistrates' Court this morning.
Charges facing Bethell:
Operation Daybreak was set up to investigate allegations of abuse at former children's homes across the county between the 1960s and 2000.
In the course of police enquiries, a number of other offences not related to abuse in children's homes are being investigated.
Police confirmed an operation was under way in a street close to the city's main station.
Swiss reports said the three wounded were all adults who had been found in Eisgasse, a small street where an Islamic centre is based.
There was no indication who carried out the shooting but local media said the attacker had fled the scene.
It was unclear if the Islamic Centre was targeted in the attack, which took place shortly before 17:30 (16:30 GMT) on Monday.
Police cordoned off the centre as they searched the building, reports said.
England was awarded the 2021 World Cup in October after seeing off a rival bid from the United States and Canada, with North America recommended for 2025.
The tournament has always previously been played in Europe or Australasia.
RLIF chairman Nigel Wood said the award is "a historic moment in the global development of rugby league".
"It is exciting that our sport is expanding into a new destination for our premier event," he added.
"The USA and Canada provide world-class stadiums allied to a significant multi-cultural population which made the bid so persuasive."
The Toronto Wolfpack - Canada's first professional team - will compete in English rugby league's third tier in this coming season as part of the game's development in North America.
The exotic pet, which is 12 months old, was taken from Lathom Pets and Aquatics in Ormskirk on Tuesday raising concern over his "vulnerable" shell.
Following an appeal, the pet shop revealed on Friday that the tortoise was "anonymously dropped off" at the garden centre tills.
Lancashire Police confirmed it was investigating the theft.
The first thing [the tortoise] did was go straight over to the food bowl to fill up his little tummy, the pet shop reported.
Co-owner Katherine Broxholme said of the incident: "I was serving, chatting..and getting change out of the till for a woman I was serving. The tortoise tank is just a few feet away from the till. We only have five tortoises and when I checked later there were only four."
CCTV footage confirmed a man had taken the tortoise, she added.
Police said the tortoise was valued at £120.
The number of calls to the force flagged up as "cyber-related" in the last year has increased by nearly 150.
Chief Constable Mick Creedon did not confirm how many officers might have to be taken off the street.
He said it was important to meet this "new demand" on the force.
A recent report to the county's police and crime commissioner, said the extent of online crime was "unknown" as current crime figures reflected more "traditional" forms of crime.
However, police told the BBC the number of crimes identified as "cyber crimes" had risen significantly over the last year.
This was put down to likely being due to a better understanding of the issue and improved recording of offences by frontline officers.
Calls to the force flagged as "cyber-related" have risen from 269 in early 2014 to 417 in the last quarter.
The force said that more than 200 cases related to activity on Facebook alone between September 2009 and December 2013.
Mr Creedon said: "It's really important that we have a police service that's able to meet that new demand and not just the old demand that we're used to."
The force added it had trained hundreds of officers in digital investigations.
Source: Derbyshire Police
Shropshire Council has recommended the closure of Wakeman School in 2013, due to falling pupil numbers making it "financially unsustainable".
Lib Dem councillor Roger Evans said the plans would save only £300,000-£400,000 each year.
"There's 30,000 pupils in Shropshire. That's £10 per child going extra to every school in Shropshire," he said.
The proposals, announced by the Conservative-led authority on Wednesday, require approval by the cabinet group on 7 September.
From September some 240 pupils will be on roll at the Wakeman.
Mr Evans said falling numbers over recent years were due to rumours regarding the school's future.
Plans to close the Wakeman have centred on finances, rather than improving educational standards.
In March Ofsted reported that the Wakeman was a good school, with a good capacity for sustained improvement.
Last week the school also achieved its best ever GCSE results.
David Taylor, director of people services at Shropshire Council, said the school's closure would financially benefit the county overall, without damaging the pupils' quality of education.
"This is not an easy part of my job. But at the end of the day I've got to do what's right for all the children in Shropshire," he said.
Mr Taylor said the closure of the Wakeman would make about £1.75m "available for redistribution" to other schools per year.
Mr Taylor added that £1.3m of that sum would "follow the child".
That represents the total allocation for pupils at the Wakeman, a large portion of which would be spent on the cost of educating the pupils at another school.
The difference between the two figures (about £400,000) covers the annual saving made through closing the building, and the associated operational costs, such as administration, heating and electricity.
The council said the pupils could be accommodated at other schools and identified Meole Brace as the preferred option.
The number of secondary pupils in Shrewsbury is expected to rise from 2020.
The council said had not ruled out building another school on the edge of town if required, possibly through the resiting of an existing school.
Citizens Advice Scotland (CAS) report said those on low incomes often paid above average for energy, telecoms and financial services.
Bigger bills makes their financial situation worse which further affects health and relationships, CAS said.
The "Paying More To Be Poor" report is based on research conducted by Ipsos Mori.
Researchers found that lower income Scots were more likely to use expensive pre-payment meters.
Less than a quarter of those who used the meters had switched their energy supplier in the last three years. Those living in the most deprived areas of the country were even less likely to switch suppliers, according to the report.
They were also more likely to use mobile phones on pricier pay-as-you-go plans, researchers said.
In addition, poorer people in Scotland were less likely to switch phone suppliers and more likely to be without a mobile at all - and so were hardest hit by the rise in landline costs.
Those polled were also questioned about financial services. The CAS said low income consumers would often take out credit or loans without understanding the full costs involved.
Others had no home contents insurance because they found it unaffordable.
CAS spokesman Patrick Hogan said: "Our new research today shows that many individuals' financial situations are made even worse because poverty levels limit their choices when it comes to accessing consumer services.
"So, if you are poor in Scotland today you pay more for basic services, and so become even poorer. This cannot be right, and needs to be addressed."
CAS has made a number of recommendations for addressing the problem, including raising awareness of "cost traps" and the importance of making informed choices.
Mr Hogan added: "The market must offer better value for consumers of all income levels. Poverty should not breed even more poverty."
The Scottish government said it shared the concerns about people on low incomes paying more for essential goods and services, and is taking action to tackle the issue.
A spokeswoman said: "The poverty premium was raised as an issue of particular concern by many people during our fairer Scotland discussions last year and we will be publishing our Fairer Scotland Action Plan soon which will respond to these issues."
William Liversage, 50, of Birkenhead, filmed jurors on a phone during the trial of a member of his family at Carlisle Crown Court in October 2014.
It is believed he was plotting to scare jurors and had a collection of masks including of a werewolf.
Liversage denied perverting the course of justice but was found guilty during a trial. He was jailed for three years.
The hearing at Carlisle Crown Court was told that the father of four was arrested while driving away from the court and his van was searched.
In addition to the rubber masks, recording equipment and a GPS tracker were found.
The trial of the family member was later halted.
Sentencing Liversage, Judge Barbara Forrester said she presumed he had hoped to be able to identify a juror and intimate them to interfere with the trial of the family member.
Prosecutor Brendan Burke said: "The Crown would say this crime was considered, organised and sophisticated and - were it not stopped - extremely frightening to whoever was going to be confronted at the end.
"We did say that confrontation would have happened, wearing one of these masks; which from one standpoint may be considered trivial or amusing, but in a confrontation of that nature very far from it."
The victim was named by local media as 27-year-old Ziad Awad, a relative of the Islamic Jihad militant being buried, Jaafar Awad.
An Israeli military spokesperson said soldiers had opened fire after funeral-goers threw rocks and petrol bombs.
The clashes took place in the town of Beit Ummar, near Hebron.
A doctor at Hebron's al-Ahli hospital told the Associated Press a man had died after being brought in with gunshot wounds.
Medical officials said several others had been hurt in clashes with Israeli troops.
According to an Israeli military spokesperson, soldiers had feared for their lives as protesters at the funeral threw rocks and petrol bombs and rolled burning car tyres at them.
The spokesperson said the soldiers responded with non-lethal "riot dispersal means" and then with 0.22-calibre "Ruger" bullets.
"Four hits were confirmed," the spokesperson said, adding that the military was investigating reports of a fatality.
The funeral was for a Palestinian militant who had been recently imprisoned by Israel. He was reportedly released early because of ill health.
The clash comes two days after a Palestinian man stabbed two Israeli soldiers in the northern West Bank before being shot dead by one of them.
Michael Martin's son, Chris Martin, was a fit 19-year-old student who played rugby for University College Cork at the time of his sudden death.
Two days after Christmas 2015, he woke up gasping for breath and died as his family tried to get medical help.
His father urged those with mild asthma to manage their condition properly.
"In a million years, I never thought asthma would kill him," Mr Martin said.
"I never thought asthma would kill anyone actually, being honest with you."
However, the condition causes, on average, the death of one person every week in the Republic of Ireland, according to the Asthma Society of Ireland.
The charity has set out to correct a "popular misconception" that only those with severe asthma are at risk of death.
Mr Martin has taken part in the society's latest awareness campaign, which is running on Irish TV and on social media from Saturday.
His son was diagnosed with asthma when he was about four years old, but had never been hospitalised with the condition.
He grew into an active teenager who "lived life to the full" and was involved in several sports, including surfing and mountaineering.
"Chris always carried his reliever inhaler and would use it while playing rugby," Mr Martin said.
"However, he would often forget to take his preventative medication. He might take it on a Monday or a Tuesday but then forget to take it on a Wednesday or Thursday.
"It wouldn't be until he got a bit chesty that he would remember to take it again."
He added that his son did not realised his asthma was not under control, or that he was at risk of a serious attack.
Mr Martin described how Chris went to bed as normal on the night of 26 December 2015, but woke at 06:00 the next the morning unable to breathe.
He said they tried to get him to a doctor so he could use a nebulizer, but Chris "keeled over" as he tried to get dressed, and died in front of his family.
Averil Power, chief executive of the Asthma Society of Ireland, said: "Unfortunately, Michael's story is not unique.
"We have been contacted by the families of other young people who died of asthma in the past 18 months, aged seven, 16, 19 and 21.
"Most were fit and active young people who had no idea they were at risk of dying of an asthma attack."
She added: "There is a popular misconception that only those with severe asthma are at risk.
"This is not the case. In fact, a 2014 study of asthma deaths in the UK found the majority of those who died had mild or moderate asthma and that under-use of preventer inhalers was a major factor."
Ms Power advised patients to take their preventative medicine "as prescribed, even when they are feeling well" and to alert their GP to problems.
"With proper care and treatment, most asthma deaths can be prevented", she added.
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The machine was built to operate in zero gravity for the Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti who likes a coffee.
Astronauts will have to drink the coffee in a bag through a straw to stop it floating around.
The SpaceX Dragon capsule, carrying lots of supplies and groceries, was launched into space from a rocket in Florida on Tuesday.
The private company hopes to send more regular cargo capsules to the International Space Station in future and longer term, hopes to lower launch costs.
The supplies are expected to reach the ISS on Friday.
The coffee is just one way to try to keep the astronauts happy. Chris Hadfield had his guitar.
SpaceX are the only private company ever to return a spacecraft from low-Earth orbit
They are funded with money from private investment by big companies like Google and also get money from sponsorship deals.
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Bangladesh looked likely to post a big total at Edgbaston, but from 154-2 they lost both Tamim Iqbal (70) and Mushfiqur Rahim (61) to Kedar Jadhav, and could only muster 264-7.
India were in complete control throughout the chase - Rohit Sharma made an unbeaten 123 and Virat Kohli 96 not out as a nine-wicket win was sealed with almost 10 overs to spare.
Sunday's final is at The Oval, where India will attempt to retain the crown they won in 2013.
It is likely to be a raucous, vibrant and colourful occasion and will hopefully produce a contest to match after two one-sided semi-finals - this and Pakistan's defeat of England on Wednesday.
India-Pakistan tussles - the most-watched in cricket and amongst the highest audiences for all world sport - have been limited to major tournaments for more than four years.
Political tensions mean they have not played a Test match since 2007 or a bilateral series since 2012-13. All recent meetings have either been in International Cricket Council competitions or the Asia Cup.
Though they faced each other in the 2007 World Twenty20 final, which India won, they have never contested a global 50-over decider.
India will start as favourites, especially after they trounced Pakistan in their opening game of the tournament. However, Pakistan have steadily improved and were brilliant in dumping out highly fancied hosts England.
On a pacy, true Edgbaston surface, Bangladesh - in their first global semi-final - were well placed for a score that would test India when Tamim and Mushfiqur were compiling a third-wicket stand of 123.
Tamim, bowled off a Hardik Pandya no-ball on 16, had only 12 off 35 balls but accelerated against the same bowler and Ravichandran Ashwin, while Mushfiqur busily accumulated with deft touches and nudges off the pads.
As India were beginning to run short of options, they turned to the slingy part-time off-spin of Jadhav, a man with just six previous ODI wickets. Tamim played an awful slog to be bowled and Mushfiqur hit a full toss straight to mid-wicket, surrendering the initiative.
The excellent Jasprit Bumrah led India's death bowling, the Bangladesh total belatedly boosted by Mashrafe Mortaza's 25-ball 30 not out.
If the suspicion was that Bangladesh were short of a competitive total, it was confirmed by the way that Rohit and opening partner Shikhar Dhawan set about the chase.
Dhawan, the tournament's leading run-scorer, belted the ball square of the wicket on both sides in a 34-ball 46. His charge was only ended by an awful slice to point off Mashrafe.
Rohit was measured throughout, cutting, pulling and driving his way to an 11th ODI century that was completed with a hook for six off left-arm pace bowler Mustafizur Rahman.
He shared an unbroken 178 with captain Kohli, who played an array of trademark cover drives as he passed 8,000 ODI runs.
It was barely a contest, but still entertainment that was lapped up by the India fans in a crowd of 24,340 - a record for an ODI at Edgbaston.
India batsman Rohit Sharma, who made an unbeaten 123: "It was a great knock, especially when it comes on a winning note. It's always memorable to win the game and score a hundred. The last few games I was trying to get a big one and I was quite determined today."
Bangladesh captain Mashrafe Mortaza: "We could have scored 300 or 320 but once they got our two set batsman out that was a big setback for us.
"We have some experienced players now and hopefully next time we will come strongly. You have to be stronger mentally in these type of games but otherwise we did well."
Former England batter Ebony Rainford-Brent on BBC Test Match Special: "It was too easy today for India, but Bangladesh have done themselves and their country proud in this tournament.
"A lot of people predicted India would be in the final. For me, the batting [is strong], they've got the death bowlers - they're so well rounded at the moment."
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Wales kicked for the corner while trailing 16-13 in the 51st minute.
The Toulon full-back said he chose not to kick even though captain Alun Wyn Jones wanted the three points.
"For me, I need to hold my hand up. I made a mistake and I wasn't decisive enough," Halfpenny told the Welsh Rugby Union website.
"Alun Wyn wanted to go for the three points and I've allowed errors in my game before and the conditions to influence me and turn down the kick.
"I should have parked those mistakes and moved on.
"In the past I have made errors and not allowed those to effect me and moved onto the next job. It's probably the first time it has happened but it's the last time it will."
Jones told a media conference on Tuesday that he had changed his mind about opting for the kick at goal after taking to Halfpenny.
"Obviously I'm not a kicker and I thought it was a good shot, Leigh didn't feel the same way hence we've gone for the corner," said Jones.
"I have every faith in him [Halfpenny]. Leigh's a world-class kicker and he knows what he can and can't do."
Lock forward Jones confirmed he had initially indicated to referee John Lacey that Wales would go for goal.
During television coverage of the incident fly-half Dan Biggar could clearly be heard asking if he should kick for the corner and Lacey saying a kick at goal was "indicated".
It has led to media speculation that Biggar - an Ospreys team-mate of Jones - had influenced the decision not to take the kick which could have levelled the scores.
Asked to explain the chain of events surrounding the penalty which was awarded on the Scotland 22 metre line close to the attacking team's left-hand touchline, Jones explained: "I motioned to the posts a couple of times and the ref agreed with me.
"Leigh felt the conditions weren't right and fortunately we were still able to go to the lineout.
"I suppose when you captain your country leadership and critiquing of things you do and the things you say are always going to be there."
Jones also explained why he did not ask Dan Biggar - who has kicked more than 100 goals for Wales - to have a shot at goal.
"In all honesty and in fairness, Dan's said because of his respect for Leigh he didn't want to be seen to undermine him [Halfpenny] or myself so that's why I went to the lineout," he said.
"Obviously from my point of view to level the scores would have been a good place to be midway through the second half particularly the way possession and territory had gone."
The families of some of the 179 servicemen and women who died in the Iraq War, and politicians who took key decisions at the time, have been reacting to its findings.
In a press conference immediately after Sir John Chilcot delivered his report, Mr Bacon said bereaved families could "call specific parties to answer for their actions in the courts".
"Never again must so many mistakes be allowed to sacrifice British lives and lead to the destruction of a country for no positive end," he said.
He said he was "really pleased" with the report but it would never take away the pain of losing a son.
Ms Gentle said she would like to look former Prime Minister Tony Blair in the eye and ask: "Why did you send my son to be killed?"
"What we've been hearing and what we've been reading has been really hard and I think that's why there's a lot of mothers and fathers that have been in tears today," she said.
"A lot of us have held it back for weeks and what's been confirmed today has really gut-wrenched a lot of us."
"Personally, for myself, anger. That healing, that 11 and a half years that I've worked for, I've gone back to that time when I learned that my brother had been killed," she said.
"And there's one terrorist in this world that the world needs to be aware of and his name is Tony Blair. The world's worst terrorist."
"I have come to the end of a journey and the start of another one. The journey started with the loss of Daniel in Basra, Iraq, in February 2007," said Mr Godfrey.
"The next stage of my journey started with the launch of the Chilcot inquiry report and it has been a journey of heartache and pain - not just for my family but for every other family you have seen here today."
He said the report had not gone far enough.
"I can only conclude that unfortunately and sadly, my son died in vain," said Mr Keys, adding that British forces had been "deployed on the basis of a falsehood" and there should be accountability from key players.
He said the report had taken too long but it was "well worth the wait". "Thank you sir John, you've done the families proud today."
She said she felt "sick, really sick, it was like going into my inquest for Michael".
"We've heard it - war was not really needed," she said.
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair said going to war in Iraq was the "most agonising" decision he took as PM and he took full responsibility for any mistakes.
"There were no lies, Parliament and the Cabinet were not misled, there was no secret commitment to war, intelligence was not falsified and the decision was made in good faith", he told a press conference.
George Bush's spokesman said: "President Bush is hosting wounded warriors at his ranch today and has not had the chance to read the Chilcot report.
"Despite the intelligence failures and other mistakes he has acknowledged previously, President Bush continues to believe the whole world is better off without Saddam Hussein in power.
"He is deeply grateful for the service and sacrifice of American and coalition forces in the war on terror."
Prime Minister David Cameron told MPs it was a "difficult day for all the families of those who lost loved ones" and he hoped bereaved relatives could find "some comfort from knowing we will never forget the incredible sacrifice".
He said "lessons must be learned" and announced a two-day Commons debate next week.
Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn condemned the decision to go to war in Iraq as an "act of military aggression launched on a false pretext".
"We now know that the House was misled in the run-up to the war and the House must now decide how to deal with it 13 years later, just as all those who took the decisions laid bare in the Chilcot report must face up to the consequences of their actions, whatever they may be," he said.
Later, at a press conference, Mr Corbyn said: "I now apologise sincerely on behalf of my party for the disastrous decision to go to war in Iraq."
Ms Short, who resigned over the war, said it was a "damning" report: "I tried very hard... to hold on to Tony Blair's ankles and [thought] he might hold on to Bush, and we might find a better way of dealing with sanctions on Iraq... I know I tried my damnedest, but of course I failed, and for that I feel terrible."
"The decisions made by me and others can only properly be judged in the context of the time. I take full responsibility for all those that I made," he said in a statement.
"Tony Blair was not giving George Bush a blank cheque. I was alongside Tony Blair, I saw very close up the care he took with the decisions he was making," he said.
"But ultimately he had to make that judgement and yes he will for the rest of his days think about that."
He said: "In purely technical terms, legal opinions can differ. I provided my advice to the best of my abilities and aware of the seriousness of any decision to go to war. In my opinion, that decision was in accordance with international law and it was permissible for those with the responsibility for taking the decision to proceed.
"So, I believed then - and I still believe - that military action was lawful."
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Lauren Arbuckle's ex-fiance sued her after their relationship ended because of squabbles over wedding finances.
Devin Sherrington sued for the return of the ring and a $6,000 loan after the three-year relationship fell apart.
A Nova Scotia court found that although she ended the relationship, it was not her idea to break up so she did not have to return the gift.
Small claims adjudicator Gregg Knudsen said that since the 3.25 carat diamond ring was gifted on the condition the two would marry, the entire matter rested on who ended the engagement.
If Ms Arbuckle, a hairstylist and make-up artist, ended it, then she must relinquish the gift, he said. However, if Mr Sherrington, a personal trainer, broke it off, then the gift was rightfully hers.
The couple had been engaged for one year before deciding to call it quits because the two could not agree about how to pay for the wedding.
Ms Arbuckle wanted a lavish affair, while Mr Sherrington wanted something more cost-conscious.
He didn't believe his fiancee could afford her half of the wedding cost, the court heard, and feared he would get stuck paying for the whole bill.
He suggested postponing the wedding but she did not want to. Finally, she decided to end the relationship.
At first, Mr Sherrington told Ms Arbuckle she could keep the ring, text messages show. But later, he asked for it back, as well as money he says he loaned her for a trip to Mexico.
Ultimately, Mr Knudsen found that it was Mr Sherrington who called off the engagement, and so the ring rightfully belongs to Ms Arbuckle - although he also ruled that she had to pay him back about C$3,000 for the Mexico trip.
"I find the postponement was an indefinite postponement, sufficient to treat the engagement as over. Ms. Arbuckle may have ended the relationship but Mr. Sherrington ended the engagement," he said.
But Ms Arbuckle's victory is short-lived, as she has had to file for bankruptcy and all her assets - including the ring - are being held by a trustee.
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The Belfast bid won a vote at the International Ice Hockey Federation's annual congress in Russia on Friday.
Belfast beat an Estonian bid by 18-7 in a ballot of IIHF council members and the six competing countries.
Ice Hockey UK, in conjunction with the SSE Arena and the Belfast Giants, submitted the bid.
Ice Hockey UK chairman Richard Grieveson described the news as a "massive moment" for the sport in the UK.
"A lot of hard work went into the bid and the work now begins on getting ready for the tournament," said the Ice Hockey UK chairman.
"We are looking forward to working with Belfast Giants, the SSE Arena and our partners in Belfast on this project."
Great Britain will be joined by Croatia, Estonia, Lithuania, Japan and the Netherlands at the Division 1B Championship, which is scheduled to run from 23-29 April.
The Belfast arena, which was opened in 2000, has a capacity of 7,200.
Belfast's Lord Mayor, councillor Arder Carson described the successful bid "as a wonderful coup" for the city.
"2017 will be a fantastic year for sport, not only will we have some of the world's best ice hockey teams here, we will also be the host city for Uefa's Under-19 Women's Football Championships and the Women's Rugby World Cup," said the Belfast Lord Mayor.
Great Britain missed out on promotion from this year's World Championships Division 1B tournament in Zagreb last month after being edged out 2-1 by Ukraine in their final match.
Kate is an ambassador for the children's charity Place2Be, and thinks more needs to be done to help kids with their mental health.
She says the "challenges facing children here in the UK can often feel overwhelming".
At the start of Children's Mental Health Week, the Duchess doesn't think all kids get the help they need.
She and the charity want people to talk more openly about their problems this week.
But what are people talking about when they talk about mental health?
When people talk about mental health, they are talking about how people think and feel and how they are coping.
There are lots of different symptoms of mental health problems and lots of treatments.
It's perfectly normal to sometimes feel sad, worried or both.
But when someone starts feeling that way for long periods of time, there could be a mental health problem.
Dr Simon Lewis is an expert of childrens' mental health.
He says, "Everyone has mental health, just like everyone has physical health: our bodies can get unwell, so can our minds. It's just as important to look after your body as it is to look after your feelings so that you can get the most out of life and enjoy yourself. Our mental health is affected by the things going on around us and also the way that we think about ourselves and other people,"
"Everyone is different and sometimes we are able to bounce back from the things making us feel bad but sometimes we develop more serious difficulties called mental health problems."
If someone breaks a bone in their body, doctors can use an X-ray to look at the problem and work out what to do.
With mental health, it can be more difficult to tell exactly what is wrong. There are special doctors who work hard to find out what is wrong.
There are lots of different ways of treating mental health problems.
Different treatments work for different people - and sometimes more than one are needed to help.
Talking about problems can help - with trained professionals but also with those around the person who is ill.
Dr Lewis says talking helps people to understand the problem and figure out different ways of coping.
"About three young people in every class have a mental health problem so it's more common than you might think. It's really important that we learn to talk more openly about our mental health and find ways to look out for each other,"
"Always listen to your feelings, don't be embarrassed or frightened about it, talk to someone you trust, perhaps a friend, a teacher or parent. Often just by talking to someone you trust it will help you to feel better but there might be times when it would be better to talk to a professional. There are doctors who are all there to help with mental health just like there are doctors for your physical health."
Medicine is sometimes used, but things like exercise, outdoor activities and even contact with animals can help too.
Often people talk about a 'stigma' around mental health.
That means people sometimes feel afraid to talk about their mental health problems because they're worried about what people will think about them.
"Nobody is happy all of the time! But when difficult feelings are really really strong or go on for such a long time that they get in the way of your day-to-day life like going to school, going out with the family, sleeping or eating, that's when it's best to ask for help," says Dr Lewis.
The Duchess wants to use her message to raise more awareness of the issue, and for people to see mental health in the same way as they see physical health.
The High Spirits store in Slateford Road was targeted at 20:40 on Saturday, and then at about 21:45 on Monday.
Police said they believed the two robberies were linked, and that the same person may have been responsible for both raids.
In the latest incident, the shop assistant was threatened with a knife. A three figure sum of money was stolen on both occasions.
The robber was described as being white, in his mid to late 20s, 5ft 8in, of solid build with a pale complexion and blotchy skin.
During Monday's raid, he was wearing a blue hooded top with dark blue sleeves and white bands on the arms, jeans, grey trainers and a woolly hat with a plastic bag covering the bottom of his face.
Det Con Kevin Walls, of Police Scotland, said: "This is the second time in a matter of days this store has been targeted and we are working with the staff to provide all the relevant support and crime prevention advice.
"If you can help us identify the suspect, or remember seeing anything suspicious around the premises on Monday evening, then please contact police immediately.
"In addition, we would also urge those with any further information relevant to this inquiry to get in touch."
Luke Pirie appeared in private at Perth Sheriff Court. It is alleged he lost control of his vehicle and caused the death of the two-year-old.
Mr Pirie, from Forfar, is alleged to have driven dangerously in Coupar Angus on 13 October last year.
He made no plea or declaration and was granted bail by Sheriff Lindsay Foulis.
The petition alleges he collided with another vehicle and mounted the kerb.
Mr Pirie faces a second charge of driving dangerously and causing serious injury to two other people, a 17-year-old girl and a six-year-old boy, in the same incident.
The bright orange lobster has been called Jaffa by staff at the National Lobster Hatchery in Padstow.
Staff at the hatchery have described the lobster as a "very queer specimen".
Most of the lobsters caught around the Cornish coast tend to be light brown or even a dark blue but staff at the attraction said very, very rarely were they orange.
Ben Marshall, senior technician, said "It would be great to have a pair, so that we could breed them and use their babies as natural markers to indicate movements of juveniles when released."
The charity released its last orange lobster called Thermidore back into the wild in 2010 after a couple of years of living at the hatchery.
Research and development officer Dr Carly Daniels said "What a lobster feeds upon might influence its colour, if it feeds on highly pigmented foods such as mussels or crabs it might be dark, or if it feeds on fish it might become paler.
"Colour morphs are different however. Colouration is due to several pigments found within the shell.
"The main pigment is called astaxanthin and the way it interacts with other proteins gives the range of colouration that you normally expect to see in a lobster."
The lobster was given to hatchery by a Paignton-based shellfish food company.
Pulis has a year left on his deal at The Hawthorns and says he will sit down with chairman Jeremy Peace in the summer to discuss his future.
Albion are 11th in the Premier League, 13 points clear of the relegation zone with seven games remaining, before a trip to Manchester City on Saturday.
"I would prefer to sit with Jeremy and have a nice glass of wine and a bite to eat," said the 58-year-old.
"We'll talk about the season and talk about the future. That's what I have done for years.
"I still have a year left, there's no rush in doing anything else."
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In a speech in Glasgow, Ms Davidson said that remaining in the UK would give young people "greater opportunities, not narrower horizons".
She argued that voters have a "responsibility" to future generations.
The Scottish government said that independence would mean "more and better jobs" for young people.
The Scottish Conservative leader addressed young Scots as part of her party's campaign to keep Scotland in the Union.
"If we vote to leave the UK, we'd be closing off avenues of opportunity for Scotland's young people that have existed for generations," she said.
"We'd be selling young Scots short.
"Our young people are as dynamic and ambitious as their contemporaries in any other corner of the globe.
"They've got what it takes to 'make it' in life - the talent, the drive and the determination to make their mark on the world.
"And it's our responsibility to make sure they get the best possible chance of achieving their full potential."
Ms Davidson claimed that a "No" vote would be "a resounding endorsement to Scotland staying in Britain, to Scotland advancing through partnership and not division, to delivering for the devolution generation, to ensuring future generations of Scots enjoy greater opportunities, not narrower horizons."
A spokesman for Scottish Education Secretary Michael Russell said: "With independence we can make sure Scotland's great wealth delivers far more for people living here.
"That means more and better jobs, financial security and greater opportunities for our young people."
He added: "The Tory party have dismantled free higher education south of the border, are gutting the welfare system and privatising the NHS.
"They are systematically destroying the opportunities that generations have built and relied upon in a country that is already one of the most unequal in Europe.
"In the face of this political vandalism, it takes a breathtaking level of duplicity for Ruth Davidson to lecture young people on opportunities."
The referendum will be held on 18 September, when voters will be asked the Yes/No question: "Should Scotland be an independent country?"
Sixteen and 17-year-olds will be able to vote in the referendum, unlike in local and general elections, when the minimum voting age is 18.
10 February 2017 Last updated at 11:08 GMT
Using embroidery and beading, she recreates their stories on her "love lehengas".
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Lowe, 36, whose partners have included Olympian Greg Rutherford and Hollyoaks star Ricky Whittle, said it was "a very difficult decision for me".
She joined BBC One's Strictly in 2009, having won Australia's Dancing With the Stars in 2006.
Strictly was "everything that I dreamed it would be and more", she said.
"I'll be forever grateful for the amazing time, opportunities and memories that Strictly has created for me.
"From the friendships I developed, the amazing dances I was able to perform in and the experiences that Strictly provided, it has been an incredible and extraordinary adventure."
The BBC said of her departure: "Everyone at Strictly wishes Natalie the best."
Lowe, who is an 11-time Australian ballroom dance champion, came second on Strictly in her first year dancing with Whittle. They were beaten by BBC presenter Chris Hollins and Ola Jordan.
She came fourth in 2010 with EastEnders actor Scott Maslen, and ninth last year with Rutherford.
The dancer said she will announce her next project in due course.
Strictly fans are still waiting to hear who will replacing head judge Len Goodman, who retired from the show last year.
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In association with Sport Scotland the aim is to celebrate all the amazing work that goes on to get girls active, as well as inspire more girls to participate in sport and physical activity.
Events will be hosted by clubs and schools and you can find out more on the Sport Scotland website.
Girls and women in Scotland are being encouraged to post photos on Twitter/Instagram. The pictures can be of themselves (or younger selves) playing sport, or of their female sporting role model. It is hoped that the word will spread across social media to get people talking about girls' sport.
If you would like to take part in this, all you have to do is share a photo alongside a bit about your own sporting experience, and use the hashtag #ActiveGirlsDay.
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The hosts went into Sunday's singles matches with a commanding 10½-5½ lead and kept their nerve to hold off Europe's attempted fightback.
Cristie Kerr and Paula Creamer both won their matches before Angel Yin secured a half point that put Juli Inkster's team on the brink of triumph.
Lizette Salas clinched victory with a one up win over Jodi Ewart Shadoff.
"To secure the point that wins us the Solheim Cup is unbelievable," said Salas. "My hands were shaking. This is really special."
The United States have now won five of the last seven competitions and 10 from 15 since the Solheim Cup began in 1990.
"The Europeans fought hard today and made it really close," said US captain Juli Inkster who joined Judy Rankin as the only women to captain back-to-back winning US Solheim Cup teams.
"I really haven't been nervous all week but today I was a little bit. It's an honour to captain this team and I'm really proud of the girls."
"We just got outplayed, there's no doubt about it," said European captain Annika Sorenstam.
In the first and best match of the day, world number two Lexi Thompson was four down to Europe's leading player Anna Nordqvist after nine holes.
The American rallied superbly with eagles on the 11th and 15th and birdied the 16th to take a one up lead heading into the last.
But Nordqvist, who had won all three of her matches over the first two days despite still recovering from a bout of glandular fever, hit an inspired approach shot on the last to halve the match.
"That had to be the weirdest round of golf I've ever played," 22-year-old Thompson said.
"Front nine I don't think I was awake and back nine I played lights out. It was just a crazy round but Anna played great."
Nordqvist added: "I got a little shaky there in the middle watching her make birdies and eagles but she gave me the chance missing that putt on 17," said the Swede.
"I'm very impressed with her back nine and very proud of myself."
Thompson's comeback gave the American team momentum and Kerr wrapped up a 2&1 victory over Mel Reid on the 17th and moments later Creamer won one up against Georgia Hall.
That left the hosts needing one more point to triumph but victories from Germany's Caroline Masson, who beat Michelle Wie 3&2, and veteran Scot Catriona Matthew, who trailed all the way until the 15th before beating Stacy Lewis one up, made the scoreboard look more respectable.
Angel Yin looked like she would complete the hosts' victory but the 18-year-old bogeyed the 17th and halved her match with France's Karine Icher, but with the US ahead in other matches it was enough to confirm they would retain the cup.
Spain's Carlota Ciganda thrashed Brittany Lincicome 4&3 before Salas held off England's Ewart Shadoff for a one up victory on the 18th.
England's Florentyna Parker lost 4&2 to Gerina Piller but Charley Hull, who missed all of Saturday's play because of a wrist injury, battled to a one up victory over Brittany Lang, and Sweden's Madelene Sagstrom earned a 3&2 win over Austin Ernst.
The competition finished with Emily Kristine Pedersen losing 3&1 to Danielle Kang but the European team showed their team spirit by walking arm in arm down the 16th fairway with the Dane.
Sorenstram confirmed afterwards she would not return as Europe's captain for the 2019 tournament at Gleneagles.
"I said this was a one-time thing for me," she said. "It is time to move the torch to the next person."
BBC golf correspondent Iain Carter:
Europe simply had too much to do. The decisive session came on Friday afternoon when the visitors were whitewashed in the fourballs and in the singles Europe produced a spirited display.
The half between Anna Nordqvist and Lexi Thompson will be remembered as one of the greatest Solheim singles matches.
Catriona Matthew completed a remarkable match, gaining three points out of four. The Scot should have been named in the team rather than as a late replacement for the injured Suzann Pettersen.
The Norwegian's absence was crucial, as was Charley Hull's departure from the fray throughout Saturday to rest her injured wrist as Europe do not possess the strength in depth to cope with the loss of such talents.
Lexi Thompson Halved Anna Nordqvist
Paula Creamer wins 1UP Georgia Hall
Cristie Kerr wins 2&1 Mel Reid
Stacy Lewis loses 1UP Catriona Matthew
Angel Yin Halved Karine Icher
Michelle Wie loses 4&2 Caroline Masson
Lizette Salas wins 1UP Jodi Ewart Shadoff
Brittany Lang loses 1UP Charley Hull
Brittany Lincicome loses 4&3 Carlota Ciganda
Gerina Piller wins 4&2 Florentyna Parker
Austin Ernst loses Madelene Sagstrom 3&2
Danielle Kang 3&1 Emily Pedersen
31 October 2015 Last updated at 11:44 GMT
It has been nicknamed 'Spooky' and will come within 300,000 miles of our planet.
Astronomers are hoping to use the occasion to learn more about asteroids and their orbits.
Scientists say it doesn't pose any danger.
The results of the UK-wide poll were released shortly after voting ended at 22:00 on Thursday.
The SNP won six seats at the 2010 election, but the poll suggested that number could increase to 58.
It also forecast that the Conservatives would be the largest party across the UK with 316 seats, while Labour would have 238.
The first results from Scottish constituencies are expected to be declared shortly. Turnout is expected to have been high across the country.
SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon tweeted: "I'd treat the exit poll with HUGE caution. I'm hoping for a good night but I think 58 seats is unlikely! #GE15"
Senior Liberal Democrat sources have admitted that former Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander will lose his seat, while Labour sources at counts across the party's former strongholds have said they too are braced for defeat at the hands of the SNP.
Scottish Labour's Tom Harris told BBC Scotland he was going to lose in Glasgow South, while the party's leader Jim Murphy is said to be under serious threat from the SNP in East Renfrewshire.
There have also been suggestions that Labour is on course to lose all seven of its seats in Glasgow, and that former SNP leader Alex Salmond will win in Gordon.
Senior Labour sources also say they will lose Edinburgh North East, Edinburgh East and Edinburgh South West.
If these predictions are true, it could suggest the exit poll conducted by GfK, NOP and Ipsos MORI on behalf of the BBC, ITV News, and Sky News is largely accurate, as it was in 2010.
The exit poll interviewed 22,000 people in 141 polling locations in 133 constituencies.
It had the Liberal Democrats on 10 seats, Plaid Cymru 4, UKIP 2, Green 2 and others 19.
It suggested Labour's vote could drop by about 18% on average in Scottish constituencies, coupled with an increase of more than 30% in the SNP vote.
If the exit poll is accurate, David Cameron could be on course to remain prime minister as the head of a minority government without the need for a coalition - although he might have to rely on the support of the DUP or the Lib Dems.
Reacting to the results, Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson said the poll should come with a "health warning".
She told BBC Scotland's election night programme: "I remember 1992. Exit polls can get it pretty badly wrong. I'm going to wait until 3am or 4am before I start making predictions."
Exit poll suggesting Conservative lead - and SNP with an incredible 58 seats. Might it be literally incredible? Personally, I still bear the scars from 1992.
All four political partisans on our panel tonight are highly sceptical about the exit poll.
Derek Mackay for the SNP says it's about managing expectations - downwards - for his party.
Willie Rennie of the Liberal Democrats concedes he has the opposite problem.
The biggest problem with the exit poll is to use a system designed for two parties and trying to extend it the six parties.
We will get the real results soon enough.
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Kezia Dugdale, deputy leader of the Scottish Labour Party, said she hoped the poll was "badly, badly wrong" because Scotland could not afford another five years of the Tories.
Willie Rennie, leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats, told the broadcaster: "This is underplaying our potential. We very much target our focus on certain constituencies."
The SNP's previous best result in a general election was when it won 11 MPs in October 1974, with 30.4% of vote.
A final poll of polls compiled by the Press Association ahead of the vote had put the Tories on 276 seats, Labour on 271, Lib Dems on 28, SNP 48, UKIP three and Greens one.
More than four million people in Scotland were registered to vote - about 94% of the adult population - and early indication have been that turnout is higher across the country than in 2010.
Several constituencies have reported turnout in excess on 70%.
There were more than 5,000 polling places in Scotland with schools, village halls and community centres transformed for the day to allow people to cast their votes.
Strict rules meant the BBC - in common with other broadcasters - was not allowed to report details of campaigning until after the polls closed.
BBC Scotland is delivering extensive coverage of the election results across online, TV and radio.
It will report live from Scotland's 32 counting centres, and there will be analysis, background, reaction and debate as we find out the results from each of Scotland's constituencies.
And the results of the ballot will also appear on the side of the building, which sits on the banks of the River Clyde in Glasgow.
Donald Craig, 57, of Craig Services, was found guilty of health and safety breaches over the accident at Buchanan House, Port Dundas, on 20 June 2012.
Craig Services was fined £61,000 and another contractor was fined £30,000.
Gary Currie, 39, died and Alexander Nisbet, 38, sustained a head injury after their platform fell 28m (92ft).
Mr Currie, a safety net rigger, and Mr Nisbet, a self-employed operator contracted by Craig Services, were in the basket of the platform removing netting from the facade of the Buchanan House office block when the collapse happened.
An investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) revealed that the third main boom section of the crane buckled, causing the platform's basket to fall to the ground.
Hamilton based Craig Services and Access Limited was fined after being found guilty of three charges relating to the collapse, including failures in relation to it maintenance.
Another firm, JM Access Solutions Ltd, was fined for its failure to carry out a thorough examination of the platform and its safety-critical parts.
This followed an earlier incident involving the platform in May 2011, after which Craig Services had instructed a repair to the damaged section of the main boom.
The repair was incorrectly carried out and JM Access Solutions Ltd were judged to have failed in their duty to carry out an adequate thorough examination of the platform.
Mr Craig was convicted of health and safety breaches on 9 December, following a 16-day trial at Airdrie Sheriff Court.
He has now been jailed for two years - the maximum penalty possible.
Speaking after sentencing, HSE principal inspector, Graeme McMinn, said: "The death of Gary Currie was entirely preventable. Craig Services and Access Ltd and Donald Craig were advised by the manufacturer to replace the damaged boom.
"Instead, they chose a much cheaper repair that left the boom in an unsafe condition.
"At the time of the accident, the mobile elevated working platform had a catalogue of defects, some of which were safety critical demonstrating that Craig Services and Access Ltd did not have an adequate proactive maintenance and reactive repair system in place within the company."
Gary Aitken, head of the Crown Office health and safety division, said the fatal accident could have been avoided had "Craig Services and Access Limited heeded advice and taken measures to maintain the platform in a safe condition".
He added: "At the centre of this all was the decision to instruct this repair.
"It was a decision that left Gary Currie and Alexander Nisbet exposed to an unacceptable risk and was essentially an accident waiting to happen.
"This incident has left family and friends devastated at the loss of a loved one."
Fifa president Sepp Blatter is not one of them but he has announced he will resign.
There is a bilateral extradition treaty between the US and Switzerland. Here is a guide to how extradition between the two countries works, and the issues that this case is likely to throw up.
The US justice authorities have indicted 14 individuals for allegedly accepting bribes and kickbacks estimated at more than $150m (£97m). The US Department of Justice has confirmed the charges relate to racketeering, wire fraud and money laundering conspiracies "among other offences" and an alleged "24-year scheme to enrich themselves through the corruption of international soccer".
"The indictment alleges corruption that is rampant, systemic, and deep-rooted both abroad and here in the United States," said US Attorney General Loretta Lynch.
Of the 14 indicted on corruption charges, the seven Fifa officials, all from or working in the Latin American and Caribbean region, are being held at detention centres following their arrest at a Zurich luxury hotel last Wednesday. All seven have contested extradition.
Both Swiss and US justice officials have said the indicted officials had allegedly received $150m worth of bribes from the early 1990s for football tournaments in the US and Latin America. The alleged crimes were agreed to and prepared in the US via US bank accounts.
Once the extradition request is made by the US authorities, it's essentially a three-stage process:
(i) the Swiss Federal Office of Justice Extradition Unit (FOJ) accepts the extradition request, examines it in order to be satisfied that it contains all the necessary information and that extradition is possible. If satisfied it will order the police to detain the person - evidence and goods acquired as a result of the offence will be seized. The FOJ makes a decision as a first instance court.
The essential condition that needs to be met is dual criminality i.e. whether the offences that the extradition request alleges have been committed would also be punishable under Swiss law - and on the facts of this case, I don't anticipate that will be a problem for the US. They do not need to be precisely the same offence - for example, theft in one country can be called embezzlement in another. Generally the FOJ will issue an extradition warrant and invite the requesting state to issue a formal extradition request. There is a 40-day time limit for the requesting state to do this.
(ii) the defendant can then appeal to the Federal Criminal Court (FCC). Both the wanted person and the FOJ can appeal against its decision up to the Supreme Court in certain cases. The wanted person can apply to be released from custody at any stage during extradition proceedings.
(iii) the FOJ then makes the final decision on extradition. Note that questions of guilt or fact are NOT examined as part of the extradition proceedings, so there is no examination of whether the wanted person committed the offence.
In terms of the amount of evidence required for the extradition, Article 9(3)(b) of the Swiss/US Treaty requires a "reasonable basis" for concluding the defendant committed the crime.
Normally extradition will have to wait until criminal proceedings in the state to whom the request is made have run their course. On the same day they carried out the arrests under the US extradition request, the Swiss authorities opened a separate criminal investigation of their own into the awarding of the 2018 World Cup to Russia and the 2022 event to Qatar. It has been reported that for now these cases do not appear to involve the same men, so the pending Swiss case would not interfere with their extradition.
"At this stage the scope for these men to resist extradition seems limited. The US looks to have a firm evidential basis for its case, and international corruption is regarded by all nations as a very serious crime. I anticipate that the US will be able to satisfy the Swiss legal conditions for extradition," says expert extradition barrister Julian Knowles QC.
Sepp Blatter, who announced on Tuesday that he would resign as Fifa president, has not been indicted and his extradition is not being sought by the US. Should that change, Blatter, who is Swiss, would have protection from extradition from Switzerland because Article 7 of IMAC (the governing Swiss law) prohibits the extradition of Swiss nationals.
Switzerland is not alone in reserving the right to refuse to extradite its own nationals. One way around this would be for the US to ask the Swiss authorities to conduct criminal proceedings on its behalf against Blatter.
If he were to move abroad at a time when an indictment was presented by the US authorities to the country he was visiting, he would be much more vulnerable to an extradition request. Assuming it was a country which had extradition arrangements with the US, a normal extradition process could take place.
The US could possibly seek what is known as an Interpol "red notice" - sometimes described as the closest thing to an international arrest warrant.
The information disseminated via notices concerns individuals wanted for serious crimes, and would lead to the arrest and detention of a suspect who left a country where they were immune from extradition.
Predicting how long the extradition process will take is always difficult, because it depends in part on what the defendant does, but if appeals are taken, a year or so would not be uncommon.
"From the time of arrest to the final enforceable decision, it would easily take two months (for extradition), a few months, if there are not too many complex legal issues. Not years," Peter Cosandey, a Zurich-based lawyer and former provincial district attorney, told Reuters.
Swiss law can provide exemption from extradition in respect of allegations of tax crimes. Mark Rich, the American billionaire commodity trader and hedge fund manager, lived up to his own surname in a luxurious Swiss villa in the 1980s and 1990s while refusing to return to the US to face what was then the biggest tax evasion case in US history. He was controversially pardoned by President Bill Clinton before his death in 2013.
That case added to Switzerland's reputation as a country where rich and influential foreign nationals can sometimes evade justice for crimes committed in their home country.
However, other than in tax-related cases, Switzerland has a reasonable history of dealing with extradition requests.
High-profile cases include film director Roman Polanski. He was arrested as he arrived in Zurich for a film festival in September 2009 at the request of US authorities following a 1977 charge of having sex with a 13-year-old girl in California.
Polanski was released from custody after lodging $4.5m bail, agreeing to wear an electronic monitoring tag and surrendering his identity and travel documents while under house arrest in his chalet in the Swiss ski resort of Gstaad. The authorities did not extradite him because of potential technical faults in the US request regarding legal arguments that Polanski had already served his sentence before fleeing Los Angeles in 1978.
Russia's former Nuclear Energy Minister Yevgeny Adamov was extradited from Switzerland to Russia in 2005. That ruling irritated the US, which had wanted his extradition on fraud charges.
Saudi financier Adnan Khashoggi was arrested while in Switzerland for medical checks at the US's request in 1989 on charges of racketeering and fraud linked to theft by former Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos. His extradition back to the US was concluded in a speedy three months. He was never convicted.
The hosts have won 12 of their last 14 home ODI series' but Morgan says England remain "very optimistic" they can compete on Indian pitches.
Morgan led England to the final of the World T20 in similar conditions.
"The challenge of winning in India is huge but not impossible," he said ahead of Sunday's first ODI (08:00 GMT).
"There's a fine balance between playing positive cricket and playing smart cricket and we don't want to fall short.
"We want to fall on the brave side of things as we have done in the last couple of years."
The tourists were were beaten 4-0 in the recent Test series.
The batting line-up for Sunday's ODI in Pune is expected to include Alex Hales, Jason Roy, Joe Root, Jonny Bairstow, Morgan and Jos Buttler.
Root has joined up with the squad in India having missed the two warm-up matches to be present at the birth of his first child.
Morgan has already declared that the new father will play in the first game, saying he looks in good enough form, despite a lack of preparation.
"Joe could be out for three or four months and it wouldn't bother me throwing him back into the side," said the captain.
"He has been an integral part of our success over the last couple of years and to have him back so soon after the great news that he has become a father, I think is great news for the team."
New India ODI captain Virat Kohli, who took over from MS Dhoni after resigning his captaincy, believes that England's commitment to attack could be their downfall.
In his first pre-match news conference, he suggested the visitors may have accelerated their tactics too much to have sustainable success.
"They seem to be quite fearless, which is always a good thing in the shorter format of the game, but I've always felt that to be a consistent performer in the ODI format, you need to understand strike rotation as well," he said.
"We already have plans in place in terms of how we counter what they're going to come up with."
John Button was found dead at his home on the French Riviera by a friend on Sunday.
He was a strong influence on his son's career, which includes winning the 2009 World Championship.
A statement released by the McLaren driver's agent read: "It is with great sadness I can confirm John has passed away."
"Jenson Button's father John had been a permanent fixture in Formula 1 since his son's debut 14 years ago.
"The perfect 'racing dad' - he was there at his son's wishes for support and advice if required, but never interfered or got in the way.
"A very decent rallycross driver in his time, John Button was a bon viveur and heartily jovial character. Rarely very far from a glass of red wine, he was popular throughout the sport.
"'Papa Smurf', as he was known, was the source of many a great story from behind the scenes. The paddock will be a duller place without him."
It added that "initial signs indicate a suspected heart attack".
The statement continued: "John's children Jenson, Natasha, Samantha and Tanya and the rest of the family are clearly devastated and ask for their privacy to be respected during this extremely difficult time."
Former McLaren team-mate Lewis Hamilton led the tributes to the 2009 champion's father, tweeting: "Deeply saddened by the passing of John Button. I'm so sorry @jensonbutton John was such a great man and will be missed by so many. God bless."
McLaren team principal Martin Whitmarsh said: "Speaking on behalf of all at McLaren Mercedes, I want to say how very sad I was to hear the news of John's passing.
"In my long Formula 1 career, I've encountered many drivers' fathers, but I think it's safe to say that John was perhaps more devoted to his son than any of them.
"Ever since Jenson was a boy, racing go-karts, his dad has been at his side, helping him, supporting him, finding the money for the next race.
"He was not only a great dad, but also a lovely man, and he'll be enormously missed by Jenson, of course, by all at McLaren, and indeed by the Formula 1 community at large."
Button's new team-mate Kevin Magnussen wrote on Twitter: "I'm very, very sorry for my team-mate, Jenson Button. His dad was a really great guy who will be missed by all in F1."
Two-time world champion Fernando Alonso tweeted: "My condolences to all the Button family, especially to Jenson Button. Very sad news. John.... a great man, a friend, we will miss him."
British driver Max Chilton tweeted: "So sad and shocked to hear the sad passing of John Button. One of the greatest characters in the paddock & will miss him dearly."
The pair, aged 12 and 14, were held after the 30-year-old was attacked by a group of youths in Grosvenor Street, Cheltenham, on Friday, police said.
The victim remains in hospital, police said, with serious but non life-threatening injuries.
A third boy, aged 12, has been released without charge.
All three boys were arrested on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm (GBH), Gloucestershire Police said.
The force said it was keen to point out the attack was an isolated incident and those involved were known to each other.
Brandon Gowland, 18, from Onchan pleaded guilty to causing death by dangerous driving and causing injury by dangerous driving last March.
Brad Campbell, 17, also from Onchan, died when a Renault Clio driven by Gowland crashed in Foxdale last year.
During sentencing, Deemster Alistair Montgomerie said: "This has been a tragedy for everyone."
"The constant theme was speed- you were showing off your recently purchased car and you took a number of risks in the way you drove.
"Having seen photographs of the crash scene, I regard it as miraculous that any of you survived."
The court heard on the night in question Gowland had been driving three passengers in his car on the A24 Foxdale Road.
It is thought he reached speeds of about 75mph in an area that defence counsel described as an accident "black spot".
Gowland, who lost control of the car before crashing into a road-side cottage, was still classified as an R-plate driver- a fact that restricted him to driving at speeds no faster than 50mph.
Brad Campbell, an apprentice plumber, was found by paramedics in the back seat of the car at about 00:10 BST on 24 August. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
The Isle of Man constabulary said: "Brandon Gowland is a young man, who, at just seventeen years of age, drove a high performance car in such a dangerous manner that he lost control, caused the death of one passenger, seriously injured another, and significantly injured the third.
"In doing so, he has had to face the consequences of his actions but no sentence will bring young Brad Campbell back to his family.
"Perhaps his legacy can be that his tragedy will serve as a stark reminder to others of the immense responsibility expected when using the road".
Gowland has also been disqualified from driving for seven years.
The Woodland Trust has sought old records and photographs of the mills that made bobbins for Scotland's textiles industry in the 19th Century.
Sites that are known include one at South Kinrara, now called Inshriach, near Aviemore. The mill there was in operation until 1892, the trust said.
There was also a mill at Kincraig and possibly others in Glen Tromie and Glentruim.
Brothers William and Andrew Taylor, from Stonehaven, established the mills at South Kinara and Kincraig.
The Woodland Trust believe other mill sites have been forgotten. It said newspaper article from 1881 reported that "bobbin mills could be seen in half-a-dozen places" in the Badenoch area of the Cairngorms.
This research is part of the charity's Ancient Woodland Restoration project, which is working to restore ancient woodland in the Cairngorms and nine other areas throughout Scotland.
Researcher Joanna Gilliatt said: "Bobbin making was once a considerable rural industry in parts of Scotland; it consumed large quantities of birch wood, and produced millions of bobbins, essential for the textile industries.
"Yet most of us have never even heard of bobbin mills, and there is often no physical trace left of them."
"It would be great to hear from anybody who knows what the bobbins produced in Badenoch looked like and where they were used."
She added: "I'd also really like to know why the bobbin mill at South Kinrara was closed down. I've looked for William Taylor's grave at Rothiemurchus, but haven't found it, so it would also be great to hear from anybody who knows where it is."
The Newcastle player, 26, came off the bench in the last minute of extra time and saved two spot-kicks as his side won 4-3 on penalties.
Krul said he spoke to every Costa Rica player about to take a penalty to "try to get in their heads".
But he said: "I don't think I did anything wrong. I did nothing crazy. I didn't shout in an aggressive manner."
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He added: "I told them I knew where they were going because I had analysed it. It worked."
Netherlands manager Louis van Gaal said he substituted Jasper Cillessen with seconds of extra time remaining because of Krul's greater height and reach.
Cillessen, who kicked a water bottle as he came off, said: "I didn't know it was going to happen, so I was angry. I wanted to play the penalty shootout. It is a pity I wasn't told before, but it worked very well."
Ajax goalkeeper Cillessen, 25, is expected to start Wednesday's semi-final against Argentina, but Krul is drawing up a plan to deal with Lionel Messi and co if he is called into action again.
"We will analyse every Argentina penalty on Monday," added Krul. "We will sit together and write up a plan."
Dutch defender Ron Vlaar, who plays his club football for Aston Villa, is a doubt for the game because of a knee problem.
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Eurozone deputy finance ministers want an agreement on the €7.2bn loan in time for a Eurogroup meeting on 24 April.
An EU official said: "If you take into account weekends and Orthodox Easter, there are only six days left."
It comes as Greece said it had met Thursday's deadline to repay €460m to the International Monetary Fund.
A Greek government official told the Reuters news agency: "The payment has been made."
Other, much larger, debt repayments are due within a few weeks.
Analysis: Chris Morris, BBC News, Athens
Greece has fulfilled its financial commitments today, but the situation is becoming rather desperate. There is precious little cash left in the national coffers, and if the government fails to procure further funding soon, it will be in trouble.
There are salaries and pensions to pay, and more debt repayments looming. EU officials are also turning the screw by saying there are only six working days left in which to reach agreement on a new package of reforms to the Greek economy.
Only if eurozone finance ministers are satisfied with the Greek plan when they meet later this month will more money be released. On the second day of his visit to Moscow, the Prime Minister, Alexis Tsipras, said he still hoped for an honourable compromise.
But his radical left-wing government is ideologically opposed to many of the policies that its eurozone partners have endorsed - that's one of the reasons why it is proving so difficult to strike a deal. And Greece is feeling the squeeze.
Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras has said that Athens will not be able to service its debt without financial help from the European Union.
Without new money it will struggle to renew €2.4bn in treasury bonds due to mature in the middle of April, or pay back another €0.8m to the IMF on 12 May.
It also has to find the funds to pay wages and pensions.
It is still trying to negotiate an easing of the reforms that are part of the conditions of the rescue bailout.
Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis said on Thursday that the government would restart the privatisation of state-owned businesses.
In January, the sell-off of businesses such as the power corporation, PPC, and Pireus port were put on ice. This came the week after Mr Tsipras' government came to power and was part of its pledge to rein in the austerity measures imposed by its creditors.
But on Thursday, Mr Varoufakis said: "What we are saying is the Greek state does not have the capacity to develop public assets.
"We want private-public joint ventures....we want to retain a stake for the state so as to have an income stream with which to finance pension funds."
Last month, the Financial Times reported that the country was using reserves from its health service and state owned utilities to pay off debts.
Mr Tsipras met Russian President Vladimir Putin this week in Moscow, but Mr Putin said he did not ask for financial aid from Russia during their talks.
The carmakers, which together are the world's fifth largest automakers by sales, sold 8.01 million vehicles, below their forecast of 8.2 million.
They expect sales to rise 1.5% in 2016, following a flat performance last year.
Both brands have faced stiff competition in recent years.
US and Japanese rivals have been regaining lost ground in the US, while demand in emerging markets and the world's biggest car market - China - has been cooling.
Meanwhile, a weaker yen has benefitted Japanese automakers, as a stronger Korean won and plunging currencies in markets such as Russia and Brazil has reduced the value of overseas sales for the South Korean carmakers.
In October, Hyundai reported that its quarterly profit fell to its lowest level in five years. Its shares plunged more than 12% last year.
The automakers sales target for this year marks the weakest sales growth in 10 years.
The economic slowdown in China, which is the group's largest market by volume, will continue to affect its growth this year, the company said.
Sales in the world's second largest economy fell in the first 11 months of last year.
Gerard Ellis scored two tries, while Johnny Williams and Joe Trayfoot also went over, as the hosts opened up a 24-3 half-time lead.
Alex Lewington crossed twice in the second half, with Rob McCusker and Sean Maitland also scoring within three minutes of each other.
Replacement Felicien Vergnon crossed for Agen's only try after the interval.
London Irish assistant coach Clark Laidlaw told BBC Radio Berkshire:
"We're certainly happier than we have been for the last few weeks. The boys have been working hard for a long time now and it's been a long time between drinks for the club, so we're delighted to get the win.
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"It's a bit better feeling than the last two or three weeks for sure.
"There's large aspects of our game that we need to get better at, but we moved the ball a lot better. We got through a lot more content in our attack and got a bit more flow and rhythm to our game.
"That's what we've worked hard on for the last few weeks, just trying to get that attacking game flowing and a little bit of rhythm."
On playing the game against French opposition the day after the attacks in Paris:
"Sometimes it keeps sport in perspective. We get pretty serious about trying to win games of rugby, but ultimately it's just a sport and we're lucky to work in a game that we all love.
"It gives you that reality that it's just a game. There's a lot bigger things in life than just chasing a rugby ball around a field."
London Irish: Maitland; Lewington, Tikoirotuma, Williams, Ojo; Noakes, Allinson; Court, Ellis, Aulika, Sheriff, Symons (capt), McCusker, Trayfoot, Guest.
Replacements: Cruse, Smallbone, Halavatau, Sisi, Narraway, Murphy, Brophy-Clews, Waldouck.
Agen: Tardieu; Nakosi, Heriteau, Roux, Deschamps; Guemes, Abadie (capt); Bethune, Barthomeuf, Chocou, Roidot, Marchois, Miquel, Gal, Baget.
Replacements: Morlay, Afatia, Ryan, Bastien, Vergnon, Darbo, Bouvier, Sicart.
Referee: Gary Conway (Ireland).
Craig Wright's spokesman told the BBC that he would "move a coin from an early block" belonging to the crypto-currency's inventor "in the coming days".
The Australian entrepreneur announced he was behind the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto on Monday.
Critics have said that the evidence produced to date is unconvincing.
You can read the strongest case for the prosecution in this post on Github, where Wright's blog is described as "flimflam and hokum which stands up to a few minutes of cursory scrutiny, and demonstrates a competent sysadmin's level of familiarity with cryptographic tools, but ultimately demonstrates no non-public information about Satoshi."
The author goes on to speculate that Craig Wright "used amateur magician tactics to distract non-technical or non-expert staff of the BBC and the Economist during a stage-managed demonstration."
It's not completely unfair to describe me and Mark Ward - the other BBC reporter at the briefing - as non-technical or non-expert. Indeed, in yesterday's blog I said this: "What we saw seemed impressive - though it would need a far higher level of expertise than we possess to be certain."
But what I also said was that Jon Matonis - a senior director at the Bitcoin Foundation - was present at the briefing and actually talked us through the process being demonstrated by Craig Wright. He had told us earlier that he had first suspected Craig was Satoshi last year, after meeting him at a Bitcoin convention in Australia, and in recent weeks had spent a lot of time with him and seen evidence he found compelling.
We also knew that the Bitcoin Foundation's chief scientist Gavin Andresen, a respected figure I had interviewed a couple of years ago, was going to say that he believed Craig was Satoshi.
On Monday morning, conspiracy theories began to spread that Andresen had been hacked and these were not his views. I explained to a few people that we'd soon know as he was due to speak at a New York conference, and a few hours later up he popped to say, no, he hadn't been hacked, and yes, he was convinced by Craig Wright.
The trouble is that Dr Wright's blog has not convinced the wider public.
He had told me last week that he intended it to be convoluted. He wanted to show those who doubted his intellectual capabilities that he really knew what he was talking about - instead he has managed to make them more suspicious.
This morning, I have managed to reach Jon Matonis, who is at a cryptocurrency event in Kenya. He remains absolutely convinced by Craig Wright but agrees that the blog hasn't helped his case.
"It needs to be amended because it's not conclusive for the general public. But that does not take away from what I saw in private," he explained.
As far as I can see it, if Dr Wright can move one of Satoshi's bitcoins - as promised - that should convince many of the doubters.
It would constitute proof that he is who he says he is - although one suspects that even then some will never believe his story.
Posh, who are 14th in the third tier, last won silverware in 2013-14 when they lifted the Johnstone's Paint Trophy and Westley is targeting trophies sooner rather than later.
"We're serious about having title ambitions next year," Westley told BBC Radio Cambridgeshire.
"People either contribute to winning or there is no place for them."
Three successive victories had helped Peterborough recover from a run of seven winless games through February and March, before Fleetwood beat them on Tuesday.
"I was fuming," Westley said. "I expected to beat them. I expected our lads to find the motivation and drive to win that game.
"The other night was the first time I really felt as though it was time for me to start making my mark."
Peterborough had moved to within three points of the play-offs after their nine men held off Chesterfield in thrilling fashion at the start of February, but now find themselves 12 points behind sixth-placed Millwall.
Westley continued: "If I go back to my Preston days, I made the mistake of walking in and putting my size nines all over the place before I understood the place.
"I've taken time to find my feet here. I've come in and I've had a long hard look at the way things work, rather than trying to impose myself too much too early."
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Crolla, 30, led on two of the judges' scorecards after nine rounds when the pair met in September but lost the title in a unanimous points decision.
Linares - a three-weight world champion - is a heavy favourite with bookmakers.
"Winning it back on Saturday would, without doubt, be the highlight of my career," said the Manchester fighter.
"There's a lot of people out there who think there's no way I can beat Jorge Linares. Jorge is a great fighter but I'll prove an awful lot of people wrong.
"I'm a realist. I know it's going to take a career best performance."
Both fighters weighed in on Friday at 9st 8lbs 4oz.
In addition to the WBA title, Linares' Ring Magazine belt will also be on the line and victory would see Crolla become the first Englishman to hold it at lightweight.
About 20,000 fans are expected in the Manchester Arena, which hosted Ricky Hatton's famous IBF super-lightweight title win against heavy favourite Kostya Tszyu in 2005.
BBC Radio 5 live commentator Mike Costello, who will be joined ringside by Steve Bunce and heavyweight Hughie Fury, said: "It's the kind of fight that takes us back 30, 40, 50 years.
"These are two men who have won and lost fights and you don't hear of a protection of a record. They put themselves on the line.
"What we saw first time around was a torrid fight and I think we will see the same again. I just can't wait."
Linares is no stranger to fighting on away territory having only contested four of his 44 professional bouts on home turf in Venezuela.
Unable to fight in his homeland under the age of 18, he moved to Japan and made his professional debut at 17 - setting up in Tokyo where he admits he was initially "always lonely".
Since beginning his career at the renowned Teiken Boxing Gym he has built a reputation as a fighter with fast hands and a dangerous counter-puncher.
He was WBC world featherweight champion at just 21, claimed the WBA crown at super-featherweight less than two years later and won the WBC title at lightweight in 2014.
Linares believes he is "better prepared" than he was in his first Crolla meeting, adding: "I'm coming in and doing whatever is necessary to win more convincingly than I did in September."
Crolla, who will contest the seventh rematch of his career, has been forced by trainer Joe Gallagher to reduce media commitments and distractions in the weeks leading up to the fight.
Gallagher believes his charge is in a better place "mentally" and feels the winner of the contest will "strike the jackpot" by potentially setting up a meeting with WBC champion Mikey Garcia in Las Vegas.
"Joe has given me more one on one time than ever before," said Crolla. "I always have faith in what he tells me to do and this time it's certainly been our best camp together.
"We've had more rounds of sparring and we've been smart as well, maybe more rest will have me fresher this time."
Monday AM: Punching session PM: Swimming intervals
Tuesday AM: Pads, followed by strength and conditioning PM: Yoga
Wednesday AM: Punching session PM: Swimming intervals
Thursday AM: Pads, followed by strength and conditioning PM: Yoga
Friday AM: Sparring, followed by weights PM: Chiropractor and massage
Saturday AM: Yoga Sunday: Rest
Linares had stopped seven of eight opponents before meeting Crolla, who admits their bout turned on a power punch he took in the sixth round.
Gallagher feels Linares' choice of gloves this time around indicate he is targeting a knockout.
He told BBC Radio 5 live: "The brand he has picked are known as a puncher's glove. They allow you to use power.
"When you see the choice of gloves, it gives you an idea of game plan. They want to throw fast combinations, go hard early and try to get the job done."
Gloucester Constabulary launched the probe after the Wales Audit Office ruling over cash payments to Mark James made in lieu of employer pension contributions.
But no evidence suggesting criminal offences had taken place was found.
Mr James was present at Wednesday's full council meeting.
The police inquiry also found no evidence to suggest that criminal offences at Pembrokeshire council relating to chief executive Bryn Parry Jones who remained in post throughout the inquiry.
The Tigers scored six first-half tries, with Jake Webster and Grant Millington crossing twice, after David Fifita gave Wakefield an early lead.
Prop Fifita completed his double in the second half, to add to Trinity's second from Bill Tupou in the opening 40.
Greg Eden's 12th try of the season ensured a fourth straight Tigers win.
Ben Jones-Bishop's spectacular late airborne score could do nothing to change the outcome, with Castleford well ahead by then.
There was extra significance to the win as the two clubs compete for the Adam Watene Trophy, a prize in memory of the late prop-forward who played for both clubs before his tragic death in 2008, aged 31.
Daryl Powell's Tigers have now scored 61 tries in just nine games - winning eight - with Salford the only team to taken points from them in 2017.
Wakefield came into the game on the back of three straight wins, but despite the early optimism they failed to cope with the Castleford 'wave' once they broke their deadlock with Ben Roberts' wraparound move try.
The ability to mix up play and shift the ball caused the visitors so many problems, with Luke Gale, Roberts and hooker Paul McShane at the heart of the creativity.
Smart footwork was key to Millington's two scores, while the bulldozing power of Jake Webster at short range brought up his double.
Chris Chester's side did cause Cas problems, notably through the rampaging Fifita, while the kicking games of Jacob Miller and Sam Williams led to three of their four scores.
Castleford head coach Daryl Powell: "At half-time we were well in front - we scored some fairly smart tries and defended with intent - but in the second half it became scrappy and we made too many errors.
"We got ourselves a strong half-time lead and the only disappointment was that we didn't go on and make more of it."
Wakefield head coach Chris Chester: "I'm frustrated and disappointed. They were too good for us the first 40 minutes and killed us with their ruck speed and off-loads.
"We were better in the second half but game had gone by then. Their forward pack rolled us far too easily but take nothing away from Cas - sometimes they are a pleasure to watch but not for us today.
"They are a great side and very hard to stop although we didn't react well to the errors that we made. A team like Castleford will really hurt you and they did today. Their completion rate was very high and they have two good kickers in (Luke) Gale and (Ben) Roberts who can really punish you
"Classy Cas they are nicknamed and they are a very hard team to defend against and very difficult to break down - something which they have done a lot to improve over the last 12 months."
Castleford: Hardaker; Monaghan, Webster, Minikin, Eden; Roberts, Gale; Lynch, McShane, Springer, Holmes, McMeeken, Milner
Replacements: Chase, Sene-Lefao, Moors, Millington
Wakefield: Grix; Jones-Bishop, Arundel, Tupou, Johnstone; Miller, Williams; Fifita, Wood, Allgood, Ashurst, Kirmond, Arona
Replacements: Finn, Hadley, Huby, England
Officers attending a domestic abuse incident had to tackle Steven Welsh, 41, with CS spray when he launched the attack.
The incident happened at Welsh's home in Tweedsmuir Road, Perth, on 11 July last year.
He admitted attacking PCs Craig Gardner and Aly Khan by running at them and trying to strike them with a knife.
At Perth Sherriff Court the father-of-two also admitted attacking his then partner Lucy Poynter by pushing her and causing her to fall, causing her an injury.
After noting that Welsh had a 24-year criminal career and a recent history of violence and knife crime, Sheriff Lindsay Foulis jailed him for a total of 26 months.
Fiscal depute Sue Ruta told the court that when police arrived at the house the front door was locked and Welsh was seen lying on the living room floor not moving. He ignored a sergeant's attempts to speak to him and then became aggressive.
As officers opened the back door they saw Welsh had a large knife.
"The accused then brandished the knife above his head at the constables," Ms Ruta said. "He came running into the communal garden towards the officers.
"He was holding the knife above his head and making a downward stabbing motion with it. He was attempting to strike the officers with the knife."
She said one officer discharged CS spray into the accused's face. He then ran back into the house and locked the door.
She told the court Welsh then placed the knife on a window sill and clutched his face before falling to the floor as the effects of the CS spray took hold.
Police officers were then able to get in through a window and arrest him.
The court was told his former girlfriend Lucy Poynter had found Welsh asleep on the sofa and when she woke him up, he chased her out of his home and pushed her to the ground.
Welsh blamed her for provoking him by showing him track marks on her arm and revealing that she had returned to abusing heroin. He said she had also been too drunk to get into the pub with him.
The measure would apply when men who had supported a child, believing that they were the father, sought financial redress in court.
They could thus more easily claim maintenance back from the actual biological father.
Women would only have the right to remain silent with "serious reasons".
Justice Minister Heiko Maas said (in German): "We need to offer more legal protection for 'false' fathers to seek financial compensation".
The precise wording of the new paragraph states that the mother would be obliged to provide information to the man on "who has lain with her during the conception period".
Men in this situation were already able to try to claim back money paid for a child that was not theirs.
The draft change follows a ruling by Germany's highest court in March 2015 that there was no legal basis to force mothers of so-called "cuckoo children", in German slang, to name the biological father.
The draft changes, which will require parliamentary approval, also limit the "false" father's financial claim to two years' worth of maintenance costs. Previously this was open-ended.
A 2005 review of studies into so-called paternal discrepancy published in the British Medical Journal found that the rate was around 4% - meaning one in 25 children is biologically fathered by someone other than the man who believes he is the father.
Germany to allow hospital births under false name
The 'baby box' returns to Europe
Archbishop of Canterbury learns identity of biological father
Federal investigators in Moscow brought charges over a timber deal in the Kirov region in which he was involved as an unofficial adviser three years ago.
The case was previously investigated and dropped by regional prosecutors.
Mr Navalny, who was also ordered not to leave the country, suggested the new charges were aimed at discrediting him.
Supporters of the anti-corruption lawyer, who led mass protests in Moscow against Russian leader Vladimir Putin this winter, demonstrated outside the offices of the Investigative Committee (SK) in Moscow, where he was charged on Tuesday.
Under Article 160 of the Russian criminal code on "misappropriation or embezzlement", Mr Navalny faces between five and 10 years in prison if convicted.
Reacting to news of the case, Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt said on Twitter: "We should be concerned with attempts in Russia to silence fierce opposition activist Alexei @navalny."
The original case related to a loss-making contract concluded by a state-owned timber company in Kirov, a region just west of the Ural Mountains, with another company.
The Kirov regional budget for 2009-10 reportedly suffered a loss of 1.3m roubles (£26,000; $40,000) and Mr Navalny was investigated as he was acting at the time as an adviser to Kirov's governor, Nikita Belykh.
Federal investigators initially sought to charge Mr Navalny with causing "damage to property by means of deceit or abuse of trust" but they proceeded to more serious charges after reviewing the evidence, SK spokesman Vladimir Markin told reporters.
The new charges were posted on the website of the SK, a federal body set up to act as the equivalent of the FBI in Russia.
Mr Navalny is now accused of colluding with the heads of the two companies involved to organise the theft of timber worth 16m roubles (£300,000; $500,000).
The anti-corruption campaigner pointed out that he had gone to the SK expecting to be charged with the lesser offence, only to find the case had been altered against him into something much more serious.
"This charge is strange and absurd," he said after emerging from the building. "They have completely changed the essence of the charge."
"This is a mega-strange thing," he added. "Even the very figure of 16m roubles has not been explained at all."
This winter saw the biggest anti-government demonstrations in Moscow since the fall of the USSR. Protesters rallied around Mr Navalny, who accused Mr Putin's allies of rigging elections.
Since Mr Putin was re-elected president in March, legal action against opposition figures has increased markedly. A tough new law was passed on public order offences and tight curbs were placed on non-governmental organisations.
In recent weeks, Mr Navalny, a lawyer by training, turned his fire on the SK's chief, Alexander Bastrykin, reports the BBC's Moscow correspondent, Daniel Sandford.
Mr Bastrykin denied Mr Navalny's allegations that he had undeclared business interests in the Czech Republic.
He admitted once owning a flat there but said he had given it to his first wife. As for commercial activity, he said: "I was never in business. Business in the sense of aiming to make a profit. If they can find a single euro in profit, I'll resign."
Mr Navalny vowed on Tuesday to continue his political activities despite the case against him.
"I will continue doing what I did before - nothing has changed for me," he was quoted as saying by AFP news agency.
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Summer Lee Seymour, 15, was killed on Friday on Haymarket at the junction with Castle Street.
A 17-year-old boy was injured and remains in a serious, but stable condition in hospital.
Melissa Hewitt, a bus driver who started the petition, has called the site "an accident waiting to happen".
First South Yorkshire said there were no passengers on the bus at the time.
The company said the driver had not been suspended, but "temporarily relieved of his duties".
Ms Hewitt said: "It was heartbreaking, it really saddened me and I wanted to make a change so we don't lose any more lives.
"Only yesterday I had somebody walk out in front of my bus and I had to slam my brakes on."
A crossing did already exist about 20m (65ft) up the road, but she said another was required in the area due to the consistent number of pedestrians.
She said she was "overwhelmed" with the public's response to the petition so far and hoped the situation would be debated by Sheffield City Council.
A council spokesman said: "We are co-operating with the police investigation into this accident, but until the outcome of this investigation has been completed, it would be premature to announce any changes that could be introduced in that area of the city centre."
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It bears the name of the SS Mendi which sank off the Isle of Wight during World War One, killing more than 600 black South African labourers.
The bell is thought to have been stripped from the wreck by divers.
Maritime archaeologist John Gribble, who has surveyed the ship, said the bell was probably genuine.
BBC reporter Steve Humphrey said the anonymous donor phoned him on Wednesday after seeing recent coverage of the Mendi centenary.
Mr Humphrey arranged to arrive at Swanage Pier in the early hours to find the bell in a plastic bag.
A note in the bag read: "If I handed it in myself it might not go to the rightful place.
"This needs to be sorted out before I pass away as it could get lost."
"The bell has never been reported found, but given the extent to which the site was stripped of non-ferrous metals in the past I'd be very surprised if the bell was still on the wreck", Mr Gribble said.
"The bell looks right. It's the right sort of size for a bell of that period."
The SS Mendi sank on 21 February 1917 when it was accidentally rammed in thick fog by the Royal Mail packet-boat SS Darro.
A government inquiry said the Darro failed to lower lifeboats, leaving 646 men to drown.
Most of the dead were members of the South African Native Labour Corps (SANLC), heading to France to do manual labour on the Western Front.
The Darro's captain, who was blamed for the tragedy by the Board of Trade, was handed a one-year suspension of his master's certificate.
The story became a symbol of racial injustice in South Africa, where successive white-led governments discouraged annual Mendi Day commemorations.
In 1995, the Queen and Nelson Mandela unveiled a memorial to the Mendi victims in Soweto.
The government's Receiver of Wreck said the bell would probably be given to a museum while a decision was made about its future.
The South African government, which is attempting to recover Mendi artefacts, has been approached for comment.
17 February 1917 - SS Mendi sinks after a Royal Mail packet-boat, the SS Darro, ploughs into her at full speed in thick fog
1974 - Divers identify the wreck, 11 nautical miles (20km) south west of St Catherine's Point, Isle of Wight
1995 - Nelson Mandela and Queen Elizabeth II unveil the Mendi Memorial in Soweto
2003 - The Mendi Medal is introduced as South Africa's highest honour for bravery
2007-08 - Two surveys carried out by English Heritage
2009 - Ministry of Defence designates the wreck as a protected war grave, making it an offence to remove items
During July, 1,332,282 passengers passed through the airport - a 9.6% increase on the same month last year.
The head of Edinburgh Airport said that despite the growth, there was evidence the Brexit vote had damaged the aviation business.
Chief executive Gordon Dewar also said it further highlighted the cause for a cut in Air Passenger Duty.
Scottish ministers have said they will cut the duty by 50% between 2018 and 2021.
While domestic passenger numbers at the airport actually fell 3.6% in 2016 compared with 2015, the airport saw an 18.5% increase on international passengers over the period.
Mr Dewar said: "European airports' growth for the first half of the year is at 4.9%; our growth over same six-month period compared to the last year is more than double that.
"Despite our encouraging growth, there is evidence of damage to the aviation business that has followed the Brexit vote - this further highlights the need to reduce Air Passenger Duty as soon as possible.
"Cutting APD will be a strong demonstration of Scotland's international ambitions. It will send a powerful signal to the global airline market that Scotland is most definitely open for business, and would go some way to counter the negative business impact of the UK's plans to leave the EU."
Glasgow Airport also saw its passenger numbers top the one million mark, with 1,018,433 boarding flights in July - a rise of 6.4% on a year ago.
Its numbers are slowly returning to the 2006 highs seen before the financial crisis, when the annual figure topped 8.8 million passengers.
However, Aberdeen International Airport saw its passenger numbers drop by nearly 16%, with 293,136 people using the airport in July.
International and domestic traffic was down 8.4% and 18.7% respectively, with helicopter traffic also down 22.3%.
Despite the drop and the North Sea oil downturn, airport bosses said they were pushing ahead with £20m plans to extend the existing terminal.
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There are a growing number of people who question whether the throne should bypass Prince Charles and go straight to his son, William.
The journalist and monarchist Geoffrey Wheatcroft says Charles has too many controversial views and the throne needs to skip a generation.
He gets on his soapbox for the Daily Politics.
The structure - made of two huts joined together - was being used as a social room by the Labour Club in Ipswich until its origins were discovered by historian Taff Gillingham.
Now it has been transported to Brook Farm in Hawstead where a Great War Visitor Centre is being created.
It has been rebuilt and will go on show this weekend.
Mr Gillingham discovered it while searching for army huts for his exhibition. It had been earmarked for demolition.
"They (the huts) are rapidly disappearing, 100 years on," he said. "Even in the time we've been restoring this one, and gathering some of the others, we know that plenty have been pulled down.
"We just thought it was really important now, while there are still some left, to gather examples of them and to restore them and put them back up again," he said.
Mr Gillingham said they wanted to hear about more of them, as each is individual and constructed differently.
He said: "The ones we're preserving will be very different, and it will be a proper living archive, if you like, of that really important time."
Arsenal defender Stoney, capped more than 100 times by her country, is currently playing for England in the SheBelieves Cup in the United States.
Mark Sampson's side have lost their opening two games in the tournament to Germany and the host nation.
England play their final group game against France on Wednesday (22:00 GMT).
The match will be live on the BBC Red Button and BBC Sport website, with coverage starting at 21:50 GMT.
The US and Germany meet after the England game to determine who will win the tournament.
Emma: As it's international women's day, which females inspire you?
Casey Stoney: The strong women in my life, my mum, my partner Megan and my little girl, Tilly.
Sulaiman Ritchie: With the new signings adding to the team are you as confident as I that you can win the treble this year?
CS: Treble, wow, no pressure there! I'm really confident going into this season. We've got a fantastic squad which will be very competitive. Other teams have made great additions too though so it's going to be a fantastic year for women's football.
Ceri: Who is the best striker you have played against and why?
CS: We've got amazing great strikers in the England squad but I'd have to say over the year, probably the best was player was Germany's Brigit Prinz. She was an absolute machine.
Ceri: What do you think of the new Arsenal ladies hub that was opened today?
CS: Fantastic! It'll make a real improvement to our day-to-day lives as it's such a professional environment. We now have our own home and it'll just makes our lives a lot easier.
Mark Sims: What would be your favourite match you ever played in?
CS: It has to be at the London 2012 Olympics when we played Brazil at Wembley. It was the proudest moment of my career to lead my team out at the home of English football. I never, ever dreamt that would happen!
Richard Tugwell: What do you feel it will take to close the gender gap in football?
CS: We need more women in board rooms and decision-making positions. We also need clubs to do more in terms of marketing and the commercial side of things to get bums on seats at the grounds. And we need to have continued success at international level because we saw what happened after we won the bronze medal at the World Cup.
Kayleigh: Who would make your five-a-side team? (One male and one female team!) Thanks for all you do!
CS: In the women's team, alongside me I'd have Pauline Cope in goal, Kelly Smith, Fara Williams and Karen Carney. For the men's team I'd have David Seaman, Paolo Maldini, Bobby Moore, Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo - be interesting to see if those two could play on the same team together.
Five things about football: What are five changes you would like to see made to women's football?
Fred Thurbin: Considering how well our international team is doing how come our club sides struggle so much in Europe?
CS: Our WSL season isn't formatted for us to be successful in Europe so we're out of sync with the other countries. The other teams are still playing week in, week out when we're in the off the season.
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MazLeedsLadies: Casey, who was your hero/heroine growing up?
CS: There wasn't a lot of women's sport on TV when I was growing up so didn't really have a female heroine growing up, part from my mum! Ian Wright was someone I admired, he always made playing football look fun.
John Hayhurst: Casey, Who has been the biggest influence on your career?
CS: Keith Boanas, my coach at Charlton. He's still a mentor even now and is like a father figure to me. He believed in me when I didn't even believe in myself, he's the reason I kept going.
MK: What is your favourite thing about playing football? Who is the best player you've ever played with and best player you've played against??
CS: No matter what's going on in life, I can emerge myself into a game and I love it. Outside of my family, it's the love of my life.
Helen Charlesworth: Best advice for 15 yr girl (16 next wk!) who wants to be professional player? Currently at Gillingham centre of excellence.
CS: You have to love what you do because it's really, really hard work to get to top and it's even harder to stay there. It sounds like a cliche but there are no shorts cuts. You have to be very dedicated and challenge yourself everyday to be better.
Becky White: What are you most looking forward to with the new season? Also any chance I could get your England top?
CS: I may run a competition for my England top so keep your eyes peeled! To be honest I'm just looking forward to playing again after such a long break.
Kenny Gooner: What's your best moment as an Arsenal player? What's your favourite food?
CS: I love Thai food. My favourite moment at Arsenal has to be winning the FA Cup in 2014.
Michael Carroll: Who has been the best manager you have played under in your career & why?
Keith Boanas at Charlton, without a doubt. He cared about me as a person, ahead of being a player and so he always got the best out of me.
Connie Bostock: Did anyone tell you that you couldn't play and if so what was your response?
CS: I was told this constantly when I was a little girl. We were told we didn't play football so my response was to role my sleeves up and prove them wrong. And I'm very pleased i did!
The Spitfires parted company with Allen after he won just two of 14 matches in charge, leaving the club 15th.
Hill managed Eastleigh between 2012 and 2015, overseeing their promotion to the National League before resigning.
He will take charge of the team in the short term, overseeing 'all football aspects', including the appointment of a fourth manager of the season.
"I am hopeful that by bringing Richard in, he will stabilise the club and then help push us on again," chairman Stewart Donald said in a statement.
"He would walk to the club to come back he loves it so much and I feel this passion coupled with his football knowledge will help us get things right and be vital in ensuring we, or to be clearer and more accurate me, from continuing to make mistakes in such a fundamental area."
Hill's return follows the departures of managers Allen, Ronnie Moore and Chris Todd this season, and he will be assisted by Craig McAllister, Ben Strevens and Lee Peacock,
The 53-year-old has managed Whitehawk and worked as a scout for Aston Villa since leaving Eastleigh in September 2015.
Donald added: "I can only unreservedly apologise for what I have put our fans, players and staff through this season. I genuinely thought all decisions made were right at the time but it is clear I have got this wrong."
Meanwhile, Eastleigh have re-signed former player Michael Green, and the full-back could be involved against Dover Athletic on Saturday.
Hull-based Martin Williams Ltd took over Penman Engineering near Dumfries last week.
The Heathhall site employed about 140 staff before it went into administration earlier this year.
Director Nick Williams said they had already spoken to some former workers but were keen to hear from others.
He said: "We are actively engaging with some former staff but we're still desperate to hear from the rest of the old workforce together with any design and production engineers."
The company believes it could bring the workforce back to its former levels or even beyond during 2017.
Fellow director Chris Williams added: "We will transfer work from our Hull site to Dumfries in a bid to keep a steady production flow.
"The area has great pool of engineering skill and abilities which we need to tap into.
"We intend to continue to invest in the Dumfries site and by this time next year, Penman will be bigger and better than ever."
The counties owed £13.214m according to ECB accounts filed in 2014, with that figure falling to £7.875m in 2015.
The ECB made a loan of £1m available to each of the 18 first-class counties at the beginning of 2013.
According to the ECB's annual report of 2013, a total of 17 counties took up the option.
The money was designed to "support improvements in stadia and facilities, customer relations, community programmes and business operations".
It was previously believed the 71-year-old had broken an ankle in an incident involving a door at Pinewood Studios on 12 June.
"His surgery was successful and he will begin rehab shortly," continued Ina Treciokas in a statement.
"He's doing well and looks forward to returning to work."
Ford, who is reprising his role as Han Solo in Star Wars: Episode VII, was airlifted to John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford after the accident.
The BBC understands he was injured while filming a scene involving a door on the Millennium Falcon, Solo's beloved spaceship.
Last week a spokesman for the Lucasfilm production company said the actor had "sustained an ankle injury" and shooting would continue while he recuperated.
A spokesman for Thames Valley Police confirmed officers had been called to the studio in Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, just after 17:00 BST following reports of a man being injured in an incident involving a garage door.
A spokeswoman for South Central Ambulance Service said they were called to an incident involving "a door that had fallen".
Ford is among a number of original Star Wars cast members who are working on JJ Abrams' film, set for release in December 2015.
Officers issued the image of a hooded man wanted in connection with a knife incident in Little Wratting.
One person wrote: "A man with eyes... Not too many of them around." Another said police were hunting "Darth Vader".
The police said e-fits were "helpful" and the victim gave a detailed description of the man's eyes and hood.
The artist's impression was released on Monday after a man was threatened with a knife in the town on Saturday morning.
The suspect is described as a white man, aged in his late 30s to early 40s, around 5ft 10in tall, of skinny build with blonde hair.
A Suffolk Police spokesman said: "The victim was able to describe in detail the offender's eyes, style of cap, hooded top and scarf worn across his face."
He added some people have "come forward" since the e-fit appeal.
But some, posting on the force's social networking site Facebook page, thought the picture was "a wind-up".
Dozens of people commented, including one who wrote: "You'll never catch a ninja" and a number of people suggested it was "a waste" of the artist's time.
Dr Samantha Lundrigan, senior lecturer in criminology at Anglia Ruskin University, in Cambridge, defended the e-fit.
"Assuming that the facial features that are portrayed are accurate, then this man may well be recognisable to those that know him," she said.
"As the e-fit clearly shows the suspect's eyes and some of his eyebrows, it is possibly not quite as useless as it first appears."
Paul Wilson, 38, suffered a severe anaphylactic shock in January 2014 after eating a takeaway containing peanuts from the Indian Garden in Easingwold, North Yorkshire.
Mohammed Zaman, 52, was found guilty at Teesside Crown Court.
The court heard he cut corners by using cheaper ingredients containing peanuts.
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In what is thought to be a landmark trial, Zaman, of Aylesham Court, Huntington, denied he was responsible but a jury was told he switched almond powder for a cheaper ground nut mix, which contained peanuts.
Mr Wilson, a bar manager from Helperby, North Yorkshire, specified "no nuts" when he ordered a chicken tikka masala - an instruction which was written on his order and on the lid of his takeaway, the court heard.
He died three weeks after a different customer with a peanut allergy bought a meal from one of Mr Zaman's six restaurants and had a reaction requiring hospital treatment.
The restaurateur had a "reckless and cavalier attitude to risk" and "put profit before safety" at all his outlets, the jury was told.
Zaman was almost £300,000 in debt and cut costs by using the cheaper nut powder and by employing untrained, illegal workers, the court heard.
Sentencing him, Judge Simon Bourne-Arton, the Recorder of Middlesbrough, said Zaman had remained "in complete and utter denial" and ignored warnings from officials after 17-year-old Ruby Scott suffered a reaction to a curry, three weeks before Mr Wilson's death.
He said he had thrown away his successful business and property portfolio worth £2m "in pursuit of profit".
"You have done so in such a manner as to bring about the death of another individual", said the judge.
"Paul Wilson was in the prime of his life.
"He, like you, worked in the catering trade. He, unlike you, was a careful man."
But the judge acknowledged Zaman was of "good character" and the sentence would have an impact on his wife and four children.
In a statement read out in court, Mr Wilson's parents, Margaret and Keith, from Sheffield, said they felt "numb, shock and disbelief" over their son's death.
"I feel robbed that I won't share the rest of my life with Paul"," Keith Wilson said.
Mrs Wilson said her son was "meticulous" about dealing with peanuts after a reaction to a chocolate bar at the age of seven.
She said the smell of peanuts, or accidentally drinking from the same glass as someone who was eating them, could trigger a reaction.
Paul Wilson asked for a nut-free takeaway and tried to make himself sick when he realised he hadn't got what he ordered.
But it was too late. The anaphylactic shock killed him.
The restaurateur tried to blame everyone else but himself. Mohammed Zaman's drive to cut costs hospitalised one customer and killed another.
It's taken this case to emphasise just how serious a peanut allergy can be. Mistakes can be fatal.
De Insp Shaun Page said Mr Wilson's death was "totally avoidable" and Zaman's "lack of remorse" had been striking.
"And trying to distance himself from any involvement in his death. That had struck me through this investigation. His lack of compassion and understanding about that he's actually done," he said.
He said the case was thought to be a legal first, setting a precedent for the food industry.
Zaman claimed he left managers to run his restaurants and that included ordering stock and hiring staff, telling jurors he was not on the premises when the curry was ordered.
Until his conviction, the restaurateur had "the immigrant story to which everyone should aspire", his barrister Alistair Webster QC had said in court.
Zaman was born in Bangladesh and came to the UK aged 15. He started working for his uncle in the restaurant business, finally owning six himself in York and North Yorkshire.
His restaurants won local business honours and acclaim from the British Catering Association and the British Curry Awards, the jury heard.
The father-of-four was found guilty of manslaughter by gross negligence and six food safety offences. He was cleared of a charge of perverting the course of justice.
Franklin Nieves, who prosecuted Leopoldo Lopez, was speaking on CNN in Miami after leaving Venezuela.
He said that Mr Lopez was innocent and the evidence against him was false.
Mr Lopez, who led anti-government protests last year, was sentenced in September to almost 14 years in jail for inciting violence.
Mr Nieves left Venezuela last week and is reportedly seeking asylum in the United States.
Venezuelan Attorney-General Luisa Ortega sacked Mr Nieves on Monday for actions "contrary to his oath of office".
On Tuesday, Mr Nieves told Spanish-language news channel CNN en Espanol that "Leopoldo [Lopez] is innocent".
"They jailed him because they fear his leadership," he told CNN's Fernando del Rincon on the programme Conclusiones.
Asked if Mr Lopez should be free, the former prosecutor said: "Yes, indeed, because after examining each and every piece of evidence it was shown that this person had at no point made even a single call to violence."
Mr Nieves said that video footage taken from protests at which Mr Lopez spoke showed him "always calling on his supporters to remain calm".
Mr Lopez handed himself in to the authorities on 18 February amid mass anti-government protests in which 43 people - from both sides of the political divide - were killed.
He has always denied inciting violence and his supporters say he is a political prisoner.
Asked why he had not spoken out before Mr Lopez was sentenced to 13 years and nine months in prison, Mr Nieves said that he had remained silent "out of fear and because of the pressure exerted by each one of our bosses on prosecutors working at the national level".
He then explained that the pressure filtered down from President Nicolas Maduro and National Assembly President Diosdado Cabello through the attorney-general to individual line managers who got prosecutors to act "on the whims" of the authorities.
Mr Nieves went on to allege that he was instructed to arrest Mr Lopez to "take him out of the political game" and that the order came from President Maduro.
He also alleged that the police report on which Mr Lopez's arrest order was based was "fictitious and invented" and that the witnesses in the case were "false" as they had been told to testify in a certain manner.
Mr Nieves also alleged that the case of Mr Lopez was not unique.
"There are innumerable cases in which people were investigated and innocent people detained," he told Mr del Rincon.
On Monday, Ms Ortega dismissed Mr Nieves' allegations, saying that "at the state prosecutors' office we don't pressure anyone".
She added that Mr Nieves had given in to "pressures from foreign and domestic elements" although she did not specify what pressures those were.
Exam passes are high by historic standards, more youngsters are staying on at school and going to college or university.
Is this a good thing in itself? Or is the education system simply having to adapt to the fact that in the modern world there are fewer good jobs for young people, and that unskilled jobs are disappearing?
It is an interesting philosophical question to contemplate - one quite distinct from the question of ensuring all young people can achieve their potential in education, regardless of wealth or family background.
The suspicion of some has always been that the education system has had to soak up youngsters who might otherwise have been unemployed - either because of economic problems or the gradual disappearance of some unskilled jobs.
In the 1970s the school leaving age was raised from 15 to 16 but it took a further 10 years for a qualifications system which had been designed with the more academically-able in mind to evolve.
For many years, youngsters who were not able to study for a full suite of O grades filled their third and fourth year timetables with "non certificate" courses - seen by some as a waste of effort. The boredom these students experienced was blamed by some teachers for indiscipline.
Standard grades were designed to make sure all youngsters could get a meaningful qualification. This underlying ethos has been carried into the current National qualifications.
But in the 1980s it was still unusual for a youngster who was not studying for Highers to stay on until S5. When someone who was not doing Highers stayed on past their statutory leaving age, again the suspicion of some was that the youngster was only at school to "stay off the dole".
In Scotland the official school leaving age is still 16, but the majority of pupils, regardless of their academic ability, stay on until S6. It is now unusual to leave at the end of S4 and schools would be genuinely concerned if a youngster wanted to leave early without a good reason for doing so.
S4, S5 and S6 are now classed as the "senior phase". The emphasis is on the qualifications a youngster has at the time they leave - not on what they have achieved by a particular stage.
The number of so-called Neets - youngsters who are not in education, employment or training - is at a very low level by historic standards.
The Scottish government guarantees youngsters who are not in a job a place in education or training. It is often the case that a pupil classed as a Neet has a long back story which helps explains the situation.
If a pupil leaves school before the end of S6 because they have secured an apprenticeship or a place at college or university it would be deemed to be a "positive outcome"; if a youngster simply wanted to leave school for a dead-end job a school might worry this was a failure on their part as the pupil may not have been enjoying their education.
The senior phase is designed to offer a flexible system where any youngster can achieve something of value.
For the most academically-able, the question may be what Highers or Advanced Highers they leave school with. For others, it might be about the number of National 4s and 5s they obtain - even one Higher might represent a big personal achievement.
Colleges have been through a huge shake-up in recent years and now concentrate primarily on full-time courses which lead to a recognised qualification - these are mostly taken by students in their teens or early 20s.
Privately, some in the college system warn that colleges are having to accommodate youngsters who might otherwise have been unemployed, as well as those who positively want to be studying a subject. This may be reflected in the drop-out rate for some courses.
So we return to the question: is a school system where it is unusual for a youngster to leave early and a college system which has to find places for those who would otherwise be unemployed achieving something positive in itself?
Or is it merely parking the youth unemployment problem, just like non certificate S4 classes in the 1970s?
Few in the mainstream would seriously argue that educational opportunities should not be as widely available as possible.
But the issue touches on an intriguing question. Once, it was possible to leave school with O grades and get a job with prospects. Not so long ago, many good jobs were available to youngsters with good Highers.
Today, other than modern apprenticeships, most good jobs for young people require a college or university qualification first.
So is the education system having to deal with the practical effect of economic change?
De-industrialisation and automation mean many of the unskilled, entry level jobs once filled by school-leavers no longer exist.
Or are the changes positively helping to provide the workforce the economy needs?
The argument is that Scotland, like every advanced country, needs as skilled a workforce as possible to compete internationally and fulfil its potential.
A skilled workforce does not just mean turning out scientists and surgeons - it means hairdressers and staff for the hospitality industry too.
Once, fewer people in those industries would have received any formal college training and might simply have learned on the job or served a traditional apprenticeship. But the argument is that a proper course and training raises standards and allows the best to shine.
Anecdotally, of course, many of the genuinely unskilled jobs which those with few qualifications may once have done - say stacking shelves in the supermarket - are now done by students or those with college or university qualifications who find themselves "underemployed" .
Indeed, while the number of young people at university is close to a historic high, a significant proportion of graduates do not secure what would be seen as graduate-level jobs even if few would do unskilled work for long.
None of this is to suggest a good education is not of value in itself - even if it does not lead to someone getting a better job than they may have got otherwise.
But perhaps it is interesting to reflect on how in the space of barely 40 years, the time someone routinely spends in education has increased. Once, a basic education ended at 15; now few teenagers are completely out of the system.
Edinburgh is due to lead the country's Hogmanay celebrations, with 80,000 people expected to attend the world-famous street party and fireworks.
Paolo Nutini and The Charlatans are the headline acts for this year's events in the Scottish capital.
The Edinburgh events are estimated to be worth more than £40m to the Scottish economy.
Police Scotland said there would be a "very visible police presence" at the event.
Divisional commander Ch Supt Kenny MacDonald said: "I'm confident we have an appropriate and proportionate policing plan in place to make sure we deliver a safe and secure event."
Revellers are to be allowed back on to Calton Hill this year after a ban over safety fears was lifted.
Council officials decided to shut the city landmark for six hours over the bells last year saying "the hill was unlit and uneven under foot".
However, the City of Edinburgh Council decided to do a U-turn following a review of last year's events.
Some fireworks are also fired from the hill as part of the midnight display.
More than 1,000 hours of planning goes into delivering the Midnight Moment at Edinburgh's Hogmanay Street Party, widely regarded as the UK's most intense six minutes of fireworks.
There is 8km of wire connecting up to 94 modules, each with 32 cues, to deliver the 2.6 tonnes of fireworks up to 300m above the Edinburgh skyline. They are fired by 14 pyrotechnicians from Titanium Fireworks.
There will be more than 10,000 shots and stars in every firework colour.
Nearly 10 tonnes of equipment will be used, filling three lorries and five vans.
Once 2017 has arrived, a team of more than 25 people from Titanium Fireworks, Unique Events and Historic Scotland will work into the night to clear in eight hours what took five days to set up.
All the empty cardboard tubes will be recycled - enough to fill three large skips - as well as a metre square crate with igniter wire.
The Hogmanay celebrations follow a torchlight procession from The Mound to Calton Hill on Friday.
The incident happened in the Westhill shopping centre car park at about 11:30 and involved a black Audi A3 driven by a 37-year-old man.
The pensioner, who had been crossing the road, was taken to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary.
Police appealed for anyone who witnessed the accident, or saw the car or pensioner, to contact them.
Gwent Police said Brian Overfield from Abertillery, was injured in the car park at Festival Park in Ebbw Vale, Blaenau Gwent.
He fell to the floor and suffered head injuries after getting out of a black Smart car at about 12:45 BST on Thursday, 21 May.
He was flown to the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff, where he died.
Investigating officers said the car was being driven by a woman and no arrests had been made, although they were appealing for information.
Ricardo Quaresma also scored twice, with Danilo, Eder and Karol Mets' own-goal completing the rout on Wednesday.
It was 31-year-old Ronaldo's first appearance since winning the Champions League with Real Madrid last month.
The Portugal captain was substituted at half time, but showed no sign of injury with his country's first Group F game against Iceland on Tuesday.
The 2004 finalists also face Austria and Hungary in the group stage.
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Sixteen category one academy sides will play League One and Two clubs in a bigger 64-team competition in 2016-17.
The change to the former Johnstone's Paint Trophy is a one-season trial.
"The reaction from the overwhelming majority of fans to the news has been incredibly negative," said a statement.
"Fans have told us that it undermines the integrity of the competition, and feel that 'their' competition, and the chance of a potential day out at Wembley (for the final), is being taken away from them by Premier League clubs."
To accommodate for the additional teams, the current knock-out format will be replaced by 16 regional groups of four for the opening round.
The proposal to change the competition, which is yet to gain a sponsor for next season, was approved at the English Football League's annual general meeting in Portugal last week.
It is understood that Premier League clubs are offering an extra £1m in prize money.
Since the announcement by the EFL, clubs have been issuing statements to clarify their position to supporters.
Walsall, whose only ever appearance at Wembley came in the 2015 final, said they voted in favour as "the competition's appeal is declining significantly in terms of interest from football fans, clubs and broadcast partners".
The Saddlers added that they did not see the change as a "long-term solution" but it was the only option put forward to rejuvenate the competition.
Meanwhile, Oxford United chairman Darryl Eales was against the proposal, but voted in favour "to support the League's appeal to explore ways to secure the cup's future".
Some fans have been against the changes over fears Premier League 'B teams' could be added to the League, especially given the proposal to expand the league structure from 92 teams to 100, with an extra division.
However, Exeter chairman Julian Tagg, another who voted for the changes to the EFL Trophy, said: "This is not a precursor to B teams entering the league structure, which Exeter City would be against should it ever be proposed."
Among those to speak out against the changes have been League Two side Luton Town, who voted against the decision "but a democratic process was taken so (they) will now be supportive of the new competition".
Hatters chief executive Gary Sweet added: "Unfortunately, the old JPT was in a state of flux so some change was indeed necessary to avoid losing the competition altogether."
AFC Wimbledon, promoted to League One via the play-offs last term, "strongly opposed" the proposals at the meeting in Portugal.
Accrington Stanley said they were "vociferously against the proposals".
"When you break it down there's no financial gain for a team like Accrington Stanley," said managing director David Burgess. "The financial rewards only really kick in when you get to the quarter-final, semi final and final stages.
"We don't feel there would be a benefit even to getting one of the bigger clubs like Manchester United, Manchester City, Liverpool or whoever to the Wham Stadium.
"Accrington played Manchester United here in the Lancashire Senior Cup here a couple of years ago and there were a few hundred people here. There's no real enthusiasm for under-21s football or reserve-team football or whatever you want to call it."
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But offers have been made to four out-of-contract players, most notably first-choice goalkeeper Neil Etheridge, who has been offered a three-year deal.
Fellow keeper Liam Roberts is offered a one-year deal, with a one-year option.
But defender Theo Vassell, who was on a season's loan at Chester with Roberts, second-choice keeper Craig MacGillivray and midfielders Isaiah Osbourne and Franck Moussa leave on free transfers.
Bradley Caswell, Lezion Cela and Ashley Maddocks have also been released.
Defender Matt Preston has been offered a two-year deal and midfielder Rory Oliver an extended six-month contract as he continues his rehabilitation from injury.
The club are still negotiating with teenage Bermudian midfielder Milan Butterfield, who joined the club last summer.
Contracts have also been offered to scholars Tobias Hayles-Docherty - who made his debut in the penultimate game of the season against Port Vale - Cameron Peters, Will Shorrock and Sam Tonks, while Callum Cockerill-Mollett and Dan Vann were already contracted going into next season.
After losing in the League One play-off semi-finals the previous season, Walsall finished 14th in 2016-17, falling out of play-off contention with a run of just one win in their last 10 games.
Meanwhile, former Walsall defender Mark Bradley has been appointed as the club's new strength and conditioning coach.
"Neil Etheridge has been excellent for us," said Whitney. "We offered him a contract extension earlier this season.
"And, whilst we understand he is assessing his options, we have made him a further contract offer.
"Although Craig gave a good account of himself in the final five games, I had to be honest with him and tell him that I didn't see him as my number one.
"At this stage of his career, he needs to be playing regularly. We couldn't guarantee him that.
"Liam has enjoyed a prosperous loan spell at Chester and we hope to continue developing him as a goalkeeper."
Italian Cavasin became the eighth man to take on the manager's role since president, and fellow countryman, Francesco Becchetti took over the East London club in July 2014.
But he could not arrest a worrying sequence that has seen Orient win just once in eight matches in League Two.
Defender Burgess stole up unmarked to powerfully head home a corner from Carl Baker on 57 minutes to settle the contest.
The opening half was a period of half-chances, although Pompey did have the ball in the net when Conor Chaplin's first-time flick into the net was ruled out for offside.
The visitors were given an excellent opportunity to break the deadlock when O's keeper Alex Cisak attempted to send a short pass to a defender, but only succeeded in picking out Chaplin.
The Orient shot-stopper saved his blushes by saving the striker's effort.
Orient felt they should have had a penalty when Paul McCallum went to ground after 12 minutes but referee Christopher Sarginson waved away their frantic appeals.
Having fallen behind, Orient were unable to break down a well-organised Portsmouth side who almost doubled their lead when O's full-back Nicky Hunt headed a cross against his own post before the ball was scrambled clear.
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Match ends, Leyton Orient 0, Portsmouth 1.
Second Half ends, Leyton Orient 0, Portsmouth 1.
Attempt missed. Carl Baker (Portsmouth) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Yvan Erichot (Leyton Orient) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Milan Lalkovic (Portsmouth).
Attempt blocked. Sandro Semedo (Leyton Orient) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt blocked. Tom Parkes (Leyton Orient) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Attempt blocked. Tom Parkes (Leyton Orient) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Corner, Leyton Orient. Conceded by Christian Burgess.
Substitution, Leyton Orient. Ollie Palmer replaces Ulrich N'Nomo.
Substitution, Portsmouth. Milan Lalkovic replaces Kyle Bennett.
Attempt missed. Gary Roberts (Portsmouth) right footed shot from more than 35 yards misses to the left.
Corner, Portsmouth. Conceded by Tom Parkes.
Attempt blocked. Kyle Bennett (Portsmouth) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Gary Roberts (Portsmouth) left footed shot from the left side of the box is high and wide to the left.
Corner, Portsmouth. Conceded by Callum Kennedy.
Attempt blocked. Gary Roberts (Portsmouth) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Curtis Main (Portsmouth) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.
Jay Simpson (Leyton Orient) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Christian Burgess (Portsmouth).
Foul by Alan Dunne (Leyton Orient).
Gary Roberts (Portsmouth) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Portsmouth. Curtis Main replaces Conor Chaplin.
Substitution, Portsmouth. Danny Rose replaces Amine Linganzi.
Foul by Gavin Massey (Leyton Orient).
Amine Linganzi (Portsmouth) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Jens Janse (Leyton Orient) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Amine Linganzi (Portsmouth).
Foul by Jens Janse (Leyton Orient).
Kyle Bennett (Portsmouth) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Goal! Leyton Orient 0, Portsmouth 1. Christian Burgess (Portsmouth) header from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner.
Corner, Portsmouth. Conceded by Sandro Semedo.
Attempt saved. Alan Dunne (Leyton Orient) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt blocked. Sandro Semedo (Leyton Orient) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Ulrich N'Nomo (Leyton Orient) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Amine Linganzi (Portsmouth).
Ulrich N'Nomo (Leyton Orient) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Gary Roberts (Portsmouth).
Second Half begins Leyton Orient 0, Portsmouth 0.
Substitution, Leyton Orient. Alan Dunne replaces Paul McCallum.
Brough was cited for a tackle on Wakefield utility back Reece Lyne in the 14th minute of Giants' Challenge Cup defeat by the Wildcats on 23 May.
The 33-year-old will now miss his side's Super League game against leaders Hull FC on Thursday.
Huddersfield are 11th in the table, six points outside the top eight places.
Samantha Baldwin, 42, from Newark, has not been seen since Monday and is believed to be with Louis Madge, 9, and Dylan Madge, 6.
Police say they are treating the case as an abduction.
In a statement, Nottingham Family Court said Ms Baldwin was "considered to pose a risk of harm" to the boys.
It said the children had been removed from her care at a hearing on Monday and had been made wards of court in light of the disappearance.
CCTV images from the same day as the hearing showed Ms Baldwin alone at two locations in Nottingham city centre.
Police have urged B&B operators, hotel owners and those in charge of other holiday properties to be on the lookout for the trio.
Supt Rich Fretwell from Nottinghamshire Police said Ms Baldwin may have altered her appearance.
"Our investigation team are exploring a number of lines of enquiry. There's always the possibility that Samantha could be being harboured by someone," supt Fretwell said.
"We would urge that person to come forward and let us know where the boys are.
"We would also like to appeal to anyone who owns or runs a guest house, B&B or hotel to check your registers and be mindful that the group may be staying under a different name.
"We would also ask caravan park operators and holiday let properties to think about any groups that have joined them since Monday.
"We cannot stress enough the likelihood that Samantha may have changed her appearance and we would like you to keep an open mind."
Two women, aged 62 and 36, were bailed on Wednesday after being arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender.
Brownfield sites and areas near motorway junctions could be used for future shale gas production.
On Monday North Yorkshire County Council approved an application by Third Energy to frack a well near the village of Kirby Misperton in Ryedale.
Campaigners say that they are still considering a legal challenge.
The North Yorkshire decision is a landmark moment for the UK's fledgling shale gas sector. It is the first time a company has been given go-ahead since a moratorium on fracking was lifted in 2012.
"The decision in North Yorkshire was an important first step and underlined our firm belief that the process is safe and can be done environmentally sensitively," says Ken Cronin of the industry body UKOOG.
"We expect further applications and this chimes well with the need to provide a home-grown source of gas to heat our homes."
And firms are stepping up their exploration plans.
This week the largest independent operator of onshore oil and gas fields in Britain, Igas, said that it would drill two exploratory shale gas wells in Nottinghamshire early next year, subject to planning and permitting.
It says it could apply to use fracking at one of the sites near the village of Misson if exploratory drilling is successful.
It will also be applying to frack in the North West of England. The company previously drilled wells at Barton Moss near Salford and at two locations in Cheshire.
The chemicals giant Ineos has also confirmed plans to undertake large-scale 3D seismic surveys of its licence areas in Cheshire, Derbyshire and North Yorkshire, to help select exploration sites.
Ineos says it is the biggest UK shale player with access to one million acres of potential shale gas reserves.
Plans by the shale gas firm Cuadrilla to drill and frack wells at two sites in Lancashire were the subject of a planning inquiry earlier this year.
A report and recommendation by the inquiry's planning inspector will be submitted to the government by 4 July. It will then be up to the Communities Secretary, Greg Clark, to decide whether to approve the plans.
Some anti-fracking campaigners fear the North Yorkshire decision sets a precedent making it easier for other councils to approve fracking.
But aspects of Third Energy's application meant it always stood more chance of approval.
Crucially, the location is an existing industrial site where gas has been produced since the 1990s.
This contrasts with the proposals by Cuadrilla in Lancashire, which were rejected by councillors, involving two greenfield sites.
Cuadrilla also proposed months of work involving drilling four horizontal wells on each site which would then be fracked.
The Third Energy plan will be completed within eight weeks and involves fracking an existing vertical well drilled in 2013.
But the Third Energy decision shows that planning approval may be easier on existing industrial locations.
"If we can find sites that have the minimum impact on the local environment and the local community we will," says Ann-Marie Wilkinson, director of corporate communications at the onshore oil and gas firm, Igas.
"But ultimately you go where the geology takes you," she says.
Some in the industry believe there could be huge potential for fracking in the longer term on disused land in former industrial locations.
"There are a lot of industrial sites that will be used for shale gas," says Graham Dean, from Aberdeen-based oil and gas firm Reach CSG.
"Nearly every motorway junction has an industrial estate adjacent. These would make excellent sites for shale gas production."
Many prospective shale gas areas are in former industrial and mining regions, and with deindustrialisation many now have wide open spaces that could be shale gas sites, says Mr Dean.
"An example is the Tata Steel sites in Scotland which have a lot of empty land around them that could have shale wells providing the fuel to keep steel production going."
It is a view shared by a source at another firm with onshore exploration licences.
"We will look for places that work for us and the local community. Old industrial sites fit that bill as they have the existing infrastructure."
Campaigners are still assessing the legal grounds for challenging the North Yorkshire decision. "We are considering legal action," says Donna Hume of Friends of the Earth.
"For fracking to be economically viable or contribute anything significant to our energy supplies, it would result in large-scale countryside industrialisation, with hundreds of wells in Ryedale alone," she says.
"Given the scale of public opposition and the response of the community in North Yorkshire, this is very unlikely to happen; nor should it when the UK needs to move to clean, renewable energy to fight climate change."
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"The truth is, I didn't know if I was going to make it," he revealed during an on-stage interview at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane in central London.
"Life was no longer interesting to me, so it took a lot to get me better."
Jett Travolta died at the age of 16 in January 2009 from a seizure during a family holiday in the Bahamas.
Both his father and his mother Kelly Preston have since confirmed their eldest son was autistic and had a history of seizures.
The couple have two other children: 13-year-old daughter Ella Bleu and three-year-old son Benjamin.
Travolta said he "didn't want to wake up" following Jett's death and that the Church of Scientology had been pivotal to his recovery in the weeks and months afterwards.
"I will forever be grateful to Scientology for supporting me for two years solid, I mean Monday through Sunday," he continued.
"They didn't take a day off, working through different angles of the techniques to get through grief and loss, and to make me feel that finally I could get through a day."
The 59-year-old has been a follower of the controversial religion since the 1970s and said it had "saved his life" on more than one occasion.
Travolta's 90-minute appearance saw him field questions about various aspects of his life, career and keen interest in aviation.
Also addressed was the mid-career slump that followed his appearances in Saturday Night Fever and Grease, a downturn that was only arrested when Quentin Tarantino cast him as a heroin-abusing hitman in 1994's Pulp Fiction.
"It got a little complicated for a few years," the actor explained. "A lot of things added up to a five-year period that wasn't so good for me."
Travolta went on to thank Tarantino for facilitating his career comeback. "There were people who were much hotter than me who wanted the role," he explained.
"But Quentin put his career on the line and refused to make the movie without me in it."
The film ended up securing Travolta his second Oscar nomination, following the best actor citation he received for Saturday Night Fever in 1978. To date, though, the actor has yet to win one of the Academy's coveted statuettes.
Yet the star did not seem unduly perturbed. "I don't feel at all ignored or not verified," he told Norman, erstwhile host of the BBC's Film programme. "You're not going to find a bitter guy in me."
Sunday's event, held near to, and at the same time as, this year's Bafta Film Awards, came two days before the actor's 60th birthday and ended with him being presented with a cake shaped like an airplane.
Members of the audience were invited on stage at one point for an impromptu dance lesson, while a discussion on James Bond led to the star impersonating Scottish icon Sir Sean Connery.
"I would love to be a villain in the next James Bond film," Travolta continued, revealing he had openly courted the role during an informal meeting with producer Barbara Broccoli.
The actor's appearance followed similar "evenings with" Al Pacino and Sylvester Stallone in London, tickets for which have been offered for as much as £350.
Susan Smythe, 59, died after being hit by a VW Golf in Stretford, Greater Manchester on 9 September.
When her son Rob Smythe arrived and was informed the victim was his mother, he was immediately taken off the case.
Paul Tomlinson, 33, of Sale Moor, admitted causing death by dangerous driving and was sentenced to six years.
He also pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing at Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court to failing to provide a specimen for analysis and failing to stop and report an accident.
Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said Tomlinson had been seen almost colliding with a stationary vehicle at traffic lights on Wharfside Way, Trafford Park at 21:00 BST as well as mounting a kerb and narrowly avoiding other collisions.
Fifty minutes later, he swerved erratically into the outside lane of Chester Road as Ms Smythe crossed at the junction with Green Street and hit her.
Witnesses estimated his car to have been travelling at between 70mph and 100mph, the court heard.
She was pronounced dead at the scene.
A GMP spokesman said Tomlinson did not stop and drove to a car park near his home.
He wiped the steering wheel and doors with a pair of leggings before leaving the vehicle, the spokesman added.
Tomlinson was later arrested at his home and breathalysed in custody, where he was slurring his speech, unsteady on his feet and found to have 137 micrograms of alcohol per 100ml of breath. The limit in England is 35 micrograms.
Tomlinson claimed to have had a single drink of vodka, although his girlfriend - a passenger in the car who had begged him to slow down - said she could smell alcohol on his breath, the court heard.
The police spokesman said Tomlinson was "an accident waiting to happen" and "in no fit state to be behind the wheel".
Tomlinson was also disqualified for driving for eight years.
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But the Briton, 24, could not add the doubles title as he and partner Shingo Kunieda lost in three sets to Stephane Houdet and Nicolas Peifer, despite having led the final set 5-0.
The Scot had beaten Kunieda of Japan in the quarter-final of the singles.
"Winning a Grand Slam was never the goal when I started," said Reid.
Reid, who contracted Transverse Myelitis - a disease affecting the spinal chord - aged 13, was backed by a vocal group of friends and speaking after his singles triumph he said he would be "buying them drinks all night".
Fellow Scots Andy and Jamie Murray are also in Australian finals this weekend, with Jamie into the final of the men's doubles on Saturday and Andy playing Novak Djokovic in the singles on Sunday.
"It's great to have their support," said Reid. "I saw Andy and Jamie in the locker room just after my match and I got a big congratulations from them."
Reid, seeded fifth, saved a set point in a tense tie-break before breaking Gerard to love to take a 5-4 second set lead and served out for a memorable victory.
In his third successive Australian Open and sixth successive Grand Slam doubles final, Reid and Kunieda traded the first two sets and raced into a 5-0, 40-15 lead.
However, the French top seeds managed to complete a remarkable comeback victory to prevail 6-3 3-6 7-5.
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"It's been a long week with some long days after some of the rain delays and originally we were supposed to play our doubles final yesterday," said Reid.
"I had an even longer three set match earlier in the week in my singles semi-final against Gustavo [Fernandez] and although we are bitterly disappointed we gave everything."
Reid and Kunieda won the French Open doubles titles last year, with Reid adding the US Open title with Houdet after losing out in the Wimbledon final with Michael Jeremiasz.
Captain Chad Murray said there was "contact damage" to Travel Trident V and the port side propeller and shaft.
He said while the hull had not been breached the spring tides meant the boat could not be returned to the water until next month.
The ferry firm said the loss would not impact on its schedule.
The harbour master is responsible for investigating the incident.
He said: "The hull wasn't breached so there was no risk of water ingress or pollution.
"Obviously we know it was very foggy, it was near low water and the vessel obviously made contact with the seabed so it is pointing to some sort of navigation error.
"But whether that's human factors or defects or vessel procedures then we're not at that stage yet."
Mr Murray paid tribute to the action of the captain who along with the crew took "all the right steps" including getting the passengers in lifejackets, checking for water ingress and quickly alerting the coastguard.
It follows an incident in April, which is still being investigated, involving the same ferry and an underwater object.
Mr Murray said the master on that day had his licence revoked for six months and would need to reapply if they wanted to operate in local waters again.
He said the reports into both incidents are due to be made public.
Having come back from 17-9 down, Quins' Tim Visser scored after a kick hit the corner flag and bounced back into play.
It brought them to within one point of Exeter, but the home side held on.
"The fact we didn't buckle then and knuckled down, rolled up our sleeves and got on with things, I can't credit the players enough," said Baxter.
"You're not going to see a try like that happen if you watch 100 games of rugby, the player was miles away from the ball and it bounces back and everything went wrong for us.
The victory, their fourth in a row, kept Exeter in second place in the Premiership, three points clear of third-placed Leicester and three behind leaders Saracens.
"As a team we do need to address why we started so poorly, let's get that dealt with early in the week and lets get up for Wasps," said Baxter told BBC Radio Devon.
"I'd like to think today was a little bit of a wobble without us losing it, and sometimes those can give you a kick up the backside without paying the ultimate price of losing the game.
"Let's hope that happens, at the end of the day a lot of games of rugby playing in these conditions can be tough."
After helping save a colonialist's life the Native American travelled to England in 1616 with husband Jon Rolfe.
Legend has it Pocahontas planted a mulberry tree at a manor house in Heacham, Norfolk, where Rolfe was from.
Now, Forestry Commission (FC) experts will carry out the DNA testing on the tree in a bid to prove the link.
The test comes as the 400th anniversary of her death is marked with a parade in Gravesend, Kent, where she died on her journey home to Virginia in 1617.
The tree - in the same spot, but now in the grounds of Heacham Manor Hotel - still produces fruit.
Rolfe and Pocahontas spent 10 months in England before her death.
During this trip it is thought Pocahontas and her family visited the family home of her husband in Heacham - although there is little evidence of this.
The FC's Northern Research Station (NRS) in Roslin has confirmed it will carry out out initial DNA research work on the tree.
The idea was mooted by retired college lecturer Christine Dean who lives in Heacham and has extensively researched the Pocahontas legend.
She said she was fascinated by the story because "it's not just village history, it was a crossroads in world history".
The hotel said that as soon as fresh mulberry leaves shoot in May, a six-inch branch will be sent to the research lab for testing.
It is hoped this will lead to looking at the DNA connection between the hotel's tree and another three very old mulberry trees identified in the UK - at Buckingham Palace, Syon House in west London and Narford Hall, Norfolk.
It is thought Pocahontas could have visited one of these trees and collected seeds, and research could establish whether they are forebears of the Heacham tree.
Graham Bray, from the hotel, said that if the DNA was similar then it is "likely" that Pocahontas planted it, but "obviously not conclusive".
Rubble fell down the 30m-high (100ft) cliff in East Cliff on 24 April and partially engulfed the Edwardian funicular carriages.
Bournemouth Borough Council said the carriages had been removed but work to stabilise the slope was continuing.
Environment boss Larry Austin said "all options" were being looked at for reinstating the lift.
He said: "We remain committed to the future of a cliff lift. However, it will be some time before these assessments are made and any necessary stabilisation work commences. The cliff lift will not reopen this summer.
"Our next step after the removal of the final debris is a thorough assessment of the site to consider the next course of action."
An abseiling team was used to secure the carriages of the East Cliff Lift to the running rails ahead of their removal.
A temporary road closure remains in place along East Overcliff Drive while the work is carried out.
The Commerce Department said construction spending rose 1% to the highest level it since December 2007.
Construction spending has risen every month this year.
It has been a bright spot for the economy as manufactures and retailers have struggled against a strong dollar.
Construction spending reached a seasonally adjusted rate of $1.11 trillion (£735bn).
US consumer spending in October rose just 0.1% compared with the previous month.
On a less positive note, US manufacturing fell in November according to the Institute for Supply Management (ISM), following a global trend of declining factory activity.
ISM said its factory activity index dipped to 48.6 in November from 50.1 in October. Any number below 50 suggests the market is contracting.
Both new orders and production declined but hiring by manufactures was on the rise.
Along with the strong dollar, a weakening economy in China has hurt manufacturing this year.
But he added the club will strive to keep Scotland goalkeeper David Marshall and defender Bruno Ecuele Manga.
Choo confirmed there had been interest in players the club wants to sell, but warned fans to be patient over new arrivals.
"We could see a lot of movement in the last week of August, when the transfer window is about to close," said Choo.
Cardiff face Birmingham City on Saturday in their first Championship game since the appointment of new head coach Paul Trollope.
But Choo said the team could change considerably before the summer transfer window closes on 31 August.
"Everything is still up in the air," said Choo.
"We have a few targets to go but it really depends on players leaving as well, players who we feel should move on."
Trollope has said Adam Le Fondre and Federico Macheda are free to leave and has told Kagisho Dikgacoi he can seek another club.
"We have interest and we are talking," said Choo.
"They have value in them as well, but we have to look at the best value for the club. We don't sell anyone cheap.
"At this point it is still quite quiet, but you can feel the interest is coming."
Earlier in the summer highly rated keeper Marshall and Gabon centre back Ecuele Manga were the subject of transfer speculation.
Asked whether the club were keen to hold on to those players, Choo said: "We will try, but if a big offer comes in we have to look at it from a business point of view, like everything else."
Cardiff finished eighth in the Championship last season, with Russell Slade removed as manager on the final day.
Choo says the club are targeting promotion this term.
"We are trying to improve from the last two seasons but we are trying to do it progressively," he added.
"Rather than pumping in £15m we are trying to do it in stages and sensibly. Previously things were not so smooth.
"The last few years we have been trying to make more sensible decisions and Vincent Tan (the owner) is taking his time and studying things a lot more. He is learning, since this is his seventh year owning this club.
"Promotion is the target, there is no point being in the play offs without being promoted. No owner in the Championship wants to stay in the Championship - they want to get promoted from this league."
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The line will carry people from the roof of St Thomas' Hospital on South Bank to Victoria Gardens, beside the Houses of Parliament.
Twenty people who pledge £50,000 or more will be able to use the crossing when it runs for one day on 2 December.
The money raised will be donated to Evelina London Children's Hospital.
People harnessed to the 463m wire will travel head first at speeds of up to 40mph (64kmh).
It will be built by 30 specialist firefighters over three days.
LFB Deputy Assistant Commissioner Andy Roe said he came up with the idea "to thank the remarkable [hospital] staff" after they treated his nine-year-old son Zaki.
He said: "I realised that I could use my specialist skills to rig up a zip wire from the roof of the hospital."
Evelina London is trying to race £2.7m to build a Clinical Research Facility.
Head of Evelina Hospital's allergy service, Prof Gideon Lack, said the proposed facility would "help find better treatments and cures".
The LFB is also running a competition for one person to win a place to ride on the zip wire.
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Some banks ran out of cash. At others police were called in to manage queues of anxious customers hoping to change their savings for legal tender.
The surprise government move is aimed at tackling corruption and tax evasion.
But many low-income Indians, traders and ordinary savers who rely on the cash economy have been badly hit.
Banks were shut on Wednesday to allow them enough time to stock new notes following Tuesday night's announcement. There are also limits on cash withdrawals from ATMs.
The two notes accounted for about 85% of the cash in circulation.
The BBC's Geeta Pandey in Delhi says some banks extended working hours to deal with the rush on Thursday, and hired extra temporary staff.
Bank officials told the BBC that they had also brought in extra cash to deal with the situation - things had generally gone smoothly apart from the police having to deal with sporadic fights that broke out among customers.
"I went home for Diwali and my parents gave me money as a gift," Vijay Karan Sharma from Chhattisgarh, a student at Delhi University, told the BBC. He said he had been standing in line since morning.
"I wish they had a simpler system for students. I desperately need cash to pay my rent and buy books and food."
The 500 ($7; £6) and 1,000 ($15; £12) rupee notes are the highest denomination notes in the country and are extremely common in India. Airports, railway stations, hospitals and fuel stations will only accept them until 11 November.
People will be able to exchange their money at banks between 10 November and 30 December.
The actual figure is unclear but correspondents say the issue of "black money" - which may have been acquired corruptly, or is being withheld from the tax authorities - is a huge problem. India's government hopes to flush out tax evaders and make money that is unaccounted for visible for tax purposes. There have been reports of tax raids in many parts of India.
It seems not. An individual can put as much as he or she likes into the bank - but withdrawals are limited so the banking system may end up being flooded with cash.
Government guidelines say it is possible to exchange up to 4,000 rupees per day up to 24 November - anything over this will be subject to tax laws. People can also withdraw up to 10,000 rupees from a bank per day and a maximum of 20,000 rupees per week.
New 2,000 and 500 rupee denomination notes with new security features are being given to people to replace those removed from circulation.
A new 1,000 rupee note "with a new dimension and design" will also be introduced in due course, a senior government official said on Thursday.
Overseas Indians can deposit the banknotes in their non-resident rupee denominated accounts.
They can purchase foreign exchange equivalent to 5,000 rupees using these bank notes at airport exchange counters until midnight on Friday.
Indian social media has been talking of little else.
The top trend on Twitter India has been #CashCleanUp with tweets ranging from the frustrated to the humorous, as many Indians came to terms with the fact that much of their day would be spent in queues.
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Gamze Gunoral, 24, left her aunt's house in Totteridge, north London, on the morning of 7 July 2005 .
She died on the way to her language college in Hammersmith, west London, when a bomb was detonated on a Piccadilly Line Tube train near Russell Square.
Born in Istanbul and an only child, Miss Gunoral was brought up by just her mother from the age of five after her parents divorced.
She had an artistic streak, with paintings exhibited from a young age and played volleyball for a local club.
Music was another interest and she learned to play the mandolin, recorder and keyboard.
Her hard work at school paid off when she was accepted at the University of Marmara, in Istanbul, to study finance.
After graduating in 2003 as an actuary, she went on to join Gisad, Turkey's largest textile export company.
At the inquest into her death, her uncle Tawfiq Ghayas said in a statement that Gamze rose to all the challenges of her job and wanted to make her mother proud.
While with the company, Miss Gunoral decided to take a year's break to go to London to improve her English.
At the time of her death, she had been a full-time English student in the UK for just two months.
Osman Hokelek, an administrator at the Active Learning School, described her as a lovely girl who had just started to settle in and make some close friends.
She also took up a part-time job in a London fashion store to practise her spoken English.
Her other interests included watching films, Formula 1 racing, vintage cars and baking cookies.
Her mother took her body back to her homeland, where she was buried in a ceremony in Istanbul.
The 51-year-old's remains were discovered in the grounds of her house in Royston, Hertfordshire, on Friday.
She was last seen walking her pet dachshund on 11 April. The body of the dog was also found in the tank.
St Albans Crown Court was told about the discovery during a hearing in the case against her partner Ian Stewart, 55, who is charged with her murder.
Mr Stewart, of Baldock Road, Royston is also charged with perverting the course of justice and preventing a lawful burial.
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He appeared via video link and did not enter a plea. He is next due in court on 14 October.
A provisional trial date has been set for January.
Northumberland-born Ms Bailey went missing after apparently leaving a note for her partner saying she wanted some time on her own.
Mr Stewart reported her missing four days later, prompting a police manhunt.
He was arrested and charged on Friday following the discovery of the author's remains.
The results of a post-mortem examination have not yet been released.
Ms Bailey's family paid tribute to her on Saturday describing her as "immensely witty and talented".
The author is best known for creating the Electra Brown series for teenagers and also wrote a blog called Planet Grief, after her husband of 22 years drowned on holiday in Barbados in 2011.
About 100 people took part in the protest by National Action on the city's Quayside, Northumbria Police said.
A counter-demonstration of about 70 people was also held.
Assistant Chief Constable Winton Keenen said the force would not "tolerate people engaging in behaviour that could negatively impact on our communities".
The event was mostly peaceful but a number of arrests were made for public order offences including inciting racial hatred, the force said.
Last month the first rally by the British branch of German "anti-Islamisation" group Pegida was held in the city.
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The Kinross runner set a new Scottish mile record of four minutes 19.12 seconds in Oslo on Thursday, eclipsing Yvonne Murray's 1994 effort of 4:22.60.
Muir came home in second behind Kenyan Faith Kipyegon, the fastest woman in the world this year over 1500m.
"Being so close to her I think definitely puts me in contention for a medal come Rio," Muir said.
"The girls I was racing are high up there in terms of rankings and the girl who won is the fastest in the world this year.
"I am in that sort of top five in the world at the moment, I was fifth at the World Championships last year, so I just want to keep improving really.
"I'm not sure if 'expect' is the word, I think a target. It's definitely a target to be there (on the medal podium) because, at the end of the day, I can only do as well as I can, I can't control what anybody else does.
"If I feel that I've run the best race that I can and I've given absolutely 100% and I can fourth or fifth then fair enough, there's not much I can do about it.
"But hopefully my 100% will be enough for a podium place."
Muir, 23, believes she will be able to maintain her recent excellent form through to this summer's Olympics and believes, if she does, she can compete with anybody over 1500m.
"The times I'm running and the way that I'm running and how I'm running in training, I think it reflects that I should be able to be on one of those podium places," she told BBC Scotland.
"You just don't know what's going to happen in an Olympic final, it's very unpredictable. That's 1500m racing for you, but hopefully I'll have enough in the tank for it on the day."
Breaking a record that stood for 22 years is a timely boost for Muir in the build-up to Rio, and bettering the time of Murray, one of the top distance runners in in the history of Scottish athletics, makes the achievement particularly special.
"She's hugely influential and it's just great to be alongside her now and be at the level that she was at.
"She was a great athlete and hopefully in my career I can achieve similar medals and titles as she did.
"It's really important to me and I feel really honoured I'm in a position that I can beat these records set by really inspirational athletes before me.
"It's great to have my name up there now it's at the top. It's a reflection of the level I'm at now and the level I'm competing at. I'm really proud of the record that I've got now."
Tommy Boyle, who coached Murray, thinks Muir could go on to emulate her achievements on the track.
"Laura has the most potential of any female athlete I have seen in Scotland," Boyle explained.
"She is right up there with Yvonne Murray, Liz (McColgan), and well capable of meeting and probably beating because she has such fantastic potential.
"But doing times is one thing, running in championships like Yvonne did in Seoul, competing and getting a bronze medal on the minute, on the day, on the hour is what it's all about."
Muir also believes she is capable of breaking Zola Budd's British mile record, which has stood since 1985.
"It's not a common race in the schedule, but yeah, definitely, I think I could.
"It would have been possible to beat the record (on Thursday). It was just unfortunate it got quite a bit cooler.
"Had the conditions been better I think I was in shape to run that sort of time and break the British record."
William John Wallace, of California, was going through child support and custody hearings at the time, Orange County District Attorney (DA) said.
A private detective he hired alerted police to his request to kill his wife.
Mr Wallace, 36 and thought be from Walsall, in the West Midlands, got nine years for admitting attempted murder and solicitation to commit murder.
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During the custody and child support court hearings in 2013, Mr Wallace, of Santa Ana, hired the private investigator to try to find negative information about his partner that could be used against her when child support payments would be decided.
He subsequently told the private investigator that he wanted his ex-wife killed and asked him if he knew of anyone who would do it and dispose of her body, the district attorney's office said.
The investigator informed police about Mr Wallace's request and on 21 December, Mr Wallace unknowingly met an undercover detective from the Orange County Sheriff's Department and offered him $30,000 to carry out the murder, giving him a photo of his wife for identification purposes.
Mr Wallace asked that the murder take place after 23 December as he would be leaving the US for Christmas, officials said.
Ms Atkinson's chief of staff Christine Hewitt has also been expelled, a party spokesman said.
It follows a newspaper investigation into an apparent expenses claim.
The South East MEP, who is standing in Folkestone and Hythe on 7 May, said she was "deeply disappointed" by the decision and would appeal.
In a statement, she added: "I was elected to represent the constituents of the south-east of England and I will continue to work tirelessly on their behalf and for the best interests of our country."
A UKIP spokesman said the two women had 14 days to appeal.
"Ms Atkinson no longer represents the UKIP in the European Parliament and she will no longer be a prospective parliamentary candidate for Folkestone and Hythe," he added.
He declined to say how or when a new candidate would be chosen.
Ms Atkinson was initially suspended following the Sun's investigation, which party leader Nigel Farage said "couldn't look worse".
The newspaper published a secret recording appearing to show Ms Hewitt speaking to the manager of a restaurant in Margate, Kent, before UKIP's spring conference.
In the footage, she appears to ask for an invoice for a much higher sum than the bill she had originally received.
Ms Hewitt is heard to say: "The idea is we overcharge them slightly, because that's the way we repatriate it."
A member of the hotel staff replies: "3,150, is that alright? Yeah, if you're all right with that? Is that enough for you?"
Ms Hewitt then says: "Oh God yeah, that's more than enough."
It is not known whether Ms Atkinson knew or authorised her staff member's apparent actions.
The BBC has been unable to contact Ms Hewitt for comment.
It wasn't a style of running you or I would probably choose, but then this particular technique had been invented by an artificial intelligence (AI) on my laptop.
For the latest episode of Click we set ourselves the challenge of creating our own AI - one capable of learning to play the computer game QWOP. This hobbling knee-dragger was the very best of his generation, and this is the story of how he learned to walk.
QWOP is a deceptively simple game - take control of your athlete and run 100m (328ft) along a race track. There's no other competitors, no time limit, it should be easy.
The catch is though that you must control each part of your runner's legs individually. Press Q or W to move his thighs, O or P for his calves. If you're feeling calm, have a go yourself.
If you clicked the link, you probably spent the last few minutes erratically thrashing your athlete's limbs, performing fatal somersaults and generally not running very far. Eventually though you might have figured out a combination of keystrokes that allow you to shimmy, hop and shuffle your way further down the track, maybe all the way to the 100-metre mark.
Humans are built to solve problems like this, within a few minutes you can look at QWOP, fall over a few times and figure out how to get better at the game.
Computers however are traditionally very bad at this - they can follow instructions faster than any human, but are incapable of insight or creativity.
The aim of artificial intelligence research is to change this - make computers that are able to solve problems on their own, just like us.
The "brain" of our QWOP-playing AI is something called an artificial neural network (ANN). In effect it is a very simplified model of the kinds of neural networks we have in our own brains.
Where we have billions of neurons though, our QWOP AI will only ever have dozens.
It is dealing with a lot less information compared to us - our brains have to deal with a deluge of information from our senses - but QWOP AI only knows a few bits of data. That's things like the angles of the athlete's legs and torso, this is how our QWOP AI "sees" the world.
At the other end of the neural network are four output neurons, each one of these controls a key press in the game - the letters Q, W, O and P. So if the Q neuron fires, our athlete's right thigh will move forward.
And between the inputs and outputs is a jumble of more neurons and connections - this is where the magic happens. The unique way that these are wired up defines how our runner moves, if he falls over and whether he is a success.
But the QWOP AI didn't start out running at all, in fact the first few hundred generations could barely stand up.
The brain of our AI is actually changing over time. In effect it's rewiring itself in different ways to try and get better at moving our QWOP man.
It does this using another idea pinched from nature - evolution.
QWOP AI started life as hundreds of randomly generated neural networks, all of them very, very simple. One by one each of these networks was given a go at controlling QWOP man, to varying degrees of success.
While most immediately fell over, some didn't. Eventually, those that got the furthest, fastest, were given the chance to reproduce with other high-achieving QWOP brains.
Over time, by breeding the best of each generation and also throwing in some random mutations along the way, networks evolved that were more complex and much better at QWOP.
The result is a neural network that has discovered its own way of completing the game. It certainly isn't fast, but given more time it might be able to find better ways of running. It might even learn to run like us.
What is certain though is that running is all QWOP AI will ever be good at; it has only been trained to do one task. Given any other kind of data it would have no idea what it means or what to do with it.
And QWOP AI isn't alone - most artificially intelligent systems that exist now have the same limitation. Creating an AI that can understand and adapt to any situation it encounters is still the holy grail of AI research.
Hopefully when we do finally get to that point, it'll figure out how to run a bit more like Usain Bolt.
Watch the full episode of Click's AI special on iPlayer.
The finding was made during a review into how the council can help residents run services in their own communities.
About 75 have been taken on by groups including community centres, recreation areas and clubs.
The report to this week's cabinet said more needs to be done to recognise their good work.
Thirty-nine community centres are run by voluntary management committees along with six bowls clubs including the main Swansea bowls centre and Swansea Bowls Association - an umbrella group for smaller clubs.
On top of that, there are about 30 "friends of parks" groups which work in partnership with the council carrying out litter picks, reporting maintenance issues and putting on events.
Talks are also taking place about the future of sports pitches as the council continues to look at ways of making savings.
"There was a consistent message from our evidence gathering that many community volunteers and community groups do not feel valued either by their communities or by the council," the councillor-led scrutiny panel report said.
"We believe that recognition for the work of volunteers is important not just because this is the right thing to do, but also because it provides encouragement and it lets them know that they have the support and backing of the council and the wider community."
The report also found some people see handing services over to communities as a "threat rather than an opportunity".
There was also "concern" raised by some about the level of service being provided if the council is not involved and the longer term sustainability of projects because of the current age of many volunteers.
Ten recommendations have been made including publicly promoting the roles of volunteers and creating an award category in the annual Lord Mayor's Awards.
In response to the report, Mark Child, cabinet member for wellbeing and healthy city, said: "Community groups and volunteers are often the lifeblood of their communities. Without them we'd all be poorer."
He added: "Community groups have a great track record of achievement.
"An important part of this is that they are often embedded in their neighbourhoods so it means they're better able to shape services so they meet the needs and expectations of local residents."
Arfon AM Sian Gwenllian has claimed Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board wants to move some services at Ysbyty Gwynedd and Wrexham Maelor Hospital to Ysbyty Glan Clwyd in Bodelwyddan.
She said such a move would have an impact on north-west Wales.
The health board said it is looking to create a specialist vascular unit.
Speaking to Newyddion 9, Ms Gwenllian said:"If the vascular service goes elsewhere the expertise goes with it, meaning a compromised service for north-west Wales.
"This is yet another example of services creeping eastwards."
Her concerns have been backed up by a consultant physician at Ysbyty Gwynedd's renal unit at the hospital.
Dr Mahdi Jibani said other services at Bangor could be affected by any decision to centralise the vascular service, which he described as a "world-renowned department".
He added: "This is an integrated service, and other aspects of what we do here would be threatened - radiology, urology and gastroenterology to name just a few."
Ken Jones of the North Wales Kidney Association said: "If this service goes, it will cost lives, there's no two ways about it."
In a statement the health board confirmed plans to create a specialist vascular unit in north Wales, but would not confirm where it would be.
It said that the majority of vascular services would continue to be carried out on three sites - Ysbyty Gwynedd, Glan Clwyd, and Wrexham Maelor.
The board's executive medical director Dr Evan Moore added: "Units such as these - which provide a hub for major vascular arterial operations - are being created across the UK, and there is strong evidence that such sites improve clinical outcomes and patient safety, whilst attracting the best staff staff and help to develop the best infrastructure."
The 25-year-old, from Dundee, was rushed to hospital after a fifth-round loss to Welsh fighter Dale Evans in a St Andrew's Sporting Club fight at Glasgow's Radisson Blu Hotel.
Towell's partner, Chloe Ross, said he "fought right to the end".
He is only the third professional boxer to die in the UK from apparently fight-related injuries in the past 21 years.
His management said he passed away with his family at his bedside.
St Andrews Sporting Club confirmed Towell's death in a tweet on Saturday morning.
"Within the last hour Mike Towell passed away - he will always be in our hearts #RIPIronMike," it said.
In a Facebook post, his partner Ms Ross said Towell died "peacefully" shortly after 23:00 BST on Friday, 12 hours after he was taken off life support.
"I'm absolutely heartbroken to say my annoying best friend passed away tonight at 11.02 very peacefully," she wrote.
"Michael had severe bleeding and swelling to his brain.
"He had been complaining of headaches for the last few weeks but we put it down to migraines with the stress of his fight.
"It has been the longest 24 hours of our lives. My baby has lost his daddy. But he will be so so proud of his dad in what he achieved."
Ms Ross added: "Once he was taken off of his life support he managed 12 hours, 12 whole rounds off his life support, he fought right to the end and he's done us all so proud... He left doing the thing he's best at... there's only one."
A spokesman for St Andrew's Sporting Club later said that Towell's management team was not aware of any headache problems leading up to the fight.
Towell was knocked down in the first round of the fight before recovering to continue the match.
Referee Victor Loughlin stopped the fight in the fifth round shortly after Towell was knocked down by Carmarthen fighter Evans for a second time.
He received treatment in the ring and was given oxygen before being taken to an ambulance on a stretcher.
Spencer Oliver, the former European Super Bantamweight champion who was placed in a coma after being injured in a fight in 1998, said Towell would not have been allowed to fight if there had been doubts about his health.
He said: "He would have to have had all his medical tests. He was in a British title eliminator so all his brain scans would have been up to date and everything would have been in place with Mike going into that contest."
But boxing promoter Frank Warren raised concerns about the reports that Towell had been suffering from headaches.
He said: "If that's true, obviously he shouldn't have been fighting. And I'm quite sure, the doctor, who examines the boxers and the medicals, if they had of known that, they would not have allowed him to box.
"So, obviously once the British Boxing Board of Control complete their investigation into the matter, they'll be able to give further comment on that."
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Towell's family are understood to have been joined by his manager, Tommy Gilmour, during his final hours.
Mr Gilmour said"He was Iron Mike to the end, he kept fighting till the last, and we have lost an exciting boxer but, more importantly, a very special man.
"I am devastated and all my thoughts are with Mike's mum Tracey, his partner Chloe and their little son Rocco.
"He was one of the greatest characters I have worked with, I came away from every phone call or chat we had smiling and shaking my head in bewilderment."
Iain Wilson, owner of St Andrew's Sporting Club, who was with Towell and his family following the fight, added: "He wasn't just a fighter at our club, he was my friend and a special heart-and-soul guy.
"I was with the family through the night after the fight, they are heartbroken and everyone at the club shares their grief.
"We have lost one of our favourite sons and boxing has lost an explosive talent but the biggest loss of all is for the Towell family. We will rally round them now to do all we can."
Trainer Shane McGuigan said on Twitter: "Heartbreaking news that Mike Towell has lost his life. May he rest in peace, thoughts go out to his loved ones. #RIP"
Promoter Eddie Hearn said: "Absolutely devastated by the passing of Mike Towell - all of our thoughts with his friends and family at this time."
The boxer had been undefeated going into Thursday's fight, with 11 previous wins and one draw on his professional record.
Veteran Labour MP Paul Flynn described Mike Towell's death as "a terrible tragedy" and renewed his call for blows to the head to be banned in sport.
The shadow cabinet member twice called for the rule change through private member's bills in 1998 and and 2005 but failed on both occasions.
Mr Flynn said: "I think the consciences of people in the sport are aroused by tragedies of this kind and I think people should be aware of the dangers.
"We ought to change the rules in many sports and realise that the head is a very delicate part of the body and to protect it, and minimise the number of blows the brain suffers."
Tests on the satellite-tagged bird - found at the Glenbuchat Estate in Strathdon - tested positive for the banned pesticide carbofuran.
Grampian Police and officers from the Scottish Government Rural Payments and Inspections Directorate (SGRPID) are among those investigating.
The force said no-one had been charged and inquiries were continuing.
Pc Dave MacKinnon, Grampian's wildlife crime officer, said: "We are always very concerned when illegal pesticides are used in our countryside for the poisoning of birds of prey.
"I am particularly disappointed that this incident has resulted in the death of a young golden eagle.
"Articles have been removed from the estate and are being sent for analysis."
On-loan Newcastle winger Florian Thauvin was the match-winner, finishing off a team move in the second half.
The club are currently struggling in 15th place in the French league, just six points above the relegation zone.
Laurent Blanc's PSG side can complete a league and cup double for a second consecutive season with victory in the final on Saturday, 21 May.
Police said he was attacked by another man in the Templemore Avenue area shortly before 02:30 GMT on Sunday.
They said he had been "taken to hospital for treatment to his injuries".
Police have appealed for information.
The repository will be produced by Glasgow University in collaboration with the National Burns Collection.
It will see all Burns papers held in Scotland examined, digitised and stored at the university's Centre for Robert Burns Studies.
The plan is then to widen the collection to include material from archives outside Scotland.
The database will be use by partners of BurnsScotland, the new name for the National Burns Collection.
It will include images with paper sizes, watermarks and other descriptive features recorded.
Professor Gerard Carruthers, of Glasgow University, said: "This is a hugely significant development which will greatly benefit those who study the writings of Robert Burns.
"The man, as we know, was a voracious author who penned more than 600 poems and songs.
"This database will not only allow for quick and easy access to the materials but it will also enable us to identify and put back together papers that have become separated, and even allow us to show examples of genuine Burns works and Burns forgeries."
BurnsScotland is a partnership agreement between the university, the National Library of Scotland, the National Galleries of Scotland, Glasgow Life, the National Museums of Scotland, Dumfries and Galloway Museums, East Ayrshire Museums and South Ayrshire Museums.
Terrence Davidson began working for the rapper in 2010, creating multiple wigs for high-profile events and her Super Bass music video.
Mr Davidson claims he had previously discussed a joint business venture with Minaj to launch a line of wigs.
Representatives for Minaj have yet to comment on the legal action.
Mr Davidson says the star is now copying his wig designs and selling them online.
According to legal papers filed in Atlanta, the hair stylist says he also turned down a contract for a reality TV show on the advice of one of Minaj's representatives, with the promise of creating his own reality show with the star about being a celebrity wig stylist.
But after months passed in 2012, he claims the rapper and her team "took active steps to isolate [him] and preclude him from the notoriety he deserved for his wig designs".
Mr Davidson - whose celebrity clients also include singers Patti LaBelle and Jennifer Hudson - stopped working as Minaj's stylist in early 2013, citing creative differences.
Christopher Chestnut, a lawyer for the hair stylist, said his client's wigs "significantly contributed" to Minaj's notoriety and helped her rise to fame.
He said the star "took a number of his popular wig designs, without his consent, and used them to start her own wig line", resulting in at least $30m in losses.
"Her lawyers may complicate it, but we don't need to get into intellectual-property law. "This is basic American morality. Nicki Minaj lied to this man and cheated him," he said.
United are in talks with the Portuguese coach, 53, to replace Dutchman Louis van Gaal, who was sacked on Monday.
"In the last year, Manchester United has lost its identity," Ancelotti, 56, told BBC Sport pundit Jermaine Jenas.
However, the Bayern Munich boss said Van Gaal had been faced with the tricky task of rebuilding United and perhaps needed more time to make his mark.
"The job of Van Gaal was not easy, he had to rebuild the team," said Italian Ancelotti. "It takes time. In football, you need time to build something."
Old Trafford legend Eric Cantona says new Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola would have been a better fit for United than Mourinho.
"I would have loved to have seen Guardiola at Manchester United," Cantona, who celebrated his 50th birthday this week, told the Guardian.
"Guardiola was the one to take. He is the spiritual son of Johan Cruyff. He is the only one to change Manchester United.
"I love Jose Mourinho, but, in terms of the type of football he plays, I don't think he is Manchester United."
Mourinho's agent, Jorge Mendes, flew into London on Tuesday morning and is leading discussions with United.
If he is confirmed in the role, Mourinho will renew his rivalry with Guardiola, who was Barcelona boss when Mourinho was in charge at Real Madrid.
It was the very first time UU has entered a team on the quiz and with an average age of 50 they were some of the oldest competitors to take part.
They may have suffered a loss, but at only five points behind their rivals, they can hold their heads up high.
Team member, Matthew Milliken, a PHD student, said it was "tremendous fun".
The UU team was made up of members drawn from the four campuses in Belfast, Coleraine, Jordanstown and Londonderry.
As well as Matthew, from Comber, County Down, it consisted of Cathal McDaid from Buncrana, County Donegal, Kate Ritchie from Waringstown, County Down, and captain Ian Jack from Peterhead in Aberdeenshire.
Matthew told BBC's Good Morning Ulster that the team hadn't set their sights too high.
"We set ourselves a target of not being the lowest ever score, but we exceeded that ambition."
They even got a tweet today from University Challenge legend Bobby Seagull who said it was the highest losing score in the last six years.
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The team were able to have a joke with the famously stern presenter, Jeremy Paxman.
"In the picture round, the picture came up on the screen in front of us. It was a round on actors who had played a part on Broadway and gone on to win an Oscar for the film," Matthew said.
"The picture was Yul Brynner and I do have a pretty similar hairstyle to him. I buzzed in with the right answer.
"Jeremy Paxman, looked across at me, raised an eyebrow knowingly and I removed my glasses and wiped my baldy head.
"As I said to my daughter, 'Your daddy's a meme' ".
Matthew added that the university had never made an attempt to get on the show before.
"It would be really easy for it [to be] populated with Oxbridge students. There are so many colleges and phenomenally intelligent young people over there.
"We're a bunch of folk who have, perhaps struggled a bit to come through this stage of education. I proudly boast that I scrapped two A Levels and went to the poly.
"I wasn't one of these kids who grew up watching the programme. It was a much more recent advent in my world."
However, it's not all over for the team, as they will still have the opportunity to compete in the play-offs.
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The double-amputee sprinter, 27, has pleaded not guilty to all charges, including the "wilful and intentional murder of Reeva Steenkamp".
Here are details of the key evidence put before the court so far.
Mr Pistorius has told the court that on the night of the shooting the couple had dinner at about 19:00 local time (17:00 GMT) before watching television and falling asleep between 21:00 and 22:00.
He said he woke in the early hours and Ms Steenkamp asked him: "Can't you sleep, my baba?"
He told the court he could not sleep and that he had brought in two fans from the balcony. Mr Pistorius then described how he heard a noise from the bathroom.
"That's the moment that everything changed," he said. "I thought that there was a burglar that was gaining entry to my home."
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Mr Pistorius said he and Ms Steenkamp had dinner at about 19:00 before going to bed at 21:00. He said he woke in the early hours, spoke briefly to his girlfriend and got up to close the sliding door and curtains.
Judge Thokozile Masipa questioned the reliability of several witnesses who said they heard screams and gunshots between about 03:12 and 03:17, saying most had 'got facts wrong'.
Mr Pistorius said he heard the bathroom window sliding open and believed that an intruder, or intruders, had entered the bathroom through a window which was not fitted with burglar bars.
Mr Pistorius said he grabbed his firearm and told Ms Steenkamp, who he thought was still in bed, to call the police.
The judge said it made no sense that Ms Steenkamp did not hear him scream 'Get out' or call the police, as she had her mobile phone with her.
Mr Pistorius could see the bathroom window was open and toilet door closed. He said he did not know whether the intruders were outside on a ladder or in the toilet.
He had his firearm in front of him, he heard a movement inside the toilet and thought whoever was inside was coming out to attack him.
'Before I knew it, I had fired four shots at the door,' he said.
The judge said she did not accept that Mr Pistorius fired the gun by accident or before he knew what was happening. She said he had armed himself with a lethal weapon and clearly wanted to use it. The other question, she said, was why he fired not one, but four shots before he ran back to the room to try to find Ms Steenkamp.
Mr Pistorius said he went back to the bedroom and noticed that Ms Steenkamp was not there.
Mr Pistorius said this was when he realised she could have been in the toilet and rushed back to the bathroom.
Mr Pistorius said he screamed for help and went back to the bathroom where he found the toilet was locked. He returned to the bedroom, pulled on his prosthetic legs and turned on the lights before bashing in the toilet door with a cricket bat.
When the door panel broke, he found the key and unlocked the door and found Ms Steenkamp slumped on the floor with her head on the toilet bowl. He then carried her downstairs, where he was met by neighbours.
3D animation of the apartment
Mr Pistorius said he grabbed his 9mm pistol from under his bed and moved towards the bathroom on his stumps, telling Ms Steenkamp quietly to call the police.
"I got to the entrance of the bathroom, at the end of the passage. At this point I was certain that an intruder or intruders were there in my bathroom."
He said he saw the bathroom window was open and he screamed for Ms Steenkamp to call the police.
"I wasn't sure if somebody was going to come out of the toilet and attack me," he told the court. "I wasn't sure if someone was going to come up the ladder and point a firearm and start shooting. So I just stayed where I was and I kept on screaming.
"Then I heard a noise from inside the toilet - what I perceived to be somebody coming out of the toilet. Before I knew it, I fired four shots at the door."
Mr Pistorius said the gunshots left his ears ringing, and he kept on shouting for Ms Steenkamp to phone the police. He said he retreated back to the bedroom and found Ms Steenkamp was not in bed.
"At that point, the first thing I thought was maybe she got down onto the floor like I told her to, maybe she was just scared... I can't remember what I said but I was trying to talk out to her.
"It was upon that time, my Lady, that it first dawned upon me that it could be Reeva that was in the bathroom or in the toilet. I jumped out of the other side of the bed and I ran my hands along the curtains to see that she wasn't hiding.
"I didn't want to believe it was Reeva in the toilet, I was so scared that someone was coming in to attack us. I made my way inside the bathroom... I tried to grab the handle, rip open the door. I pushed the door to open and it was locked.
"I ran back to the room, I opened the curtains, opened the doors and shouted from the balcony for help. I screamed, 'Help, help, help.' I screamed for somebody to help me.
"I put my prosthetic legs on. I ran as far as I could back to the bathroom, I ran into the door. It didn't move at all. I tried to kick the door but nothing happened."
Mr Pistorius told the court how he went back to the bedroom, picked up a cricket bat and started hitting the toilet door in a bid to open it.
He said he hit the door about three times and then managed to pull a plank out of it. Eventually he found the key on the floor and unlocked the door.
"I sat over Reeva and I cried, I don't know how long... I don't know how long I was there for," he told the court.
The prosecution says Mr Pistorius deliberately shot dead Ms Steenkamp after the couple had had an argument on Valentine's Day.
Chief prosecutor Gerrie Nel said Mr Pistorius's account of the night was a fabrication and the pair had been arguing just before the shooting.
"You fired four shots through the door whilst knowing that she was standing behind the door," Mr Nel said.
"She was locked into the bathroom and you armed yourself with the sole purpose of shooting and killing her."
"That is not true," replied Mr Pistorius.
During cross-examination the prosecution has focused on the athlete's character and enthusiasm for firearms.
The court was shown a Sky News report showing Mr Pistorius at a shooting range.
Mr Nel also showed the court a photograph of the effects of the shooting on Reeva Steenkamp's head.
Mr Pistorius refused to look at the photo saying: "I will not look at a picture where I am tormented by what I saw."
However, Mr Nel has repeatedly accused Mr Pistorius of using his emotions "as an escape" after he broke down a number of times in court.
"You're getting emotional now because you're getting frustrated because your version [of events] is improbable," Mr Nel said.
The prosecution has also highlighting a number of apparent inconsistencies between Mr Pistorius' bail application and his evidence in court.
The defence and prosecution also disagree about bangs heard that night and whether they were made by Mr Pistorius hitting the door with a cricket bat, or whether they were gunshots, or both.
A forensic analyst contradicted Mr Pistorius' claim that he was wearing his artificial legs when he tried to break open the toilet door with a cricket bat after realising Ms Steenkamp was inside.
Police Colonel Johannes Vermeulen said the angle and location of the marks on the door suggested Mr Pistorius was on his stumps. In court, Mr Vermeulen knelt down to swing the bat at the door to demonstrate.
"The marks on the door are actually consistent with him not having his legs on and I suspect they must be similar to the height that he was when he fired the shots," he told the court.
Ballistics expert Captain Christiaan Mangena told the court he believed Ms Steenkamp was standing up in the toilet cubicle, facing the closed door when she was hit in the right hip. The hole made by the bullet is labelled as A in the diagram below.
Ms Steenkamp then fell back onto a magazine rack next to the toilet before three more bullets were fired at the door, he said. One bullet missed her and ricocheted off the wall twice. Capt Mangena said fragments from this bullet (from bullet hole B) caused bruising on Ms Steenkamp's back - although the defence rejects this.
The expert said Ms Steenkamp was then hit by two more shots (causing bullet holes C and D), one in the arm and the other went through her left hand into her skull as she crossed her arms over her head to protect herself.
Capt Mangena said that after being hit in the head, she fell down and her head ended up on the toilet seat. He said the gun had been fired from at least 60cm (23 inches) from the door and no further than 3m. He added that Mr Pistorius was most likely not wearing his prosthetic legs at the time.
Correspondents say this is in line with Mr Pistorius' testimony that he pulled the trigger while standing at the entrance to the bathroom.
However, Capt Mangena said he believed there was a gap between the first and second bullet being fired, which contradicts the athlete's version of events. It corroborates evidence given by a neighbour who said she heard a shot, then a pause, then three further shots. It also suggests that Ms Steenkamp may have had time to scream before she fell to the floor, supporting the neighbour's testimony that she had heard a woman screaming.
However, pathologist Jan Botha, the first witness for the defence, said that if Mr Pistorius had fired his weapon in two quick bursts, as the defence suggests, Ms Steenkamp probably would not have had time to scream.
"If the shots were fired in rapid sequence, and these four shots could have easily been fired in four seconds, I think it's highly unlikely that she would have called out,'' said Mr Botha.
But, he said, he was "not a ballistician".
Some of Mr Botha's evidence also contradicted testimony given by state pathologist Gert Saayman who said vegetable matter in Ms Steenkamp's stomach suggested she had eaten around two hours before her death. Mr Pistorius' team says she had been asleep for longer than that.
Mr Botha said analysing gastric contents was "a highly controversial and inexact science".
Prosecution witnesses - including one who lives on the nearby Silver Stream Estate - have testified to hearing a woman scream followed by gun shots, but the defence disputes their testimony, saying the only scream came from Mr Pistorius - after he had fired.
As there are no juries at trials in South Africa, Mr Pistorius's fate will ultimately be decided by the judge, assisted by two assessors.
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.
Guides themselves helped design the programme which will be delivered by young women.
"I'm really proud of this of new Girlguiding resource and my part in developing it," said Zoe Dowler, 24.
Zoe 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.
Following 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.
"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.
She said she hoped the badge would give girls positive and practical solutions and "a safe space to share what's on their mind".
The new badge is launched amid increasing concern about the mental health of children and young people.
Last August a Children's Society report found children in England were among the unhappiest in the world.
While Girlguiding's 2015 Girls' Attitudes Survey of 1,500 UK girls and young women found:
The 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".
It 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.
The girls will learn self-calming techniques in sessions tailored to different age groups.
The 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.
"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.
Young 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.
"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.
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The 23-year-old Scot won her first senior medals in the 1500m and 3,000m in Belgrade at the weekend.
"We went for the double to see how the legs coped with a lot of rounds in a short period," Muir told the BBC.
"Hopefully, come London, I'll double up and do the 1500m and the 5K."
The Kinross athlete regards the shorter distance as her "main event" in August but said she was pleased that the schedule for the heats and finals "work really well to double up".
"I'd love to get on the podium," she added. "That would be my first global-level medal."
Timings, however, were not on her side in Belgrade when it came to celebrating her British record-breaking 1500m triumph on Saturday.
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An official repeatedly thwarted her attempt to do a lap of honour before Muir eventually gave her the slip.
She told BBC Radio 5 live: "They were saying they were behind on the programme, but the athletes were out on the track so I thought, 'ach, I'm just going to go'."
Muir is juggling her record-breaking athletics career with her veterinary studies.
"Athletics is quite an individual sport so I can fit everything around it," she said.
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"I just go for runs in the morning before I head to lectures, and do runs in the evenings when I get back. It is tough and my recovery is not as great as other athletes' but veterinary always came first for me."
Muir revealed she felt motivated to "work even harder over the winter" after her disappointment at finishing seventh in the 1500m final at the Rio Olympics.
"I wanted to race as best as I could throughout 2017 and it's gone pretty well so far," she said.
"I just seem to be getting faster and faster and it's brilliant."
Tynemouth Pool, filled daily with seawater with the passing of the tides, was once a popular visitor attraction but has lain derelict since the 1990s.
The art exhibition has opened at the Old Low Lights Heritage Centre in North Shields to raise money for the pool.
The specially commissioned artworks will be auctioned on 26 November.
See more on this story and other news from the North East here.
Works at the exhibition include the first print of a previously unseen work by internationally renowned photographer and founder member of the Amber Film and Photography Collective, Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen,
The Friends of Tynemouth Outdoor Pool, which was formed in 2012, has submitted detailed refurbishment proposals to North Tyneside Council.
Exhibition organisers said: "While the artwork on display will cover a variety of mediums and artistic approaches, all exhibiting artists share a common aim of helping return the outdoor pool site to its former glory."
Also at the exhibition will be an "incredible illuminated model" of the restoration, which has been created in Lego by architectural photographer Steve Mayes.
Afterwards it will go on display at various locations around North Tyneside.
Needless to say, they came away impressed, and it is that internationalist approach which has made the World Rugby chairman one of the most pivotal figures in the development of the sport.
Since taking office in 1995, he has guided rugby from the amateur to professional leagues, brought nations like Argentina and the US into the fold and generated record-breaking growth culminating in last year's World Cup.
And now, he's making a final, ambitious play for Asia before relinquishing his role in May.
"We are not just a sport for Europe and the southern hemisphere," the 68-year-old Frenchman told me. "Asia is the future for the game. I am sure it will be the future of the game."
Nothing illustrates this more than the deal he signed this month with Alibaba chairman Jack Ma, who is also China's second richest man.
The multimillion dollar development and sponsorship agreement aims to expand rugby in China at both the grassroots and professional levels over the next ten years.
Mr Ma's sports unit will also get exclusive broadcast rights for its internet platform and help organise more rugby events in the country.
"When we open the market in China, it will open the market in all of Asia," Mr Lapasset said.
"Development is different in every region. We have to adapt the solutions to the different cultures that we have in front of us.
"Rugby is not the same in Africa as it is in Europe, and is not in the same in South America and North America. It will be different as well in China and in Asia. We need to adapt the solutions country by country."
The Sevens
Rugby Sevens, the short-form of the game being included at the Rio Olympics, is a huge part of his strategy.
First invented by a butcher in Melrose, Scotland, in 1883, the sevens is regarded as faster - and some say easier to understand - than the core rugby union game with a team of 15 players.
Australian rugby legend and former Wallabies captain Stirling Mortlock calls it a "great vehicle" for developing countries to accelerate their rugby programmes.
"In Asia there is so much potential and we're only seeing the start of it. You don't need massive behemoth forwards and a huge amount of players," he told me, adding that "it's an easy way for females to get involved as well as males."
But can rugby really pick up in Asia given the overwhelming popularity of football? That's not to mention the myriad of other sports competing for attention, like golf, tennis and badminton.
The business and investment community increasingly seems to be saying yes.
Banking giant HSBC has sponsored the World Rugby Sevens series since 2011 and recently renewed the contract for another four years.
"We want to associate with fast-growing sports in emerging markets that cater to both men and women yet allow us to be quite dominant," global head of sponsorship and events Giles Morgan said.
"It is hard to find sports that aren't cluttered with many other sponsors in financial services."
Singapore is hoping to cash in on the success of the event to generate more tourism dollars. After a ten-year hiatus, the city-state is now the second Asian city on the sevens circuit after Hong Kong.
New Zealander and Coliseum Sports Media Group chief executive Tim Martin has based his business here and is also betting big on the oval ball game.
He's invested millions to buy the regional rights to the Super Rugby tournament and has launched a digital streaming platform called RugbyPass.
"I'm committed," he said. "Right now it is the most exciting sport in Asia in terms of its commercial development potential."
"The football opportunity is billions and that's pretty scary. That's way too scary for a little boy from Auckland. But rugby is emerging and so there is chance still to create a business".
World Rugby also plans to spend more in Asia as part of its continued efforts to develop the market.
They currently have around 400,000 registered players in the region and aim to increase that to one million by 2019.
The organisation invested almost £9m ($13m) in Asia between 2012 to 2015, ranging from high performance development to regional competitions, Mr Lapasset said.
But it's not all rosy. Critics say the money doesn't trickle down to the grassroots and that more needs to be done to raise the overall standard of the local leagues and national teams.
James Sterling used to work for a non-profit organisation that promotes rugby in Cambodia, particularly among disadvantaged and orphaned children.
From 1500 registered players there are now none. He told the BBC: "What I've found from the meetings that I've had with World Rugby, and other people around the region have had with them, is that they're more interested in revenue generation and player numbers."
He claims the most they ever received from the organisation was $5,000.
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Another challenge the sport faces in Asia is the perception of it as rough-and-tumble, elitist and only filled with expatriates. Some say that's changing.
Australian advertising executive Shane Dewar has been playing rugby since he was 12 years old and believes the sport is finally catching on among locals.
"One of the reasons that rugby is so popular in the home countries of the many expats playing rugby here is that they have grown up with the sport," he said.
"We also had access to see some of the best players in the world playing locally for professional and international sides.
"The populist view is that rugby is only for large-framed people, and that smaller players will never compete, but I think Japan have shown that with a style and identity that suits their smaller physiques, they can compete at the top level."
On a sweltering day in Singapore, I headed down to a local stadium to watch the New Zealand All Blacks sevens team train for the eighth leg of the series.
The All Blacks are considered the sport's most powerful brand and one firm estimates they could be worth half a billion US dollars by 2023, following their World Cup win last year.
Despite their impressive credentials, it's pretty fair to say my taxi driver, or the average man on the street, would still be hard-pressed to name many of their players.
Rugby union may be the world's fastest-growing team sport, but former All Blacks captain Richie McCaw is still not as recognisable here as footballer Cristiano Ronaldo.
Mr Lapasset, who is stepping down to head Paris's bid for the 2024 Olympics, remains optimistic though.
"Every year we increase the total amount for development for rugby around the world. One was Argentina, that is done. Second one was USA, that is done. Now it is Asia."
"We are headed in the right way," he said with a smile.
He won 39.93% of first preference votes - falling shy of the 50% needed - so was forced to go to another round where second preference votes were counted.
The former Army veteran won a total of 202,396 first and second preferences, compared with his nearest challenger Laetisia Carter.
She took 172,717 of the first and second preference votes.
Turnout was 25.6%, up from 13.3% in 2012.
Candidates are listed alphabetically by surname. BBC News App users: tap here to see the results.
Mr McRae's death was officially recorded as suicide after a gunshot wound was found behind his right ear.
A petition, signed by 12,000 people, is calling for a fatal accident inquiry (FAI) amid long-running suspicions of a cover-up.
The Crown Office said an FAI would not be held in to Mr McRae's death.
A spokesman said: "Crown Counsel are satisfied with the extensive investigations into the death of William McRae and have instructed that an FAI will not be held into the circumstances of Mr McRae's death."
Mr McRae was found badly injured in his crashed car on the A87 near Kintail in Wester Ross in April 1985.
He later died in hospital, where medical staff found a gunshot wound to his head.
It was initially believed Mr McRae, who was 61, had been involved in an accident but the discovery of the gunshot wound meant his death was officially recorded as suicide.
The petition will be handed over to the Crown Office later this week.
For a long time one unanswered aspect of the case was why Mr McRae's gun was found some distance from his car, not next to it.
However, fresh evidence from police reports shows Mr McRae's Volvo was removed from the crash scene before the gunshot wound was discovered.
It was then returned to the site after police realised they were not dealing with a traffic incident.
When the car was returned it was placed close to the original site, but not in the precise spot.
Writer Mark MacNicol, a spokesman for the campaign, produced a stage play on the case for the Edinburgh Fringe last year.
He told BBC Scotland: "When I started to do my own research into the circumstances surrounding the supposed suicide it became evident to me that, in my opinion, it was not a suicide."
Mr MacNicol said a police officer who was on duty at the time had spoken about Mr McRae being followed by Special Branch officers "the day before he was found with a bullet in his head".
"The circumstances leading up to his death are highly suspicious to say the least," Mr MacNicol said.
"Then after the death the fact that the car was taken away and then moved back by police, the gun was so far away from the car, fabricated witness statements, the fact that the official suicide verdict came out prior to publication of the ballistics reports, so they had no way of knowing that gun was actually used in the suicide."
Mr MacNicol admitted the new evidence that the police moved the car in error might explain why the gun was found so far away.
He said: "It might but we don't know because for 30 years there has been this huge resistance from the Crown Office to actually to do the very straight-forward thing which is to have a fatal accident inquiry."
Mr MacNicol said there were many different theories about what had happened to Mr McRae.
He said: "All we are saying is that Willie McRae is due an inquiry.
"Willie McRae died while under highly-aggressive surveillance by Special Branch and the circumstances in the aftermath of his death are unsatisfactory so the petition hopefully demonstrates the serious public concern that is required for the lord advocate to approve the inquiry."
A report by the Resolution Foundation says such employees are unfairly losing an average of £200 a year.
It said those most affected are younger workers, many of whom will never benefit from the defined benefit pension schemes being protected.
In 2016, UK firms spent roughly £24bn trying to plug their deficits, it said.
Among the companies ploughing millions of pounds into their pension schemes were BT, Shell, Tesco, Unilever and Royal Bank of Scotland.
The current deficit of all defined benefit schemes in the UK is currently thought to be about £500bn.
The report says older workers, and those already in retirement, have the most to gain when companies top up their pension funds.
Of the 11 million workers still in defined benefit schemes, less than 2% are under 30 and still contributing.
Half the 6,000 schemes in existence are closed to new members, with a further third closed to further contributions.
"This drag on pay has important implications across generations as low - and often younger - earners in affected firms are losing out on pay even when they are not entitled to the pension pots they are plugging," said Matt Whittaker, chief economist at the Resolution Foundation.
"With average earnings still £16 a week below their pre-crisis peak and prospects for a return to strong pay growth looking shaky, it's important that younger and low- paid workers don't take a hit to their pay because of deficit payments to pension schemes that they're not even entitled to."
The cancer is often associated with children, but some types become more common with age.
The study, published in the journal Cell Reports, showed 70% of healthy people in their 90s had genetic errors that could lead to leukaemia.
The researchers warn that the number of cases could soar as life expectancy increases.
The team at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, outside Cambridge, analysed the blood of 4,219 people.
They focused on accurately testing for errors in the DNA that are linked to the blood cancers. If one blood cell in a hundred carried such a mutation they would pick it up.
The results were a surprise.
They suggest 20% of people in their 50s have potentially cancerous mutations rising to 70% in people in their 90s.
One of the researchers, Dr George Vassiliou, told the BBC News website: "We had suspected people had these mutations, but didn't expect they would be an almost inevitable consequence of ageing.
"What it is saying is that a lot more people than expected are starting on the path to leukaemia, but thankfully only a few make it to the end."
While progression to leukaemia is currently rare, the scientists believe it could become more common as life expectancy increases.
Dr Vassiliou added: "There is one warning for the future, if there was a significant extension of life expectancy then there could be a significant increase in leukaemia.
"We don't know what percentage of people would go on to develop leukaemia, it might be one in 1,000 or even one in 100 or more and that would have a dramatic impact."
One in three girls and one in four boys born today are expected to live to 100.
Stem cells in the bone marrow manufacture blood.
It takes multiple mutations to transform one from a normal cell into a cancerous one.
With enough mutations it can dominate the production of blood either producing defective blood cells, or one just one type to the exclusion of others.
The researchers believe that searching the blood for such mutations may identify people at high risk of developing leukaemia who may, in the future, be targeted with preventative therapies.
Dr Kat Arney, from Cancer Research UK, said: "We know that the risk of developing most types of cancer increases with age.
"This is a fascinating and important study highlighting how the genetic makeup of blood cells changes as we get older, and may contribute to the development of leukaemia.
"It will be interesting to see if this kind of technique can be applied to other types of cancer too."
More than 7,000 children and adolescents had their mental health referrals rejected last year.
The Scottish Association for Mental Health (SAMH) described the figure as "astonishing".
The Scottish government has already said it will commission a review into rejected referrals.
But SAMH said the issue needed to be addressed as quickly as possible because young people were "waiting now to get help and support".
The charity's Jo Anderson said 17,500 people had been turned away from receiving Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) support over the past three years.
She added: "That's an astonishing figure, and we don't know what happens to them after they've been turned away. We don't know whether they received any other support.
"In the last few weeks of the campaign we've been running, we've been inundated with calls from parents who're in that situation and their child has been rejected from receiving a CAMHS service.
"They haven't been signposted anywhere else - that's a very worrying picture."
Caitlin Wyllie-Quinn, 20, a student from Irvine, had a difficult transition to secondary school.
Bullying left her isolated and very down, crying all the time.
She got some initial help from the local Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service but after leaving therapy she went downhill rapidly.
Her GP made another referral to CAMHS but this time it was rejected. Caitlin was told that because she was not suicidal or self-harming, her case was not serious enough.
"If the person doing the assessment had asked me if I was suicidal or self-harming I would have answered yes to both those questions, but basically I was refused help because they didn't have the capability to assess me properly," she said.
"I was at a real low point and I felt that getting referred to CAMHS was some sort of light at the end of the tunnel and finally maybe getting some help.
"For that to be stripped away from me made me feel even more worthless and just made things so much worse for me."
The NHS in Scotland provides mental health services for children and young people with a wide range of mental health problems including anxiety, behaviour problems, depression and early onset psychosis.
The Scottish government's mental health strategy commits it to carrying out reviews into school counselling and rejected child and adolescent mental health service referrals.
Its mental health minister, Maureen Watt, said the reviews would happen "soon", and would allow improvements to be made to the system.
Ms Anderson said this was encouraging, but added: "We really urge that to be quick and thorough because there are young people waiting now to get help and support.
"It might be that the CAMHS service isn't appropriate for them, but we simply don't know what the problem is."
Meanwhile, statistics published on Tuesday also showed that a waiting time target for people to receive specialist mental health treatment has again been missed.
The Scottish government has had a target in place since 2014 for 90% of patients to be seen within 18 weeks of referral for mental health support.
But the target has never been met nationally - with the latest figures showing that 83.6% of children and adolescents, and 73.7% of adults, were seen within the required timescale between January and March of this year.
At the end of March, there were 6,932 children and young people across Scotland waiting for help from CAMHS, up from 6,359 at the end of December, according to the NHS statistics.
At the same time, there were 20,952 adults waiting for treatment, compared to 20,195 in December.
Average waiting times varied dramatically across the country, with 10 NHS boards meeting the target for CAMHS treatment but only three health boards meeting it for adult psychological care.
The figures also showed that 74 children and young people starting their treatment had been waiting more than a year to be seen.
NHS Grampian met the waiting time target for just 45.2% of young people, while in NHS Lothian the target was met for 47.8% of youngsters
And in the NHS Forth Valley area, only 40% of adults starting psychological treatment between January and March were seen within 18 weeks, with an average wait of 25 weeks.
A spokesman for the Scottish Children's Services Coalition (SCSC) said research has suggested 10% of children aged between five and 16 have a clinically diagnosable mental health problem.
Pointing to a "clear postcode lottery" when it comes to treatment, he added: "We are deeply concerned about what is happening to the more than a fifth of children and young people not accepted for treatment.
"There is a need for an urgent inquiry to ascertain why these young people are being rejected for treatment and what is happening to them."
Ms Watt, the mental health minster, said the number of health boards which had met the waiting time target for young people had increased from seven to 10 since the end of 2016.
She added: "However, I'm clear that we must continue to reduce waiting times and I will not be satisfied until our target is met sustainably.
"Our recently published 10-year strategy for mental health sets out a range of measures that focus on prevention and early intervention to meet the mental health needs of children and young people, backed by £150m of funding.
"We will also soon commission reviews into school counselling and rejected child and adolescent mental health service referrals, as a foundation for making further improvements."
Their places will be taken by Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust and Rentokil.
The companies included in the UK's top tier index are reviewed every quarter and reshuffled according to their market capitalisation.
Dixons Carphone shares have lost nearly 20% of their value over the past six months.
The domestic appliance to mobile phone retailer reported increased profits at the end of last year but is battling higher import costs due to the weaker pound as well as increased competition from online retailers.
"Dixons Carphone's share price has dropped off of late as a result of increasing competition within the sector, particularly from the likes of Amazon," said Helal Miah, an analyst at The Share Centre.
Shares in outsourcing giant Capita fell after a profits warning in September.
The changes, which will see the companies drop to the FTSE 250, will take effect on Monday 20 March.
Only 30 of the original FTSE 100 from 1984 still remain in the index.
S&R Electrics, which built a profile around the advertising slogan 'Sam's your man for a bargain', went into administration in May.
The administrator's report states that the firm had started legal action "in respect of an alleged fraud committed by a former employee."
The company indicated the fraud had cost it more than £250,000.
It said that had affected its cashflow, and combined with trading losses forced it to close with the loss of 20 jobs.
The report shows that the business owed its creditors more than £2m.
Ulster Bank, which hold mortgages over the firm's properties, is owed £820,000.
The largest unsecured creditor is an electrical goods wholesaler that is owed £223,000.
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A review by Action on Hearing Loss Cymru found test waiting times at three of the seven health boards were up.
Meanwhile, patients in two areas did not always get two hearing aids because of restrictions on the number they give out.
The charity said demand would continue to increase given the aging population.
Cwm Taf, Hywel Dda and Powys health boards said patients were waiting longer for hearing tests and reassessments because more people needed help.
Abertawe Bro Morgannwg and Hywel Dda boards both restrict the number of hearing aids they issue, while Aneurin Bevan and Hwyel Dda said they had reduced follow-up appointments because of pressures.
Hwyel Dda also reported reduced staff numbers and reduced aftercare service, at a time when it is planning to reduce its budget for the next year.
Action on Hearing Loss Cymru, formerly RNID, supports 1,300 hearing aid wearers across Wales.
But the free service, which costs £150,000 a year to run, will be cut in 2016 if funding cannot be found.
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Sharon Hamilton claimed Anton Barkhuysen enticed the animal with doughnuts and ran away in shame when he was spotted.
The neighbours were involved in an eight-year dispute over land in the hamlet of Tregolls, Cornwall.
The 72-year-old has been awarded High Court damages of £32,080 for slander, false imprisonment and harassment.
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The legal costs are estimated to be around £200,000 but the judge has not yet decided who should pay them.
The court heard the pair fell out because she had fenced off part of Tregolls Common, where she kept pigs.
The actress and mother-of-two argued the fence had been in place long before she had moved there.
On New Year's Day 2013, the 54-year-old claimed she had stumbled upon Mr Barkhuysen having sex with one of her pigs.
Following the allegations, he was arrested by police, questioned about his sex life, subjected to intimate sampling and kept on bail for several weeks.
In his ruling, Mr Justice Warby said the allegation was a lie and she had compounded her neighbour's distress by hinting at it to another neighbour.
The judge accepted that some of Mr Barkhuysen's behaviour during the row had been "bullying".
Midfielder Joe Bryan had put the hosts ahead after only 70 seconds.
But Carlton Morris levelled it after the break and Danny Hylton struck late to win it for the U's.
It is the sixth time in seven seasons that League One Bristol City have been eliminated from the competition by a team from a lower division.
Bryan had given the hosts the perfect start when he picked up on Jay Emmanuel-Thomas' blocked shot and sliced in with his right foot.
The early goal did not unsettle Oxford though, and they had the ball in the net before the break, only for Junior Brown's header to be ruled out by a late offside flag.
The U's kept up the pressure and made it 1-1, with Morris planting a powerful header past goalkeeper Frank Fielding, after Joe Riley's ball in.
And summer signing Hylton shocked the home support when he coolly slotted the winner past Fielding.
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Bristol City manager Steve Cotterill told BBC Radio Bristol:
"I'm disappointed with how we played and I thought they were the better team.
"They looked a lot more up for it tonight than we did.
"It was just the type of start that I felt we needed and wanted because it might have given us the momentum to go on.
"But you have to give them credit. They were better than us on the night."
The DR Congo international signed for Everton from Crystal Palace in a £25m deal in August, and has played in every game this season.
Bolasie, 27, injured the right anterior cruciate ligament in the 68th minute of Sunday's 1-1 draw at Goodison.
He now faces a fight to return before the end of the Premier League season.
Bolasie, who spent four seasons with Palace after joining from Bristol City in 2012, will miss his country's Africa Cup of Nations campaign, which starts in Gabon next month.
Before Bolasie's injury, Everton boss Ronald Koeman had previously spoken about his interest in taking Manchester United's Dutch forward Memphis Depay, 22, on loan in January.
Since joining from Newport County in January 2013, 23-year-old Evans has made 67 appearances for Wolves.
The Wales Under-21 international is five months into a new three-and-a-half year deal with the Championship side.
Elder, 22, had loan spells at Brentford and Barnsley last season, but is is yet feature for Leicester's first team.
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Town finished 21st, four points above the relegation zone, in their first season back in the Football League.
Asa Hall, James Jennings, Amari Morgan-Smith and Daniel Parslow will leave the Robins after spending time out on loan.
James Dayton, Jack Munns, Calum Kitscha, Liam Davis, Jack Barthram, James Rowe and Jordan Lymn have also not been offered new contracts.
Harry Pell, Dan Holman, Will Boyle, Carl Winchester and Matt Bower remain under contract, while youngster Josh Thomas recently signed a first professional contract.
Cheltenham manager Gary Johnson is conducting negotiations with the remaining players and a club statement said further announcements are to come.
The micro-processor limbs, known as "bionic legs", will be available to service personnel who have been wounded in Iraq or Afghanistan and will offer them greater stability and mobility.
The move is expected to benefit about 160 members of the armed forces.
The Help for Heroes charity said the money would help "transform lives".
Defence Secretary Philip Hammond said it was a top priority to give troops the best possible care and support.
Chancellor George Osborne, who is making the money available from the Treasury's special reserve, added: "Our troops are heroes who have and continue to give absolutely everything for their country and it is only right that we do everything possible to help them, especially when they suffer injury.
"I am delighted, therefore, that we have been able to make funding available for this cutting-edge prosthetic technology, which will go a long way to improving the lives of people who have done so much for the UK."
Experts say the "bionic legs" - the same as those used by Paralympics discus thrower and former soldier Derek Derenalagi - will significantly improve the quality of life and speed of rehabilitation for amputees.
The new technology provides better stability and greater mobility, as well as improvements in the ability to step over obstacles, negotiate stairs and walk backwards safely.
The limbs will be fitted where clinically appropriate at the Headley Court military rehabilitation centre in Surrey.
Paralympic rower Captain Nick Beighton, who lost both legs in an explosion during a foot patrol in Afghanistan in 2009, welcomed the micro processor limbs as a "big step up in technology".
"To have the opportunity to try it and to use it and get the latest technology is fabulous for us because it just gives us that freedom to get out and do more things and have greater functionality and more independence," said the 31-year-old London 2012 competitor.
Surgeon General Air Marshal Paul Evans said: "The next generation of micro processor knee is a fantastic prosthetic development and now seen to have proven benefits for certain amputees. It will improve the quality of life and rehabilitation for our patients, where it is clinically suitable.
"Not only does it provide better stability and improved mobility but will also help reduce back pain and aid rehabilitation generally."
Bryn Parry, chief executive of the Help for Heroes charity, said: "Our wounded servicemen, women and veterans deserve the best. This announcement will help transform lives.
"We must remember that there is no one-size-fits-all solution and that each individual must be given the best prosthetic for them."
Muga caterpillars, which produce a highly valuable silk, are dying from bacterial infections, in Assam, India.
The university believes it has developed viruses that could protect the silkworms from disease and as a result could save Muga silk industry.
Muga silk is produced, only in Assam, as the silkworms form their cocoons.
The caterpillars have been in decline over the last few years because they are eating infected leaves.
Dr Mahananda Chutia, a visiting academic who is employed by the Indian government, said: "As well as its silk trade, Assam is known for its tea and farmers often spray pesticides to protect the tea leaves - these sprays are thought to have reached the silkworms and have weakened them.
"In our model system at Leicester, we have found that the consumption of phages [viruses] by caterpillars is a very effective method of preventing bacterial diseases."
Dr Chutia has tested his research on common white wax worms, as Muga caterpillars cannot survive in the UK.
He returns to Assam at the end of the month to test the viruses by spraying them on to the leaves the caterpillars eat.
The university claims if the research works on Muga caterpillars, thousands of farmers in India would benefit.
But the impacts are likely to be very small, scientists believe, and the expectation is that all the mission's chief objectives will still be met.
Most of the unwanted light appears to be creeping around the giant shield Gaia uses to shade itself from the Sun.
The "pollution" makes it harder for the observatory to see the faintest stars.
"I must say this is not a major problem," said Esa's Gaia project manager, Giuseppe Sarri.
"The point is the spacecraft is doing very well in terms of everything is working, and now we're focussing on the things we want to improve.
"We were expecting to get some stray light but the fact is, it is larger than we predicted," he told BBC News.
Gaia was sent into orbit in December to do astrometry on a billion stars - to map their precise positions, distances and motions.
This huge sample should provide the first true picture of our Milky Way Galaxy's structure.
As is normal after launch, the observatory was immediately put through a period of complex systems check-out and instrument calibration.
Engineers noticed early on that unexpected light was getting inside the big tent covering the satellite's dual telescope mechanism.
Modelling indicates most of it is sunlight being diffracted around the observatory's 10.5m-wide sunshield.
But further analysis suggests there is likely also some additional component - probably the general diffuse light on the sky itself.
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The effect is certainly a nuisance because it makes it more difficult for Gaia to discern the least bright objects.
It was the mission's aim to measure the positions of all stars down to magnitude 20 (about 400,000 times fainter than can be seen with the naked eye).
The stray light means about 40% of the accuracy of those measurements at this lowest magnitude will be lost.
On the upside, it should be possible to get some of the performance back if Esa agrees to extend the mission and additional data can be taken.
And it is true to say that most of Gaia's science will be done at magnitude 15 (4,000 times fainter than the naked eye limit) and brighter, which is unaffected.
Where the pollution issue may be felt more keenly is in determining the motions of stars towards or away (radial velocity) from the satellite.
This information will have a number of applications but will be used to help make a 3D movie of the galaxy - to run forwards to see what happens millions of years into the future, and backwards to reveal how the galaxy was assembled in the deep past.
Gaia was hoping to get radial velocity data for about 150 million of the brightest stars.
It involves taking the light from a star and spreading it out into its component colours for analysis. For the faintest objects in the targeted sub-set of stars, this process again becomes much harder with stray light.
The Gaia team thinks with some smart techniques it can recover some of the performance loss, but as it stands the mission may get radial velocity measurements now on only about 100 million stars.
"We say only about 100 million stars - that's still pretty spectacular," said Prof Gerry Gilmore, a Gaia scientist from the Institute of Astronomy at Cambridge University, UK.
"We don't actually know how many stars there are in the sky at the magnitudes needed to do the radial velocity measurements," he added.
"We had a guess that it was 150 million but that could be wrong by a factor of two; so it's quite possible there are a lot more stars out there [we can still measure].
"Gaia is the first ever high spatial resolution survey and so until Gaia has scanned the sky we won't know what's on the sky."
Engineers are also tracking an issue with what they call the "basic angle".
Part of Gaia's measurement strategy requires it to look at two parts of the sky at the same time to lock a frame of reference.
This is why it carries two telescopes held rigidly at an offset angle of 106.5 degrees. Great effort was put into making sure this basic angle was absolutely stable, with many components being constructed out of stiff silicon carbide as a consequence.
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But a vanishingly small flexure is being detected - fractionally beyond what had been anticipated.
The team believes, though, it can nullify any impacts if the behaviour can be properly characterised.
"It's all nuisance stuff. Depending how you count it, there are about 500 critical components on Gaia and they're all working fine," said Prof Gilmore.
"Yes, it's complicated; yes, there are things we don't fully understand yet; but there's no reason to believe Gaia won't be a triumph."
Mr Sarri added that after the long commissioning process, the telescope was now ready to gather data continuously.
"In the last week, we had an informal handover and it's been working already in science mode on occasions. But now we will move into a period of 28 days of uninterrupted operation," he told BBC News.
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The 47-year-old Dutchman, who has signed a three-year deal, succeeds Sam Allardyce, who left after helping Palace avoid relegation last season.
"The aim is to be a solid Premier League team, not to struggle with relegation," said the former defender, who won 112 caps for the Netherlands.
"That is our main target - if we do more, that's nice."
De Boer managed Ajax from 2010 to 2016 and won the league title in four successive seasons - from 2011 to 2015.
He had been out of work since being sacked by Inter Milan in November after only 85 days in charge, though he said he learned "a lot" from his time at the San Siro.
De Boer said he had a "good feeling" about Palace and "the prospect of managing a team in the Premier League was exciting".
"This club can grow further and further," he said. "They spend a lot of money and there is the possibility to do something well with that money.
"I've not met the players yet. We will look at one or two signings, but I think it is necessary to see all the players here first."
American billionaires Josh Harris and David Blitzer took a large stake in the club in December 2015 and promised significant investment.
Belgium striker Christian Benteke joined Palace from Liverpool for a club-record £27m last summer.
And the Eagles earned over £109.6m in television and prize money after finishing 14th in the Premier League last season.
De Boer said he had spoken to former Manchester United boss Louis van Gaal prior to becoming Palace's first non-British permanent manager.
"I have my own type of coaching and style of playing. We want to be dominant when we can, but also dominate when we don't have the ball," he said.
"Also, for the fans, we must try to be attractive. Palace has a very enthusiastic and passionate fanbase, so they will want to see that."
Eagles chairman Steve Parish said he had been "surprised" by Allardyce's departure but had consulted with the former England boss about his successor.
He added De Boer's experience of developing young players was one of the attributes that made him suitable for the Selhurst Park club.
"It's fantastically exciting for this football club, an amazing milestone for us," said Parish.
"I am excited to work with him and by what we can achieve with the club."
De Boer had stints at Ajax and Barcelona, as well as six months at Rangers, during his playing career. He was Netherlands assistant manager from 2008 to 2010.
Former Palace manager Peter Taylor says De Boer can draw on both his playing and managerial experience.
"If he was just coming from Holland, I think he would have found it difficult, because in Holland it's about playing beautiful football and sometimes it's more about playing rather than winning," Taylor said.
"But I think being in Italy and playing at Rangers, he will know the competitiveness of the Premier League, and I think that will help him."
BBC Sport's David Ornstein
De Boer stepped down at Ajax days after missing out on a fifth league title to PSV Eindhoven on the final day of the 2015-16 campaign.
He is thought to have impressed the Palace hierarchy with his knowledge of the club and his footballing vision.
It is said the respect and humbleness he showed was striking, especially given how much he achieved as a player, including winning 112 caps for the Netherlands.
The former Ajax, Barcelona and Rangers defender is understood to have committed to giving players from the existing squad a chance to impress before looking to make new signings.
Palace have invested heavily in recent transfer windows, but will back De Boer and have made him aware of their budget.
The losers of Sunday's last Ulster quarter-final between Cavan and Monaghan will meet Westmeath or Offaly.
Derry and Antrim play on Saturday, 17 June with the other Ulster teams in action on Sunday, 25 June.
Antrim will face Laois in the hurling qualifiers if they win Saturday's Christy Ring Cup final against Carlow.
The hurling qualifier will take place on the weekend of 24/25 June.
However, the big talking-point from an Ulster point of view following the draws is the pairing of Kieran McGeeney's Armagh and Pete McGrath's Fermanagh.
Armagh were the bookies' favourites going into Sunday's Ulster contest against Down but a dismal second-half display by the Orchard men saw the Mourne County earning a deserved 0-15 to 2-7 win.
Former Armagh star and BBC Championship pundit Oisin McConville said after Sunday's match that McGeeney would face a "very difficult job" in restoring his side's morale for the qualifiers.
And while Fermanagh were well beaten 1-20 to 1-11 by Monaghan in the Ulster SFC preliminary round, McGrath will believe that his side are capable of inflicting more misery on Armagh.
Under normal circumstances, Derry would be overwhelming favourites to beat Waterford but the Oak Leafers will be facing a side that only lost by a point against Cork in the Munster Championship a couple of weeks ago.
With Waterford having home advantage, Damian Barton's side after likely to be in for a testing afternoon.
Antrim are also likely to face a difficult test in Sligo with the Yeats County aiming to avenge their one-point defeat by the Saffrons in the Football League in February.
Despite that defeat, Sligo maintained their Division Three status in contrast to the Saffrons who were relegated on scoring difference after Longford snatched a draw at Corrigan Park in their final fixtures.
All-Ireland SFC and SHC qualifiers draws
Manchester United's Rashford - at 18 years and 208 days - beat the previous record set by Tommy Lawton in 1938 when he volleyed in after only 138 seconds.
He was then able to press his claims for inclusion in England's Euro 2016 squad when it is confirmed on Tuesday with an exciting display, especially with Liverpool's Daniel Sturridge not even able to make the substitutes' bench because of a calf injury.
Wayne Rooney, on as a half-time substitute, drilled home his 52nd England goal from Raheem Sterling's pass in the 55th minute before Eric Dier gave Australia hope with 15 minutes left by heading into his own net at the near post from Alex Wilkinson's cross.
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From the moment he came out for England's warm-up, Rashford looked perfectly at home on the international stage - and surely now manager Roy Hodgson will take him to Euro 2016.
Rashford was a threat for the entire 63 minutes he was on the pitch. There were moments when his inexperience showed, such as when his control let him down after being played in by Sterling in the first half - but this is a young man on a mission.
He demonstrated pace, control and a nerveless approach and even when he stumbled on another chance in the second half, he recovered his poise quickly to send a cross flashing into the six-yard box with his England colleagues just unable to get a touch.
Rashford departed to a deserved standing ovation. Now it seems certain he will be packing his bags and his passport for France.
Rooney's beaming smile gave the seal of approval to the young pretender Rashford when he volleyed home - but England's captain showed he is not ready to give way to the younger generation just yet with a vibrant second-half display.
The 30-year-old has never been under greater pressure for his England place with the emergence of Tottenham's Harry Kane and Leicester City's Jamie Vardy, whose goals helped make them Premier League champions.
He looked fresh and fit in his 45 minutes on the pitch, rifling a fine finish high past Matthew Ryan and also looking to create chances for his team-mates. Rooney will start England's Euro 2016 opener against Russia in Marseille on Saturday, 11 June.
Dier's own goal was symptomatic of England's back line. They still look less than convincing in defence, even against a side as average as this Australia.
Dier, a defensive midfielder, was brought on in a centre-back role and had only been on the pitch for a couple of minutes when he dived, unchallenged, at the near post and headed a low cross under Fraser Forster.
Manager Hodgson has time to work on his first-choice line-up before the opening game of Euro 2016 but he will be hoping Gary Cahill shakes off a hip injury because central defence is already one area of the team where England look vulnerable.
Australia got at England early on but never had the quality to pose a serious threat where others will at the sharp end of Euro 2016.
Sturridge has suffered the misery of another injury setback, this time a calf problem that restricted him to a watching brief while Rashford claimed the headlines.
Liverpool's striker is a rare talent, as proved by his wonderful goal - a masterpiece of technique with the outside of his left foot - in the Europa League final defeat by Sevilla in Basel.
The problem is, however, an obvious one. Sturridge's fitness cannot be counted on and means Hodgson has only days to decide whether to take the gamble of putting him on the plane to France - especially as Rashford is providing him with an exciting new alternative.
Hodgson will trim his 26-man squad to 23 before the Tuesday, 31 May deadline and England will play their final warm-up game before Euro 2016 when they take on Portugal at Wembley on Thursday, 2 June.
Match ends, England 2, Australia 1.
Second Half ends, England 2, Australia 1.
Foul by Mile Jedinak (Australia).
Andros Townsend (England) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt missed. Jordan Henderson (England) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Ross Barkley.
Attempt missed. Ross Barkley (England) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Substitution, England. Tom Heaton replaces Fraser Forster.
Attempt saved. Craig Goodwin (Australia) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Mile Jedinak with a cross.
Bailey Wright (Australia) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Andros Townsend (England).
Mark Milligan (Australia) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Wayne Rooney (England).
Foul by Milos Degenek (Australia).
Ryan Bertrand (England) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Substitution, Australia. Jackson Irvine replaces Aaron Mooy.
Substitution, Australia. Craig Goodwin replaces Robbie Kruse.
Attempt missed. Jordan Henderson (England) left footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Andros Townsend.
Corner, England. Conceded by Milos Degenek.
Substitution, England. Andros Townsend replaces Raheem Sterling.
Own Goal by Eric Dier, England. England 2, Australia 1.
Tomi Juric (Australia) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Nathaniel Clyne (England).
Substitution, Australia. Milos Degenek replaces Josh Risdon.
Substitution, Australia. Tomi Juric replaces Tomas Rogic.
Substitution, England. Eric Dier replaces Chris Smalling because of an injury.
Attempt missed. James Milner (England) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Ross Barkley.
Attempt saved. Robbie Kruse (Australia) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Aaron Mooy with a through ball.
Josh Risdon (Australia) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by James Milner (England).
Attempt missed. Christopher Ikonomidis (Australia) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Robbie Kruse with a cross.
Bailey Wright (Australia) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Jordan Henderson (England).
Attempt missed. Josh Risdon (Australia) right footed shot from outside the box is too high following a corner.
Corner, Australia. Conceded by Chris Smalling.
Attempt missed. Nathaniel Clyne (England) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses the top left corner. Assisted by Ross Barkley.
Foul by Aaron Mooy (Australia).
Ross Barkley (England) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, England. Ross Barkley replaces Marcus Rashford.
Corner, Australia. Conceded by Daniel Drinkwater.
Attempt missed. Wayne Rooney (England) right footed shot from very close range misses to the left. Assisted by Marcus Rashford.
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The 21-year-old joined the Lilywhites for an undisclosed fee from Manchester United at the start of 2016.
Pearson had impressed in two loan spells at Barnsley before he moved to Deepdale.
"He's been very good this season especially," boss Simon Grayson told BBC Radio Lancashire.
"He's been one of our best players over the last few months since he got back into the team, but he knows he has to keep improving."
Fo oedd llais y cymeriad Blodyn Tatws, ac roedd hefyd yn cael ei gofio fel yr un fu'n chwarae rhan Y Barwn Coch yn y gyfres Siop Siafins.
Fe aeth ymlaen i ymddangos mewn ffilmiau Un Nos Ola' Leuad, yn ogystal â chynyrchiadau theatr diweddar fel Chwalfa a Sgint, a rhaglenni teledu fel Torchwood.
Dywedodd un o'i gyd-gast ym Miri Mawr, yr actor Dafydd Hywel ei fod yn "gymeriad unigryw".
Cafodd y cast gyfle i gyfarfod unwaith eto yn ystod yr Eisteddfod Genedlaethol eleni, a hynny mewn digwyddiad er cof am y cyfarwyddwr Peter Elias Jones.
Fe wnaeth Dafydd Hywel a Robin Griffith hefyd fagu eu cyfeillgarwch ymhellach wrth weithio ar ffilm Derfydd Aur yn Awstralia ar ddiwedd yr 1980au.
"Amser ti'n byw gyda rhywun am ddeufis ti'n dod i'w nabod nhw'n dda," meddai.
"Mae mynd i fod yn golled mawr, fel ffrind yn fwy na dim byd arall. Mae'n drueni fod ni heb weld ein gilydd yn fwy aml dros y blynyddoedd.
"Roedd e'n gymeriad unigryw, yn llawn hwyl, bydden ni wastad yn cwrdd lan am beint os oedden ni'n cael y cyfle."
Ychwanegodd: "Roedden ni'n cael lot o sbri ar Miri Mawr, roedden ni'n griw hapus iawn.
"Roedd rhai o'r pethe fyddai Blodyn Tatws yn dweud bydde ti ffaelu rhoi nhw ar y teledu! Roeddech chi'n anghofio weithiau mai pypedau oedden nhw."
Ymysg sawl neges ar Twitter yn talu teyrnged iddo, dywedodd Theatr Bara Caws: "Trist iawn clywed am farwolaeth Robin Griffith. Cwsg yn dawel hen ffrind."
Roedd Robin Griffith yn dod yn wreiddiol o Langoed ar Ynys Môn, ac yn ddiweddar bu'n byw yn Llundain.
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It follows conflict of interest claims over the 2021 World Championships going to Eugene, Oregon, where Nike is based.
Athletics' governing body said Coe could remain in the role but he said it was "a distraction to the 18-hour days we are working to steady the ship".
It comes amid a recent wider doping and corruption scandal in the sport, which Coe has vowed to clean up.
Speaking at a news conference in Monaco following an IAAF council meeting, Coe said of his Nike role: "The current noise level around it is not good for Nike or the IAAF."
Coe also announced he would resign as British Olympic Association chairman after the Rio 2016 Olympics.
A BBC investigation revealed this week it had uncovered emails suggesting that when Coe was vice-president of the IAAF, he lobbied former president Lamine Diack with support for Eugene.
The US city was awarded the 2021 World Championships in April without a bidding process, despite interest from the Swedish city of Gothenburg. Coe was elected IAAF president in August.
When asked about the allegations earlier this week, Coe told the BBC he "did not lobby anyone" over Eugene's bid, but "encouraged them to re-enter another bidding cycle as they had a strong bid".
At Thursday's Monaco news conference, Coe said: "I have sought advice from the IAAF's ethics committee to review my interests and was told I could retain my positions in Nike and [sports marketing company] CSM as long as I do not seek to influence any decisions that could influence them.
"I'm grateful for that advice but it is clear that perception and reality have become horribly mangled.
"I've made the following decisions: I've stepped down from my ambassadorial role with Nike which lasted 38 years."
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He also announced sports marketing company CSM, for which he is executive chairman, would not tender for any IAAF work during his reign.
However, Culture, Media and Sport select committee member Damian Collins said Coe still had questions to answer.
Conservative MP Collins, who had called on the peer to cut his ties with Nike, said on Twitter doing so was "the right decision".
But he added: "Even though Seb Coe has given up his Nike job there are still questions to answer about the awarding of the Eugene 2021 World Championships."
Labour's shadow sports minister Clive Efford was also critical of Coe and said: "Seb Coe is a member of the House of Lords and a former MP - and as such he should know all about standards in public life and conflicts of interest.
"So it is disappointing that he waited until he was forced to resign from his position as an ambassador for Nike particularly when he needs to be seen to have clean hands in order to deal with corruption in world athletics."
But Toni Minichiello, who coaches British heptathlete Jessica Ennis-Hill, gave Coe his backing.
"I think he is the best candidate we have and the best person we could have put forward for the role from Britain," Minichiello told BBC Sport.
"The positive moves he has made today [Thursday] enforce that, and hopefully from here athletics can be viewed in a more positive light."
The hearing had been due to take place on Wednesday until "amicable" talks on Tuesday night between the two parties.
In a statement, City said the striker, 22, had made the decision "as a sign of respect for Roberto Mancini, the supporters and the club".
"Mario remains available for all forthcoming fixtures," City said.
The striker had opposed City's decision to fine him after he missed 11 games domestically and in Europe last season because of suspensions.
The striker had been expected to appear at the tribunal in person, along with his Italian lawyer and a representative from the Professional Footballers' Association, while City were set to bring their own legal team.
A two-week fine is the maximum penalty stipulated in standard player contracts.
It is unusual for internal disputes between clubs and their players to go to a Premier League tribunal. The PFA has advised the player throughout.
City began the disciplinary process after Balotelli was sent off against Arsenal in April 2012.
In all, he received nine yellow cards and three reds - one of them retrospective - during the season.
Balotelli was taken off early in the second half of City's 3-2 defeat by Manchester United on 9 December, and then left out of their squad altogether for the 3-1 win at Newcastle on Saturday.
After the match, City manager Roberto Mancini said: "At this moment, Mario is not in good form and for this reason he is at home. It is only for this reason. To get back into the team he needs to work in training and when he plays, he needs to play well."
Julie Sayles, 59, of Bridlington, East Yorkshire, bought two houses with the money she allegedly took from a joint account she shared with Edith Negus.
Hull Crown Court heard Ms Sayles, who ran a charity providing care for the elderly, also wrote a new will in which the majority of Ms Negus's remaining assets were left to her.
She denies a number of fraud charges.
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Robert Stevenson, prosecuting, said Ms Negus began receiving care from Ms Sayles when her physical and mental health began to deteriorate after her 100th birthday.
Mr Stevenson told the court the defendant was described by others as "domineering" and had taken advantage of Ms Negus's vulnerability.
"She set up a joint bank account with Edith in the months before Edith's death and caused Edith to put large amounts of her own money from her savings into that joint bank account."
"This defendant was then simply able to withdraw money from that joint bank account," said Mr Stevenson.
The Crown said between February and July 2014, Ms Sayles made a number of withdrawals of £7,688, £90,000, £40,000 and several withdrawals of £150,000, having set the joint account up in January of that year.
Mr Stevenson said Ms Sayles had used the money to buy two properties in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, and Scarborough, North Yorkshire.
The prosecutor continued: "She caused Edith to sign a new will in which she would no longer leave the majority of her assets to her family but to this defendant."
Mr Stevenson said Ms Sayles was arrested after Ms Negus's death in October 2014 and denied any wrongdoing throughout her police interviews.
Ms Sayles told police the centenarian had offered her money for her care and to invest in property and that the wills were created on Ms Negus's instructions.
Ms Sayles of Sewerby Road denies fraud by abuse of position, buying properties with the proceeds of crime, making a fraudulent will and presenting it to a solicitor.
The trial continues.
Bijan Ebrahimi, 44, was murdered on an estate in Bristol in July 2013 amid false claims he was a paedophile.
He repeatedly called police for help in the days before, the trial heard, but had been seen as a "nuisance".
PC Kevin Duffy and Andrew Passmore were convicted of misconduct but PCs Leanne Winter and Helen Harris were cleared.
The four Avon and Somerset officers were accused of letting their dislike of Mr Ebrahimi influence their decision making.
Iranian-born Mr Ebrahimi, who was registered disabled, was beaten to death by neighbour Lee James outside his flat in Capgrave Crescent, Brislington, in July 2013.
His body was set alight.
Days earlier he had called police to report James had assaulted him.
James believed Mr Ebrahimi had filmed his children but he was actually recording anti-social behaviour to submit to Bristol City Council.
The trial heard PC Winter and PC Harris did not see any injuries on Mr Ebrahimi.
Instead they arrested him for an alleged breach of the peace.
A crowd gathered outside his flat cheered and James shouted: "Paedo! I'm going to kill you." The court heard "vigilantism was in the air".
After being released the following morning, Mr Ebrahimi repeatedly tried to get police to investigate his complaint against James and called the non-emergency 101 number 12 times. He was told his local beat manager - Duffy - would visit.
"My life is in danger. Right now a few of my neighbours are outside and shouting and calling me a paedophile. I need to see PC Duffy," Mr Ebrahimi told one operator.
But the trial heard Duffy, 52, saw him as a "liar and a nuisance" and never went to see him.
He asked Passmore to conduct a "bit of a foot patrol" around Capgrave Crescent.
Passmore, 56, was convicted of misconduct in a public office by falsely claiming during a police interview to have spent an hour patrolling the area around Mr Ebrahimi's home.
Mr Ebrahimi's family claimed their brother was the victim of racism for years.
Speaking outside court, his sister Mojgan Khayatian said there had been a clear failure by police.
She said: "Bijan was crying for help not one time, not twice, not three times. He made several phone calls and ignoring these phone calls for somebody who's very vulnerable, who's got a history of being vulnerable and seeking help from police for years, it was even worse."
James was convicted of murder in 2013 and is serving a life sentence.
Another Capgrave Crescent resident, Stephen Norley, was sentenced to four years for assisting an offender.
Eighteen Avon and Somerset Police officers and staff - including Duffy, Passmore, Harris and Winter - still face internal police misconduct proceedings. Nine of them face gross misconduct charges.
Temporary Deputy Chief Constable Louisa Rolfe described Mr Ebrahimi's murder as "senseless"
She added: "This tragedy should never have happened. A great deal has been done to understand and reflect on the events in the weeks leading up to Mr Ebrahimi's death."
Police and Crime Commissioner Sue Mountstevens said it was "clear that on this occasion the constabulary failed local people and let down a vulnerable man in his own home".
Duffy and Passmore were released on unconditional bail, with sentencing adjourned to a date to be fixed in 2016.
Bitcoins are powered by blockchains - digital ledgers that record information from Bitcoin transactions to DNA.
Sir Mark Walport has argued that they could be used by government departments as a more secure way of managing data.
They could be used to help with tax collection, benefits or the issuing of passports, he has said.
Blockchains consist of "blocks" of data in a digital ledger.
Copies of these ledgers are shared by all the computers that access them, meaning they are distributed across the network.
Because blockchains act as permanent records of every time that data is added to them - and because private blockchains allow access to specific users only - they are thought to be highly resistant to malicious tampering.
Sir Mark's recommendation comes in the form of a new report which advocates the use of blockchains for a variety of services.
"Distributed ledger technologies have the potential to help governments to collect taxes, deliver benefits, issue passports, record land registries, assure the supply chain of goods and generally ensure the integrity of government records and services," the report says.
"In the NHS, the technology offers the potential to improve health care by improving and authenticating the delivery of services and by sharing records securely, according to exact rules."
Sir Mark added that existing approaches to data management in government departments typically involved large centralised systems with "a high cost single point of failure".
These systems may also be more vulnerable to hacking or errors, he wrote.
Using distributed ledgers and storing multiple copies of them is something that has helped been made possible by the improvement in computing technology, according to Dave Birch, at consultants Consult Hyperion.
"I think the report is really interesting," he told the BBC.
However, Mr Birch added that he was initially unsure of why blockchains - specific types of ledgers that require users to agree on the state of their contents - would be useful.
"When you say 'blockchain', that's a very specific kind of consensus protocol and one of the key reasons for using that is because there may be people trying to subvert [the data]," he said.
"I can see the report talks about distributed ledger technology in general. The issue is, can distributed ledgers help in certain kinds of government ledgers - the answer is almost certainly yes."
The report suggests that the British government should begin trials of distributed ledger technology to see how usable it is.
Some countries have already taken the step.
Texas-based firm Factom announced last year that it was working with Honduras to build a blockchain record of land registry titles - though the project later appeared to be on hiatus.
The report notes another example, Estonia, which already uses distributed ledger technology for citizens to check the integrity of their records on government databases.
Louise Galvin replaces Eimear Considine at wing with Cliodhna Moloney and Ciara Cooney taking over from Leah Lyons and Sophie Spence in the pack.
Moloney scored the late try in the 21-5 defeat by the French which ended Irish hopes of reaching the semi-finals.
Hosts Ireland beat Australia 19-17 in the opening pool match in Dublin.
Hooker Lyons and second row Spence drop to the bench while Considine is not named in the match day squad.
Ulster prop Ilse van Staden is included in the Ireland replacements after being called into the squad on Sunday as a replacement for injured Ruth O'Reilly.
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Since the huge disappointment of Thursday's defeat by the French, Ireland coach Tom Tierney has faced the task of attempting to restore morale for the play-off matches.
The hosts went into the tournament hoping to at least emulate their performance in France three years ago when, helped by a stunning win over New Zealand, they reached the semi-finals.
However, they produced laboured performances in edging out Australia and Japan in their opening Pool C games and were then put to the sword in the first half of Thursday's game.
Tierney insists that Ireland's training has been "very positive" since the squad arrived in Belfast on Friday.
"There is huge pride in this team and we're looking to finish this tournament with two performances," said the Ireland coach.
"We've reviewed our own games and looked at areas where we can improve in both attack and defence.
"We know what the Australians will bring to the game tomorrow, and we will have to be ready to match their physicality from the start."
Ireland: Tyrrell; Galvin, Murphy, Naoupu, Miller; Stapleton, Cronin; Peat, Moloney, Egan; Cooney, O'Reilly; Griffin, Molloy (capt), Fitzpatrick.
Replacements: Lyons, Van Staden, O'Connor, Spence, Caplice, Muldoon, Fitzhenry, McLaughlin.
Devon and Cornwall Police is planning to lose a total of 1,300 personnel, of which 760 will be police officers.
The details feature in an internal staff briefing, seen by the BBC.
The force had expected to lose 500 officers, but sources said a revised analysis of expected budget cuts of £54 million a year by 2020 indicate the impact will be greater.
The force refused to comment on the leaked briefing.
It has emerged the force's 360 police community support officers may also go within five years.
The briefing indicates that in total the force, which covers the largest geographical police area in England, will have to lose 1,300 personnel.
Up to 180 police civilian support staff also face losing their jobs.
One senior police source said the effect on policing would be "absolutely dreadful".
"Officers on the beat in Devon and Cornwall could become an endangered species," he said.
"We risk losing our historic link with communities".
The cuts would reduce the number of police officers in Devon and Cornwall to about 2,240.
In 2010, before the austerity regime began to bite, the number reached a historic high of 3,500.
The impact of the cuts could be reduced if the police's share of council tax is increased.
The Police and Crime Commissioner, Tony Hogg, has raised the prospect of a 20% increase, which would add 20 to 30 pounds to most households' annual bills. Mr Hogg is to hold a consultation on the proposal.
Claro Barracks in North Yorkshire, Howe in Kent, Craigiehall in Edinburgh and Cawdor in Pembrokeshire will be shut.
Parts of Edinburgh's Redford barracks, Forthside in Stirling and Copthorne in Shropshire will also close.
Returning forces will be stationed around seven sites, including Salisbury Plain, Edinburgh and Leuchars, Catterick and Colchester.
The other sites are Aldershot, Stafford and the East Midlands.
There has been a British army presence in Germany for nearly 70 years.
Defence Secretary Philip Hammond said the return of troops from Germany marked the end of an era, and thanked the German government and people for their "material and moral" support.
He also told MPs the Household Cavalry will be moved from its well-known base at Hyde Park Barracks, in central London. He did not say where it would relocate to.
By Jonathan BealeDefence correspondent, BBC News
Philip Hammond says bringing the British army back from Germany makes sound economic and military sense.
With the Cold War over and the regular army getting smaller, it's a claim that's hard to dispute.
The Army will be concentrated in those areas of the UK where it already has a significant presence.
In addition some old RAF bases are being handed over to the Army - softening the economic blow to communities near Leuchars and Cottesmore.
But Mr Hammond's figures are more open to debate. He says the MoD will spend almost £2bn on the move - much of that money on new service accommodation.
To counter that cost he says leaving Germany will save around £240m a year. Labour's already asking questions about the speed of the move and whether it's been properly funded.
This is a massive logistical exercise. Old training areas in Germany will have to be made safe and repaired before being handed back.
Hundreds of homes will have to be built for soldiers and their families within a few years. And then there's the political fallout of closing half a dozen "surplus" UK bases.
He said the changes overall would save £240m a year in running costs as soldiers are moved into "clusters" in key locations, and the re-organisation bill would be £1.8bn.
Around £1bn of the funding will go towards 1,900 new houses for service families and accommodation for 7,800 single soldiers. Another £800m will be spent on infrastructure and refurbishment of bases.
BBC defence correspondent Jonathan Beale says the figures are open to debate.
"He says the MoD will spend almost £2bn on the move - much of that money on new service accommodation. To counter that cost he says leaving Germany will save around £240m a year," he said.
"Labour's already asking questions about the speed of the move and whether it's been properly funded."
Mr Hammond confirmed far fewer returning troops than previously thought will be based in Scotland but he insisted Scotland would still have "a little bit more than its fair share" of military personnel based on the size of its population.
The Scottish National Party says the government has reneged on an earlier promise that around 7,000 of the troops leaving Germany would be going to Scotland.
The number of troops in Wales and Northern Ireland will fall by 400, with around 120 soldiers based in Northern Ireland set to lose their jobs during the next 18 months.
Shadow defence secretary Jim Murphy said there would be "real disappointment" over the closures and "historic bonds" were being broken.
Wales Office Minister Stephen Crabb said the closure of the Cawdor Barracks - which Mr Hammond said was no longer "fit for purpose" - was "disappointing". But he welcomed a £100m investment in the St Athan base to which the 14th Signal Regiment (EW) unit is to relocate.
Under the 2010 strategic defence review, the government announced it wanted to withdraw all 20,000 troops in Germany, plus their families, by 2020.
Since then, about 4,000 troops have already moved back to the UK.
Some 70% of the remaining troops will now return by the end of 2015 compared to a previous commitment of half by 2015, with the final 4,300 back by the end of 2019, a year earlier than planned.
The pull-out has been accelerated because there were bigger cuts to the Army than originally planned, saving money which then could be used for relocation.
The government says the changes will provide savings and efficiencies for the Army, and certainty for personnel and their families.
General Sir Peter Wall, Chief of the General Staff, said the plan provides "an excellent springboard for operations overseas".
Former army commander Col Richard Kemp - who spent 10 years in Germany during his military career - told the BBC he was not surprised by the announcement.
"The only reason that British forces have been in Germany... has been because it has been difficult to accommodate them back in the UK and provide proper training facilities.
"It appears the government has found a way of doing that so I think it's entirely reasonable that they should come back now," he said.
But Col Kemp added he was concerned about the potential lack of live firing and training facilities in the UK and the standard of barrack living quarters.
"Money will be saved be moving soldiers back quickly, but that should not be happening at the expense of the welfare, comfort and the facilities available for our troops and their families."
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Woods, 41, winner of 14 majors, was found "asleep at the wheel" with the engine running when he was arrested on Monday in Florida.
Why so nasty? Why don't you try to do the opposite and help him now in the way he inspired us?
The American said it was because of a reaction to medication.
Kaymer said: "Stop being so nasty. Try to help. We all want to see him happier and one day see him play golf again."
Palm Beach County police released video of Woods' arrest and subsequently of his breathalyser test inside the Sheriff's Office, which shows the former number one handcuffed and appearing to sit slumped on a chair.
He was initially charged with Driving Under the Influence (DUI).
"Obviously a lot of people know what happened to Tiger Woods the last few days,'' Kaymer said in a video on his Twitter account, seemingly in reaction to disparaging remarks on social media.
"There's so many comments, so many opinions. They are so unfair and so disrespectful, in my opinion.
"He inspired kids, teenagers; he inspired all of us.
"I find it so nasty that people just kick him while he's already on the floor, and at the end of the day it's just using someone else for your own sadness. Yes, he's in the public eye, he's in the spotlight a lot, so of course people will talk about him.
"But why so nasty? Why don't you try to do the opposite and help him now in the way he inspired us?''
Woods has been recovering from back surgery - his fourth such operation - and is expected to be out of action until October.
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The Roborace series will provide a "competitive platform for the autonomous driving solutions being developed", it said.
The races will take place on the same circuits in major cities used by Formula E.
Many traditional carmakers are developing autonomous vehicles.
"Roborace is an open challenge to the most innovative scientific and technology-focused companies in the world," said Formula E chief executive Alejandro Agag.
Denis Sverdlov, founder of Kinetik, which is a partner in the initiative, said: "We passionately believe that, in the future, all of the world's vehicles will be assisted by AI and powered by electricity, thus improving the environment and road safety."
"Roborace is a celebration of revolutionary technology and innovation that humanity has achieved in that area so far."
One of the teams will be organised as a crowdsourced community team which, organisers said, would be open to both experts and hobbyists.
Formula E has been operating for two years and has become well-known for crowdsourcing initiatives such as allowing fans to vote to give their favourite driver a boost during races.
London's Formula E race is due to take place in Battersea Park in June next year but faces opposition from local residents.
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Watford defender Craig Cathcart is named in a 24-man squad after missing the first four games of the campaign with a groin injury.
Burton Albion defender Tom Flanagan is the only uncapped player included.
Shane Ferguson is suspended but Corry Evans is chosen despite having been out for two months with a groin complaint.
Blackburn Rovers manager Tony Mowbray indicated on Thursday that he has no problem with Evans potentially playing a part in the Windsor Park encounter in a fortnight's time despite not having featured for his club since 2 January.
Evans has started Northern Ireland's last two World Cup qualifiers.
Linfield goalkeeper Roy Carroll is preferred to Trevor Carson as the third goalkeeper in manager Michael O'Neill's squad for the crucial game.
"Our squad is pretty consistent. It's a big boost to have Craig Cathcart back. He's very important to the squad as having four fit centre backs gives me better options for formation," said O'Neill.
"Daniel Lafferty was close to the squad - he is on standby. I don't want him to miss club games.
"Corry Evans had a groin operation before the Euros. He hasn't played at all but is training and should play a game on Monday.
"He had a great Euros and I like having him in the squad, but it's a big ask as he hasn't been playing. Blackburn have been very supportive of him wanting to join up with the squad."
Northern Ireland lie second in Group C, five points behind Germany, with two wins, one draw and one defeat from the first four matches of their campaign.
Norway are in a disappointing fifth place, having picked up just three points from four games.
Northern Ireland's 3-0 friendly defeat by Croatia on 15 November brought to an end a 10-game unbeaten home record, O'Neill's side having previously won eight and drawn two at Windsor Park, conceding only three goals in the process.
Their last reverse in a competitive fixture at home was a 4-2 defeat at the hands of Portugal in a World Cup qualifier in September 2013.
Northern Ireland squad to face Norway:
Goalkeepers - Michael McGovern (Norwich City), Alan Mannus (St Johnstone), Roy Carroll (Linfield).
Defenders - Aaron Hughes (Hearts), Gareth McAuley (West Brom), Jonny Evans (West Brom), Chris Brunt (West Brom), Craig Cathcart (Watford), Conor McLaughlin (Fleetwood Town), Lee Hodson (Rangers), Ryan McLaughlin (Oldham Athletic), Tom Flanagan (Burton Albion).
Midfielders - Steven Davis (Southampton), Niall McGinn (Aberdeen), Oliver Norwood (Brighton), Corry Evans (Blackburn Rovers), Jamie Ward (Nottingham Forest), Stuart Dallas (Leeds Utd), Paul Paton (St Johnstone), Matthew Lund (Rochdale).
Forwards - Kyle Lafferty (Norwich City), Josh Magennis (Charlton Athletic), Conor Washington (QPR), Liam Boyce (Ross County).
The ministry said evidence of sexual harassment was uncovered in an investigation begun last year.
It was launched following reports a player had been dropped for refusing to have sex with cricketing officials.
Disciplinary procedures would now be initiated, the ministry said, without naming the individuals involved.
"It is a shameful incident," Sri Lankan Children's Minister Rosy Senanayake told the AFP news agency.
It is not clear what action will be taken against the alleged offenders.
World number seven Konta broke early on in the first to take the set 6-3 with a strong performance on her first serve.
Bertens, ranked 27th, broke Konta in the second set but the Briton found three breaks of her own to win 6-3 6-3.
Konta will play either Alize Cornet of France or Slovakian Dominika Cibulkova next, while Wimbledon champion Garbine Muguruza beat Beatriz Haddad Maia.
Spain's Muguruza saw off the Brazilian 6-2 6-0 and will face either Russia's Daria Kastatkina or American Madison Keys in round three.
World number two Simona Halep beat American qualifier Taylor Townsend 6-4 6-1.
Romanian Halep plays the winner of Anastasija Sevastova and Roberta Vinci in the third round before a possible meeting with Konta in the quarter-final.
Earlier in the day, Wimbledon 2017 finalist and world number nine Venus Williams beat fellow American Alison Riske 6-2 6-0 to ease into the second round.
But this year's French Open winner Jelena Ostapenko was beaten 6-4 6-4 by world number 85 Aleksandra Krunic of Serbia.
And world number 10 Agnieszka Radwanska also failed to progress beyond the first round after being knocked out by Germany's Julia Goerges 6-4 6-4.
In the men's event, Juan Martin del Potro fought back from a set down to beat Tomas Berdych and reach the second round.
The Argentine, ranked 30th in the world, beat the Czech 2-6 7-6 (7-1) 6-0 in one hour and 55 minutes.
He will face American world number 244 Mitchell Krueger in the next round.
In round two, Austrian third seed Dominic Thiem beat Italy's Fabio Fognini 7-6 (7-5) 6-4 to set up a meeting with France's Adrian Mannarino or USA's Sam Querrey.
John Isner is also through to round three after beating fellow American Tommy Paul 6-3 6-3 and will next play either compatriot Frances Tiafoe or Germany's Alexander Zverev, who beat Roger Federer to win the Rogers Cup in Montreal on Sunday.
Elsewhere, Nick Kyrgios of Australia beat Belgian ninth seed David Goffin 6-2 6-3 to set up a second-round tie against Ukrainian Alexandr Dolgopolov.
The winner of that tie will play Ivo Karlovic in round three after the Croatian beat France's Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 6-4 7-6 (11-9).
And world number 10 Milos Raonic has withdrawn from the tournament with an injury to his left wrist.
The Canadian joins fellow top-10 players Andy Murray, Roger Federer, Kei Nishikori and Marin Cilic in missing the event, while 2016 US Open winner Stan Wawrinka and 12-time Grand Slam champion Novak Djokovic are out for the rest of the season.
It followed an incident in the College Street area of Aberdeen on Thursday.
Leanne Kane, 32, Wayne Duncan, 41, and Andrew Wallace, 42, made no plea at Aberdeen Sheriff Court and were remanded in custody.
The Crown Office said a 35-year-old man reported to the procurator fiscal was freed pending further inquiries and did not appear in court.
The acting Labour leader said: "It is not funny or clever for people from other parties to try to cheat their way into our system."
And only people who supported the "aims and values" of the Labour Party would be allowed to take part.
She was speaking after a meeting with the four leadership contenders.
She said the verification process was "robust" and would go on until the "very last minute".
Labour has barred 1,900 Green Party supporters or members from the vote so far, compared with just 400 Conservatives, it said.
The new Labour leader is set to be announced on 12 September.
Ms Harman appeared to reject a call by frontrunner Jeremy Corbyn to allow those banned from voting the right of appeal.
Mr Corbyn has said the party should welcome the influx of new supporters from other parties, such as the Greens, "because that's how parties grow", and he said some had been unfairly barred.
He has also rejected as "nonsense" claims of widespread Conservative infiltration, amid reports Tory activists had signed up to vote for him because they believe he would be a disaster for Labour.
Ms Harman rejected suggestions the party was attempting to weed out far-left supporters of Mr Corbyn, thousands of whom are thought to have signed up to vote for him.
She said the process was strictly impartial but voters had to support the party's aims and values, which are set out in Clause IV of its rule book.
"If people don't support the Labour Party's aims and values, whether they don't support them because they are Tories or because they are Trotskyites or whether they are Greens... they don't get a vote," she said.
Under new party rules introduced last year, members of the public could sign up to vote in the Labour leadership contest for £3. More than 160,000 people signed up to vote in the final days before the registration deadline.
The party initially said this brought the total size of the leadership electorate to 610,000.
But that has now been revised down to 553,954 - a fall of almost 60,000 people. Labour says the vast majority of this fall is explained by duplicate applications and those requesting a vote not being on the electoral register and is not the result of a "purge" of those not entitled to a vote.
Two panels made up of members of Labour's national executive have been given the job of vetting new sign-ups.
You're extremely unlikely to be struck off for having fruity opinions on Facebook.
Labour is terrified of legal challenge and the general nature of Labour's own definition - set out in clause IV of its rule book - makes it hard to remove your vote on these grounds.
A list of reasons given to me by Labour HQ for excluding registered voters include: not being on the electoral register, already being a member, having stood for another party and being a known member/campaigner of other party.
Nothing in there about having contrary opinions.
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Leadership contender Andy Burnham said he believed there was a problem with infiltrators, but confirmed that he would not attempt to challenge the result in court even if he was narrowly defeated.
"I wouldn't want to overstate this whole issue, but there is some evidence that Tories are signed up to vote," he told the audience in Stevenage.
Yvette Cooper said candidates should not be involved in how the contest was being run and it was up to the Labour Party to make sure it was a robust process.
The fourth candidate, Liz Kendall, agreed, saying it was important to exclude anybody who had actively campaigned against the Labour Party.
Mr Burnham triggered murmurs of protest during the BBC Radio 5 Live debate for suggesting Labour should have a woman leader only "when the time was right".
He quickly clarified that he had meant when the "right candidate" came along.
The shadow health secretary also indicated that he would not serve on the Labour frontbench if the party's policy was to scrap Trident or leave Nato - positions backed by Mr Corbyn.
"Those would not be policies that I could support. I would not support a policy to leave Nato," he said.
Meanwhile, former deputy prime minister John Prescott has warned the contest could end up splitting the party.
Lord Prescott, speaking at a rally for Andy Burnham, compared former leadership contender Chuka Umunna and Tristram Hunt to the so-called "Gang of Four" MPs who left the party to form the SDP in 1981.
Mr Umunna and Mr Hunt have established the "Labour for the Common Good" group to look at how it can win back power.
European Commission Vice-President Frans Timmermans suggested the issue was as urgent as the euro's troubles.
"In some [EU] states the majority of the Jewish community is not sure they have a future in Europe," he said.
France, with the EU's biggest Jewish community, has announced sweeping anti-terror measures after Islamist attacks.
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said 2,680 new security-related jobs would be created, including 1,100 in police intelligence, over three years.
He pledged an extra €425m (£325m; $490m) in funds, saying 3,000 people were under surveillance in France. In addition, 7,500 French defence jobs due to be cut will now be saved.
On 9 January, an Islamist militant shot dead four Jewish men during a hostage-taking at a kosher supermarket in Paris.
He was subsequently killed by police as were two Islamist militants who earlier killed 12 people at the Paris offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, allegedly shouting that they were "avenging" cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.
Speaking in Brussels, Mr Timmermans said about Jewish fears: "I think this is a huge challenge to the very foundations of European integration.
"We can talk till kingdom come about the euro, about internal markets, about whatever initiative we take, but if this fundamental value in European society, which is that there is a place for everyone whatever your creed is, whatever your background is, your race is, the choices you make in society if that is challenged we have to answer that challenge by a policy that offers hope and prospect[s] for everyone in European society."
Mr Timmermans also said he wanted to see a swift decision on the sharing of passenger name records and reinforcing the outside borders of the Schengen area - the 26 countries that have abolished internal passport controls.
Schengen, he said, should be seen as part of the solution, not part of the problem.
Not everyone in the European Parliament is happy about the sharing of passenger data and its possible implications for civil liberties, the BBC's Paul Adams reports from Brussels.
Mr Timmermans sought to reassure critics, saying anything that changed the open, tolerant nature of European society would play into the hands of terrorists.
UK Home Secretary Theresa May sought to reassure Britain's Jewish population earlier this week that everything was being done to protect them.
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One of the company's reservoirs burst earlier this month, flooding dozens of homes in the south-eastern state of Minas Gerais.
Eleven people were killed and 12 are missing presumed dead.
Emergency work to try to avoid another breach will begin immediately and will last up to 90 days, the company said.
The company initially said that two of its dams - Fundao and Germano - had burst on 5 November.
But it has now clarified that only the Fundao reservoir collapsed.
Germano and another nearby dam, Santarem, are still standing but are at risk, said Samarco's Infrastructure Director Kleber Terra.
Samarco is owned by by mining giants Vale, from Brazil, and Anglo-Australian company BHP Billiton.
It agreed on Monday to pay the Brazilian government 1bn reais (£170m; $260m) compensation.
The money will be used to cover the initial clean-up and to offer some compensation to the victims and their families.
But the amount agreed is relatively small, prosecutors said.
It will be considered "only as a first instalment" to be paid by the company, state prosecutor Carlos Eduardo Ferreira Pinto told O Estado de Minas newspaper.
The Fundao dam breach caused rivers of mud to descend on nearby villages. Bento Rodrigues was totally destroyed. More than 500 people lost their homes there.
Last week, Brazilian environmental agency Ibama fined Samarco 250m reais.
Ibama described the dam burst as "the worst mining accident in Brazil's history".
This is said to be a sore point for the billionaire, and it was revived this week by rival Republican candidate Marco Rubio, who mocked his adversary's "small hands".
During the latest Republican TV debate, Mr Trump reacted, saying he was comfortable with the size of his hands - and another part of his anatomy. "There is no problem. I guarantee."
But where and how did this all begin?
In the late 1980s, the satirical magazine Spy began mocking Mr Trump as a "short-fingered vulgarian". It did not go down well with the tycoon.
"To this day, I receive the occasional envelope from Trump," says Graydon Carter, who co-founded Spy and is now editor of Vanity Fair.
"There is always a photo of him - generally a tear sheet from a magazine. On all of them he has circled his hand in gold Sharpie [permanent marker] in a valiant effort to highlight the length of his fingers," Mr Carter says.
The latest message came last year, Mr Carter added: "Like the other packages, this one included a circled hand and the words, also written in gold Sharpie: 'See, not so short!'."
Now comes Mr Rubio. He brought up the issue in a campaign rally in Virginia on Sunday.
"He is always calling me Little Marco. And I will admit he is taller than me. He is like 6ft 2ins (1.9m), which is why I do not understand why his hands are the size of someone who is 5ft 2ins."
"And you know what they say about men with small hands? You cannot trust them."
Then, on Thursday night, Mr Rubio and Mr Trump came face to face on Fox News' Republican debate, when the issue of personal attacks among candidates came up.
Mr Rubio said his rival had "mocked everybody" with personal attacks. Then Mr Trump came in, denying it had been an issue before.
"I have to say this: He hit my hands. Nobody has ever hit my hands. I have never heard of this one."
"Look at those hands, are they small hands?" the front-runner asked. "And he referred to my hands - 'if they are small, something else must be small'. I guarantee you there is no problem. I guarantee."
In a later interview with CNN, Mr Trump said that the "joke" was only about his hands: "I have very powerful hands."
Senior figures within the bank have told me that the government body responsible for the public's 80% stake, UK Financial Investments, has been approached about exploring a series of small stake sales to kick start the process.
The bank believes that the government should sell an initial tranche of shares worth about £5bn to test the market.
Although the sale would be at a loss on the amount the government originally paid to bail out the bank, it would automatically boost the share price - RBS believes - as institutional investors would take the prospect of future sales more seriously.
Senior figures insist that the core bank, which is profitable, is attractive to the market.
They point out that the initial sale of the government's then 40% stake in Lloyds Banking Group in 2013 led to a spike in the share price.
Over the year, Lloyd's share price rose by 65%. The sale also had the not unwelcome effect of raising £3.2bn for the Treasury's coffers.
The government bailed out RBS in 2008 at around 500p a share. That price dropped to an average 407p over subsequent weeks - a price the Treasury could argue is "break even". RBS also paid billions of pounds in fees to the government for a continuing insurance facility.
Today, RBS shares are trading around 340p, a figure little changed from six months ago.
I asked one senior figure intimately involved in the discussions when RBS would like to see the stake sale commence and he answered, only half in jest: "Tomorrow."
The source said that UKFI was very sympathetic to a sale, as it understood that a bank outside direct political control was likely to perform more strongly.
"Shareholders dislike the present arrangement, clients dislike it and I'm sure ultimately the government dislikes it," the source said. "This arrangement was never supposed to last this long. As an enduring model, it is very tough to make it work.
"The question is, is it acceptable to sell initially at a loss? Well, that is the economic reality.
"You don't need to make your money back on all the tranches. If you did 10 tranches, do you have to make a profit on every one? Any sensible investor would say the important thing is, make money over the whole process."
RBS is now working on giving investors confidence that remaining risks in the bank are understood and accounted for.
The first area of concern is litigation costs, the billions of pounds of misconduct payments still working their way through the system.
These include legal actions connected to the financial crisis rights issue, legal actions by the US mortgage providers Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac over the manipulation of the interbank lending rate and costs associated with allegations concerning the foreign exchange market.
RBS sources point out that both Barclays and Deutsche Bank raised capital, despite concerns over possible misconduct fines.
The second issue is RBS's own capital position. That will be helped by two events - the sale of RBS's American retail bank, Citizens, and the Bank of England's own stress tests.
Both are likely to be completed by the end of the year. The sale of Citizens will mean that RBS can repatriate capital held in America back to the UK.
RBS believes that the Citizen's sale could improve the bank's key Tier 1 capital position by two and a half percentage points to 12%.
Will a stake sale happen this side of a general election? The government has certainly sent out very negative signals on that, saying in January that it was "not part of any timetable".
The Liberal Democrats are also looking at putting a mass RBS share giveaway in their manifesto, an idea that has been backed by Nick Clegg.
RBS will certainly have an up-hill battle convincing politicians that a sale is a good pre-election idea. Sir Philip Hampton, the chairman, made an attempt to get the idea off the ground last year, but has made little progress since.
George Osborne would probably like a "period of silence" about banks - a story that dos not often play well for the government. Vince Cable has suggested any sale could be five years away.
But RBS will keep plugging away, as their latest efforts reveal. Politicians, as we know, are not always noted for their consistency.
The annual inflation rate as measured by the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) rose to 0.6% in July from 0.5% in June, the Office for National Statistics said.
More expensive alcoholic drinks and hotel rooms also helped to increase the CPI rate, the ONS said.
The Retail Prices Index (RPI) measure of inflation rose to 1.9% in July from 1.6% in June.
July's RPI inflation rate sets the cap for how much regulated rail fares in England, Scotland and Wales can rise by next year.
Separate figures from the ONS suggested that the fall in the value of the pound since the UK's referendum vote to leave the EU had increased the cost of imports for manufacturers.
Input prices faced by manufacturers rose 4.3% in the year to July, compared with a fall of 0.5% in the year to June.
The most dramatic rises came in the cost of imported food materials, which rose 10.2%, and the price of imported metals, which rose 12.4%.
In addition, the prices of finished goods leaving the factory gate were 0.3% higher than a year earlier, the first annual increase since June 2014.
"There is no obvious impact on today's consumer prices figures following the EU referendum result, though the Producer Prices Index (PPI) suggests the fall in the exchange rate is beginning to push up import price faced by manufacturers," said Mike Prestwood, head of prices at the ONS.
However, Samuel Tombs, chief UK economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics, said the fall in sterling was "entirely responsible" for the rise in CPI inflation to the highest rate since November 2014.
Against the dollar, the pound is some 13% below its level in the run-up to the referendum and 10% lower against the euro.
"Sterling's depreciation ensured that pump prices rose by 0.7% month-to-month even though dollar oil prices declined," he said.
"As a result, we continue to think that CPI inflation will hit 3% in the second half of 2017."
As prices for companies rise, the pressure to keep down costs may be bad for wages, according to Howard Archer, chief UK and european economist at IHS Global Insight.
He said: "Companies may well look to clamp down on workers' pay as they strive to save costs in a more difficult environment and as imported input prices are lifted by the weakened pound.
"Meanwhile, a likely softening labour market and reduced consumer confidence will dilute workers' ability and willingness to push for higher pay awards."
And even if inflation looks set to rise above the government's target of 2%, he believes the Bank of England is still likely to lower interest rates further to stimulate growth.
Mr Archer said he expected the Bank to take interest rates down to 0.10% in November from it current level of 0.25% and said: "It is notable that the MPC considered taking interest rates down to just above zero at their August meeting and that a majority of members thought there was a case to do so."
Stuart Lawrence has complained to the Metropolitan Police (Met) over an incident on 16 November.
He also alleges a pattern of behaviour against him by officers.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) will oversee the investigation, conducted by the Met.
In 1993, Stephen Lawrence was stabbed to death in a racist attack in Eltham, south-east London.
Last year Gary Dobson and David Norris were convicted of the murder of 18-year-old student.
The Metropolitan Police faced criticism over the original investigation into the death and a public inquiry branded the force institutionally racist.
Stuart Lawrence, 35, said he had been stopped by police up to 25 times over several years.
His solicitor Imran Khan said Mr Lawrence decided to formally complain after he was halted by police on 16 November.
Mr Khan said: "That was the straw that broke the camel's back.
"That was the culmination of a course of conduct over many years which amounted to harassment and discrimination based upon his skin colour, his ethnic origin."
In a statement, the IPCC said it would supervise the investigation following "careful consideration" of a referral from the Met on 9 January.
"The referral relates to an incident in November 2012 when Mr Lawrence was stopped by police officers but the complaint also alleges an overall pattern of behaviour against him by MPS officers on the grounds of his ethnicity," the statement said.
"Last year, the IPCC shared public concerns generated by a number of referrals alleging racism and announced it would closely scrutinise how the MPS (Metropolitan Police Service) handled racism complaints.
"As a result of that scrutiny the IPCC has supervised a number of cases alleging racism in the MPS and undertaken additional work.
"We will be publishing the results of this and any further lessons to be learned from Mr Lawrence's case."
It said the decision to supervise the investigation would be kept under review.
All pupils will sit their exams in the schools they are currently attending.
Royal High, Drummond and Firrhill pupils will use their own schools.
Gracemount and Craigmount students will be sitting their exams at their host schools of Liberton and Tynecastle respectively.
Individual schools will update pupils and parents regarding their specific arrangements.
Seventeen schools built or modernised under the controversial Public Private Partnership arrangement scheme were shut earlier this month over safety concerns.
The council entered into a deal with a specially-formed private company, the Edinburgh Schools Partnership, and construction work was carried out by Miller Construction.
Under the deal, the profit-making company built the schools, runs the buildings and maintains them. The council is, in effect, a tenant.
Children at all 17 schools are now back in the classroom.
Finding alternative accommodation has been a major logistical operation and some youngsters face lengthy journeys to temporary sites.
Some form of investigation or inquiry into the debacle is expected to be launched after the Scottish election.
Residents have complained about having "no clear communication" from project officials with rollout completion dates put back, a council meeting heard.
Superfast Cymru aimed to give 96% of homes in Wales superfast broadband by spring 2016.
BT said 77% of Denbighshire properties had access and 42,000 more homes across Wales would by connected by June 2017.
The figures emerged this week during a meeting between Denbighshire council and BT to check progress of the scheme.
BT assured the council that "wherever possible" it would bring forward completion dates.
The company confirmed that 5% of Denbighshire properties were unable to access the service due to their "remote location" and pledged to identify those addresses.
Rebecca Maxwell, corporate director of economy and public realm at Denbighshire council, said she wanted the remaining roll-out to be completed more quickly.
"The committee particularly felt that BT needed to improve communications with residents," she added.
"Broadband access is critical to the success of local businesses. It is also vital for residents from a social and wellbeing aspect.
"That is why we wanted to meet with BT, to ensure that Denbighshire communities could exploit the latest technology as quickly as possible."
Ms Maxwell said the council understood the scale of the work BT faced in connecting the next 18% of homes in the county, and said meetings with BT to discuss bringing forward completion dates had been constructive.
The meeting also heard improvements had been made to Superfast Fast Cymru's website and more detailed information on which homes have access is now available on the site's new address-checker tool.
I got it from both sides: eardrum-denting yells of fury, which managed to break through the noise of surrounding protestors.
This was April in Brazil, with the country's President Dilma Rousseff facing what would eventually be a successful attempt to impeach her. Both opponents and defenders had taken to the streets.
"Go Dilma, go! Never more… NE-VER Mooooooore!" screamed one man.
Just in case you might miss the fervour of his opinion, two fellow protestors marched, bearing a coffin with the president's name on it. Yet only a short distance away I found supporters of Dilma Rousseff roused to equal passion.
One screwed his face up tight, as if mustering all the wrath of which he was capable, and then detonated it in a blast of fury which at one point threatened to overwhelm the limits of my microphone.
"Dilma cares for the poor. Every time a movement for the poor gets going, then comes a coup d'etat… violence is their game. We need radical resistance!"
It was just one scene from 2016, a year defined by the unexpected, the unpredicted and unprecedented. Yet it was also a year in which one emotion was cited as the driving force behind these developments.
"There is great anger out there," Donald Trump told a rally, in what paradoxically was one of his calmer campaign speeches. "Believe me there is great anger."
He might perhaps have been looking at his own supporters, who wore anti-Hillary T-shirts with slogans like "Trump that Bitch".
Mr Trump was speaking of a subject which he knows first-hand, being an enthusiastic sender of angry nocturnal tweets.
Indeed, both supporters and detractors see Donald Trump's victory as a tribute to his knack for understanding people's discontent, then channelling it.
"Trump gave anger the green light," argues Arlie Hochshild, a sociologist based at the University of California.
She believes many of his supporters were fired up by resentment at a globalised economy which seemed to have passed them by, their wages stagnant, the promise of the American dream unfulfilled.
"Trump," she says, "gave permission for them to express what they had been storing."
Sometimes the very language of politics seemed to betray the aggressive emotions beneath.
When Britain voted to leave the European Union in June, this was described as "giving the establishment a bloody nose" or "a slap in the face for Europe's elites" .
These political slaps were not just a Western phenomenon. In South Africa and South Korea, in Hong Kong and Venezuela, angry crowds gathered to protest in 2016, not against a particular government, but against the very system by which they ruled.
Perhaps the prevailing mood was best summed up by the Italian comedian-turned-politician, Beppe Grillo, who successfully campaigned for his country to vote No in a referendum on constitutional change.
"No," Mr Grillo said, was the most beautiful thing to say in politics these days, adding an obscenity directed at anyone who disagreed with him.
If anger generated political upsets in 2016, then, according to the psychologist, Oliver James, anger was also an understandable response from those on the losing side, like EU Remain campaigners in Britain.
Their defeat in a referendum, he suggests, was experienced like bereavement.
"We go through a cycle of sadness, despair, but then at other times are swamped by very powerful anger," James explains.
I saw that sequence at work in Dallas this year, after five police officers were shot dead by an African-American army veteran. At a makeshift shrine, local residents expressed their shock, but many were also furious that this could happen, that the very people tasked with protecting them could prove so vulnerable.
Yet the most pessimistic assessment came from a fellow African-American, who told me that while he could never condone the killing, he certainly understood it.
"Black people are tired of the way police officers treat us," he explained. "I don't think it's going to calm down. I think the fire is already lit for retaliation."
That cycle of violence, the perpetuation of anger: this is what the writer Sam Leith fears will be the legacy of 2016.
We are abandoning, he believes, the Greek ideal of logos (or reason) and ceding ground to the more irrational potential of pathos, expressed for now as anger.
"Anger seeks an object," he argues, "it's very Newtonian. There's action and reaction, a divisive process which continues to accelerate divisions… some sort of slow-motion catastrophe is what's required to press reset."
Yet this presumes that a reset is being sought in 2017, whereas the political changes unleashed this past year were welcomed by many as merely the beginning.
Nigel Farage, one of the key campaigners for Brexit, offered a pertinent prediction.
"For those of you who aren't particularly happy with what happened in 2016, I've got some really bad news for you - it's going to get a bloody sight worse."
Scholars from the Universities of Salford, Huddersfield and Bristol used an American replica of the monument to investigate its audio history.
Salford's Dr Bruno Fazenda said they had found the site reacted to sound "in a way that would have been noticeable to the Neolithic man".
He said the research would allow a "more holistic" view of its past.
The acoustic experiments could not be carried out at Stonehenge, as the derelict state of the site meant only a "few weak echoes and no noticeable reverberation" could be studied.
As a result, the team used a full-sized concrete reconstruction of it in Maryhill, America, which was built in 1929 as a memorial to WWI soldiers.
In February, scientist Steven Waller published a paper suggesting the design of Stonehenge could have been inspired by music.
Dr Fazenda, who has been involved with the acoustic testing of the monument for four years, said his own research had not revealed if this was the case or not.
"Stonehenge is very well known, but people are still trying to find out what it was built for," he said.
"We thought that doing this would bring an element of archaeology that so far hasn't been looked at.
"This type of research is important because now we can not only see ourselves surrounded by the stones using virtual reality, but we can also listen how the stone structure would have enveloped people in a sonic experience.
"It is as if we can travel back in time and experience the space in a more holistic way."
Dr Fazenda said that the data collected did not "unequivocally reveal" if the site was designed with acoustics in mind, like a Roman amphitheatre.
But he added that it did show "the space reacted to acoustic activity in a way that would have been noticeable to the Neolithic man".
The 25-year-old will join from NTT Shining Arcs at the end of January when the Japanese campaign has concluded.
Mafi, who featured four times for Japan at the World Cup this year, will remain at Bath until the end of the season.
"Amanaki is a talented young player who had a great World Cup, and we're excited to see what he can do in a Bath jersey," said head coach Mike Ford.
"We have some very good players in our back row already but we're always looking to strengthen the squad. Amanaki will give us another option in a hugely competitive position."
Midfielder Jack, 25, has joined Rangers on a three-year deal under freedom of contract after leaving Aberdeen.
St Johnstone defender Foster, 31, was previously a team-mate of Jack's at Pittodrie.
"He's very much underrated," Foster told BBC Radio Scotland's Sportsound. "He loves tackling, he loves winning the ball."
Rangers, who were promoted last year and finished third in the 2016-17 Scottish Premiership, kept 12 clean sheets in the top flight, compared with the Dons' 15.
They have already signed 35-year-old Portuguese defender Bruno Alves for next season.
Jack came through the Dons' youth ranks and made his debut in 2010, becoming captain five years later.
"He's a good signing for Rangers," said Foster, who was loaned to Rangers from Aberdeen for the 2010-11 season and then returned to Ibrox for a two-year spell in 2013.
"He was asked to do the defensive role in the Aberdeen team, which I think he did really well, but I think he does have more quality on the ball when needed."
Central midfielders Jon Toral and Emerson Hyndman have returned to Arsenal and Bournemouth respectively after their loan spells with Rangers.
"What Rangers lacked last season - they had technically decent enough players, Toral, Hyndman, that played latterly - in centre midfield but didn't have someone who will win the ball back, who will occupy a position that takes a bit of the pressure off the centre-backs," added Foster.
"Their full-backs like to play high. There was a lot of pressure last year on the Rangers centre-halves and I think a lot of the time they were unfairly criticised because they got no protection from either the sides or in front of them.
"I think Ryan Jack is a player who will definitely offer that and I think he's got a lot to offer going forward as well."
The American, 37, held off Jason Day at Baltusrol, New Jersey, on Sunday to claim his first major.
Australian Day, 28, remains top of the rankings, followed by Americans Dustin Johnson and Jordan Spieth, and Northern Ireland's Rory McIlroy.
Walker's career-high ranking of 10th came in April 2015 after he won the Valero Texas Open in San Antonio.
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Neil Nabney has a congenital disorder called Treacher Collins syndrome.
It means his lower jaw did not grow normally and he has had several operations to try and correct the resulting problems.
Mr Nabney from Dundonald was sentenced to three and half years for riotous assembly following the loyalist flag protest. He served 17 months of that sentence in Maghaberry.
While there, he says he often could not eat the meals provided because of the problems he had with his jaw.
"I couldn't get proper dietary needs so I was having to subsidise my own diet from the tuck shop, like melting chocolate and dipping biscuits into tea and drinking fizzy drinks and stuff."
The ex-prisoner claims his pain was not properly managed.
"It just got out of control to the point that I was basically in solitary - I was just lying in my cell 24/7, just too sore," he says.
"The doctors didn't really seem to know how to deal with me. They just kept putting the medication up and up and up 'til the point I was just sleeping 18 hours a day."
Mr Nabney says he was not taken to all his medical appointments and the lack of treatment exacerbated his condition.
"I've been told now the damage is too far gone, there's nothing now that can be done for me so I am going to have to live with this 'til the day I die and I will not be able to function daily without the aid of medication," he said.
"The person I was before I went into prison is not the person I am now and I definitely believe most of it is down to the fact that I wasn't given the proper medical care."
A damning report on an independent inspection of Maghaberry Prison prison found that Mr Nabney was not alone in his experience of healthcare while in the jail.
The report says "there were insufficient numbers of primary care nurses and problems retaining staff. Some areas of heath care including chronic disease management and substance misuse, were considered by inspectors to be unsafe".
The report recommends that the South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust in partnership with the Prison Service develop an action plan within one month.
Brendan McGuigan, Chief Inspector of Criminal Justice in Northern Ireland, says there were serious concerns about allowing prisoners to manage their own medication.
"Some prisoners were given their medicines to cover a period of time and of course what was happening - especially for vulnerable prisoners - they were being bullied and intimidated to hand over those drugs," he said.
"These people are sent to prison for offending, that is their punishment.
"To be in prison and have inadequate access to healthcare is an impingement of their human rights."
The South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust says it is already working to address recommendations made to improve healthcare services in Maghaberry.
In relation to Mr Nabney, the trust said: "There is significant correspondence between the trust and Mr Nabney's solicitor which confirms that Mr Nabney was facilitated to attend all identified healthcare appointments, including hospital out-patient appointments.
"The trust is of the view that all his healthcare needs were adequately met while he was a prisoner in Maghaberry."
Varnish, 25, was dropped in April after failing to qualify in the team sprint for this summer's Rio Olympic Games.
She later said she was the victim of sexist comments from technical director Shane Sutton, who has since resigned.
"I think it is quite questionable why Jess is no longer part of the GB cycling team," said Phillips, 27.
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Australian Sutton, 58, has rejected accusations of using sexist and discriminatory language towards elite cyclists.
Varnish continues to train independently in the hope that Sutton's departure will earn her a recall to the GB squad in time for Rio.
But Phillips concedes her chances are slim, adding: "While we are still hopeful, we're not stupid and we appreciate there is a selection document to follow.
"I'm just hopeful we will get through this investigation and everyone will have their say and things will become clearer post-Rio."
Phillips, the 2013 BMX world champion, has also spoken of his frustration at what he sees has been a lack of respect shown to him by senior management at British Cycling.
He became the first rider to win back-to-back BMX World Cup titles when he took a second series win in 2015.
"I feel my performance levels over the past few years prove I am a strong medal prospect for Rio and that I deserve to have had perhaps more support and a little bit more respect from senior management," he said.
Phillips claims Sutton and fellow coach Iain Dyer "couldn't even applaud me off" after winning a fourth successive World Cup race.
He added: "If we all want to be successful and if we are all working towards being the best cycling nation in the world, what is there not to cheer about?"
A UN Relief and Works Agency (Unrwa) spokesman said at least six cases of the disease had been confirmed.
Yarmouk is the scene of a major humanitarian crisis.
It has come under bombardment from government forces since 2012, but conditions worsened in April when Islamic State (IS) militants attacked.
The 18,000 people living there, including 3,500 children, have no access to regular food supplies, clean water or healthcare.
The cases of typhoid were confirmed by Unrwa medics after they managed to gained access to Yarmouk residents for the first time since June.
Typhoid is caused by a highly contagious bacterium, spread from person to person by food and water that is contaminated with traces of infected faeces or urine.
Symptoms include nausea, fever and abdominal pain. If untreated, the disease can lead to complications in the gut and head that kill up to one in five patients.
"Our concern is that these typhoid cases only represent the tip of the iceberg, because the erosion of health services and appalling public health standards create a massive, massive risk of diseases breaking out," Unrwa spokesman Chris Gunness told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
"The situation is desperate, and suffering may be far more widespread and intense inside the camp."
Mr Gunness said women inside Yarmouk were dying in childbirth because of a lack of medicines, children were reduced to eating grass because there was no food, and the main water supply had not been functional since last September.
"Never has the imperative for sustained humanitarian access been greater," he warned.
Yarmouk was first built for Palestinians fleeing the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. Before the Syrian civil war began in 2011, it had more than 150,000 refugees living there.
Mzee Mohammed, 18, was seen with a knife "behaving erratically" at Liverpool One before officers were called to the scene.
His mother Karla told the Liverpool Echo her son was a "gentle giant" and she believed police and security staff had "questions to answer".
The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) is investigating.
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At the family home in Kensington, Mr Mohammed's mother said her son had "a troubled past" but "he got past that".
He had no pre-existing medical conditions, she said.
A Merseyside Police statement said a man had run into a house in the Toxteth area of the city in "a distressed state".
Later, a man was seen with a knife "behaving erratically" at a number of locations in the city centre, it added.
Officers located him near Liverpool One where he was detained by security staff.
Police said the man was "suffering a medical episode" and was taken to hospital but was pronounced dead at about 19:55 BST.
As with all deaths in custody, Merseyside Police's professional standards department was obliged to notify the IPCC of the incident.
Inquest - a charity which provides advice to people bereaved by a death in custody - said there needed to be "the most thorough and robust scrutiny of the actions of the security guards and the police" who were in contact with Mr Mohammed before his death.
His family must be supported to find out how and why he died, a statement added.
Race relations activist Lee Jasper, said: "I don't think anybody has got any confidence in the IPCC to investigate these critical incidents.
"The IPCC needs to be transparent and engender trust and confidence in the wider community."
Merseyside's Police Commissioner Jane Kennedy said the IPCC investigation would "examine the full circumstances of what happened".
The young man's family can take some comfort from knowing it will answer any questions that they may have, she added.
"Merseyside Police and I will do everything in our power to ensure the man's loved ones and the local community are fully engaged. Merseyside Police and community leaders in Liverpool 8 have worked hard to build a strong relationship based on mutual confidence and trust."
A post-mortem examination is due to take place.
Sir Tony played dim-witted sidekick Baldrick in the show and cast Byrne in his Maid Marion and Her Merry Men series.
He told BBC Radio 5 Live she had been like a mother to "her boys" on the Blackadder set.
"Patsy was just a real confident centre of all the scenes," he said.
"She had unerring skill to make the daftest, silliest thing sound absolutely real and absolutely plausible," he added.
"I was so fond of her as a person and so in awe of her capabilities that when I decided I wanted to introduce a mother to Maid Marion, my first choice was Patsy.
"I was thrilled that she took it. Even though she has done such grand work she came down to Minehead and rolled her sleeves up and was just one of the lads, as she always was, and did a great performance."
Broadcaster and actor Stephen Fry, who played Lord Melchett alongside Byrne, tweeted: "Oh lord no! I've just heard that Patsy Byrne, darling Nursie has died. Hope St Bernard has welcomed her to eternal rest. Adorable woman."
Blackadder producer John Lloyd also paid tribute to Byrne, saying she and Miranda Richardson, who played Queen Elizabeth I, were a "fantastic double act".
Byrne played Nursie - the kind but dim-witted nursemaid to Elizabeth I - in the second series of BBC comedy Blackadder in 1986.
"It's ironic that she will be remembered for that lovable, slightly idiotic person with that ludicrous drawl, but she was a proper actress. With the RSC, she played Chekhov opposite Rex Harrison, was incredibly well spoken, but she would put up with our little ways," he told 5 Live.
"The rehearsals on Blackadder were interminable, with us changing our minds all the time and she was always on top of it and she never complained. We had famous actors walk out of rehearsals because it was such a nightmare and shambles. But with Patsy there was never a peep of complaint."
Byrne died on Tuesday at Denville Hall, a retirement home for actors, in Hillingdon, north-west London.
The Kent-born actress joined the Royal Shakespeare Company after drama school and took on TV and theatre roles.
Her other roles included the ITV sitcom Watching and the classic police series Z Cars. She also made appearances in Holby City and I, Claudius, and played Mrs Nubbles in the BBC's 1979 adaption of The Old Curiosity Shop.
Byrne's death came just over a week after Rik Mayall, who shared screen time with her as Lord Flashheart in Blackadder, died suddenly at his home in London.
Blackadder ran for four series between 1983 and 1989 - with writing credits shared between Rowan Atkinson, Richard Curtis and Ben Elton. The comedy followed the exploits of Atkinson's Blackadder character through various historical periods.
For the best chance of recovery, the advice is not to hesitate if you see someone's face falling on one side, slurred speech or weakness in the arms.
Radio broadcaster Mark Goodier, 55, survived a stroke in November thanks to the quick actions of his wife.
He was lucky - two out of three stroke survivors leave hospital with a disability.
Mark Goodier said his wife realised she had to act fast after he had suffered a "crippling headache" one morning and collapsed on to the bed.
"I had a loss of feeling on one side of my face," he said. "She didn't wait to worry about it or wonder.
"I consider myself fortunate because she did the right thing, at the right time."
She called an ambulance straight away, and he was treated quickly in hospital.
Mark, a former Radio 1 chart show DJ and Top of the Pops presenter, is now slowly getting back to work and returning to a normal pace of life.
He said: "I'm still coming to terms with what's happened, but I'm a very positive person and I'm gradually building up the exercise again.
"It's going to take time, but my story could have been very different if she hadn't made the call when she did."
A stroke occurs when the blood supply to the brain is cut off, as a result of a clot or bleeding on the brain.
It can happen at any age, although most people who have a stroke are older.
More than 100,000 strokes happen in the UK every year, leading to about 40,000 deaths. Many more lead to severe disability.
More than a million people in the UK are living with the after-effects of stroke.
Public Health England has launched a campaign, called Act Fast, to urge people to call 999 as soon as they see any one of the three signs of a stroke.
Other signs can include:
Sas Freeman, a former actress and model, from Worcestershire, had a stroke seven years ago, aged 45.
At the time, she was very fit and healthy, holding down a busy job. She thought strokes could not happen to people like her.
So when her face started drooping and she couldn't get her words out, she didn't seek help.
"I thought I could get rid of the tremendous pain in my head," she said.
"I couldn't possibly call an ambulance, so I called my GP and tried to get an appointment instead.
"Stupidly, I was doing it all the wrong way."
Sas was eventually admitted to hospital, but the delay meant she lost her speech and her mobility.
A second stroke a few weeks later left her needing 18 months to recover.
She has gone from being active and independent to needing help with simple tasks such as cooking and walking.
She can no longer work or drive, and she struggles with extreme tiredness during the day.
When she looks at photos of herself taken before the first stroke, they feel like images of a stranger.
"It's like looking at a twin," she says. "They aren't me anymore, it's very strange.
"Stroke has taken away an awful lot. It was a huge, huge shock. I want people to learn from my stupidity."
Not all strokes can be prevented. As we age, our arteries become harder and narrower and more likely to become blocked.
But many strokes can be prevented by:
Prof Kevin Fenton, national director for health and wellbeing at Public Health England, said: "Stroke is one of the leading causes of death in the country, and the faster someone experiencing a stroke gets emergency treatment, the more chance that person has of surviving and avoiding serious disability."
Juliet Bouverie, chief executive of the Stroke Association, said people were not taking the right action at the right time.
"A stroke is a brain attack and acting fast makes a huge difference," she said.
"You are more likely to survive a stroke and make a better recovery if you call 999 on spotting any one of the symptoms.
"The quicker you act, the more of the person you save."
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Murray and Nishikori will meet on Court Philippe Chatrier at around 15:00 BST.
The Briton, 30, lost a dramatic five-set contest when they met at the same stage in New York last September.
Surprisingly, the Japanese player struggled to even recall the match when asked on Monday: "I don't even know if I won or lost. I won?"
It was only his second win over Murray, who has since taken his tally to eight victories having beaten Nishikori in the Davis Cup, Olympics and ATP Finals in 2016.
After a slow start to 2017 as he struggled with injuries and illness, the world number one has found his form at Roland Garros.
Impressive wins over Juan Martin del Potro and Karen Khachanov in the last two rounds have suggested Murray is capable of matching last year's run to the final.
"I'm happy with where my game's at," the Scot said after his fourth-round win.
"Everything is going pretty well just now. I'm feeling good going into the middle part of the second week."
And the Wimbledon champion does at least remember his New York defeat last year, which came three weeks after he won Olympic gold in Rio.
"I obviously lost against him at the US Open," Murray said. "He plays well on the clay, obviously, and is very solid off both wings."
If Murray has had his health issues in 2017, Nishikori has struggled with injuries throughout his career, a right wrist hampering him this season after hip and rib problems in 2016.
The 27-year-old Japanese player has already played one five-set match in Paris and twice lost sets 6-0.
However, he has only spent 20 minutes more on court than Murray, at 11 hours and 24 minutes, and says he will be ready after a day off.
"I think physically, I'm OK," Nishikori said.
"It's not easy. Long matches. I'm a little bit sore, but I'm sure it's going to be okay. I have one day rest [on Tuesday].
"I'll try to be physically ready for a long, tough match."
BBC Sport tennis correspondent Russell Fuller at Roland Garros
Murray has an excellent record against Nishikori, but will still have vivid memories of the defeat he suffered at last year's US Open.
The Japanese won the deciding set of their quarter-final 7-5: Murray had led by two sets to one but became distracted by a malfunctioning sound system and a yellow butterfly.
Nishikori has had a more gruelling passage to the last eight: he has twice lost a set 6-0, appears hindered by back trouble and will need to play as he did in New York to topple the rapidly improving world number one.
The Reading-based company is consulting over about 50 proposed job losses in the UK, most of which are based in Aberdeen.
Expro said a continuing decline in oil exploration had resulted in major North Sea developments being put on hold.
The firm announced 60 jobs losses back in March, largely in Aberdeen.
Neil Sims, from Expro, said: "It is nearly a year since the industry experienced the initial oil price crash, and every attempt has been made to reduce the impact on our employees.
"In the initial stages we took a range of preventative cost reduction measures, and since then, we have worked with our customers, suppliers and employees to significantly reduce and manage costs.
"However we must align ourselves with the on-going market conditions and specifically, the continued decline in exploration and appraisal activity which has resulted in deferrals of major North Sea development projects.
"Very sadly, this means some further redundancies."
Expro, which surveys and manages oil and gas wells around the world, employs more than 5,000 people across 50 countries.
The chairman and chief executive of Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board went last week after health and audit watchdogs found a range of problems.
BCUHB runs NHS services in the six counties of north Wales with a budget of around £1.2bn.
Vice-chair Dr Lyndon Miles becomes the third board member to leave.
Healthcare Inspectorate Wales (HIW) and the Wales Audit Office (WAO) found a series of problems at the health board, which runs Ysbyty Gwynedd, Glan Clwyd and Wrexham Maelor hospitals.
They included finding that the relationship between chairman Prof Merfyn Jones and chief executive Mary Burrows had broken down and compromised the organisation.
The issues include:
A spokesperson for Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board said: "We can confirm that the vice-chairman Dr Lyndon Miles has submitted his resignation to the minister."
Last week, Health Minister Mark Drakeford said the health board still faced "fundamental challenges".
He told BBC Wales that replacing two individuals would not be enough in itself to restore public confidence.
The minister said the board faced a "much bigger job" in changing the culture of the way it works.
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Speaking at an event hosted by Vanity Fair, the 47-year-old said: "I don't see it as flattery, I see it as theft."
He was responding to a question from the audience about Chinese tech maker Xiaomi, but was referring to Apple's competition in general.
Xiaomi has been accused of copying before, but the company has said the suggestion was "sensationalist".
Hugo Barra, who was poached by Xiaomi from Google, said the Chinese firm was "an incredibly innovative company".
But the company has come under fire from people who believed its designs appeared similar to Apple's iPhones and iPads.
Sir Jonathan, who was born in Chingford, London, was at the San Francisco event to discuss his career.
But when asked about his feelings towards copycat manufacturers, he said: "I have to be honest the last thing I think is, 'Oh, that is flattering.'
"All those weekends I could've been home with my family - I think it's theft and lazy. I don't think it's OK at all."
However, some argue that Apple itself is not immune from picking up design and hardware inspiration from its competitors.
"Every Apple product is an evolution of a product that has come before it," said Chris Green, principal technology analyst at Davis Murphy Group.
"They are rarely the first to come to market with a product.
"They sit back and see what mistakes happen. That's what they did with the iPod - they let others steam in with early mp3 players and make a mess of them."
But Mr Green said he felt the Apple designer's comments were a sign that Apple wanted to be seen as vigorously defending its work.
"When it comes to defending intellectual property based around software and appearance, it's very hard to defend that in court and to argue your position over that - rather than something that is more physical like a chip.
"They have to be seen to be defending their position."
There have so far been three attempts to solve the long-running dispute.
Competition commissioner Joaquin Almunia told a European parliamentary committee that the next logical step would be to issue a statement of objection, including formal charges.
Google said that it continued to work with the EU.
The company is accused of abusing its dominant position in Europe, where it accounts for 90% of search traffic.
The dispute has been running since 2010 when rivals, including British price-comparison site Foundem, complained about the way it displayed results.
The deal suggested by Google in February was rejected after 20 formal complaints made the EU rethink its original decision to accept the proposals.
Under the terms of the deal, Google agreed to reserve space near the top of its European search pages for competitors, which would be open to rivals to bid for via an auction.
Rivals argued that Google's solution was unfair for a range of reasons, including the fact that Google would make money out of the changes.
"At the beginning of the month I have communicated this to the company asking them to improve these proposals," said Mr Almunia.
"We now need to see if Google can address these issues and allay our concerns."
He did not put a timeframe on the new proposals but acknowledged that it could be left up to the next Commission headed by Jean-Claude Juncker to sort out.
Mr Almunia steps down in October.
But, he warned, if the next set of proposals failed to impress, the next stage would be a fine.
"The next logical step is to issue a statement of objection," he said.
EU rules mean that a company falling foul of anti-trust laws can be fined up to 10% of its annual sales.
Last year, Google's annual sales amounted to $55.5bn (£33.8bn).
For its part, Google seemed in no mind to appease the EU. Writing an opinion piece for the European Commission's Digital Minds - a series of articles about the digital age written by some of the biggest players in the industry - chairman Eric Schmidt said that Europe needed to embrace disruptive industries such as Uber.
"New businesses promoting new ideas should not be held back by bureaucratic or regulatory hurdles," he wrote.
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Her mission is to introduce her passion to the world, which she does at home in London, where she has set up a Nigerian pop-up restaurant.
It is being made by Jansons Property, an investor and developer, in conjunction with the Crichton Trust.
Included in the plans are a purpose-built campus for the University of the West of Scotland, a museum, and student residences.
It could also see two new grandstands built at Queen of the South's stadium.
The Crichton Trust unveiled full details of the project alongside Jansons Property, which works in partnership with the William Pears Group.
The full range of benefits includes:
Andy Jansons, managing director of Jansons Property, said it was pleased to be involved in the "exciting development".
"We will bring together the funding and expertise to deliver appropriate projects for the Crichton and the community of Dumfries and Galloway," he said.
Rob Shaw, Crichton Trust chief executive said it was "the most compelling and tangible investment opportunity" that the region had had "in living memory".
He described it as a "truly transformational investment" and a "very exciting day" for Scotland and Dumfries and Galloway.
Analysis: Giancarlo Rinaldi, South Scotland reporter, BBC Scotland news website
We tend to believe things when we see them in Dumfries and Galloway.
It is a natural consequence of a number of major investments mooted which have, ultimately, failed to materialise.
A dose of doubt is a healthy thing but so, too, is a splash of enthusiasm.
The proof of this investment pudding will come when the diggers move in and the buildings start to take shape.
However, the credentials of those involved should give some cause for optimism.
Even if they only deliver half of the "aspirational" projects outlined at the official launch today, it would make a huge difference to the town, the region and further afield.
Jansons Property said it was committed to its initial investment and had signalled that further funds would be available "should further opportunities emerge".
Councillor Colin Smyth said Dumfries and Galloway Council had continued to "invest significantly" in the site since the local authority acquired it in 1995.
"There are a lot of major projects we want to see come to fruition to ensure the Crichton fulfils its massive potential but in a way that preserves this historical site which is close to the hearts of the people of Dumfries and beyond," he said.
"That will require significant investment of the scale being proposed and really could help deliver on our number one priority to build the local economy and create jobs and opportunities for local people."
Two were unearthed on Monday on a building site in the Pall Mall area, with a third found at about 08:15 GMT.
Four further devices were discovered just under three hours later after a police cordon had been removed.
All seven were initially thought to be bombs but are now believed to be "non-fused ammunition".
A team of Army bomb disposal experts removed the devices and a 200m safety cordon at the junction of Pall Mall and Leeds Road has been lifted.
An examination by the Army's Explosive Ordnance Disposal concluded the five shells found since the morning were "empty", said Merseyside Police.
A force spokesman said: "The construction company has now ceased work at the site and the Health and Safety Executive are on site."
Junior road world champion Lucy Garner will be making her senior worlds debut alongside Olympic silver medallist Lizzie Armitstead plus Katie Colclough in the women's road race on Saturday.
And the Championships close on Sunday with the men's road race where Chris Froome will attempt to become the first man since Greg Lemond in 1989 to win the Tour de France and world title in the same year.
Olympic champion Sir Bradley Wiggins won silver in the men's individual time on Wednesday.
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Terrence Davies, 54, of North Cornelly, Bridgend, made £277,000 in 14 months by dumping waste on his nearby land.
He was jailed for two-and-a-half years after admitting four charges of operating without consent.
Judge Neil Bidder also ordered him to pay £23,517 within six months or face an extra 14 months behind bars.
The court heard police and Natural Resources Wales officers found Davies stuffing £5,000 in banknotes into envelopes when they raided the property at South Cornelly, just 500 yards (0.5 km) from a Site of Special Scientific Interest.
Waste dumped there included old mattresses, tyres, plastics and demolition and construction waste as well as hazardous waste like televisions.
He continued taking in waste even after he had been warned not to take in any more, the court heard.
Alex Greenwood, prosecuting, said: "It was a deliberate and flagrant disregard of the law and on one visit environment officers saw 30 vehicles arrive - builders' vans, trailers and tractors all carrying waste onto the site."
Davies traded as Boyd Davies Recycling Services.
Judge Bidder told him: "The mounds of waste were 30 metres high and up to 40 metres wide and resembled large hills.
"Some of it was deposited while you were on bail and after you had been warned time and time again.
"It was outrageous offending. The total volume of waste was huge and the remedial cost will be enormous."
Despite self-confessed "paranoid" fears that no-one would turn up, crowds of people lined the streets of Newlyn and Penzance.
The rower won the women's pair in Rio with partner Heather Stanning, defending the title won at London 2012.
The Rio medal had to be repaired after it was dropped by Ms Glover's fiance, TV nature presenter Steve Backshall.
Accompanied by the Humphry Davy School band, an open-top bus is taking the smiling Olympian through the streets to a civic reception at her former school, making an impromptu stop to meet members of the Mounts Bay gig rowing club.
Humphry Davy head teacher Bill Marshall said the school was "incredibly proud" of Ms Glover, who since winning her first Olympic gold medal in London four years ago had been an inspiration to its students.
"Hard work, dedication and commitment clearly pay off and Helen is a fantastic role model to all young people everywhere," he added.
Ms Glover, who has won three world championships as well as two Olympic golds and is unbeaten in 39 races over five years alongside Ms Stanning, said the parade was her chance to say "thank you" to the town she grew up in.
"It's amazing - if someone had told me four years ago when I was here and buzzing for the parade, that there would have been another one in four years, I'd have been so touched," she told BBC News.
"I think it just shows how much it means to the whole of Cornwall and the towns round here to be bringing a medal home."
Ms Glover said she intended to celebrate every moment of the victory parade as it would probably be her last, adding that although she was not thinking of retirement, the likelihood would be that she would be taking an "extended break".
Fiance Mr Backshall said he need a word that was "bigger than proud" to sum up what he felt.
"It's been the most emotional thing that's ever happened in my whole life," he said.
"To see the person you care about most doing something so extraordinary is just mind-blowing."
Earlier on Twitter, he had invited people to go along to Penzance harbour to see the victory parade.
The 61-year-old Australian, brother of Warrington coach Tony Smith, joined Wakefield in May 2015, before signing a new one-year deal last October.
BBC Radio Leeds reports that Smith asked for his contract to be terminated after speaking to the Wakefield players on Tuesday morning.
Wakefield have won just one of their five league matches so far this season.
Assistant coach Stuart Dickens is expected to take charge of Friday's match at St Helens.
The Wildcats conceded eight tries at home to Catalan Dragons on Saturday, as they suffered a 42-28 loss, with Smith admitting his side needed "to be better".
His spell with Wakefield was his fourth job in England having previously been in charge at Hull (1988-1990) and Bradford Bulls (1996), as well as working as an assistant at national side level.
He also coached at Illawarra Steelers, St George Dragons, Parramatta Eels, Newcastle Knights, and Sydney Roosters in the National Rugby League (NRL).
Wakefield are currently 10th in the Super League table, having only secured their status for 2016 by beating Bradford in the Million Pound Game in October.
The club have declined further comment until a news conference on Wednesday.
BBC Radio Leeds' rugby league producer James Deighton:
"Early season sackings aren't really a surprise these days, but a resignation after just five games of the new season has taken a lot of people by surprise, including myself.
"Brian Smith's arrival at Wakefield was a real coup, and his departure has made headlines too - for a time his name was trending on Twitter within the UK.
"His record in charge reads six wins in 21 games - but tellingly only two of those victories have come against Super League opposition.
"Smith will always be remembered as the coach that saved their Super League status as he guided them to victory in the Million Pound Game.
"However, there will be those who argue that real success would have been avoiding that particular fixture altogether."
Ciaran Williamson was playing with friends in Craigton Cemetery when the tragedy happened on 26 May 2015.
An inquiry into his death has heard its final submissions.
His mother Stephanie Griffin and stepfather Thomas McGee have spoken to BBC Scotland about the day Ciaran died, and their devastation at his death.
They believe his death might have been prevented if safety checks had been carried out.
However, that is disputed by Glasgow City Council, which said it was speculation that such tests would have averted the tragedy.
The council said it had done everything it could to assist the court, and that it would be "inappropriate" to comment further while the inquiry was ongoing.
Sheriff Linda Ruxton, who heard the fatal accident inquiry at Glasgow Sheriff Court, will deliver her findings at a later date.
The inquiry heard that following Ciaran's death, Glasgow City Council carried out a safety assessment at the cemetery and laid flat between 500 and 900 headstones over concerns they were unsafe.
Ciaran's family said they hoped other children would be warned off playing in unsafe locations.
His mother Stephanie said: "Every day I feel angrier. I feel I need to know what happened."
She hoped that other parents would become more aware of what was around them.
"Maybe it's a graveyard - or an old factory. Maybe just try to speak to their children," she said.
"If they see something that needs repaired, to report it."
At the time of the tragedy, the family lived next to the cemetery.
Stephanie said she had warned Ciaran about the dangers two days before the tragedy.
"We tried to speak to him and he said 'right mum, I promise you I won't go in'," she said.
Two evenings later Ciaran joined other boys in the cemetery.
He had only been gone for 10 minutes when another boy knocked on the family's door to say he had been injured.
Ciaran's stepfather Thomas hurried to the scene, followed shortly afterwards by Stephanie.
"I remember saying to Thomas 'what's happened to him, what's happened to him?'
Stephanie recalled that she saw Ciaran on the ground with a headstone or tombstone next to him.
She said "Thomas said to me 'Stephanie, that was on him. I've had to take that off him. It's fell on him'.
"And I was screaming and I was shouting. I was slapping his face and saying: 'Ciaran, Ciaran, come on, please, just get up'."
Thomas then called the ambulance service and they talked him through administering CPR.
He recalled: "It must have only been five minutes, but it felt to me like it was an hour. And I'll never forget it."
Stephanie said the family was still adjusting to life after Ciaran's death, and that some days it was difficult to get out of bed.
"It just hits me, all over again, that he's not here anymore," she said.
"And then I need to get up for the other kids. Otherwise, I don't think I would. If I'm honest, I don't."
Stephanie said the tragedy had badly affected Ciaran's elder sister.
"Even now at night she'll still cry for him. She says 'mum, I miss Ciaran' - and I say 'I know, mum misses him too. We all miss him'."
In the family's living room, words stencilled on the wall are a daily reminder of the loss and suffering they continue to endure amid the lasting memories of a special little boy.
Those words read: "Because someone we love is in heaven, there's a little bit of heaven in our home."
After a first half of few chances, Wednesday improved after the break and Lucas Joao slotted in their opener.
The Owls looked in control, but Piero Mingoia's brilliant long-range shot put the fourth-tier U's level.
George Maris fired wide for the hosts, before Berry's late left-footed effort earned them a spot in the second round.
Cambridge manager Shaun Derry: "These are special nights. I've been on the receiving end of them so I know what it's like when you lose against lower-level opposition.
"I've never been in the dressing room on the better side and I'm really proud of them. It's another night where Cambridge United are in the press for absolutely the right reasons once again."
Sheffield Wednesday head coach Carlos Carvalhal: "We did well. Not fantastically well but we managed the game, we had the game under control. We had chances and Cambridge also had some chances.
"They scored a fantastic goal, 1-1. After this the game is a lottery. They scored the goal. We must give congratulations to Cambridge."
Match ends, Cambridge United 2, Sheffield Wednesday 1.
Second Half Extra Time ends, Cambridge United 2, Sheffield Wednesday 1.
Corner, Cambridge United. Conceded by Liam Palmer.
Goal! Cambridge United 2, Sheffield Wednesday 1. Luke Berry (Cambridge United) left footed shot from the left side of the six yard box to the bottom right corner.
Corner, Cambridge United. Conceded by Jeremy Helan.
Attempt missed. Joe Pigott (Cambridge United) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left.
Corner, Sheffield Wednesday. Conceded by Greg Taylor.
Corner, Cambridge United. Conceded by Jeremy Helan.
Attempt blocked. Liam Palmer (Sheffield Wednesday) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Piero Mingoia (Cambridge United) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Attempt blocked. Ben Williamson (Cambridge United) right footed shot from very close range is blocked.
Corner, Cambridge United. Conceded by Josè Semedo.
Attempt missed. George Maris (Cambridge United) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right.
Attempt blocked. George Maris (Cambridge United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Liam Palmer (Sheffield Wednesday) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Attempt missed. Josh Coulson (Cambridge United) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high following a corner.
Corner, Cambridge United. Conceded by James Murphy.
Second Half Extra Time begins Cambridge United 1, Sheffield Wednesday 1.
First Half Extra Time ends, Cambridge United 1, Sheffield Wednesday 1.
Attempt saved. George Maris (Cambridge United) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Jeremy Helan (Sheffield Wednesday) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Piero Mingoia (Cambridge United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jeremy Helan (Sheffield Wednesday).
Attempt missed. George Hirst (Sheffield Wednesday) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Conor Newton (Cambridge United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by George Hirst (Sheffield Wednesday).
Luke Berry (Cambridge United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Atdhe Nuhiu (Sheffield Wednesday).
Tom Dallison (Cambridge United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Josè Semedo (Sheffield Wednesday).
Corner, Sheffield Wednesday. Conceded by Sean Long.
Substitution, Cambridge United. Greg Taylor replaces Blair Adams.
Corner, Sheffield Wednesday. Conceded by Tom Dallison.
Substitution, Sheffield Wednesday. George Hirst replaces Lucas João.
First Half Extra Time begins Cambridge United 1, Sheffield Wednesday 1.
Second Half ends, Cambridge United 1, Sheffield Wednesday 1.
George Maris (Cambridge United) is shown the yellow card for hand ball.
Goal! Cambridge United 1, Sheffield Wednesday 1. Piero Mingoia (Cambridge United) left footed shot from outside the box to the top left corner.
Substitution, Sheffield Wednesday. James Murphy replaces Ross Wallace.
Corner, Cambridge United. Conceded by Liam Palmer.
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Six weeks after winning the polls, the Republican cruised past the 270 votes needed to formalise his victory.
After the result, Mr Trump promised to "work hard to unite our country and be the president of all Americans".
Electors had been flooded with emails and phone calls urging them not to support the billionaire.
But despite longshot liberal hopes of a revolt by Republican electors, only two - from Texas - ended up voting against him.
Mr Trump secured 304 votes, compared with 227 for Hillary Clinton.
It was the Democratic candidate who ended up losing more electoral votes in Monday's ballot at state capitols nationwide.
Five of her electors defected, with three voting for ex-Secretary of State Colin Powell, one for a Native-American tribal leader and another for Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders.
The electoral college result will be officially announced on 6 January in a special joint session of Congress.
"I thank the American people for their overwhelming vote to elect me as their next president of the United States," Mr Trump said in a statement after the result came in.
"With this historic step we can look forward to the bright future ahead."
One of the Democratic electors who did vote for Mrs Clinton was her husband, Bill Clinton, and he angrily lashed out at Mr Trump.
According to an upstate New York newspaper, the former president said of Mr Trump in a local book shop on Saturday: "He doesn't know much. One thing he does know is how to get angry, white men to vote for him."
Mr Clinton also told the weekly Bedford and Pound Ridge Record-Review that FBI Director "James Comey cost her (Mrs Clinton) the election" by reopening an inquiry into her emails.
He was also incredulous at Mr Trump's cordial tone during a phone call the day after the election, saying the Republican had acted "like it was 15 years ago" when he was on good terms with the Clintons.
The voting process is usually a formality, but was overshadowed this year by claims that Russian hackers tried to sway the presidential election.
Millions of Americans signed an online petition stating that Mr Trump was unfit for the Oval Office, while anti-Trump protesters gathered at state capitols across the country.
In Pennsylvania, more than 200 demonstrators braved sub-zero temperatures, chanting: "No treason, no Trump!'"
In Maine, protesters beat drums and waved signs saying: "Don't let Putin Pick Our President."
In Madison, Wisconsin, demonstrators cried.
Numerically, Mr Trump's opponents never stood much chance. To keep him out of the Oval Office, 38 Republican electors would have had to defect.
Even that would probably only have delayed the inevitable.
If no candidate had reached 270 in the electoral college, the House of Representatives would have voted on the next president.
The Republican-controlled chamber would most likely have picked Mr Trump.
Mr Trump is due to take office on 20 January.
The institution was set up by America's founding fathers as a compromise between allowing Congress and the people to elect the president.
Technically, Americans cast votes on election day for electors, not the candidates themselves.
The electors are mostly elected officials or party functionaries, and are generally unknown to the public.
There are 538 in all, one for each member of Congress, plus three for District of Columbia.
Although Democrat Hillary Clinton secured almost three million more votes from the public, Mr Trump won the majority of electors - 306.
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Hamsik and Lorenzo Insigne made it 2-0, before the visitors' keeper Pepe Reina saved a Mattia Destro penalty.
Napoli's Jose Callejon and Bologna's Adam Masina were sent off in quick succession, with Mertens scoring twice before half-time, either side of a Vasilis Torosidis goal for Bologna.
Two second-half goals from Hamsik followed, before Mertens struck again.
Hamsik's hat-trick, which began with a beautifully placed header in the fourth minute, was rounded off with a spectacular 25-yard curler. It took him above Attila Sallustro into second place on Napoli's all-time scoring list, on 109 goals, behind only Argentine great Diego Maradona, with 115.
Mertens, meanwhile, began his treble with a free-kick awarded after he was brought down by Masina, who was harshly sent off for a professional foul.
Two clinical finishes completed the Belgium international's third Serie A hat-trick of the season.
His previous two came in successive games against Cagliari and Torino in December - when he made history as the first player to score three or more goals in consecutive Serie A fixtures since 1974.
Napoli's win moves them up to second place, three points behind leaders Juventus, who host Inter Milan on Sunday (19:45 GMT), and one ahead of Roma, who are at home to Fiorentina on Tuesday.
Match ends, Bologna 1, Napoli 7.
Second Half ends, Bologna 1, Napoli 7.
Goal! Bologna 1, Napoli 7. Dries Mertens (Napoli) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Allan.
Attempt blocked. Simone Verdi (Bologna) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Bruno Petkovic.
Attempt missed. Bruno Petkovic (Bologna) right footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is too high. Assisted by Simone Verdi with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Bologna. Conceded by Faouzi Ghoulam.
Foul by Marko Rog (Napoli).
Ladislav Krejci (Bologna) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Erick Pulgar (Bologna) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Ádám Nagy.
Vasilis Torosidis (Bologna) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Dries Mertens (Napoli).
Substitution, Napoli. Marko Rog replaces Lorenzo Insigne.
Substitution, Bologna. Ângelo Da Costa replaces Antonio Mirante because of an injury.
Attempt missed. Simone Verdi (Bologna) right footed shot from a difficult angle and long range on the left is too high from a direct free kick.
Elseid Hysaj (Napoli) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Elseid Hysaj (Napoli).
Ladislav Krejci (Bologna) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Goal! Bologna 1, Napoli 6. Marek Hamsik (Napoli) right footed shot from outside the box to the top right corner. Assisted by Faouzi Ghoulam.
Substitution, Napoli. Emanuele Giaccherini replaces Piotr Zielinski.
Allan (Napoli) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Vasilis Torosidis (Bologna).
Goal! Bologna 1, Napoli 5. Marek Hamsik (Napoli) right footed shot from the left side of the box to the top right corner. Assisted by Dries Mertens.
Substitution, Bologna. Bruno Petkovic replaces Mattia Destro.
Dries Mertens (Napoli) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Marios Oikonomou (Bologna).
Substitution, Napoli. Allan replaces Amadou Diawara.
Domenico Maietta (Bologna) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Amadou Diawara (Napoli) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Domenico Maietta (Bologna).
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Antonio Mirante (Bologna) because of an injury.
Attempt saved. Lorenzo Insigne (Napoli) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt missed. Marek Hamsik (Napoli) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Lorenzo Insigne with a through ball.
Attempt saved. Blerim Dzemaili (Bologna) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Ádám Nagy.
Attempt missed. Vasilis Torosidis (Bologna) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right is close, but misses to the right.
Attempt missed. Dries Mertens (Napoli) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Lorenzo Insigne.
Attempt blocked. Lorenzo Insigne (Napoli) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Elseid Hysaj.
Second Half begins Bologna 1, Napoli 4.
Substitution, Bologna. Simone Verdi replaces Luca Rizzo.
First Half ends, Bologna 1, Napoli 4.
The matter will now be investigated by an Irish FA Disciplinary Committee.
Garrett scored in the 3-1 victory at Shamrock Park but the Irish FA will rule on whether the midfielder should have been on the pitch at all.
According to the IFA website, Garrett was to serve a one-match ban, effective from Monday, 24 October.
Portadown have insisted the suspension was to commence a week later.
It is understood Ards raised the matter of Garrett's eligibility before Saturday match.
The result at Shamrock Park was Portadown's fourth win of season, meaning they have wiped out the 12-point deduction imposed before the start of the season.
They are now on zero points - just five behind one-from-bottom Carrick Rangers.
The prospect of them having to facing another disciplinary hearing is the last thing Ports fans will want to hear.
If found guilty of playing a suspended player, Portadown's win could be changed to a 3-0 defeat.
Portadown's temporary manager Vinny Arkins said he sought clarification on whether Garrett was available for selection.
"I spoke to the club briefly before the game, regarding the issue of is the player suspended," said Arkins.
"I was told that he was cleared to play and that the suspension wouldn't kick in until the following Monday after it was received.
"So as far as I'm concerned, he was cleared to play.
"Ards did indicate it before the game, but they obviously know more than we do and they are obviously getting their information from someone other than us."
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A Leicester University study found rates were falling across the entire UK, but Scotland was leading the way among the nations.
The rate of stillbirths and deaths of babies within 28 days in Scotland is 4.72 per 1,000 live births.
This compares with a rate of 4.3 in Nordic countries.
Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, and Iceland are generally regarded as having the "gold standard" in terms of neonatal survival rates.
The 2015 rate for the whole of the UK for stillbirths and deaths of babies within 28 days of birth was 5.61 per 1,000 live births - a drop from 6.04 in 2013.
In Scotland the rate has fallen from 5.43 to 4.72 - the lowest of all the UK nations.
Mary Ross-Davie, the Royal College of Midwives Scotland director, said the report was "good news" for Scotland.
She told the BBC that there had been a lot of work focusing on talking to women about smoking during pregnancy and encouraging expectant mothers to monitor foetal movements.
Schemes have also been introduced for midwives and obstetricians to consistently measure the growth of babies and follow up quickly if problems are noted.
"I think in Scotland we really began to focus on this area a little while before the other countries of the UK," she said.
"We set up a national stillbirth group in 2013. We've had the Maternity Care Quality Improvement Collaborative since that time as well and all of those national pieces of work and local pieces of work have meant that we've really been ahead of the game in terms of the rest of the UK in tackling the issue of stillbirth."
Ms Ross-Davie said it was also important to recognise that deprivation was a "key factor" in stillbirth and neonatal death rates.
"There's lots of work that we can still do in Scotland. We have made great strides but we want to continue to reduce the number of stillbirths and neonatal deaths in Scotland," she added.
"We've really looked at Scandinavia in Scotland when we've been seeking to reduce our stillbirth rates here... The key thing there is that it's a much more equal society so there are lower levels of deprivation - and so that's something that we really need to work on in Scotland."
The report's author, Prof Elizabeth Draper, said stillbirth rates had fallen by 8% across the whole of the UK.
"It has been similar in Scotland but the starting point was somewhat lower so the actual stillbirth rate in Scotland is lower than in the rest of the UK," she said.
"Our aim is to try and reduce stillbirths significantly and for all four countries of the UK to to get down to the Nordic levels of stillbirth."
The authorities plan to relax restrictions governing visas for Muslim pilgrims, meaning those travelling to Mecca and Medina will be able to extend their stay and visit non-religious cultural cities and sites.
The tourism industry currently generates about 2.7% of Saudi Arabia's Gross Domestic Product (GDP), with religious tourists making up the largest group of visitors to the kingdom.
The Hajj pilgrimage, which takes place in the 12th month of the Islamic lunar calendar, and lesser Umrah pilgrimages, which can be performed at any time of the year, contribute $12bn annually.
That is projected to rise to more than $20bn within the next four years, according to the Council for Economic and Development Affairs.
The council predicts that the number of religious tourists coming to perform Umrah will grow from eight million this year to 15 million by 2020, and 30 million by 2030.
Until now, pilgrimage visas tightly controlled where and when pilgrims can travel in Saudi Arabia, but officials hope to loosen these restrictions.
"We're working towards pilgrims visiting Saudi antiquities, such as Madain Saleh near Medina, after they have done their religious duties," said Prince Sultan bin Salman, head of the Saudi Commission for Tourism and Heritage.
"But we also have attractions that will encourage tourists to travel much further and to visit other parts of the kingdom."
A vast programme of infrastructure development - including railways linking Mecca, Medina, Jeddah and other large urban centres - is already under way.
Among tourism attractions being prepared are archaeological excavations, including spectacular rock art, that will become open-air museums.
Oxford University professor Michael Petraglia, who heads a team of archaeologists in Saudi Arabia, says there are dozens of such sites - including Jubbah, Shuwaymis and Nejran - which could draw large numbers of visitors.
"There are four Unesco [World Heritage] sites in Saudi Arabia and many others are under consideration," he said.
Mohammed Hafez, a member of the influential Saudi Art Council, said cultural initiatives had untapped potential to boost the economy.
"Our basic aim of educating Saudi Arabians about art has been eclipsed by events.
"Now art plays a part in every project - from Jeddah's new international airport to building tourist programmes around the unique collection of international modern sculpture on Jeddah's corniche," he said.
A recently-announced plan for a Red Sea bridge linking the Kingdom with Egypt could also help boost visitor numbers.
With a market of 90 million Egyptians, the new pilgrimage route would help bring more tourists to Saudi than ever before.
The health service lost a court battle in the summer after arguing responsibility for paying for it should fall to local authorities not the NHS.
Now at least 10,000 people will be given the "Prep" drug in a three-year-long clinical trial.
NHS England says this will help them understand how to offer it more widely.
Pre-exposure prophylaxis or Prep is a daily pill that disables HIV before it gets a stranglehold in the body.
It costs £400 a month per person and trials suggest it can cut the risk of being infected by up to 86%.
NHS England, which fought not to offer the drug, said in a statement there was "strong" evidence that it was effective.
However, it said there were still questions to be answered about how it is used on a wide scale across England.
Its trial on at least 10,000 people will try to figure out how to get the drugs to the right people, how popular it would be and for how long they would take Prep.
Dr Ian Williams, chairman of NHS England's group on HIV, said: "This announcement demonstrates NHS England's commitment to fund Prep and provides the chance to best prepare England for optimal roll-out following this large-scale clinical trial.
"For now, the trial will provide access to Prep for thousands of people most at risk of acquiring HIV."
Men who have sex with men are one of the groups at the highest risk of contracting HIV.
In London, one in eight gay men has HIV, while the proportion in the rest of the UK is one in 26.
Harry Dodd, 25, is one of about 500 homosexual men in England who are taking Prep as part of a trial called Proud.
He says: "I've seen the panic on the face of previous boyfriends when they are awaiting their [HIV test] results - it's a huge fear and it affects everything you do.
"To be able to have sex without having that fear hanging over you all the time is huge."
Harry says taking Prep has still not become socially acceptable.
"Too many people seem to think it will encourage a hedonistic lifestyle, but for me this is about saving lives," he says.
"People reacted with cynicism when the contraceptive pill for women was first introduced.
"For me, taking Prep has helped me to trust again, have relationships and build bridges and that shouldn't be taken away."
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Dr Michael Brady, medical director of the Terrence Higgins Trust, said the evidence on Prep was "overwhelming" but the new trial could help understand how it will work in real life.
He added: "However, we do still need answers to many questions about the trial, in terms of how exactly the trial will work in practice, how those at risk will be able to access Prep, no matter where they live, and what will happen after the trial."
Deborah Gold, chief executive of the National Aids Trust, said: "We are absolutely delighted that following our wins in court, NHS England, working with Public Health England and local government, will be now making Prep available on a large scale, and quickly, to those who need it."
The NHS in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland have not yet made a decision on Prep.
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Vale had come from behind when dangerous substitute Rigino Cicilia fired in on 78 minutes, after Remie Streete had cancelled out Oliver Banks' early second-half opener for the visitors.
Following revelations earlier in the day of the full extent of their off-field difficulties, Oldham had the better of a poor first half in which the home side took a long time to get going.
Right-back Josh Law was a constant threat on the overlap, while Banks' powerful header drew a fine save from Jak Alnwick leaping to his right.
Banks then broke the deadlock just three minutes after the break when his right foot 20-yard free-kick took a wicked deflection off the Vale wall to wrongfoot Alnwick.
But Vale took only three minutes to level when Streete headed home Ryan Taylor's free-kick.
They looked to have won it when Latics keeper Connor Ripley turned away Alex Jones' shot, only for Portuguese midfielder Quentin Pereira to steer the ball back in from the left, allowing fellow sub Cicilia to drill home from 15 yards.
But Winchester eased Oldham's troubles when he struck from close range four minutes into stoppage-time to send Oldham's 148 faithful fans home happy on a freezing night in Burslem.
Match ends, Port Vale 2, Oldham Athletic 2.
Second Half ends, Port Vale 2, Oldham Athletic 2.
Carl Winchester (Oldham Athletic) is shown the yellow card for excessive celebration.
Goal! Port Vale 2, Oldham Athletic 2. Carl Winchester (Oldham Athletic) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Josh Law.
Foul by Billy McKay (Oldham Athletic).
Nathan Smith (Port Vale) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Carl Winchester (Oldham Athletic) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Freddie Ladapo (Oldham Athletic) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Sam Kelly (Port Vale).
Attempt missed. Alex Jones (Port Vale) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left.
Hand ball by Lee Croft (Oldham Athletic).
Lee Erwin (Oldham Athletic) hits the bar with a right footed shot from a difficult angle on the left.
Corner, Oldham Athletic. Conceded by Ryan Taylor.
Substitution, Oldham Athletic. Lee Erwin replaces Ryan McLaughlin.
Substitution, Oldham Athletic. Lee Croft replaces Ryan Flynn.
Corner, Oldham Athletic. Conceded by Kjell Knops.
Corner, Oldham Athletic. Conceded by Ryan Taylor.
Goal! Port Vale 2, Oldham Athletic 1. Rigino Cicilia (Port Vale) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Quentin Pereira.
Corner, Oldham Athletic. Conceded by Nathan Smith.
Attempt missed. Rigino Cicilia (Port Vale) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right.
Corner, Oldham Athletic. Conceded by Remie Streete.
Attempt blocked. Billy McKay (Oldham Athletic) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Substitution, Oldham Athletic. Carl Winchester replaces Ousmane Fane.
Nathan Smith (Port Vale) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Peter Clarke (Oldham Athletic).
Corner, Oldham Athletic. Conceded by Kjell Knops.
Attempt blocked. Oliver Banks (Oldham Athletic) right footed shot from very close range is blocked.
Foul by Nathan Smith (Port Vale).
Billy McKay (Oldham Athletic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Rigino Cicilia (Port Vale) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Cameron Burgess (Oldham Athletic).
Corner, Port Vale. Conceded by Charles Dunne.
Ousmane Fane (Oldham Athletic) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Sam Kelly (Port Vale) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ousmane Fane (Oldham Athletic).
Corner, Port Vale. Conceded by Cameron Burgess.
Remie Streete (Port Vale) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Billy McKay (Oldham Athletic).
Substitution, Port Vale. Rigino Cicilia replaces Martin Paterson.
Foul by Alex Jones (Port Vale).
Lauri Love, 28, of Stradishall, Suffolk, is accused of breaking into US Federal Reserve computers and was arrested in Britain in October.
His lawyers said they wanted him charged here rather than in the US but the UK's National Crime Agency has released him from bail without charge.
His legal team has said it would oppose any extradition request.
A report from the US Department of Energy said personal information on 104,000 people had been taken and the estimated fallout costs were $3.7m (£2.2m), which included the cost of setting up a call centre to deal with people who were affected.
Mr Love had been on police bail in the UK since his arrest on suspicion of offences contrary to the UK's Computer Misuse Act 1990, which covers people launching attacks from within the UK against computers anywhere in the world.
A Crown Prosecution Service spokesman said: "The CPS provided investigative advice on the available evidence. The NCA then made the decision to release the man from bail."
After his arrest in the UK, Mr Love was charged by US authorities.
It is claimed the offences date from October 2012 to February 2013, when Mr Love allegedly tried to secretly infiltrate the New York Federal Reserve Bank's computer servers in order to steal non-public information and then post that information on certain websites.
He allegedly worked with "other hackers around the world to gain access".
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said he could face up to 12 years in prison if convicted in the United States.
Karen Todner, Mr Love's solicitor, told the BBC that though he had been released from bail it was still possible he could face prosecution in the UK.
The body of the 95-year-old woman was found at an address in Doncaster Lane, Penkhull, Stoke-on-Trent at about 20:00 BST on Thursday night.
A post-mortem examination is expected to take place on Saturday, police said.
Staffordshire Police said they were not looking for anyone else in connection with the death.
Thomas Cook flight TCX3876 from Glasgow to Dalaman arrived at Gatwick, after an on-board incident, at about 11:15.
Sussex Police boarded the plane at 11:45 and arrested a 34-year-old man. Two women with him were not detained.
There were no reports of injuries or damage. Thomas Cook said the plane remained at Gatwick until 13:05.
A statement from Gatwick Airport read: "Gatwick Airport can confirm that a flight was diverted to the airport and two individuals were removed from the flight.
"The matter is now being dealt with by Sussex Police."
A spokesperson for Thomas Cook Airlines said: "We have a zero tolerance policy towards any behaviour on-board affecting the safety and welfare of our crew and customers.
"We'd like to thank those on board for the patience during the delay to their flight to Turkey."
The visitors took the lead when Paul Caddis' cross took a deflection and reached Jon Toral who turned it home.
Charlton equalised six minutes later through Johann Berg Gudmundsson whose shot bounced off Paul Robinson and in.
The hosts sealed all three points in added time when Teixeira rose to meet Ademola Lookman's corner.
Teixeira's goal was his second in his last three matches for Charlton, who remain next to bottom of the Championship table and six points from safety despite the victory.
Birmingham's outside hopes of making a late charge into the play-off places looks unlikely as they stay ninth in the table, eight points below sixth-placed Derby County.
The match was delayed by four minutes when Charlton fans threw hundreds of small sponge footballs on to the pitch seconds into the match and chanted against owner Roland Duchatelet.
Addicks supporters carried out a similar protest at their 2-0 win against Middlesbrough on 13 March when a number of beach balls were thrown onto the playing surface.
Charlton head coach Jose Riga:
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"I know that there are two stories from today's game and I want only to be involved in the sporting one, but we really felt that the fans were pushing us today for the whole 90 minutes.
"When you show your passion sweating for the club and fighting for the club, English fans will be behind you.
"We cannot master the other results and we can't expect help from the other teams, but today I just want to share my happiness with the players and the crowd.
"We knew from Birmingham's results that all of their games are very close, but at the end I think we deserved the win today."
Birmingham manager Gary Rowett:
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"It was a hugely frustrating afternoon to lose right at the end, but that was the state of the game.
"Both teams were doing everything they could to try and get a winner. They had breakaways, we had lots of breakaways in the second half and really should have made more of them.
"I would rather concede a counter-attack than from a corner when everyone is back and two or three players were stood watching while their player heads it in. That was particularly galling but a point wouldn't have been a lot of good for us either.
"We've got a hell of a lot to do to make the play-offs now, but I have a really honest bunch of players here so I can't be too disappointed with them."
Ruby Rai, 17, ranked first in the Bihar state exams - but said in a video interview that her main subject political science was about cooking.
After the video went viral, Ms Rai was made to re-sit her exams, and was arrested after she failed and had her original results cancelled.
She was produced in court on Sunday where a magistrate sent her to jail until 8 July.
The decision to send her to prison has been criticised given that she is a minor and should, therefore, be sent to a detention home for juveniles.
The Hindu newspaper quoted Senior Superintendent of Police Manu Maharaj as saying that Ms Rai would have to "prove" that she was a minor. He did not specify how.
One state minister told reporters that authorities needed to make the system accountable instead of punishing students.
Meanwhile, arrest warrants have been issued for several other students who performed well in the exams, including Saurabh Shrestha who topped the science stream, but later could not say that H2O was water.
The AFP news agency quoted police as saying that another 18 people had been arrested.
Examiners who retested Ms Rai told reporters they were "shocked" by her performance. When asked to write an essay about the Indian poet Tulsidas, she only wrote "Tulsidas ji pranam (Salutations to Tulsidas)".
Last year, parents of students in the state were photographed climbing school walls to pass on answers.
The embarrassed state government had announced tough measures like fines and jail terms, intended to curb cheating this year.
The markedly lower pass rate seen in the results announced last month was taken as an indication that the steps had worked.
That is, of course, until the footage of Ms Rai's interview was aired.
The executions took place in Besi prison on the island of Nusakambangan early on Wednesday morning local time.
However, the execution of a ninth convict, a woman from the Philippines, was postponed at the last minute.
Among those killed were Australians Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran. Australia has withdrawn its ambassador in response.
The Australian Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, called the pair's executions "cruel and unnecessary".
He said Australia respected Indonesia's sovereignty but added, "this cannot be simply business as usual".
Those put to death also include Nigerian nationals, a Brazilian and an Indonesian.
Filipina woman Mary Jane Fiesta Veloso was also due to be executed, but this was delayed after a request by the Philippine president, a spokesman from the attorney general's office told the BBC.
The request came after someone suspected of framing Veloso to carry heroin into Indonesia surrendered to police in the Philippines, the spokesman went on.
Indonesia would give Veloso the chance to testify as a witness in the trial in the Philippines, the spokesman said.
Her mother described the last minute reprieve as a "miracle".
"We are so happy, I can't believe it. I can't believe my child will live," Celia Veloso told Philippine radio station DZMM.
A Frenchman also convicted of drug offences, Serge Areski Atlaoui, has also been sentenced to death but has an appeal outstanding.
Amnesty International described the executions as "utterly reprehensible".
"The execution of eight people in Indonesia today shows complete disregard for due process and human rights safeguards," it said in a statement.
Earlier, the eight prisoners were allowed to spend their final moments with their families.
Relatives of Chan and Sukumaran were visibly distressed and Sukumaran's sister collapsed and had to be carried to the prison.
Australia had urged Indonesia to delay the execution of its two nationals until a corruption investigation into their case was complete.
Chan and Sukumaran, along with seven other Australians, were arrested in Bali in 2005 for trying to smuggle more than 18lb (8.2kg) of heroin from Indonesia to Australia.
The pair were later found to be the ringleaders of the group and sentenced to death. The other seven members of the "Bali Nine" are currently serving either life or 20 years in prison.
Indonesia has some of the toughest drug laws in the world and ended a four-year moratorium on executions in 2013.
It says it takes a hard line because of the country's own drugs problem - 33 Indonesians die every day as a result of drugs, according to Indonesia's National Narcotics Agency.
Batsmen Joe Root and Alex Hales are rested for the game, which will take place at the Rose Bowl on 5 July.
Wicketkeeper-batsman Jonny Bairstow is included in the one-day international squad, which contains no new faces.
The five-match ODI series begins at Trent Bridge on 21 June and concludes in Cardiff on 2 July.
Sussex's Mills - who has been restricted to T20 cricket for the past year by a congenital back condition - is a fast bowler capable of bowling in excess of 90mph, while Middlesex batsman Malan has impressed for England Lions.
England coach Trevor Bayliss said he liked the "pace and unpredictability" of Mills.
Hampshire's Dawson, who bowls slow left-arm, was a surprise inclusion in England's World T20 squad earlier this year but did not play.
Test bowling spearheads James Anderson and Stuart Broad have not been selected for either squad despite indicating their availability.
England ODI squad: Morgan (Middlesex, c), Bairstow (Yorkshire), Buttler (Lancashire), Finn (Middlesex), Hales (Nottinghamshire), Jordan (Sussex), Moeen (Worcestershire), Plunkett (Yorkshire), Rashid (Yorkshire), Root (Yorkshire), Roy (Surrey), Vince (Hampshire), Willey (Yorkshire), Woakes (Warwickshire).
England Twenty20 squad: Morgan (c), Bairstow, Billings (Kent), Buttler, Dawson (Hampshire), Malan (Middlesex), Mills (Sussex), Plunkett, Rashid, Roy, Vince, Willey.
City of York Council has approved the development of a business plan for what it calls a community benefit society to run the city's 13 libraries.
Unison said it opposed the use of social enterprise schemes in public services and staff were concerned.
The council said staff would be fully involved in the scheme's development.
The Labour-run authority is cutting £250,000 from the library services budget in 2013-14 and said looking at options for sustaining the service in the future was essential.
Fiona Williams, head of City of York Council's library service, said: "In these difficult times we would be remiss if we weren't looking at lots of differing options for how we provide services.
"We've looked at it [community benefit society] and we believe it may offer some advantages."
The council would still fund the service through an annual fixed grant but as a social enterprise with charitable status, it would be able to attract other sources of funding, said the authority.
Andrea Dudding, general convenor for Unison in York, said it was not clear what type of grants the service might be able to access.
"We are opposed to social enterprises in public services in principle.
"Libraries are a statutory service and have to be comprehensive and efficient and outsourcing means the council has no control," she said.
She added: "Staff are very upset and angry and haven't been consulted about it."
The council said it had been talking to staff about the idea of a social enterprise for over a year and more talks would be held as the business plan was developed.
Police had been called to the junction between Tottenham Green and Tynemouth Road at 17:15 BST over reports of several youths fighting with weapons.
They found the boy, who is believed to be aged 17, with critical knife injuries. He was treated by paramedics but died at the scene.
Scotland Yard said officers were in the process of informing next of kin and have appealed for witnesses.
A spokesperson added the murder is not being linked to terrorism.
The lawsuit concerns Shredz, a snack made from fruit juice concentrate and pastes.
Heinz, which denies the allegations, says the bars have "a similar nutrition profile to sultanas".
But the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) says they should be treated like confectionery.
It claims the snack, aimed at toddlers, contains more than 60% sugar.
The product is no longer on the market, but came in three flavours - "peach apple and veg", "berries apple and veg", and "strawberry and apple with chia seeds".
The packaging stated it was "99% fruit and veg" and featured a selection of fruits prominently on the front.
The ACCC's lawyer, Tom Duggan, told the Federal Court in Adelaide that the "berries, apple and veg" Shredz had up to 68.7 grams of sugar per 100 grams.
Nutritionist Rosemary Stanton, who helped draw up Australia's dietary guidelines, said the bars were more akin to sweets than fruit or vegetables.
"Confectionery with added vitamins is still confectionery," she said.
She added that while the product did contain some dietary fibre as well as assorted vitamins, the same is true of many unhealthy foods.
"Sure, there are some positive nutrients in there, just as there are positive nutrients in a Big Mac," she said.
The nutritionist advised that Shredz, in her opinion, should be categorised as an occasional treat.
The food company strongly denies the allegations of false marketing.
In a statement, Heinz rejected the ACCC's claims about the bars' packaging.
"The Shredz products were snack foods available in small individually-packaged serves appropriate for children aged one to three," it said.
"The Shredz products had a similar nutrition profile to dried apple or sultanas.
"Heinz stands behind the Shredz products and their packaging."
The legal action was launched in June 2016 after a complaint about toddlers' foodstuffs by campaign group the Obesity Policy Coalition.
The ACCC is seeking financial penalties, corrective notices and costs from Heinz.
The case arose when 13 vessels from King's Lynn allegedly trespassed into a private fishery to gather cockles off the Norfolk coast in 2007.
They argued the sandbanks in question had not become part of the fishery.
The Supreme Court ruled in their favour but dismissed their argument over another boundary in the area.
The judgement overturns previous rulings by the High Court and Court of Appeal that the silting-up of channels meant the sandbanks were now connected, at low tide, to a fishery leased by John Loose.
He claimed his rights had been infringed by the appellants, named in the judgement as Lynn Shellfish Ltd and Others.
The ruling said the estate's right to fish did not extend to the sandbanks, which attach to the foreshore, as and when they become attached.
Evidence seen by the courts included charts and maps, some dating back to 1588.
The courts also heard the public had exercised its right to gather shellfish at the sandbanks for centuries.
Lord Neuberger, sitting with four other law lords, said they dismissed the fishermen's appeal relating to the seaward, western boundary of the area.
He added the case could return to the High Court for a precise area to be mapped out if the two parties could not agree on a defined zone for fishing.
It is not yet clear where the troops will be drawn from or where they will be based, though Turkey, Qatar and Saudi Arabia have offered to host them.
The US aims to train more than 5,000 rebels annually for three years.
It marks an expansion in the US training of Syrian rebels which began in March 2013 in Jordan.
This covert programme was led by the CIA. In October 2014 it was announced that the project would be escalated and a parallel Pentagon programme established.
The latest announcement comes days after senior US officials met Syrian opposition leaders in Istanbul, Turkey.
The US hopes that by training the rebels, they will be more effective in the fight against IS militants.
Across the border in Iraq, the US has sent more than 3,000 troops to train Iraqi and Kurdish forces.
Critics of the training mission say it is too small and too slow to be effective against IS. The CIA estimates that the group may have as many as 31,500 fighters.
There are also concerns that the US may end up training rebels linked to other extremist groups such as the al-Qaeda affiliate the Nusra Front.
The US has been carrying out air strikes against IS in Iraq and Syria since August as part of an international coalition to "degrade and destroy" the group.
The Swedish furniture retailer has stopped selling the drawers in the US and Canada after they toppled over and crushed the children.
Initially, Ikea warned customers to use wall mounts with them, but a third death in February prompted the recall.
The recall does not apply to the UK and Ireland.
The units being withdrawn are children's chests of drawers higher than 23.5 inches (60 cm) and adult chests of drawers and dressers above 29.5 inches.
In addition to the three deaths since 2014, Ikea had received reports of 41 tip-over incidents involving the Malm chests and dressers, resulting in 17 injuries to children between the ages of 19 months and 10 years old, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) said.
Ikea said that anyone who owns one of the pieces of furniture, and has not attached it to a wall, should take it out of the reach of children.
Consumers can choose between a refund or a free wall-anchoring repair kit.
The deaths caused by the toppling furniture prompted the CPSC to launch an education campaign to promote awareness of the problem across the industry.
Ikea said that it would help to promote the campaign in the US and around the world.
"With the Secure it! campaign, launched globally in stores and on Ikea's website, Ikea urges customers to inspect their chests of drawers and dressers to ensure that they are securely anchored to the wall according to assembly instructions," Ikea said in a statement.
The chairman of the CPSC Elliot Kaye added: "Today's announcement is not the end of our work on this hazard, nor should it be for the furniture industry.
"Ikea has several promising ideas to prevent injuries."
The four, and Switzerland's UBS, which pleaded guilty to a different charge, agreed to pay $5.7bn (£3.6bn) in fines.
It is rare for a company to be found guilty of criminal behaviour. For some bank watchers this move represents a problem for regulators: aside from more fines, little else has changed, and they may have just played their best card.
Two years ago, the then US Attorney General Eric Holder opined that criminal charges against large banks could threaten the global economy. But now?
"Now it's a non-event. We have trivialised the criminal penalties, so I don't know what's left," says Cornelius Hurley, director of the Boston University Centre for Finance, Law & Policy.
"It used to be that the fear of a criminal penalty was you might lose your banking licence. That it would be a death knell. That's been removed - nobody has lost their licence," he adds. "Somehow there has to be a fear factor."
Getting banks that have admitted criminal behaviour to change their ways is now a task for their clients, who may want to review who changes money for them, he says.
"Why continue doing business with a bank that's just pleaded guilty to a crime and tried to screw you?"
While a larger punishment than a criminal penalty is difficult to conceive of, there are other tricks up the sleeves of the authorities.
For Prof Simon Johnson, of the MIT Sloan School of Management and previously chief economist at the IMF, the next step regulators could take is an anti-competition probe.
"The key thing here is market power," he says. "The people fixing foreign exchange called themselves 'the cartel'. Cartels only operate when there's a relatively small number of players, so I think that there are major anti-trust issues here.
"The banks claim there were only a few rogue individuals but the rogue individuals only had the ability to do it because there is implicit market power in the concentration of the foreign exchange market."
Outside of finance the usual remedy is breaking a company up, says Prof Johnson. Regulators may be worried about the impact of breaking up banks, but there is historical precedent, he adds.
"With the breakup of Standard Oil in the early 20th century; there were plenty of complaints about pricing power, so it was broken up and the market became a lot more competitive."
Standard's 33 constituent companies went on to be very profitable and made John D Rockefeller the richest man in the world.
"It was good for the country and good for the shareholders and that's how I would see what would happen with the big banks," says Prof Johnson.
Holding regulators back could be the financial success they are enjoying with their current model.
"Whether anything has been achieved other than subsidising the US government is open to question," says Mike Koehler, expert on anti-corruption law at Southern Illinois University.
"They have great difficulty in proving criminal charges against individuals, but they can extract multibillion dollar settlements against companies."
But that is something they should be looking to do, says Prof Johnson. "I think the most important thing is criminal prosecution where you prosecute individuals."
His view is shared by Prof Anat Admati of Stanford Graduate School of Business and author of the book The Bankers' New Clothes.
"How can we be assured that this behaviour won't repeat? Criminal sanctions sometimes means people go to jail, but that cannot happen for a corporation, so we must wonder about the deterrent effect of the punishment," she says.
"It would be important to go for the top of the corporation, similar to how Bob Diamond at Barclays in the UK was forced out when the Libor scandal broke out in 2012.
"There was pervasive manipulation. And who at the top knew or should have known and put in the controls to prevent it?"
"I would hope they go up the chain higher up these organisations - for me that's the key. If managers claim they didn't know what's going on in their banks that should not be an appropriate defence," she says.
For the banks, the next thing to think about is the civil lawsuits clients are already filing, says Boston University's Prof Hurley.
It is difficult to prove whether clients lost out or gained on currency transactions, but once a company has agreed it's guilty of criminal behaviour, the hardest part is over, he says.
"If you already have a guilty plea, the rest becomes a whole lot easier."
"Coming up with a number is difficult but you hire forensic experts," he says. "You determine responsibility first and damages second. Responsibility is usually the hard part.
"Just because you can't prove the number doesn't mean it goes away," he says. An agreement could be made, just as an agreement is made in any other legal action for damages such as wrongful dismissal, he adds.
In the meantime, admission of crime will be a difficult thing for banks to wear, says Prof Hurley.
"Banking is built on trust. Take away the trust you have virtually nothing left. To be criminal and say trust me - it's very difficult to get the words out."
Source: CCP Research Foundation's Conduct Cost Project
*2014 figures are provisional only
Wrexham is the most expensive place for a burial with fees topping £4,000, while Pontypridd, Rhondda Cynon Taff is the cheapest at £3,269.
Aberdare, Rhondda Cynon Taff is the most expensive place for a cremation, costing an average of £3,353.
A cremation in Cardiff is the cheapest in Wales costing an average of £3,144.
A basic funeral includes collection and care of the deceased, a basic coffin, a hearse, a simple service and a burial or cremation.
Additional items like flowers, funeral cars and ministerial fees are not included.
Wales has seen a rise of 5.2% - the biggest in the UK. In Scotland the average cost rose by just 2.4%
The Royal London National Funeral Cost Index figures are only available for towns and cities where both cremations and burials are available.
Simon Cox, a funeral cost expert at Royal London, said: "The rising cost of an average UK funeral is very concerning. It has outstripped inflation considerably for many years - almost in line with house price rises, which as we know continue to rise rapidly as demand outstrips supply."
He added: "The UK funeral system still displays fundamental failings, which we reported last year. Vulnerable bereaved people are taking on increased debt; and we predict this problem will worsen if steps are not taken to tackle the many, persistent causes driving up the cost of funerals."
The 25-year-old won in 2:00.30 in Boston and, subject to ratification, will now be Scotland's national indoor and outdoor record holder.
The Commonwealth Games silver medallist finished ahead of Americans Anima Banks and Annette Melcher to beat Laura Muir's previous record of 2:00.94.
Sharp moves up to fifth on the British indoor all-time list.
Jenny Meadows holds the best time of 1:58.43, set in the World Championships in Doha in 2010.
Sharp's best outdoor time of 1:57.71 came in Berlin last year.
Thistle failed to register a victory in their first 10 matches this season but certainly did not look short of confidence against St Johnstone.
Steven MacLean pulled one back from close range after the break.
But the Jags held on despite seeing out the dying stages with 10 men after captain Abul Osman was sent off.
Thistle looked like they could not buy a goal for most of this season and now it looks like they cannot stop scoring them.
A 3-0 win over Dundee United last time out actually doubled their tally for the season and brought a first win in 11 attempts.
The confidence gained from that result and performance was evident as the Jags played some attractive football and looked the more dangerous side for long spells.
That in itself was quite an achievement against a St Johnstone side in a rich vein of form coming into the match with the boost of manager Tommy Wright committing his long-term future to the club.
They initially looked a pale shadow of the side that took Aberdeen apart last time out, but the credit for that has to go to Alan Archibald's players in general and Miller in particular.
The full-back was handed a chance to face his former club because Mustapha Dumbuya was laid low by illness and he certainly made the most of the opportunity.
His use of the ball was excellent going forward and never better than when he blasted his team into the lead in 28 minutes with a belter of a volley from 25 yards.
Saints probably feared as much when they saw his name on the team sheet, but it was still a stunning strike from someone who only scored once in three years at Perth.
Not that we had to wait for another marvellous goal as the lively Lawless lashed in a second from distance only six minutes later as reward for a fine first-half performance.
In response, the home side passed up a couple of half chances, while goalkeeper Tomas Cerny had to move sharply to push away a Dave MacKay curling free kick. That apart, Thistle defended diligently.
Until 49 minutes that is, when they allowed MacLean the freedom of the six-yard box to head in a Graham Cummins cross from the left for his ninth goal of the season.
Michael O'Halloran's introduction at the interval had certainly helped increase the home side's intensity and only a great Tomas Cerny save denied Liam Craig an equaliser.
Cummins then had a chance with a back-post header with nine minutes to go, but Cerny scurried across his goal to claw the ball away.
Miller then made a crucial tackle to deny MacLean a second goal after the striker had already rounded Cerny.
Osman was sent off for a second yellow card, having been cautioned for a foul in 66 minutes then walking after being booked for deliberate hand ball at the edge of the penalty area.
He now misses next week's visit from Hamilton Academical, when Archibald's side will look to continue their revival with a third straight league win.
Junior minister of home affairs Kiren Rijiju said "guidelines are under preparation in consultation with various ministries".
The move comes amid widespread demands for tougher action on sexual violence, more than three years since the fatal rape of a student in Delhi.
The incident led to protests and the introduction of tough anti-rape laws.
However, brutal sexual attacks against women and children continue to be reported from across the country.
The planned register includes a wide range of details about convicted sex offenders, including names, addresses, telephone numbers and current photographs.
Relevant crimes range from stalking and voyeurism to rape and aggravated sexual assault. Child offenders will also be included.
"It will instil fear in the minds of repeat sexual offenders and the public would be benefited from it," another junior minister for home affairs Haribhai Parthibhai Chaudhury said.
Officials say the plans are at an early stage and will be offered for public consultation.
3 March 2017 Last updated at 14:42 GMT
The attack in Melton Mowbray on Wednesday afternoon was caught on CCTV.
Police said the man fled with "a quantity" of cash from the shop to a car parked nearby.
The woman, who worked at the shop, was treated in hospital for a cut to her head.
Officers said the attack could be linked to a similar attempted robbery shortly before.
Stephen Anthony Hough, 58, is on trial for the rape and murder of 15-year-old Janet Commins in Flint in 1976.
He denies the charges, which include sexual assault and manslaughter.
Forensic scientist Alexander Peet told Mold Crown Court swabs taken from her body matched Mr Hough's DNA profile.
Mr Peet, who works for DNA testing service Cellmark, said in at least one of the samples tested, he believed the DNA originated from sperm cells.
The court heard DNA assumed to belong to Janet was also detected in one test.
In another, there were "low level" indications of a third contributor, but it was not possible to determine their origin.
Mr Peet said that reading could be "an artefact of the DNA process itself," or could be down to "tiny fragments" of DNA being introduced in the collection process.
Cross-examining Mr Peet, Patrick Harrington QC said the defence did "not dispute any of the scientific observations you make", but said there was a "paramount" need for integrity and continuity when it comes to the source of the material.
He added this was a "very unusual case and it may even be a unique case".
The court also heard evidence from Dr Christopher Lloyd, who carried out further testing after his colleague Mr Peet.
Dr Lloyd concentrated on Y-STR profiling, which focuses on the Y (male) chromosome.
He said his findings "are as I would expect if Stephen Hough had been involved in sexual activity with Janet Commins".
Although there was a very "low-level", unconfirmed result in one swab that might indicate the presence of another male, Dr Lloyd said it had "not provided any evidence" that more than one male was involved in sexual activity with Janet.
He added that, as the Y chromosome is passed on by fathers, a closely-related male on Stephen Hough's paternal line, would have a similar Y-STR profile.
Janet's body was found in a field on 11 January 1976.
One man has already served a sentence after admitting Janet's manslaughter, but he said he did not kill her.
The trial continues.
The 24-year-old made 21 league and cup appearances for Rochdale last season.
"We fought very hard to get this one done. He's played in midfield so he's very combative, but we feel right-back is his best position," boss Adam Murray told the club website.
Bennett is Mansfield's fifth summer signing following Danny Rose, George Taft, Ashley Hemmings and CJ Hamilton.
The length of his contract has not been disclosed, and the deal will be completed on 1 July.
Kenney Bui, 17, suffered internal bleeding during a game on Friday night and spent the weekend in hospital.
Susan Enfield, the head of the school district, called the event "a devastating loss" on Monday.
Bui is the fourth US high school football player to die in the last month, raising questions about the safety of the sport.
Catherine Carbone Rogers, a spokeswoman for the school district, said that coaches are trained to recognise and cope with medical emergencies including concussions.
"All of our coaches are certified in concussion recognition and prevention, CPR and sudden cardiac arrest," she said.
The teenager had just started his final year at Technology and Communications High School in Seattle, Washington.
He was tackled in the fourth quarter of the game and taken by ambulance to hospital. The remainder of the game was cancelled.
The school placed a tribute on its website, notifying the community about the tragic events.
"Our deepest condolences go out to Kenney's family and all who knew him," the site read.
In the last month, three other US high school students have died of injuries suffered during American football games - Tyrell Cameron in Louisiana, Ben Hamm in Oklahoma and Evan Murray in New Jersey.
Deaths and serious injuries have continued despite attempts to improve helmet safety at all levels of the sport over the last few years.
Concerns about players' safety and the long-term effect of head trauma sustained while playing have been raised in the professional league as well.
In the first the rebels killed five soldiers in an army patrol in the south-west of the country.
Later a baby and her parents died after home-made mortars were fired at a police station in Puerto Rico in Caqueta state, also in the south.
The mortars missed their target, hitting the family's house.
The government said a sergeant and four other soldiers died in the attack against the patrol.
Earlier this month one of the Farc rebel leaders, Ivan Marquez, said the group remained ready for battle, despite earlier suggestions that it was ready for talks with the government.
The Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said last month that recent military strikes had weakened the guerrilla movement.
More than 60 rebels were killed in attacks in eastern Meta and Arauca province in March.
The attacks were part of a new strategy by the security forces aimed at eliminating the rebels' regional commanders and hitting their logistics and supplies.
President Santos had ordered the new strategy after the killing over the past two years of the rebels' top two commanders, Mono Jojoy and Alfonso Cano.
Bertrand, 26, joined Saints from Chelsea for £10m in February 2015 following an initial loan spell.
The left-back has won nine caps for England, most recently against Slovakia in the group stage at Euro 2016.
Bertrand joins team-mates Virgil van Dijk, Fraser Forster, James Ward-Prowse and Steven Davis in agreeing a new deal with Southampton this summer.
Maria von Trapp died at her home in Vermont on Tuesday, her brother, Johannes von Trapp, told the Associated Press.
He said she was a "lovely woman who was one of the few truly good people".
Von Trapp and her family fled Nazi-occupied Austria in 1938 and ended up performing around the US.
Their story eventually inspired the 1959 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, The Sound of Music, and subsequent 1965 hit film.
It tells the tale of a young woman who leaves an Austrian convent to become a governess to the seven children of a naval officer widower, Georg von Trapp.
Maria von Trapp was the second-oldest daughter of Capt von Trapp - with his first wife - and was portrayed as Louisa in the musical.
Her family moved to the US state of Vermont in 1942 after visiting during a singing tour, and later opened a lodge in the town of Stowe, which they still operate.
Writing in a blog post on the lodge's website, von Trapp described how it was her ill health as a child that led her father to employ a governess to teach her and her siblings.
"She came to us as my teacher and after three years became our second mother," she said.
Marianne Dorfer, a family friend who runs the von Trapp Villa Hotel in Salzburg told the Austrian Times that von Trapp had suffered from a weak heart since childhood.
Ms Dorfer said it was because of Maria's ill heath that her father decided to hire a governess. "That of course then led to one of the most remarkable musical partnerships of the last century," she added
The Sound of Music was based loosely on a 1949 book by the governess, who became Capt von Trapp's second wife and died in 1987.
The fungus, which dates back 440 million years, spent its life under the ground rotting down matter.
Even the scientist who analysed it - Dr Martin Smith - admits it is a ''humble little fungus''.
But the pioneer, known as Tortotubus, could help explain how early life colonised the rocky barren Earth.
Most scientists agree that life moved from the sea to the land between 500 and 450 million years ago.
But in order for plants and animals to gain a foothold on terra firma there needed to be nutrients and soil to support them.
Fungi kick-started this process, by getting nitrogen and oxygen into the rudimentary soil.
Dr Smith says there were probably bacteria and algae already on land - but these are rarely preserved in the fossil record.
This makes Tortotubus probably the oldest fossil of a land-dwelling organism yet to be found.
Dr Smith told BBC News: ''It's the first fossil of an organism that only lived on land.
''It would have broken down dead, decayed material - essentially rotted it.''
The fossilised fungus has been found in many locations, including Sweden and Scotland.
Each microfossil is shorter than a human hair is wide and has a rope-like structure similar to that of some modern-day fungi.
Scientists think that early fungi contributed to soil formation and the rotting process, thereby paving the way for flowering plants and trees, then animals.
''During the period when this organism existed, life was almost entirely restricted to the oceans: nothing more complex than simple mossy and lichen-like plants had yet evolved on the land,'' said Dr Smith, who carried out the research at the University of Cambridge but is now based at Durham University.
''But before there could be flowering plants or trees, or the animals that depend on them, the processes of rot and soil formation needed to be established.''
The research is published in the Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society.
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Jet2 said the group caused problems on a flight from Newcastle to Tenerife on Saturday.
The firm has banned three people for a year and is refusing to fly another three home from the holiday island.
A spokeswoman said the group had been drinking "illicit alcohol", which refers to alcohol bought before they boarded the plane.
The company said: "This group were rude and aggressive to our cabin crew after drinking illicit alcohol, and they should be in no doubt that the consequences of such behaviour will not be accepted.
"We want our customers to have an enjoyable flight experience without the actions of a disruptive few spoiling it and we will take all necessary action to stamp it out."
The company is asking for duty free spirits sold at airports to be sealed in bags amid calls for the government to review the issue.
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The sum is more than double the £72,000 figure the cap will be set at when it comes into force in 2016.
That is because extra costs, such as the fees for accommodation, do not count towards the cap.
Labour said the public was being conned, but ministers said they had been clear about what the cap covered.
The research also suggested that the majority of people - six out of seven - who end up in a home will die before they hit the cap.
That is because the average length of stay in a care home is just over two years whereas it will take five years for most to reach the cap.
The £150,000 figure is based on how much a person would pay if so-called hotel costs, which include accommodation, food and bills, are factored in.
This will be set at £12,000 a year to start with.
It also includes the higher costs individuals face when purchasing care home places compared with the price councils get, which is what will count towards the cap.
As councils buy places in bulk, they are able to get cheaper deals.
Figures from analysts Laing and Buisson suggest the gap is about £90 a week.
According to the Labour analysis, that would mean individuals paying £610 a week for a care home place but only £292 counting towards the cap.
Labour itself is not proposing to cover accommodation costs, but said it was highlighting the figures because the government was not being "straight" with the public.
Shadow care minister Liz Kendall said: "Families deserve to be told the facts rather than being conned so they can properly plan for the future and not have the government attempt to pull the wool over their eyes."
Caroline Abrahams, of Age UK, said: "Many older people and their families who have assumed they will benefit from the social care reforms will be shocked and disappointed to find they may not receive much help.
"It is crucial that the public understands what costs are included under the cap and the impact the proposals will have."
Ministers said they had always been upfront about the accommodation costs and said one of the aims of the cap was to encourage the insurance industry to develop policies for old age that could cover much more of the fees.
They also pointed out that once a person's assets - including house and savings - started to drop below £118,000 the state would start contributing towards the cost of care which would mean those people would not have to pay the full amount towards the cap anyway.
This has been incorporated into the policy to protect the less well-off. What is more, they are also looking at allowing individuals to purchase care home places through their local authority to allow them to benefit from the lower rates.
A Department of Health spokeswoman added: "The government is introducing the first ever cap on care costs so that people no longer have to live in fear of unlimited care costs.
"Our changes will help hundreds of thousands and give peace of mind to many more."
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Elderly people face paying £150,000 for residential care before they hit the cap on care costs in England, an analysis by Labour suggests.
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Ifor ap Glyn, who writes in Welsh, takes over from Gillian Clarke, who has held the post since 2008.
While the job does not carry a salary, the national poet is expected to compose new works in response to significant national events.
The Caernarfon-based poet was unveiled as Wales' fourth national poet in March.
Mr ap Glyn's first engagement was a joint reading with Ms Clarke.
He sees the job as an "ambassadorial role" and has promised to bring his own distinctive style to it.
"Obviously I write in Welsh so there's a challenge to get people who read Welsh to engage with poetry," he said.
"Then there's a challenge of getting stuff over into other languages, because it's important that the national poet represents all languages of Wales."
Ms Clarke said she would continue to champion poetry for the young and for the masses.
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The new national poet of Wales has officially started work after a formal handover at the Hay Festival.
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If approved, the figure would stand approximately 210ft (64m) high on land at Chirk Park.
The Frank Wingett Cancer Appeal is behind the idea and the charity claims the dragon and visitor centre could raise £1m a year and create 70 jobs.
The application will go out to public consultation and it is hoped a decision will be made by autumn 2010.
Wrexham council is in the process of considering transferring land it owns to allow the dragon to be built.
Chief planning officer Lawrence Isted said: "The application will now go out to formal public consultation for one month and depending on the outcome of that consultation it will be reported to planning committee for decision in the Autumn."
The 25m (82ft) bronze dragon sculpture would top a new 40m (131ft) building in Wrexham with a visitor centre.
Council leader Aled Roberts has previously said he believes the sculpture would "strengthen and develop" tourism.
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The attack, in December 1971, was carried out by the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF). One man was convicted of all 15 murders in 1978.
Police are treating the attack on the memorial as a hate crime.
Sinn Féin councillor JJ Magee said it was "disgusting" and "an insult to all those who were killed and injured" in the bombing.
SDLP North Belfast assembly member Alban Maginness described it as "deplorable".
"I am disgusted and appalled at this deplorable attack on the McGurk's Bar memorial," he said.
Ulster Unionist Andy Allen said: "Those responsible for this attack really need to consider their actions, their impact on north Belfast and to desist from such activities immediately."
John Docherty, 51, from Dunoon, Argyll, was convicted in June 2014 and jailed for a minimum term of 21 years.
Judges have also rejected an appeal that the minimum term was excessive.
The body of 16-year-old Elaine was found in a lane close to her parents' flat in Greenock in 1986. Docherty's DNA was later identified on her body.
Rejecting Docherty's appeal, Scotland's senior judge, the Lord Justice General, Lord Carloway, said: "This was a compelling circumstantial case and the appeal against conviction is refused.
"This was a murder of an innocent 16-year-old girl making her way home along the public streets after a night out in central Greenock. It is a crime of rare callousness and brutality.
"As the trial judge records, it caused widespread public revulsion and anxiety and terrible anguish for the deceased's family over many years."
Lord Carloway added: "Although the fact that the appellant was in his early 20s when he committed the crime, and is now 51, is a matter to be taken into account, a significant punishment part was inevitable notwithstanding the appellant's unblemished record since joining the army in the year after the crime."
The former soldier was arrested in 2012 following a cold case review and found guilty of murdering Elaine as she walked home from a disco in Greenock's Celtic Supporters' Club.
Detectives arrested Docherty, of Dunoon, Argyll, after his DNA was found on sticky tape used in 1986 to lift hairs and fibres off Elaine's body,
The techniques required to match DNA were not available at the time of Elaine's death but cold case detectives reviewed thousands of statements and discovered Docherty had not been questioned after the murder.
When he was asked for a DNA sample, Docherty agreed and appeared "stunned" when he was later charged with Elaine's murder.
During his trial, it emerged Docherty, then 21, and a friend, had been at the Celtic Supporters' Club, and while the friend was interviewed and named Docherty as being with him, officers never approached him.
The ex-Royal Engineer, who moved back to Greenock after leaving the Army, was one of 722 potential suspects and he was tested in May 2012.
Docherty denied murder and did not give evidence in his defence and his QC, Donald Findlay, branded the investigation "a shambles", after hearing a blanket from a police car was draped over Elaine.
He claimed the crime scene had been contaminated and the DNA evidence was not reliable.
But the jury disagreed and found Docherty guilty.
No reason has been given by Warner Brothers for the delay, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
The original movie, based on the famous toy bricks, was a surprise box office hit in 2014.
It made more than $468m (£294m) worldwide and a sequel was soon announced with a release date of May 2018.
The next Lego film to open will be the Lego Batman film, which is scheduled to open in February 2017.
It will be followed by Ninjago, which is based on the Lego ninja characters, in September 2017.
When the line up of three Lego films was announced in 2015, Dan Fellman, president of domestic distribution at Warner Brothers, said the three films were "just the beginning of a creative and diverse animation slate that will be delighting audiences for years to come."
The original animation starred Chris Pratt as an everyday Lego figure who has to save the universe.
The film won the best animation Bafta.
Speaking after their win in 2015, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, who wrote and directed the film, admitted they were behind schedule writing the follow-up.
They told BBC Newsbeat a heavy workload and the fact they were control freaks were to blame.
The storyline for the sequel has not been revealed but speaking in 2014, Lord and Miller said they will create more female role models for the sequel.
"It's important to us that the movie plays broadly and that we inspire young women as much as we inspire young men," Lord told the BBC.
Asked what female roles were planned for Lego Movie 2, Miller said: "I don't want to give spoilers but there will be more female characters and more female stuff."
After Bury's Tom Pope hit the bar, Chris Taylor put Millwall on their way to a third win in four games with a goal direct from a corner.
Steve Morison then scored his 18th goal of the season before Ryan Lowe smashed in off the bar to pull one back.
But Taylor made the game safe by converting Morison's cross to move the Lions past Walsall into third place.
Neil Harris's side can still mathematically secure a top two finish, but closing the six-point gap to Burton Albion with just two games remaining looks unlikely.
Lowe's goal was the 200th strike of a career that has taken in eight clubs - Shrewsbury Town, Chester, Crewe Alexandra, Stockport County, Bury, Sheffield Wednesday, MK Dons and Tranmere Rovers.
The celebrity, referred to as PJS, took legal action in May after allegations of an extra-marital relationship.
Mr Justice Warby said News Group Newspapers (NGN) had agreed to pay a "specified sum" in damages and costs.
NGN has also agreed not to use, disclose, publish or republish any material identifying PJS.
In May, PJS successfully appealed against a court ruling lifting the ban on media in England and Wales publishing his name.
The Sun on Sunday argued it should be able to run the story as his name had been published in Scotland and the US.
The man had taken legal action saying that he had a right to privacy.
He has young children with YMA - as his spouse is known in court documents - and both are described as "well-known individuals in the entertainment business".
Legal proceedings had started earlier this year when the Sunday tabloid wanted to publish a story about the celebrity, alleging he had taken part in what the courts described as a "three-way sexual encounter".
The man sued NGN, claiming that publication of information about the alleged extra-marital activity would be a misuse of private information and a breach of confidence.
At London's High Court on Friday, Mr Warby said that PJS and NGN had agreed a final order in the action for breach of confidence and misuse of private information.
The proceedings were "stayed" on the basis that NGN pay a "specified sum" in full and final settlement of PJS's claim for damages and costs.
NGN also agreed not to publish any information which identified or was liable to identify PJS as a party to the action, including identifying his partner or three other individuals.
The judge said: "I accept the undertakings offered by the defendant, which are clear and plainly given on advice.
"I see no reason not to make an order for payment of the agreed sum. There is no reason not to allow the parties to keep the figure confidential."
Cornwall Council has discussed plans which could include compulsory purchases of properties in areas with "particularly poor air quality".
It admitted the scheme was likely to be "very controversial", but said it was cheaper than alternative measures.
The council said relocation was just one of several options being considered.
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As part of the Clean Air for Cornwall Strategy, six approaches have been explored, including creating new neighbourhoods in "clean air" zones, although "no specific area" has been chosen.
Councillor Geoff Brown said none of the options has been excluded, including compulsory purchase "as a last resort".
There are currently seven Air Quality Management Areas (AQMAs) in Cornwall which fail to meet national air quality objectives.
Truro, Gunnislake, St Austell, Tideford, Bodmin, Camelford and the area of Kerrier - containing Pool, Camborne and Redruth - have all been declared AQMAs since 2005.
All seven areas have been singled out for the pollutant nitrogen dioxide (NO2), which is associated with respiratory problems, lung disease and cancer.
Levels of the pollutant were recorded in the Highertown area of Truro in 2013 at 96 micrograms of NO2 per cubic metre of air - more than double the EU's air quality standard annual limit of 40 micrograms per cubic metre and higher than some parts of London, including Beech Street in the City of London, which recorded 85 micrograms per cubic metre.
Camelford was given AQMA status in January 2017 after pressure from the Camelford Clean Air Group.
Chairwoman Claire Hewlett said on an average summer day, about 11,000 vehicles go through a "tiny little town" which was not built for that level of traffic.
She said relocating residents from highly polluted areas was a "radical" idea, as it appeared to contradict the council's transport strategy, which was about people living close to where they work.
"Surely you want people to stay where they're working so that they can walk or cycle," she said.
Tim Pitt, who has lived in Camelford for 12 years, said he did not agree with residents having to move home.
"Deal with the pollution and leave people where they are," he said.
ClientEarth Healthy Air campaigner Andrea Lee branded the idea "extraordinary", but said it was important to tackle the sources of air pollution.
Another option being considered by the council is "anti-idling legislation" which would see motorists fined £20 for keeping their engines running while idle in places like taxi ranks, train stations and schools.
Legal advice would be taken before any decisions are made.
The former Ireland all-rounder will be part of head coach John Bracewell's back-up team for the games at Bristol on Friday and at Lord's two days later.
"The fact that England have named a strong squad reflects that they know where Ireland are at," said White.
"These are huge occasions but they are a potential banana skin for England."
White added: "England have some great ball strikers and talented quick bowlers and it doesn't matter what XI they put out on the day, it's going to be a big task.
"Getting rid of the likes of Joe Root and Eoin Morgan early on is a priority so that they don't go on to make big scores."
White, who is occupying the role of an assistant coach in an interim capacity, expects Ireland to be up for the fight despite the disappointment of their recent defeats by Afghanistan in an ODI series and an Intercontinental Cup encounter in India.
"No Irish team goes into fixtures against England without having that fire in their belly. I expect the Ireland players to be raring to go.
"Confidence has taken a knock but enough time has elapsed since the boys were out in India, where conditions are difficult for any touring side.
"We were disappointed, more so in the manner of the four-day defeat, but the guys will be more familiar with the conditions they face this week and will be ready to go."
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Ireland appear to be on the verge of securing Test status and the ex-North Down and Northamptonshire player says he takes "immense pride in where the Irish team is now" compared with when the 36-year-old made the first of his 232 appearances for Ireland in 2000.
"So many who have been part of that journey will look at Ireland walking down the pavilion steps at Lord's with a great sense of pride. I just hope the performance is worthy of the occasion.
"I played for Ireland against Sri Lanka at Lord's in a Twenty20 World Cup game (in 2009) and we were nine runs away from beating them. It was a fantastic occasion with a big crowd and the sun shining. Hopefully it will be something similar this week.
"Like playing at any iconic sporting venue across the world, it's about trying to adapt to the surroundings and trying not to let the occasion spoil what you are trying to do or take your mind off the game."
White believes Ireland's cause will be boosted on Sunday by the fact that a number of the Irish squad have various degrees of experience of having performed at 'the home of cricket'.
"The history of the place (Lord's) is well known but a number of Ireland players have played there before.
"Paul Stirling plays most of his home games there and Ed Joyce has spent a large part of his career there, while Andrew Balbirnie was also a Middlesex player, so those guys are familiar with it and it will be business as usual. They won't make too much of the venue.
"It may be different for the likes of Andrew McBrine, who learnt all his cricket at Donemana. Lord's is a million miles away from Donemana in terms of size of venue and everything else.
"But he'll have the day before to take in the surroundings and come game day he'll be ready to play. At the end of the day, it's Ireland against England - that's the biggest thing about it."
Ireland have previously played five home ODIs against England and two in global tournaments, famously securing a three-wicket win in the 2011 World Cup.
Kevin O'Brien and Paul Stirling have overcome hamstring and finger injuries respectively, but fast bowler Boyd Rankin is ruled out with a back problem.
Andrew White was speaking on BBC Radio Ulster's Sportsound programme.
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.
The announcement brings the home-sharing website into line with UK law.
The move, which comes into effect from Spring 2017, follows concerns that short-term lets were fuelling a London housing crisis.
Tom Copley, Labour's housing spokesman on the London assembly, called the move a "huge step in the right direction".
It is already against the law for landlords to let out their homes on short term lets for more than 90 days without planning permission.
According to Mr Copley, councils did not have the resources or data to enforce the law.
A similar scheme has been agreed in Amsterdam which has a 60-day limit for most short-term rentals.
In 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."
Airbnb, has faced a regulatory backlash in some cities where leaders have grown concerned about its impact on housing supply.
Last Month Mayor of London Sadiq Khan wrote to MPs warning that legislation might be required to help councils regain "lost" housing supply.
But there's one issue the prime minister might be less keen to talk about.
Lindsay Sandiford, a 59-year-old grandmother, finds herself on death row in Indonesia's notorious Kerobokan Prison, not knowing when she might face a firing squad.
It's two-and-half years since the former legal secretary from Cheltenham was sentenced to death after being caught smuggling 4.8kg (10.6lb) of cocaine from Bangkok to Bali.
Her lawyers argued she was pressured into smuggling the drugs by a criminal gang.
She co-operated with the Indonesia police in a sting operation leading to the arrest of several members of that gang.
But at her sentencing hearing in 2013, that co-operation appeared to count for nothing as she was given the death sentence.
All appeal attempts have so far come to nothing.
It is a potentially awkward moment for Mr Cameron.
He is expected to announce hundreds of millions of pounds worth of trade deals with Indonesia.
At the same time a British citizen faces being lined up and shot.
Sandiford's legal team, which she is struggling to pay for, will be hoping Mr Cameron can exert some pressure on Indonesian President Joko Widodo when the two men meet here in Jakarta.
But it is a delicate business.
In the past such pressure has not worked.
So far this year Indonesia has executed 12 foreigners for drugs offences.
Perhaps the highest profile of them were two Australians Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, the ringleaders of the Bali Nine drug ring.
They were executed in April after being caught trying to smuggling 8.3kg (18.2lb) of heroin from Bali to Australia in in 2005.
In their case the Australian government was publicly critical of Indonesia in an effort to get Jakarta to reverse the sentences.
Australian ministers even threatened to cut off foreign aid.
It didn't work.
Indonesia did not appear to like being told what to do.
And the death penalty for drugs offences has broad public support in Indonesia.
"Take one life to save the lives of many," one Indonesian man, who didn't want to give his name, told us on the beach in Bali.
"Drugs ruin people's lives."
And there can be no doubt that smuggling drugs in Indonesia, a country whose harsh treatment of drug offenders is well known, is a very stupid thing to do.
The rewards may be great but so are the risks.
"Britain or Australia don't criticise the United States which has executed hundreds of people," the man added.
And there is an element of double standards here.
Nobody realistically expects Britain to jeopardise trade ties with the US where there are 3,000 people currently on death row, including British citizens.
Or with China, which executes thousands of people every year.
In the run-up to the execution of Chan and Sukumaran there were large public demonstrations in support of the Indonesian government.
The death penalty is a vote-winner here.
So Mr Cameron is likely to try to avoid talking publicly about Sandiford's case.
Any pressure will probably be applied discreetly and behind the scenes.
Certainly speaking to Sandiford's legal team, you get the impression they want to avoid any public criticism of the Indonesian government or justice system.
What they would like is for the British government to help fund Sandiford's legal costs, something it has so far refused to do despite numerous legal challenges.
So despite Mr Cameron's visit, Sandiford's fate remains very much uncertain.
For more than two-and-a-half years, she has sat on death row, not knowing how many days, weeks, months or years she has left to live.
Hereford and Worcester Fire and Rescue Service said the fire happened at a site in Broad Street, Kidderminster, where vehicles are stored and repaired.
Nearby residents reported a "lot of smoke" coming from the 130m by 60m unit at about 13:40 GMT.
Brigade spokesman Dan Quinn said four crews would stay overnight to tackle any hot spots and make the area safe.
He said the blaze "destroyed 100% of the unit".
More than 30 firefighters from across the West Midlands region tackled the fire at its height.
No-one was injured, the fire service said.
The cause of the blaze is being investigated.
Lee Burton, a witness at the site, said he heard "explosions" before seeing plumes of smoke.
Rebecca Telling, who lives nearby, said she was watching television which she noticed "hazy smoke" through the window.
"I saw it all black in the sky and I could see a lot of flames from the roof tops, still really black and burning quite a lot. It [the smoke] is moving across through roof tops," she said.
It said without a more pro-business stance, the resulting political instability may force more firms to alter their plans "away from the UK".
The EEF is the latest business organisation to call for a rethink of the government's Brexit plans.
It wants access to the single market to be at the heart of Brexit negotiations.
The EEF said even before the election firms were already altering or thinking about changing their business plans because of the Brexit vote.
Terry Scuoler, EEF chief executive, said the government had already "wasted a year" and needed to "move away from its previous rhetoric and start repairing relations with EU partners".
For the EEF that meant putting access to the single market and staying in a customs union at the centre of the government's negotiations and involving business groups in the talks over trade.
It is also calling for a "suitable" transition period to be "firmly back on the table" as part of the Brexit talks.
On Monday Carolyn Fairbairn, director-general of the CBI, called for the government to "reset" Brexit negotiations, which are due to start next week.
Meanwhile, the uncertainty caused by the general election has led business confidence to sink "through the floor", according to the Institute of Directors.
A snap poll of 700 members of the lobby group found a "dramatic drop" in confidence following the hung parliament.
The main priority for the new government should be striking a new trade deal with the European Union, according to the IoD.
Business groups such as the CBI and EEF believe the election result has weakened the hand of those wanting a "hard Brexit", which would involve leaving not just the EU but also the single market, customs union and escaping the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice.
They favour a deal that would give British business much the same access to the rest of the EU as they enjoy now and seem to be freshly emboldened to press their case.
A location on the remote Ardnamurchan peninsula was designated a protected area for the endangered cat last year.
It is being extended to taken in parts of Morvern to give the haven a total coverage of 500 square miles.
Domestic cats in and around the wildcat green zone are being neutered to prevent them breeding with pure wildcats.
Mixing with domestic cats, disease and loss of habitat have led to wildcats becoming an endangered species.
The project involves scientist Dr Paul O'Donoghue.
They believe wildcats' best chance of surviving is in the remotest parts of Scotland.
Ardnamurchan and Morvern include some of Scotland's wildest landscapes and few human residents.
The main communities in Ardnamurchan - Acharacle and Strontian - have populations of about 560 and 350.
The haven project is separate from one involving six priority areas for Scottish wildcat conservation identified following research commissioned by Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH).
Thee Angus Glens, Strathbogie in Aberdeenshire, Strathavon in Moray and Morvern, Strathpeffer and Dulnain in the Highlands are the six areas.
The research suggested these were where wildcats had the best chance.
Nine areas were assessed as part of the multi-agency Wildcat Action project.
Saturday will see the final day of the World Orienteering Championships, and Belladrum Tartan Heart Music Festival.
The same day sees the start of Historic Scotland's Celebration of the Centuries event at Fort George near Ardersier.
The event, which features 250 re-enactors depicting 2,000 years of history and draws crowds of several thousand people, continues on Sunday.
Hundreds of competitors watched by thousands of spectators have been competing in the World Orienteering Championships and the Scottish 6 Days Orienteering event in and around Nairn, Forres and Glen Affric.
The competitions started on 31 July.
Kaiser Chiefs will close Belladrum near Beauly. About 15,000 people have been at Bella, which opened on Thursday night.
The Black Isle Show was also held this week at Muir of Ord.
The £240,000 four-bedroom Passivhaus in West Kirby, Wirral, was built of insulated masonry and concrete.
It features triple-glazing, LED lighting and an air-source heat pump.
Owner Colin Usher said being honoured by the Buildings and Energy Efficiency Awards "dispels the myth" eco homes are "expensive and radically different".
Passivhaus, which mean passive house, is an ultra-low energy design standard for homes developed in Germany in the 1980s and 90s.
About 37,000 homes have been built to the standard across the world according to the Passivhaus Trust, an organisation for the movement in the UK.
Mr Usher, who is a director at Liverpool's John McCall Architects, designed the house for himself and his wife. He said it was "very comfortable to live in and its appearance is not incongruous with surrounding houses".
It has been orientated so the windows and solar panels on the roof receive the optimum amount of sunlight and features high ceilings, carefully positioned glass and large spaces to let the most natural light and heat in.
Mr Usher and his wife have lived in the property for two years and the cost for heating, lighting, hot water and cooking was "just £15 per annum", he said.
"This is a simple building and, in effect, runs on the same amount of power used by a 40W light bulb."
An equivalent property his firm recently designed to meet normal building regulations cost about £1,800 a year to heat, he said, adding that data showed his home was performing "almost four times better than the Passivhaus standard it was targeting".
Households were responsible for 600,000 tonnes of the waste, while businesses generated about 740,000 tonnes.
The amount of food dumped would, according to ZWS, fill 17 million wheelie bins.
The figure, calculated from detailed information gathered in 2013, will be used as the baseline to measure future improvements.
The Scottish government has set itself the target of reducing food waste by one third by 2025.
The financial cost to households has been calculated as £1.1bn each year - an average of £460 per household.
ZWS believes about 60% of the waste is avoidable.
Its chief executive, Iain Gulland, said: "Our research shows for the first time the true scale of the challenge we face to achieve Scotland's ambitious food waste reduction target - but it's one we are determined to take on together. Tackling the scale of wasted food in our society is an economic, environmental and moral imperative.
"We have made a good start. Since putting the issue of food waste on the map we have worked to reduce household food waste, resulting in a 6% decrease."
Food and drink production is believed to account for one-fifth of Scotland's carbon footprint.
Environment Secretary Roseanna Cunningham added: "This research from Zero Waste Scotland, together with the work that we are doing to measure food that doesn't make it off the farm, will set the baseline against which we will measure our target.
"We will now collaborate with organisations from all sections of the supply chain to develop options for policy interventions to meet our target."
After two major upgrades to its growth forecasts since the referendum - in November and February - today saw a slight downward revision.
But it is not time to race for the lifeboats.
The Bank said business investment was stronger than expected and that growth next year and in 2019 was likely to be slightly higher than previously forecast - although still significantly below 2%.
A prediction, it said pointedly, "conditioned on the assumptions that the adjustment to the United Kingdom's new relationship with the European Union is smooth".
Which it might not be.
For this year there are some major negative trends.
Consumers have started to feel the effects of inflation and there has been a "slowing in real household spending growth".
Wage growth is also "notably weaker than expected" and is set to be below inflation this year - meaning that real incomes are falling.
The incomes squeeze - felt so widely after the financial crisis - is back.
Businesses are still nervous about the future - and what they may invest in salaries - and there is enough slack in the labour market to make inflationary wage demands difficult.
At the same time, the Bank upgraded its inflation forecast, saying it could now hit 2.8% as the effects of the fall in the value of sterling wash through an economy that imports 40% of its food and fuel.
So, a tough 2017.
But the Bank's take on the temperature of the economy is more than a one year analysis.
And over the three year forecast period, it is more bullish.
Sterling has strengthened this year after its precipitate fall following the Brexit vote.
The European - and indeed global - economy is stronger than expected, important for a trading nation like the UK.
Wage growth will strengthen, it says, as the employment market tightens.
Inflation risk will dissipate as the effects of sterling's decline falls out of the data.
The incomes squeeze will reverse.
This is a carefully worded Inflation Report, drafted, of course, in the middle of an election campaign.
It is cautious in the short term, with the Bank indicating privately that 2017, when it comes to that key issue of wage growth, could be "the worst of it".
There is a sting in the tail.
Earlier this year the markets judged that the chances of an interest rate rise were so low there was only likely to be one increase over the next three years.
Today the Bank was certainly more hawkish, saying that monetary policy "could need to be tightened by a somewhat greater extent" than markets believed.
That is not to say there is likely to be an interest rate hike any time soon.
But, if the Bank's more positive outlook towards the end of the three year forecast period comes to pass, the Monetary Policy Committee could move more rapidly towards interest rate rises than some expect.
Police were called to reports a woman at a property in Peckmill Green had been shot by one of two men on a motorbike at about 18:10 GMT.
She was taken to hospital for a leg injury consistent with a firearm discharge, police said. Her injuries are not thought to be life-threatening.
Police believe it was a targeted attack and an investigation is under way.
The motorbike had been outside the property and was later seen being ridden in the direction of Wood Lane.
Det Ch Insp Mark Tivendale said: "We are keeping an open mind as to why this has happened and the investigation is in its early stages.
"If you know something, please come forward - silence could result in someone being seriously injured, or killed in the future."
In an interview with Fox News, Mr Trump called Mr Tillerson, 64, a "world-class player" who has made "massive deals".
As Exxon CEO Mr Tillerson has had business ties with Russia's leadership and is said to have a good relationship with President Vladimir Putin.
He has criticised sanctions against Russia for its annexation of Crimea.
In an interview Fox News Sunday, Mr Trump praised Mr Tillerson, saying: "He's a world-class player. He's in charge of an oil company that's pretty much double the size of its next nearest competitor."
Mr Trump added that Mr Tillerson knows many of the players and he knows them well. He does massive deals in Russia."
Republican Senator John McCain expressed "concern" about Mr Tillerson's potential links to Russian President Vladimir Putin, whom the senator called "a thug, a bully and a murderer", during an interview with Fox News on Saturday.
However, speaking on to CBS on Sunday, he said the Senate would give Mr Tillerson a "fair hearing" should he be selected by Mr Trump.
Mr Tillerson is likely to be named America's top diplomat next week. NBC News reports that ex-US ambassador to the UN John Bolton may serve as his deputy.
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani withdrew himself from consideration for the post last week.
This is the latest twist in Donald Trump's weeks-long search for a top diplomat: he has been considering close to a dozen candidates with significantly different views and backgrounds.
Transition officials say he has finally settled on Rex Tillerson although there has been no official announcement.
The long-time oil executive does not have any diplomatic experience but he has done business with many foreign governments, including in Russia where he has developed a good relationship with President Vladimir Putin.
That is one reason his nomination would be closely scrutinised by lawmakers - especially in the wake of intelligence assessments that Russian hackers acted covertly to promote Mr Trump's campaign.
A former company commander in the Parachute Regiment, he served in the Balkans, Afghanistan, Iraq and Sierra Leone, including a tour of duty in Helmand province and a stint as right-hand man to Gen Sir Mike Jackson.
The 43-year-old is a father of three, who recently remarried after losing his first wife to cancer. Born in Nottingham, he attended a local comprehensive school, later gaining a degree in international politics and strategic studies at Aberystwyth University. A mild-mannered character when you meet him in person, his action-man credentials were nevertheless burnished further when a story emerged about him facing down a would-be mugger who threatened to smash a bottle over his head.
This sort of stuff makes him stand out in a Parliamentary Labour Party packed with former university lecturers, journalists and other varieties of pen-pusher.
But the question hanging over him since he arrived in Parliament in 2011, after winning the Barnsley Central by-election, is whether there is more to him than an impressive back story?
He was cautiously on-message in his early media appearances.
This may, in part, be a legacy of his 20 years in the armed forces, when he was prevented by Queen's Regulations from publicly expressing political views, even though he had been a member of the Labour Party since his teens.
He confessed in one of his first interviews, that he went out of his way to avoid the media spotlight until he was selected to fight Barnsley Central, a contest caused by the jailing of MP Eric Illsley for expenses fraud.
He has been more outspoken recently, particularly on the subject of Britain's nuclear weapons, even hinting that he might have to leave the party if it ditches its commitment to renewing Trident.
And on Thursday, he made a wide-ranging speech setting out his vision for getting Labour back into power, arguing for a break with the New Labour era and a more "radical" economic policy to tackle ingrained inequality.
Mr Jarvis had been urged to stand in last year's Labour leadership contest, amid much excited chatter about him being the candidate the Conservatives would fear most.
He was pursued by "Dan fans" and dogged by reporters and film crews for a couple of days until he ruled himself out, saying he had to put his young family first.
He now says he regrets not giving more thought to a leadership bid - and is once again being touted as the standard-bearer of the "moderate", or anti-Corbyn, wing of the party, if as some expect, there is a challenge to the Labour leader in the summer.
His speech on Thursday was pored over for signs of attacks on Jeremy Corbyn - there were none - and the outlines of a distinctive policy agenda - there was talk of an end to short-termist economics and getting the unions more involved in training.
The key soundbite, in a conscious echo of Tony Blair's famous crime mantra, was: "Tough on inequality, tough on the causes of inequality."
It got mixed reviews from Labour figures on social media but it did enough to earn him a blast from Ken Livingstone, Mr Corbyn's defender-in-chief, who laid into his decision to accept donations from a hedge-fund manager.
"Hedge-fund managers have been the most rapacious and damaging form of capitalists that we've had. It's absolutely bizarre. It's a bit like Jimmy Savile funding a children's group," said Mr Livingstone.
According to the Register of Members' Interests, Mr Jarvis received £16,800 from hedge-fund manager Martin Taylor in February to support his work as an MP.
Mr Livingstone went on to say that there was an "embittered group of old Blairites who are looking for someone to challenge Jeremy" and they think Dan Jarvis is "someone credible to run".
It provoked a furious reaction from Labour MPs opposed to Mr Corbyn, with one calling the Savile reference "disgusting".
Mr Jarvis has opted not to respond, although the episode will have offered him a small taste of what he can expect if he does decide to challenge Mr Corbyn for the leadership.
The home side had only just drawn level on 54 minutes to wipe out the visitors' interval lead when McKirdy picked up a loose ball in the centre circle and showed amazing pace to race clear on the break, and slot past Scott Shearer on 57 minutes to end the Stags' unbeaten run at six matches.
Three minutes earlier Pat Hoban had turned well to steer home the equaliser from close range after keeper Jamie Jones had been forced to claw a long Rhys Bennett cross away from his goalmouth.
After a poor first half-hour with few openings, the visitors had broken through on 32 minutes when Charlie Lee was allowed to get his head onto a Henry Cowans free-kick and flick the ball past Shearer.
Mansfield should have levelled five minutes later, but Mal Benning headed over from six yards after getting on the end of a long Kevan Hurst cross.
On 42 minutes Benning looked to receive a shove in the back from Ronnie Henry in the box as he tried to head at goal, but penalty appeals were turned down.
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Match ends, Mansfield Town 1, Stevenage 2.
Second Half ends, Mansfield Town 1, Stevenage 2.
Attempt missed. Kyle Howkins (Mansfield Town) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high following a corner.
Corner, Mansfield Town. Conceded by Henry Cowans.
Attempt blocked. Rhys Bennett (Mansfield Town) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Rhys Bennett (Mansfield Town) right footed shot from the right side of the box is high and wide to the right following a fast break.
Corner, Mansfield Town. Conceded by Dean Wells.
Foul by Darius Henderson (Mansfield Town).
Dean Wells (Stevenage) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt missed. Rhys Bennett (Mansfield Town) left footed shot from the right side of the box is just a bit too high.
Krystian Pearce (Mansfield Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Krystian Pearce (Mansfield Town).
Rowan Liburd (Stevenage) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Corner, Mansfield Town. Conceded by Dean Wells.
Krystian Pearce (Mansfield Town) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Rowan Liburd (Stevenage).
Krystian Pearce (Mansfield Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Rowan Liburd (Stevenage).
Rhys Bennett (Mansfield Town) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Fraser Franks (Stevenage).
Ben Kennedy (Stevenage) is shown the yellow card.
Lee Collins (Mansfield Town) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Ben Kennedy (Stevenage).
Substitution, Stevenage. Dean Wells replaces Charlie Lee.
Attempt missed. Malvind Benning (Mansfield Town) header from the left side of the six yard box is close, but misses to the left.
Attempt saved. Rowan Liburd (Stevenage) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Foul by Darius Henderson (Mansfield Town).
Ronnie Henry (Stevenage) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Darius Henderson (Mansfield Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Luke Wilkinson (Stevenage).
Attempt missed. Rhys Bennett (Mansfield Town) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left following a set piece situation.
Jamie Jones (Stevenage) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Mansfield Town. Danny Rose replaces Pat Hoban.
Attempt missed. Pat Hoban (Mansfield Town) header from the right side of the six yard box is close, but misses to the right.
Substitution, Stevenage. Rowan Liburd replaces Harry McKirdy.
Ronnie Henry (Stevenage) is shown the yellow card.
Corner, Mansfield Town. Conceded by Fraser Franks.
Kyle Howkins (Mansfield Town) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Ben Kennedy (Stevenage).
Foul by Darius Henderson (Mansfield Town).
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Ninth seed Waites, 38, eased past number four seed and fellow Englishman Jamie Hughes 6-1 in his semi-final.
He remains on course for a second world title at Frimley Green, having thrashed Tony O'Shea 7-1 in the 2013 final.
Smith, 40, beat Dutchman Richard Veenstra 6-5 in the other last-four tie, sealing the match with a 10-dart leg.
Waites was the only one of the four semi-finalists to have qualified for a Lakeside final before, and that previous experience appeared to give him an edge early on against Hughes.
After two comeback wins over Geert de Vos and top seed Glen Durrant, this was a comfortable victory for the Yorkshireman.
He was 5-0 up inside 46 minutes, winning 15 of the 19 legs that were played before the interval.
Hughes managed to avoid a whitewash by winning the sixth set but Waites, who has recently recovered from surgery on a long-term shoulder injury, comfortably closed out the match.
He almost did it in style, missing a shot at the bull for a 161 checkout, before a successful attempt at double four saw him through to a second World Championship final.
In contrast to a one-sided first semi-final, the second was as tense as they come.
Modest Canadian Smith is accumulating a growing group of supporters 3,000 miles from home and came through an enthralling contest with Veenstra - who began the tournament as a 66-1 outsider for the title.
Neither player held more than a one-set advantage in the match, but Smith saved his best until last.
Leading 3-2 in the decider, he got seven darts into a perfect leg. Although the magical nine-darter did not materialise, a 10-dart leg was more than enough to see him into the final.
As for Veenstra, reaching the last four on his Frimley Green debut was far beyond his expectations.
He was scheduled to return home to the Netherlands on Tuesday, but had to cancel his boat trip home after knocking out third seed Jeffrey de Graaf in the first round.
The 34-year-old has had a memorable week in Surrey, also knocking out defending champion Scott Mitchell in the quarter-finals, and is definitely a name to look out for in the future.
•Scott Waites could join a select group of players who have won the BDO World Championship title on more than one occasion - John Lowe, Eric Bristow, Jocky Wilson, Phil Taylor, Raymond van Barneveld, Ted Hankey and Martin Adams.
•Jeff Smith is aiming to become the third non-European winner of the BDO World Championship title, following fellow Canadian John Part (1994) and Australia's Tony David (2002).
•Smith's 10-dart leg, which sealed victory against Richard Veenstra, equalled the best leg of the tournament so far.
Jeff Smith: "This year has proved that last year wasn't a fluke. I'm just going to keep doing what I'm doing. Anyone can win tomorrow. You've just got to put your head down, play one leg at a time and see where you end up."
Scott Waites: "That seemed a little bit more straightforward than the other two days. Jamie's such a fantastic player and he didn't perform today."
BBC pundit Bobby George on Waites' win over Hughes: "Obviously you can come back from 5-0 down, but you've got to be right on your game to do it and Hughes wasn't on his game today. If you watched him yesterday (against Wesley Harms) and then watched him today, he didn't seem like the same guy.
"Waites didn't play as well as he has in the games before, because he had the pressure to make him play better. He's done his job, he's in the final."
According to court documents, Michael Sandford, 20, told police he wanted to shoot Mr Trump.
His mother Lynne said she feared her son may try to take his own life if he is detained in a US prison.
She said she want him to be deported "so he could be back in this country and get psychiatric help".
If convicted, Mr Sandford, who has Asperger's syndrome, could face up to 30 years in prison.
Speaking on the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme, Ms Sandford said she did not want her son to "escape punishment" but did not want him to be incarcerated abroad.
Mr Sandford has a history of contact with mental health services, she said, and had previously tried to take his own life.
There was "no way" he would cope with the conditions in a US prison if he received a lengthy sentence, she said.
His family had been told he was being held "in isolation 22 hours a day with no window to the outside world".
"He is really closed off to society, to everything," she added.
"He is very gentle, calm person" and would think "there is no point," she added.
"Why would he live the next 30 years in these situations? So yes I think he would attempt to commit suicide again."
Mr Sandford travelled to the US around a year ago.
His mother said she "desperately" tried to stop him from leaving the UK, but despite support from medical professionals was unable to do so.
"We were basically told because he's 18 unless you have him declared mentally incompetent, there's nothing you can do," he said.
"And because he is very articulate, very bright, we could not stop him."
His mother said she would go from hearing nothing at all to receiving 10 calls a day from him. He would refuse to answer questions about what he had been doing or his lifestyle, she added.
"Next thing I knew, on 18 June, I was woken at midnight by a call from the Foreign Office - it shocked me," Ms Sandford explained.
"They said he had been arrested. My world fell apart, I was shaking head-to-foot and burst into tears. I couldn't believe it."
"I need to know what happened to him in the last year in America. Who put these ideas in his head?"
According to court documents, Mr Sandford told the secret service that he had driven to the rally in Las Vegas from California in order to kill Mr Trump and he had been to a gun range the day before to practise shooting.
He also said he expected to die in the attempt, which he had been planning for a year.
Ms Sandford said her son "had never mentioned politics in any way in his entire life and never taken an interest in politics."
The Foreign Office said in a statement: "We have offered advice and information to the family in this case and will continue to do so. We remain in contact with Mr Sandford's legal representatives and have submitted a request to visit him."
The Federal Bureau of Prisons says it works to provide education to staff and inmates on suicide prevention.
The Victoria Derbyshire programme is broadcast on weekdays from 09:00-11:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News Channel.
The Finn spun into the spectator zone in Saturday's stage 11 at the Rally Monte Carlo and hit a photographer at low speed.
Latvala carried on driving, saying after the stage that he had not realised he had hit someone.
As well as the ban, Latvala has also been fined £3,800.
Explaining his failure to stop, Latvala said: "My visibility was hampered briefly by thick steam from the engine and mud that had sprayed up from the ditch."
But a statement from the rally stewards rejected that claim.
"Looking at the images, it would be hard to believe that the driver and/or co-driver had not realised that they had hit a spectator as the body could be seen quite prominently on the bonnet and right in front of the windscreen," it read.
"At that moment the visibility through the windscreen on the driver's side was not so bad and the body could be seen clearly."
Wilson, 57, took charge on Christmas Eve 2015, but after winning only six of their 26 league games this campaign the club are in the relegation zone.
Saturday's loss, their fourth in the last six games, left the Spireites in the drop zone on goal difference.
Left-back Ritchie Humphreys has been named as caretaker manager.
The 39-year-old, who is also the current chairman of the players' union, the Professional Footballers' Association, will be in charge for Tuesday's EFL Trophy game at Luton.
Former Sheffield Wednesday and Barnsley boss Wilson has managed in more than 1,000 competitive games and replaced Dean Saunders at the Spireites with the club 18th in League One.
Last term, Chesterfield finished in the same position they were in when Wilson took over, but are now 22nd in the table.
Following what proved to be his final game, Wilson said: "We're not playing badly. Yes, we're getting punished for opportunities we're giving to other teams but we're not playing badly.
"But it's about results, winning games, getting as many points as we possibly can and get us in a safe or safer position."
Director and company secretary Ashley Carson told BBC Radio Sheffield that Chesterfield did not want to be a club that had a "knee jerk reaction" when things were not going well.
But he said poor results, plus a dwindling fan base, had prompted the board's decision to relieve Wilson of his job.
"He had a great affinity for the club and he's an absolutely top drawer manager, but it gets to the stage where you look at everything that's happening and think 'we have got to change something'," Carson continued.
"We've just had to look at the bigger picture with all this, and feel the time is right, and that if we get a new (management) team in before the end of the month they can make some changes while the transfer window is open."
Two recent books claimed officials get huge payments for investigating candidates for sainthood, with little control over how they spend the money.
The new rules mean external oversight of the bank accounts concerned.
Pope Francis has made reform of the Vatican a priority of his papacy, including perceived corruption.
The new rules set out the mechanism by which donors supporting a candidate for sainthood pay for the services of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, the Vatican office responsible for reviewing candidates for sainthood.
How does someone become a saint?
The rules call for an administrator to be named for each prospective saint, and they must "scrupulously respect'' the intention of each donation.
The administrator must keep a running tab on expenditures and donations, prepare an annual budget and be subject to the oversight of the local bishop or religious superior.
However, the rules do not specify how much money should be given by donors.
The costs to the Vatican of investigating candidates can be high, if lots of travel is necessary to collect testimony and conduct research about the candidate's life, including establishing whether they performed miracles.
However, recent books by Italian journalists alleged that there was no oversight over how some donations were spent and that candidates supported by wealthier donors were likely to have cases resolved more quickly.
Hamid Nehal Ansari confessed to spying and was jailed for three years by a military court, a prison official, who asked not to be named, told the BBC.
There were no further details, and the military has not officially commented.
Ansari entered Pakistan's Kohat region illegally via Afghanistan in 2012, and was held by the army, media reports said.
His family, who struggled to determine his whereabouts until earlier this year, have told Indian media they believe he entered Pakistan to search for a woman he had befriended online.
Pakistan and India frequently arrest each other's citizens, often accusing them of being spies after they have strayed across the land or maritime border.
The two neighbours have a history of mistrust and have fought three wars.
Kezia Dugdale also said the manifesto offered a vision where the "rich and powerful pay their fair share".
But the Conservatives said Labour's "nonsensical manifesto doesn't add up".
And the SNP said it had already introduced many of the policies Labour was proposing.
The Labour manifesto, which was unveiled by Jeremy Corbyn in Bradford, commits the party to opposing a second referendum on Scottish independence, which it describes as "unwanted and unnecessary".
It also says a Labour government would establish a People's Constitutional Convention that will consider the option of a more federal UK.
Among the other measures contained in the manifesto are:
The manifesto - a draft of which was leaked last week - also outlines Labour plans for public ownership of utilities and the Royal Mail, and to introduce a £10 an hour minimum wage.
And the party said it would also lower the threshold for the 45p rate of income tax from £150,000 to £80,000 and introduce a new 50p rate on earnings over £123,000.
However, income tax is devolved to Holyrood - so the changes would only apply in Scotland if the Scottish government chose to introduce them.
Mr Corbyn said the manifesto was a "programme of hope", which he contrasted with a Conservative campaign which he claimed was "built on one word - fear".
And he insisted that Labour's plans were fully costed, telling activists: "We can embark on this ambitious programme without jeopardising our national finances."
The manifesto launch was attended by Ms Dugdale, who said the party was was offering a "radical vision for a country that works for the many, not just a privileged few".
And she said a Labour government would redistribute wealth and power across the UK - arguing that the Tories had made working families worse off while offering tax breaks to the wealthiest.
Ms Dugdale added: "The SNP has done nothing to stop this austerity - it has simply passed it on with £1.5bn worth of cuts to local services since 2011.
"A Labour vision for our country is one where the rich and the powerful pay their fair share.
"Labour's manifesto gives voters a real choice: a fairer Scotland for the many, not the few; or a Scotland caught between the two extremes of Tory and SNP nationalism."
By BBC Scotland political editor Brian Taylor
One journalist, from a paper generally seen as supporting Labour, opened by suggesting that the party's policies, as leaked a week back, had proved relatively popular with the focus groups, before whom all politicians bow.
On stage, Jeremy Corbyn beamed, beatifically. This, you could see him thinking, was the stuff to give them. That'll teach my critics.
However, his interlocutor wasn't quite finished. The snag, he said, was that those same members of the public didn't seem to favour Mr Corbyn as leader and PM in waiting.
During an election, politicians are programmed to smile. But it has to be said that, with this addendum, Mr Corbyn's grin faded a mite; only fractionally but perceptibly.
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Responding to the manifesto launch, SNP deputy leader Angus Robertson said Labour was "pledging today what the SNP are already delivering for the people of Scotland".
He added: "Scrapping hospital parking charges, free tuition, publicly-owned water, ending the Bedroom Tax, increasing renewable energy and expanding free childcare will all seem familiar to voters in Scotland - because they are already happening under an SNP government.
"And on Scotland, Labour can only mimic the Tories' anti-independence obsession. In Scotland we don't need a poor copy of the SNP, we need strong SNP voices standing up to the Tories at Westminster."
Mr Robertson also said Labour "are not going to form the next government", and that it was the SNP that had led the opposition to the Conservatives at Westminster.
Meanwhile, the Conservatives said that the economic sums in the Labour manifesto "simply don't add up", and claimed working families would "pay for Corbyn's chaos with higher taxes".
The party's treasury minister, David Gauke, said: "It's clear that proposal after proposal in this manifesto will mean more borrowing and debt: from promises on benefits, to promises on prison guards, to promises on nationalising the water network.
"It is simply not worth taking the risk of this shambles being in charge of our economy and our Brexit negotiations in three weeks' time.
"For strong, stable leadership through Brexit and beyond there is only one choice at this election: Theresa May and her Conservative team."
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie said Labour would not provide the "competent opposition" the country needs.
He added: "On the biggest issue of our generation, Brexit, Jeremy Corbyn, has nothing to say.
"The Conservatives can't have it all their own way and Labour are incapable of even providing a competent opposition.
"Liberal Democrats are standing up for the mainstream. We will oppose a hard Brexit and offer a competent, fairer voice for the country."
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His Team Sky team-mate and fellow Brit Chris Froome finished second, with Italian Vincenzo Nibali third.
The race was made up of 21 stages and was raced over 23 days. There were nine flat, four medium mountains with one summit finish, five high mountains with two summit finishes, two individual time trial stages and one prologue.
Prologue - Saturday, 30 June: Individual time trial. Liege, 6.4km
Winner: Fabian Cancellara - Report (Cancellara in yellow)
Stage 1 - Sunday, 1 July: Liege - Seraing, 198km
Winner: Peter Sagan - Report
Stage 2 - Monday, 2 July: Vise - Tournai, 208km
Winner: Mark Cavendish -
Stage 3 - Tuesday, 3 July: Orchies - Boulogne-sur-Mer, 197km
Winner: Peter Sagan - Report
Stage 4 - Wednesday, 4 July: Abbeville - Rouen, 215km
Winner: Andre Greipel - Report
Stage 5 - Thursday, 5 July: Rouen - Saint-Quentin, 197km
Winner: Andre Greipel - Report
Stage 6 - Friday, 6 July: Epernay - Metz, 210km
Winner: Peter Sagan - Report
Stage 7 - Saturday, 7 July: Tomblaine - La Planche des Belles Filles, 199km
Winner: Chris Froome - Report (Wiggins in yellow)
Stage 8 - Sunday, 8 July: Belfort - Porrentruy, 158km
Winner: Thibaut Pinot - Report
Stage 9 - Monday, 9 July: Individual time trial. Arc-et-Senans - Besancon, 41.5km
Winner: Bradley Wiggins - Report
Stage 10 - Wednesday, 11 July: Macon - Bellegarde-sur-Valserine, 195km
Winner: Thomas Voeckler - Report
Stage 11 -Thursday, 12 July: Albertville - La Toussuire - Les Sybelles, 148km
Winner: Pierre Rolland - Report
Stage 12 - Friday, 13 July: St-Jean-de-Maurienne - Annonay Davezieux, 226km
Winner: David Millar - Report
Stage 13 - Saturday, 14 July: Saint-Paul-Trois-Chateaux - Le Cap d'Agde, 217km
Winner: Andre Greipel - Report
Stage 14 - Sunday, 15 July: Limoux - Foix, 191km
Winner: Luis Leon Sanchex - Report
Stage 15 - Monday, 16 July: Samatan - Pau, 159km
Winner: Pierrick Fedrigo - Report
Stage 16 - Wednesday, 18 July: Pau - Bagneres-de-Luchon, 197km
Winner: Thomas Voeckler - Report
Stage 17 - Thursday, 19 July: Bagneres-de-Luchon - Peyragudes, 144km
Winner: Alejandro Valverde - Report
Stage 18 - Friday, 20 July: Blagnac - Brive-la-Gaillarde, 223km
Winner: Mark Cavendish - Report
Stage 19 - Saturday, 21 July: Individual time trial. Bonneval - Chartres, 53.5km
Winner: Bradley Wiggins - Report
Stage 20 - Sunday, 22 July: Rambouillet - Paris, 120km
Winner: Mark Cavendish - Report
The research suggests the risk of psychosis is three times higher for users of potent "skunk-like" cannabis than for non-users.
The study of 780 people was carried out by KCL's Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience.
A Home Office spokesman said the report underlines the reasons why cannabis is illegal.
Scientists found the risk of psychosis was five times higher for those who use it every day compared with non-users.
They also concluded the use of hash, a milder form of the drug, was not associated with increased risk of psychosis.
Psychosis refers to delusions or hallucinations that can be present in certain psychiatric conditions such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
"Compared with those who had never tried cannabis, users of high potency skunk-like cannabis had a threefold increase in risk of psychosis,' said Dr Marta Di Forti, lead author on the research.
She added: "The results show that psychosis risk in cannabis users depends on both the frequency of use and cannabis potency."
Dr Di Forti told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that the availability of skunk-like cannabis was becoming more widespread.
Cath from Berkshire, who asked to remain anonymous, believes smoking skunk caused her to experience mental health problems.
"I dabbled with a friends' group in my early 20s, and went from someone who had never experienced any mental health issues whatsoever, to an absolute wreck.
"I was terrified of leaving the house, and I became petrified of death, of the mysteries of the universe, and of being alone. You name it, I was terrified of it.
"It took about six years to feel normal again and now, almost 20 years later, I have absolutely no doubt that my issues were triggered by casually and naively smoking this so called 'soft' drug.
"For years I have shuddered as campaigners have sought to declassify or promote the product as I understand first-hand the hidden yet, until now, unspoken dangers of this awful drug."
"In London, it's very difficult to find anything else," Dr Di Forti said.
"There were lots of reports from police across the UK saying we have become a great producer of skunk. And not only do we use it locally but we export, so this is a Made in England product."
Someone suffering from psychosis would often be "extremely paranoid and become very suspicious" about the people around them, she added.
She has called for "a clear public message" to cannabis users, comparable to medical advice on alcohol and tobacco.
GPs should be encouraged to ask how often and what type of cannabis patients use, she added,
A Home Office spokesman said the findings backed up the government's approach: "Drugs such as cannabis are illegal because scientific and medical evidence demonstrates they are harmful.
"This report serves to emphasise how they can destroy lives and communities."
Skunk contains more THC - the main psychoactive ingredient - than other types of cannabis.
Unlike skunk, hashish - cannabis resin - contains substantial quantities of another chemical called cannabidiol or CBD and research suggests this can act as an antidote to the THC, counteracting psychotic side effects.
Sir Robin Murray, professor of psychiatric research at King's, commented: "This paper suggests that we could prevent almost one quarter of cases of psychosis if no-one smoked high potency cannabis.
"This could save young patients a lot of suffering and the NHS a lot of money."
The research was carried out over several years, comparing 410 patients aged 18-65 who reported a first episode of psychosis at a south London psychiatric hospital with 370 healthy participants within the same age range from the same area of London.
It will be published later this week in the Lancet Psychiatry.
Rosanna O'Connor, director of alcohol, drugs and tobacco at Public Health England, responded: "No drug use is without risk as this report demonstrates.
"Anyone having problems with drug use should seek help from their local specialist drug services. It is important to remember that treatment for all types of drug problems, including cannabis, are readily available and very effective".
Cannabis user Robert, from Hertfordshire experienced a "temporary psychosis" after taking home-grown cannabis in his 20s.
"It was utterly terrifying, and the worst night of my life," he told the BBC News website.
"As someone affected by this issue it is hard watching mainstream media, particularly comedy films, portraying cannabis as a harmless life-enhancing substance with limited ill-effects - it's simply not true."
Another person who contacted the BBC website felt that legalising cannabis would allow varieties to be regulated.
Phil, from Cambridgeshire, said: "Speaking as a 'toker' for past 25 years, super skunk is the term they should be using.
"The cause of all this is the illegality. If things were more open and informed, people could buy 'saner' variety seeds."
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Model Laura Lacole and Republic of Ireland midfielder Eunan O'Kane tied the knot in a ceremony conducted by Humanists UK celebrant Isabel Russo.
Previously humanist weddings were not recognised by NI law, so couples had to conduct a separate civil ceremony.
A judge ruled this unlawfully denied them equality with religious couples.
Some 200 guests attended Thursday afternoon's wedding at an undisclosed location outside Belfast.
He ordered the granting of temporary authorisation for a British Humanist Association (BHA) celebrant to perform a legally valid and binding wedding ceremony for the bride, 27, and groom, 26.
The personalised ceremony involving bespoke vows, music from a string quartet and hand-fasting, in which the couple's hands were tied together with ribbons as a symbolic gesture of their wedding bond.
Isabel Russo, the celebrant, said: "It was a beautiful ceremony with all the components of a proper humanist marriage, including vows written by the couple themselves and contributions from their family.
"While people in attendance were of all views and backgrounds, the consensus is that it was a profound and moving occasion."
The British Humanist Association congratulated the couple on "a lovely occasion that has been a joy for all in attendance".
"Laura and Eunan's wedding today epitomises what marriages should be all about: beautiful, hand-crafted occasions that match perfectly to the deepest beliefs and values," said Andrew Copson, Humanists UK's chief executive, who was a guest at the wedding.
"We hope it proves to be the first of many such legal humanist ceremonies."
Ms Lacole, and Mr O'Kane both describe themselves as humanists, with a non-religious combination of attitudes, ethics and beliefs centred on human experience and welfare.
Humanists adhere to a scientific view of the world and believe humans steer their own destiny.
The 27-year-old model is also vice-chair of the organisation, Atheist NI.
She had claimed she was being discriminated against under the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR)'s protection for freedom of belief.
Ms Lacole welcomed the ruling, which could now be used by others seeking the same status.
Speaking outside court, she said: "It's amazing now that we are being recognised, it's not just a privilege applied to religions.
"I'm just so pleased, what this means for us and to other people in Northern Ireland," she said.
Indebted Ming Jiang was being hounded by creditors when he killed his friend and fellow Chinese national Yang Liu.
He then dumped 36-year-old Mr Liu's dismembered body in a suitcase near a remote Derbyshire lay-by.
Jiang, 43, denied murder but a jury at Manchester's Minshull Street Crown Court unanimously found him guilty earlier.
He will be sentenced on 2 May.
The trial heard Jiang used Mr Liu's bank and credit cards to withdraw thousands of pounds in the two weeks after the killing, in October 2016.
Records from casinos in Manchester showed he had bought £178,000 worth of gambling chips and had racked up accumulated losses of £273,000.
He also reclaimed watches worth £16,000 from pawnbrokers, and tried to sell Mr Liu's £220,000 dockside apartment at Salford Quays.
Mr Liu was "comfortably off", while his friend Jiang was living in a one-bedroom flat in Beswick and struggling with debt, the court heard.
Jiang murdered Mr Liu probably in the bathroom of his house before cutting his victim's head and limbs off and putting the torso in a Samsonite suitcase, the prosecution said.
The suitcase was then dumped and set alight, before being found by walkers near the A628 Woodhead Pass at Tintwistle on 10 October last year.
A subsequent police search of Jiang's home found evidence of an "extensive clean-up", using paint and cleaning products, police said.
But traces of the victim's blood were found on the ceiling, in the bath and on a settee.
Prosecutor Peter Wright, QC, said Mr Liu's head, lower arms and lower legs have never been found.
Following his arrest, Jiang was said to have used an "elaborate smokescreen" of "slurs" to conceal his guilt, including suggesting Mr Liu was a paid escort for older Chinese men.
Det Ch Insp Terry Crompton described the murder as a "wicked, wicked crime".
"Jiang essentially adopted Mr Liu's identity. He was trying to sell his flat. He had a significant gambling habit and effectively, that was the motive behind this murder."
The detective said CCTV and text messages were crucial in catching Jiang.
Mr Liu's family said: "Our son was warm and full of life. He was also kind. Since birth, he always wore a smile on his face.
"When our son is mentioned, we cry with tears running down our faces. Our physical and mental sufferings can never ever be repaired."
News of the American's failed test emerged last month, but the details of the substance he tested positive for have - until now - not been made public.
The BBC has obtained extracts of a letter sent to Gay by the United States Anti Doping Agency (Usada) which outlines the nature of the substance traced in a sample he gave to drug testers during the US World Championship trials in June.
The letter, dated 23 July, states: "Using the Carbon Isotope Ratio Analysis it reported that the sample had an adverse analytical finding reflecting values that are consistent with the administration of a steroid of exogenous [external] nature."
The letter goes on to say that a positive test for an "anabolic agent" of this kind would - if proven - be a violation of the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) code.
Under the Wada code, the standard ban for an athlete found guilty of taking a prohibited steroid is two years - the maximum punishment currently available.
A carbon isotope test, also known as an IRMS test, is normally used by anti-doping authorities to detect the banned steroid testosterone or closely related substances such as DHEA or androstenedione. These are known as precursors of testosterone.
Usada refused to comment on whether Gay had tested positive for a steroid.
But the agency confirmed on 27 July that the 2007 world 100m champion failed at least two tests. It is understood that in addition to the positive sample he gave at the US trials, he failed an out-of-competition test in May.
After being informed of his first failed test, the 30-year-old athlete pulled out of the American team selected for the World Athletics Championships, which were held in Moscow earlier this month.
Gay has since been given a provisional suspension by Usada while the investigation into his case continues. He will face a disciplinary hearing in the coming weeks but has already earned credit from Usada for going public with his failed tests.
The fastest man over 100m in 2013, he had been expected to challenge Usain Bolt for gold in Moscow. After withdrawing from the US squad, Gay blamed a member of his back-up team for the failed tests.
"I don't have a sabotage story," he said last month. "I basically put my trust in someone and was let down. I know exactly what went on, but I can't discuss it right now."
There have been reports in the United States linking Gay to an Atlanta-based anti-ageing doctor called Clayton Gibson. Some anti-ageing specialists are known to use hormones such as testosterone and DHEA. Gibson has confirmed working with Gay, but has been quoted saying his clinic does not give its clients "synthetic" substances.
It is thought Gay, who worked closely with Usada on anti-doping campaigns in the past and volunteered for extra testing, is co-operating with the agency to try to reduce his sentence in return for evidence and information on others who may be involved in a wider doping ring.
Although Usada would not talk about the specifics of Gay's case, chief executive Travis Tygart told the BBC: "We appreciate Mr Gay taking responsibility for his decisions and for voluntarily removing himself from the World Championships."
The politicians he wants held are Brazil's ex-President Jose Sarney, Senate Speaker Renan Calheiros, ex-lower house Speaker Eduardo Cunha and PMDB leader Romero Juca.
The four are suspected of obstructing a massive corruption investigation.
A Supreme Court judge will now have to decide whether to act on the request.
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All except Jose Sarney are currently members of Congress, and as such any judicial action against them has to first be approved by the Supreme Court.
The four deny wrongdoing.
They are alleged to have obstructed Operation Car Wash, the investigation into a massive corruption scandal at state-owned oil company Petrobras.
Jose Sarney: Former Brazilian President (1985-1990), preceded Renan Calheiros as Senate Speaker, PMDB
Renan Calheiros: Senate Speaker, PMDB
Eduardo Cunha: Former lower house speaker, forced out over allegations of obstruction of justice, PMDB, driving force behind Dilma Rousseff's impeachment, was suspended from the post of House Speaker in May over allegations of obstructing justice
Romero Juca: PMDB President, resigned as planning minister two weeks ago over allegations of obstructing Operation Car Wash
The request to have them arrested comes after telephone conversations taped by former Senator Sergio Machado were leaked to the press.
Mr Machado, who used to run a Petrobras-owned logistics company, made the recordings as part of a plea deal with prosecutors.
The investigation has led to dozens of politicians and business executives being accused of paying or receiving kickbacks.
In the recordings, Mr Calheiros, Mr Sarney and Mr Juca can be heard allegedly discussing ways to derail Operation Car Wash.
They have said that their remarks were taken out of context and deny obstructing the investigation.
The leaked recordings cost Mr Juca his post as planning minister.
Earlier, Mr Cunha was removed by the Supreme Court from his post as lower house speaker for allegedly obstructing justice.
Prosecutors now want him arrested because they allege that he continued to try to hinder investigations even after his removal from office.
According to Brazilian media, Mr Janot also requested that Mr Calheiros be suspended as Senate Speaker.
The post is a key one as the Senate prepares to conduct an impeachment trial against Dilma Rousseff, who was suspended from the presidency last month over allegations of manipulating government accounts.
If Mr Calheiros were to be suspended, Senator Jorge Viana would take over as Senate Speaker. Mr Viana is a member of the Workers' Party and an ally of Ms Rousseff.
Ms Rousseff argues that the impeachment proceedings are an attempt by top members of the PMDB party to oust her from office.
According to Ms Rousseff, PMDB politicians wanted her gone so they could take over power and stop Operation Car Wash.
After her suspension on 12 May, Vice-President Michel Temer of the PMDB became acting president and appointed a new cabinet.
Within weeks of him assuming office, he had lost two of his cabinet members - anti-corruption minister Fabiano Silveira and Mr Juca - to allegations of obstructing Operation Car Wash.
If Mr Janot's request is granted it would be a heavy blow to interim President Michel Temer.
The ad, on whoistheking.be, asks those who choose Philippe: "Are you sure? He won't be the one to cook your fries."
A spokesman said the use of the king's image must be approved by the royal family, but they had not been asked.
On the website, Philippe is represented by a cartoon.
"We disapprove of this approach," royal spokesman Pierre Emmanuel de Bauw said.
"Since it is for commercial purposes, we would not have given our authorisation."
On the ad website, if a user chooses Burger King no more prompts appear. If they choose Philippe, they get asked twice whether they are sure - and the second time, the only option is "no".
Votes are open until 19 June. The chain will open its first outlet in Belgium at the end of June.
A Burger King representative told the news agency EFE it had not received any communication from the monarchy.
Children's scooters have been added to the basket of goods used to measure the UK's inflation rate.
It has replaced the swing, which was being sold less, particularly during the winter, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.
The price movements of 700 goods and services are measured in 20,000 UK outlets to calculate inflation.
Also added to the basket were gin, flavoured ciders, non-dairy milk (such as soya or almond), men's fitness tops, and jigsaw puzzles for adults.
Gin comes back into the mix after a 13-year absence from the basket - the result of new craft distilleries popping up and rising popularity.
Bicycle helmets also return to the inflation basket after a 12-year absence.
Disappearing from the basket are alcopops, old mobile phone handsets, menthol cigarettes, and the fee for stopping cheques.
The basket of goods reflects contemporary habits and technology to calculate the changing cost of living, as measured by the inflation rate.
A series of changes have been made, but the replacement of the swing with the scooter is perhaps the clearest signal of how families have changed their habits regarding gifts for children.
Officials at the ONS have decided scooters have moved on from being a fad to become everyday items.
Last year, coffee pods and microwave rice were added to the basket, to reflect a long-term trend towards prepared foods.
Nightclub entry fees and rewriteable DVDs were among the items removed from the calculations.
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The talks in the capital Nay Pyi Taw included the head of the military and ended with an agreement to meet again.
The military-drafted constitution currently does not allow Ms Suu Kyi to run for president.
She has said the talks will only be meaningful if they lead to free and fair elections, due later this year.
The Nobel Peace Prize winner refused to rule out boycotting the elections when addressing reporters on Thursday, saying: "We keep our cards close to our chests until such time as we need to show them."
The talks follow months of pressure and a motion in parliament to ensure they took place.
Six leaders were involved in Friday's meeting. Besides Thein Sein and Aung San Suu Kyi, top military commander Snr Gen Min Aung Hlaing, the speaker and the president of both houses of parliament, and a representative of ethnic minorities, Aye Maung, attended.
A spokesman for Thein Sein said the participants had "agreed on the framework, format and date for future discussions".
The next round is expected to take place in late April or early May.
The BBC's Myanmar correspondent Jonah Fisher says the talks are the last throw of the dice for Ms Suu Kyi in her efforts to change the constitution before November's general election.
The constitution effectively bans her from running for the presidency as it rules out anyone with relatives who are foreign citizens. Ms Suu Kyi's children are British citizens.
Our correspondent says her pleas are almost certain to fall on deaf ears, and her vague threats about a possible election boycott likely to be ignored.
But if her National League for Democracy party wins the elections, most people expect she would then have a mandate to push again for changes to the constitution.
Myanmar, also known as Burma, moved from military to civilian rule in 2010 and is governed by a military-backed civilian administration.
Under Thein Sein, many political prisoners have been freed and media restrictions eased. The pro-democracy party of Ms Suu Kyi, who spent years under house arrest, has rejoined the political fold and holds a small bloc of seats in parliament. She was elected to parliament in 2012.
But concerns have been expressed that the government may be backsliding, and Ms Suu Kyi has said that the reform process has stalled.
The 47-year-old replaces David Moyes, who resigned in May following the Black Cats' relegation to the Championship.
Since taking over at Preston in 2013, Grayson has led them to promotion from League One and two 11th-place finishes in the second tier.
The ex-Huddersfield and Leeds boss has signed a three-year deal on Wearside.
"I am delighted to come to Sunderland, a club with such wonderful history and tradition," said Grayson, who brings Preston assistant Glynn Snodin with him to the Stadium of Light.
"I want a group of players full of desire, team spirit and a never-say-die attitude - that's the very least that we should expect from a Sunderland player."
Sunderland were granted permission to speak to Grayson on Thursday morning, after the club's initial search for a new boss was put on hold earlier in the month while talks over a potential sale of the club were ongoing.
Preston said that, after contact from the Black Cats, Grayson asked to speak to the club, with a statement from North End confirming that a compensation package, believed to be about £750,000, was already guaranteed in his contract.
Sunderland had previously approached Aberdeen to speak to Derek McInnes regarding their managerial vacancy, but he chose to remain with the Scottish Premiership side.
Off the pitch, the Black Cats say owner Ellis Short will "continue his commitment, financially and personally", after talks with a German consortium ended.
A statement on Thursday confirmed they had been in talks with an interested party in the past week, but have now decided the takeover "would not be in the best interests" of the club.
A television production company fronted by Sunderland fans withdrew its bid to take over on 21 June, leaving the German consortium in the running.
But now American Short will continue in charge of the club he has owned since 2009.
"We would like to thank our supporters for their patience during what we know has been a period of uncertainty and frustration for them," said Sunderland's statement.
On 8 August, a 62- year-old man was detained by police in the city of Ruichang, Jiangxi province, for sexually abusing seven girls. The details of the case are horrifying.
The man was working as a school teacher in a remote mountainous region and between September 2012 and May 2013, he molested seven pupils aged eight or nine in a room at the back of the class, saying that he was just checking homework.
The girls were left with sexually transmitted diseases. Their parents were all migrant workers, Chinese media reports say.
The man has admitted the crimes and police are still investigating the case. It emerged just days after another primary school teacher was arrested in Shanxi Province, in central China, on suspicion of molesting several pupils.
Analysts monitoring such cases of abuse say these reports are probably just the tip of an iceberg.
In May this year, no fewer than eight cases of sex abuse in schools were exposed within a span of 20 days, causing alarm among parents, disgust and anger on social media and in many editorials on official media.
"Behind every reported sex abuse case, there might be six hidden cases unreported," says Wang Dawei, a well-known criminologist in the People's Public Security University of China. He believes that many children might not realize that a sex crime has been committed against them and therefore might not even tell their parents.
One such case emerged in May when a teacher was detained in the city of Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, for molesting four girls. But this case only surfaced when one of the victims told her father in passing that she had massaged her teacher's back at school.
Analysts have identified some key trends. According to Han Jingjing, director of a Beijing-based legal centre for young people, 60% of the sex abuse cases happen in rural areas and 70% happen at schools; the victims tend to come from single families, families that went through divorces and re-marriages, or where mothers are in prison.
National figures on such crimes are difficult to come by, but according to Ms Wang Xingjuan, founder of The Maple Women's Psychological Counselling Centre in Beijing, Guangdong province alone dealt with more than 1,700 sex abuse cases involving children from 2008 to 2011.
But what has angered many is the involvement of the most responsible carers outside of the home, school teachers, in these cases
In June a primary school principal in Hainan Province was sentenced to 13.5 years in prison for raping six female pupils in a local hotel. Among the cases reported in May was that of a 56-year-old man in Henan province detained for molesting several pupils in his charge and threatening them and in Hunan, another teacher was detained for abusing several girls.
These cases have shocked the nation and Chinese social media is simmering with anger, frustration and questions.
"Are they animals"? "Don't they have daughters?" That's the view of one netizen on Tencent Weibo - the Chinese micro-blogging website.
Mother 0315 posts on Sina Weibo: "I always thought of teaching as a noble vocation, but now I feel a teacher is worse than animals. As a mother, I can feel the pain of the victims and their families."
Zuoxingzhan laments the general moral decline of the nation: "Nowadays, teachers are sex abusers, doctors sell babies, judges fool around with prostitutes…… since when did moral standards slip from these once-respected occupations?"
But there is also another facet to these cases that is less commented on.
School children in rural areas are particularly vulnerable if their parents happen to be migrant workers who spend a long time working away from home. They often don't get to visit regularly and the children are left to be looked after by relatives, such as grandparents.
A recent report by the All China Women's Federation, the official union for Chinese women, suggests that 37% of children in the rural area belong to this category of so-called "left behind children", and sexual abuse is a major threat.
At a July conference held in Beijing in response to the spate of sexual abuse cases reported in the official media, experts point out that the increase in cases can also be blamed on the poor quality of sex education and inadequate guidelines for children on how to respond to such situations.
"Some children are molested when they are about seven or eight, but they don't realise that they have been abused", observes Wang Xingjuan, founder of the Maple Women's Psychological Counselling Centre. "They are not comfortable with the situation; they are afraid and they know there is something wrong, but they put up with it".
"Children should be educated enough to know that in such situations, they can say no, they can cry, they can shout, and they can leave - all these are self-protection methods", says lawyer Liu Liwen.
A recent survey carried out by the Maple centre reveals that many schools don't educate pupils about sexual offences, and even sex education classes made mandatory by the Ministry of Education are not carried out properly, with many schools simply going through the motions and some even asking the students to read the textbooks themselves at home.
But things are no better at home, as traditionally, adults don't talk about sex with their children. The "absent mothers" situation makes this even worse.
How the legal system should protect vulnerable children and punish the culprits is another area for debate. According to the criminal code, people who have committed multiple acts of sexual abuse of underage children should get 10 years or longer in prison.
Recently a school principal accused of sexually abusing four girls had his sentenced increased by six months to three years. The victim's family still thinks it is too lenient and are looking for a sentence of at least five years in prison.
There will be a further hearing later this year. After this latest spate of cases, people will be watching.
The woman opened the front door to her home in Russell Hill Road, Purley, on 11 May at about 07:50 BST when she realised a man was outside.
He used his foot to force the door open and entered the property where he first assaulted her, bruising her face, before raping her.
The Met said it was "doing everything we can to arrest the suspect".
Det Insp Keith Ward said "specially trained detectives" were providing support for the woman.
The man is described as white, about 5ft 8ins (1.73m) tall, with short brown hair. He also possibly had a Scottish accent.
"We ask that anyone who recognises the suspect's description contact us as a matter of urgency", police said.
Belfast councillor Jim Rodgers rang the show saying he had been informed by a reliable source of the new revenue stream.
Nolan was happy to play along with the April Fool and said his take of 38 pence a call was an innovative way of getting a pay rise up front.
He claimed it had been a straight negotiation between himself and the BBC Northern Ireland controller.
Mr Rodgers said it was an "absolute and utter disgrace" and the revelation sparked a series of angry calls.
Mervyn from Holywood, County Down, said: "This is absolutely ridiculous if there is any truth in it. How low can you get.
"For goodness sake Stephen, go and catch yourself on - it is a scandal, an absolute and utter rip-off."
Another guest said:"Do you not realise how hard people are getting it? You are scraping more money any way you can. All you are doing is losing the respect of people."
BBC Northern Ireland Talkback presenter William Crawley appeared on the Nolan Show to say he had already received "a lot of texts and emails" about the subject.
"All calls for Talkback will remain free," he said. "I'm not in this for the money, I'm in this for public service broadcasting."
Meanwhile, George from the Shankill Road in Belfast said it was an "absolute outrage" and "everyone would be moving to Talkback".
"Thomas from north Belfast could be paying a tenner a day the number of calls he makes," he added.
"You have to think of the regulars here. "Frank Mitchell's listener's (U105 presenter) are going to go through the roof."
Not everyone was critical of the hoax initiative however, with one woman calling to say of Nolan:"He is saving the world on a daily basis, surely people can afford 75 pence for their world-saving calls."
A statement purporting to be from the BBC was read out on air saying it deeply "regretted the alleged leaking of information" on the show.
It said it was not its policy to comment on private contractual matters, but it wished to point out that contractual negotiations had not concluded.
At the end of the programme, Mr Rodgers, who had threatened to raise the matter with the new Belfast super council, put listeners and some BBC colleagues in the picture about the elaborate hoax.
And Nolan made sure the message was hammered home.
"Can I just assure everyone we are not charging anyone a penny extra for the calls - it is April Fool's Day you buck eejits," he added.
The High Street sports chain, founded by Newcastle United owner Mike Ashley, plans to open 200 gyms offering membership from £5 a month.
Members will also have to pay a £10 joining fee.
The decision follows its acquisition of 30 sites from gym chain LA Fitness, which it is in the process of rebranding.
The first gym will open in Liverpool's Aintree, with the second in Keighley in West Yorkshire.
The gym in Aintree will be next to a new Sports Direct superstore.
"This will be affordable fitness on an unprecedented scale," said a spokesman for Sports Direct.
"It will revolutionise the market by making private gym membership a realistic lifestyle choice for millions of people," he added.
Cantor Fitzgerald analyst Freddie George said it was "a good move".
"There's a real gap in the market for this and there's some overlap with its sporting goods stores".
The firm's shares were down 2.7% on Tuesday. Mr George said shareholders might be concerned the firm could be diversifying too far.
Sports Direct's move into budget gyms comes after two gym companies - Pure Gym and the Gym Group - ditched plans to merge and create a new low-cost player in the market.
Sports Direct, founded by Mike Ashley in 1982, operates 418 sports stores in the UK.
Dorothy Johnstone wanted a judge to quash the decision by the attorney general not to order a fresh tribunal into the 1988 bombing in Londonderry.
Her father Eugene Dalton, 54, and Shiela Lewis, 68, were killed in the explosion.
Gerard Curran, 57, died months after being pulled from the rubble.
The attack became known as the "Good Samaritan bomb" because the three friends had gone to check on the whereabouts of a neighbour in Derry who had been kidnapped earlier by the IRA.
The IRA later apologised, admitting it planted the booby-trap device in a bid to kill soldiers.
At the High Court on Tuesday, a judge ruled that Attorney General John Larkin was justified in concluding that a new inquest was not advisable.
The judge cited the financial and human costs of a further public hearing and said that it would be unlikely to lead to the prosecution of the perpetrators.
Ms Johnstone's solicitor said the family was "disappointed" with the decision and will appeal.
The case, which challenged the decision-making powers of Northern Ireland's chief legal officer, was the first of its kind.
In July 2013, Police Ombudsman Dr Michael Maguire published findings that officers had information about an IRA booby-trap bomb in a house in the Creggan estate, but did nothing to warn residents of the possible danger.
He identified a failure in the police obligation to protect the lives of the public.
Following the report, the attorney general decided a new inquest was not advisable at the time.
However, Ms Johnstone's legal team claimed it could help establish responsibility for police failures.
They argued that investigative obligations under the European Conventions of Human Rights were rekindled by the Ombudsman's findings and that ordering a new inquest could provide fresh hope of identifying and punishing those responsible.
The court also heard that since Mr Larkin had come into office he had directed new inquests into at least 30 cases involving more than 70 deaths - many of them Troubles-related.
However, the judge backed the attorney general's decision.
He said there was no evidence of police collusion in the bombing.
"It is very difficult to see how any practical benefit could now be obtained for the public in going over the procedures then being followed by police officers in Derry at the time, when they say that much of the city was out of bounds to them by terrorist activity."
He added that to ask civilian and retired police witnesses to give evidence in a public inquest "will inevitably be unwelcome and positively distressing" and that "many may have legitimate health grounds for refusing to attend".
"I am very pessimistic that an inquest at this time would succeed in securing any significant accession of information compared to that which the Ombudsman obtained."
In a statement, Ms Johnstone's solicitor said the family of Eugene Dalton was "disappointed with the judgement".
"We welcome the level of scrutiny which the court engaged with examining the process of decision making by the attorney general, whose office has a number of similar applications before it.
"We are, however, disappointed in the extent of the court's focus on perpetrators, and that the same focus was not applied to the to the role of the police when, as in this case, police involvement and knowledge raise grave concerns."
Saudi national Nahid Almanea, 31, was stabbed 16 times as she walked to the University of Essex campus last June.
James Attfield, 33, was found with 102 knife wounds in Castle Park last March.
Essex Police said the boy, from Colchester, was arrested on Tuesday on Salary Brook Trail on suspicion of carrying an offensive weapon. He was then arrested over the murders.
The boy was arrested on the same footpath where student Ms Almanea was killed on 17 June, as she walked from her student accommodation in Woodrow Way to the university complex in Wivenhoe.
He is currently in custody at the town's police station.
Police have previously said there could be a link between the two murders, but both killings were so vicious they could not tell if the same weapon was used.
Mr Attfield, who was known as Jim, was found on the Riverside Path in Colchester in the early hours of 29 March with dozens of stab wounds to his body.
Essex Police said "inquiries are continuing", and added that they would "like to hear from anyone who may have any information in relation to the investigation".
The Care Quality Commission immediately moved all 48 residents out of Bentley Care Home in Liverpool.
Inspectors also found a disconnected call bell and dead flies and mouse droppings in the kitchen.
The home, which was run by Prasur Investments Limited, has since closed.
Debbie Westhead, CQC's deputy chief inspector for adult social care, described the home as "appalling".
It was officially rated "inadequate" in all areas, with residents' "lives, health and wellbeing" at significant risk.
She said: "We were left with no other option than to urgently remove their registration and work with Liverpool City Council to immediately relocate residents.
"I have no doubt that if Bentley Care Home stayed open, it would have been a case of when, not if, something awful and unavoidable would have happened."
During the visits in April and May, the CQC found medicines not being safely managed, night staff sleeping on duty and people smoking in the building.
A member of staff told inspectors that a call bell had been deliberately cut off to stop a resident ringing for help as it irritated the staff.
Environmental Health also closed its kitchen because of a serious rodent problem. Inspectors found dead flies in a potato peeler and mouse droppings on the floor.
The official report said: "There were no systems or processes in the home to ensure that the service provided was safe, effective, caring, responsive or well led."
The Bentley Road home had been placed in special measures in 2015 under its previous operator.
But a donation drive at Crumlin Road Gaol has collected the real blood of 200 local TV and film extras.
NI's Blood Transfusion Service says it will struggle to meet its target of 8,000 new donors this year.
It says maintaining a database of 60,000 donors is integral for emergency recipients.
The event was organised to encourage new donors to come forward.
Paul McElkereney, the Northern Ireland Blood Transfusion Service's donor recruitment manager, said recruiting new donors was vital.
"Its becoming harder and harder each year.," he said. "So people coming forward for the first time is absolutely fantastic.
"We need donors from across the board, people don't realise that within three-to-four days of somebody giving blood, somebody else in Northern Ireland will receive it.
"To enrol to give blood is such an easy thing to do. Seeing an advert and thinking 'I must get round to that one day' is no good."
Siobhan Hussey, a nurse who featured as an extra in locally-filmed Line of Duty, received a life-saving blood donation over Christmas 1983, after giving birth to her daughter.
"I was very tired and short of breath," she said. "I couldn't get out of bed because I was very weak and it became very apparent I'd been haemorrhaging through the night.
"I got up and collapsed and the next thing I knew, it was Boxing Night and I'd already been to theatre and received five units of blood.
"Without that I wouldn't be here to talk about it today - I'm very passionate about it.
"I've worked in A&E, so I've been part of a team giving the blood and you can see the incredible difference it can make in life and death situations.
"For a little bit of your time, you can actually give somebody a lifetime."
It follows a £330m deal announced last month involving Liberty House and Simec to take over the Rio Tinto site.
Their plans include creating an aluminium wheel manufacturing facility, and a further 300 jobs directly, with another 300 in the supply chain.
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon visited the site on Monday.
Liberty said it aimed to protect the existing 170 jobs in Lochaber and expand metal manufacturing and downstream engineering there.
The purchase by Liberty and Simec - both members of the GFG Alliance - includes the hydro power plants at Fort William and Kinlochleven and more than 100,000 acres of land hosting the water catchment area, including Ben Nevis' foothills.
The Scottish government is supporting the plans by guaranteeing the power purchases of the aluminium smelter.
Ms Sturgeon said the proposals reinforced the link between the smelter and the hydro station at Fort William.
She described it as a "historic day" for the smelter and said she looked forward to hundreds of new jobs in the area in the coming years.
She added: "Today is the start of an exciting new chapter in Scotland's manufacturing story and the Scottish government and its agencies will keep working with Sanjeev Gupta and the GFG Alliance to help them realise their enterprising vision for Lochaber."
Sanjeev Gupta, executive chairman of Liberty House Group and of the GFG Alliance strategic board, said: "We hope this day will come to be recognised as the start of a bright new future for Highland industry.
"It puts Lochaber right at the heart of our vision for sustainable and integrated local production that can revitalise British manufacturing."
Mr Gupta and Ms Sturgeon were among those who attended the announcement who wore a bindi, a symbol of Mr Gupta's Hindu faith.
Jay Hambro, chief investment officer of the GFG Alliance, and chief executive of Simec energy & mining divisions said: "These hydro-power stations have enough capacity to power around 83,000 homes.
"Today Lochaber provides the power required to produce 47,000 tonnes of aluminium. We have already identified investment programmes to significantly increase power generation from the existing assets and are studying how to create further capacity locally."
The purchase of Lochaber represents a major escalation of the GFG Alliance's investment in Scotland, following Liberty's acquisition of the Dalzell and Clydebridge Steel plants earlier this year.
Dalzell formally restarted in September after being mothballed by its previous owners.
Rouse, 24, has helped Kent win all three of their County Championship games this season, scoring 95 not out in their crushing win over Derbyshire.
However, he says he nearly quit the game two years ago after being released by Hampshire and Gloucestershire.
"I'd be lying if I said I didn't think about other options," he said.
With England international Sam Billings playing for the Delhi Daredevils in the Indian Premier League, Rouse has been behind the stumps for all of Kent's Division Two wins this campaign.
It's an opportunity he's grabbed with both hands, with his unbeaten 95 against Derbyshire a career-best first-class score, while his wicketkeeping has helped Kent take the maximum 60 wickets and make a flying start to their campaign.
But it has been far from a straightforward route to the first team for Rouse, who has had to fight for his place every step of the way.
The Zimbabwe-born keeper was let go by Hampshire and Gloucestershire before a temporary spell as cover at Kent turned into a two-year contract following Ryan Davies' move to Somerset in January 2016.
"It's been a bit of a rollercoaster - it's been quite tough to be honest. With the nature of being a keeper you're vying for one or two spots," he told BBC Radio Kent.
"Once I got released [by Gloucestershire] I qualified as a personal trainer, which kind of eased everything. It allowed me to have that sort of plan B, to concentrate on cricket for a bit.
"It was only a late call with Ryan [Davies] going to Somerset, but it's gone pretty well. Me having that personal training qualification and a little bit of something else behind me allows me to relax a bit.
"I've realised I do have a plan B. I can play with a bit more freedom, which is nice."
Members of the EIS Further Education Lecturers' Association want to see more action taken to end differences in pay between colleges.
The first 24-hour strike is planned for next Thursday.
Colleges Scotland, which represents colleges, said the dispute was "unnecessary" and progress was being made to address the union's concerns.
But, the union said if the dispute was not settled by the middle of next month they will strike for three days every week.
The proposed strike dates are:
The dispute is, in effect, a continuation of one which last year led to the first national strike in Scotland's colleges for decades.
A similar programme of escalating action was planned then but a deal was struck after one day of action.
Senior figures within the union are hopeful the dispute will be resolved without the need to escalate action. They believe there could be political pressure to solve the dispute quickly because of both the council elections and the general election campaign.
Colleges have been through a huge shake-up in recent years, merging into so-called regional super-colleges with national pay bargaining reintroduced.
Colleges had previously been free to set their own terms and conditions. But the union has highlighted examples of lecturers doing virtually identical jobs at different colleges, but with pay as much as £10,000 apart.
The military said officers tracked down Sombat Boonngamanong through the internet. He is wanted for violating an order to report to the ruling junta.
Mr Sombat led an online campaign organising rallies against the army's coup, which took place in May.
The military seized power in Thailand after continuing political unrest.
The move followed six months of political deadlock as protesters tried to oust the government of Yingluck Shinawatra.
But the army's removal of her elected government has drawn widespread international criticism.
Mr Sombat was arrested late on Thursday in the eastern Chonburi province.
"We have a team who tracked him through the internet," army spokeswoman Sirichan Ngathong told the AFP news agency.
Officials said soldiers and police were able to locate the IP address used by Mr Sombat to post his comments.
His arrest has been denounced by Amnesty International who described it as part of "a systematic and widening crackdown on key human rights" by the military.
"Sombat Boonngamanong should be released immediately unless he is charged with a recognisable criminal offence and remanded by an independent, civilian court," said human rights group's Asia director, Richard Bennett.
"This is the latest in a disturbing wave of arrests of people purely voicing disquiet about the military regime. The army's course of action is looking increasingly like a purge."
Hundreds were detained after the coup, but most have since been freed, correspondents say.
Meanwhile, corruption investigators have widened their inquiry into former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, investigating her private assets.
The National Anti-Corruption Commission's investigation is connected to a rice-subsidy scheme, in which the government bought rice from farmers at above-market prices to boost rural incomes.
The commission had already indicted Ms Yingluck over charges of dereliction of duty, saying that she failed to heed advice that the scheme was potentially wasteful and prone to corruption.
Ms Yingluck was detained last month at an undisclosed location as leaders of Thursday's military coup tightened their grip on power.
Mr Sombat previously led a pro-democracy group called Red Sunday, reports the BBC's Jonathan Head in Bangkok.
He was also one of the only prominent red shirt activists to defy the Thai military by taunting them from his Facebook and Twitter accounts, our correspondent adds.
Mr Sombat has urged followers to stage peaceful public rallies, and has encouraged the flashing of the three-finger salute from The Hunger Games films that has become a symbol of defiance against the junta.
EU officials have been urging Ukraine since 2014 to clamp down on corruption and to carry out other reforms.
But critics say not enough has changed, and President Petro Poroshenko has been accused of backing corrupt officials.
The Brussels talks with senior EU officials will focus on the progress of reforms, with the promise of visa-free travel for Ukrainians on the table.
But Ukraine hopes another matter - Russia's role on Ukrainian territory - will take priority at the meeting.
Perception of corruption is worse in Ukraine than in Russia, according to Transparency International.
Two weeks ago, the governor of the Odessa region, former Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili, resigned, accusing Mr Poroshenko of backing corrupt officials who, he said, were undermining his reform efforts in Odessa.
Days earlier, officials were forced to reveal their huge wealth - hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash and collections of luxury items - under new anti-corruption rules.
In 2014, Ukraine's then-President Viktor Yanukovych was forced from power amid corruption allegations - his lavish estate, with Greek ruins and a replica galleon, was then revealed.
Last month, activists hung underwear outside parliament in protest - the word for "underwear" resembles that for "cowards".
Ever-since the collapse of the Soviet Union, corruption has, for many people, continued to be an integral part of everyday life in Ukraine.
Ukrainians know that a small payment is often necessary if their child wants to see a good doctor.
At some schools extra money can, perhaps benignly, be requested from parents for books or other equipment. A lack of funding for schools and hospitals is part of the problem.
Earlier this year a journalist wrote about her shame when she paid a $200 (£160) bribe to her university professor, to ensure that he passed her dissertation.
Since 2014, some things have changed.
The police used to have the worst reputation for exacting bribes. From personal experience, police officers in Kiev nowadays religiously play by the book.
Unnecessary levels of bureaucracy are often where "extra payments" creep in.
And low salaries are also to blame. The minimum wage in Ukraine is currently just $56 a month, although it will be doubled in the new year.
Ukraine has created a new anti-corruption bureau, a new police force, new electronic systems for tendering government contracts, and a method for tracking the wealth of public officials and politicians.
On Wednesday, a 23-year-old lawyer, Anna Kalynchuk, was appointed to lead the anti-corruption drive.
Critics claim she lacks the proper experience, but others have welcomed new ideas to challenge older politicians.
Days earlier, 24-year-old Anastasia Deyeva was appointed deputy interior minister one of the country's highest-ranking police and security positions.
The seizure of territory by pro-Russian rebels in Donbass in south-eastern Ukraine remains a concern for the Kiev government, more than two years after the annexation of Crimea by Russia.
"I think the focus must be on the situation in Donbass, on Russian aggression, on the extension of sanctions," Ukraine's Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin said before the summit.
He said Russia must be forced to honour peace agreements signed in early 2015.
Ukraine is also concerned about Donald Trump's praise of the Russian president during the US presidential campaign.
Mr Trump repeatedly talked about repairing relations with Russia, and criticised the United States' role in Ukraine.
His comments led some Ukrainians to fear a withdrawal of US support, or even the acceptance of the new status quo in Crimea by Mr Trump's White House.
The Privy Council, which rejected the industry plans, had been expected to rubber stamp a plan agreed by the main Westminster parties in the next week.
Opponents say this plan could result in the end of the free press and hope the legal move will delay its approval but the government says it will push ahead.
The row follows the phone-hacking scandal and subsequent Leveson inquiry.
A newspaper industry source said the judicial review application would be formally lodged in the High Court on Monday.
One senior industry source also said they hoped the bid for a review would put a "spoke in the wheels" of the Westminster plan.
"It's very hard to imagine them proceeding next week to file their Royal Charter when the previous decision is subject to judicial review," he said.
Some in the industry have warned that a system decided by politicians risks bringing an end to press freedom.
The Newspaper Society said the press's preferred charter was not handled fairly as the Privy Council committee - which is set to agree the final proposals on 30 October - failed to consult the press.
The judicial review application will be made by Pressbof (Press Standards Board of Finance), the industry body that funds the current Press Complaints Commission.
Pressbof's chairman Lord Black of Brentwood said: "The government and the Privy Council should have applied the most rigorous standards of consultation and examination of the Royal Charter proposed by the industry, which would have enshrined tough regulatory standards at the same time as protecting press freedom.
"They singularly failed to do so, and that is why - as the issues at stake are so extraordinarily high - we are having to take this course of action."
The campaign group which represents some victims of press intrusion, Hacked Off, accused the press of being predictable and self serving.
The group's director Brian Cathcart said: "The people leading this part of the newspaper industry are exposing themselves as desperate and deaf.
"Desperate, because they are now resorting to a legal challenge to something based on the findings of a public inquiry, and backed by the victims of press abuse, all parties in Parliament and the overwhelming majority of the public.
"Deaf, because they refuse to listen to the evidence that there is no threat to the free press and that this deal actually benefits the press, both financially and in terms of freedom of expression."
Meanwhile, the press is highlighting plans to set up its own regulator under its own rules.
Documents including a contract to bind publishers and the regulations under which a new regulator would work were due to be published online at 19:00 BST. They expect the new regulator to be operating by next year.
A spokesman for the Department of Culture, Media and Sport commented: "The government is working to bring in a system of independent press self-regulation that will protect press freedom while offering real redress when mistakes are made.
"The culture secretary pushed hard for recent changes on arbitration and the standards code to be made, which will ensure the system is workable and the decision to go to court is particularly disappointing in light of these changes."
The 500-1 outsider. The career outsider.
The man whose entire time at Westminster has been defined by opposition to his own party.
He is now leader of Her Majesty's Official Opposition.
No one but no one, least of all Jeremy Corbyn, would have predicted this just a few months ago.
Whoever said politics was boring?
So what on earth does Mr Corbyn's victory mean for the Labour Party?
Make no mistake. I know exaggerations tumble from the mouths of political journalists rather frequently.
But this is nothing short of a political earthquake.
Speak to people at Westminster and they cannot find adequate historical comparisons with what has just happened.
"This is not even like Michael Foot leading Labour in the 80s, or Iain Duncan Smith in charge of us a decade or so ago," one Conservative minister mused to me the other day.
"They were both serious men. It'd be like us electing..." he went on, before discreetly namechecking a handful of colleagues he would place in the "nutter" category.
So let's take a look at a handful of issues that will face Jeremy Corbyn and Labour in the coming weeks and months.
Expect the government to go hard on this and quickly.
Jeremy Corbyn has spent his life opposing foreign military adventures, chairs the Stop the War coalition and is highly likely to oppose the UK extending airstrikes against the Islamic State group into Syria.
He's not keen on the UK having nuclear weapons or being in the military alliance NATO.
The Prime Minister and Chancellor have already rehearsed the argument that all this amounts to a threat to the UK's national security.
Expect that argument to crank up a few notches.
When you have built your entire reputation around being independent minded and willing to ignore what your party leadership tells you to do, asking others to toe the party line could prove a little tricky.
Particularly when a good number of them have spent the entire summer saying, in public, how much they disagree with you.
That old adage that in the House of Commons your opponents sit opposite you, whilst your enemies are behind you, may prove to be true rather quickly for Jeremy Corbyn.
For many of Jeremy Corbyn's supporters, it is the clarity of his position on so many issues that attracts them to him.
But on one of the biggest political issues of the next year, whether the UK stays in or leaves the European Union, Mr Corbyn's position is less clear.
Plenty of those sitting behind him in the Commons are itching to make the case for the UK's EU membership.
But Jeremy Corbyn has previously refused to rule out campaigning to leave, and also said he had "mixed feelings" on the issue.
Over the summer he sought to sound a bit more positive about Brussels -- but only after he came under pressure to do so from his own side.
The morning after the general election in May, where Labour was crushed, plenty of people within the party were certain they knew why.
The party was seen to be too left wing, they said.
So, why has the Labour movement elected Jeremy Corbyn?
Well, plenty came to the opposite conclusion.
They looked at the result in Scotland, where Labour were nuked by the SNP - and concluded they were convincingly beaten by a party more left wing than them.
There are threats everywhere for Labour.
But there is another twist here.
Not long ago, Jeremy Corbyn didn't instantly say yes when he was asked if he wanted to prime minister, usually the very reason for becoming Leader of the Opposition.
And when you challenge Mr Corbyn's supporters - and suggest his victory will amount to a moment of lunacy for the Labour Party - plenty will shrug and say his Labour opponents would all have lost the next general election anyway.
Many Labour types already fret Jeremy Corbyn's election will consign their party to the unelectable fringes of British politics; too left wing for many to touch.
And yet those around Mr Corbyn - and the thousands enthused by his campaign - are energised by a politician they see as authentic, principled, different, and so appealing.
All in all, life for the Labour Party is about to get rather interesting.
Ryan Lowe twice went close for the home side as they dominated the opening stages of the game.
Full-back Craig Jones gave the Shakers the lead with a curling strike from 20 yards out.
Joe Riley denied the Blades after the break with a fine clearance off the line before a last-ditch block denied John Brayford a late equaliser.
Before that the world's newest country will send a side to next month's East and Central Africa Club championship in Dar es Salaam, according to Nicolas Musonye, the secretary general of the regional governing body.
"They have confirmed their participation; they will send a team called Wau Salaam FC," Musonye told BBC sport.
"We are glad to welcome them as our new members and they have also assured us that their national team will participate in this year's Cecafa Senior Challenge Cup as well."
South Sudan, which only became a member of football's world governing body - Fifa - last month, already has its own league.
Their national side will be made up of players from both the local league and the one in neighbouring Sudan.
This year's club championship will kick off on 14 July in Dar es Salaam and will be sponsored by Rwanda President Paul Kagame for a 10th year.
Under Kagame's sponsorship, the prize money for the event totals US$600,000.
Grammar schools are state secondary schools that select their pupils by means of an examination taken by children at age 11, known as the "11-plus".
There are only about 163 grammar schools in England, out of some 3,000 state secondaries, and a further 69 grammar schools in Northern Ireland.
Under the grammar school system, pupils who pass the exam can go to the local grammar, while those who do not go to the local "secondary modern school".
More common across the UK is the "comprehensive" system, in which pupils of all abilities and aptitudes are taught together.
There are no state grammars in Wales or Scotland, and although some retain the name "grammar school", they are non-selective and have no special status.
Grammar schools have existed since the 16th Century, but the modern grammar school concept dates back to the Education Act 1944. This made secondary education after the age of 14 free.
At the same time secondary education was reorganised into two basic types:
There was a third type of school, the technical school - but very few were established.
So the system effectively divided pupils into two types - those destined for university and better jobs, and those deemed more suitable for less celebrated professions.
During the 1950s and 1960s, it was said, mainly by Labour politicians and egalitarian educationalists, that the selective education system reinforced class division and middle-class privilege.
In 1965, the government ordered local education authorities to start phasing out grammar schools and secondary moderns, and replace them with a comprehensive system.
The quickest changes were made in Labour-controlled areas, while strongly Conservative counties moved slowly or not at all.
A handful of counties and local authorities in England have kept largely selective schools systems, including Kent, Medway, Buckinghamshire and Lincolnshire, while others such as Gloucestershire, Trafford and Slough have a mix.
In other places, a few grammar schools survived in areas that were otherwise fully comprehensive, such as Birmingham, Bournemouth and some London boroughs.
In 1998, Labour's School Standards and Framework Act forbade the establishment of any new all-selective schools.
It also made provisions for local ballots on the future of existing grammar schools.
Only one such ballot has taken place since then. In 2000, parents in Ripon, North Yorkshire, voted by 67% to 33% in favour of keeping Ripon Grammar as a grammar school.
Grammar schools select their pupils by means of a test, known as the 11-plus, which is taken by pupils in the last year of primary school.
It is designed to see if they are able enough to learn in a grammar school environment with peers of a similar standard.
But many complain about the nature of the test, as it often features types of questions not usually adopted in regular state primaries.
Grammar school entrance exams can consist of all or a subset of the following:
• Numerical reasoning (maths)
• Verbal reasoning
• English comprehension, punctuation and grammar
• Non-verbal reasoning
• Creative writing
They have traditionally used questions based on verbal reasoning and non-verbal reasoning, and it is argued that those who have been intensively tutored tend to do much better in these tests.
Recently there have been attempts to make the tests more accessible and closer to the kind of word problems children face in primary schools.
Some grammar schools admit successful students by ranked order - all candidates are ranked by their 11-plus score - literally creaming the best pupils off the top.
In other areas, pupils who pass the test are then ranked by admission criteria, which can include the distance they live from the school or whether they already have a sibling there.
There are numerous companies that offer specialist 11-plus tutoring to children from an early age.
Some examples of 11-plus questions (Answers at foot of page)
Marco, Laura, Peter, Ben and Sally are out shopping for jackets. Ben and Laura want waterproof jackets, Peter and Sally want brightly coloured jackets with hoods, Laura and Marco want lightweight jackets and Marco and Ben want brightly coloured jackets but with a warm lining.
Out of the following statements, which one must be true? Write your answer in the answer box below.
A. Sally and Peter want different types of jackets.
B. Only two people do not want brightly coloured jackets.
C. No one wants a lightweight jacket with a hood.
D. Sally wants a coat with a hood and a warm lining.
E. Four of them do not want waterproofs.
Identify which, if any, of the above shapes have been rotated to form the shape below.
Select the option (A, B, C or D) which has the sentence with the most suitable grammar
A. Was it he whom had a house burn down?
B. Was it he whose house burnt down?
C. Was it he that had a house burn down?
D. Was it he who's house burnt down?
Sample questions reproduced with the kind permission of ElevenPlusExams.co.uk
Labour oppose the creation of more grammar schools saying that instead of improving equality, they make it worse.
The Conservatives Party support for grammar schools was lukewarm under previous Prime Minister David Cameron, but its manifesto states it will allow all good schools to expand "whether they are maintained schools, academies, free schools or grammar schools".
The Liberal Democrats would maintain the status quo, not opening any more or closing any existing ones.
Quiz answers (in order of question appearance) C, E, B
The Ravens are 14th in the table, 12 points off the play-off places and 10 points above the relegation zone.
"This is not a decision that has been taken lightly," chairman Jerry Dolke told the club website.
"The club has new investors who have higher expectations than current performances on the pitch are showing."
Neil Smith, Goldberg's assistant, has been named as interim first-team manager at Hayes Lane.
Goldberg was re-appointed Bromley boss in 2011 for his third spell in charge of the club, and led the club to the Conference South title last season.
He told BBC Radio Kent he had "agreed to step down in the best interests of the club".
"It has all been done extremely amicably," he added. "It was a harder decision for me than the board but I am proud of the fact I am leaving the club in much better shape than when I first came in.
"We have had a bit of a wobble recently but my belief and ambition has never wavered.
"I had ambitions to take Bromley to the Football League but football is all about opinions, and the opinions are I am not the man for the job."
The animal was a five-year-old cow from a dairy farm in County Louth.
She was identified as being suspected of having BSE earlier this month.
The infected cow was not presented for slaughter and did not enter the food chain, but was identified through a surveillance system for animals who die on farms.
The Irish Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine said other animals that could have been exposed to BSE had tested negative.
These 67 animals born and reared on the same farm were tested after being slaughtered and excluded from the food and feed chains.
In a statement, a DAFM spokesperson said: "The investigation has not identified anything to distinguish this case from the other cases of classical BSE that have been seen in Ireland or elsewhere.
"The identification of classical BSE cases after the implementation of the ban on the feeding of meat and bone meal is not unprecedented.
"A diminishing number of such cases have been identified in Ireland and in other countries over the years."
The move came alongside the publication of the HS2 Ltd report on extending a faster rail service to the north of England and Scotland.
The two governments announced that work on evaluating options for the project would begin next year.
They said "implementation" of the plans could begin in 2019.
It currently takes at least four hours to travel from Edinburgh or Glasgow to London - and frequently much longer.
Scottish transport secretary Keith Brown said: "Doing nothing is not an option."
The cost of the suggestions range from £17bn to £43bn, although some improvements could be introduced in stages.
New track could be built either side of the Pennines, or bypasses introduced on sections of the existing East and West Coast Main Lines where speed is constrained.
Robert Goodwill, the UK minister responsible for the second high-speed line (HS2), said: "Scotland will benefit from HS2 from the day it opens, with shorter journey times to London from the start.
"Once the full Y-Network opens, it will only take about three hours 38 minutes to reach London from Glasgow and Edinburgh. This report looks at ways we can build on these improvements and I thank HS2 Ltd for this work.
"Together with the Scottish government, we will be asking Network Rail to identify any options with a strong business case, for consideration for inclusion in future plans."
The first phase of the high-speed line to the English midlands is due to open in 2026.
The "Y" network, extending the service to northern English cities, is scheduled for completion in 2033.
The initial plan is for a new railway line between London and the West Midlands carrying 400m-long (1,300ft) trains with up to 1,100 seats per train.
They would operate at speeds of up to 250mph - faster than any current operating speed in Europe and would travel up to 14 times per hour in each direction.
This would be followed by a V-shaped second phase taking services from Birmingham to Manchester and Leeds. Intermediate stations in the East Midlands and South Yorkshire are also planned.
Backers of the project have claimed it could bring £3bn of benefits to Scotland.
The options included in the new publication include upgrading the existing cross-border lines and building new routes.
Mr Brown said: "This report is a major milestone in the campaign to deliver high-speed rail to Scotland and marks the beginning of the next chapter in the tale.
"I now have a firm commitment that development work will begin during the current control period towards getting journey times between Scotland and London down to three hours or less.
"High speed rail will bring billions of pounds worth of benefit to Scotland's economy and an infrastructure project of this magnitude - possibly the biggest Scotland's ever seen - means jobs, investment, benefits for the economy and benefits for the environment."
The HS2 Ltd report Broad Options for upgraded and high speed railways to the North of England and Scotland was welcomed by the two ministers at a reception in Edinburgh's Waverley station.
Last week, train operator Virgin unveiled its new Azuma trains, which will be launched in 2018. It said it hoped most journeys between Edinburgh and London would be reduced to about four hours.
It comes after Jermaine Baker, 28, was killed by armed officers in London, in December 2015.
Mr Baker, who was with two men in a car near Wood Green Crown Court, had intended to help a man being held on remand escape from a prison van.
Firearms officers were deployed to disrupt the plan.
"The officers reasonably believed that the men in the car were dangerous individuals, who were armed and prepared to use their weapons to achieve their criminal purpose," a Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) spokesman said.
"Having taken account of all the evidence provided by the IPCC [Independent Police Complaints Commission], the CPS has concluded that there is not a realistic prospect of conviction."
"The prosecution could not prove to the required standard that [the officer] was being untruthful about his belief that Mr Baker was armed and reaching for a weapon to fire on the officers."
The CPS spokesman said the officer had fired one shot which hit and killed Mr Baker, from Tottenham.
"Following a thorough search it was found that Mr Baker was not armed," he continued.
"An imitation firearm was, however, recovered from a holdall in the rear foot well behind the driver's seat of the car."
The IPCC said it was aware of the CPS decision and was waiting from a response from the Met Police.
At the time, Mr Baker and his accomplices were attempted to spring from a prison van Izzet Eren, who was being held on remand at HMP Wormwood Scrubs accused of gun offences, as he was en-route to a hearing at the court.
During the subsequent trial of one of Mr Baker's accomplices, Eren Hasyer, jurors at Woolwich Crown Court were told the prisoner hatched the escape plot from his cell using a smuggled mobile phone.
Det Ch Supt Tom Manson, of the Met Police, said: "This was a bold, well planned and carefully thought out conspiracy that bears all the hallmarks of a professional crime."
Two other men, Nathan Mason and Gokay Sogucakli, had admitted being part of the escape plot before Hasyer's trial began.
Hasyer was found guilty in May last year, of aiding the attempt to free Eren from the prison van.
The 26-year-old defender was out of contract following the club's title-winning season but has joined keeper Paul Farman in signing a new deal.
He started 44 of Lincoln's 46 league games as they clinched the championship with a further seven appearances in their FA Cup run to the quarter-finals.
Waterfall, who joined from Wrexham in June 2015, also scored seven goals.
The 26-year-old rejected the Glovers' offer of an extended deal at Huish Park and will join the Gloucestershire club on a two-year deal from 1 July.
The Irishman had been with Yeovil since January 2013 and made 92 league starts for the Somerset outfit.
He played for now Cheltenham boss Gary Johnson at Yeovil, helping them win promotion to the Championship in 2013.
"We had success together at Yeovil and he had offers from a few different teams so I'm glad that I've convinced him to join us," Johnson told the Robins' club website.
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The company said it had been granted planning permission for the hatchery at Barcaldine, near Oban, following consultation with the local community.
The move will create up to 25 permanent skilled jobs.
Construction of the land-based freshwater facility is expected to start within weeks.
The site will be used to rear young salmon, or smolts, until they are ready to transfer to sea farms.
The first fish reared in the facility are expected to enter the water in 2019.
SSF said the investment was part of plans to invest a total of £70m in improving and maintaining its existing sites and acquiring new ones over the next few years.
Managing director Jim Gallagher said: "This will be transformational for Scottish Sea Farms, raising our production of smolts from five million to 11 million annually, and helping us to meet the rising global demand for our premium Scottish salmon and to grow our harvest volumes and revenues sustainably.
"It will also further increase our contribution to Scotland's economic prosperity and the development of our coastal communities."
SSF, which has more than 440 employees, is jointly owned by SalMar and the Leroy Seafood Group of Norway.
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The 25-year-old, from Dundee, was rushed to hospital after a fifth-round loss to Welsh fighter Dale Evans in a St Andrew's Sporting Club fight at Glasgow's Radisson Blu Hotel.
Towell's partner, Chloe Ross, said he "fought right to the end".
He is only the third professional boxer to die in the UK from apparently fight-related injuries in the past 21 years.
His management said he passed away with his family at his bedside.
St Andrews Sporting Club confirmed Towell's death in a tweet on Saturday morning.
"Within the last hour Mike Towell passed away - he will always be in our hearts #RIPIronMike," it said.
In a Facebook post, his partner Ms Ross said Towell died "peacefully" shortly after 23:00 BST on Friday, 12 hours after he was taken off life support.
"I'm absolutely heartbroken to say my annoying best friend passed away tonight at 11.02 very peacefully," she wrote.
"Michael had severe bleeding and swelling to his brain.
"He had been complaining of headaches for the last few weeks but we put it down to migraines with the stress of his fight.
"It has been the longest 24 hours of our lives. My baby has lost his daddy. But he will be so so proud of his dad in what he achieved."
Ms Ross added: "Once he was taken off of his life support he managed 12 hours, 12 whole rounds off his life support, he fought right to the end and he's done us all so proud... He left doing the thing he's best at... there's only one."
A spokesman for St Andrew's Sporting Club later said that Towell's management team was not aware of any headache problems leading up to the fight.
Towell was knocked down in the first round of the fight before recovering to continue the match.
Referee Victor Loughlin stopped the fight in the fifth round shortly after Towell was knocked down by Carmarthen fighter Evans for a second time.
He received treatment in the ring and was given oxygen before being taken to an ambulance on a stretcher.
Spencer Oliver, the former European Super Bantamweight champion who was placed in a coma after being injured in a fight in 1998, said Towell would not have been allowed to fight if there had been doubts about his health.
He said: "He would have to have had all his medical tests. He was in a British title eliminator so all his brain scans would have been up to date and everything would have been in place with Mike going into that contest."
But boxing promoter Frank Warren raised concerns about the reports that Towell had been suffering from headaches.
He said: "If that's true, obviously he shouldn't have been fighting. And I'm quite sure, the doctor, who examines the boxers and the medicals, if they had of known that, they would not have allowed him to box.
"So, obviously once the British Boxing Board of Control complete their investigation into the matter, they'll be able to give further comment on that."
Boxing tragedies
Towell's family are understood to have been joined by his manager, Tommy Gilmour, during his final hours.
Mr Gilmour said"He was Iron Mike to the end, he kept fighting till the last, and we have lost an exciting boxer but, more importantly, a very special man.
"I am devastated and all my thoughts are with Mike's mum Tracey, his partner Chloe and their little son Rocco.
"He was one of the greatest characters I have worked with, I came away from every phone call or chat we had smiling and shaking my head in bewilderment."
Iain Wilson, owner of St Andrew's Sporting Club, who was with Towell and his family following the fight, added: "He wasn't just a fighter at our club, he was my friend and a special heart-and-soul guy.
"I was with the family through the night after the fight, they are heartbroken and everyone at the club shares their grief.
"We have lost one of our favourite sons and boxing has lost an explosive talent but the biggest loss of all is for the Towell family. We will rally round them now to do all we can."
Trainer Shane McGuigan said on Twitter: "Heartbreaking news that Mike Towell has lost his life. May he rest in peace, thoughts go out to his loved ones. #RIP"
Promoter Eddie Hearn said: "Absolutely devastated by the passing of Mike Towell - all of our thoughts with his friends and family at this time."
The boxer had been undefeated going into Thursday's fight, with 11 previous wins and one draw on his professional record.
Veteran Labour MP Paul Flynn described Mike Towell's death as "a terrible tragedy" and renewed his call for blows to the head to be banned in sport.
The shadow cabinet member twice called for the rule change through private member's bills in 1998 and and 2005 but failed on both occasions.
Mr Flynn said: "I think the consciences of people in the sport are aroused by tragedies of this kind and I think people should be aware of the dangers.
"We ought to change the rules in many sports and realise that the head is a very delicate part of the body and to protect it, and minimise the number of blows the brain suffers."
Tests on the satellite-tagged bird - found at the Glenbuchat Estate in Strathdon - tested positive for the banned pesticide carbofuran.
Grampian Police and officers from the Scottish Government Rural Payments and Inspections Directorate (SGRPID) are among those investigating.
The force said no-one had been charged and inquiries were continuing.
Pc Dave MacKinnon, Grampian's wildlife crime officer, said: "We are always very concerned when illegal pesticides are used in our countryside for the poisoning of birds of prey.
"I am particularly disappointed that this incident has resulted in the death of a young golden eagle.
"Articles have been removed from the estate and are being sent for analysis."
On-loan Newcastle winger Florian Thauvin was the match-winner, finishing off a team move in the second half.
The club are currently struggling in 15th place in the French league, just six points above the relegation zone.
Laurent Blanc's PSG side can complete a league and cup double for a second consecutive season with victory in the final on Saturday, 21 May.
Police said he was attacked by another man in the Templemore Avenue area shortly before 02:30 GMT on Sunday.
They said he had been "taken to hospital for treatment to his injuries".
Police have appealed for information.
The repository will be produced by Glasgow University in collaboration with the National Burns Collection.
It will see all Burns papers held in Scotland examined, digitised and stored at the university's Centre for Robert Burns Studies.
The plan is then to widen the collection to include material from archives outside Scotland.
The database will be use by partners of BurnsScotland, the new name for the National Burns Collection.
It will include images with paper sizes, watermarks and other descriptive features recorded.
Professor Gerard Carruthers, of Glasgow University, said: "This is a hugely significant development which will greatly benefit those who study the writings of Robert Burns.
"The man, as we know, was a voracious author who penned more than 600 poems and songs.
"This database will not only allow for quick and easy access to the materials but it will also enable us to identify and put back together papers that have become separated, and even allow us to show examples of genuine Burns works and Burns forgeries."
BurnsScotland is a partnership agreement between the university, the National Library of Scotland, the National Galleries of Scotland, Glasgow Life, the National Museums of Scotland, Dumfries and Galloway Museums, East Ayrshire Museums and South Ayrshire Museums.
Terrence Davidson began working for the rapper in 2010, creating multiple wigs for high-profile events and her Super Bass music video.
Mr Davidson claims he had previously discussed a joint business venture with Minaj to launch a line of wigs.
Representatives for Minaj have yet to comment on the legal action.
Mr Davidson says the star is now copying his wig designs and selling them online.
According to legal papers filed in Atlanta, the hair stylist says he also turned down a contract for a reality TV show on the advice of one of Minaj's representatives, with the promise of creating his own reality show with the star about being a celebrity wig stylist.
But after months passed in 2012, he claims the rapper and her team "took active steps to isolate [him] and preclude him from the notoriety he deserved for his wig designs".
Mr Davidson - whose celebrity clients also include singers Patti LaBelle and Jennifer Hudson - stopped working as Minaj's stylist in early 2013, citing creative differences.
Christopher Chestnut, a lawyer for the hair stylist, said his client's wigs "significantly contributed" to Minaj's notoriety and helped her rise to fame.
He said the star "took a number of his popular wig designs, without his consent, and used them to start her own wig line", resulting in at least $30m in losses.
"Her lawyers may complicate it, but we don't need to get into intellectual-property law. "This is basic American morality. Nicki Minaj lied to this man and cheated him," he said.
United are in talks with the Portuguese coach, 53, to replace Dutchman Louis van Gaal, who was sacked on Monday.
"In the last year, Manchester United has lost its identity," Ancelotti, 56, told BBC Sport pundit Jermaine Jenas.
However, the Bayern Munich boss said Van Gaal had been faced with the tricky task of rebuilding United and perhaps needed more time to make his mark.
"The job of Van Gaal was not easy, he had to rebuild the team," said Italian Ancelotti. "It takes time. In football, you need time to build something."
Old Trafford legend Eric Cantona says new Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola would have been a better fit for United than Mourinho.
"I would have loved to have seen Guardiola at Manchester United," Cantona, who celebrated his 50th birthday this week, told the Guardian.
"Guardiola was the one to take. He is the spiritual son of Johan Cruyff. He is the only one to change Manchester United.
"I love Jose Mourinho, but, in terms of the type of football he plays, I don't think he is Manchester United."
Mourinho's agent, Jorge Mendes, flew into London on Tuesday morning and is leading discussions with United.
If he is confirmed in the role, Mourinho will renew his rivalry with Guardiola, who was Barcelona boss when Mourinho was in charge at Real Madrid.
It was the very first time UU has entered a team on the quiz and with an average age of 50 they were some of the oldest competitors to take part.
They may have suffered a loss, but at only five points behind their rivals, they can hold their heads up high.
Team member, Matthew Milliken, a PHD student, said it was "tremendous fun".
The UU team was made up of members drawn from the four campuses in Belfast, Coleraine, Jordanstown and Londonderry.
As well as Matthew, from Comber, County Down, it consisted of Cathal McDaid from Buncrana, County Donegal, Kate Ritchie from Waringstown, County Down, and captain Ian Jack from Peterhead in Aberdeenshire.
Matthew told BBC's Good Morning Ulster that the team hadn't set their sights too high.
"We set ourselves a target of not being the lowest ever score, but we exceeded that ambition."
They even got a tweet today from University Challenge legend Bobby Seagull who said it was the highest losing score in the last six years.
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The team were able to have a joke with the famously stern presenter, Jeremy Paxman.
"In the picture round, the picture came up on the screen in front of us. It was a round on actors who had played a part on Broadway and gone on to win an Oscar for the film," Matthew said.
"The picture was Yul Brynner and I do have a pretty similar hairstyle to him. I buzzed in with the right answer.
"Jeremy Paxman, looked across at me, raised an eyebrow knowingly and I removed my glasses and wiped my baldy head.
"As I said to my daughter, 'Your daddy's a meme' ".
Matthew added that the university had never made an attempt to get on the show before.
"It would be really easy for it [to be] populated with Oxbridge students. There are so many colleges and phenomenally intelligent young people over there.
"We're a bunch of folk who have, perhaps struggled a bit to come through this stage of education. I proudly boast that I scrapped two A Levels and went to the poly.
"I wasn't one of these kids who grew up watching the programme. It was a much more recent advent in my world."
However, it's not all over for the team, as they will still have the opportunity to compete in the play-offs.
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The double-amputee sprinter, 27, has pleaded not guilty to all charges, including the "wilful and intentional murder of Reeva Steenkamp".
Here are details of the key evidence put before the court so far.
Mr Pistorius has told the court that on the night of the shooting the couple had dinner at about 19:00 local time (17:00 GMT) before watching television and falling asleep between 21:00 and 22:00.
He said he woke in the early hours and Ms Steenkamp asked him: "Can't you sleep, my baba?"
He told the court he could not sleep and that he had brought in two fans from the balcony. Mr Pistorius then described how he heard a noise from the bathroom.
"That's the moment that everything changed," he said. "I thought that there was a burglar that was gaining entry to my home."
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Mr Pistorius said he and Ms Steenkamp had dinner at about 19:00 before going to bed at 21:00. He said he woke in the early hours, spoke briefly to his girlfriend and got up to close the sliding door and curtains.
Judge Thokozile Masipa questioned the reliability of several witnesses who said they heard screams and gunshots between about 03:12 and 03:17, saying most had 'got facts wrong'.
Mr Pistorius said he heard the bathroom window sliding open and believed that an intruder, or intruders, had entered the bathroom through a window which was not fitted with burglar bars.
Mr Pistorius said he grabbed his firearm and told Ms Steenkamp, who he thought was still in bed, to call the police.
The judge said it made no sense that Ms Steenkamp did not hear him scream 'Get out' or call the police, as she had her mobile phone with her.
Mr Pistorius could see the bathroom window was open and toilet door closed. He said he did not know whether the intruders were outside on a ladder or in the toilet.
He had his firearm in front of him, he heard a movement inside the toilet and thought whoever was inside was coming out to attack him.
'Before I knew it, I had fired four shots at the door,' he said.
The judge said she did not accept that Mr Pistorius fired the gun by accident or before he knew what was happening. She said he had armed himself with a lethal weapon and clearly wanted to use it. The other question, she said, was why he fired not one, but four shots before he ran back to the room to try to find Ms Steenkamp.
Mr Pistorius said he went back to the bedroom and noticed that Ms Steenkamp was not there.
Mr Pistorius said this was when he realised she could have been in the toilet and rushed back to the bathroom.
Mr Pistorius said he screamed for help and went back to the bathroom where he found the toilet was locked. He returned to the bedroom, pulled on his prosthetic legs and turned on the lights before bashing in the toilet door with a cricket bat.
When the door panel broke, he found the key and unlocked the door and found Ms Steenkamp slumped on the floor with her head on the toilet bowl. He then carried her downstairs, where he was met by neighbours.
3D animation of the apartment
Mr Pistorius said he grabbed his 9mm pistol from under his bed and moved towards the bathroom on his stumps, telling Ms Steenkamp quietly to call the police.
"I got to the entrance of the bathroom, at the end of the passage. At this point I was certain that an intruder or intruders were there in my bathroom."
He said he saw the bathroom window was open and he screamed for Ms Steenkamp to call the police.
"I wasn't sure if somebody was going to come out of the toilet and attack me," he told the court. "I wasn't sure if someone was going to come up the ladder and point a firearm and start shooting. So I just stayed where I was and I kept on screaming.
"Then I heard a noise from inside the toilet - what I perceived to be somebody coming out of the toilet. Before I knew it, I fired four shots at the door."
Mr Pistorius said the gunshots left his ears ringing, and he kept on shouting for Ms Steenkamp to phone the police. He said he retreated back to the bedroom and found Ms Steenkamp was not in bed.
"At that point, the first thing I thought was maybe she got down onto the floor like I told her to, maybe she was just scared... I can't remember what I said but I was trying to talk out to her.
"It was upon that time, my Lady, that it first dawned upon me that it could be Reeva that was in the bathroom or in the toilet. I jumped out of the other side of the bed and I ran my hands along the curtains to see that she wasn't hiding.
"I didn't want to believe it was Reeva in the toilet, I was so scared that someone was coming in to attack us. I made my way inside the bathroom... I tried to grab the handle, rip open the door. I pushed the door to open and it was locked.
"I ran back to the room, I opened the curtains, opened the doors and shouted from the balcony for help. I screamed, 'Help, help, help.' I screamed for somebody to help me.
"I put my prosthetic legs on. I ran as far as I could back to the bathroom, I ran into the door. It didn't move at all. I tried to kick the door but nothing happened."
Mr Pistorius told the court how he went back to the bedroom, picked up a cricket bat and started hitting the toilet door in a bid to open it.
He said he hit the door about three times and then managed to pull a plank out of it. Eventually he found the key on the floor and unlocked the door.
"I sat over Reeva and I cried, I don't know how long... I don't know how long I was there for," he told the court.
The prosecution says Mr Pistorius deliberately shot dead Ms Steenkamp after the couple had had an argument on Valentine's Day.
Chief prosecutor Gerrie Nel said Mr Pistorius's account of the night was a fabrication and the pair had been arguing just before the shooting.
"You fired four shots through the door whilst knowing that she was standing behind the door," Mr Nel said.
"She was locked into the bathroom and you armed yourself with the sole purpose of shooting and killing her."
"That is not true," replied Mr Pistorius.
During cross-examination the prosecution has focused on the athlete's character and enthusiasm for firearms.
The court was shown a Sky News report showing Mr Pistorius at a shooting range.
Mr Nel also showed the court a photograph of the effects of the shooting on Reeva Steenkamp's head.
Mr Pistorius refused to look at the photo saying: "I will not look at a picture where I am tormented by what I saw."
However, Mr Nel has repeatedly accused Mr Pistorius of using his emotions "as an escape" after he broke down a number of times in court.
"You're getting emotional now because you're getting frustrated because your version [of events] is improbable," Mr Nel said.
The prosecution has also highlighting a number of apparent inconsistencies between Mr Pistorius' bail application and his evidence in court.
The defence and prosecution also disagree about bangs heard that night and whether they were made by Mr Pistorius hitting the door with a cricket bat, or whether they were gunshots, or both.
A forensic analyst contradicted Mr Pistorius' claim that he was wearing his artificial legs when he tried to break open the toilet door with a cricket bat after realising Ms Steenkamp was inside.
Police Colonel Johannes Vermeulen said the angle and location of the marks on the door suggested Mr Pistorius was on his stumps. In court, Mr Vermeulen knelt down to swing the bat at the door to demonstrate.
"The marks on the door are actually consistent with him not having his legs on and I suspect they must be similar to the height that he was when he fired the shots," he told the court.
Ballistics expert Captain Christiaan Mangena told the court he believed Ms Steenkamp was standing up in the toilet cubicle, facing the closed door when she was hit in the right hip. The hole made by the bullet is labelled as A in the diagram below.
Ms Steenkamp then fell back onto a magazine rack next to the toilet before three more bullets were fired at the door, he said. One bullet missed her and ricocheted off the wall twice. Capt Mangena said fragments from this bullet (from bullet hole B) caused bruising on Ms Steenkamp's back - although the defence rejects this.
The expert said Ms Steenkamp was then hit by two more shots (causing bullet holes C and D), one in the arm and the other went through her left hand into her skull as she crossed her arms over her head to protect herself.
Capt Mangena said that after being hit in the head, she fell down and her head ended up on the toilet seat. He said the gun had been fired from at least 60cm (23 inches) from the door and no further than 3m. He added that Mr Pistorius was most likely not wearing his prosthetic legs at the time.
Correspondents say this is in line with Mr Pistorius' testimony that he pulled the trigger while standing at the entrance to the bathroom.
However, Capt Mangena said he believed there was a gap between the first and second bullet being fired, which contradicts the athlete's version of events. It corroborates evidence given by a neighbour who said she heard a shot, then a pause, then three further shots. It also suggests that Ms Steenkamp may have had time to scream before she fell to the floor, supporting the neighbour's testimony that she had heard a woman screaming.
However, pathologist Jan Botha, the first witness for the defence, said that if Mr Pistorius had fired his weapon in two quick bursts, as the defence suggests, Ms Steenkamp probably would not have had time to scream.
"If the shots were fired in rapid sequence, and these four shots could have easily been fired in four seconds, I think it's highly unlikely that she would have called out,'' said Mr Botha.
But, he said, he was "not a ballistician".
Some of Mr Botha's evidence also contradicted testimony given by state pathologist Gert Saayman who said vegetable matter in Ms Steenkamp's stomach suggested she had eaten around two hours before her death. Mr Pistorius' team says she had been asleep for longer than that.
Mr Botha said analysing gastric contents was "a highly controversial and inexact science".
Prosecution witnesses - including one who lives on the nearby Silver Stream Estate - have testified to hearing a woman scream followed by gun shots, but the defence disputes their testimony, saying the only scream came from Mr Pistorius - after he had fired.
As there are no juries at trials in South Africa, Mr Pistorius's fate will ultimately be decided by the judge, assisted by two assessors.
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.
Guides themselves helped design the programme which will be delivered by young women.
"I'm really proud of this of new Girlguiding resource and my part in developing it," said Zoe Dowler, 24.
Zoe 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.
Following 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.
"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.
She said she hoped the badge would give girls positive and practical solutions and "a safe space to share what's on their mind".
The new badge is launched amid increasing concern about the mental health of children and young people.
Last August a Children's Society report found children in England were among the unhappiest in the world.
While Girlguiding's 2015 Girls' Attitudes Survey of 1,500 UK girls and young women found:
The 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".
It 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.
The girls will learn self-calming techniques in sessions tailored to different age groups.
The 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.
"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.
Young 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.
"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.
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The 23-year-old Scot won her first senior medals in the 1500m and 3,000m in Belgrade at the weekend.
"We went for the double to see how the legs coped with a lot of rounds in a short period," Muir told the BBC.
"Hopefully, come London, I'll double up and do the 1500m and the 5K."
The Kinross athlete regards the shorter distance as her "main event" in August but said she was pleased that the schedule for the heats and finals "work really well to double up".
"I'd love to get on the podium," she added. "That would be my first global-level medal."
Timings, however, were not on her side in Belgrade when it came to celebrating her British record-breaking 1500m triumph on Saturday.
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An official repeatedly thwarted her attempt to do a lap of honour before Muir eventually gave her the slip.
She told BBC Radio 5 live: "They were saying they were behind on the programme, but the athletes were out on the track so I thought, 'ach, I'm just going to go'."
Muir is juggling her record-breaking athletics career with her veterinary studies.
"Athletics is quite an individual sport so I can fit everything around it," she said.
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"I just go for runs in the morning before I head to lectures, and do runs in the evenings when I get back. It is tough and my recovery is not as great as other athletes' but veterinary always came first for me."
Muir revealed she felt motivated to "work even harder over the winter" after her disappointment at finishing seventh in the 1500m final at the Rio Olympics.
"I wanted to race as best as I could throughout 2017 and it's gone pretty well so far," she said.
"I just seem to be getting faster and faster and it's brilliant."
Tynemouth Pool, filled daily with seawater with the passing of the tides, was once a popular visitor attraction but has lain derelict since the 1990s.
The art exhibition has opened at the Old Low Lights Heritage Centre in North Shields to raise money for the pool.
The specially commissioned artworks will be auctioned on 26 November.
See more on this story and other news from the North East here.
Works at the exhibition include the first print of a previously unseen work by internationally renowned photographer and founder member of the Amber Film and Photography Collective, Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen,
The Friends of Tynemouth Outdoor Pool, which was formed in 2012, has submitted detailed refurbishment proposals to North Tyneside Council.
Exhibition organisers said: "While the artwork on display will cover a variety of mediums and artistic approaches, all exhibiting artists share a common aim of helping return the outdoor pool site to its former glory."
Also at the exhibition will be an "incredible illuminated model" of the restoration, which has been created in Lego by architectural photographer Steve Mayes.
Afterwards it will go on display at various locations around North Tyneside.
Needless to say, they came away impressed, and it is that internationalist approach which has made the World Rugby chairman one of the most pivotal figures in the development of the sport.
Since taking office in 1995, he has guided rugby from the amateur to professional leagues, brought nations like Argentina and the US into the fold and generated record-breaking growth culminating in last year's World Cup.
And now, he's making a final, ambitious play for Asia before relinquishing his role in May.
"We are not just a sport for Europe and the southern hemisphere," the 68-year-old Frenchman told me. "Asia is the future for the game. I am sure it will be the future of the game."
Nothing illustrates this more than the deal he signed this month with Alibaba chairman Jack Ma, who is also China's second richest man.
The multimillion dollar development and sponsorship agreement aims to expand rugby in China at both the grassroots and professional levels over the next ten years.
Mr Ma's sports unit will also get exclusive broadcast rights for its internet platform and help organise more rugby events in the country.
"When we open the market in China, it will open the market in all of Asia," Mr Lapasset said.
"Development is different in every region. We have to adapt the solutions to the different cultures that we have in front of us.
"Rugby is not the same in Africa as it is in Europe, and is not in the same in South America and North America. It will be different as well in China and in Asia. We need to adapt the solutions country by country."
The Sevens
Rugby Sevens, the short-form of the game being included at the Rio Olympics, is a huge part of his strategy.
First invented by a butcher in Melrose, Scotland, in 1883, the sevens is regarded as faster - and some say easier to understand - than the core rugby union game with a team of 15 players.
Australian rugby legend and former Wallabies captain Stirling Mortlock calls it a "great vehicle" for developing countries to accelerate their rugby programmes.
"In Asia there is so much potential and we're only seeing the start of it. You don't need massive behemoth forwards and a huge amount of players," he told me, adding that "it's an easy way for females to get involved as well as males."
But can rugby really pick up in Asia given the overwhelming popularity of football? That's not to mention the myriad of other sports competing for attention, like golf, tennis and badminton.
The business and investment community increasingly seems to be saying yes.
Banking giant HSBC has sponsored the World Rugby Sevens series since 2011 and recently renewed the contract for another four years.
"We want to associate with fast-growing sports in emerging markets that cater to both men and women yet allow us to be quite dominant," global head of sponsorship and events Giles Morgan said.
"It is hard to find sports that aren't cluttered with many other sponsors in financial services."
Singapore is hoping to cash in on the success of the event to generate more tourism dollars. After a ten-year hiatus, the city-state is now the second Asian city on the sevens circuit after Hong Kong.
New Zealander and Coliseum Sports Media Group chief executive Tim Martin has based his business here and is also betting big on the oval ball game.
He's invested millions to buy the regional rights to the Super Rugby tournament and has launched a digital streaming platform called RugbyPass.
"I'm committed," he said. "Right now it is the most exciting sport in Asia in terms of its commercial development potential."
"The football opportunity is billions and that's pretty scary. That's way too scary for a little boy from Auckland. But rugby is emerging and so there is chance still to create a business".
World Rugby also plans to spend more in Asia as part of its continued efforts to develop the market.
They currently have around 400,000 registered players in the region and aim to increase that to one million by 2019.
The organisation invested almost £9m ($13m) in Asia between 2012 to 2015, ranging from high performance development to regional competitions, Mr Lapasset said.
But it's not all rosy. Critics say the money doesn't trickle down to the grassroots and that more needs to be done to raise the overall standard of the local leagues and national teams.
James Sterling used to work for a non-profit organisation that promotes rugby in Cambodia, particularly among disadvantaged and orphaned children.
From 1500 registered players there are now none. He told the BBC: "What I've found from the meetings that I've had with World Rugby, and other people around the region have had with them, is that they're more interested in revenue generation and player numbers."
He claims the most they ever received from the organisation was $5,000.
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Another challenge the sport faces in Asia is the perception of it as rough-and-tumble, elitist and only filled with expatriates. Some say that's changing.
Australian advertising executive Shane Dewar has been playing rugby since he was 12 years old and believes the sport is finally catching on among locals.
"One of the reasons that rugby is so popular in the home countries of the many expats playing rugby here is that they have grown up with the sport," he said.
"We also had access to see some of the best players in the world playing locally for professional and international sides.
"The populist view is that rugby is only for large-framed people, and that smaller players will never compete, but I think Japan have shown that with a style and identity that suits their smaller physiques, they can compete at the top level."
On a sweltering day in Singapore, I headed down to a local stadium to watch the New Zealand All Blacks sevens team train for the eighth leg of the series.
The All Blacks are considered the sport's most powerful brand and one firm estimates they could be worth half a billion US dollars by 2023, following their World Cup win last year.
Despite their impressive credentials, it's pretty fair to say my taxi driver, or the average man on the street, would still be hard-pressed to name many of their players.
Rugby union may be the world's fastest-growing team sport, but former All Blacks captain Richie McCaw is still not as recognisable here as footballer Cristiano Ronaldo.
Mr Lapasset, who is stepping down to head Paris's bid for the 2024 Olympics, remains optimistic though.
"Every year we increase the total amount for development for rugby around the world. One was Argentina, that is done. Second one was USA, that is done. Now it is Asia."
"We are headed in the right way," he said with a smile.
He won 39.93% of first preference votes - falling shy of the 50% needed - so was forced to go to another round where second preference votes were counted.
The former Army veteran won a total of 202,396 first and second preferences, compared with his nearest challenger Laetisia Carter.
She took 172,717 of the first and second preference votes.
Turnout was 25.6%, up from 13.3% in 2012.
Candidates are listed alphabetically by surname. BBC News App users: tap here to see the results.
Mr McRae's death was officially recorded as suicide after a gunshot wound was found behind his right ear.
A petition, signed by 12,000 people, is calling for a fatal accident inquiry (FAI) amid long-running suspicions of a cover-up.
The Crown Office said an FAI would not be held in to Mr McRae's death.
A spokesman said: "Crown Counsel are satisfied with the extensive investigations into the death of William McRae and have instructed that an FAI will not be held into the circumstances of Mr McRae's death."
Mr McRae was found badly injured in his crashed car on the A87 near Kintail in Wester Ross in April 1985.
He later died in hospital, where medical staff found a gunshot wound to his head.
It was initially believed Mr McRae, who was 61, had been involved in an accident but the discovery of the gunshot wound meant his death was officially recorded as suicide.
The petition will be handed over to the Crown Office later this week.
For a long time one unanswered aspect of the case was why Mr McRae's gun was found some distance from his car, not next to it.
However, fresh evidence from police reports shows Mr McRae's Volvo was removed from the crash scene before the gunshot wound was discovered.
It was then returned to the site after police realised they were not dealing with a traffic incident.
When the car was returned it was placed close to the original site, but not in the precise spot.
Writer Mark MacNicol, a spokesman for the campaign, produced a stage play on the case for the Edinburgh Fringe last year.
He told BBC Scotland: "When I started to do my own research into the circumstances surrounding the supposed suicide it became evident to me that, in my opinion, it was not a suicide."
Mr MacNicol said a police officer who was on duty at the time had spoken about Mr McRae being followed by Special Branch officers "the day before he was found with a bullet in his head".
"The circumstances leading up to his death are highly suspicious to say the least," Mr MacNicol said.
"Then after the death the fact that the car was taken away and then moved back by police, the gun was so far away from the car, fabricated witness statements, the fact that the official suicide verdict came out prior to publication of the ballistics reports, so they had no way of knowing that gun was actually used in the suicide."
Mr MacNicol admitted the new evidence that the police moved the car in error might explain why the gun was found so far away.
He said: "It might but we don't know because for 30 years there has been this huge resistance from the Crown Office to actually to do the very straight-forward thing which is to have a fatal accident inquiry."
Mr MacNicol said there were many different theories about what had happened to Mr McRae.
He said: "All we are saying is that Willie McRae is due an inquiry.
"Willie McRae died while under highly-aggressive surveillance by Special Branch and the circumstances in the aftermath of his death are unsatisfactory so the petition hopefully demonstrates the serious public concern that is required for the lord advocate to approve the inquiry."
A report by the Resolution Foundation says such employees are unfairly losing an average of £200 a year.
It said those most affected are younger workers, many of whom will never benefit from the defined benefit pension schemes being protected.
In 2016, UK firms spent roughly £24bn trying to plug their deficits, it said.
Among the companies ploughing millions of pounds into their pension schemes were BT, Shell, Tesco, Unilever and Royal Bank of Scotland.
The current deficit of all defined benefit schemes in the UK is currently thought to be about £500bn.
The report says older workers, and those already in retirement, have the most to gain when companies top up their pension funds.
Of the 11 million workers still in defined benefit schemes, less than 2% are under 30 and still contributing.
Half the 6,000 schemes in existence are closed to new members, with a further third closed to further contributions.
"This drag on pay has important implications across generations as low - and often younger - earners in affected firms are losing out on pay even when they are not entitled to the pension pots they are plugging," said Matt Whittaker, chief economist at the Resolution Foundation.
"With average earnings still £16 a week below their pre-crisis peak and prospects for a return to strong pay growth looking shaky, it's important that younger and low- paid workers don't take a hit to their pay because of deficit payments to pension schemes that they're not even entitled to."
The cancer is often associated with children, but some types become more common with age.
The study, published in the journal Cell Reports, showed 70% of healthy people in their 90s had genetic errors that could lead to leukaemia.
The researchers warn that the number of cases could soar as life expectancy increases.
The team at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, outside Cambridge, analysed the blood of 4,219 people.
They focused on accurately testing for errors in the DNA that are linked to the blood cancers. If one blood cell in a hundred carried such a mutation they would pick it up.
The results were a surprise.
They suggest 20% of people in their 50s have potentially cancerous mutations rising to 70% in people in their 90s.
One of the researchers, Dr George Vassiliou, told the BBC News website: "We had suspected people had these mutations, but didn't expect they would be an almost inevitable consequence of ageing.
"What it is saying is that a lot more people than expected are starting on the path to leukaemia, but thankfully only a few make it to the end."
While progression to leukaemia is currently rare, the scientists believe it could become more common as life expectancy increases.
Dr Vassiliou added: "There is one warning for the future, if there was a significant extension of life expectancy then there could be a significant increase in leukaemia.
"We don't know what percentage of people would go on to develop leukaemia, it might be one in 1,000 or even one in 100 or more and that would have a dramatic impact."
One in three girls and one in four boys born today are expected to live to 100.
Stem cells in the bone marrow manufacture blood.
It takes multiple mutations to transform one from a normal cell into a cancerous one.
With enough mutations it can dominate the production of blood either producing defective blood cells, or one just one type to the exclusion of others.
The researchers believe that searching the blood for such mutations may identify people at high risk of developing leukaemia who may, in the future, be targeted with preventative therapies.
Dr Kat Arney, from Cancer Research UK, said: "We know that the risk of developing most types of cancer increases with age.
"This is a fascinating and important study highlighting how the genetic makeup of blood cells changes as we get older, and may contribute to the development of leukaemia.
"It will be interesting to see if this kind of technique can be applied to other types of cancer too."
More than 7,000 children and adolescents had their mental health referrals rejected last year.
The Scottish Association for Mental Health (SAMH) described the figure as "astonishing".
The Scottish government has already said it will commission a review into rejected referrals.
But SAMH said the issue needed to be addressed as quickly as possible because young people were "waiting now to get help and support".
The charity's Jo Anderson said 17,500 people had been turned away from receiving Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) support over the past three years.
She added: "That's an astonishing figure, and we don't know what happens to them after they've been turned away. We don't know whether they received any other support.
"In the last few weeks of the campaign we've been running, we've been inundated with calls from parents who're in that situation and their child has been rejected from receiving a CAMHS service.
"They haven't been signposted anywhere else - that's a very worrying picture."
Caitlin Wyllie-Quinn, 20, a student from Irvine, had a difficult transition to secondary school.
Bullying left her isolated and very down, crying all the time.
She got some initial help from the local Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service but after leaving therapy she went downhill rapidly.
Her GP made another referral to CAMHS but this time it was rejected. Caitlin was told that because she was not suicidal or self-harming, her case was not serious enough.
"If the person doing the assessment had asked me if I was suicidal or self-harming I would have answered yes to both those questions, but basically I was refused help because they didn't have the capability to assess me properly," she said.
"I was at a real low point and I felt that getting referred to CAMHS was some sort of light at the end of the tunnel and finally maybe getting some help.
"For that to be stripped away from me made me feel even more worthless and just made things so much worse for me."
The NHS in Scotland provides mental health services for children and young people with a wide range of mental health problems including anxiety, behaviour problems, depression and early onset psychosis.
The Scottish government's mental health strategy commits it to carrying out reviews into school counselling and rejected child and adolescent mental health service referrals.
Its mental health minister, Maureen Watt, said the reviews would happen "soon", and would allow improvements to be made to the system.
Ms Anderson said this was encouraging, but added: "We really urge that to be quick and thorough because there are young people waiting now to get help and support.
"It might be that the CAMHS service isn't appropriate for them, but we simply don't know what the problem is."
Meanwhile, statistics published on Tuesday also showed that a waiting time target for people to receive specialist mental health treatment has again been missed.
The Scottish government has had a target in place since 2014 for 90% of patients to be seen within 18 weeks of referral for mental health support.
But the target has never been met nationally - with the latest figures showing that 83.6% of children and adolescents, and 73.7% of adults, were seen within the required timescale between January and March of this year.
At the end of March, there were 6,932 children and young people across Scotland waiting for help from CAMHS, up from 6,359 at the end of December, according to the NHS statistics.
At the same time, there were 20,952 adults waiting for treatment, compared to 20,195 in December.
Average waiting times varied dramatically across the country, with 10 NHS boards meeting the target for CAMHS treatment but only three health boards meeting it for adult psychological care.
The figures also showed that 74 children and young people starting their treatment had been waiting more than a year to be seen.
NHS Grampian met the waiting time target for just 45.2% of young people, while in NHS Lothian the target was met for 47.8% of youngsters
And in the NHS Forth Valley area, only 40% of adults starting psychological treatment between January and March were seen within 18 weeks, with an average wait of 25 weeks.
A spokesman for the Scottish Children's Services Coalition (SCSC) said research has suggested 10% of children aged between five and 16 have a clinically diagnosable mental health problem.
Pointing to a "clear postcode lottery" when it comes to treatment, he added: "We are deeply concerned about what is happening to the more than a fifth of children and young people not accepted for treatment.
"There is a need for an urgent inquiry to ascertain why these young people are being rejected for treatment and what is happening to them."
Ms Watt, the mental health minster, said the number of health boards which had met the waiting time target for young people had increased from seven to 10 since the end of 2016.
She added: "However, I'm clear that we must continue to reduce waiting times and I will not be satisfied until our target is met sustainably.
"Our recently published 10-year strategy for mental health sets out a range of measures that focus on prevention and early intervention to meet the mental health needs of children and young people, backed by £150m of funding.
"We will also soon commission reviews into school counselling and rejected child and adolescent mental health service referrals, as a foundation for making further improvements."
Their places will be taken by Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust and Rentokil.
The companies included in the UK's top tier index are reviewed every quarter and reshuffled according to their market capitalisation.
Dixons Carphone shares have lost nearly 20% of their value over the past six months.
The domestic appliance to mobile phone retailer reported increased profits at the end of last year but is battling higher import costs due to the weaker pound as well as increased competition from online retailers.
"Dixons Carphone's share price has dropped off of late as a result of increasing competition within the sector, particularly from the likes of Amazon," said Helal Miah, an analyst at The Share Centre.
Shares in outsourcing giant Capita fell after a profits warning in September.
The changes, which will see the companies drop to the FTSE 250, will take effect on Monday 20 March.
Only 30 of the original FTSE 100 from 1984 still remain in the index.
S&R Electrics, which built a profile around the advertising slogan 'Sam's your man for a bargain', went into administration in May.
The administrator's report states that the firm had started legal action "in respect of an alleged fraud committed by a former employee."
The company indicated the fraud had cost it more than £250,000.
It said that had affected its cashflow, and combined with trading losses forced it to close with the loss of 20 jobs.
The report shows that the business owed its creditors more than £2m.
Ulster Bank, which hold mortgages over the firm's properties, is owed £820,000.
The largest unsecured creditor is an electrical goods wholesaler that is owed £223,000.
The Wareham station crossing is due to be shut over safety concerns and is part of a national programme of closures.
Network Rail said it was also looking at other options including installing ramps to the existing footbridge.
It comes after plans for a new footbridge were rejected by Purbeck District Council in September.
The alternative to the level crossing is a station footbridge, which poses difficulties for the elderly, disabled or parents with prams.
A shared footway and cycleway along the A351 Wareham bypass or automatic barriers are also being considered.
A Network Rail spokesman said: "Every time a footpath or a road meets the railway, there is a risk - we know the safest level crossing is a closed one."
The rail operator said the crossing had more than three times the number of incidents than any other crossing in the South West area.
CCTV released in 2009 showed a mother pushing her baby in a pram while an oncoming train headed their way.
In 2010, manually operated gates were installed at the railway crossing in the centre of the town as a temporary solution.
But Network Rail said even with flashing warning lights, sounding alarms and the presence of the attendants there were still "reported incidents of non-compliance and near misses".
The ideas are due to be discussed by Dorset County Council's cabinet in May.
A date for closing the level crossing is yet to be confirmed.
Mr Trudeau announced the nomination on Thursday, after considering both francophone and aboriginal candidates for the largely ceremonial role.
Ms Payette, 54, will take over as the Queen's representative in Canada when David Johnston retires in September.
She was the first Canadian on the International Space Station, and speaks six languages, including French.
"What a great day," Ms Payette said when her nomination was officially announced.
Mr Trudeau called her "unquestionably qualified".
A Montreal native, she holds a bachelor's degree in engineering from McGill University and a master of applied science from the University of Toronto.
She was chosen from over 5,300 applicants in 1992 to become one of four astronauts in the Canadian Space Agency. In 1999, she became the first Canadian to board the International Space Station.
In additional to her career as an astronaut, she has sung with international orchestras, plays the piano and is the mother of two children. She retired from the CSA in 2013.
Ms Payette would be Canada's 29th governor general since confederation in 1867, and the fourth woman.
As the Queen's representative in Canada, the governor general:
Her predecessor, Mr Johnston, was a Harvard alum who spent decades in academia before being appointed in 2010.
He is scheduled to retire this autumn, after his final visit with the Queen next week, when he visits the UK.
Ms Payette's appointment continues the tradition of alternating between anglophone and francophone governors general, although Mr Trudeau had also considered appointing an indigenous representative.
Members from both Mr Trudeau's Liberal Party and opposing parties have praised her nomination.
Conservative MP Lisa Raitt tweeted that she was "beyond happy" at the nomination.
"If @Astro_Payette is our next Governor General - I am beyond happy. Smart and accomplished. Trailblazer," she tweeted.
Roberta Bondar, who was the first Canadian female astronaut, also gave her approval.
"I think she's really going to be a great asset," Bondar told CBC. "It will just be so interesting to see her bring her view of the world and of Canada, seeing [the world] from space provides one with a different type of insight. I'm really looking forward to it."
Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon told the BBC: "This is not going to happen" but said firms could be asked "simply to report their numbers".
That data could help identify skills gaps or be a factor in deciding whether to grant firms more visas for overseas workers, a government source said.
Labour's Diane Abbott said the Tories were in "disarray" over their policy.
A row broke out after a briefing note was distributed following Home Secretary Amber Rudd's speech to the Conservative Party conference last week.
Although Ms Rudd did not mention businesses having to share how many foreign workers they employed, the note contained a proposal suggesting that firms should be "clear about the proportion of their workforce which is international".
One of the critics of the proposal, Steve Hilton, an aide to former prime minister David Cameron, described it on Sunday as "foreign working shaming".
He addressed his thoughts to Ms Rudd in the Sunday Times: "Hey Amber, for your next brainwave, why not announce that foreign workers will have numbers tattooed on their forearms? You might as well do the job of killing Britain's reputation as an open, enterprise economy properly."
SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon suggested it would mean companies being "named and shamed for the foreign workers they employ" while acting director general of the British Chambers of Commerce, Adam Marshall said: "It would be a sad day if having a global workforce was seen as a badge of shame".
But Sir Michael told BBC Radio 5 live's Pienaar's Politics: "What I can absolutely rule out is that we will not be asking companies to list or publish or name or identify in any way the number of foreign workers they have.
"We're going to consult with business, and the consultation document hasn't even been published yet, on how we can do more encourage companies - to incentivise them - to look first at the British labour market. And to offer these jobs to British people, which is what the British people would expect, before they import labour more cheaply from abroad."
He said businesses already had to go through a "resident labour market test" for non-EU workers but the government wanted to examine "whether we can get a better picture of exactly what the dependence on foreign workers is in each particular sector".
"That would mean, for example, asking companies just simply to report their numbers, which we wouldn't publish, we wouldn't identify anybody."
Education Secretary Justine Greening also told ITV's Peston on Sunday the policy was "about collecting the right evidence if we are going to be able to respond to skills shortages... This is not data that will be published, there will be absolutely no naming and shaming".
And a government source told the BBC there had been a "misunderstanding" rather than a "U-turn" on companies employing foreign workers and a consultation was taking place "so that we can listen to business and use that feedback to inform our decisions".
But Labour's new shadow home secretary Diane Abbott said the government was "in disarray... contradicting each other as their policy falls apart at the seams".
"The Tories anti-foreigner agenda is a distraction from their own complete failures of policy, and against the best interests of society... We need answers on how they will protect our economy, but they have no plan other than a risky hard Brexit which would threat our prosperity."
Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron was also critical, saying: "The Conservatives are reckless, divisive and uncaring. With Labour saying they did not object to this disgusting plan in principle, the Liberal Democrats are now the real opposition to the Conservative Brexit government."
Business organisation the CBI said it welcomed the "positive announcement" that firms would not be required to list their foreign employees.
But it said: "The £45bn business invests in training each year must complement education and skills development in schools, further education and higher education.
"This will give us the foundation to develop an approach to migration that both supports the economy and deals with public concerns in the long run."
Following criticism, Ms Rudd defended her proposals earlier in the week. She told the BBC that British businesses had a "responsibility to local employment and we're asking them to join us on this journey so they don't automatically go abroad".
This was just one of several schemes under consideration and "not something we're definitely going to do", she added.
The annual rate of house price inflation fell to 7.2% in February - down from 8.4% in January, and the lowest rate for more than a year.
However, in the short term, between January and February, prices rose by 0.6% on a seasonally-adjusted basis.
The average house price across the UK is now £268,000, the ONS reported.
Separate figures show that mortgage lending fell significantly in February, according to the Council for Mortgage Lenders (CML).
The number of loans advanced to borrowers during the month was 40,600 - a 1% fall from January, and a 16% fall compared with February 2014.
Paul Smee, the CML's director general, said seasonal factors had not helped the market.
"This typical seasonal trend may also be exacerbated by uncertainty ahead of the general election, but we still expect to see an upturn in the spring and summer months," he said.
Fast forward 12 months and the winger has earned his first professional contract at Sale Sharks, is their leading try scorer and is playing alongside childhood friend Danny Cipriani.
"My mentality has always been that if I keep working hard and working at my game then I will get there," the 28-year-old told BBC Sport. "That's what I stuck to in my mind."
Edwards got his chance after Cipriani, also 28, recommended Sale director of rugby Steve Diamond offer a trial to his former school mate, telling Diamond he thought he had all the attributes to make it at the top level.
He was given a three-month period to impress last summer where he was guaranteed to play in two friendlies, and his attitude and elusive footwork did enough to secure a one-year deal.
"He's done a remarkable job," said Diamond. "He listens to Paul Deacon [attack and kicking coach] and [defence coach] Mike Forshaw.
"He's good at the breakdown as well as ball in hand - he's still got a lot to learn positional wise but he's a great asset.
"The credit goes to Nev himself working with the coaches and he's just a good lad really."
Before his stint at Rosslyn Park, Edwards had played in the Championship at Bedford whom he joined after being released from the London Irish academy.
He joined the Exiles after attending Whitgift School, where he played alongside future England fly-half Cipriani in the first team.
"We played cricket together first and then ended up going to the same school," added Edwards.
"We always knew at a young age he was going to do very well whatever sport he chose, he was one of those guys - I'm just happy he's done so well."
The pair's 16-year friendship appears to be showing signs of fruition on the pitch, with Cipriani twice setting up Edwards for tries this season with perfectly timed kicks.
"It's awesome to be playing with him again. As long as we keep performing on the pitch hopefully those tries will come."
Edwards also made another lifelong friend at school through rugby, but a man who took a different career path.
While Edwards kept his rugby dream alive, Jonathan Benjamin Gill, or 'JB', decided to focus on singing rather than sport. After leaving Whitgift School, he also left the London Irish academy.
Gill went on to become part of boy band JLS, who had five UK number one singles.
"He was really good at school actually but obviously we took different paths," said Edwards. "He's massively into his rugby, he really loves it."
The pair still keep in touch and Edwards sent Gill a Sale shirt for his son Ace, who recently celebrated his first birthday.
American business magazine, Forbes, have named over 1800 of the world's wealthiest people. So which Premier League owners made the list? Some may surprise you...
Number 1,190 on Forbes' list.
Founder of John W Henry and Company (JWH), principal owner of The Boston Globe, Boston Red Sox, Liverpool Football Club and co-owner of Roush Fenway Racing.
Total worth - £1bn
Appears at 894 on the list.
Co-owner of Red and White Holdings alongside business partner Alisher Usmanov. Moshiri owns shares in numerous steel and energy companies in the UK and Russia.
Moshiri is a chartered certified accountant.
Total worth - £1.4bn
Positioned at 737 on the list.
Joint chief executive and founder of betting company Bet365 and the eldest daughter of Stoke City chairman Peter Coates.
In 2012 she was made a CBE for services to the community and business.
Total worth - £1.6bn
Number 714 on the list.
Founder of King Power Duty Free, one of Thailand's leading duty free retail groups.
Srivaddhanaprabha is an avid polo player and owns the VR Polo Club in Bangkok. He was also the president of the Ham Polo Club in London between 2008 and 2012.
Total worth - £1.8bn
Features at 318 on the list.
Controversial owner of Newcastle United, and holds an 8.92% stake in Scottish side Rangers. Ashley founded Sports Direct in the 1980s after opening his first sports shop in Maidenhead.
In 2007, he paid about £134m for Newcastle United.
Total worth - £3.2bn
Number 227 on the list.
Born in Bow, London and now chairman of the Tavistock Group which owns over 200 companies in 15 countries. The group's portfolio includes the Tavistock Cup golf event. The group formerly held stakes in Rangers and Slavia Prague.
Total worth - £3.5bn
Ranked at number 225 on the list.
Owner of Kroenke Sports Enterprises, and made his money building shopping centres and apartment buildings in the United States. In 1995, Kroenke and his wife inherited a stake of American supermarket chain Wal-Mart.
Kroenke also owns several US sports franchises, including NBA side Denver Nuggets, Colorado Avalanche in the NHL, St Louis Rams NFL franchise, MLS team Colorado Rapids and Colorado Mammoth in the National Lacrosse League.
Total worth - £4.1bn
Comes in at number 137 on the list.
In 1995, Abramovich and Boris Berezovsky acquired the controlling interest in the large oil company Sibneft. Now owner of Millhouse LLC, whose assets under management include major stakes in oil company Gazprom Neft, Russian Aluminum and Aeroflot Russian Airlines.
Total worth - £5.9bn
Features at number 82 on the list.
The 64-year-old is the owner of ArcelorMittal - the world's largest steelmaker.
Mittal's company also financed the construction of the Orbit for the 2012 Olympics Games in London.
Total worth - £8.8bn
Number 71 on the list.
The Russian built his wealth through metal and mining operations and investments, and is majority shareholder in industrial conglomerate Metalloinvest.
Also owns Kommersant Publishing Houses, co-owner of Russia's second-largest mobile telephone operator MegaFon and co-owner of the Mail.ru group - the largest internet company in the Russian-speaking world.
Usmanov's sporting interests are not restricted to football. The 61-year-old is also the president of the FIE, the international governing body of fencing.
Total worth - £9.4bn
A combined £40.7bn.
The richest league in the world, the most expensive league in the world; and of course, some of the world's wealthiest owners.
Jurors at Cardiff Crown Court were told the trial involved six separate insurance claims between 2009 and 2011, totalling more than £144,000.
The court heard "virtually" all the vehicles involved in the alleged collisions were recovered to the same garage, and different accounts were given for the alleged accidents.
All seven deny conspiracy to defraud.
One defendant also denies perverting the course of justice.
Prosecuting barrister Christopher Clee QC told the court that all seven were involved in a "crash for cash" scheme which involved "insurance fraud" following road traffic collisions "that did not occur".
"Not once" were the emergency services called to the scene of the alleged collisions, he added.
The case continues.
Ineos said it had chosen German firm TGE as the preferred bidder to build a huge ethane tank at the site by 2016.
Ineos also announced two ageing plants at Grangemouth would close immediately, but added there would be no job losses.
The changes are part of a £300m "survival plan" launched by the company last year.
Ineos threatened to close the petrochemical site at Grangemouth in October after a dispute with the Unite union.
But it decided to keep the site open after workers accepted changes to pay, pensions and terms and conditions.
Ineos said an ethane gas terminal was essential as it looked to replace existing North Sea feedstocks that were running out.
Harry Deans, a senior executive at Ineos, said the new ethane tank would be the biggest in Europe.
He added: "It is a crucial part of our survival plan that will enable us to import shale gas from the USA.
"By 2016 Grangemouth will be a shale gas-based facility, essential for it to become a profitable business again."
Ineos had initially planned to close the facility's G4 ethylene cracker and BE3 butadiene plant in 2015, but in a statement the company said it was closing the plants with immediate effect.
Mr Deans said: "Both G4 and BE3 plants are no longer commercially viable.
"Both facilities date from the 1960s and their closure is another key part of our survival plan.
"We are pleased to be able to redeploy all affected staff into other roles across the Grangemouth site as we focus on the future."
About 1,300 people work across the Grangemouth sites.
The 23-year-old has signed from Swedish side Djurgarden on a three-year deal for around US$2,25 million.
Colley also had offers from Spain's Espanyol and Germany's Hertha Berlin.
"I joined Genk where there will be less stress because the manager has assured me I will have more playing time," he told BBC Sport.
"It feels great to sign for Genk because it is a great club and a good step for my career." .
The former Real de Banjul player made 44 matches for Djurgarden scoring five goals for them after joining from Finnish side Kups in August 2014.
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Raymond Manners, 56 from Leeds, admitted raping a woman in the Chapeltown area of the city on 23 February 1991.
The cold case was solved thanks to advances in DNA profiling.
Manners, who is already serving 10 years for two 1979 rapes, was sentenced at Leeds Crown Court.
West Yorkshire Police said other criminals should be "dreading that knock on the door" due to forensic advances.
Det Ch Insp Jim Dunkerley said: "This is a fantastic result. It has brought justice and hopefully some closure for the victim and sent a message to any criminals still out there who think the passage of time has meant they have got away with what they did.
"I want them to be dreading that knock on the door and to always be looking over their shoulder for the police to come."
The court heard that officers were unable to identify the rapist in 1991.
But specialist cold case investigators later reviewed it and found similarities with two other unsolved rapes dating back to 1979.
In 2012, the same team linked Manners to the 1979 rapes through forensic evidence and he was jailed for 10 years.
At the time, there was insufficient evidence to successfully link him to the 1991 rape.
However, the team reviewed the case again in 2016 and thanks to new techniques in DNA profiling, Manners was linked to the crime scene.
Manners, who was described by police as a "serial rapist", was jailed for a further 12 years on Thursday after pleading guilty at an earlier hearing.
The Ibrox club were ejected from the first qualifying round of the Europa League by a team that finished fourth in their domestic league last season.
"It's an embarrassing result, given the investment (in the squad)," said Rae of his former club's 2-1 aggregate defeat.
"I have never seen them lose to a team of this calibre."
Rae, now 48, told BBC Scotland that he felt Pedro Caixinha's new-look team lacked the drive he would have expected to see as Rangers returned to European football for the first time in six years.
They had won the Ibrox leg 1-0 and in the starting XI in Luxembourg fielded four of their summer signings - Fabio Cardoso, Ryan Jack, Daniel Candeias and Alfredo Morelos, with a further two, Dalcio and Eduardo Herrera, making substitute appearances.
"They are only three or four weeks into their pre-season but with the quality that Rangers have allegedly brought in you would expect them to go through in a tie like this," said Rae, who played in the Champions League and Uefa Cup with Rangers in 2004 and 2005.
"It's OK if it's a one-off, you can lose cup games, but over two games you would expect them to get through.
"I was disappointed with the manner in which they played. They never got any combinations, there was no tempo or intensity and you could actually see it coming. It's as bad a performance and result as you're going to get.
"They just didn't create enough good chances. They had a couple of headers that you would have expected them to score, with (Niko) Kranjcar and (Josh) Windass and Kenny Miller hitting the bar.
"It would have to be up there with one of their worst performances and results in Europe. I think everybody is in shock.
"The way Scottish football is going, we're going to be a laughing stock."
Rae predicted that the Portuguese manager would come in for scrutiny in the coming weeks but he did not think Caixinha would resign or be sacked.
"He seems quite a confident guy in his ability and what he's trying to do," he said.
"The board have backed him to the hilt. I would expect them to back him and give him time to turn it around.
"The eight signings are just in the door. The season starts in four weeks. This will give Caixinha time to work with them. They will need to hit the ground running."
Many fail the psychology test, one of several designed to weed out inappropriate applicants.
Several YouTube videos with a recruitment theme have disabled all comments. Where comments are still possible, one failed applicant complained that visible tattoos were a criterion for rejection.
Xenophobia is at record levels in Hungary, after two years of anti-migrant rhetoric from the conservative Fidesz government.
Work is continuing on a second, electronic fence parallel to the first, designed to prevent illegal entry. Hungary now accepts only 10 applicants for asylum a day from Serbia, where up to 7,000 asylum seekers are waiting for the chance to move on to western Europe.
Under new legislation, all asylum seekers will be kept in detention while their applications are considered, to prevent them absconding across the western border into Austria.
There is no lack of interest in joining the new "border-hunters" unit. But police officers admit privately that the name is part of the problem, as it attracts the wrong kind of applicant.
Only 1,000 of the 2,700 people who applied from last August to January this year were accepted. Nearly 400 failed the psychology test, police told the BBC. Police commanders say quality is more important than quantity, and they will keep recruiting for as long as necessary.
The formation of the 3,000-strong unit, part of the national police, was announced in August 2015. It is designed to take the pressure off the regular police, 18,000 of whom served on the Serbian border at different times last year, alongside 6,000 soldiers.
The border-hunters receive normal police training, including firearms use, with extra modules about Islam and other cultures they might come into contact with.
Because of the EU-Turkey deal of March 2016, and the deterrent effect of police measures in Bulgaria, Macedonia, Serbia and Hungary, the earlier flow of refugees through the West Balkan route has slowed to a trickle. This is largely tolerated by most countries, but Hungary spares no expense to block it.
In January an average 80 migrants were caught each night trying to enter Hungary, two-thirds after successfully climbing or cutting through the fence. They were then "escorted" by police back to the gates, and sent back into Serbia.
The UN refugee agency UNHCR and human rights groups allege this push-back practice is illegal, and have gathered evidence alleging excessive use of force by the Hungarian police. Hungary granted just 427 asylum requests in 2016.
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In the border-hunters classroom at Barcs in southern Hungary, 30 uniformed male and female police cadets practise arrest techniques.
Working in pairs, they twist the arms of their partners behind their backs and march them across the room, bent double.
"We don't hunt down anyone, migrants or others," Hungarian police chief Karoly Papp told the BBC. "The police have to keep strictly and humanely to the rules laid down in the Hungarian constitution, the police law, and the [EU] Schengen border regulations.
"Of course there are some to whom we say, 'We cannot let you into the training course, because you are not suitable for a career in the police.' And there are others who would be suitable, but at the last minute have second thoughts."
"I always wanted to join the police, but until now, the opportunity didn't present itself," said Adrienn Heronyanyi, who has a four-year-old son. "The psychological and medical tests were hard, but I'm happy I passed."
She took her oath, with 531 other recruits, at a swearing-in ceremony in Budapest on 12 January.
"Terrorist attacks, violence and crime, ethnic and cultural clashes all warn us," Prime Minister Viktor Orban told the recruits, "that those who come here do not want to live our way of life. They want to continue their own ways of life - but with the standard of living of the people of Europe.
"We know that the migrants are also victims. Victims of the people-smugglers; victims of European politicians who promise admission and invitation; and victims of their own illusions. We understand them, but we cannot yield to their demands, and we cannot let them into Europe."
According to the State Prosecution Service, nine police officers are currently under investigation for alleged violence against migrants. For the chief of police, this is proof that such behaviour is the exception, not the rule.
"I will defend my officers against every unprincipled attack, but at the same time I refuse to defend anyone who does not keep to the high standards of the Hungarian police," said Karoly Papp.
The inquiry by Sir John Chilcot was set up in 2009 and took evidence from its last witness in 2011.
However, there have been prolonged discussions over the disclosure of secret documents.
Nicola Sturgeon has written to all Scottish party leaders urging them to unite in seeking publication.
Both Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy and Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie have said they back the earliest possible publication of the findings.
The Chilcot Inquiry was commissioned by the previous government at Westminster to investigate the background to Britain's involvement in the Iraq war, which began in 2003 when Tony Blair was prime minister.
There have been growing calls for the findings to be made public before the general election in May.
In the past week, a cross-party group of MPs secured a Commons debate on the issue which will take place on 29 January.
In June last year, Sir John announced he was satisfied that the "gist" of talks between Tony Blair and former US President George Bush could be made public, removing a major obstacle to publication of his report.
He then intended to write to those who were to be criticised to give them an opportunity to respond before publication.
Mr Blair has previously said he wanted the Chilcot report to be published as soon as possible and that he "resented" claims he was to blame for its slow progress.
UK government ministers have conceded that if the final report is not completed by the end of February, it would be wrong to release it in the heat of a closely-fought election campaign.
The first minister told BBC Scotland: "The report was meant to be published in 2012.
"Surely we can't go through a general election without people having the answers to the questions on the Iraq war that they still don't have.
"That has to happen before some of these MPs that voted for the Iraq war are back up for election."
Scottish Labour leader Mr Murphy, who was a minister under the government of Mr Blair, said: "The Chilcot Inquiry is a crucially important piece of work that must be conducted thoroughly and forensically.
"The inquiry was initiated by Labour in July 2009, because it is vital to identify the lessons that can be learned from the conflict.
"There is rightly real public interest in the findings of such an important inquiry and I think it is right that there is the earliest possible publication of the report."
In response to Ms Sturgeon's letter, Scottish Labour Scottish Lib Dem leader Mr Rennie said his party was pushing for the government to release the report within one week of receiving it.
He added: "We agree with Nicola Sturgeon. It is important that the lessons learnt from the Chilcot report are learnt whilst there are people involved in Parliament who are in a position to answer for their actions.
"It has been over five years since the Iraq Inquiry began taking oral evidence.
"Politicians from all parties across the UK must push for these findings to be finally brought into the light."
A spokeswoman for the Iraq Inquiry said: "We will not be commenting further on the process or the progress of the report."
The leader of the suffragette movement, who was born in the city, gained over half the votes in the WoManchester Statue Project poll.
A statue of Queen Victoria in Albert Square is currently the only woman portrayed across 17 city centre works.
The statue, which will be privately funded, is due to be unveiled in 2019.
Mrs Pankhurst beat five other women shortlisted to be commemorated with 56% of the 5,301 votes cast.
Didsbury councillor Andrew Simcock, who started the project, said none of the funding for the £200,000 memorial would come from Manchester City Council's budget.
Mrs Pankhurst, who was born in 1858, was instrumental in the movement for women to get the vote and founder of the Women's Social and Political Union.
The group held its first meeting at Mrs Pankhurst's Chorlton-on-Medlock home on 10 October 1903. The building has since become a museum and community centre named in her honour.
•Organised campaigns for women's suffrage began in 1866
•When Parliamentary reform was debated in 1867, John Stuart Mill proposed an amendment to give the vote to women on the same terms as men but it was rejected by 194 votes to 73.
• Women's rights activists were involved in direct action, including chaining themselves to railings and jail hunger strikes
• In 1918 the Representation of the People Act gave women over 30 the vote, which was extended to all women over the age of 21 in 1928.
Manager Rachel Lappin said she was "thrilled to bits [that] the legacy of Mrs Pankhurst's campaign and the movement she led lives on".
The other nominees were author Elizabeth Gaskell, anti-racism campaigner Louise Da-Cocodia, Manchester councillor Margaret Ashton, businesswomen and writer Elizabeth Raffald and MP Ellen Wilkinson.
Leigh Griffiths scored either side of Anthony Ralston's first senior goal for the club to make it 3-0 at half-time.
Captain for the night Kieran Tierney netted a wonderful strike from distance that will long live in his memory and the fans who witnessed it.
Stuart Armstrong tapped in to cap a straightforward night for Celtic and a sore one for Kilmarnock.
It was not a birthday to remember for Kilmarnock's Kirk Broadfoot as he and Gordon Greer looked to forge their new central defensive partnership in testing circumstances.
Only Craig Gordon, Tierney and Griffiths continued with starting berths from the Celtic 11 that began the weekend's 4-1 Premiership victory over Hearts.
Manager Brendan Rodgers offered more first-team experience to Ralston (18), left-wing-back Calvin Miller (19) and recent signing from Ipswich Town Kundai Benyu (19).
Kristoffer Ajer (19) and Eboue Kouassi (19) were the others under the age of 20 handed the responsibility of helping Celtic get off to a smooth start in defending one part of the domestic treble they captured last season.
Tierney was deployed as a centre-back beside Ajer, who spent much of the 2016-17 campaign on loan at Kilmarnock, but the home defence had little to do.
Not so at the other end, and a silly foul from winger Jordan Jones on Jonny Hayes handed the hosts an early penalty that Griffiths fired into the bottom corner.
A memorable moment for Ralston soon followed when he headed in Griffiths' corner kick after being given too much space by the Killie defence.
Goalkeeper Jamie MacDonald could not stop that one but he did well to beat away a stinging effort from Griffiths and he went on to make an even better stop from Armstrong later.
The visitors had started Lee Erwin up front in place of Kris Boyd but the ball rarely made its way that far up the pitch as Killie were pinned back.
Tierney highlighted his ever-increasing skill-set in many ways in this match. Playing as captain and centre-back was only the beginning, as he impressed with a nice threaded pass to set up Griffiths for his fourth goal in two games - the striker springing a half-hearted Killie offside trap before calmly slotting in to give his team a 3-0 lead at the break.
Tierney then sent a 40-yard screamer high into the top corner for Celtic's fourth. It was a terrific strike that the man, already capped four times for Scotland, will struggle to better in what promises to be a bright future.
The busy Hayes scampered down the right for his second assist of the night, sending an inviting low cross for Armstrong to side-foot home from close-range.
One negative for Celtic was a nasty looking injury for Kouassi, who was taken off after jarring what looked like his knee or ankle.
Match ends, Celtic 5, Kilmarnock 0.
Second Half ends, Celtic 5, Kilmarnock 0.
Attempt missed. Kristoffer Ajer (Celtic) header from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right following a corner.
Corner, Celtic. Conceded by Jamie MacDonald.
Attempt saved. Tomas Rogic (Celtic) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top left corner.
James Forrest (Celtic) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Gordon Greer (Kilmarnock).
Attempt blocked. Chris Burke (Kilmarnock) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Delay in match James Forrest (Celtic) because of an injury.
Attempt blocked. Rory McKenzie (Kilmarnock) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt saved. Stuart Armstrong (Celtic) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt blocked. James Forrest (Celtic) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Tomas Rogic (Celtic) left footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high.
Attempt blocked. Stuart Armstrong (Celtic) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Callum McGregor (Celtic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by William Graham (Kilmarnock).
Tomas Rogic (Celtic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Alan Power (Kilmarnock).
Goal! Celtic 5, Kilmarnock 0. Stuart Armstrong (Celtic) left footed shot from very close range to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Anthony Ralston.
Substitution, Celtic. Callum McGregor replaces Kundai Benyu.
Foul by Kundai Benyu (Celtic).
Alan Power (Kilmarnock) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Tomas Rogic (Celtic) left footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Foul by Anthony Ralston (Celtic).
William Graham (Kilmarnock) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Goal! Celtic 4, Kilmarnock 0. Kieran Tierney (Celtic) left footed shot from more than 35 yards to the top right corner. Assisted by Anthony Ralston.
Substitution, Celtic. James Forrest replaces Leigh Griffiths.
Attempt saved. Kristoffer Ajer (Celtic) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Corner, Celtic. Conceded by Kirk Broadfoot.
Attempt blocked. Stuart Armstrong (Celtic) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Rory McKenzie (Kilmarnock) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Kristoffer Ajer (Celtic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Rory McKenzie (Kilmarnock).
Calvin Miller (Celtic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Chris Burke (Kilmarnock).
Foul by Tomas Rogic (Celtic).
William Graham (Kilmarnock) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Kilmarnock. Stephen O'Donnell replaces Iain Wilson.
Attempt blocked. Tomas Rogic (Celtic) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked.
Corner, Celtic. Conceded by Gordon Greer.
Matt Dunham is a 33-year-old British photographer who studied Documentary Photography at the University of Wales in Newport and has worked on the staff at AP since 2005. He is best known for his picture of Prince Charles and his wife Camilla when their car was attacked during the student protests in London in December 2010.
Here's Matt's selection, starting with a series from Japan following the earthquake and tsunami that struck the country in March.
People residing in the earthquake-prone regions of the world live day-to-day with the reality that one could hit at any time. The earthquake that struck off the coast of Japan on 11 March was the biggest to hit the country since modern records began and killed more than 15,000 people.
I was covering an ice skating event in Sheffield when I received a call from my regional boss at AP, Tony Hicks. The Department for International Development were organising a flight for British search and rescue teams to deploy to Japan and they had room for a number of media to go with them. The flight was due to leave fours hours later from Manchester Airport.
I wasn't exactly kitted out with the necessary equipment for such an assignment as all my camping stuff was at home in London. However my text colleague David Stringer was making his way to the airport from London with a Bgan (Broadband Global Area Network), a satellite internet connection device, which would enable us to transmit our pictures and copy, and I eventually managed to get us some gear at a camping shop.
We landed at a US military base in northern Japan and along with the rescue teams we were driven to the tsunami affected area so we could co-ordinate with the Japanese emergency services.
We set up camp in a gymnasium that was absolutely freezing. We asked ourselves how anybody trapped in the remains of a building could survive the freezing temperatures at night.
The rescue workers were desperate to find survivors. But after three days of finding nothing but bodies, the decision was made that they would leave Japan as they deemed the chances of finding anyone still alive extremely low.
This was not the end for me though as I was assigned to join AP's team of Japanese staffers. My photographic colleague Shizuo Kambayashi and reporter Foster Klug picked me up and we drove to Kesennuma where a giant vessel had been washed ashore. It was unbelievable seeing the strange places where cars and boats had ended up, coming to rest on some of the concrete buildings that remained on their foundations. It was a way of indicating just how high the tsunami waters rose.
I've purposefully chosen to reflect on this image of Kate looking back rather than the kiss picture, as that was something everyone was expecting to happen, drawing the inevitable comparisons with the kiss Charles and Diana shared on the same balcony 30 years earlier.
I like this frame as it is an unexpected moment where Kate gives the assembled masses a conspiratorial look of happiness and confidence as she turns away with William to walk into her new life as a future queen.
The picture was taken from a tiered platform put up on the Queen Victoria memorial, where 64 positions had been carefully marked up for photographers directly opposite the balcony where the royal couple were expected to share their first public kiss as husband and wife. We were asked to arrive at the memorial at 6am with the royals expected to make their balcony appearance just under seven and a half hours later. One relief was that a toilet had been put in our media enclosure which meant we could take drinks and snacks to last the day.
This picture was shot on a Canon 1D MkIV camera with an 800mm long lens to give a close-up view of the couple, from what I'd guess was the 70-or-so metre distance between us. One problem with taking photographs on such a long lens from a distance like that is having to deal with atmospheric heat haze. This makes the images appear less sharp than if you were standing much closer. The heat haze was also intensified by the crowds that were standing between our elevated platform and the forecourt of Buckingham Palace.
I had also set up three other remotely triggered cameras with different lenses to give a wide, medium and another tight view of the balcony scene. They were all connected with cables so that when I took a picture with the main 800mm camera all the others would fire at the same time, capturing the same moment.
When working for an international news agency on an event with such a global interest the images need to arrive at the picture desks of AP's subscribers as quickly as possible. This was particularly important for countries in different time zones where the timing of the kiss meant that it needed to make their late night printing deadlines.
To make our delivery as timely as possible, AP and the other large news agencies paid to have broadband speed internet lines installed beside our platform. Trying to send pictures using the mobile phone network would have been virtually impossible. When crowds of thousands assemble it tends to overload the nearest mobile phone masts, but by plugging the internet cable into a module attached to my main camera I was able to transmit pictures directly to our office in Camden where a team of editors were waiting to crop, edit and caption before transmitting the pictures to our clients.
I'm pleased to say everything went well with the photography that day, which was a huge relief for me. Text journalists can reflect on things after they have happened but as a news photographer if you miss an historic moment there is no second chance to capture it again, which is why it was very kind of William and Kate to kiss twice that day. We still needed to capture both kisses, and it turned out the second kiss made a better picture as it had the little bridesmaid covering her ears.
In Britain we have a genre of photography that is regularly practiced by news and celebrity photographers alike, the car shot. When waiting for a person in the news agenda sometimes the only way to take a photograph of them is through the window of the vehicle they are travelling in.
Car shots are not the kind of pictures individuals would hang on their walls as they often capture people at a low-point or time of crisis in their lives. In many other countries, photographers are given access to take pictures inside courts, parliaments and committee hearings but in Britain this is not the case.
If people choose to drive away from gated entrances or underground car parks the only visual possibility left by that stage is a car shot for the photographers, and footage of photographers taking the pictures for the broadcasters. Stories need visuals as readers and viewers want to see what's happening.
The two most important technical aspects to get a good result in these situations are the flash settings you need to penetrate the window, and the focus of the lens.
When word came through of the News of the World's closure amidst the phone-hacking scandal, the media descended on the Wapping site to report on it. As a photographer you need to think of everything you can use to illustrate it as effectively as possible. Images of the building, News of the World signs, the multitude of television sat' trucks, television correspondents speaking on live broadcasts, News of the World employees hugging and drinking outside the pub next door and ideally you'd capture the main protagonists, Rebekah Brooks and James Murdoch (Rupert Murdoch was at a conference in the US on that day).
On this day a number of photographers were standing on a street corner with a view of the building's underground car park exit as we suspected Brooks and Murdoch would depart from there. Members of the Sunday tabloid's staff had told us they were still in the building so we had to wait it out. It took a fair while for them to leave and it was getting later into the evening by which time some of our group had left.
James Murdoch was the first to leave and then a little while later Brooks came out. Her departure caught us by surprise as word got out that she had already left and so with British newspaper deadlines approaching we were sitting on the pavement with heads in laptops sending the photos we'd taken of Murdoch. One observant member of our group spotted a vehicle pull out from the car park and shouted to the rest of us, something it's always nice to do for one another.
The focus of my picture is off, it's a muzzy, but that doesn't lessen the fact that her gaze comes from a time of crisis in the history of British newspapers.
I'd been in Norway for three days covering the aftermath of Anders Behring Breivik's attack in Norway. Breivik had set off a bomb in Oslo before heading to the island of Utoeya where he killed at least 68 people at an island youth camp run by the ruling Labour Party.
This campsite jetty across the water from the island had become a place people came to lay floral tributes in memory of the victims. The beautiful scenery and calm sound of the water were so at odds with the horror that took place on the island.
By the time I took this picture AP had flown in four photographers to Oslo so we could spread ourselves around, each one covering different aspects of the story. On this day when Breivik was due to appear in court for the first time, a minute's silence was planned across Norway and thousands of people were expected to attend an Oslo 'Rose March' memorial in the afternoon. Utoeya was an hour or so drive from Oslo where we were all staying. I'd taken our shared hire car down to the mainland area opposite the island and had spent most of the morning using a 500mm lens with a 1.4x converter to watch the police who were still carrying out investigations on the island.
As the time for the silence approached another British photographer Jeff Mitchell and I went down to the jetty to see what would happen for the minute's silence. Various people were gathering at the water's edge, a mixture of campers, relatives and members of the media.
Photographing a solemn scene like this is emotionally tough. We are very aware of how people are feeling and have to find a balance for how close to stand when taking our pictures. How can you do anything else but empathise with their loss, or reflect on how you would feel if one of your loved ones had lost their lives on that island?
The one track and field competitor even non-athletics fans have heard of is Usain Bolt. The men's 100m final is billed as the showpiece of any high-profile athletics meeting, and at the World Athletics Championships in Daegu, South Korea, it was reigning Olympic champion and world-record holder Bolt who was the man the spectators came to see.
Sports are interesting to photograph in the sense that there is always the potential for something unexpected to happen, even with an event that lasts less than 10 seconds.
We covered this race with a team of photographers, all from different parts of the globe, and each taking a different vantage point dotted around the track. The prime photographer position, and number one pressure spot, is sitting head-on to the finish line where you will get the clean picture of the winner crossing the line towards you. My colleague Anja Niedringhaus, who's also a hugely talented and experienced conflict photographer, was doing the job for AP on this occasion.
My job that night was to be at the start, to shoot the competitors coming out the blocks and to keep an eye on Bolt as he likes to showboat for the fans and cameras alike. It was, I felt, the least pressured position to be given and one I was very happy with. My Texan colleague David Phillip, who is a top-notch sports photographer and technical whiz, was waiting on the infield beside the finish line to trigger his set of remote controlled cameras on the line, and then do the celebration lap of honour run-round with the winner.
We'd talked about the fact that the rule change meant that one false start and the athlete is disqualified. However slim, there was always a chance that it could be Bolt in that unfortunate position, and on this occasion that is what happened.
The photo here shows Bolt, disqualified, running vest thrown off in frustration, and gesturing as he watches the race on the stadium's big screen by the start. He later overcame the disappointment to take the gold medal in the 200m race and helped set a new world record for the Jamaican men in the 4x100m relay on the last day of the competition. It's not hard to guess where all eyes will be pointing next summer when the Olympics comes to London, and I hope to be by the start for the 100m again, this time not seeing anyone disqualified.
Britain's Met Office said maximum temperatures were around ten degrees above normal for September and Londoners flocked outdoors to soak up the sun. The swimming ponds on Hampstead Heath are not heated, and though the temperatures were fine to sunbathe in, the water was incredibly cold. I stayed at the pond for a while chatting to different people and becoming part of the landscape so they were comfortable with my being there.
The longer you spend photographing a scene, the more people become immune to a camera pointing at or around them. To begin with people are usually curious as to why you are taking pictures and ask questions, like who you work for, or how much your cameras are worth. Once satisfied they sometimes pose in a snapshot manner asking you take a picture of them, and finally the novelty of being photographed wears off and they go back to acting naturally again.
The best unposed pictures of daily life happen either when people don't notice your camera or because their attention is focused elsewhere, in this case her attention was on the cold water.
Tomorrow Max Houghton, course leader in MA Photojournalism at the University of Westminster and editor of 8 magazine looks at the ethics of photojournalism.
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Nasri, 29, was dismissed for a second yellow card in Sevilla's 2-0 last-16 second-leg defeat, as the Foxes reached the quarter-finals 3-2 on aggregate.
Nasri and Vardy clashed in the second half and were booked for butting heads.
But the on-loan Manchester City star believes Vardy's response convinced referee Daniele Orsato to take action.
"For me he's a cheat because if he was a foreign player you, the English press, would be saying he's a cheat," he said.
"They were winning 2-0, play the game like a man. You are not better than us but you are winning 2-0 and will qualify, just play the game."
But England striker Vardy refuted Nasri's allegation, saying: "I'm not a cheat and I never have been. That's all I've got to say on the matter."
A Leicester spokesman added: "The club refutes entirely any allegation that questions the professional integrity of Jamie or any of its players."
Sevilla were already 2-0 down on the night after goals from Wes Morgan and Marc Albrighton.
And they were forced to play the final 20 minutes with 10 men as they chased a crucial goal.
France international Nasri needed to be escorted off the pitch by his team-mates, which took over three minutes.
"For an international player you don't need to do that. Look at the image. Yes he did it, but he did it well," he said.
"He played it well. I thought the English players were tougher than that. He is the one who came to my face.
"It was a foul or something and then he pushed me and I said 'what are you doing?' and then he came to my face. That's what happened.
"If I tell the truth I don't think you will be able to write it. I would love to speak to him - there are too many cameras and security and I have to think about next year and not getting a big suspension."
Brian Reader, 76, was jailed over the £26m Brinks Mat armed robbery in 1983.
Terry Perkins, 67, was jailed for 22 years for robbing the vaults of Securicor, also known as Security Express, in the same year.
Reader and Perkins have already admitted conspiracy to burgle the Hatton Garden safe deposit.
Reader, of Dartford Road, Dartford, was jailed for eight years for conspiracy to handle stolen goods after the gold bullion robbery in Hounslow, west London, in 1983.
Jurors at Woolwich Crown Court were told he was also sentenced to a further year in prison for dishonestly handling £66,000 in cash.
Perkins, of Heene Road, was part of a gang which broke into the Security Express depot in Shoreditch, east London, and escaped with £6m on Easter Monday, 1983.
The jury also heard details of the previous convictions of the other men who have already admitted their role in the Hatton Garden raid.
John "Kenny" Collins, 75, of Bletsoe Walk, Islington, has convictions for offences including breaking in, theft and handling stolen goods.
Daniel Jones, 60, of Park Avenue, Enfield, has been sentenced for offences of robbery, burglary and handling stolen goods.
Four other men are on trial accused of being involved in the Hatton Garden raid:
Collins, Jones, Perkins and Reader are due to be sentenced at a later date.
The trial continues.
It follows a report from Citizens Advice, which said thousands of people were waiting 47 minutes to get their calls answered.
"I don't think the overall trend is worsening," Lin Homer, HMRC's chief executive, told MPs.
The National Audit Office (NAO) also said recently that too few calls were being answered within five minutes.
"We aren't answering enough calls within five minutes, but we are now doing more 'once and done' calls," she said, meaning that taxpayers only needed to phone once.
"We have already apologised for what we see as a failure in our performance at the end of last year, and the first couple of months of this year," she told members of the Public Accounts Committee.
In June this year, she apologised for the service, which she admitted was "not up to scratch", after figures showed that a quarter of calls went unanswered.
As a result of "once and done" calls, she said that some conversations were getting longer. And she said HMRC was "aiming to get better".
The total number of calls answered by HMRC fell from 79% in 2013/14, to 72.5% in 2014/15, according to the NAO.
And it said that just 39% of calls were being answered within five minutes.
The Citizens Advice study showed that over the last year, 11,500 frustrated callers turned to Twitter to complain.
On average, those who tweeted had to wait an average of 47 minutes before their call was answered.
HMRC said the survey was "unscientific" and "out of date".
In one case, someone tweeted that they had tried to get through to HMRC on four occasions and waited an hour each time.
Citizens Advice calculated that hanging on the line to HMRC for 47 minutes would, in many cases, cost consumers £4.66 in call charges.
"People are paying the price for not getting through to HMRC," said Gillian Guy, the chief executive of Citizens Advice.
"From fines for not completing a tax return in time, to under or overpayments for tax credits, people can be left out of pocket because they cannot speak to HMRC on the phone."
However, HMRC said it had recently taken on an extra 3,000 staff to try and lessen the delays.
"We are sorry that some customers have struggled to get hold of us, but this unscientific and out-of-date survey of tweets does not represent the real picture now," said an HMRC spokesperson.
"In reality, answer rates on our phones are improving and wait times are falling."
Lin Homer said new telephone systems had also been installed, which would help reduce waiting times.
The Citizens Advice study looked at 34,000 tweets made between August 2014 and August 2015.
Paul Fox, 43, faced charges including breaches of offensive weapon legislation and threatening or abusive behaviour.
He made no plea at Peterhead Sheriff Court and was remanded in custody.
Police Scotland said no-one was injured in Sunday's incident and that there had been no threat to the wider public.
A new map published on National Richter Scale Day plots over 10,000 earthquakes that have happened in the UK since 1970.
The Llyn Peninsula has been named among the 10 most active areas, with almost 300 earthquakes recorded.
It is also the location of the biggest earthquake of the past 50 years, which was a 5.4 magnitude quake on 19 July 1984.
The map was created by Esri UK using British Geological Survey (BGS) data. It celebrates the birth of Charles Richter, the US investor of the Richter Scale, who died in 1985.
The scale was first published in 1935 and is used to measure the strength or magnitude of an earthquake after its vibrations are detected by a seismometer.
It ranges from 0-10, and the higher the number the more destruction likely.
Other places to make the top ten, which is not ranked in any particular order, include:
Across Wales, almost 900 earthquakes have been recorded since 1970.
The UK's largest known earthquake was on 7 June 1931 in the North Sea with a magnitude of 6.1. It was felt across most of the UK with damage reported in more than 70 locations.
An Esri UK spokesman said: "People often think that the UK rarely has earthquakes, but in reality there are a few hundred each year. Most are simply too small or deep for us to feel."
The BGS said seismicity distribution for mainland and offshore UK is "neither random nor uniform in density", with more frequent and larger events occurring on the west coast.
It said: "North Wales, especially around Caernarfon and the Llyn Peninsula, and the Welsh border area show higher levels of seismicity".
BGS seismologist Davie Galloway said the planet is made up of "plates jiggling around," and as the UK is sitting in the middle of one of those plates, it does not get many powerful earthquakes.
"But we are still affected by movement every now and then," he said.
He said the Llyn Peninsula was a hotspot as it is home to the most powerful onshore earthquake ever recorded in the UK in 1984.
"It is one of the most famous earthquakes in the UK and was felt as far as Edinburgh," he said.
He explained "hundreds of little earthquakes" or aftershocks happened in the area in the following years as a consequence of the 1984 quake.
Mr Benaud's family said he died peacefully in his sleep on Thursday.
Prime Minister Tony Abbott said there would hardly be an Australian over the past 40 years who hadn't listened to Mr Benaud on radio or television.
"He certainly will be very, very much missed," he said on Friday.
"He was a very, very effective cricketer, a great captain, a great character and great personality."
Benaud was born in Penrith, outside Sydney. All flags on New South Wales government buildings and establishments including the Sydney Harbour Bridge will be lowered to half-mast today.
Mr Benaud's former employer, the Nine TV network, said his popularity extended well beyond the cricket community.
"Richie Benaud's passing has robbed us not only of a national treasure, but a lovely man," said Nine Chief Executive David Gyngell.
"Richie earned the profound and lasting respect of everyone across the world of cricket and beyond, first as an outstanding player and captain, then as an incomparable commentator, and through it all as a wonderful human being," said Mr Gyngell in a statement.
BBC Radio 5 live pays tribute to Richie Benaud
As a sports commentator, Mr Benaud was almost as well known for his smart cream, beige and white jackets as he was for his straight-forward, no-nonsense commentating.
Combined with his steely grey hair and crisp accent he was an easy target for comedians but drew a loyal following of fans who created a club called "The Richies", who would turn up to cricket matches wearing Benaud-styled wigs, jackets and microphones.
Nine's Head of Sport, Steve Crawley, said people didn't have to know Mr Benaud to love him.
"We will miss him the way you miss loved ones," said Mr Crawley. "And at the same time we will thank our lucky stars he came our way at all."
Former Australian captain Bill Lawry told the BBC Benaud set a standard both as a player and a broadcaster. "On the field he led by example... he was a brilliant fielder and a hard-hitting lower-order batsman."
Another former Australian cricket captain and coach Bob Simpson said even though people knew Mr Benaud was suffering from skin cancer, it was still a shock to learn he had died.
"He dominated cricket for about 15 years," said Mr Simpson.
"He was a good bloke, he really was. Sometimes you thought he had a few airs and graces but he was just a fantastic person."
Daniel Pike, 28, spent two years building the hut near Watford, but was removed from it earlier this month.
He said his hut at Merry Hill Wood has now been flattened by the Woodland Trust, which owns the land.
The trust said it is required to safeguard the area and had offered Mr Pike advice about moving on.
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Mr Pike built the hut from clay he found at the site, kitted it out with solar panels, and constructed an outdoor shelter with a seating area and cooking facilities.
He previously said being there had given him freedom and meant he could live "without being coerced".
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However, bailiffs arrived on 7 September, accompanied by police, and he was arrested at the scene for obstructing a court official in the execution of his duty.
He said: "It was all done very ruthlessly with no care or consideration for what I was saying."
Mr Pike, who spent a night in a police cell and received a fine, said the hut had since been destroyed.
"I'm now staying at my mum's," he said. "I had to ask her because I had nowhere else to go."
Now he says he has been "forced back into society" and hopes to return to his previous job at a supermarket.
Steve Marsh from the Woodland Trust said the organisation had sympathy for Mr Pike's situation and the eviction was "not personal".
He said: "We have over 1,000 sites across the UK and we have a blanket rule: No occupation, because we have to protect all our woods...so that we can protect and safeguard our woods for wildlife and nature but also other people that visit them."
The ex-England international rejoined the club in 2014 and last season guided them to the top of the Superleague table after the regular season.
Lightning went on to reach the Grand Final in Birmingham, where they lost a thrilling match against Wasps.
"I am sad to be leaving at such an exciting time," mother-of-two Atkinson, 39, told the club website.
"The opportunity we have as a young family to live overseas and immerse ourselves in a new culture is extremely exciting and one we could not turn down."
The Royal Navy said it has launched an immediate investigation after HMS Ambush was involved in the "glancing collision" while submerged off the coast of the British territory.
There is "some external damage" but no crew members were injured, it added.
The Astute-class attack submarine's nuclear reactor was undamaged.
In a statement on the Ministry of Defence website, the Navy said the incident took place at approximately 13:30 local time on Tuesday.
"We are in contact with the merchant vessel and initial indications are that it has not sustained damage.
"The submarine suffered some external damage but there is absolutely no damage to her nuclear plant and no member of the ship's company was injured in the incident."
Further checks would be carried out but there are no safety concerns, said the Navy.
Photographs of HMS Ambush arriving in Gibraltar appear to show damage to the front section of its conning tower.
The submarine is reported to be a regular visitor to Gibraltar, having last stopped in the territory in June and March.
One of the Royal Navy's three Astute-class submarines - Britain's largest and most advanced attack submarines - HMS Ambush is 97m (318ft) in length, cost more than £1bn and carries torpedoes and Tomahawk cruise missiles.
It joined the fleet at the Faslane naval base in 2013 after two years of sea trials. The Royal Navy is due to take delivery of three further Astute-class submarines.
Mitchelle Blair was arrested in March when officials carrying out an eviction order found the bodies of a boy, 9, and a girl, 13, inside her freezer.
Two of the woman's other children, aged 11 and 17, were found at a neighbour's home and placed in protective custody.
Ms Blair, 36, made her remarks on Friday after a judge found that she was mentally competent to stand trial.
She said she was guilty and did not need any more time to think about her defence, the AP news agency reported.
She was charged with murder, torture and child abuse after what Detroit police chief James Craig called a "terrible find".
A medical expert testified that the two children had been beaten and burned before they died.
Ms Blair is due back in court on 26 June.
Swansea Crown Court heard that Gordon Fleming, from Oswestry, Shropshire, abused two dozen children over a six-year period in the 1970s and 80s.
The 66-year-old pleaded guilty to 24 counts of indecent assault against girls under the age of 13.
Judge Geraint Walters told Fleming he should expect to receive a "significant prison sentence".
Fleming, who was convicted of a similar offence at Chester Crown Court in 1992, blew a kiss to his wife in the public gallery before being taken down to the cells.
He was remanded in custody and will reappear at Swansea Crown Court on 5 May ahead of his sentence.
The boys, aged 12 and 13, were assaulted in Havant just before 15:00 BST and are being treated in hospital.
Police said the 12-year-old's condition was life-threatening. The other boy is said to be serious, but stable.
A 43-year-old man of no fixed address was arrested at the scene of the stabbings, near the junction of Southleigh Road and Eastleigh Road.
The man is currently in custody. No-one else is being sought for the attack.
Officers were called to the area by a member of the public who reported a serious assault involving a weapon.
The children, who are from the local area, are being treated for injuries believed to have been caused by a knife.
The 13-year-old was taken to the Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth, and the 12-year-old to Southampton General Hospital.
Hampshire Police said it was in the "very early stages" of the investigation and was "piecing together exactly what has happened".
It described the stabbings as an "isolated incident".
Ch Insp Patrick Holdaway said: "My thoughts go out to the children who have been hurt and their families.
"We're providing assistance to them at the current time and both children are being treated in hospital for their injuries.
"Our inquiries indicate that a school in the local area had an inset day, so there were not large groups of parents and children in the area when the assault happened."
A cordon will remain in place overnight to preserve evidence and there is a road closure at the Horndean Road end of Southleigh Road to allow police vehicles access to the area.
Officers are appealing for witnesses and said there would be patrols across the weekend.
Journalists working in Puntland are "constantly exposed to the threat of arbitrary arrest", Reporters Without Borders said in 2012.
Radio Galkayo is affiliated to the authorities. Private broadcasters are permitted to operate. No newspapers are currently published in Puntland.
The local authority said it wanted to tap into a £30m fund set up by the Scottish government.
The council's Labour-SNP administration has unveiled plans to seek government funding to establish up to four new local train stops.
In order of priority, they could be at Thornhill, Eastriggs, Dunragit/Glenluce and Beattock.
The first two on the list have both been subject to studies which showed that new rail stations would bring major benefits to the wider community.
The council, which plans to draw up the cash bid in conjunction with local transport partnership SWESTRANS, would also like to see the development of a rail passenger facility serving Dunragit and Glenluce.
A campaign is already under way in Beattock to reopen the former station in the village.
The proposed funding application will also include proposals to refurbish the train station at Stranraer.
Councillor Colin Smyth, who chairs the economy, environment and infrastructure committee, admitted that some of the proposals were more realistic than others.
However, he said the authority hoped to secure some financial support from the Scottish government.
He said the latest passenger figures suggested that the number of people travelling by train was growing and it was important that the region had the facilities in place to cater for them.
He added that improving the rail network meant better links for business which could also help boost the local economy.
Northern Irishman Rea, 29, was 0.09 seconds ahead of English rider Sykes, 30, to extend his title lead to 61 points before Sunday's second race.
Dutchman Michael van der Mark finished third, 3.093 seconds behind Rea.
Wales' Chaz Davies recovered after he was caught up in Lorenzo Savadori's first-lap crash to finish fourth.
Davies ended the race 5.878 seconds off the pace.
After winning five of this season's opening eight races, Rea had been without a victory in six starts.
His success made it 15 podiums from as many starts for the Northern Irishman.
The Isle of Man-based rider secured his maiden win in the global series at Misano in 2009 and has gone on to add a further 34 triumphs since then.
Huddersfield's Sykes has won four times this season and took victory in both races at the previous round at Donington Park.
After this weekend's action in Italy is complete, the competitors will race next at Laguna Seca in the United States on 10 July.
That will be followed by an eight-week break, before the final run of rounds which takes in Germany, France and Spain, before concluding in Qatar on 29 and 30 October.
Birmingham City Council will join up with Frontline to train up new workers.
Last month it was announced the council's children's services will be taken over by a trust after not enough improvements were made following a string of scandals.
About 60 people will be based across the West Midlands.
Alastair Gibbons, executive director of children's services for the council, said the plans show the authority is "committed to improving our support for children".
"Frontline will provide high quality development for aspiring social workers and leaders who want to make a difference to those in need in the city and region," he said.
Josh MacAlister, chief executive of Frontline, which began training and recruiting people to work with vulnerable children in 2013, said applications for the roles are set to open later in the year.
He said: "Social work has the power to change lives and, alongside existing professionals in the region, we're looking forward to developing more outstanding social workers to help address deep social disadvantage."
A Twitter post showing a sign outside the Scottish bar went viral after the author seemingly gave up attempting to spell "Monchengladbach" - instead opting for "A German Team".
Gladbach saw the funny side, changing their own English account's Twitter handle to "A German Team" and using it on their team-sheet on social media when they faced Celtic in the Champions League.
But now fans can grab a piece of merchandise reminding them of the anecdote, with scarves sporting the Bundesliga side's 'new name' on sale in the club shop.
Gladbach beat the Scottish champions 2-0 and they meet again in Germany next Tuesday.
A referendum on whether the UK should stay in the EU will be held on 23 June.
Martin McGuinness said a vote to end the UK's EU membership would have "profound consequences" and would be a "political and economic game-changer".
The Sinn Féin MLA said if that happened his party would put pressure on Northern Ireland Secretary Theresa Villiers to call a border poll.
Ms Villiers has the power, under the terms of Good Friday Agreement, to call a poll on whether Northern Ireland should remain part of the UK or unite with the Republic of Ireland.
A border poll was last held in Northern Ireland in 1973 and was largely boycotted by nationalists.
Mr McGuinness said: "I have proposed to Theresa Villiers that, given the enormous significance of these issues, the British government now give a firm commitment to an immediate border poll in the event Britain votes to leave the European Union."
He added that a border poll would be a "legitimate test of political opinion that would threaten no-one".
But the Northern Ireland Office said the government had set out its position on a border poll ahead of the 2015 Westminster election.
Last year's Conservative Party manifesto said "all tests of opinion" showed that "a substantial majority" of people in Northern Ireland "continues to support the union" with Great Britain.
It added that "the circumstances requiring a border poll are not currently satisfied" and that holding a vote over the Irish border would be "costly, divisive and a distraction".
Ms Villiers has said there are "risks on both sides of this debate" but the "safer option" was to leave.
She claimed last month that Northern Ireland would remain in a strong position financially if voters opted for a withdrawal from the EU.
Her stance has been supported by the Democratic Unionist Party.
But Northern Ireland's other main parties - the Ulster Unionists, the Social Democratic and Labour Party and the Alliance Party - are backing a vote for the UK to remain an EU member.
Students on teacher training courses in West Yorkshire are taken around primary schools to meet staff and children to entice them to work in the city.
The council said 58% of primary schools and 63% of secondary schools in Bradford faced recruitment problems.
The Department for Education said it was investing "hundreds of millions in teacher recruitment".
In December, Ofsted's chief inspector Sir Michael Wilshaw said Bradford's schools were in the lowest-achieving 10 authorities at both primary and secondary level.
Of the 100,000 pupils in city schools, 40,000 were in schools rated as "less than good" and 8,000 of these were in schools labelled as "inadequate".
John Howarth, from the Bradford branch of the National Union of Teachers (NUT), said: "Bradford is a challenging place to work but it's also exciting."
The council said there were not enough people applying for teaching posts and problems with the quality of applicants.
It said recruitment was tougher in inner-city areas and schools rated poorly by Ofsted.
Additionally, a council survey of 600 teachers found more than half were considering leaving their jobs.
The bus tours, thought to be unique to Bradford, are intended to "dispel myths" about the city's schools.
Mr Howarth, who taught in Bradford for 25 years, said: "It can be challenging, there is a lot of migration from Eastern Europe and issues with poverty. But there are huge rewards from making a difference to the life of a child and helping them in their education."
Former Bradford head teacher Sara Rawnsley, who has been appointed by the council to tackle the recruitment problem, said: "I took a group of students from Leeds Beckett University on a bus tour to an inner city school and they had a really negative image about what it was going to be like.
"Bradford gets a bad reputation for being challenging but, after they'd seen the school for themselves, they came away with a totally different view."
Ms Rawnsley said the tours had been a "tremendous success" and some 100 final year trainee teachers had put themselves forward to be considered for future positions.
Tours of secondary schools are planned to start next year.
A Department for Education spokesperson said: "Despite the challenges of a competitive jobs market, teaching remains a hugely popular profession.
"The quality of teachers is at an all-time high and despite rising numbers the pupil to teacher ratio has remained stable."
Aberdeen 2-1 Dundee
Hibernian 1-3 Hamilton Academical
Kilmarnock 0-2 Celtic
Motherwell 2-0 Ross County
Rangers 0-0 Hearts
St Johnstone 1-0 Partick Thistle
Dundee United 1-0 Brechin City
Dunfermline Athletic 3-1 Falkirk
Inverness CT 1-1 Greenock Morton
Livingston 1-3 St Mirren
Queen of the South 1-0 Dumbarton
The move is seen as the start of an aggressive expansion in the region, which has a population of about 600 million people.
It is also the first time Amazon has gone head-to-head with Chinese rival Alibaba in Asia.
The Singapore service promises two-hour delivery on thousands of items including groceries and electronics.
Its biggest rival will be Redmart, owned by Lazada, which is in turn controlled by Alibaba.
Amazon Prime is a service available to Amazon customers who pay an annual membership fee.
It was first launched in New York in December 2014 and has since expanded to more than 50 major cities in nine countries.
Initially Singapore customers will not have pay for a subscription - but while they can order electronics, toys and sports gear as well as food and drink, the Prime Now service will not initially include other Amazon Prime services including video streaming or Amazon Echo.
Books also seem unavailable to order on the app.
Amazon already has a significant presence in India and Japan but analysts say that South East Asia represents one of the biggest battlegrounds for e-commerce firms.
However, it is a highly fragmented market, comprising many different cultures, languages and regulations.
Singapore is seen as a good testing ground for regional expansion because of the developed infrastructure and relatively wealthy population.
As well as owning Redmart, Lazada also has a presence in several other Southeast Asian countries.
Singapore is seen as a launching pad for many e-commerce giants trying to take on the wider Southeast Asian region - a potential market of 600 million people that could, by some estimates, be worth $70bn.
But Singapore isn't South East Asia, and logistics and infrastructure issues in countries like Indonesia and Thailand have yet to be conquered.
While Amazon may be able to deliver on its two-hour delivery promise in small and efficient Singapore, it's hard to see how it's going to do that elsewhere.
Plus Alibaba has the first-mover advantage, and local knowledge which in Asia goes a long way.
So let the fresh food fight begin. Chances are the customers will benefit most, as price wars will be the name of the game.
Oldham Athletic midfielder Jack Tuohy, 20, first met the "football mad" girl at a schools tournament hosted by the League One club in 2015.
The prosecution told Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court he went on to groom the teenager after "bullying" her into meeting him.
Mr Tuohy denies five sexual offences against a child.
It is alleged Mr Tuohy, who was aged 19 at the time, encouraged the "starstruck" teenager to overcome her "youthful reluctance" and meet him in person after he initiated contact with her on social media following the tournament.
Benjamin Jones, prosecuting, said: "The defendant took advantage of a girl with a crush on a footballer," and "pressurised - effectively bullied - her into meeting him".
Mr Jones said Mr Tuohy initially told police no sexual activity took place and then claimed there was "kissing and cuddling, nothing more", telling detectives he "panicked" when they told him the girl's age.
He later conceded sexual activity between them happened in his car, but said he believed she was aged 16, Mr Jones said.
In her videoed police interview, played to the jury, the complainant said they had regular online conversations and that she told him she was 14 when he asked her how old she was.
She told police they were "just friends", but agreed to meet him.
Mr Tuohy denies two counts of engaging in sexual activity with a child, two counts of inciting a child to engage in sexual activity and one count of meeting a child following sexual grooming.
The trial continues.
Albion Rovers won 2-1 in the North Lanarkshire derby, while Peterhead won 1-0 at Glebe Park to leave Stranraer second bottom of the table.
The Diamonds had given a debut to 20-year-old Scottish striker Jack McKay, who signed on loan from Leeds United.
But it was on-loan Hamilton Accies striker Steven Boyd whose brace won it.
Saturday's defeat of Livingston by East Fife had presented Airdrieonians and Brechin with an opportunity to narrow the gap at the top.
The 19-year-old Boyd fired the opener after 15 minutes at Excelsior Stadium, but Adam Brown's drive from outside the penalty box drew the sides level nine minutes later.
Boyd struck again in similar fashion, with Scott McBride again the creator, seconds before the break for his sixth goal of the season and Rovers held on for the win despite intense Diamonds pressure.
Rory McAllister's 13th goal of the season gave Peterhead a deserved win, heading into the top corner after 77 minutes of a game in which Brechin only managed one attempt on target.
Peterhead's first win in six games means Brechin remain a point behind Airdrieonians in third, with the Diamonds seven adrift of Livingston.
Jim McInally's side leapfrog Stranraer, who are now two points behind, with Albion remaining two points ahead of the north east side.
Meanwhile, Stranraer have signed 22-year-old Partick Thistle midfielder David Wilson on loan.
Mr Rainsy had been living in France after being jailed in absentia in 2010 on charges he said were politically motivated.
But he was granted a royal pardon last week and was greeted by thousands of cheering supporters as he arrived back in Phnom Penh.
Cambodia goes to the polls on 28 July, with PM Hun Sen expected to win.
Hun Sen, one of the world's longest-serving prime ministers, has been in power in various coalitions since 1985.
Cambodia had come under pressure from the US over the issue of Mr Rainsy, with a State Department spokeswoman calling on the authorities to allow him to return "without fear for his personal safety or incarceration".
Last week a number of US lawmakers also called for aid to Cambodia to be cut unless the polls were free and fair.
The opposition leader was granted a royal pardon on 12 July at the request of Hun Sen, Cambodian officials said.
Sam Rainsy, 64, arrived back in Cambodia on a flight from Bangkok.
"I have come home to rescue the country,'' he told a crowd of supporters at the airport. "I am happy to be here!''
His Cambodia National Rescue Party will face Hun Sen's Cambodian People's Party - which currently has 90 of the 123 National Assembly seats - in the polls.
The last election, in 2008, was criticised by European Union monitors, who said it fell short of international standards.
The governing party dominated the media and the National Election Committee, and tens of thousands of people were disenfranchised, the monitors said.
Sam Rainsy is currently unable to run in these polls because his name has been removed from the electoral register, but an opposition spokesman said his presence was expected to "galvanise activists and voters".
The spokesman also said the party was looking into ways to register Mr Rainsy as a candidate.
He had been living overseas since 2009, after he was stripped of immunity from prosecution and faced charges.
In 2010, he was sentenced in absentia to 10 years in jail after being found guilty of manipulating a map to suggest Cambodia was losing land to Vietnam.
He was speaking at a ceremony at Runnymede in Surrey, close to the River Thames, where King John of England sealed the original document in 1215.
The charter first protected the rights and freedoms of society and established the king was subject to the law.
The Queen also attended the ceremony.
Follow live coverage of the event here.
Mr Cameron told the audience Magna Carta would "alter forever the balance of power between the governed and the government".
And he said the document had inspired different generations and countries across the world.
He said: "Why do people set such store by Magna Carta?
"Because they look to history. They see how the great charter shaped the world, for the best part of a millennium, helping to promote arguments for justice and for freedom."
Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby said the document "set the bar high for all of us today".
"Does Magna Carta mean nothing to you? Did she die in vain?" asked an exasperated Tony Hancock playing the jury foreman in an episode of his famous Half Hour.
Clearly not. Far from dying, Magna Carta has had a life longer, fuller and more influential than the most optimistic medieval baron could have imagined.
But why is a charter from 1215 which was declared null and void by the Pope within weeks of being written, which doesn't mention "trial by jury" or "habeas corpus" (the right not to be held indefinitely without trial) and which forbids any woman from accusing a man of murder or manslaughter, seen as the foundation of our liberties and our law?
At its heart is the idea that the law is not simply the whim of the king, or the government. It is the great egalitarian legacy of Magna Carta, that all are equal under the law, and all can be held to account.
It is that idea that gave birth to so many of our rights and freedoms, to parliamentary democracy, fair trial, and a series of controls on the abuse of arbitrary power.
Earlier, the Duke of Cambridge was shown a new art installation commissioned for the anniversary.
The work, called The Jurors, is inspired by the 39th clause of Magna Carta, which gives the right to a jury trial.
Artist Hew Locke said it was a "great honour" to be chosen to produce the piece.
There will also be a rededication of the American Bar Association's Magna Carta Memorial.
A replica of the Great Charter began its journey down the Thames on Saturday as part of the commemorations.
The Royal Barge Gloriana has led 200 boats from Hurley in Berkshire and is due to arrive at Runnymede on Monday.
There are just four known copies of the original Magna Carta in existence today, from an estimated 13 that were made.
Two are held by the British Library, with Salisbury Cathedral and Lincoln Cathedral holding the others.
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The Welshman, 40, started the day two shots behind overnight leader Clement Sordet but nine birdies and two bogeys sealed his first win of 2015.
Frenchman Sordet (70) and England's Lee Westwood (67) finished joint second.
Donaldson and Westwood's efforts mean they have returned to the world's top 50 to qualify for the 2016 Open and Masters.
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Alexander Zakharchenko announced the new "state" in Donetsk, saying it would replace Ukraine. The pro-Russian rebels broke away from Ukraine in 2014.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said "we remain committed to the Minsk accords". The Minsk ceasefire is shaky as shelling and skirmishes continue.
More shelling took place on Tuesday.
The Ukrainian military reported heavy rebel fire on its positions in the Avdiivka area, a hotspot just north of rebel-held Donetsk. It said two Ukrainian soldiers had been killed on Tuesday.
The self-styled "Donetsk People's Republic" (DNR) said one civilian had been killed and two had been wounded in Ukrainian army shelling of some residential areas of Donetsk.
Nearly 10,000 people have died since the eastern Ukraine conflict erupted in April 2014, soon after Russia annexed Ukraine's Crimea peninsula. A ceasefire was agreed in February 2015 but its terms are far from being fulfilled.
Western governments accuse Russia of helping the rebels with regular troops and heavy weapons. Moscow denies that, while admitting that Russian "volunteers" are helping the rebels.
Politicians outside Donetsk have distanced themselves from Mr Zakharchenko's "Malorossiya" declaration.
Mr Peskov said it was Mr Zakharchenko's "personal initiative" and Moscow had "learnt about it this morning [Tuesday] from media".
Pro-Russian rebels in the neighbouring breakaway Luhansk region also dismissed the "Malorossiya" declaration, despite being allies of the DNR rebels.
A pro-Russian president, Viktor Yanukovych, fled Ukraine's capital Kiev during violent protests in February 2014 but ties to Moscow remain strong in the Russian-speaking east.
"Malorossiya" in tsarist times referred to Russian imperial territories that later became part of Ukraine. Many Ukrainians today regard the name as offensive and synonymous with Russian imperialism.
By Sarah Rainsford, BBC correspondent in Moscow
The declaration of a new country based on "the state formerly known as Ukraine" seemed to come out of the blue. Even state TV presenters appeared taken aback as they announced the rebels' creation of "Malorossiya".
But was this fantastical plan really the "personal initiative" of Mr Zakharchenko, as the Kremlin spokesman claimed?
Some here are sure it was. They believe the rebels in eastern Ukraine are getting restless and that this move shows the limits of Kremlin control. Moscow, they point out, wants to look committed to the Minsk peace process - at least in public.
Others though dismiss the reaction as theatre: the Kremlin's rejection and even the "surprise" of the TV anchors. To them, the Donetsk rebels remain loyal puppets of Moscow.
The US has just appointed a new envoy for the Ukraine conflict who has already visited Kiev, but not Moscow. So they see this announcement as a warning: that Kiev should be pressured to implement its side of the Ukraine peace deal, or the situation there could get even worse.
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A "Malorossiya constitution" published on the DNR official website says the new "state" is a successor to Ukraine, with Donetsk as its capital.
It proclaims as its flag the emblem of Bohdan Khmelnytsky, a 17th-Century Cossack who led a revolt against Polish rule and forged an alliance with Russia.
The DNR language echoes the "Novorossiya" (New Russia) idea that Russian nationalists and the Donetsk rebels championed earlier in the conflict.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko saw the declaration as further evidence of Russian involvement.
"Since the start of military aggression against my nation Russia's goal has been to fragment Ukraine," he said.
"The Novorossiya project included nine regions of Ukraine. This project collapsed utterly."
He called the Zakharchenko leadership "a puppet show, parroting messages received from Russia".
The "Malorossiya" declaration was ignored in Russia's main evening TV news bulletins - after Mr Peskov's comments about it. The main channels are state-controlled.
But earlier on Tuesday the declaration had been prominent on the Russian TV news.
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SNP deputy leader Stewart Hosie has said the party must be held to account.
He also told the BBC he understood a complaint had already been made to the parliamentary standards commissioner.
SNP leader Ms Sturgeon has called for Mr Carmichael to consider his position as an MP and described the leak of the confidential memo as a "blatant election dirty trick".
He has since accepted "the details of the account are not correct" and accepted "full responsibility for the publication".
A spokesman for the Liberal Democrats said: "Alistair has taken responsibility and has given up £17,000. The party fully supports him as MP for Orkney and Shetland."
Mr Carmichael had been entitled to receive £17,000 severance pay after losing his Cabinet position.
Speaking on BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme, Mr Hosie said: "This is really quite outrageous, and a glib apology and an error of judgement simply aren't good enough.
"How can the people of Orkney and Shetland trust him? I think they have the right to go to the polls again on what we now know."
Mr Hosie added: "We understand there has already been a complaint raised with the parliamentary standards commissioner. I would hope that would be investigated fully."
He later said: "Mr Carmichael has no credibility in continuing as an MP and in my opinion he should stand down. It is appropriate for the Standards Commissioner to get involved and arrive at her own conclusions, having investigated the full facts."
Protests have been held in Kirkwall, Orkney, and Lerwick, Shetland, calling for Mr Carmichael to resign.
The confidential memo was published by the Daily Telegraph on 3 April as the general election campaign got under way.
It was written by a civil servant in the Scotland Office and claimed Ms Sturgeon told the French Ambassador to the UK, Sylvie Bermann, that she would prefer Mr Cameron, the leader of the Conservatives, to remain as prime minister.
The memo also claimed Ms Sturgeon said that Ed Miliband, who was then Labour's leader, was not prime minister material.
The official cabinet office inquiry into the leaking of the memo said Mr Carmichael's former special adviser Euan Roddin gave the details to the Daily Telegraph - but he had Mr Carmichael's permission to do so.
Mr Carmichael said, while he had not seen the document before it was published by the newspaper, he was "aware of its content and agreed that my special adviser should make it public".
14 July 2016 Last updated at 11:29 BST
Vessels there are more likely to have their crews kidnapped than their cargoes taken, and the tactic is on the rise.
BBC Africa Security correspondent Tomi Oladipo explains why.
The high court in Chennai (Madras) threw out a slew of petitions demanding that Perumal Murugan be prosecuted.
"Let the author be resurrected to what he is best at: Write," said the judges.
Murugan gave up writing last year after protests over his novel Madhorubagan. The verdict is being seen by supporters as a victory for freedom of expression.
There was no immediate comment from Murugan.
The court also said that a "settlement" between the novelist and a "peace council" in Tamil Nadu state, where the author agreed to apologise for his novel and withdraw all unsold copies of the book, was not legally binding on him.
Madhorubagan (One Part Woman) is set about a century ago near the author's home town of Tiruchengode in southern India. It is about a childless woman who participates in a sex ritual during a temple festival in order to conceive, a scenario Murugan says was based on historical fact.
Local groups led protests against the book, saying the "fictitious" extramarital sex ritual at the centre of the plot insulted the town, its temple and its women.
Copies of the novel were burnt, residents shut down shops and a petition sought the arrest of the author.
This prompted the author to write a dramatic Facebook post which read: "Perumal Murugan, the writer is dead. As he is no God, he is not going to resurrect himself. He has no faith in rebirth. As an ordinary teacher, he will live as P Murugan. Leave him alone."
He also instructed his publishers not to print and sell his work and promised to compensate them for the unsold copies. He implored his readers to burn his books, and said he would stop attending literary festivals.
Murugan is described by many critics as one of the finest writers in the Tamil language.
Fold Housing Association has plans for 244 homes, a community centre and business units on the site.
The development had been opposed by some local residents.
They had objected to the loss of a site that was previously used for employment purposes.
A council spokesman said the decision by the planning committee had been unanimous, though two councillors abstained from the vote.
Reacting to the development, Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) councillor Tim Attwood questioned whether the proposal will deliver "a significant economic and jobs footprint".
He added: "It is essential Belfast City Council, the Department of Enterprise Trade and Investment (DETI) and Invest Northern Ireland now redouble their efforts to secure jobs and sustainable economic development in west Belfast."
The Visteon factory closed in 2009 with the loss of more than 200 jobs.
The redevelopment of the land is a £25m project.
Chief executive Margaret Byrne is under pressure to make clear what the club knew and when.
Sunderland Central MP Julie Elliott said the club should explain "why the decision was made to allow him back."
The club has refused to reveal what legal advice led it to reinstate the player two weeks after suspending him.
Durham Police said Ms Byrne was told on the day of Johnson's arrest that he had allegedly messaged and kissed the schoolgirl.
The club has not said what was involved in a safeguarding assessment made before he was allowed to play again and whether the club warned him against signing autographs for young fans.
Ms Elliott said: "In the normal world of work, if serious allegations are made in the workplace then people are suspended and, of course, we've got to remember Adam Johnson was suspended by the club when these allegations were made.
"The question for me is more why the decision was made to allow him back."
The former England and Sunderland winger was found guilty of one count of sexual activity with a child, cleared of another and earlier admitted grooming and kissing a 15-year-old schoolgirl after giving her signed shirts.
A Newcastle employment lawyer says the club could be corporately liable for his crimes.
Robert Gibson, from Samuel Phillips Law Firm, said the club "had a risk" on the basis he was paid to represent, not just play for, the club.
"In what capacity is Mr Johnson employed by Sunderland?" he asked.
"He's not just paid to play football, he's an ambassador, it's a sport entertainment industry, they [players] are told, whenever they are outside the club they have a duty to behave and conduct themselves properly.
"I understand that he was using memorabilia such as football shirts to basically seduce this young lady, so I think Sunderland may have a risk there."
Mr Gibson made the comparison with a legal decision this week that supermarket chain Morrisons was responsible for the criminal actions of its staff.
The decision was based on the "sufficient connection" between the job and the "wrongful conduct", he said.
It was Thomas' fourth penalty in a Scarlets performance that began brightly with Morgan Allen's try.
Steve Shingler added a penalty before Thomas took over kicking duties.
Cornel du Preeze and Alex Toolis tries helped the visitors take the lead, but Scarlets held out after Thomas' final kick as they dropped to fourth in the table.
Leinster's bonus-point 52-0 win over Zebre sent them above Scarlets, while Edinburgh stayed fifth.
Lock David Bulbring made his Scarlets debut after arriving from South Africa while Kirby Myhill started at hooker.
Edinburgh made four changes as wing Damien Hoyland returned and Sam Beard was at centre for the injured Chris Dean.
Anton Bresler and Ben Toolis were a new-look second row for the Scots.
The home side seized the early initiative to build a 13-3 lead by the break. Allen was set free for his try, converted by Shingler before the fly-half added a penalty.
Fowles put Edinburgh on the scoreboard midway through the opening period with his first shot at goal and added a second soon after the break.
Thomas added two more penalties before Edinburgh's fight-back began and Greg Tonks' penalty rewarded Edinburgh's momentum.
Replacement lock Toolis finished off in style out wide and Tonks' conversion put them into the lead with six minutes left.
But Scarlets fought their way back upfield and were awarded a penalty that gave Thomas the chance to seal the win.
Scarlets head coach Wayne Pivac said: "We're obviously happy and relieved. It was really important to get a win today with a couple of away games coming up.
"We were certainly disappointed to fall behind 21-19.
"That was a massive result; there was a big improvement, but still some errors."
Scarlets: Michael Collins; Gareth Owen, Regan King, Hadleigh Parkes (c), DTH van der Merwe; Steven Shingler, Rhodri Williams; Phil John, Kirby Myhill, Peter Edwards; George Earle, David Bulbring; Aaron Shingler, Will Boyde, Morgan Allen.
Replacements: Ryan Elias, Dylan Evans, Rhodri Jones, Rory Pitman, Steff Hughes, Aled Davies, Aled Thomas, Steff Evans.
Edinburgh: Greig Tonks; Damien Hoyland, Michael Allen, Sam Beard, Tom Brown, Phil Burleigh, Nathan Fowles; Rory Sutherland, Neil Cochrane, John Andress, Anton Bresler, Ben Toolis, Mike Coman (c), Hamish Watson, Cornell Du Preez.
Replacements: George Turner, Allan Dell, Simon Berghan, Alex Toolis, Jamie Ritchie, Sean Kennedy, Blair Kinghorn, Dougie Fife.
Referee: Andrew Brace (IRFU)
Assistant Referees: Craig Evans, Greg Morgan (both WRU)
Citing Commissioner: Dennis Jones (WRU)
TMO: Jon Mason (WRU)
Latest figures show net migration rose to 176,000 - up from 153,000 people in the year to September 2012.
The increase appears to buck the trend of a decline in net migration - the difference between the number of people coming to and leaving the country.
Prime Minister David Cameron wants to get UK net migration below 100,000 before the next election in 2015.
The increase was driven by a change in the number of people who left Britain. In the year to September 2012, 342,000 moved abroad. But fewer people left the UK in the year to December 2012.
Over the same period, the number of immigrants arriving in the country remained virtually unchanged. The difference between these two factors meant that net migration rose - although it did not climb back above the level it was at in December 2011.
By Dominic CascianiHome affairs correspondent, BBC News
Today's figures show how tough the government's self-imposed net migration target could become.
The news is not all bad. The detail shows that immigration itself is down on where it was when the coalition came in - now sitting at under half a million people a year.
But the problem for ministers is that they can't control all forms of immigration and emigration - and fewer British and EU citizens are leaving.
If fewer people leave, then the net migration balance can rise, even if the number of immigrants declines.
So if the government is going to hit its target, it may need to find more tools to increase departures while maintaining pressure on arrivals.
And that's why many experts on different sides of the political and policy debate argue that the net migration target isn't a sensible measure of how well the system is being managed.
Immigration minister Mark Harper said net migration was however down by a third since its peak in 2010.
He added that a new immigration bill coming into force in the autumn would make it more difficult for people to come into Britain if they had no right to do so and would make it easier to remove people who were not entitled to stay in the country.
"We are committed to bringing net migration down from the hundreds of thousands to the tens of thousands," Mr Harper said.
"We are working across government to protect public services and ensure our welfare system is not open to abuse."
Shadow immigration minister Chris Bryant said the figures were "a blow" to the home secretary.
"Theresa May's focus on net migration, which has gone wrong in these figures, has also meant the government is failing badly on illegal immigration, which is a major concern to the public and is getting worse and worse with fewer people being stopped at the border, absconsions up and deportations down.
"Immigration needs to be controlled, but we must recognise there is immigration that works for Britain and immigration that doesn't."
But the pressure group Migrationwatch UK said that the detail of the latest figures showed the government was succeeding in cutting immigration from outside the EU - and that further reductions in net migration could come by ensuring that people leave when they should.
Sir Andrew Green, Migrationwatch's chairman, said: "It is far too early on the basis of one quarter's figures to call this a setback to the government's policy. Student interviews and measures to ensure that students leave when they should will make a substantial difference."
Sarah Mulley, of the centre-left think tank, the Institute for Public Policy Research, said the statistics suggested the government was running out of options to meet its target.
"Recent declines have been driven in large part by falling numbers of international students, which has come at a high economic cost, but this trend now appears to be levelling off," she said.
Other figures released in the report include:
The teachers work at 28 PakTurk schools which Turkey says are linked to US-based Turkish preacher Fethullah Gulen. The schools deny this.
Turkey accuses Mr Gulen of being behind July's failed coup, a claim he rejects.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, visiting Pakistan, welcomed the move.
In a statement, PakTurk International Schools and Colleges said the teachers and their families, who totalled about 450 people, had been asked to leave because of "non-approval of their requests for extension of visa".
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Pakistan's interior ministry has so far not commented.
The expulsions are not expected to stop the functioning of the schools as most staff members are Pakistani.
A petition by the school management challenging the decision is to be heard by the Islamabad High Court on Thursday, Pakistani media report.
Mr Erdogan described the decision by Pakistan as "very pleasing".
"They moved rapidly in the direction of ending the [Gulen movement's] presence in Pakistan and toward thwarting their attempts at unrest," he said at Ankara airport as he left for Pakistan.
"As you know, Pakistan has asked persons linked to the organisation to leave the country by November 20. This is very pleasing for us."
According to Pakistan's Dawn newspaper, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu raised the issue of the schools during a visit to Pakistan in August and was told the matter would be investigated.
The Gulen movement, which the Turkish government has declared a terrorist organisation, runs schools all over the world.
Since July's failed coup, Turkey has cracked down on any individuals or groups believed to have links to Fethullah Gulen.
Tens of thousands of people from every level of society have been purged from their jobs, including senior military officers, government officials and school teachers.
Critics of President Erdogan say he has used the coup attempt as a way of removing his opponents.
Colombian international Freddy Montero came on as a second-half substitute to net both goals.
The match was played in front of some 20,000 spectators at Cape Town's World Cup Stadium at the conclusion of a new four-team tournament.
Two South African clubs also participated but both Ajax Cape Town and SuperSport United were eliminated in Friday's semi-finals in contrasting fashion.
Palace easily strode past hapless SuperSport in a 4-0 triumph while Ajax were only eliminated on penalties after giving up a late equaliser to Sporting in a 2-2 draw in Friday's second semi-final.
The final on Sunday produced a high level of competition that delighted Palace manager Alan Pardew.
"I was pleased with everything but the result," Pardew said. "It was a good test for the players and played at a high level.
"I would say it was the same level as a Europa League game and having that opportunity before the start of the season means I'm delighted in terms of our preparation."
Palace made two errors, however, that proved costly as Montero squeezed home a free-kick that first hit the upright post before bouncing back into play, hitting the back of diving goalkeeper Alex McCarthy and dropping back into the net.
That gave Sporting a 71st-minute lead after their goalkeeper Rui Patricio had kept them in the game with several sharp saves.
Montero scored the second four minutes from the end when a stray pass caught out Joel Ward and the ball was snapped up by Algerian international Islam Slimani.
He ran forcefully at the defence before slipping the ball for Montero to finish with a clever left-footed chip.
"It is good that we get used to winning," Sporting's new coach Jorge Jesus said afterwards.
"It is important to win these trophies and get into the habit of winning."
Di-sgôr oedd y gêm ond mae'n debyg y bydd yn cael ei chofio am drosedd Neil Taylor yn erbyn amddiffynnwr Everton Seamus Coleman. Fe gafodd Taylor gerdyn coch yn syth wedi'r digwyddiad.
"Mae'n rhaid i ni feddwl yn bennaf am Seamus Coleman. Fe sy'n fwyaf pwysig," dywedodd Chris Coleman.
Ychwanegodd: "Dyw amddifynnwr Aston Villa, Neil Taylor, ddim y math yna o chwaraewr ond mae'r hyn sydd wedi digwydd yn anodd i Seamus."
Ar ddiwedd y gêm roedd Coleman yn credu bod ei dîm ar i fyny cyn gorfod chwarae gyda deg dyn.
Mae canlyniad y gêm yn golygu bod Cymru bedwar pwynt y tu ôl i Weriniaeth Iwerddon a Serbia a hynny wrth i hanner gemau grŵp D gael eu chwarae.
"Mi wnaeth y cerdyn coch newid popeth," ychwanegodd Coleman, "roeddwn yna'n gorfod brwydro'n galed am 25 munud."
Dywedodd Coleman ei bod hi dal yn bosib i Gymru chwarae yn nhwrnament Rwsia yn 2018 er na fydd Gareth Bale yn cael chwarae yn y gêm nesaf.
Ychwanegodd: "Mae pump gêm ar ôl i'w chwarae a hyd yma does neb wedi ein trechu.
"Mae'r chwaraewyr wedi rhoi'r cyfan - ry'n angen gwell lwc a safon tro nesaf.
"Bydd colli Gareth yn Serbia yn ergyd ond dyna beth yw pêl-droed rhyngwladol.
"Ond ry'n ni dal yn credu y gallwn ddod â rhywbeth nôl o Serbia. Mi fydd yn brawf da ar ein gallu ac y mae'n gêm yr ydym yn edrych ymlaen ati."
Wedi'r gêm dywedodd Gareth Bale ei fod yn credu bod Cymru yn rheoli cyn cerdyn coch Taylor.
"Yn yr hanner cyntaf," roedd hi'n gêm gorfforol galed a doedd ein perfformiad ddim yn hynod o dda.
"Yn yr ail hanner, er hynny, roedd pethau'n well ac fe gawsom sawl cyfle - rwy'n credu i ni reoli'r gêm yn hynod o dda.
"Yn amlwg roedd chwarae gyda 10 dyn ar y diwedd yn anodd.
"Ry'n, wrth gwrs, yn siomedig na chawsom yr un gôl na buddugoliaeth."
His body was found in the water on the seafront near the Citadel on Thursday afternoon, police said.
The area around Plymouth Hoe is popular for tombstoning, where thrill-seekers leap from high places into open water.
A police spokesperson said the death was not being treated as suspicious and the man's next of kin have been informed.
More on this story, and other Devon news
Assistant Chief Constable Paul Netherton of Devon and Cornwall Police tweeted that he was "really saddened" and "we lose too many people being washed off cliffs as it is".
The coastguard's latest figures show that tombstoning has led to an average of two deaths a year over the past 10 years.
Source: Maritime and Coastguard Agency
Between 2005 and 2015 coastguards dealt with more than 200 incidents of tombstoning, with 83 injuries and 20 deaths.
An 11-year-old boy died in July after reportedly tombstoning from a bridge into a canal in Rotherham.
Cornwall Council issued a warning after receiving reports of young people in Bude, St Ives, Newquay and Portreath leaping from road bridges, locks and closed-off piers after drinking alcohol.
Simon Blackburn, from the Local Government Association, said: "The message is clear - if you don't know that the depth of the water is safe or you cannot see what is below the surface, don't jump."
Julie Sayles, 58, is accused of defrauding Edith Negus in 2014 when she was her carer in Bridlington.
She is alleged to have taken £7,688 in February, £150,000 in March, £90,000 in June and £40,000 in July.
She pleaded not guilty at Hull Crown Court to five counts of fraud by abuse of position and two charges under the Proceeds of Crime Act.
More on this and other East Yorkshire stories
The 58-year-old, who worked at Friends of the Elderly in Bridlington, is also accused of making a gain for herself through fraudulent execution of a will.
Two of the charges relate to allegations that she used the money to buy a house in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, in April 2014 and Scarborough, in September 2014.
Ms Sayles, of Sewerby Road, Bridlington, is due to stand trial at the same court in June and was bailed.
Owain Arwel Hughes said there was still no detail about the implications of leaving the EU on the movement of artists and instruments.
The UK government plans to reach a deal to leave the EU by March 2019.
It said it was ready to help UK musicians and the wider industry "maximise the opportunities ahead."
Mr Hughes, who founded the Welsh Proms, said it was "vitally important to alleviate this uncertainty" for musicians from EU countries who play for UK orchestras.
"We don't know what's going to happen to them. Are they going to be uncertain and choose to leave the orchestra and go home, so everybody leaves the orchestra?" he said.
"There's the uncertainty of, 'Do we stay, what is going to happen?"
Mr Hughes regularly conducts orchestras in Cardiff and London and carries out engagements in European cities.
He said it was currently straightforward to bring singers or musicians from EU countries as last-minute replacements for performances in the UK, but restrictions on movement could impact future concerts.
"Let's say there's an opera going on in Covent Garden and the singer goes ill, as often happens. Normally you can get somebody like that who can come from anywhere.
"But if that freedom goes, you'll never get anyone in time. They'll be going through visa applications and goodness knows what.
"Same thing with instrumentalists playing concertos and so on, to have that freedom knowing the role can be filled by anybody is very, very important."
Regard it as an opportunity rather than a threat
Arts journalist Mike Smith, who supported the campaign to leave the EU, said: "My main message to them is to regard it as an opportunity rather than a threat.
"To look at the things we have learnt from the European Union - that we do need access for artists to be able to travel across borders, but we should go back to a more internationalist view, and that actually we should be negotiating for free access on the global stage."
Artists and their instruments currently enjoy relatively free movement between EU countries.
Outside the EU, performers and their equipment must often pay for visas and other documentation.
Andy Farquharson is a logistics manager responsible for organising orchestral tours and concerts.
He said: "At the moment it's relatively simple, certainly within the EU. If you want to go further afield it does require more licences not just for the performers themselves, but actually for their instruments as well. They are classed as cultural goods.
"So at the moment it is relatively free to move those around, but I think the concern is that if those borders come closer to home then actually the movement is going to become more tricky.
"And that's where companies such as mine will be more heavily involved in supporting people because when you go to actually move and run the tour it's a bit too late if you haven't got the paperwork in place. So yeah, it could potentially be quite tricky."
Touring - with strings attached
Welsh folk group Calan tours extensively in the EU and around the world.
Violinist Angharad Jenkins said: "At the moment, going to Europe is very easy. All you have to do is book your flight and you are there - you could take a gig this weekend and you wouldn't have to think twice about it.
"America, on the other hand, there's a huge logistical problem to overcome in that you have to get working visas to go over there."
She said plans to tour the EU after March 2019 would be formalised next year.
"We tend to work about 18 months in advance, we know what we are doing until the end of 2018. But of course next year we will be starting to plan what's happening in 2019 and my hope is that it will continue to be the same and that we can move freely around Europe, but who knows?"
The Department for Exiting the European Union said: "We are working across UK Government to identify and develop options to shape our future immigration system.
"We are engaging with businesses and communities through a series of Brexit roundtables to understand the opportunities and challenges that arise from our EU exit including touring musicians and crews.
"We want music in all its forms to continue to thrive and stand ready to help UK musicians and the wider industry maximise the opportunities ahead."
Arthur Jones has not been seen since 19 June - two days after he arrived, and at a news conference, son Jeff made a tearful appeal for his safe return.
Mr Jones also criticised the way Greek police were carrying out the investigation.
His father was due to fly home on 24 June but was not on the flight.
A vigil was held in the pensioner's home town on Thursday evening.
He had sent his family a postcard saying he was planning a walking trip but those who have flown to Crete found Mr Jones's equipment still in his room in Chania.
His son told reporters: "We just wish we had a North Wales Police officer team here with us to help.
"There was mass overgrowth at the hotel where he was staying in, but the police have only searched the perimeter and not even with search dogs.
"The longer it goes on and the lack of things we see happening, we all think, or suspect - is there foul play?"
He added: "Since we arrived, although we have been assisting the police with their inquiries, we almost feel that we have been leading the investigation - every snippet of information that we can give them," he said.
Family members and friends on Crete have handed out 1,000 leaflets on the island, hoping British tourists will remember bumping into the pensioner.
But Mr Jones said not one witness had come forward.
"It's all very, very strange," he added.
He is due to meet the consul, Beverley Lewis, later on Friday.
Arthur Jones is described as 5'6" tall, medium build with short grey hair and a grey moustache.
A Facebook campaign to Find Arthur has attracted support from over 3,000 people.
Prime Minister David Cameron has also pledged to do "everything he can" to help find Mr Jones.
The group's ringleader was sentenced to one year and eight months in prison, while four others were ordered to serve between six months and a year.
They all denied the charges. Four of the men have appealed the ruling.
The landmark case has set Norwegians' hunting rights against the survival of Europe's smallest wolf populations.
The men were all prosecuted for attempting to trap wolves in February 2014.
They were tried under Norway's organised crime laws following a high level police operation involving telephone wiretaps.
The strictest sentence was handed down to Dennis Nordahl, 48, who was judged to be the main defendant in the case at the South Oesterdal District Court in eastern Norway, reports say.
He was also accused of shooting a wolf in a separate incident in March last year. He said he had been on a fox hunting trip, and denied knowing the animal he killed was a wolf.
As well as the prison sentences, the men all received hunting bans of various lengths.
A sixth defendant was found not guilty.
Norway is believed to have one of the smallest population of wolves in Europe - with perhaps as few as 30.
Wolves were hunted to near extinction in southern Scandinavia until a hunting ban was imposed in the 1970s.
However farmers generally welcome wolf hunting, as the animals are seen as a great threat to sheep and dogs.
President Petro Poroshenko told the BBC's Fergal Keane he did not trust his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin.
However he said he had no option but to negotiate with Mr Putin.
Russia denies Western accusations that it has sent regular troops and armour to help the rebels in eastern Ukraine.
The United Nations says at least 6,000 people have been killed since fighting started in eastern Ukraine in April 2014.
Pro-Russian rebels made significant gains in the region, including, most recently, the rail hub of Debaltseve. They, and Russia, have denied they are receiving Moscow's support.
But Russia's role has again come into question, after the capture on Saturday of two men Ukraine said were elite Russian soldiers working in eastern Ukraine.
In a video, the men confirmed they were active Russian servicemen, but Moscow said they were no longer employed by the state when they were caught.
Mr Poroshenko said: "Can I be absolutely clear with you this is not a fight with Russian-backed separatists, this is a real war with Russia.
"The fact that we captured...Russian regular special forces soldiers [is] strong evidence of that."
When asked whether he feared a summer offensive by Russia, Mr Poroshenko said: "I fear anything. I believe they are preparing an offensive and I think we should be ready and I think that we do not give them any tiny chance for provocation. That will totally be their responsibility."
Mr Poroshenko added that, despite not trusting Mr Putin, he had no option but to have faith in diplomacy.
He said he feared parts of eastern Ukraine could not be taken away from rebels by military means alone - meaning diplomacy was the only answer.
On Tuesday, Nato's Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg called for an end to snap exercises by Russia close to the Ukrainian border, and demanded Russia be "more transparent when it comes to their military activities".
How many Russians are fighting in Ukraine?
A ceasefire agreement was signed in Minsk in February, but heavy fighting has continued since then. Last week, Mr Poroshenko said at least 83 Ukrainian servicemen had been killed since the ceasefire came into effect.
Elsewhere in Ukraine, at least four Ukrainian soldiers were killed in the eastern Luhansk region on Tuesday. The region's governor said the men were attacked by separatist rebels near the village of Katerinovka.
29 June 2016 Last updated at 15:56 BST
Their job was to create machines that could win the war.
But these wartime inventions didn't just change how the soldiers fought, they changed the world forever.
Martin's been finding out more about WW1 warfare.
Researchers said warmer water affected the distribution and size of plankton - tiny organisms that form the basis of food chains in aquatic systems.
The team warmed plankton-containing vessels by 4C (7F) - the temperature by which some of the world's rivers and lakes could warm over the next century.
The findings appear in the journal Global Change Biology.
"Our study provides almost the first direct experimental evidence that - in the short-term - if a [freshwater] ecosystem warms up, it has profound implications for the size structure of plankton communities," said lead author Gabriel Yvon-Durocher from Queen Mary, University of London.
"Essentially, what we observed within the phytoplankton (microscopic plants) community was that it switched from a system that was dominated by larger autotrophs (plants that photosynthesise) to a system that was dominated by smaller autotrophs with a lower standing biomass."
Dr Yvon-Durocher added that a greater abundance, but lower overall biomass, of smaller phytoplankton had "very important implications for the stability of plankton food webs".
"This meant that the distribution of biomass between plants and animals changed from a... situation where you had a large amount of plants and a smaller amount of animal consumers to an 'inverted pyramid' where you have a smaller quantity of plant biomass and a larger amount of animal biomass," he told BBC News.
"Systems that tend to have larger consumer biomass relative to the resource biomass tend to be less stable over time."
Dr Yvon-Durocher explained that phytoplankton played a key role in the food webs of oceans, rivers and lakes.
"An inordinate amount of the primary productivity and carbon draw-down in ocean and freshwater ecosystems are carried out by microscopic planktonic organisms."
Because the tiny plants are able to produce their own food by using energy from sunlight, they are an important food source for zooplankton - microscopic animals that are not able to synthesise their own food.
The zooplankton are also a vital food for other creatures higher up the the food chain.
"Understanding the dynamics of these communities is going to be crucial in understanding how marine and freshwater ecosystems will respond to changes in temperature."
Fresh insight
For their experiment, the team of UK and Spanish researchers used 20 mesocosms, which are containers that allow scientists to study freshwater ecosystems in a controlled environment.
"We were able to, in a relatively small plot of land, have 20 replicated ecosystems - half of which we warmed, and the other half we kept at an ambient year-round temperature," explained Dr Yvon-Durocher.
"The great advantage of using the mescosm set-up is that it allows the manipulation of an entire ecosystem.
"There is an absolute wealth of literature on the effects of warming and climate change on single species, but we understand very little about what happens at a community level."
Commenting on their results, the team said: "These findings could provide some novel insights into how future warming might change the distribution of organism size and biomass in freshwater ecosystems.
"The size structure of plankton communities is a key driver of rates of carbon sequestration and nutrient cycling."
They added that warming waters could have an impact on a global scale.
However, Dr Yvon-Durocher said that it did not mean that the future for aquatic ecosystems was looking bleak.
"What it means is that the make-up of ecological communities are likely to profoundly change as a result of warming," he suggested.
"It may mean that the species' composition might change, but what we don't understand is how those changes are going to affect the functions of the ecosystems.
"That is the next step."
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World number ones South Africa, who are eliminated, suffered three run-outs in a collapse of eight wickets for 51 runs to be bowled out for 191.
Shikhar Dhawan made 78 and Virat Kohli 76 not out as India raced to their target with 12 overs to spare.
India join England and Bangladesh in the last four, with Sri Lanka meeting Pakistan on Monday for the final spot.
It would take a dramatic swing in net run-rate for India to be toppled as Group B leaders, so they are likely to play Bangladesh at Edgbaston on Thursday. England are already guaranteed to play in the first semi in Cardiff on Wednesday.
Though South Africa go out, they remain in England for three Twenty20 internationals, followed by a four-Test series.
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Despite having four batsmen inside the top 10 of the world ODI rankings, South Africa could only muster 219-8 in their defeat by Pakistan last Wednesday. This, though, was a greater implosion - comical, calamitous and self-inflicted.
Firstly AB de Villiers failed to beat Hardik Pandya's throw from point to depart with a tournament total of 20 runs.
De Villiers was running with Faf du Plessis who, five balls later, was involved in a farcical mix-up with David Miller that ended with both men striving to make ground at the striker's end as the bails were removed at the non-striker's. The third umpire adjudged Miller as the man out.
Fittingly, a run-out completed the collapse. Imran Tahir and JP Duminy met in the middle of the pitch, with Tahir's turn and dive unable to save him.
India suffered a chastening defeat at the hands of Sri Lanka last Thursday as a chase of 322 was completed with six balls to spare. Here their bowlers impressed, albeit with some South African help.
In a soporific opening to the Proteas' innings, openers Hashim Amla and Quinton de Kock were squeezed - the run-rate barely edged past four an over in an opening stand of 76.
Recalled off-spinner Ravinchandran Ashwin had Amla caught behind for 35 and left-arm spinner Ravindra Jadeja had a sweeping De Kock lbw for 53. Then, after the run-outs, the pacemen got to work.
Hardik Pandya bowled Du Plessis with a slower ball, and Jasprit Bumrah had Chris Morris top edge to mid-wicket and Andile Phehlukwayo lbw to a full toss.
Runs dried up - only 60 came from the final 19 overs of an innings ended by two wickets in two balls for Bhuvneshwar Kumar before Tahir's final, desperate run-out.
To defend such a meagre total, South Africa needed every half-chance to be held, but a Kohli hook off Morne Morkel fell short of Morris at fine leg before Amla put down a very tough chance off the same batsman at first slip off Phehlukwayo.
The India skipper arrived after Rohit Sharma played a needless waft at Morkel to be caught behind, but that never felt like the beginning of a South Africa fightback.
Left-hander Dhawan, the tournament's leading runscorer, sparkled square of the wicket, adding 121 with Kohli before he miscued Tahir to long-off.
Kohli played handsome drives on both sides, completing the job with Yuvraj Singh, who sealed the match with a six to the delight of a noisy and partisan crowd.
Former South Africa captain Graeme Smith on Test Match Special: "That run-out of AB de Villiers just sparked panic in the batting line-up. It's like they've never batted together before, like they've never heard the sound of a crowd.
"You have to laugh, otherwise you're going to cry. This performance doesn't bode well for South Africa's tour of England after this tournament."
India captain Virat Kohli: "It was a good toss to win; the wicket didn't change too much.
"Our bowlers bowled really well and the fielders backed it up. It was a complete performance in the field; we grabbed the chances that came our way."
South Africa captain AB de Villiers: "It's not an ideal way to finish the tournament. It's disappointing, but credit to them.
"We got something nice going until the run-outs, which cost us highly today. We just came unstuck against a better team today."
Referee Neil Swarbrick admitted he sent off the wrong man at Etihad Stadium after Dawson had fouled City striker Wilfried Bony in the second minute.
The FA's Independent Regulatory Commission met on Monday and ruled it was a case of "mistaken identity".
Dawson will now serve a one-match ban.
The defender will miss the Premier League visit of QPR on 4 April for denying an obvious goalscoring opportunity.
Northern Ireland centre-back McAuley was dismissed in the second minute for a foul on Bony when it was Dawson who had committed the offence.
Swarbrick apologised for his mistake afterwards via a statement from the Professional Game Match Officials Ltd.
After the game West Brom boss Tony Pulis called for referee reviews, where managers are able to appeal against decisions during a game.
"If we can help referees with a 30-second call-back option, twice a game, it would stop us talking about them," the West Brom manager said.
The 24-year-old Macedonia international played the full 90 minutes of the shock victory in Zagreb on 16 September.
Ademi said: "I am not guilty and I didn't do anything wrong. I don't know what to say about this suspension. I feel awful right now."
Coach Zoran Mamic said the club will appeal and called it a "humiliation".
Mamic told the Zagreb website: "Ademi and experts proved his supplement was infected with a prohibited substance and he didn't know what kind of supplement he was using.
"That is why I can't understand this decision made by Uefa.
"A four-year suspension is a stupidity. How would Uefa punish Arsenal, Bayern, Manchester or some other big club?
"We will fight for him and for his case because Ademi is a brilliant young guy, player and a vice-captain.
"We want to protect him, protect the club and Croatian football in general, because this is a huge stain for all of us."
There are no rules to disqualify teams from the Champions League unless at least two players fail drugs tests.
A defence ministry spokesman said the troops would carry out reconnaissance missions and return fire if necessary.
The group is also said to have killed 11 soldiers and 13 police officers in the north-eastern state of Yobe, the Nigerian military has said.
Yobe is one of the three north-eastern states under a state of emergency.
Witnesses in the town of Buni Yadi said the attackers had arrived in several vehicles, including an armoured car, and told residents they were not going to kill civilians, only members of the security forces.
They also burnt buildings including the home of a traditional ruler and a police station.
Buni Yadi is a notoriously volatile area, where dozens of teenage school boys were killed in their dormitory last February, says the BBC's Will Ross in Abuja.
The almost daily attacks in north-east Nigeria show the massive task the Nigerian military faces, he adds.
More than 500 people have been killed since Boko Haram hit world headlines by abducting more than 200 schoolgirls from their remote boarding school in Chibok last month.
Earlier on Tuesday, the Nigerian military said it knew where the girls were, but would not attempt a rescue.
Retired US Gen Carter Ham, who was formerly one of the commanders of the US Africa Command, which liaises with African countries on military matters, told the BBC that the Nigerian government must now be considering its options:
"There are difficult options at best. Certainly a military or security force hostage rescue operation brings with it great, great risk, and I think there have been in public debate about Nigeria's capability to perform that, but... if they have an opportunity and see that is the right thing to do, they probably could."
The Nigerian military has rejected accusations that it is hampering efforts to find the kidnapped girls because of poor training and corruption.
Responding to an article in the New York Times, it said in a statement that the author of the article failed "to acknowledge the fact that this same Nigerian military have trained and conducted military exercises and operations alongside the military organisations of other nations in recent times and excelled".
Thousands of people have died since Boko Haram began a violent campaign against the Nigerian government in 2009 and in the subsequent security crackdown.
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The South African debutant scored two late tries after coming on as a 66th-minute substitute.
George Ford scored all of Bath's 18 points in Todd Blackadder's first league match in charge of the club.
"It was the first run out at the Gardens in front of our fans, who were spectacular like always, so we let them down," he told BBC Radio Northampton.
"And 100 games for Luther Burrell, it was big for us to put in a big performance for him and unfortunately we just came short, so very bleak."
The rain-soaked match was a different experience for Groom, who has previously played in Super Rugby and South African domestic competitions.
"It's going to take a little getting used to, but that's part of the reason I came, to improve myself as a player and experience a different style of playing," he added.
"In a game like this with the weather playing a huge role its the small margins which make a big difference."
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Italy skipper Sergio Parisse scored the quickest try of the 2017 tournament, but Gael Fickou's score helped the visitors lead 16-11 at the break.
Victor Vakatawa, Louis Picamoles and Brice Dulin also crossed, with Camille Lopez kicking 20 points, as France avoided a sixth straight away defeat.
But their slim title chances were ended by England's win over Scotland.
France, who host Wales in Paris next Saturday, must now concentrate on finishing in the top three for the first time since 2011.
Italy produced encouraging displays in gallant defeats against England and Wales, holding half-time leads in both matches before fading away in the second half.
Again, the Azzurri ran out of steam.
They have 'lost' the second halves of their four matches this year by a combined 115-12, compared to a 57-38 first-half deficit.
Conor O'Shea's side made the perfect start when the talismanic Parisse powered over from close range after three minutes, but they were unable to replicate the defensive resilience shown against the English and Welsh.
The Italians had 53 missed tackles, culminating in a tackle percentage of just 66%, and it was exploited by the French attack.
Les Bleus took the lead midway through the first half when Fickou dummied his way through the Italian defence to score and, although Carlos Canna's penalty reduced the gap to 13-11 shortly after.
Italy crumbled after the break as they headed towards an 11th successive Six Nations defeat, although Angelo Esposito's try in the last play of the game avoided a scoreless second half for the hosts.
However, it was little consolation for a side consigned to the wooden spoon for the third time in four years.
Italy: Padovani; Esposito, Campagnaro, McLean, Venditti; Canna, Gori; Lovotti, Ghiraldini, Cittadini, Fuser, Van Schalkwyk, Steyn, Favaro,, Parisse (capt).
Replacements: D'Apice (for Ghiraldini 63), Panico (for Lovotti 64), Chistolini (for Cittadini 40), Biagi (for Fuser 50), Mbanda (for Favaro 51), Bronzini (for Gori 51), Benvenuti (for Campagnaro 65), Sperandio.
France: Dulin; Nakaitaci, Lamerat, Fickou, Vakatawa; Lopez, Serin; Baille, Guirado (capt), Slimani, Le Devedec, Maestri, Sanconnie, Gourdon, Picamoles.
Replacements: Tolofua (for Guirado 54), Atonio (for Baille 54), Ben Arous (for Slimani 54), Jedrasiak (for Le Devedec 54), Le Roux (for Picamoles 72), Dupont (for Serin 72), Trinh-Duc (for Lamerat 69), Huget (for Vakatawa 63).
Referee: Ben O'Keeffe (New Zealand)
Touch judges: Nigel Owens (Wales) and JP Doyle (England)
TMO: Marius Jonker (South Africa)
Ten out of the 12 floors of the critical care building, due to open in 2012, await patients and staff to fill their theatres, rooms and corridors.
New building contractors have been brought in to do repairs on 10 floors.
Asked about the delay, a Health and Social Care Trust said spokesperson said they had been faced with problems.
"The main contractor for the project encountered defects in the sealed water systems prior to the anticipated handover date and the ensuing remedial works delayed completion," they said.
"Subsequent to this delay additional work was required by the trust to bring the facility into operation."
The BBC understands that millions of pounds in additional funding are required to bring the whole building up to standard and fit for purpose.
The emergency department, which is housed on the first two floors, had to open in 2015 in order to cope with winter pressures.
Unions and community representatives have told the BBC that the delays are shocking and unacceptable.
According to a number of health unions, it has taken so long for the whole building to open that a lot of people have forgotten it exists.
The deputy director of the Royal College of Nursing, Garrett Martin, said the five year delay was "unacceptable".
"There are a lot of questions that remain unanswered as to why there is such a delay, that money has been spent replacing equipment which is now out of date and there needs to be much more openness and transparency around all of this," he said.
The original contractors for the building were McLaughlin and Harvey. When the BBC contacted them with a series of questions they replied they had "no comment".
An internal report by the new contractors, Killowen Contracts LTC and Michael Nugent Ltd - seen by the BBC - highlights claims that new problems were being discovered on a regular basis.
The progress report was shared among the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust (BHSCT), building contractors and the Department of Health in December 2016.
The internal report from the current contractor also says: "We are very conscious that mistakes cannot be repeated and therefore quality of workmanship is our first priority and while we will continue to strive to complete the works at the earliest possible date quality will take precedence."
The report claims there were numerous problems including plumbing, waste and electrical systems.
However, it is important to note that this report comes from the current contractor and some of the matters highlighted within it are the subject of legal disputes.
Also, both the original contractor and a subcontractor have themselves claimed that they regularly encountered problems with the building's plan.
Health care staff and health unions are questioning both the delay and the additional expense to the public purse.
In fact the BBC has learned that the delay has meant some of the newly purchased equipment in 2012 has had to be replaced. This includes oxygen hoses used in theatres as they have a limited shelf life.
Also paint work and ceilings on almost all of the 10 floors have had to be either fixed or replaced.
The chief executive of NICVA - the Northern Ireland Council of Voluntary Action - has asked who is being held to account.
"In a time when we are talking about transforming health, yet we have £150m that has done nothing, costing us money to replace parts of this building and which is not being brought in to public use," Seamus McAleavey said.
"So clearly we need to know who is responsible and get to grips with it. Things can go wrong and we accept that - but they need to be fixed and five years is far too long."
I have seen pictures from last December which show corridors and rooms dismantled as repairs continue.
Air ventilation plants were ripped out; toilets and waste bins replaced on almost all of the 10 floors; the buildings foul waste systems also had to be replaced. Generators were also found to be overheating.
The new critical care hospital which cost around £150m has had a history of problems. It is the responsibility of the Belfast Health Trust.
The BBC understands that legal proceedings between various contractors and the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust have dominated throughout almost the duration of the build.
As McLaughlin and Harvey neared the completion of the building in 2013 as reported by the BBC they discovered a serious problem with corroded pipework.
They finally handed the building over the trust in the spring of 2015.
Proceedings have been acrimonious with different parties blaming others for failure and complications. A separate insurance case at Belfast High Court in 2016 heard that McLaughlin and Harvey spent more than £9.8m of its own money to rectify the problems they say they encountered. The case was settled out of court.
Sources who have spoken to the BBC say they can't understand how a building with so many construction problems was allowed to open its emergency department in the first place.
The Belfast Health Trust has confirmed that a number of construction problems have delayed completion.
In response to an FOI request the health trust said that additional works required by the trust to bring the facilities in line with current legislation and standard have been undertaken.
The trust also confirmed that due to the long period of time from initial design to completion further additional work has been required.
When asked why the BHSCT accepted the building from contractors with so many known defects, the trust said that all construction contracts contain a procedure of identification and remediation of defects in a building post-handover.
The Belfast trust said that it is currently engaged in a programme to clinically commission the critical care building including the recruitment and training of nursing and medical staff. This programme runs in tandem with the works being completed with the building.
A new deadline for the opening of theatres and the intensive care unit is now the latter part of 2017.
It's important to stress that any additional spend will not impact on patient care and that the funding for the building came out of capital spend.
Unite and the GMB, two of the UK's largest trade unions, say the move is a "serious mistake" and could lead the party to a general election defeat.
But Labour's leader told the BBC he would "stand up for what's right" and it was "tough" if others disagreed.
Mr Miliband added that the party had to face up to "economic reality".
In 2010, the Conservative-Liberal Democrat froze public sector pay for two years for those earning above £21,000.
Then, last November, it said rises would be capped at 1% for each of the two years to 2015.
Labour's leadership announced at the weekend that this public sector pay restraint would continue if it regained power, given the economic situation.
But Len McCluskey, the general secretary of Unite - the UK's biggest union and Labour's largest donor - told the Guardian newspaper this would lead to the party's "destruction" and "certain electoral defeat".
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He criticised what he called a "cavalier" shift in policy, arguing: "This confronts those of us who have supported Ed Miliband's bold attempt to move on from Blairism with a challenge. His leadership has been undermined as he is being dragged back into the swamp of bond market orthodoxy."
And the Evening Standard said it had seen a letter suggesting the GMB was considering its financial ties to Labour.
A spokesman for the union told the BBC that its general secretary Paul Kenny had written to senior Labour officials saying that the decision to back the public sector pay cap was a "most serious mistake".
Between July 2010 and last September, Unite gave £5m to Labour and the GMB provided £1.9m. This represented 43.2% of all donations made to the party during the period.
But, speaking to BBC political editor Nick Robinson, Mr Miliband said: "I don't seek a fight within my own party, but I do stand up for what's right.
"And if people don't like it, I'm afraid that's tough because I'm going to take the responsible path, the right path and the path which will show to the public that Labour is serious about the economic reality we will face if we come into government after the next general election."
Asked if he was urging public sector workers to agree to pay cuts to preserve jobs, Mr Miliband replied: "Absolutely. We're talking actually about a pay increase limited to 1%, but absolutely.
"Look, the priority now has to be to preserve jobs. I think that's a recognition that everybody would see around the country. We have got to do everything we can to preserve employment and as I say, this Labour Party is going to face up to those difficult choices we have to make."
But Bob Crow, general secretary of the RMT transport trade union - which is not affiliated to Labour - said the party was now "doomed" to electoral defeat.
Backbench Labour MP John Mann told BBC Radio 4's World at One there had "to be some proper thought on how government can reduce spending", rather than "by attacking the lowest paid". He said Mr Miliband needed a "credible plan" for government.
And fellow backbencher John McDonnell also accused his leader of "capitulation to Cameron's economic analysis", adding: "Len McCluskey's article sums up the general feeling among Labour Party supporters of overwhelming disappointment."
Unions founded Labour and supply around 90% of the party's funds. Mr Miliband narrowly won the Labour leadership contest in September 2010 ahead of his brother, David, after success with trade union members and affiliated societies pushed him into first place.
A car with blue flashing lights had stopped another car in East Kilbride at 02:15 on Wednesday 16 November.
A man dressed in a bogus police uniform asked the 31-year-old driver to get out. When he refused, the fake officer and another man drove off.
The arrested man is expected to appear at Hamilton Sheriff Court on Tuesday.
The incident caused delays across the US and in Japan, Italy and the UK.
Airport check-in systems, passenger advisory screens, the airline's website and smartphone apps were affected by the systems failure on Monday.
Flights resumed six hours later but Delta warned of continuing delays as a backlog of passengers was cleared.
The airline suspended or cancelled dozens of departures early on Monday, with airport agents forced to write out boarding passes by hand.
By Monday evening, Delta said more than 740 flights had been cancelled but its computer systems were working again.
Delta offered passengers refunds and $200 (£153) vouchers while CEO Ed Bastian apologised for the inconvenience in a video message.
"The Delta team is working very hard to restore [services] and get the system back [operating] as quickly as possible," he said.
The overnight power failure took place in Atlanta, near Delta's headquarters, the company said, causing computer systems to crash.
"Our systems are down everywhere," the company at one point told its customers on Twitter.
Passengers around the world complained of long check-in queues, with many sleeping on the floor.
"This is ridiculous," one of hundreds of passengers stuck at Newark Liberty International airport in New Jersey told Reuters news agency.
"I don't understand what is going on here. It's just a mess," she said while waiting at Delta's check-in counter.
Another passenger complained of "utter confusion across the board" on social media while another said the airline had not provided enough staff at check-in counters to explain what was going on.
Many travellers posted their unhappiness on social media, making #Delta a top trending topic.
After the problem was resolved, the airline warned that many passengers still faced delays and cancellations because of the knock-on effect of the earlier disruption.
Delta ranks third in the world in terms of passengers carried, according to industry body the IATA.
The airline has advised customers to check the status of their flight before heading to the airport.
The incident will damage Delta's reputation for punctuality and lack of cancellations, USA Today commented.
While Delta has one of the best reliability records in the industry, the Wall Street Journal reported, its "relative outperformance" has left stranded passengers with fewer options when it comes to allowing them to rebook at discounted fares.
One passenger told the BBC he was waiting with "several hundred" fellow stranded passengers at San Francisco airport, after being asked to leave a plane he had boarded.
"We were ordered off the plane after approximately an hour or more," said Dick Ginkowski, who said that tempers were starting to get strained.
Delta has been responding to unhappy customers on Twitter and has issued guidelines for affected passengers.
The airline serves about 180 million customers a year, employing over 80,000 people, its website says.
It is the latest carrier to suffer computer problems, with Southwest Airlines last month forced to cancel more than 2,000 flights after an outage prevented travellers checking in.
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The "end of active transmission" was declared, after 42 days without a new case in Liberia.
It joins Guinea and Sierra Leone, which earned the status last year.
However, the WHO warned that West Africa may see flare-ups of the virus. It has killed more than 11,000 people since December 2013.
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A country is considered free of human-to-human transmission once two 21-day incubation periods have passed since the last known case tested negative for a second time.
The WHO said, in a statement, that "all known chains of transmission have been stopped in West Africa", with no cases reported for at least 42 days in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone, the three states hardest-hit by the outbreak.
"So much was needed and so much was accomplished by national authorities, heroic health workers, civil society, local and international organizations and generous partners," said WHO chief Margaret Chan.
Analysis: Anne Soy, BBC Africa health correspondent
It is a huge relief that the most devastating outbreak of Ebola is over. Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea now face the mammoth task of recovery.
The outbreak affected virtually every sector in these three countries. It exposed their weak health systems, which collapsed under the pressure of the epidemic.
Yet these countries are also badly affected by other deadly diseases, like malaria and tuberculosis, which were mostly ignored during the outbreak.
More than 17,000 Ebola survivors are dealing with a wide range of complications and social stigma. They include orphans with an uncertain future.
The economies of the three countries were also adversely affected. Sierra Leone was one of the fastest-growing economies in the world, with double digit growth figures. But Ebola sank it into severe recession.
The road to complete recovery will be long and treacherous. It will no doubt continue to test the resilience of the three countries.
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The end of active transmission of Ebola has been declared twice before in Liberia - only for the infection to re-emerge.
WHO said it anticipated "more flare-ups", and Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea "remain at high risk of additional small outbreaks" of Ebola.
"Evidence shows that the virus disappears relatively quickly from survivors, but can remain in the semen of a small number of male survivors for as long as one year, and in rare instances, be transmitted to intimate partners," it added.
Dr Chan described the next three months as "the most critical" for the three West African nations, which accounted for almost all of the deaths from the outbreak.
"By the end of this year, we expect that all survivors will have cleared the virus from their bodies," she was quoted as saying by the AFP news agency.
11,315
Deaths - probable, confirmed and suspected
(Includes one in the US and six in Mali)
4,809 Liberia
3,955 Sierra Leone
2,536 Guinea
8 Nigeria
Medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said, in a statement, that the end of the "devastating and unprecedented epidemic" was a day of celebration and relief.
"We must all learn from this experience to improve how we respond to future epidemics and to neglected diseases," it added.
MSF was the first to warn of the danger Ebola posed when cases were reported in 2013, while the WHO downplayed the threat.
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Walmart chief executive Doug McMillon blamed the dip on food deflation and "the competitive environment".
Discount food stores such as Aldi and Lidl have been undercutting Asda and its rivals, including Tesco, Morrison and Sainsbury's.
The supermarket chain is relying on £1.5bn of price reductions over five years to win customers back.
"Our strategy to turn things around is focused on improving the retail basics," Mr McMillon said. "While our turnaround will take time, I'm confident in the new leadership team there and want to assure you we're addressing this with urgency."
In June, Walmart said the UK supermarket's chief executive, Andy Clarke, would be stepping down to be replaced by the head of Walmart's Chinese business, Sean Clarke.
Walmart said Sean Clarke's experience would allow him to "reposition the business" in a competitive market.
Asda began a price-cutting campaign in 2013, cutting £1bn in prices. In January, outgoing boss Andy Clarke extended the cuts to £1.5bn by 2018.
In the same month, the company said it was shedding hundreds of jobs at its Leeds headquarters.
Analysts said "a monumental challenge" lay ahead for the new chief executive.
"This time last year, ex-chief executive Andy Clarke talked about Asda's sales decline hitting a nadir - unfortunately today's results represent a new nadir, with the scale of the problems facing the grocer becoming ever more severe," said Greg Bromley from Verdict Retail.
He said that Asda seemed to have been hit harder by the arrival of discounters such as Aldi and Lidl, since low prices had always been its main selling point.
"If Asda has been waiting to push the button on its latest wave of price cuts, the time must be now, especially as a more uncertain post-Brexit consumer becomes ever more price sensitive," he added.
Walmart, the US-based owner of Asda supermarkets, said its own net profit for the three months to the end of July rose 8.6% to $3.77bn (£2.87bn).
A rise in online sales helped revenue, excluding currency movements, to rise 2.8% to $123.6bn in the quarter.
While Asda struggles with customer traffic and declining revenues, Walmart's US stores saw their eighth consecutive quarterly gain in sales and store visits grew 1.2%.
Earlier this year, Wal-Mart said it would, over the next two years, spend $2.7bn to raise minimum wages to $10 an hour. The move has meant faster checkouts and cleaner stores, it says.
Joe Edwards' 85th-minute winner for Walsall was a blow for the 22nd-placed Robins, especially with the two sides above them - Port Vale and Bury - having a game in hand.
Walsall almost led inside a minute as Jason McCarthy would have swept home Kieron Morris' cross from 10 yards out if not for Robins defender Dion Conroy's goalline clearance.
Swindon responded as Fankaty Dabo lashed inches wide from 25 yards and Ben Gladwin was denied a brilliant solo goal by a superb one-handed stop from Walsall keeper Craig MacGillivray.
Town's Charlie Colkett curled inches wide on the stroke of half-time and despite being second best after the break they almost won it with nine minutes left.
However, MacGillivray produced another wonderful fingertip save to thwart Gladwin's glancing header and Walsall won it four minutes later.
Substitute Erhun Oztumer picked out Edwards and he advanced into the box before drilling a cool finish across Lawrence Vigouroux.
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Match ends, Walsall 1, Swindon Town 0.
Second Half ends, Walsall 1, Swindon Town 0.
Attempt blocked. George Dobson (Walsall) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Erhun Oztumer (Walsall) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Dion Conroy (Swindon Town).
Delay in match Adam Chambers (Walsall) because of an injury.
Corner, Walsall. Conceded by Bradley Barry.
Eoghan O'Connell (Walsall) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jonathan Obika (Swindon Town).
Goal! Walsall 1, Swindon Town 0. Joe Edwards (Walsall) left footed shot from outside the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Erhun Oztumer.
Attempt blocked. Erhun Oztumer (Walsall) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Corner, Swindon Town. Conceded by James O'Connor.
Attempt blocked. Jonathan Obika (Swindon Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Attempt saved. John Goddard (Swindon Town) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Attempt missed. Rohan Ince (Swindon Town) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses the top left corner.
Substitution, Swindon Town. James Brophy replaces Fankaty Dabo.
Substitution, Walsall. George Dobson replaces Isaiah Osbourne.
Attempt missed. Erhun Oztumer (Walsall) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.
Corner, Swindon Town. Conceded by Matt Preston.
Kieron Morris (Walsall) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Bradley Barry (Swindon Town).
Substitution, Walsall. Erhun Oztumer replaces Andreas Makris.
Substitution, Swindon Town. John Goddard replaces Conor Thomas.
Attempt missed. Joe Edwards (Walsall) right footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Attempt missed. James O'Connor (Walsall) header from very close range is just a bit too high.
Jason McCarthy (Walsall) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Dion Conroy (Swindon Town).
Attempt missed. Amadou Bakayoko (Walsall) right footed shot from the centre of the box is just a bit too high.
Attempt saved. Andreas Makris (Walsall) right footed shot from more than 35 yards is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt saved. Kieron Morris (Walsall) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Foul by Eoghan O'Connell (Walsall).
Jonathan Obika (Swindon Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt saved. Eoghan O'Connell (Walsall) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top left corner.
Corner, Walsall. Conceded by Fankaty Dabo.
James O'Connor (Walsall) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by James O'Connor (Walsall).
(Swindon Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Walsall. Conceded by Raphael Rossi Branco.
Attempt blocked. Isaiah Osbourne (Walsall) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Jason McCarthy (Walsall) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Stanley will guarantee a first-ever season in the third tier if they win at home to Stevenage on Saturday.
"If you look at it logically, they are still a Premier League side and they get all the trappings that it brings," Coleman told North West Tonight.
"They've won a title no one expected them to, but it was still feasible."
The 53-year-old added: "We are possibly going to get promotion when it is not feasible.
"It's the equivalent of finishing second in a Formula One race on a bike because of the facilities we have to work with, the budget and this is all about the players.
"They've been offered more money a lot of them elsewhere and they've stuck by us and they've had a hunger in their belly."
In his first spell from 1999 until 2012, Coleman led Accrington from Northern Premier League First Division into the Football League, including the Conference title in 2006.
When he left for Rochdale in 2012, Coleman was the third longest-serving manager in English football, behind only Sir Alex Ferguson of Manchester United and Arsenal's Arsene Wenger.
He returned to Accrington for his second stint as manager in 2014 after 12 months at Rochdale, followed by spells at Southport and League of Ireland side Sligo Rovers.
"There 's three or four times now where I've said to the players 'if you win today we're going up,'" he added.
"I've said it at Luton, Hartlepool and Wycombe and so I've got say I was lying all those times and this is the one. I've been saying it more psychologically than anything."
But while being described as "a new way to explore stories" it also rearranges the app's menu and removes the ability to see other people's "best friends".
Despite Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel tweeting "we'll bring back BFs soon," some users are still a bit cross.
Unsurprisingly it seems Snapchatters like a good nosy around who their mates have been chatting to.
Explaining why the feature disappeared, Evan Spiegel added: "A few higher-profile friends wanted to keep their usernames private - we'll come up with a better way to do that."
Snapchat's best friends feature allowed users to view the top three people their contacts were interacting with.
The list was determined by the number of times you exchanged messages with a particular friend and couldn't be manually controlled.
It was the only way of knowing anything about how other contacts were interacting on the app.
However, some users backed the Discover update, which has seen Snapchat partner with media companies to feature videos and news articles on the app.
But others quickly forgot about their beloved best friends lists when they realised the app includes way more sloths now.
After 24 hours the stories disappear, in keeping with Snapchat's trademark feature of private messages that disappear a few seconds after they are viewed by users of the service.
Snapchat, which reportedly turned down a $3bn (£1.2bn) buy out offer from Facebook, it thought to have been valued has been valued at $10bn (£6.2bn).
The addition of news and entertainment content is the latest expansion for LA-based app and follows the launch of an online payments service in November.
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The man had climbed over a railing on the Bosphorus bridge linking Europe with Asia and was threatening to kill himself.
Mr Erdogan's motorcade was crossing the bridge at the time.
Television pictures showed Mr Erdogan's staff asking the sobbing man to talk to the president. After a few moments, he was escorted to safety.
The man was suffering depression due to family problems, and police had been trying to prevent him from jumping for some two hours, the Dogan news agency reported.
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Footage shows officials persuading him to go and talk to the president in his car.
Mr Erdogan does not leave his car, and he speaks to the man with his mobile phone pressed to his ear.
An official from the president's office told Associated Press news agency he had promised to help him.
The Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (GSOC) said it received a referral on Thursday night after the death of a person in custody in Dundalk.
It said a GSOC team had been deployed and "inquiries are ongoing".
No further details were immediately available.
The club is understood to owe other clubs fees for loan players and must pay a bill of £300,000 to HM Revenue & Customs in the next seven days.
"It's been widely reported and quite right that we are behind with some payments to other clubs," chairman Simon Corney said.
"I'm asking the fans not to get too concerned about it."
Corney added: "It's quite common in football and there are probably quite a lot of clubs in the same situation as us.
"The debts will be paid. There's no two ways about it. They always do get paid, we have to pay them."
Interim chief executive Mark Moisley said Oldham hope to have the embargo lifted for when the January transfer window opens.
Oldham are 22nd in League One with 16 points from 18 games this season after starting the campaign with just seven contracted players.
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West Brom defender Gareth McAuley headed in Oliver Norwood's perfectly delivered free-kick before a hailstorm in Lyon forced the players off for two minutes.
When they returned, Niall McGinn finished a rebound in stoppage time to give Northern Ireland their first victory at a major tournament finals in 34 years.
Germany's 0-0 draw with Poland later on Thursday eliminated Ukraine, meaning Northern Ireland will finish at least third in Group C. A win against Germany in Paris on Tuesday in their final match would guarantee their place in the last 16, while they might already have done enough to qualify as one of the best third-placed teams.
Player ratings: Ukraine 0-2 Northern Ireland
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O'Neill gambled by making five changes, including relegating top scorer Kyle Lafferty to the substitutes' bench.
Lafferty's place went to 24-year-old Conor Washington, the QPR striker who was working as a postman and playing for St Ives in the ninth tier of English football the last time the Euros were staged in 2012.
But it paid off fantastically as Northern Ireland clinched their first win at a major tournament since famously beating hosts Spain at the 1982 World Cup.
Washington and Jamie Ward proved a handful for a Ukraine team who had kept 21 clean sheets in their previous 39 games.
Northern Ireland's strength from set-pieces told again as McAuley, 36, brilliantly got on the end of Norwood's well-taken free-kick for the first goal.
After a hail shower that saw the players withdrawn and substitutions, six minutes of stoppage time were added on.
But Northern Ireland's nervousness disappeared when Aberdeen winger McGinn pounced to seal victory.
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It was a night on which Northern Ireland made footballing history on several fronts.
As well as winning for the first time at the European finals, McAuley became the second-oldest scorer at the Euros and McGinn netted the latest ever goal at the tournament.
Once again, the green-shirted fans really got behind their team with loud vocal support.
They also remembered 24-year-old Darren Rodgers, who died in an accidental fall in Nice after the Poland match, with respectful applause in the 24th minute.
The green and white army will celebrate long into the night in Lyon before turning their thoughts to Tuesday's meeting with the world champions.
Defeat would have seen NI's great Euro 2016 adventure fall flat, now they go to Paris with hope in their hearts and buoyed by one of the greatest results in their history.
Northern Ireland boss Michael O'Neill: "We have given ourselves a great chance. It will take various permutations for us not to finish third. That gives us a shout at least. What we need to do is try to nick a point [against Germany]. We will let the players enjoy this and then the minds will switch to the Germans.
"It's hard to put into words and absorb it all at this time. Everything good about Northern Ireland was in that stadium today."
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Goalscorer Gareth McAuley: "Nobody has given us a chance. Lots of people said we wouldn't get a point.
"We weren't at it against Poland - to our standards, the intensity we wanted to play at - but tonight was a lot better.
"It's special to score, it'll sink in probably over the next few days. We've got a tough game to look forward to now, and we've got something to play for - that's what we wanted."
Northern Ireland will face Germany on Tuesday at Parc des Princes in Paris, while Ukraine will look for their first Euro 2016 point against Poland in Marseille.
Match ends, Ukraine 0, Northern Ireland 2.
Second Half ends, Ukraine 0, Northern Ireland 2.
Goal! Ukraine 0, Northern Ireland 2. Niall McGinn (Northern Ireland) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner.
Attempt saved. Stuart Dallas (Northern Ireland) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Josh Magennis.
Jonny Evans (Northern Ireland) is shown the yellow card.
Foul by Roman Zozulya (Ukraine).
Jonny Evans (Northern Ireland) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Andriy Yarmolenko (Ukraine) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Stuart Dallas (Northern Ireland).
Substitution, Northern Ireland. Patrick McNair replaces Corry Evans.
Foul by Denys Garmash (Ukraine).
Oliver Norwood (Northern Ireland) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Yevhen Konoplyanka (Ukraine) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Yaroslav Rakitskiy.
Attempt blocked. Yevhen Konoplyanka (Ukraine) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Oleksandr Zinchenko.
Andriy Yarmolenko (Ukraine) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Jonny Evans (Northern Ireland).
Attempt saved. Andriy Yarmolenko (Ukraine) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Oleksandr Zinchenko.
Attempt missed. Viacheslav Shevchuk (Ukraine) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Artem Fedetskiy (Ukraine) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Steven Davis (Northern Ireland).
Stuart Dallas (Northern Ireland) is shown the yellow card.
Attempt saved. Oleksandr Zinchenko (Ukraine) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Viacheslav Shevchuk with a cross.
Substitution, Northern Ireland. Josh Magennis replaces Conor Washington.
Substitution, Ukraine. Oleksandr Zinchenko replaces Viktor Kovalenko.
Corner, Ukraine. Conceded by Jonny Evans.
Offside, Ukraine. Artem Fedetskiy tries a through ball, but Andriy Yarmolenko is caught offside.
Attempt missed. Viktor Kovalenko (Ukraine) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Substitution, Ukraine. Denys Garmash replaces Serhiy Sydorchuk.
Foul by Serhiy Sydorchuk (Ukraine).
Oliver Norwood (Northern Ireland) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Viktor Kovalenko (Ukraine) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Stuart Dallas (Northern Ireland).
Foul by Roman Zozulya (Ukraine).
Jonny Evans (Northern Ireland) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Ukraine. Roman Zozulya replaces Evgen Seleznyov.
Attempt missed. Viktor Kovalenko (Ukraine) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses the top right corner. Assisted by Evgen Seleznyov.
Substitution, Northern Ireland. Niall McGinn replaces Jamie Ward.
Offside, Ukraine. Artem Fedetskiy tries a through ball, but Andriy Yarmolenko is caught offside.
Serhiy Sydorchuk (Ukraine) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Serhiy Sydorchuk (Ukraine).
Natalie Bennett was travelling on Great Western Railway (GWR) from Truro to Plymouth when she asked for a latte.
A GWR drinks bar worker refused saying there was a risk of injury to her and the member of staff.
GWR said it was "deeply committed to protecting the environment" but it did not want passengers "scalded".
Ms Bennett said: "I went to the coffee bar and said can I have a latte but the gentleman behind the counter said he was very sorry but staff had a memo from the management that they were not allowed to put coffee into reusable cups.
"He said he could 'put the coffee in a disposable cup and I could pour it into your disposable cup.'"
Ms Bennett said the "huge number of coffee cups that are pouring into our waste stream is a huge impact on our environment" and she would be "asking them to change the policy".
The train company said it had to factor in the speed the trains were travelling at when serving hot drinks.
It a statement, GWR said: "Our helpful and friendly staff serve hot drinks on board trains moving at up to 125mph into cups designed for our coffee machines, and subsequently covered with a plastic lid, to reduce the risk of injury to both staff and passengers."
It row comes after TV chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall drew attention to the waste created by the 2.5bn coffee cups thrown away every year in the UK.
This phase of the £3.9m scheme involves a 3ft (1m) diameter pipe being installed under Hambledon to divert flood water.
The project is designed to prevent a repeat of 2013/14 floods when the village was inundated for more than 40 days
Hampshire County Council said the scheme would benefit residents.
Work will also see floodwater culverts created in East Street, West Street and parts of Green Lane, and road resurfacing and re-shaping.
Neil Mason, of Manor Farm, whose property was effected by the flooding, told BBC Solent although the work would cause an inconvenience for residents, it was for the "greater good".
Preliminary sewer work starts today and the main work is due to start on 22 June when the B2150 Hambledon Road will be closed south of the Cams Hill junction
Hampshire County Council is funding around £2.5m of the scheme with £1.4m from the government.
Sean Woodward, of Hampshire Councty Council, said the project was designed to "protect people and property".
The first phase involved improving and widening ditches downstream of the village and installing larger pipes under properties.
The works are due to be complete in Spring 2016.
The move will see their news and features departments merge into one, along with backbench news and sports.
The merger is designed to create an integrated seven-day print and digital operation.
Up to 15 jobs are at risk at the Record and Mail, with another seven threatened in Trinity's Scottish regional titles.
A Trinity Mirror spokesman said: "We are seeing growth in digital and in our events and business division but like all publishers we are having to carefully manage costs."
Attend any international academic conference and the discussion is likely to be conducted in English. For anyone wanting to share research, English has become the medium for study, writing and teaching.
That might make it easier for people speaking different languages to collaborate. But is there something else being lost? Is non-English research being marginalised?
A campaign among German academics says science benefits from being approached through different languages.
Researchers whose first language is not English worry they have to subscribe to Anglo-American theories to get published in major international journals.
According to the German linguist Ranier Enrique Hamel, in 1880 there were 36% of scientific publications using English, which had risen to 64% by 1980.
But this trend has been further accentuated, so that by 2000, among journals recognised by Journal Citation Reports, 96% were in English.
Getting published in these recognised journals influences university rankings, which in turn affects funding and recruitment, so there is an incentive for universities to encourage their scholars to use English and the cycle continues.
This trend is reinforced even further as increasing numbers of courses in Europe and Asia are taught in English.
In the Netherlands, Maastricht University offers 55 masters courses in English and only eight exclusively in Dutch. The University of Groningen now uses English as its predominant language for teaching.
In Germany a campaign led by academics, called ADAWIS, wants to preserve German as a language of science.
Academics say many fields of science developed because of different approaches taken by academics using their native languages.
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Professor Ralph Mocikat, a molecular immunologist who chairs ADAWIS, says individual languages use different patterns of "argumentation", the way that conclusions are reached from debate and examining evidence.
He says "the argumentation is more linear in English-language papers, whereas the German grammar facilitates cross and back references".
Prof Mocikat says academics often use metaphors from everyday language when making an argument or trying to solve a problem, and these cannot always be directly translated.
"Thought is formed by language. This is why language plays a crucial role in the progress of science," he says.
"Scientists such as Galileo, Newton and Lagrange abandoned scholarly Latin, which was universal, in favour of their respective vernacular.
"Ordinary language is science's prime resource, and the reintroduction of a linguistic monoculture will throw global science back to the dark ages."
Research suggests that to be published in an English journal, academics generally need to subscribe to Anglo-American theories and terminology.
Professor Mary Jane Curry of the University of Rochester in the US and Professor Theresa Lillis of the Open University in the UK have studied how the dominance of English-language journals has affected research from southern and central Europe.
They found the "gatekeeping" of an English-language journal influenced the content of research, bringing it in line with established Anglophone theories.
International journals rarely accept quotations and references to papers in other languages, which worries Professor Winfried Thielmann, a linguist at the Technical University of Chemnitz and member of ADAWIS.
"Scientific history is currently being rewritten at the expense of those who had the misfortune of publishing their insights in a language other than English," he says.
Prof Thielmann says journals mainly accept papers that use American theories and terminology, which means there is less incentive for researchers to develop alternative ideas in languages other than English.
"In my view this was one of the reasons European economists did not have a lot to contribute to the management of the last financial crisis," he says.
There are concerns that we risk "losing" knowledge because scholars not using English are rarely heard outside their own country.
"Some prefer to build their careers solely domestically, because it is so difficult to master English," says Dr Anita Zatori, at the Corvinus University of Budapest.
"In my experience you need to be able to think in English to speak to an international audience and many people lack either the ambition or the courage to do this."
Good academic translation is expensive and English-language journals would not usually run an article that previously appeared in another language.
There are 6,000 scientific journals in Brazil, mostly in Portuguese, and only a handful are recognised by the international index of journals.
Most of this research will not have an impact outside Brazil.
If the rise of English in academia creates problems, what are the solutions?
Journals could become multi-lingual and publish summaries of each article in different languages. The scientific journal Nature provides information about new publications in Japanese and Arabic.
Others have tried to promote linguistic diversity by offering degree courses in more than one language.
The European masters in classical cultures degree, taught by a number of European universities, requires students to attend at least two universities where different languages will be spoken.
There are even calls to change the English language - or at least the way it is used in articles, books and conferences. The style and tone of articles could made simpler, with concepts framed using concrete examples rather than metaphors which are unique to English.
The English as a Lingua Franca (ELFA) Corpus Project could help with this. It was developed by researchers at the University of Helsinki in Finland and lists one million words of "academic" English to guide researchers.
Perhaps the continued spread of English might itself be a solution. As publishing in English becomes more necessary, the next generation of academics will be even better at the language.
It might prevent the kind of story where an English mathematician supposedly announced the answer to a problem at a conference, only to be told by a visiting academic that it had been solved in Russia years before.
In the future, the Russian mathematician could already have published in English.
"Certainly we can't get rid of English," says Prof Curry. The dominance of the language is here to stay and she suggests the first step in combating any problems is to begin acknowledging that they exist.
Posting on Instagram, the X Factor judge denied her husband had hit her. She wrote: "My hubby would never lay a hand on me".
Earlier this month the 39-year-old was forced to miss the Saturday show of the X Factor final because she was in hospital suffering a mystery illness.
Tulisa stood in for Mel, mentoring her act Andrea Faustini who bowed out on the Saturday - coming third.
Mel B returned to the X Factor stage the following evening. However, several viewers took to social media with concerns the judge had bruising to her face and an absent wedding ring.
Stephen Belafonte denied any involvement in his wife of seven years missing the show.
He also described suggestions he was responsible for the alleged bruising as "disgusting and untrue".
It's the first time Mel has responded to claims her husband hit her.
Speaking to Newsbeat, X Factor winner Ben Haenow said he didn't see any bruises when Mel returned to X Factor: "I didn't see anything of that kind. I mean she looked fine when she was there."
Mel has one daughter with Stephen, and two daughters from previous relationships.
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The midfielder fired in off the bar midway through the second half moments after Rob Hall hit the Millwall post.
Earlier, Millwall's Lee Gregory saw a penalty appeal turned down and Angel Martinez volleyed wide from six yards before the break.
The Lions have one win in eight and sit 20th, six places and three points behind Bolton.
Wanderers' latest win included a fourth-straight clean sheet and maintained their impressive run of form since Neil Lennon became manager on 12 October.
Since then, they have jumped from bottom spot in the table to 14th with just two defeats in 11 games.
At The Den, their victory was richly deserved as though Millwall rallied late on, the Trotters managed 14 shots to their hosts' eight.
Eidur Gudjohnsen was handed a first start for Bolton since 2000 after agreeing a return until the end of the season.
His team-mates Pratley and Tim Ream worked home goalkeeper David Forde in the early exchanges, either side of a glorious opening for Gregory, who shot wide of the Bolton goal after collecting a long ball.
Magaye Gueye fed Andy Wilkinson to deliver accurately for Martinez to miss the target with his volley before the break, but it was moments after the restart when the game's contentious moment arrived.
Again it was Gregory - the matchwinner in Millwall's 1-0 win at Brighton last week - who tested the visiting defence and he appeared to be pulled down by Bolton goalkeeper Andy Lonergan but referee Stuart Attwell waved away appeals.
If given, the penalty would likely have seen the keeper sent off but his side capitalised when Pratley raced on to Chung-Yong Lee's pass to steady himself and fire a second goal of the season.
Lonergan denied Martyn Woolford with a smart save in the closing stages as Bolton held on for a second away win of the season.
These are just three of the cases uncovered in files released by the National Archives examining UFO sightings across Wales.
The papers span four decades, and include nearly 7,000 documents.
But one of the biggest Welsh UFO mysteries, the 'Dyfed Triangle', may have been an elaborate practical joke.
It is the latest in a growing number of documents released detailing the UK's obsession with claims of extra-terrestrial sightings that began to surge in post-war Britain.
The papers reveal that between 1996 and 2008, more than 20 detailed sightings were reported to the police and Ministry of Defence in Wales.
They include the case of a sighting near
Rhossili Bay on the Gower peninsula in September, 2005, describing the UFO as appearing like a WWII Luftwaffe prototype jet.
"Suddenly we became aware of a bright object, travelling at very high speed, moving horizontally from west to east almost directly above our heads," recorded the un-named observer, in an explanation to the Ministry of Defence.
"The object was shaped like a pair of stubby swept-back wings, meeting at around 90 degrees. The wingtips were round, as was the forward joint of port and starboard wings.
"My cousin turned to me in surprise, and I exclaimed: 'What on earth was that thing we just saw?'.
In response, the MoD said it only investigated threats to UK airspace, and had no remit to examine 'aerial phenomena'.
Some nine years earlier, the files recount a sighting by a driver in
Flintshire, in August, 1996.
A police record passed to defence officials stated: "The object was very large and bright. It had flames coming out of the rear and there was no noise coming from it at all. It was 20ft from the ground and moving very fast."
The report said the sighting was made towards Mold, and the records notes that the driver was "extremely shaken-up by the incident".
Significantly, two other sightings were made on the same day - one on Anglesey, and another not far ways from the first at Chirk.
"I've always been sceptical about these things, until tonight. I've never seen anything anything like it in my life before," said one witness.
Another incident found its way to the the House of Commons, after concerned residents near Wylfa nuclear power station on
Anglesey contacted the then MP, now assembly member, Ieuan Wyn Jones.
He wrote to ministers about the alleged sightings, seeking reassurance.
However, officials were unable to address the mystery or confirm whether the so-called UFO was in fact a search-and-rescue operation from RAF Valley.
"It would have been highly unlikely that any of their helicopters would have been airborne," said officials.
Finally, the full records regarding the so-called 'Dyfed Triangle' have been released, after some of the papers were made public in 2010.
It has widely been viewed as Wales' own 'Roswell incident' - sightings of both UFOs and aliens in an area stretching across parts of Pembrokeshire and Ceredigion in the 1970s.
One incident recalls a sighting by Rosa Granville who ran a hotel in Little Haven. She was woken late at night and saw what she described as a flying saucer ship, and then a silver alien shape.
Similar stories were told by schoolchildren at Broadhaven.
The MP at the time, Nicholas Edwards wrote: "I am being inundated at the present time with representations about UFOs said to have been seen in Pembrokeshire."
But the files reveal that officials who investigated the incident suspected pranksters.
"The Community Relations Officer added that there is general speculation in the neighbourhood that a practical joker may be at work," wrote staff at S4 - the government department that investigated sightings at the time.
"RAF Brawdy have had other enquiries about men in silver suits and it is perhaps not irrelevant that a local factory manufactures clothing of this type for the oil installation at Milford Haven."
Essam, 23, joins from Leyton Orient on a one-year deal, having previously been on loan at Dover last season.
French-born Mandron, 21, has agreed a two-year deal with the Spitfires having been released by Sunderland.
He made seven appearances during a loan spell with Hartlepool last season, scoring in an FA Cup second-round replay win against Salford City.
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City chiefs met earlier this week amid concerns from taxi companies that it could undercut their business.
The city council said it was "minded to grant a licence for a year from its launch date, yet to be announced".
In a statement, Uber said it was looking forward "to offering a safe, reliable and affordable choice".
It added: "Over 85,000 people in the area have downloaded and opened the app in the last few months so we're really excited about the potential."
Founded six years ago, San Francisco-based Uber "connects riders to drivers" with an app that uses GPS technology to locate available vehicles.
Users tap their phone to hail a cab and pay automatically on arrival with a credit or debit card.
Drivers sign up as independent contractors and are their own boss.
The private hire vehicles cannot ply for hire in the street, wait at cab ranks or be hailed by passers-by.
Councillors agreed Uber could operate initially for a year to "test their commitment to meeting the city's taxi service standards".
At Monday's council meeting, Uber representatives said they were already licensed in 33 council areas in the UK, though not yet operating in all of them.
The spell of warm Autumn weather is forecast to continue across parts of England until Friday.
Public Health England (PHE) and NHS England have both warned that the weather can pose a risk to health.
Elsewhere, yellow warnings for rain are in place for some parts of northern England and southern Scotland.
As much as 30mm (one inch) of thundery, torrential rain could cause flash flooding and travel disruption in places during the afternoon and evening, the Met Office said.
The highest temperature of 2016 had previously been 34.1C, which was reached on 23 August at Faversham in Kent.
The all-time record for September of 35.6C (96.1F) was set in 1906, in Bawtry, South Yorkshire.
NHS England has declared a level-two heat alert, which means there is a high chance that an average temperature of 30C (86F) by day and 15C (59F) overnight will occur over the next two to three days.
These temperatures can have a "significant effect" on a person's health if they last for at least two days and the night in between, it said.
The East of England, the South East, and the East Midlands are expected to have some of the hottest weather.
Aberdeen and Glasgow will possibly see temperatures of 20C (68F) to 23C (73.4F), and there is a chance Aviemore could hit 24C (75.2F).
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Dr Thomas Waite, from the extreme events team at PHE, said: "Think today about what you can do, and for those around you, to stay cool during the daytime and particularly at night.
"Much of the advice on beating the heat is common sense and for most people there's nothing to really worry about.
"But for some people, such as older people, those with underlying health conditions and those with young children, summer heat can bring real health risks."
Jacob Cope, BBC Weather Centre Meteorologist
Hurricane Hermine, which hit Florida in early September, pushed large kinks into the jet stream - large atmospheric waves which lock our weather patterns in place. For Spain and Portugal, that meant temperatures rising to 10C above average last week.
A large area of high pressure centred over northern Europe has brought southerly winds, which have drawn this warm air northwards, reaching our shores today. And we have mainly clear skies across much of England, so we're topping it up ourselves.
We saw 31C in September in 1973, and in 1961, in Gatwick, the temperature recorded was 31.6C. It's very doubtful that we will break the all-time record though, as a 1906 heat wave brought September temperatures of 35.6C (96.08F).
The high temperatures predicted means that Britain could be as warm as Bangkok in Thailand, and hotter than forecasts for Madrid and Los Angeles.
Dr Waite added: "The hot weather won't make life difficult for all of us; indeed, many of us will make the most of it when the sun shines.
"But some people may not be able to adapt to the extra strain hot weather will put on their bodies and may feel the ill-effects.
"Each year we hear stories of people who have fallen seriously ill because, even though it's hotter, they may wear clothes which are too warm for hot weather, they may not drink enough or just try to do too much."
Dr Waite advised people to close curtains on windows that face the sun during the day, and to open windows once the sun is no longer on them to get a breeze.
He added that people should think about turning off electrical devices, as they can generate unwanted heat.
Both players shot four-under-par 66s, with Spaniard Garcia carding six birdies, to end the day on five under.
New Zealand's Danny Lee had a six-under 64 - the lowest round of the tournament - to share the lead with Americans Webb Simpson, Kevin Kisner and Scott Piercy.
Northern Ireland's Graeme McDowell is four under after a level-par 70.
Defending champion Jordan Spieth dropped shots on three of his first five holes but recovered to shoot a two-under 68 and end the day four shots off the lead.
The firm did not disclose the emissions control software to regulators, the Department of Justice (DoJ) alleged.
The software enabled the vehicles to produce lower emissions during roadworthiness tests than they did when used under normal driving conditions.
Fiat said it would "defend itself vigorously" against the accusations.
In a statement Fiat Chrysler spokesman, Eric Mayne, said the firm would defend itself "particularly against any claims that the company engaged in any deliberate scheme to install defeat devices to cheat US emissions tests".
The DoJ filed the complaint on behalf of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
It alleges the software features were installed in about 104,000 Dodge Ram 1500 and Jeep Grand Cherokee vehicles, model years 2014, 2015 and 2016, and sold in the US.
Fiat Chrysler last week announced updates to its emissions software programs. The firm said it would install the modified software into the older vehicles and new ones.
The Italian American firm said it "believes this will address the agencies' concerns regarding the emissions software calibrations in those vehicles."
The dispute recalls the fight over devices installed in certain Volkswagen cars that were designed to bypass emissions tests.
The civil complaint, filed on Tuesday in Detroit, is the formal accusation that Fiat fitted defeat devises to some vehicles.
It follows the EPA's notification in January of its investigation into Fiat Chrysler's compliance with the Clean Air Act.
At the time, the agency said it was looking into whether the software devices would fall under "narrow exclusions" granted in some instances.
Since then, other countries, including the UK and France, have also said they were investigating the company.
Just how serious is this for Fiat Chrysler?
It isn't into Volkswagen territory yet, even though the Department of Justice has accused it of using defeat devices.
For a start, the number of vehicles is much smaller. But there's also the question of what is, and what isn't, a 'defeat device'.
Volkswagen admitted it couldn't make its cars clean enough to pass emissions tests AND enable them to perform well on the road. So it decided to cheat - and deliberately designed a software tool to do just that.
FCA has been accused of fitting software to its cars which wasn't disclosed to regulators, and which made emissions control systems perform in a different way on the road to how they worked in the laboratory.
BUT - carmakers do use a variety of software to regulate emissions control systems, to ensure that they only work at the correct temperature, for example. Otherwise parts of the system can be damaged.
Fiat Chrysler insists it didn't set out to cheat the testing process. It was not, it says, involved in any 'deliberate scheme'.
Nevertheless, it was informed of the Environmental Protection Agency's concerns earlier this year - and asked to provide an explanation.
It seems the authorities, so far at least, aren't satisfied with what they've heard.
The 25-year-old will partner the recently-recruited Nico Hulkenberg at the French team as they build up to competitiveness following their return to F1 as a factory entry this year.
Palmer said he was "over the moon" to be staying with Renault.
The British driver joined the team's predecessor, Lotus, as third driver in 2015 before graduating to race driver with Renault for the 2016 season.
It was also revealed on Wednesday that Dane Kevin Magnussen would be leaving Renault to move to the US-based Haas team for 2017.
Renault returned to Formula 1 as a constructor this season after taking over the Lotus team.
Palmer, who has started 18 Grands Prix to date, scoring his first World Championship point at this year's race in Malaysia, added: "I can't wait to reward the team's faith in me on track.
"Having worked out of Enstone [in Oxfordshire] since 2015, I can fully appreciate the development of the infrastructure this year. This means I share the excitement of the team looking to 2017 and our new car.
"For me, it's been a steep learning curve driving in Formula 1 and I know that I am performing better than ever, and that there's still more to come."
Jerome Stoll, Renault Sport racing chairman, said: "We are delighted to retain Jolyon as our driver for the 2017 season.
"Jolyon has shown his hunger to develop with us as the team grows and we have been impressed with his increasingly strong performances on track as the season has progressed.
"We are confident that the combination of Jolyon and Nico Hulkenberg offers a very promising driving force to meet our goals."
Violence erupted overnight as police cleared illegal food stalls set up on a busy junction for Lunar New Year celebrations.
Angry protesters threw bricks and bottles at police, while police used batons and pepper spray and fired two warning shots into the air.
Police said dozens of officers and four journalists were among those hurt.
Nine women and 52 men have been arrested, all aged between 15 and 70. They are suspected of offences including unlawful assembly, assaulting police and possession of offensive weapons.
Pictures from the scene showed protesters setting fire to bins and throwing bottles and rubbish at police.
It is the largest unrest in Hong Kong since massive pro-democracy street protests were held in 2014 - although some reports said Tuesday's clashes appeared more violent than those in 2014, which were largely peaceful.
Chief Executive CY Leung condemned the unrest, saying Hong Kong "can never tolerate that and the police will spare no effort to arrest the rioters".
The rioters "threw bricks and other objects at police officers, including those who had already been injured and were lying on the ground", he added.
Mong Kok clashes
What happened in Mong Kok?
Hong Kong police attempted to shut down unlicensed food stalls along the junction of Shan Tung Road and Portland Street in Kowloon. Clashes erupted after dozens of local activists gathered to defend the vendors.
What's the deal with the food stalls?
The unlicensed food stalls were set up for the Lunar New Year holiday. Officials usually turn a blind eye to the hawkers' lack of official permits, but this year decided to crack down.
Were the clashes just about street food?
The underlying tensions go deeper. Many "localist" groups, who want greater autonomy for Hong Kong, turned up to support the vendors, arguing that Hong Kong's identity is under threat. Trust between the public and the police has also declined in recent years.
Read more: More than fishballs
Ahead of the clearance operation, hundreds of people had gathered in the area to support the hawkers.
Police said the vendors and activists were told to leave but ignored the warnings.
Clashes then broke out in the early hours, and carried on past dawn. But the scene was quiet by late Tuesday morning.
Among the protesters were some "localist" - anti-Beijing - groups.
Baggio Leung, leader of the Youngspiration political party, told the BBC he and 10 other party members went to protest. The group said they were defending local culture.
One of them was arrested, Mr Leung said.
At the scene: Juliana Liu, BBC News, Hong Kong
Mong Kok has been a regular site for protests. The area has seen clashes at demonstrations against parallel traders, and at confrontations between localist groups and "singing aunties" (groups that gather to sing pro-China songs).
But no-one could have predicted the intensity of the clashes seen on the first night of the Chinese new year.
Activists who went to support the unlicensed hawkers told me they had anticipated a peaceful protest to defend what they believe is an integral part of local culture and tradition.
They were as shocked as anyone when the clashes escalated. But they admit the level of violence may be a game-changer for Hong Kong - and that it may give the authorities more reason to crack down on the various nativist groups.
Acting District Commander Yau Siu-kei confirmed reports that an officer had fired two warning shots into the air. He said the officer had to act to protect colleagues, the South China Morning Post said.
He blamed "radical elements" who brought "self-made weapons and shields" for the unrest.
The unrest was widely referenced on social media, where it was dubbed #fishballrevolution after one of the food delicacies sold by the hawkers.
Caley Thistle host an Ibrox side without a league win this month.
"There is a little bit of confusion there," Foran said. "They should be feeling a bit fragile and hopefully we can take advantage of that.
"Friday night, we can get off the bottom of the table. How good would that be for the club, for the supporters, for the players?"
Premiership bottom side Inverness moved a point closer to Hamilton Academical on Saturday by drawing with Hearts at Tynecastle and a win on Friday would move them a point above Accies.
Earlier this season, Foran's men lost at home to Rangers - also on a Friday evening - but the Ibrox men have won just once in the league since the turn of the year.
Manager Mark Warburton left Rangers earlier this month and interim boss Graeme Murty has been in charge for the last two matches.
"We enjoy evening games," added Foran.
"Going back the park we haven't worked hard enough this season. We've let too many runners off us, we've conceded too many easy goals but that changed against Hearts and it has to be the same again.
"Going forward, we've looked good this season. We look as if we can score goals. Going back the park, we've looked open, we looked lazy at times.
"They know if they work just as hard going back the park, we can go and get draws, we can go and get victories against the good, good teams.
"Hearts are a strong, strong team - a very, very good side, as Rangers are. Our belief now has gone up a notch, that's for sure.
"We're creating a lot of chances, we've got to take more of them. That's why we've got [January signing] Billy Mckay in the team as well - he will take those chances."
The unnamed officer had sex with two women he met during the course of his duties with Devon and Cornwall Police.
A private hearing was held at the force's headquarters in Exeter last month.
The hearing heard how on one occasion he had sex with a vulnerable witness whilst on duty.
He also gave out confidential information and was dismissed for gross misconduct and breaching confidentiality.
The Police Misconduct Panel found the officer "had breached the standards of professional behaviour of the police," in particular those pertaining to confidentiality, duties and responsibilities, orders and instructions, honesty and integrity and discreditable conduct.
A statement said: "The officer had breached those duties in 2012 - 2014, on numerous occasions by engaging in sexual intercourse whilst on duty, including on one occasion with a vulnerable witness."
The panel concluded his actions amounted to gross misconduct and immediately dismissed him.
Five months ago another officer was sacked for carrying out a sex attack on a woman.
The economy contracted by 1.9% in annual terms from July to September, well above a preliminary reading of 1.6%.
It also shrank 0.5% on a quarterly basis, compared with an initial estimate of 0.4%, data showed.
A big fall in business spending plunged the economy into a deeper recession.
The revised figures, which come just days before Japan's national elections, showed that business spending dipped by 0.4% from the previous quarter, instead of the 0.2% estimated in the preliminary reading.
The world's third largest economy unexpectedly fell into a technical recession after shrinking for the second consecutive quarter in July to September.
It had contracted 7.3% in the second quarter, which was the biggest fall since the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
An increase in the country's sales tax, which was first raised in April from 5% to 8%, had hit growth in the second quarter and still appeared to be having an impact on the economy.
The dire data had led Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to call a widely-anticipated snap election last month, to seek a mandate to delay an increase in the tax to 10%, scheduled for 2015.
The tax increase was legislated by the previous government in 2012 to curb Japan's huge public debt, which is the highest among developed nations.
Adding to the downbeat data, a Reuters poll on Monday showed that confidence among Japanese manufacturers fell in December and is expected to deteriorate further.
The Reuters Tankan sentiment index for manufacturers fell to 10 in December from 13 in November, with automakers taking a hit.
Manufacturers expect a further decline to 7 in March.
Peers are expected to agree to amend the draft legislation to protect the rights of EU citizens living in the UK.
Home Secretary Amber Rudd had sought to reassure members that EU nationals' status would be a priority once Brexit talks begin.
But a cross-party amendment calling for a firm guarantee is expected to secure the backing of most peers.
If this happens, MPs could remove the Lords' proposed changes again when the bill moves back to the House of Commons.
The bill authorises the government to trigger Article 50.
The rights of EU nationals to remain in the UK after Brexit has been one of the most contentious issues during its parliamentary passage so far.
In a letter sent to every peer, Ms Rudd said a guarantee of their right to stay, however "well-intentioned", would not help the hundreds of thousands of UK citizens living on the continent as it could leave them in potential limbo if reciprocal assurances were not given by the EU's 27 other member states.
She said there was "absolutely no question of treating EU citizens with anything other than the utmost respect".
"This isn't just about ensuring British businesses and our public sector have access to the right workers," she wrote.
"We owe it to those many European citizens who have contributed so much to this country to resolve this issue as soon as possible and give them the security they need to continue to contribute to this country."
BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg
The letter is not that different to what was sent to MPs previously to try to ease their minds, as the Article 50 legislation made its way through the House of Commons.
It does though appear to kill off the idea that Theresa May will arbitrarily set a cut-off date for EU immigration without having to get MPs or peers onside first. But it is unlikely to spare the government's blushes tomorrow. Without a further more dramatic concession, they are set to lose.
That will set in train the first 'ping' of the potential 'ping pong' - the parliamentary process where the Lords reject something in the red chamber, sending it back down the corridors to the green benches - daring, imploring perhaps, backbenchers to join with them and push back at the government.
There is no sign at the moment that ministers want to budge on this issue.
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Earlier this month, MPs passed the bill unamended, accepting assurances from ministers that protecting the rights of the three million EU nationals living in the UK would be a priority for ministers.
But the government does not have a majority in the Lords.
Peers including Labour's Lords leader, Baroness Smith, have said they will not delay the invoking of Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, which the prime minister wants to do by the end of March.
But Baroness Smith said they would give the draft legislation "due and proper scrutiny" and look for "possible improvements".
Lord Newby, the leader of the Liberal Democrats in the Lords, said passing the amendment would "require the Commons to think again".
The council had hoped to secure a partnership to fund the six-camera service with a local university.
But councillors have been told the project will not go ahead.
Meanwhile Dyfed-Powys' Police and Crime Commissioner has launched a review of CCTV in the region.
Christopher Salmon has said the police would be prepared to help fund cameras surveillance systems in Ceredigion, Powys, Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire if the findings are favourable.
Earlier this year Ceredigion council decided to stop funding the system in the county to save £150,000.
It was part of its aim to plug a budget deficit of £9.6m during the next financial year.
The local authority then asked the five community councils with cameras if they were willing foot the CCTV bill from 1 April.
Aberystwyth, Cardigan, Aberaeron and New Quay councils decided not to pay for CCTV coverage.
But Lampeter councillors started discussions on future CCTV provision with University of Wales Trinity St David, which has a campus in Lampeter.
The town council has now abandoned any hope of running the service after those talks came to nothing.
Mayor, Dorothy Williams, said: "The university has decided not to work with us on this project so we have decided not to manage the CCTV cameras in Lampeter because we can't afford it."
But CCTV coverage in the county could be resurrected in the future after Dyfed-Powys Police and Crime Commissioner, Christopher Salmon's decision to review the service.
He said: "Although the police do not fund CCTV right now, I am committed to providing a solution."
Researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem filmed crawling octopuses to work out exactly how the animals used their almost limitlessly flexible arms when they move.
This revealed the surprising simplicity of their motion; they just choose which arm to use to push themselves along.
The findings are published in the journal Current Biology.
The study is the first detailed analysis of exactly how octopuses manages to move without a rigid skeleton.
How octopuses control and move their soft bodies is of interest to engineers who aim to design biologically inspired robots.
"People want to build soft robots for medical purposes and rescue operations," said Dr Guy Levy, one of the researchers involved in the project.
Such soft-bodied, octopus-inspired arms would not be limited by fixed joints, he explained. This could be useful to access narrow, difficult to reach spaces - perhaps getting help to people trapped at the scene of a collapsed building.
To find out the secrets of the octopus's remarkably efficient movement, Dr Levy and his colleague Prof Benny Hochner videoed the animals from underneath as they crawled, and analysed their motion frame by frame.
This detailed study showed that, by shortening and lengthening, each arm pushed the body in only one direction.
"So the octopus only has to decide which arm to use for the pushing - it doesn't need to decide which direction this arm will push," explained Dr Levy.
"[It has] found a very simple solution to a potentially complicated problem - it just has to pick which arm to recruit."
And because the creatures are able to push off any of their eight legs, they are able to crawl in any direction - no matter which way their body is facing. And, uniquely, there is no rhythm or pattern to their undulating limb movements
The scientists' next step is to delve into the internal circuitry of the octopus nervous system, to find out exactly how this co-ordinated crawling is controlled.
Dr Levy added: "Every time we try to understand something new about the octopus, there are new surprises."
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Apple acquired the technology when it purchased AuthenTec in 2012.
Samsung followed quickly with its own version of the tech in the Galaxy S5 and soon-to-be-released S6.
With telecoms company Qualcomm promising to release a 3D-fingerprint reader shortly, having one in your pocket could become increasingly standard in the next two years.
And RBS and NatWest have recently announced that customers will be able to log on with Touch ID to do their banking.
German hacker Starbug - whose real name is Jan Krissler - is not impressed.
He hacked Apple's Touch ID roughly a day after its launch, replicating the last fingerprint that had touched the glass iPhone surface with kit that included a scanner, a printer, and a bit of glue.
And he followed this up in December by reproducing the fingerprint of German Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen, using photographs from a press conference at a distance of about 10 feet.
Starbug believes that proper protection requires "two-factor authentication, based on two completely independent components from one of three methods: knowledge - password; possession - smart card; and biometrics."
So something you know, something you have, and something you are.
"The problem with that kind used here," he says, "is that you probably will find all the 'secret' information of one method on the device used for the second method."
"So, if you are able to make a dummy finger from fingerprints found on the phone, the two factors are only worth one," he concludes.
The vulnerabilities in fingerprint recognition are not exactly secret. And so the race for alternative biometrics is on.
It is spurred by a new abundance of cheaply produced sensors - mostly from east Asia - and software connecting them with cloud services. Low interest rates also provide a rich environment for tech investment.
Barclays is bringing out finger vein authentication for UK business customers this year.
It is a technology Hitachi developed in Japan that is now being used in cash machines there and in Poland.
Your vein pattern is established in the womb, and stable throughout your life, says Hitachi's Ravi Ahluwalia.
When near-infrared light is transmitted through your finger, part of it gets absorbed by the haemoglobin in your veins.
And so Hitachi's VeinID scanners can authenticate you by your resulting vein pattern.
Mr Ahluwalia says his company has explored finger vein authentication on trading floors in France and Northern Europe.
And British startup Sthaler is working with Hitachi and BT on a "pay-by-finger" solution it has trialled at several music festivals. It calls it FingoPay.
"You place your finger on [the] scanner, they'd confirm your name or last few digits of your credit card, and the payment is made in real time," says Mr Ahluwalia.
Or if you don't fancy giving your bank the finger, other biometric tech coming to market includes the Nymi.
Produced by Toronto-based Bionym, it is a wristband which verifies identity based on your heartbeat's electrical pulses, which are unique.
And then there is a Dresden-based company, Cognitec, which, after an early focus on fingerprint technology, is now working on facial recognition, says biometric consultant Julian Ashbourn. It has been awarded a contract by the German Border Police.
In New York, a company called EyeLock is producing a commercial iris scanner it calls Myris. The company claims only DNA offers more accurate authentication.
But some working within financial technology think several of these biometric scanners are just a bit intrusive for banks and credit card companies to want to introduce them to ordinary consumers.
For these companies "the expensive and inconvenient part is actually challenging the user," says Dr Neil Costigan, an Irish cryptographer and chief executive of Stockholm-based BehavioSec.
"When they're asking where's the calculator in the drawer, or can you confirm your first pet - the user gets annoyed. With every step of security causing users to do something, a lot of payments fall off," notes Dr Costigan.
"It's a lot about easing the journey - only challenging the bad guy," he says. He also says voice recognition is promising for banks, precisely because consumers do not find it as "Big-Brotherish".
If you wish to push this to the extreme, there are start-ups experimenting with biometric implants - implanting an RFID [radio-frequency identification] chip under your skin, or a decomposable tattoo which may hold up for one to two months.
But most of the time, it's not so much biometrics that are the weakest link as their implementation, says Candid Wueest, principal threat researcher at the internet security firm Symantec.
"We've seen penetration testers, instead of hacking a fingerprint to get in a server room, just remove two screws to remove the fingerprint reader from the wall," he says.
"And then you can just get some device hooked up to the wire, and send a signal saying you've found a valid finger."
Governments and private institutions will often relax security rather than vex their consumers.
"The more people you need to get through, the more you tend to lower security," says British biometrics expert Dr Carol Buttle.
An alternative is behavioural biometrics - looking at the gestures and speed with which users key in their password, in a way they won't necessarily see.
When Danske Bank tried introducing a timer into its e-banking platform, it found that the speed at which a user filled out an online form could differentiate a real user from an imposter 97.4% of the time.
Many have predicted biometrics will cause the death of the password. Dr Costigan at least thinks devices like HSBC's physical Secure Key are on their way out, and credit cards, too.
"You don't expect people to have this very powerful mobile phone device, and then go off and search for a calculator," he says.
He believes Scandinavian banks, benefiting from closer co-operation in the banking sector, have led the way in applications featuring behaviour-based identification.
Britain is slightly behind, he says, followed by the US, with its larger number of small banks.
At the end of the day, the best biometrics will be the least visible ones.
Some of these may turn out to involve wearable technology.
"If you've got a watch attached to you that's reading your biometrics, it will be useful," Dr Buttle observes.
Applying the spectrum of different possible biometrics to finance has led to a hotbed area for new start-ups.
"The incorporation of Touch ID into Apple Pay - that's probably been the big game changer in the last six months," she says.
The major credit card companies agree that biometrics are very much on their radar.
"Probably 20 years ago, no one would've thought the phone would have the impact on banking that it's having," says Jonathan Vaux, executive director at Visa Europe.
"If I know the minute you land at JFK, because your phone is paired with your account and geolocation tells me you've landed - that should drive for a better customer experience," he says.
And Dr Stephanie Schuckers, a professor at Clarkson University and chief executive of NexID Biometrics, says hacking of the sort achieved by Starbug is well within the grasp of organised crime, but not easily scalable.
Perhaps we shouldn't rely on the humble fingerprint just yet.
Georgia Doughty was taking part in an expedition with the Cleveland Army Cadet Force when the group got into difficulties in treacherous weather.
Some of the children needed treatment for hypothermia, but have all now been released from hospital.
"I don't ever want to experience it again," Georgia told BBC Newcastle.
"I thought I was going to have to make a phone call and tell my mum I was going to die - 'you're never going to see me again'."
The 16-year-old, from Hartlepool, said the group had to cross a waterfall, gripping a piece of rope and pulling themselves along, as part of the rescue operation.
"Every time I close my eyes I can see the fog and people wrapped in blankets and stuff," she said.
Children as young as 12 were among those rescued, and 17 had to be stretchered off the mountain during the emergency operation.
The alarm was raised at 11:13 BST and the operation involved the ambulance service, police and Mourne Mountain rescue team.
Newcastle, Bangor and Kilkeel Coastguard Rescue teams, and the UK Coastguard search and rescue helicopters based at Caernarfon and Prestwick, were also on scene.
The Irish Coastguard's 116 helicopter from Dublin also attended.
The Northern Ireland Ambulance Service (NIAS) declared a major incident just after 13:00 BST.
Georgia's mum, Barbara Moody, said waiting for news of the rescue was "horrible", but said she has "every faith" in the officers and everyone else involved with the cadets.
"They are good people, I would trust them with my life," she said.
Despite her experience, Georgia has said she wants to continue with the cadets and will try another expedition - just not yet.
Umpires Richard Kettleborough and Neil Mallender called the day off at 15:30 BST after persistent rain on Wednesday.
It means Surrey's hopes of forcing a victory are all but over, having taken control thanks to Kumar Sangakkara's brilliant unbeaten 180 on day two.
Yorkshire are 27-1 in reply to the visitors' 516-7, still 489 runs behind.
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Mel B has denied claims that she was a victim of domestic abuse.
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At present, a patient's body weight is the main factor in deciding the dose.
But a University of Cambridge study indicated people with high levels of brain connectivity or "chatter" needed a larger dose to put them under.
And this could help doctors work out exactly the amount of anaesthetic a patient requires to become unconscious.
The study, published in PLOS Computational Biology, looked at how the brain's electric signals changed in 20 healthy volunteers given a common anaesthetic called propofol.
They were then asked to press different buttons when they heard different sounds.
After reaching the maximum dose, some were still pressing buttons, while others were unconscious.
The "chatter" or connectivity between areas of the brain was much more pronounced in those who were still conscious.
And when the research team looked at brain activity when the participants were awake, using readings from an electroencephalogram (EEG), they found similar differences.
Lead study author Dr Srivas Chennu, from the University of Cambridge department of clinical neurosciences, said: "The greater the network activity at the start, the more anaesthetic they are likely to need to put them under."
He said brain "chatter" was not a measure of brain power.
"It varies from day to day as well as from person to person," he said.
"It can be related to the amount of coffee you've drunk or how much sleep you've had."
The research was still in its early stages, he added.
Dr Richard Marks, vice-president of the Royal College of Anaesthetists, said: "It's actually very difficult to tell when a patient is asleep or not.
"We need something that is reliable, specific and easy-to-use to help us."
Administering too much anaesthetic could cause side-effects, including heart attacks and strokes, he added.
The 26-year-old has been the subject of three bids from Italian club Roma since expressing his desire to leave the 2015-16 Premier League champions.
The FAF said he had been given permission to miss training to agree a deal before the transfer deadline.
Barcelona, Manchester United and Chelsea are also said to be interested.
But Arsenal are not in contention to sign the winger.
Roma's third bid was reported to be £32m and the club have said they are now looking at other options.
A statement from the FAF said Mahrez "was authorised by the national coach Lucas Alcaraz and the Algerian Football Federation to make an express trip to Europe to formalise on Thursday his transfer to his new club. The national team will fly without him on Thursday morning to Lusaka to face Zambia on Saturday."
Mahrez was named the PFA Player of the Year after playing a key part in Leicester's title-winning season.
He has featured in all three of the Foxes' Premier League fixtures so far this term.
The resolution was passed by 116 votes to 20, with more than 50 abstentions.
The UN Security Council is expected to discuss the resolution on Monday, but it is likely to face stiff opposition from China and Russia.
North Korea said the resolution was "a product of political plot and confrontation".
A UN report released in February revealed ordinary North Koreans faced "unspeakable atrocities".
The report detailed wide-ranging abuses in North Korea after a panel heard evidence of torture, political repression and other abuses.
It added that those accused of political crimes were "disappeared" to prison camps, where they were subject to "deliberate starvation, forced labour, executions, torture, rape and the denial of reproductive rights enforced through punishment, forced abortion and infanticide".
Most of the evidence came from North Korean defectors who had fled the country.
North Korea refused to co-operate with the report and condemned its findings.
The report led to a vote in the UN's human rights committee last month, which voted in favour of referring North Korea to the International Criminal Court (ICC).
China, North Korea's main international ally, is expected to veto any Security Council resolution when the matter is discussed next week.
On Thursday, the General Assembly also passed resolutions condemning the human rights records of Syria and Iran, but did not go as far as recommending a referral to the ICC.
General Assembly resolutions are non-binding but are seen as indicators of world opinion.
Both Syria and Iran condemned the respective resolutions against them.
Iran said the vote condemning its human rights record was "political, prejudicial and unbalanced".
The Syria resolution condemned both the government's violence against civilians and abuses perpetrated by the Islamic State group.
They were inducted alongside the Electric Light Orchestra (ELO), Journey and Yes during a concert in New York.
However, it was not just a celebration: a number of artists chose to use the occasion to make impassioned pleas and remember lost friends.
Tupac's award was collected by his friend, fellow rapper Snoop Dogg.
Folk singer Baez - as known for her activism as her singing - made a rallying call for resistance in the face of "the new political cultural reality".
The 76-year-old, who admitted most younger people had never heard her work, made a return to the spotlight this week when her song Nasty Man went viral.
Baez - imitating Donald Trump's particular way of speaking - told the audience gathered at Brooklyn's Barclays Center: "Let us together repeal and replace brutality and make compassion a priority. Let us build a great bridge, a beautiful bridge, to welcome the tired and the poor."
Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder tackled climate change, saying: "We cannot be the generation that history will look back upon and wonder, why didn't they do everything humanly possible to solve this biggest crisis of our time?"
Snoop Dogg was on hand to collect Tupac's trophy, more than two decades after he was shot dead in Las Vegas.
Calling Tupac "the greatest rapper of all time", he recalled how they were just "two black boys struggling to become men", adding: "To be human is to be many things at once: strong and vulnerable, hard-headed and intellectual, courageous and afraid, loving and vengeful, revolutionary and, oh yeah... gangsta!"
Tributes were also paid to 1986 Hall of Fame inductee Chuck Berry. who died last month aged 90, with ELO playing one of his best known hits - Roll Over Beethoven.
Meanwhile, Nile Rodgers - lead guitarist of disco band Chic - was recognised for his contribution to production.
We know that. So, of course, does President Xi Jinping.
It is one of the major issues - shadows even - hanging over his visit to the United States.
After an average annual growth rate of 10% for three decades, that pace has cooled substantially. Last year it was 7.4%.
There are many economists who are profoundly sceptical about China's official data, who think the true figure is a good deal lower.
For next year the IMF forecasts 6.8%. And the slowdown was bound to happen.
The IMF described the transition under way in China as "moving to a 'new normal', characterized by slower yet safer and more sustainable growth".
A new normal is needed because the forces behind China's previous dynamism are weakening. The ageing population means there's a limit to the contribution that a growing labour force can make to the economy.
All that previous strong growth means the technological gap compared with the rest of the world has narrowed. That in turn limits the scope for rapid gains from catching up.
Investment is another source of growth, which adds to the productive capacity of the economy. But China's investment level is already extremely high. Indeed IMF research suggested even in 2012 that it was excessive.
Why excessive? Because it diverts resources from other sectors of the economy including household spending, and if a country over invests an increasing number of projects are likely to be economically inefficient.
The question that has been worrying financial markets intermittently for the past few weeks has been - will the transition be a smooth one, or will China suffer what's called a hard landing, that's to say an abrupt slowdown or even a recession?
The answer really does matter for the rest of us.
China is by one measure the biggest economy on the planet. It accounts for 17% of global economic activity.
The US economy is almost as big but is not growing so rapidly. Things are likely to stay that way for years or even decades after China has settled to a more sustainable rate of growth.
That means that China's impact on global growth is larger, and so is the potential contribution it can make to increased demand for goods produced by other countries.
So hard or soft landing really is a big deal. Which can we expect?
Views among economists vary - when don't they? There is one very influential voice who has set out a pretty gloomy judgement, Willem Buiter, chief economist at the giant financial firm Citigroup, formerly of the Bank of England and the London School of Economics.
He says: "We believe that there is a high and rising likelihood of a Chinese, emerging market and global recession scenario playing out."
Now there's a debate to be had about what the word "recession" means, especially when applied to emerging economies and still more so for the global economy.
Mr Buiter's definition is based on an economy's potential to grow. He concludes that growth of less than 2% for at least a year is a global recession. The threshold for China is 2.5%.
He is one of the sceptics about China's data, so his view is that the Chinese economy is already closer to that than the official figures suggest.
For the world economy he reckons there's a 40% chance of a moderate recession, with a 15% chance of a more severe downturn and a financial crisis.
If it does happen, he says, it's most likely the world be dragged into a recession by slow growth in a number of key emerging economies, especially China: "We consider China to be at high and rapidly rising risk of a cyclical hard landing."
Why? Many of the classical warning signs are present, he says - excess capacity in an increasing number of industries, too much borrowing and debt, and episodes of "irrational exuberance" in asset markets, recently property and the stock market.
He says: "This is the classical recipe for a recession in capitalist market economies."
If it does happen then it would surely affect many others. And there are other emerging economies already in recession including two large ones in the shape of Brazil and Russia.
China is among the most important export destinations for many countries - number one for South Korea (more than a quarter of exports), Saudi Arabia and Iran.
For the largest economies, China comes in as the second biggest export market for Japan, fourth for the US, and for Germany it's second among markets outside the European Union.
Even countries with little direct trade with China could easily feel the effects of a hard landing, if they are suppliers to countries that do sell directly to China, or if they export commodities whose price in international markets is affected by weakened Chinese demand.
Take two key industrial commodities, crude oil and copper.
The price of crude oil has fallen by more than half since June last year. There are supply factors behind that - shale oil in the US and the unwillingness of Saudi Arabia and others to curtail production as they might have done in the past.
But weaker-than-expected growth in demand from China is another element in the price fall.
Copper is a key raw material for the construction industry. It's used extensively in electrical installations, and China's building boom has been hungry for copper.
Its price is also down by half, in this case from 2011. China's slowdown is the key factor.
So that's the case for being gloomy.
But there are some who are more upbeat about the outlook. In a recent note to clients, the London consultancy Capital Economics wrote: "In contrast to the widespread doom and gloom about China's immediate economic outlook, we think growth has already stabilised after a slowdown at the start of the year, and that there are good reasons to expect stronger growth in the months ahead."
Ahead of his visit to the US, President Xi told the Wall Street Journal: "The Chinese economy is still operating within the proper range."
His host, President Barack Obama, must be hoping he is right and that it stays that way. He's not the only one.
He joined in July from his role as Northern Ireland assistant and started with just seven contracted players.
"I think I'm still trying to get to know half of the players' names," he told BBC Radio Manchester.
"I don't know if there are many managers who have signed 18 players in four weeks but that's what we've done."
He added: "I'm not expecting miracles overnight. It wasn't a disaster losing at Millwall and we haven't made it by winning against Wigan."
Darren Chester said two of the fragments were found in Mauritius, with another in Mozambique.
They are expected to be brought to Australia to be examined by experts.
"The Malaysian government is yet to take custody of the items, however, as with previous items, officials are arranging collection," he said.
The plane, carrying 239 passengers and crew, was flying from Malaysia's capital Kuala Lumpur to Beijing in China when it disappeared in March 2014.
Five other fragments were previously found and confirmed as being definitely or probably from the Boeing 777, which is presumed to have crashed in the southern Indian Ocean.
All were found thousands of miles from the search zone, though within the area models of ocean currents have indicated debris could wash up.
1. A section of wing called a flaperon, found on Reunion Island in July 2015 - confirmed as debris in September 2015
2. Horizontal stabilizer from tail section, found in Mozambique in December 2015
3. Stabilizer panel with "No Step" stencil, found in Mozambique in February 2016
4. Engine cowling bearing Rolls-Royce logo, found in March 2016 in Mossel Bay, South Africa
5. Fragment of interior door panel found in Rodrigues Island, Mauritius in March 2016
Australia has been leading the search for the missing aircraft, using underwater drones and sonar equipment deployed from specialist ships.
The search, also involving Malaysia and China, has seen more than 105,000 sq km (65,000 sq miles) of the 120,000 sq km search zone scoured so far.
All the debris is being examined in Australia by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) and other experts.
But countries have agreed that in the absence of "credible new information" the search is expected to end by July or August this year.
"We've covered a fairly significant proportion of our total search area without finding the aircraft so we have to start considering the alternatives," Martin Dolan, chief commissioner of the ATSB, has said.
"But we've still got 15,000 sq km to go, which is a big chunk. So it's not as though we've given up."
There have been 498 gorse fires across the region since the start of May.
The Cuilcagh Mountain trail in County Fermanagh has been closed to the public due to one of the fires.
Those who started fires deliberately put firefighters, the public and property at risk, said the Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service.
The fire service was moving its engines around the country to keep the public safe and was appealing for their help, said NIFRS Group Commander Brian Stanfield.
He described the fire phenomenon as "complete madness, it's just reckless anti-social behaviour".
"We're appealing to the public. If you do know people who are fire setting, let the PSNI know so we can put them through the courts because this is absolutely ridiculous," he said.
Fire crews have been working since Sunday to bring a gorse fire near Fivemiletown, County Tyrone, under control.
The fire service said it covers an extensive area at Mullaghfad forest on the Tyrone and Fermanagh border.
"We had eight fire appliances at the incident in Fivemiletown and we're also working with the forestry both north and south of the border and the Southern fire service as well to bring that fire under control," he said.
"That fire started at 11:00 BST on Sunday and we still have two appliances up on that mountain in very difficult terrain, trying to bring that under control.
Dozens of personnel are involved.
Specialist equipment, including tanker lorries bringing water to the site, have been deployed.
It's the second day the fire service has been on site.
Much of the effort involves fire crews using beaters to put out the flames.
It's understood the fire may have been started in a number of different locations.
Mullaghfad is part of a large forest area which includes Crocknagrally, Jenkin and Fardross forests.
The forest is located within a Special Protection Area for hen harriers and is partly made up by the Slieve Beagh Area of special scientific interest.
"We also had six fire appliances at another incident in Cookstown at the same time."
Mr Stanfield said gorse fires were "resource intensive" and said crews were prepared to deal with any further incidents this week.
"There's a high risk, the countryside is like a tinder box and our resources will be stretched if people continue at this rate to light fires," he warned.
He said people were unaware of the personal risks when they committed such acts.
"When the ground is that dry and there's a change in wind direction, the fire will move faster than the person can run and it's only a matter of time until someone is seriously injured or killed at one of these fires," he added.
The Scotch Whisky Association (SWA) took action against the proposal, which it said would breach European law, after it was passed by MSPs.
A Court of Session ruling dismissed the action and said plans to introduce 50p per unit minimum pricing were legal.
The SWA said it was surprised and disappointed by the ruling and would appeal the decision.
Lord Doherty said the minimum alcohol pricing policy was within the powers of Scottish ministers and not incompatible with EU law.
A summary of his decision said: "The court ruled that the Acts of Union were not an impediment to the minimum pricing measures.
By James CookScotland Correspondent, BBC News
This is a significant victory for the Scottish government in its attempt to introduce a minimum price for alcohol but it is far from the end of the road for opponents of the policy.
The Scotch Whisky Association and its supporters, who represent European drinks producers, have already indicated that they will appeal Lord Doherty's judgment to the Inner House of the Court of Session in Edinburgh.
Ministers have made it clear that they will not introduce the policy in the meantime; they intend to wait until all Scottish court proceedings are over.
But if the appeal is dismissed a further appeal could be lodged with the Supreme Court in London, the highest domestic court of appeal in Scottish civil cases.
And even if the Supreme Court rejected the challenge, one more avenue would remain open, a hearing at the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg.
Policies which breach European Union regulations on free trade, as this one appears to do, can be allowed if they make a significant impact on crime, ill health and other social ills.
But as well as proving that the policy would tackle such ills, Scottish government lawyers would also need to prove that no other less restrictive approach, such as increased alcohol taxation, could be implemented instead.
Other member states have tried - and failed - to make this argument in the European Court before, for example to restrict the sale of cigarettes, and the European Commission's own lawyers have already argued that Scotland's policy would fail these tests.
Scottish ministers still have a fight on their hands.
"The court also decided that the measures were not incompatible with EU law."
Under the Scottish government's plans, the Âcheapest bottle of wine would be £4.69 and a four-pack of lager would cost at least £3.52.
The SWA had warned the measure would set a precedent where health concerns were allowed to interfere with the free trade of goods and services.
In his ruling, Lord Docherty also said there was no need to refer any issues around alcohol pricing and EU law to another court.
He said: "The court was satisfied that it was unnecessary and inappropriate to refer any question of EU law to the Court of Justice for a preliminary ruling."
Scottish Health Secretary Alex Neil said: "We welcome today's favourable opinion from the Court of Session on minimum unit pricing of alcohol.
"We have always believed minimum unit pricing is the right thing to do to tackle Scotland's problematic relationship with alcohol."
Gavin Hewitt of the Scotch Whisky Association said: "Clearly it is in our interest to have this appealed.
"We don't believe that the issues have been totally addressed and we are very anxious that the court re-examines and reviews where it stands."
Trade body Spirits Europe, which was part of the petition against minimum pricing along with the SWA, has also said it will appeal the judgement.
Director Paul Skehan added: "We are confident that, on appeal, the measure will be proven to be illegal and counter to the rules underpinning the single European market.
"We are surprised that the court decided it was unnecessary to refer any question of EU law to the Court of Justice for a preliminary ruling, considering the existing legal background."
Scottish brewer, Tennents, which supports the Scottish government's minimum pricing policy, said the ruling was "an important step towards helping tackle Scotland's alcohol misuse issues".
Managing director, John Gilligan, said: "We believe that responsible adults have the right to enjoy drinking sensibly and that minimum pricing may contribute to an improvement in society."
Alcohol Focus Scotland called on the Scottish Whisky Association not to pursue any further legal action.
Chief executive Dr Evelyn Gillan said: "The alcohol industry has consistently opposed minimum unit pricing as they oppose any measures that are likely to be effective.
"Thankfully, today the public interest has prevailed over the profits of the big alcohol corporations."
BMA Scotland also welcomed the ruling.
Chairman Dr Brian Keighley said: "Any credible alcohol strategy must have at its heart measures to tackle price and availability. Scotland is awash with cheap alcohol and Scots are paying the price with their health."
A spokesman for the UK government's top Scottish law officer, Lord Wallace, said: "The Advocate General made submissions in this case on behalf of the UK government supporting the compatibility of minimum unit pricing with EU law.
"He therefore welcomes the court's decision to refuse the Scotch Whisky Association's challenge, but recognises that this decision may be subject to an appeal."
The UK government said it was still considering whether to introduce minimum alcohol pricing in England and Wales.
The Home Office is evaluating a large number of responses to a consultation exercise about the policy before announcing how it will proceed.
MSPs at the Scottish Parliament passed The Alcohol (Minimum Pricing) (Scotland) Act 2012 in May 2012, setting the 50p minimum unit price as part of an effort to tackle alcohol misuse.
The European Commission has previously voiced opposition to Scotland's plans for minimum pricing, describing them as a disproportionate response to the country's drink problems.
The commission said it believed the measures could restrict imports of foreign alcohol.
Officials are writing to those who had valve surgery at Cardiff's University Hospital of Wales since 2013.
Experts said the risk of contracting the Mycobacterium chimaera infection was "low risk".
The alert has been issued across the UK, with concerned patients urged to contact Public Health Wales.
The health body said it was sending out letters to 2,770 patients potentially affected.
Welsh patients will only receive letters if they received surgery at UHW in Cardiff, or in a cardiac centre in England.
Patients who received surgery at Morriston Hospital in Swansea are being told that they are not at risk, as the equipment in question was not used there.
Health experts said across the UK, 28 cases of infection linked to blood heaters used in the surgery had been discovered.
'Reassure patients'
But there have been no new cases identified since 2015, when official guidance on the problem was first raised.
Dr Eleri Davies, at Public Health Wales, said: "The risk of patients having acquired the infection is low and is far lower than the risk of delaying life-saving cardiac surgery and so we advise those who are due to have open heart surgery to still go ahead."
Dr Graham Shortland, medical director at UHW, added: "I would like to reassure all patients who have received, or are scheduled to receive, cardiac treatment that they are in safe hands and that we operate a safe service.
"While we acknowledge the low risk presented by the use of the heater-cooler device we use, we have fully implemented the strengthened guidelines on its use and the risk is negligible in comparison to not having heart surgery."
A notice from the university gave students living on campus until 1000 local time (0900 GMT) to leave.
It blamed the decision on the "agitation" over poor water and power supply and the "fuel crisis" meaning that people cannot get to class.
Nigeria's current fuel shortage has led to long queues at filling stations.
The country's junior oil minister Emmanuel Kachikwu warned this week that if the problem is not solved then mayhem could follow.
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The University of Lagos authorities said it took the move "to forestall a further breakdown of law and order on campus".
But the BBC's Umar Shehu Elleman reports from Lagos that hundreds of angry students refused to leave the campus, and instead called for the vice-chancellor to resign.
The university has not said when the campus would reopen.
Rangers are vying with Barton's present club, Burnley, to sign the 33-year-old.
And they have also been linked with a move for 31-year-old Kranjcar, who is presently with New York Cosmos.
"They have a huge amount of experience and for us as a club to be looking at players like that is only a positive," said Waghorn.
"The quality of these two players is different class. They have shown over the years what they can do in the Premiership down south."
Barton, who won one England cap, and Croatia international Kranjcar played together in midfield at Queens Park Rangers.
"Joey Barton is known as a tough-tackling midfielder, but if you look at his performances for Burnley this year, he can play a bit as well," said former Sunderland, Leicester City and Wigan Athletic striker Waghorn.
"He would be great experience-wise for the middle of the park.
"It would be great competition for guys like Andy Halliday, Jason Holt, Dean Shiels and Nicky Law, who have all done great this year."
Rangers have already won the Scottish Championship title and promotion, with the signature of 19-year-old Liverpool midfielder Jordan Rossiter being secured for next season.
Now they are preparing for Saturday's Scottish Cup final against Hibernian, with a place in the Europa League qualifiers as a prize for the winners.
"If we get into the Europe League, competition will be key," said Waghorn. "You need to have a squad that is competitive from number one to 20.
"We've been linked with Barton and Kranjcar, but the signing of the young boy Jordan Rossiter is another key one.
"I've spoken to a few people down at Liverpool and they speak highly of him.
"So our intentions are good. The higher the calibre of player we have, the more it will bring out the best in the guys here, so the more the merrier."
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.
However he insists they "aren't ideal" for players or supporters.
"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."
Celtic 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.
"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.
"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?
"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.
"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."
Rodgers, 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.
However, he has yet to make a decision about extending 33-year-old Kris Commons' loan spell at Hibernian.
"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.
"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.
"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.
"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.
"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."
Scotland Sevens ran out 24-21 winners over the Kiwis in the quarter-finals before beating the USA 21-14 in the semis and the hosts 12-7 in the final.
"When you win something like that, it never feels quite as euphoric as you expected it to," said Robertson, 32.
"Nothing could supersede the euphoria we felt from the New Zealand game."
Robertson described the win over England at Twickenham later in the day as "surreal" and the "accumulation of three seasons" of work, as Scotland retained the only World Sevens Series they have ever won.
He told BBC Scotland: "Because we had been waiting so long to beat the Kiwis, to be the first Scottish side to ever do that was a huge thing for us to tick off the list.
"The feeling after that, I can't describe. That was a huge achievement.
"Credit to the Kiwis, they've managed to beat us on every occasion up until then and we've had some really tight games and they've managed to squeeze them all out.
"Once we had beaten them, we enjoyed it for five to 10 minutes in the changing room, but very quickly we knew what we wanted to do and we knew that we could do it."
While Robertson's team-mate Scott Wight is retiring to become Scotland Women's Sevens coach, he himself has decided to end his playing career on a high, having noticed that his speed and strength levels were not quite what they were in previous seasons.
"My body has started to creak a little bit," he admitted, adding that he was 10 years older than some of his team-mates.
However, although coach Calum MacRae is also leaving the set-up, Robertson sees a bright future for the national team, citing 22-year-old George Horne and players such as Grayson Hart and Jack Cuthbert as offering "a really good blend of abilities and composure".
And he is pleased to see Scottish Rugby back the sevens team.
He said: "For the Union (Scottish Rugby), it's got huge value because how else can you expose players to high-pressure situations in front of huge crowds, and also at elite level because we've only got two pro teams?
"They have really bought into it because they see its worth.
"Beforehand there wasn't that much of a purpose to the Scotland Sevens whereas now, in the middle part of the season, there's a real focus on development.
"At the start and end of the season, when you've got more 15s players available, you can really focus on the performance aspects of it and try to get some silverware."
Marco Botti's 4-6 chance, ridden by Adam Kirby, had looked impressive on the all-weather over the winter.
The pair sat poised behind the leaders and quickened coming into the home straight.
They got past Metropol (16-1), who was then overhauled for second by Fire Fighting (7-1).
Twenty people were shut out of Longstone Cemetery in St Ives before being let in at lunchtime on Christmas Day, with some stuck outside for hours.
Cormac, which maintains the cemetery for the town council, said its staff normally open the gates when they clean the toilets each morning.
The firm said unlocking the gates was "missed" because the toilets were shut.
Martina Anscombe attended the cemetery with a bouquet for her parents' grave.
"There were quite a few cars there already, a few distraught people that couldn't get in... forty five minutes later there were a lot more distressed people there, especially elderly people trying to get in because their wives or husbands had passed away," she said.
"About ten minutes after I left I heard that someone had actually come with bolt cutters as they were so upset."
A spokesman for Cormac said: "The unlocking of the cemetery is a free service we provide as we clean the public toilets. As the toilets were closed on Christmas Day then it was unfortunately missed.
"We are really sorry for any distress that this caused and we will be discussing this with St Ives Town Council to ensure that this doesn't happen again."
The cemetery belongs to Cornwall Council and is maintained by St Ives Town Council which has sub-contracted the upkeep and security to Cormac for two years.
Gavin Thorman, 37, of Caernarfon, Gwynedd, is serving 12 years in jail as ringleader of a drugs' gang.
He thought no one would understand his boasts in Welsh on a prison phone at Altcourse in Liverpool but the calls were being recorded and translated, Mold Crown Court was told.
The seizure included a VW car, a van and a speedboat.
In prison Thorman had bragged about his new contacts, discussed drugs and how he was going to come out "making millions".
He had told his girlfriend: "I'm only doing a small sentence so they won't be listening to my calls."
Operation Yonside, which led to Thorman's conviction last year, was one of North Wales Police's biggest probes and led to the seizure of almost £200,000 worth of cocaine and cannabis.
That is the conclusion of astronomers who surveyed thousands of galaxies, living and dead, to assess whether the transition is rapid or slow.
In the dead galaxies they detected high levels of metals, which build up during star formation and point to a slow strangulation process.
The work appears in the journal Nature.
"Metals are a powerful tracer of the history of star formation: the more stars that are formed by a galaxy, the more metal content you'll see," said Dr Yingjie Peng from the University of Cambridge, the paper's lead author.
"So looking at levels of metals in dead galaxies should be able to tell us how they died."
If a galaxy's death was quick and violent, with the cool gas that feeds star formation stripped away by internal or external forces, it would immediately stop forming stars and its metal content would remain the same.
On the other hand, if the galaxy is cut off from its supply of gas but it continues to use up what remains, metal would continue to build up until the galaxy eventually "suffocates".
In a commentary for Nature, fellow astronomer Andrea Cattaneo from the Observatoire de Paris compared this tell-tale evidence to the high levels of carbon dioxide seen in a strangled human body.
"During [strangulation], the victim uses up oxygen in the lungs but keeps producing carbon dioxide, which remains trapped in the body," wrote Dr Cattaneo.
"Instead of building up CO2, the strangled galaxies accumulate metals - elements heavier than helium - produced by massive stars."
The team led by Dr Peng spotted that accumulation of metal when they compared the spectrum of light emitted by 23,000 red, passive galaxies and 4,000 blue, star-forming ones.
They used data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey - a vast collection of detailed, multi-coloured images spanning a third of the sky, which has been used to compile a precise 3D map of the universe.
On average, the living, star-forming galaxies were four billion years younger than the dead ones. This matches the amount of time that the astronomers calculate would be needed for the galaxies to burn up their remaining gas supply during the strangulation.
It is also considerably longer than the four minutes it takes to strangle a human - but the analogy stands.
"This is the first conclusive evidence that galaxies are being strangled to death," Dr Peng said. "What's next though, is figuring out what's causing it. In essence, we know the cause of death, but we don't yet know who the murderer is, although there are a few suspects."
One of the likely culprits is overcrowding; if a galaxy is in a busy group or cluster, its collection of gas from from the surrounding environment might face disruption, commencing the strangulation process.
Within galactic clusters, the astronomers saw even more pronounced differences in metal content, which supports this idea.
For very big galaxies, which are relatively rare, the differences dwindle, suggesting that violent galactic deaths are more common at those extremes.
Ciarán Maxwell, from Larne, County Antrim, was detained in Somerset on Wednesday by the Metropolitan Police Service's Counter Terrorism Command.
The 30 year old is suspected of preparing for acts of terrorism.
A warrant for further detention was granted to the Met by Westminster Magistrates' Court on Friday.
It means that he can now be held in custody until 12:20 BST on Wednesday 31 August.
Mr Maxwell was taken to a West Country police station immediately after his arrest.
However, a Met spokesman said the royal marine was transferred to a London police station on Thursday.
His arrest is understood to be connected to the discovery of two arms dumps near Larne earlier this year.
The weapons discovered are thought to be linked to dissident republican paramilitaries.
Searches in Devon connected to the arrest are still ongoing.
He tweeted that they were currently at the Turkish embassy in Baghdad, were "in good health" and would be returning home "in the shortest possible time".
The workers were seized by gunmen on 2 September while they slept in caravans at the site of a stadium in Sadr City.
Iraq's military said they were found in Babylon province, south of Baghdad.
The workers appeared in a video days after their abduction, kneeling in front of five masked gunmen and a banner bearing a slogan used by Shia militias in Iraq. The gunmen threatened to attack Turkish interests if their demands were not met.
On Sunday, a video was published saying the workers would be released because the Turkish government had enabled the safe passage of residents in two Shia villages in Syria besieged by Sunni-dominated rebel forces.
"Our abducted 16 workers have just been received by our Baghdad embassy. I have spoken to some of them by telephone. Thankfully, they are in good health and are preparing to return [home] in the shortest possible time," Mr Davutoglu wrote in a series of tweets on Wednesday.
"I thank from my heart our Iraqi friends who showed intensive efforts for our workers."
The kidnappers initially took 18 workers hostage, but released two of them near the southern oil city of Basra on 15 September.
Ugur Dogan, the chief executive of Nurol Holding, the Turkish company building the stadium in Sadr City, said the 16 others were expected to return to Turkey on Wednesday or Thursday after a debriefing.
So far six bodies have been recovered, and the authorities believe there may be nine more bodies inside the mine.
Officials said some of the miners were trapped at a depth of about 17m (55 feet).
The mine collapsed because of flooding, apparently after a power cut shut off pumps to keep out water from a nearby river.
The accident happened in Caldas province in north-western Colombia.
Leonardo Mejia, the mine owner, told reporters that several miners had managed to escape when they realised something was wrong.
The National Mining Agency (ANM) said local firefighters reported that gases in the deep, vertical tunnels had contributed to the cave-in.
Colombia is a major gold producer but more than half its mines are unregulated.
Michael Keogh, 37, was shot dead in an underground cark park on his way to work on Wednesday.
Detectives believe he is the latest victim of an ongoing feud between the Hutch and Kinahan gangs.
The man's body was discovered in a vehicle in a car park in Dorset Street with multiple gunshot wounds.
His body was found at 9:55 local time, two hours after a car was found on fire at nearby Clonliffe Avenue. Garda (Irish police) say a firearm was recovered in the vehicle.
Irish national broadcaster RTE is reporting that Garda believe Mr Keogh's killers may have followed his movements on social media.
They are appealing for anyone in the area between 07:00 and 10:00 to come forward with any information they may have.
Increased patrols and additional armed checkpoints have been implemented amid fears of further retaliatory attacks.
The dispute between the rivals gangs is now believed to have led to the murders of at least 11 men - although two were cases of mistaken identity.
Many of the murders have taken place within Dublin's north inner city.
The first victim of the feud was Gary Hutch, who was shot dead in Spain in 2015.
In February 2016, gunmen dressed in police SWAT team uniforms opened fire inside a Dublin hotel while a boxing weigh-in was taking place, killing 33-year-old David Byrne, believed to be a member of the Kinahan gang.
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In a speech in Sunderland, the prime minister will say he wants to make work pay and end the "merry-go-round" in which people have their income taxed and their pay "topped up" with benefits.
"That again, I take as a reference to tax credits," he says.
"When you look at the areas open to claw back money, you are basically talking about housing benefit, or possibly disability benefit or tax credits and tax credits account for something like £30bn of the welfare bill."
Leaseholds on new-build houses would be outlawed, while ground rents could be dramatically reduced, under government plans subject to public consultation.
Ground rents can double every decade, crippling home owners and in some cases making a property impossible to sell.
"Enough is enough. These practices are unjust, unnecessary and need to stop," said Communities Secretary Sajid Javid.
The proposals, which are subject to an eight-week consultation, apply only to England.
Mr Javid said that there were 1.2 million cases of houses on leasehold, and the situation of escalating costs was one example of a "broken housing market".
He said the proposals would affect future sales, but those already facing difficulties would generally need to seek redress from the housebuilder or, if the situation was not made clear at the point of sale, their solicitor.
"Builders and developers should be seeing what they can do to right some of the wrongs of the past," he told the BBC's Today programme.
Builder sorry in leasehold 'scandal'
The new property trap affecting thousands
Four million leaseholders 'face rip-off'
The leasehold system has existed for a long time in England and Wales, especially in blocks of flats.
Leaseholders own their homes for a fixed period of time, on a "lease" to a freeholder, but many have long leases, for example for many decades, and experience no problems.
Traditionally houses have nearly always been sold as freehold properties, meaning the buyer owns the building and land it is built on outright.
But the trend for new-build houses being sold as leasehold has accelerated in recent years.
Clair Scott says she bought her house as a leasehold and now cannot sell it because the ground rent is set to increase dramatically.
One potential buyer dropped out after their solicitor advised them not to go through with the sale because of the high ground rent.
"It doubles every 10 years starting in 2020, so it gets to £10,000 a year by 2060," Ms Scott said.
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The government said the trend of new leasehold houses was a particular problem in the north-west of England.
Leaseholders typically pay ground rent to the freeholder, but can be caught out by clauses allowing for dramatic increases in these fees, which come on top of management charges for the upkeep of communal areas.
The Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) said the terms of some leases "were becoming increasingly onerous".
It cited examples of:
MPs have described the situation as a "national scandal" and the "PPI of the housebuilding industry".
The DCLG said its proposals aimed to make future leases fairer by reducing ground rents so they "relate to real costs incurred".
About 21% of private housing in England is owned by leaseholders, with 30% of those properties houses rather than flats, according to figures from the Department for Communities and Local Government.
Mark Loveday, a barrister at Tanfield Chambers and a member of the Association of Leasehold Enfranchisement Practitioners (ALEP) says there is a considerable amount of legislation to protect people against unfair service charges.
"If a leaseholder is paying excessive service charges, they may issue court proceedings or complain to the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS). Alternatively, leaseholders can contact members of ALEP who will offer expert advice on the issue. There is also the government-funded Leasehold Advisory Service (LEASE) which provides free advice to flat owners," he adds.
"However, the majority of leaseholders will take their disputes to tribunals. These are low-cost, low-fee specialist bodies which deal with the vast majority of service charge disputes.
"Tribunals have the jurisdiction to do various things such as determine service charges and enforce restrictions or allow a majority of leaseholders to take over the management of a building. Indeed, figures between 2004 and 2013 show that service charge and management claims in tribunals more than doubled in that period."
The Conveyancing Association trade body said it was researching ways to find a better method of tenure for properties with shared amenities.
The House Builders Federation said: "The industry is committed to working with all parties to ensure that the terms on which leasehold homes are sold are fair and work for the homeowner.
"Buying and selling apartments on a leasehold basis is a long accepted form of ownership and provides security for people with communal facilities. There are instances where houses need to be sold on a leasehold basis, for instance where land has been acquired from local authorities, other public bodies or the Crown on a leasehold basis."
Source: The Money Advice Service
The 18-year-old midfielder struck a spectacular, powerful effort from the edge of the box into the top corner.
Earlier, Juve thought they had taken the lead when Miralem Pjanic's long-range free-kick went into the net.
After a lengthy delay, as the officials discussed whether a Juventus player was offside, it was disallowed.
Juventus piled on the pressure in the second half and almost equalised with the last kick of the game.
German midfielder Sami Khedira unleashed a long-range effort which looked destined for the top corner only for 17-year-old Milan goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma to produce a spectacular one-hand diving save.
Juventus have won the past five Serie A titles and are favourites to lift the Scudetto again this season, although AC Milan should not be underestimated.
Vincenzo Montella's side may lack the big name stars of the past but have young hungry players like Donnarumma, Suso and Locatelli.
If they had lost this game Milan would have been five points behind Juve. Instead they are two points behind and brimming with a confidence.
Sustaining a title challenge would be a big task for the Rossoneri but against Juve, backed by a vociferous San Siro crowd, they showed the kind of determination to suggest their resurgence is not a flash in the pan.
Match ends, Milan 1, Juventus 0.
Second Half ends, Milan 1, Juventus 0.
Attempt saved. Sami Khedira (Juventus) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner. Assisted by Gonzalo Higuaín.
Attempt missed. Stefano Sturaro (Juventus) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Juan Cuadrado with a cross.
Leonardo Bonucci (Juventus) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Gianluca Lapadula (Milan).
Attempt missed. Leonardo Bonucci (Juventus) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Substitution, Milan. Gianluca Lapadula replaces Carlos Bacca.
Attempt missed. Stefano Sturaro (Juventus) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Miralem Pjanic with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Juventus. Conceded by Mattia De Sciglio.
Attempt missed. Leonardo Bonucci (Juventus) header from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Miralem Pjanic with a cross following a set piece situation.
Hand ball by Andrea Poli (Milan).
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Substitution, Juventus. Stefano Sturaro replaces Hernanes.
Delay in match Gianluigi Donnarumma (Milan) because of an injury.
Andrea Poli (Milan) is shown the yellow card.
Hernanes (Juventus) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Andrea Poli (Milan).
Foul by Sami Khedira (Juventus).
Andrea Poli (Milan) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Hernanes (Juventus).
Juraj Kucka (Milan) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Milan. Gustavo Gómez replaces Manuel Locatelli.
Manuel Locatelli (Milan) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Juan Cuadrado (Juventus) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Manuel Locatelli (Milan).
Corner, Milan. Conceded by Andrea Barzagli.
Attempt blocked. Suso (Milan) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Carlos Bacca.
Dani Alves (Juventus) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Dani Alves (Juventus).
Giacomo Bonaventura (Milan) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Substitution, Juventus. Mario Mandzukic replaces Medhi Benatia.
Attempt missed. Dani Alves (Juventus) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Andrea Barzagli.
Attempt blocked. Juraj Kucka (Milan) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Giacomo Bonaventura.
Corner, Juventus. Conceded by Carlos Bacca.
Corner, Juventus. Conceded by Mattia De Sciglio.
Attempt blocked. Alex Sandro (Juventus) header from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Dani Alves with a cross.
Corner, Juventus. Conceded by Juraj Kucka.
Corner, Juventus. Conceded by Alessio Romagnoli.
Attempt missed. Hernanes (Juventus) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Dani Alves.
Researchers worked with a group of 66 incarcerated ex-combatants from a paramilitary terrorist group in Colombia, a country with one of the greatest insurgency rates in the world.
This unique experiment revealed what the team described as an "abnormal pattern of moral judgment" in terrorists.
The scientists say a psychological "score" based on this could be an accurate way to discriminate between the mindset of a terrorist and that of a non-criminal.
The researchers, based in Argentina, the US, Colombia and Chile, published their findings in the journal Nature Human Behaviour.
AgustÃn Ibanez and Adolfo GarcÃa, from Favaloro University in Buenos Aires, who were part of the international research team, told BBC News they had spent four years working with Colombian law enforcers to secure permission to work with this large group of dangerous, incarcerated terrorists.
The study participants were former members of right-wing paramilitary groups, all of whom had been convicted of murder.
Many had been involved in massacres with hundreds of victims.
They took part in a series of psychological tests, including an assessment of moral cognition.
This involved presenting the subjects with a series of scenarios in which characters either deliberately or accidentally caused harm to others.
Each subject was then asked to rate the scenario on a scale from totally forbidden (1) to totally permissible (7).
Dr Ibanez said: "The typical response is that attempted harm should be more objected to than accidental harm. [But] the pattern in terrorists was the opposite."
The pattern this research revealed was that "extreme terrorists judge other people's actions by focusing on the outcomes of an action rather than its underlying intentions.
"This is the first study to demonstrate this psychological trait, [and it suggests that] a terrorist's moral code actually approves of any action if it contributes to achieving a given aim."
The researchers hope the conclusions could help build a psychological profile for use in forensics and law enforcement.
But they say further research will need specifically to examine how predictive this measure of moral cognition is when it comes to "identifying dangerous insurgent individuals".
They also pointed out that there were likely to be differences in the "origins and psychological traits of different forms of terrorism".
"For example, in the population we studied, religion does not seem to be a relevant factor. [In fact], most ex-combatants in Colombia joined paramilitary groups for economic reasons - because they were paid a salary.
"But I would envisage forensic psychologists ultimately using a moral score like this to help assess how much of a threat a particular individual poses - in addition to other measures of aggression and emotions, as well as other cognitive and social tasks," Dr Ibanez told BBC News.
Prof Seena Fazel, from the University of Oxford, a psychiatrist focusing on the relationship between mental illness and violent crime, told BBC News that the study was "a step forward".
He said there was value in the study's comparison of terrorists and non-criminals - the team carried out the same battery of tests on 66 healthy individuals from the same geographical region who had no terrorist background.
"I'd be interested in identifiable and modifiable factors that can either stop people repeating [a violent act] or stop them committing it in the first place. That would be where research could be very useful.
"These type of assessments rely on detailed interviews, so we're not at a point where we could scale up and implement this."
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The National Union of Students-Union of Students in Ireland (NUS-USI) has been out and about to tell them to "make sure their voices are heard".
NUS-USI president Fergal McFerran said there is a "huge population" of students from abroad, and the union has been helping them apply for a vote.
"People from different parts of the world that are here to study are also entitled to vote, so we've brought forms in lots of different languages to encourage them all to have their say in Northern Ireland's future as well," he said.
Northern Ireland students living away from home are being encouraged to apply for a postal or proxy vote before Friday's 17:00 GMT deadline.
Mr McFerran said students feel strongly about equality issues and a "severe lack of investment" in further and higher education.
"More and more students that I speak to tell me about their anger and the lack of progress on some of the issues and Stormont doesn't always reflect those," he added.
He was cast aside by the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) after breaking ranks to make astonishing allegations on the catastrophic Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) scheme.
But Jonathan Bell is now going solo in a bid to defend his assembly seat even though he remains a member of the party.
Standing as an independent is "not the choice I would've made", he told BBC Radio Ulster's The Stephen Nolan Show on Tuesday, but added that "it's the choice that the suspension forced me into."
He will face a battle against three DUP colleagues in the Strangford constituency, but insists revenge is not on his agenda.
And he said Mike Nesbitt had not extended a hand of friendship with an invitation to join the Ulster Unionists.
Next week will mark a full year on from the date on which the then enterprise minister eventually closed the RHI scheme after it careered far beyond its budget.
And Mr Bell said he was looking forward to "to placing my hand on the Bible" to reveal "a huge volume of material that I have not as yet disclosed" about the scandal that brought Stormont down.
A full list of candidates will be published on the BBC News NI website on Thursday 9 February.
School pupils in Londonderry got their just desserts as they took part in a mock vote count to help them understand the electoral process.
Political blogger Alan Meban visited Lumen Christi College to show year 10 students how the single transferable vote (STV) system works, but it was a "politician-free zone".
Instead, pupils voted for their favourite sugary treats, with apple tart topping the poll.
"This was kind of like the real count only shrunk down from a leisure centre into one history classroom," Mr Meban said.
"We had the Fruit Party, the Cream Party, the Egg Party and we had the Independent Cheeseboard, which was trying to be a cross-community alternative to the world of desserts, offering new politics for the modern dinner table.
"One or two of [the pupils] were actually saying at the end that they'd love to be involved in this process, that they'd love to see it in real life.
"The Electoral Office should maybe watch out - they could have a few people who want to become staff."
Out on the campaign trail, election hopefuls and their canvassing pals have either been drenched or frozen as a winter campaign takes its toll.
Alliance Party candidate Stewart Dickson and Ulster Unionist hopeful Alicia Clarke are hoping for a turn in the weather as they pound the pavements over the next few weeks.
They'll be pleased to know that our BBC News NI weatherman Barra Best has vowed to do what he can for them...
After finally snapping into action on Monday with the DUP and Sinn Féin exchanging reptile jibes, the election campaign trail has continued on that theme.
Advocates of Irish got their teeth into DUP leader Arlene Foster after she said she would not "feed" the Sinn Féin "crocodile" by giving in to demands for an act to give official status to the language.
Donning fancy dress, four protesters gathered outside a DUP office in north Belfast to bite back...
BBC News NI's Campaign Catch-up will keep you across the Northern Ireland Assembly election trail with a daily dose of the main stories, the minor ones and the lighter moments in the run up to polling day on Thursday 2 March.
Hear more on BBC Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster at 07:40 GMT and on BBC Radio Ulster's Evening Extra at 17:40 GMT each weekday.
The Kermadec Ocean Sanctuary lies north of the mainland and includes a chain of islands and underwater volcanoes.
Prime Minister John Key made the announcement at the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
Fishing and mining will be banned in what Mr Key called "one of the most geographically and geologically diverse areas in the world."
"New Zealanders value our coasts and oceans, which are an important part of our culture, economy and environment and we are committed to managing them sustainably," he said in a statement.
The government is aiming to pass legislation to create the marine reserve next year.
The area to be protected is a vast 620,000 sq km (239,400 sq miles) stretch of the South Pacific, about 1,000km north-east of North Island.
It contains the 10-km deep Kermadec trench, one of the deepest ocean trenches in the world, and is rich in sealife including whales, dolphins, endangered turtles and sea birds.
The move was welcomed by environmentalists.
Pew Environment Group, one of several groups which had lobbied for the creation of the reserve, said it effectively expands New Zealand's protection of its marine environment from 0.5% to 15.5% of its marine spaces.
"It's an extraordinary achievement for all New Zealanders and for the people of the Pacific Islands," Pew's campaign director Bronwen Golder told the BBC.
But the announcement has surprised fishing and mining companies.
George Clement, chairman of Seafood New Zealand, told Reuters news agency they had had "no forewarning from government" and that the industry "needs time to consider the full implications".
National guidelines recommend children are seen within three months of referral.
Of 2,026 Yorkshire children currently in need of assessment, 913 have exceeded the target timeline.
A spokesperson for The National Autistic Society (NAS) said long delays can be "devastating" for families.
Research by the BBC found NHS Airedale, Wharfedale and Craven Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) had the longest average wait at 47 weeks.
Of the 190 children in current need of assessment, 148 have already waited for more than three months.
Vale of York CCG had the second longest average wait at 34 weeks.
Bassetlaw CCG and Sheffield CCG reported the shortest average waits at four and six weeks respectively.
Autism is a developmental disorder that can cause problems with social interaction, language skills and physical behaviour.
Lindsey Hale, from Skipton, has been waiting for her four-year-old daughter, Dotty, to be assessed since April.
She said: "It's heart-breaking because we just see a little girl that wants to play and be happy, but nobody understands her
"We just want to be supportive parents. There are specialists out there that can give us the support but we're having to wait.
"It's extremely frustrating. I do not understand why we have to wait so long."
2,026 children in Yorkshire waiting to be assessed
47 weeks average waiting time in Airedale, Wharfedale and Craven
913 children will wait more than three months to be assessed
0 number of children in Bradford who are seen within three months
According to research, the average wait for children from raising concerns to final diagnosis is more than three-and-a-half-years.
The NAS said that as a result one in ten people paid for a private diagnosis.
Janine Booth, who helps to run an autism support group in Dewsbury, paid £5,000 to have her son Alex assessed.
"It's opened Alex's world up, it's opened our world up," she said.
"Unfortunately other children are missing out."
Dr Phil Pue, chief clinical officer at NHS Airedale, Wharfedale and Craven CCG said a review of its autism pathway had identified areas that needed improvement and it was hoped a new service model would be in place later this year.
A spokesperson for NHS England North said it was working with local CCGs to "identify and overcome the reasons behind any delays".
On 1 December 2015, Wales became the first nation in the UK to introduce "deemed consent" for organ donations.
Under what is known as a soft opt-out, people who are over 18 in Wales are regarded as having consented unless they register otherwise.
A keen supporter of the new system, Kimberly Chard, who has cystic fibrosis, had her new lungs on Christmas Eve.
BBC Radio 5 live has been following her progress since she was on the waiting list for a transplant.
She said she is hoping if her donor's family are able to read her letter, they can feel proud of what she is achieving.
Ms Chard, 32, and from Bargoed in Caerphilly county, has monthly check-ups at Llandough Hospital near Cardiff and regular visits to Harefield Hospital near London, where her surgery took place.
She still takes about 100 tablets a day to counter the effects of her transplant and her cystic fibrosis but is now able to resume work as a fine artist. She is taking part in a charity exhibition in Cardiff to raise funds to expand the All Wales Cystic Fibrosis Centre at Llandough.
Dr Ian Ketchell is the centre's director and Kimberly's consultant.
He told BBC Radio 5 live: "I came here 11 years ago. In the 10 years before that, there had been one transplant. Eight patients died in my first year.
"It's uncommon for us to lose a patient now. The majority of our patients are 'transplanters'. Looking at Kim now, that's why we do it. And that's why it's worth it."
Dr Ketchell is not sure how much the law change in Wales will affect the numbers of transplants over the years but said it had already brought about greater awareness.
And he revealed how his own family experience in the past year had affected him.
"I recently lost a relative. We'd never really talked about transplantation. Most organs could not be used for transplant. I thought, what about corneas?
"We had a letter a few months ago to say there'd been a successful corneal transplant and somebody had re-gained sight. I can tell you now that made me burst into tears - and I deal with life and death on a daily basis.
"That's why people need to talk about it. And this new law will make people talk about it."
Ms Chard still has good days and bad days but is now far more active than she was before the transplant.
"It was the only option for me. I didn't have much time left. Beforehand you're dealing with the fact that if the transplant doesn't come, you're going to leave your family. You don't think about yourself. So you have to be strong, so they'll be strong in case you don't get a transplant.
"Now I feel more pressure because I've been given a new lease of life, a few more years. It's not just my family who are going to lose out if something happens. I suppose I'm a little bit more scared now of the fact that I could lose out as well."
But she is determined to make the most of the chance she has been given.
"Before, I had to watch the world go by. Now I am able to join in."
She is unaware of the identity of her donor but through her transplant co-ordinator has passed on a message of thanks.
"I want to make my donor family proud of me, in a way. I've written a letter to them.
"It's totally up to them if they're ready to read it or not. They can decline it and it will always be there for when they are ready. But I have written to them to let them know how much it meant to me - what they gave."
Kimberly Chard will also be one of those telling their stories in a three-part documentary, The Greatest Gift, starting on 6 December on BBC One Wales at 22:40.
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17 August 2015 Last updated at 11:18 BST
A group of scientists from China found that during flight, when an owl flaps it's wings, its feathers soak up the energy, soften the vibrations and turn them into heat.
That means the owls can be perfectly silent as the birds approach their prey.
Other birds cannot do this.
Scientists used lasers and high-speed cameras to look at the feathers of a long-eared owl, eagle and pigeon during flight.
They are all different sizes but all three birds have a similar "flapping" style.
Lead researcher, Professor Jinkui Chu, from Dalian University of Technology in China, said: "Many owls have a unique and fascinating ability to fly so silently that they are out of their prey's hearing range"
The team say understanding how owls do this, could help engineers reduce noise created by aircraft and large machinery in the future.
A total of 374 employees lost their jobs when Tullis Russell Papermakers, based at Markinch in Fife, went into administration in April 2015.
Each employee received the equivalent of eight weeks' wages in compensation for their loss.
The award follows a judgement from an employment tribunal in Dundee.
Lawyers said that despite the company directors being under an obligation to provide employees with at least 45 days' notice - as more than 100 workers were losing their jobs - this was ignored, meaning each employee was entitled to sue for compensation.
However, acting alone would have meant each affected worker lodging "an extremely complex" and expensive employment tribunal claim, so they made a joint bid.
David Martyn, a senior employment lawyer at Thompsons, the firm that represented the workers, said: "The more notice the workforce have to prepare for these devastating changes, the better they can organise their financial responsibilities to soften the blow.
"This award of compensation will be paid by UK administration service.
"That means that the taxpayer has picked up the tab because company directors have played fast and loose with the rules.
"This has to stop and I believe we need to see more criminal prosecutions of companies that behave this way."
Paul Reilly, Unite branch secretary said: "This is a great result for my members and it goes a long way towards the hurt that happened."
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Earlier this week, Carney said he would "never make a film with supermodels again" after working with Knightley on Begin Again.
But he has since posted an apology on his Twitter account for what he described as "petty, mean and hurtful" comments.
The director said that he felt like a "complete idiot".
His apology was posted days after a controversial interview with the Independent, in which he said his new film Sing Street was "a small personal movie with no Keira Knightleys in it".
"Keira's thing is to hide who you are and I don't think you can be an actor and do that," he said.
"Being a film actor requires a certain level of honesty and self-analysis that I don't think she's ready for yet."
In the wake of his comments, a number of film-makers tweeted their support of Knightley.
Mark Romanek, who directed the London-born star in Never Let Me Go, labelled the director "arrogant".
"My experience with Keira Knightley was utterly spectacular on every level. I have no clue what this guy is talking about," he said.
Writing on Twitter on Wednesday evening, Carney said he was "ashamed" for what he said and had written to Knightley "personally to apologise".
"In trying to pick holes in my own work, I ended up blaming someone else. That's not only bad directing, that's shoddy behaviour that I am not in any way proud of. It's arrogant and disrespectful," he said.
"Keira was nothing but professional and dedicated during that film and she contributed hugely to its success.
"I wanted to publicly, and unreservedly apologise to her fans and friends and anyone else who I have offended. It's not something that I could ever justify, and will never repeat."
19 February 2017 Last updated at 11:40 GMT
California is currently experiencing a very powerful storm, which has caused power cuts and sinkholes across the state.
Firefighters from the San Bernardino County Fire Department were out helping people in the storm, when a giant sinkhole opened up underneath their truck.
Thankfully, none of the firefighters were in the truck when it fell, and no-one was hurt.
The idea is a pretty simple one. Every now and again - amid all the swirling reports and breaking news - it is worth taking a pause and bringing together what we know about the most important resource in the world.
As part of the Big Oil Drop project, I was asked a straightforward question. "Why is oil so important? And could you write about it."
It was so straightforward a question that it sounded faintly ridiculous.
Well, of course oil is important, I blustered, erm, we need it to drive in our millions of cars, jobs depend on it, the supply of energy is at the heart of much of global politics (just look at Russia now), wars are fought over it, without oil the lights would go out...
I tailed off, realising that yes, of course, I knew oil was important. But quite how important slightly eluded me.
And so I started digging around for some facts. And only when you start doing that does the hugeness of its influence on the global economy become clear.
Ryan Carlyle, the US engineer, wrote in Forbes about why oil is vital. "You can't move anything, anywhere faster than about 25mph without oil," he said.
"You can't operate a modern military, and you can't run a modern economy. There is no doubt in my mind whatsoever that modern civilisation would collapse in a matter of months if oil stopped flowing.
"Oil is about as important to the developed world as agriculture."
The price of oil has halved over the past eight months - but what's the real cost of cheap oil? The BBC's correspondents around the world look at who's benefiting and who's hurting from the shock fall in oil prices. Follow their reports on TV, on radio and online.
Special report: Energy
Oil and food (and let's include water in that, to avoid argument) are the two most important resources on the planet.
The United States consumes 19 million barrels of oil a day. A barrel of oil is about a bath's worth.
China consumes 10.3 million, Japan 4.5 million and the UK 1.5 million.
Every day, the world consumes 91.2 million barrels of oil, according to the US Energy Information Administration.
That's a lot of bathfuls.
And that consumption figure will go up, not down.
Every week, 1.5 million people are added to the world's urban population. And that tends to add to our consumption of oil as societies move from an agrarian economy to a consumption and manufacturing economy.
The growth of the "emerging seven" countries (China, India, Brazil, Russia, Indonesia, Mexico and Turkey) will only add to this upward pressure on demand.
As a recent report from the accountants PwC revealed, emerging economies, most notably China and other fast-growing Asian economies, account for nearly half of all infrastructure spending (that's the development of cities and factories, in the main).
That's up more than 10% since 2006. And it all adds to oil demand.
Because the more we live in cities - and the more countries develop - the more we want cars to drive around in and lorries to deliver the goods we want to consume.
The global vehicle fleet (commercial vehicles and passenger cars) is predicted to more than double from about 1.2 billion now to 2.4 billion by 2035. Most of that growth - 88% - is in the developing world and nearly all of it - just under 90% - will be fuelled by oil.
Of course, there are alternatives to oil. And across the world, environmental targets and efficiency gains are having an impact.
But those developments are only slowing the increase in demand. They are nowhere significant enough to reverse it.
Look at cars. In the forecasts, transport demand for oil rises by about 30% by 2035, while the actual number of vehicles doubles.
But 30% is still a significant rise.
Renewable energy is replacing some of the world's appetite for oil.
A recent report by the Economist Intelligence Unit suggests that the growth of renewables will outpace the growth of oil and coal products in 2015.
You can read some interesting analysis of that report (and see an important graph) here.
But although the growth of renewable energy is rapid, it is from a very low base.
And it was put in perspective by Bob Dudley, the chief executive of BP.
"Fossil fuels [oil, gas and coal] are projected to provide the majority of the world's energy needs, meeting two-thirds of the increase in energy demand out to 2035," he said at the launch of the oil giant's Energy Outlook 2035.
"The strong growth of US tight oil [that's oil taken directly from rocks via the process of fracking] in recent years has had a dramatic impact, with oil increasingly flowing from West to East rather than East to West.
"This is likely to continue, with strong growth in China and India driving energy demand."
Peak oil - that is the theoretical moment when oil extraction will reach its height and inevitably decline - has been long predicted and never arrived.
In fact, you can go back to the 19th Century to hear predictions oil would run out during the "lives of young men".
More than 100 years later, we are still waiting.
About 40% of midwives are now in their 50s and 60s, compared with 30% only four years ago.
The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) said services were not currently under threat, but may not be safe in future.
The Scottish government said Scotland had the recommended midwife numbers and it would continue to ensure the right numbers of midwives were training.
The Royal College also said the number of younger midwives in Scotland was falling.
In its report, the RCM said:
The college's chief executive Cathy Warwick said that all women deserved the "very best care, regardless of the age at which they give birth".
She added: "Women have every right to give birth later in life, and we support that. But typically older women will require more care during pregnancy, and that means more midwives are needed."
"What worries me in particular is the retirement time bomb that our report unearths. Not only in England, but across the UK, we are not seeing enough new midwives being taken on."
Scotland's Public Health Minister Maureen Watt said she welcomed the report and pointed out that NHS Scotland met the RCM's recommended midwife to birth ratio.
She added: "However, it is important not to be complacent and that is why we have developed a maternity workload and workforce planning tool, which is applied regularly within our maternity services.
"We have worked in partnership with the RCM to gather intelligence on our midwifery workforce profile and will be taking this forward with NHS Boards.
"We will continue working with our key stakeholders, including RCM, to ensure we have the right numbers of midwives in training and in the workforce and this year we increased the student midwife intake by 8%."
However, Scottish Labour's Richard Simpson said the NHS in Scotland was facing a "staffing time bomb" because of the "SNP's sticking plaster approach".
He added: "The SNP's handling of workforce planning has been an absolute disaster.
"Last week the experts at Audit Scotland exposed the extent of the problems in our NHS under the SNP government in Edinburgh as they have cut the health budget.
"These problems in our NHS did not appear overnight, they began on the first minister's watch. Under the SNP government NHS staff are undervalued, under resourced and under intolerable pressure."
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Ladimeji Benson, 27, was attacked in Baddow Road, Chelmsford, Essex, on Tuesday afternoon.
He was taken to hospital after a group of men flagged down an ambulance three miles from the scene but later died from his injuries.
The 20-year-old man, of no fixed address, was arrested on Saturday.
Two men, 22 and 25, from Chelmsford, were arrested earlier this week on suspicion of assault and affray.
Both men have been bailed until 6 January, pending further inquiries.
In a statement, his family and girlfriend said: "Ladi was a special person with a beautiful heart. He was a wonderful father to his baby daughter and step-son, and a loving partner, son and brother.
"He was taken from us too soon and we are all left with a huge hole in our hearts. Our lives will never be the same without him.
"We will never see that cheeky grin again and his daughter will never know the father she adored. She had almost learned to say the word 'Dada', but now her Dada will only be a photo or a story."
The programme says an undercover investigation will detail "harsh practices", including a policy allowing workers to be sacked after three minor misdemeanours.
The sportswear retailer says the claims "are simply not true".
It says there is no such system and workers cannot be fired on the spot.
Channel 4 News filmed undercover inside the Kingsway Business Park facility in Rochdale, which supplies all of JD Sports' stores in the UK and most of those abroad, as well as fulfilling online orders.
JD employs 1,232 workers at the site and is staffed 24 hours a day, seven days a week, by a combination of employees and agency staff. The ratio of employees to agency staff is about 70/30, but fluctuates seasonally.
Channel 4 News says the report, to be broadcast on Wednesday, will show workers saying conditions at the Rochdale site are "worse than a prison" and a team leader "boasting of sacking workers on the spot, for as little as sitting down through exhaustion".
In response, JD Sports issued a statement saying: "We are deeply disappointed and concerned by the allegations being made which we believe are misleading and not an accurate reflection of our culture, the vast majority of our people or our standards of practice and procedures.
"Indeed, we believe a large number of the allegations put to us by Channel 4 are plainly untrue."
JD Sports said it had a fully outlined disciplinary procedure and appeals process that applied to JD Sports employees and agency staff.
Shares in JD Sports closed 6.3% lower at 316.1p.
The Channel 4 report will claim JD Sports and the agency supplying workers, Assist Recruitment, operate a "three strikes and you're out" policy, so that workers can be dismissed for three minor misdemeanours, including having a mobile phone or a lighter in the warehouse, being late, or chewing gum.
Channel 4 News said it filmed workers standing outside waiting to through security checks to enter the site.
Last year, Sports Direct was criticised for operating a system at its warehouse in Derbyshire which required workers to undergo lengthy security checks. The unpaid time spent clearing security meant workers were in effect receiving less than the minimum wage.
But JD Sports said workers, including agency staff, at the Kingsway warehouse were paid for time spent entering and leaving the premises.
"Our time and attendance system is specifically designed to ensure that all workers from both companies are paid for the time it takes to go through security on leaving the site; and we pay all employees in full who are up to 15 minutes late on arrival," the company said.
Channel 4 News showed the television footage to Iain Wright MP, who is heading a Commons inquiry into pay and conditions for low-paid workers.
He told the BBC he was "disgusted" by what appeared to be happening in the UK's warehouse sector and that there was a sense that employees were being "treated like scum".
"It sounds like it's systematic across this area of employment and the government really needs to clamp down on this," Mr Wright said.
He said JD company would be invited to give evidence to the Commons select committee.
JD Sports said it was disappointed that Channel 4 News had not taken into account the "factual evidence" it had provided to reporters.
The company said once Channel 4 News had allowed access to the footage, it would investigate the claims fully.
It is not clear how long Mr Hadi intends to remain in the country.
He made his first visit to Aden in September, having fled the country six months earlier in the face of advances by Houthi rebels.
At least 5,600 people have been killed in the past eight months of fighting.
A Saudi-led Arab coalition launched an air campaign in March, followed by a ground offensive, to push back the Houthis and reinstate Mr Hadi's government.
Officials say the president will be staying at the Maashiq presidential palace in the central Crater district of Aden.
His arrival comes as forces loyal to him are reported to have made advances in the south-west, surrounding the city of Taiz.
About 45 fighters from both sides were killed on Monday, medical sources quoted by the Reuters news agency said.
Residents said coalition warplanes bombed Houthi targets in the city several times on Tuesday.
The president's last attempt to return to his country was in September after six months of exile in Saudi Arabia. He was forced to return to Riyadh after Aden came under rebel attack.
He first fled Aden in late March as Shia Houthi rebels advanced on the city.
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The operation was on a "truly massive scale" with lenders ultimately losing £112m, Teesside Crown Court heard.
They were part of North East Property Buyers and Newcastle Home Loans, which bought up thousands of homes but lied on its mortgage applications.
They defrauded banks by making false claims when borrowing money to build their property empire.
The firms paid knockdown prices to buy homes from people struggling with their mortgages and offered to rent them back.
The court heard lenders, including Mortgage Express and Southern Pacific Mortgage Lenders, forwarded almost £300m until the company collapsed.
A "substantial number" of the conspirators' mortgage applications were fraudulent, the court heard.
David Purdie, 57, of Dunston, Gateshead, was described as the man behind North East Property Buyers.
He admitted conspiracy to defraud along with Michael Foster, 43, of Houghton, who was a director of Newcastle Home Loans, and underwriter Linda Patterson, 57, of Newcastle.
Chartered surveyor Steven Keay, 54, of Ryhope, Sunderland, admitted furnishing false information.
Purdie lived in a lavishly decorated home at Darras Hall in Northumberland and presented himself as a man of wealth, the court was told.
Foster, a former professional cricketer with Durham, Yorkshire and Northamptonshire, was described as Purdie's "right-hand man".
Barristers for the accused said they had started out with honest intent thinking they would enrich themselves in the property market but "took a risk that didn't pay off".
The scheme was doomed as the financial crisis of 2008 approached and they were unable to finance the mortgage repayments, the court heard.
As well as the money taken from the banks, prosecutor Jane Bewsey QC said they had drawn in investors, many of whom now faced financial ruin.
Judge Howard Crowson said much of the money obtained from the banks was lost and did not amount to personal gain for the defendants.
He jailed Purdie for five-and-a-half years, Foster for three years-and-nine months, Patterson for three years-and-two months, and Keay for 23 months.
A fifth defendant, accountant Peter Wardle, has now been convicted of furnishing false information and will be sentenced on 30 November.
Market researchers Kantar Worldpanel said there was an overall growth of 0.3% in the 12 weeks to 14 August, boosted by the warm weather.
Lidl and Aldi recorded like-for-like sales growth of 12.2% and 10.4%.
Tesco had a sales drop of 0.4% compared with 2015, the slowest in six months.
Fraser McKevitt, head of retail and consumer insight at Kantar Worldpanel, said: "Current trends suggest the retailer may return to growth this year, which would mark the end of a decline stretching back to March 2015."
Asda remained at the bottom, with sales down 5.5%. Last week, Asda reported its worst quarterly performance on record.
Sainsbury's saw sales fall 0.6% and Morrisons by 1.8%.
Market researcher Nielsen, which has published industry data in the 12 weeks up to 13 August, found similar trends.
It and Kantar noted that promotional sales had dropped, reflecting the big four supermarkets' move towards simpler pricing models and permanent price cuts.
Mike Watkins, Nielsen's UK head of retailer and business insight, said the big four supermarkets were simplifying "the overall customer offer in response to the growth of the discounters by lowering the level of promotions and reducing multi-buys, instead moving to permanent price cuts".
He added that the hot weather and success at Rio had helped boost overall supermarket sales.
"Brexit seems to have been replaced by an Olympic 'feel-good' factor among shoppers and there were more visits to buy food and drink in the last four weeks than this time last year."
Nielsen said the strongest category performances were in soft drinks, with mineral water sales up by 18.5%. This was followed by frozen foods driven by ice-cream sales.
Kantar said grocery price inflation remained negative, with a representative basket of goods 1.3% cheaper than it was last year.
Not a recommendation you'd hear very often, frankly, about most companies' financial reporting.
But rather than seeming designed to confuse and mislead, Next's report crisply spells out the challenges it's facing.
And of course it's not just Next that's up against it, it's the High Street as a whole.
A stark reminder of the difficulties came just yesterday when "value" shoe retailer Brantano went into administration, its pricier sister company Jones Bootmaker is up for sale.
One of the administrators said the fall in the pound and a change in shopping habits were key factors.
Next's results reflect these trends in spades. It's annual profits have fallen for the first time in eight years and it doesn't seem in the mood to pull any punches.
The most obvious challenge is the continuing gravitation to online shopping. Next Directory sales have been rising every year for the past 10. This time they rose by 4% to £1.7bn but sales in the stores - pretty much flat for the past 10 years - fell by nearly 3% to £2.3bn.
It's still a significant chunk of business, and as Next points out in its statement, it's still opening new shops.
However, it concedes that with increasing amounts of business being transferred online "it is legitimate to question the long term viability of retail stores and whether the possession of a retail portfolio is an asset or a liability".
Its conclusion is that the stores are indeed "valuable" assets which will remain profitable "even in very difficult circumstances".
Nevertheless it has painstakingly worked through a scenario of what would happen if retail sales continued to decline at "high rates" for the next decade, and it says the stores could be "managed down profitably".
Another issue which leaps out from the pages of Next's statement is the change in what the UK consumer is prepared to spend money on.
A new dress or pair of shoes is no longer the go-to quick fix of choice, it seems.
Instead Next quotes Barclaycard figures which show the growth in spending on pubs, restaurants and entertainment, compared with High Street clothing in the last three months of 2016. "We believe that these numbers demonstrate the continuing trend towards spending on experiences away from 'things'," says Next.
"Shifts in consumer spending patterns are not unusual and we expect that the trend will stabilise and reverse at some point," it continues.
As if the fickleness of shoppers were not enough, of course, consumers have finally woken up to the fact that higher inflation means their money spreads more thinly.
The fall in sterling since the Brexit vote has pushed up the cost of imports for the likes of Next, although it says it doesn't expect price rises to be any worse in the second half of the year, and "they may be a little better".
Nevertheless, it doesn't see inflationary pressures easing until the second half of next year.
Meantime, it says, inflation is "slowly rising to the level of general wages growth and look set to continue to do so for the remainder of the year, we therefore expect a continuing squeeze on real incomes in the year ahead".
Added to this Next has is own internal problems which it's dealing with, including taking its eye off the ball in terms of stocking its "heartland" products. That is "easy to wear styles that can be delivered in large volumes and great prices across several colours".
In short, Next reckons the year ahead looks "tough" with a "combination of economic, cyclical and internal factors working against us".
But it's worth remembering this is not the first time Next - or retailers in general - have confronted such a mountain of adversity.
Back at the start of the financial crisis in 2008, the number of retailers exiting the High Street seemed unstoppable. Woolworths went, and that was the last time Next saw profits drop.
As chairman John Barton points out today "by the following year our profits had started to grow again and our share price recovered strongly in the following years.
"I believe that by focusing on our core strengths as we did during 2008, we will see Next emerge from this period stronger than before" he adds.
Investors may well agree. Next's shares were up following the release of the results, and not just because they were a textbook example of how a company should get its message across.
Former Culture Minister Marcelo Calero said Mr Temer asked him to help another minister in a personal business deal.
He said he was asked to allow construction of luxury apartments in a historic district of Salvador.
Mr Calero, who resigned last week, had previously blocked the plans. President Temer has denied the allegations.
However, he admitted talking to Mr Calero about the project.
A spokeswoman for Brazil's public prosecutor told Reuters an investigation into Mr Temer may be launched.
Brazil's 'scandalous' corruption deal
The president has vowed to clean up corruption in Brazil, but has lost three ministers to corruption allegations.
The scandal involves government secretary Geddel Vieira Lima, who had bought a property in Salvador in Bahia state.
Barely six months after coming to power, and still with his legitimacy being questioned by many, this is the second major corruption scandal to rock Michel Temer's government.
This time the president himself is implicated in allegations.
Marcelo Calero, who is making these allegations, is a career diplomat and an outsider to mainstream politics.
The government said Mr Calero misunderstood some of the conversations and that no pressure was meant in any of them.
But critics ask: why would the Brazilian president bring up a personal business deal of one of his key allies in the first place?
Brazil's opposition - still bitter about the demise of President Dilma Rousseff in an impeachment process fuelled by Mr Temer's allies - is already calling for the new president to be removed from power.
Mr Calero's ministry vetoed the construction, on the grounds that the proposed building was on a heritage site.
He told the police both the president and the minister had pressured him to overturn the decision.
Earlier this week, an ethics panel decided to open an investigation into Mr Lima over the allegations, before the president's alleged involvement came to light.
Despite pressures to sack Mr Lima, Mr Temer said the minister will keep his job.
Mr Temer came to power earlier this year, after former President Dilma Rousseff was impeached during a lengthy political crisis that gripped the country.
She was accused of manipulating the budget, but maintained her innocence and said that her political opponents has carried out a "parliamentary coup".
Mr Temer has since tried to maintain a stable government, but has been plagued with corruption allegations against his own party.
The items were found in a burial cist, a stone chest containing the ashes and belongings of a dead person.
Senior conservator, Helen Williams, said: "We have a real opportunity to research these finds and potentially discover more about the individual buried there."
The items, which include a woven bag, will be scanned at the spinal unit.
The burial cist was excavated from Whitehorse Hill in August 2011.
Archaeologists found cremated human bone, burnt textile, and a delicate woven bag inside.
The bag contained shale disc beads, amber spherical beads and a circular textile band.
Senior archaeologist for Dartmoor National Park Authority and Whitehorse Hill project manager, Jane Marchand, said: "This is a most unusual and fascinating glimpse into what an early Bronze Age grave goods assemblage on Dartmoor might have looked like as it was buried, including the personal possessions of people living on the Moor around 4,000 years ago."
Once the X-ray work is complete, further analysis will be made of the peat surrounding the cist.
Archaeologists believe this will give an insight into evidence of the vegetation and climate at the time of the burial.
Wiltshire Conservation Service will also be on hand to consult with the archaeology team on the x-ray results.
The financial regulator wants the rule for setting the deadline to come into force by the middle of 2017 alongside a public awareness campaign.
The FCA will listen to feedback on this and other proposed changes before its consultation closes on 11 October.
Banks have so far paid out £24bn in compensation.
The five biggest banks in the UK have set aside £32.6bn to deal with the total compensation bill.
Andrew Bailey, FCA chief executive, said: "Putting a deadline on PPI complaints will bring the issue to an orderly conclusion in a way that protects both consumers and market integrity.
"We have listened to all the feedback we have received and believe that the steps we are taking are the right ones.
"We will ensure that our communications campaign will engage with all those who could be affected, particularly vulnerable consumers."
PPI was designed to cover loan repayments if the policyholder fell ill or lost their job.
About 45 million policies were sold over the course of 20 years from 1990.
But it became clear that it was mis-sold on an industrial scale to people who didn't want or need it - or would not be eligible to claim on it.
One consumer group said that the compensation scheme had not been sufficient.
Alex Neill, director of policy and campaigns at Which?, said: "The PPI scandal has been one disaster followed by another, it is the country's biggest financial scandal with a wholly inadequate redress scheme.
"If a PPI deadline is to be introduced, when millions of pounds are still being set aside for payouts, the FCA must work with banks to ensure that customers who might not know they were mis-sold PPI get back the money they are owed. The process for making a claim must be much more straightforward."
A spokesman for the British Bankers' Association (BBA), which represents the major banks, said: "The FCA's announcement provides further clarity for consumers on the proposed timeframe for making PPI complaints. An awareness campaign will also help to ensure everyone who deserves compensation gets it.
"The easiest way for anyone who suspects they are owed compensation, is to talk directly to their bank. We will continue to work constructively with the FCA as they consult on these proposals."
The FCA is also looking at changes to the proposed rules and guidance concerning the handling of PPI complaints after the Supreme Court judgment in November 2014 in the Plevin case, which extended the definition of mis-selling.
The ruling dealt with the case of a financial company's client not being made aware of a commission being paid when they were sold PPI.
The Court agreed that the company's failure to tell its client that it was receiving a large commission for the sale was unfair and the FCA has been working on how to apply this ruling to other cases.
It wants to take profit share into account when calculating how much consumers are due from previous rebates.
Seventeen others, among them eight police officers, were injured during the clashes at Las Bambas mine project.
The project is owned by a consortium led by MMG, a subsidiary of the Chinese state-owned Minmetals Corporation.
Its backers say that once completed, Las Bambas will be one of the top three copper mines in the world.
The MMG-led consortium bought the project from mining giant Glencore Xstrata in 2014.
Locals fear the $7.4bn (£4.9bn) project will cause environmental damage to the Andean area.
They also want more locals to be hired to work at the mine.
An estimated 15,000 people took part in the protests, which started on Friday.
Peruvian authorities sent 1,500 police officers and 150 soldiers to the area.
MMG officials said that many of the protesters were not from the area, but anti-mining activists who had travelled there.
In a statement, MMG said it remained open to dialogue: "Las Bambas has demonstrated through the years its vast capacity for working with communities in the area of influence."
Eyewitnesses said police had opened fire on the protesters as they tried to enter the mine.
Interior Minister Jose Luis Perez defended the officers' actions.
"Police used non-lethal weapons at the start, and then, to defend themselves, had to use lethal weapons," he told Peruvian television.
Peru is currently the third biggest producer of copper after Chile and China.
It is seeking to overtake China but has been hampered and delayed in its ambition by local opposition to the projects.
In May, troops were deployed to the Tia Maria mine in Peru's southern Arequipa region after a protester and a policeman died in violent clashes.
Faris Al-Khori, 62, was arrested after searches in the city's Muirhouse and Leith areas earlier this year.
He faces a charge under the Explosive Substances Act which runs from December 2007 until April 2014.
Al-Khori appeared at the High Court in Glasgow on Tuesday and pleaded not guilty.
Chemicals listed in the charge include various types of acid, acetone and fuel tablets.
Al-Khori is also accused of a separate charge of culpable and reckless conduct.
It is claimed that with "utter disregard" for the safety of residents, he possessed a quantity of substances and rocket motors knowing they were either "explosive or flammable".
The charge alleges he exposed residents at the flats to the "risk of serious injury".
His QC Brian McConnachie entered not guilty pleas on his behalf.
Judge Lord Turnbull set a trial due to begin in April in Edinburgh.
One of those killed was a girl aged 12, they say.
Witnesses say the explosion was caused by a bomb in a car in the mainly Christian area of Sabon Gari.
The area has previously been targeted by Boko Haram Islamist militants but it is the first attack on Nigeria's second biggest city for several months.
More than 1,000 people have been killed in Boko Haram attacks this year but the government has said it has pushed the militants back into their strongholds in the north-eastern Borno state.
This is where they seized more than 200 girls last month, in a case which shocked the world and prompted foreign powers to send military advisors to assist Nigeria's army tackle the insurgency.
The street in Sabon Gari was full of revellers and street hawkers when a car exploded.
The BBC's Will Ross in Nigeria says that Sunday's blast was so powerful that all that remains of the car is its engine. The blast could be heard from several miles away.
"At about 22:00 [21:00 GMT], we heard an explosion and immediately mobilised to the scene where we discovered a suicide bomber... Five people, including the bomber, were killed," Kano Police Commissioner Adelere Shinaba said.
He said that the victims were "three men and a girl of about 12".
Kano is the largest city in the mainly Muslim north of Nigeria.
The bars and alcohol-sellers in its Sabon Gari area have been targeted on numerous other occasions.
In January 2012, about 150 people died there in a series of co-ordinated attacks by Boko Haram.
The group is fighting to overthrow the Nigeria government and create an Islamic state.
But it has often attacked Muslims, including preachers who disagree with its interpretation of Islam.
The Nigerian authorities are continuing the search for the kidnapped schoolgirls kidnapped.
The abducted schoolgirls, who include Christians and Muslims, were seized on 14 April.
Boko Haram released a video last week showing more than 100 of the girls and offering an exchange for prisoners.
African leaders meeting in Paris at the weekend agreed to wage "war" on Boko Haram, pledging to share intelligence and co-ordinate action against the group.
French President Francois Hollande called Boko Haram a "major threat to West and Central Africa", and said it had links with al-Qaeda's North-African arm and "other terrorist organisations".
The unrest in Nigeria has not just been confined to the north.
Earlier this month a car bomb in the capital Abuja killed at least 19 people and injured 60 more.
The explosion happened close to a bus station where at least 70 people died in a bomb blast on 14 April.
Bishop Juan Vicente Cordoba said that homosexuality was not a sin and that gays were welcomed by the church.
He then wondered whether any of Jesus's 12 apostles might have been gay or Mary Magdalene a lesbian.
Conservatives in the audience condemned his musings, but gays were also upset at Bishop Cordoba's use of a pejorative Spanish term for homosexual men.
Bishop Cordoba later apologised for his remarks and said the church should show respect for the gay community.
But he said the Catholic Church would not recognise same-sex marriages as a family and stressed that it believed sexual relationships between same-sex couples went against natural law.
Gay marriage and adoption are issues being hotly debated in Colombia after the country's constitutional court last year ruled that same-sex couples could only adopt a child if it was the offspring of one of the partners.
Two years earlier the country's Congress had voted against allowing gay marriages.
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The Australian Open champions fought back from two sets down but lost the quarter-final 6-4 6-4 6-7 (11-13) 6-7 (1-7) 10-8 in four and a half hours.
Briton Murray and his Brazilian partner, seeded third, had saved three match points in the third set.
They had won their last-16 tie 16-14 in the fifth and final set.
Murray lost in the final last year with then partner John Peers.
Three-time champions Bob and Mike Bryan, seeded second, were beaten 7-6 (7-2) 6-1 7-6 (7-4) by Raven Klassem and Rajeev Ram, who face Benneteau and Roger-Vasselin in the semi-finals.
Briton Jonathan Marray, who won the Wimbledon men's doubles in 2012, and Canadian partner Adil Shamasdin lost 6-4 7-6 (7-5) 6-3 to 12th seeds Max Mirnyi and Treat Huey.
They will play top seeds Pierre Hugues-Herbert and Nicolas Mahut in the last four after the Frenchmen overcame Henri Kontinen and Peers 6-4 6-7 (6-8) 6-4 7-6 (10-8).
The funeral of Mr McGuinness, a former IRA leader turned politician, who served as deputy first minister in Northern Ireland was held on Thursday.
Bernie McGuinness also thanked the medical staff who looked after the Sinn Féin representative during his illness.
Mr McGuinness died on Tuesday aged 66.
Mrs McGuinness said the family wanted to express their "deep appreciation of the many thousands of people who attended vigils in the course of the week in many parts of Ireland and overseas".
She said they had been "touched by the efforts of so many to provide solace and comfort".
"From Martin's return home on Tuesday, and until we left for the funeral service on Thursday, long queues of people visited our home.
"The family took great comfort from their presence.
"I want to especially acknowledge the many thousands who attended the funeral. Words cannot express our appreciation at the outpouring of love and solidarity, which embraced us throughout Thursday."
Former US President Bill Clinton was among those who attended the funeral of Mr McGuinness in Londonderry.
The last two series between teams made up of Irish gaelic footballers and Australian Rules stars were played as one-off Tests in 2014 and 2015.
But this year will see the series revert to a two-Test competition.
The First Test was originally planned for 11 November but has now been rescheduled for the following day at the Adelaide Oval.
The Second Test will take place the following Saturday night, 18 November, at the Domain Stadium in Perth in what will be the final game held in that venue.
Joe Kernan will again be Ireland manager while Geelong coach Chris Scott, assistant to Alastair Clarkson in the 2015 series, will be their head coach this year.
The two-match series will see the aggregate scores determining the overall winners of the Cormac McAnallen Trophy as Ireland go in as holders after earning a 56-52 win in the 2015 Test.
After this year's series, Ireland will host two games in 2019.
Kenyan authorities deported the Congolese rumba star on Saturday after video footage of him appearing to kick one of his female dancers went viral.
The Agriculture and Commercial society of Zambia said the "disappointing" incident was behind its decision.
Olomide has denied assault, though he has since apologised for his behaviour.
In a post on his official Facebook page on Sunday, the singer apologised to his fans, especially "women and children", asking for forgiveness.
"I profoundly regret what happened... it was a moment of madness," Olomide told Congolese national broadcaster RTNC, in an interview attached to the same Facebook post.
The star apologised directly to the people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo who may have felt "dishonoured by this behaviour".
The footage of Friday's incident at Nairobi's international airport sparked outrage on social media.
Kenyan authorities deported Olomide, 60, and three of his dancers on Saturday to DR Congo's capital Kinshasa, following a public outcry over the incident.
Speaking to BBC Afrique on Friday, he denied kicking anyone and said he had tried to "stop" a "girl who wanted to fight the dancers I came with".
The video shown on Kenya's KTN News shows police intervening to stop the apparent attack on the woman.
Kenyan Youth and Gender Minister Sicily Kariuki had called for the singer's deportation.
"His conduct was an insult to Kenyans and our constitution," she said. "Violence against women and girls cannot be accepted in any shape, form or manner."
The star has been in similar trouble in the past:
Police said they received reports shortly after 22:00 GMT that youths were blocking roads with burning debris in Glencaw Park and Leafair Gardens.
When officers went to the scene they were attacked with stones, bricks and bottles.
Two of those arrested, boys aged 14 and 16, have been released pending reports to the Public Prosecution Service.
Another 16-year-old boy is still being questioned.
SDLP councillor Brian Tierney appealed to those involved in such incidents to "allow residents to live in peace".
"I am a resident here in Glencaw Park and I know that most of the young people here last night causing the trouble were not from this area," he said.
"People are coming here to cause trouble and get the place a bad name for residents. That is unacceptable.
"Stones, bricks, bottles and other objects were thrown at police and residents' cars with no care or thought for anyone's property.
"The residents here just want to live in peace. We have put a lot of work into this area to try and reduce the levels of anti-social behaviour and we made great progress. The actions of a few last night won't hold us back."
The money will be used to extend the project at the Nerve Centre in the city.
It will also assist the development of a mobile facility in the north-west region to "increase outreach".
Culture minister Carál Ní Chuilín said she was pleased to be able to confirm that she had secured capital funding.
John Peto of the Nerve Centre outlined the benefits the mobile facility would bring to the community as part of the City of Culture legacy.
"The legacy is now to reach out to Strabane, to Coleraine, to Limavady," he added.
"The mobile lab will allow us to go out and deliver day sessions in places.
"But also it has the capacity where it can stay in an area potentially for a week, a fortnight, a month and start to embed these skills and build digitally enabled community resilience."
The Nerve Centre says a Fab Lab is a digital fabrication workshop which allows anyone "to make practically anything".
Users have "an unprecedented opportunity to access state of the art digital tools within a community setting".
The Fab Lab at the Nerve Centre is partnered with one at the Ashton Centre in north Belfast.
Mr Swinney said he wanted to protect the council tax freeze, invest in social care and maintain the pupil-teacher ratio in Scotland's schools.
Scotland's 32 councils now have until 2 February to respond to the plan.
Many councillors had voiced concerns about this year's funding offer from the Scottish government.
The original deadline for councils to accept the deal had to be delayed.
Mr Swinney said: "I am absolutely committed to continuing a positive, collaborative relationship with Scotland's local authorities, and I have engaged in open discussions with Cosla on what is a challenging but fair settlement for local government in Scotland.
"This settlement is an opportunity to transform the provision of social care in Scotland with a £250m investment in integrating health and social care services - helping to make our services fit for the challenges of the 21st century."
He added: "We recognise that there are pressures on budgets being felt across the whole of the public sector, as well as in households throughout Scotland.
"That's why it is important to maintain the Council Tax freeze while we consider ways to replace it - as well as reimbursing local authorities to ensure they can continue to provide essential services."
Councils get the bulk of their money from direct Scottish government funding plus business rates.
This year they are set to receive less in total while many say they will get less than they had originally forecast. This has left some looking for fresh cuts and savings urgently.
A few councils are actively considering the possibility of ending the council tax freeze.
Any council which does increase tax rates would have to give up money allocated to them by the Scottish government to compensate them for the freeze - this means any rise would have to be significant.
Moray Council is the only one so far to make a firm proposal - it says council tax bills would have to rise by 18% to protect services.
Cosla, which represents most Scottish councils, had said the package of measures for local government within Mr Swinney's budget, including the council tax freeze, was "totally unacceptable".
A spokesman added: "We are still in active negotiations with the Scottish government around the 2016/17 settlement."
So far, only Edinburgh Council has set a budget which, implicitly, means they are accepting the government offer.
Timi Ariyo spoke out after a video about him containing abusive singing and monkey noises was sent on Snapchat.
Tami Sotire said she had initially been scared to report abuse directed at her on social media for fear the group would "become more angry".
They will now meet Bristol University and will also be "alerting police".
The university said it was "shocked and saddened" and would have "investigated immediately" had staff been informed. It urged students to report abuse.
Ms Sotire said: "From the public support, I know that these people are in the minority and should really be brought to justice for the stuff they've put us through."
Mr Ariyo said: "In light of the response we've had from friends and family, and people that we don't even know, a lot of people have urged us to go to the police.
"And speaking to my family we've said it's probably the best thing to do to get it on record, just for safety as well."
The video, posted in December, showed a group of white men singing an abusive song about Mr Ariyo.
The third year law student said: "It was quite shocking when I first saw the video, obviously they are people that I know.
"And it was weird to see that it was happening in such a public place - they were so passionately chanting such a racist thing.
"So many of my friends saw the video and were like 'wow I've never seen anything like that, I didn't know it still happened in 2017' - and it does," he said.
The pair, from Essex, said their abusers were mainly from their old school back home, but also included a fellow university student.
Mr Ariyo, 21, said that the abuse was carried out with a "pack mentality", in the belief no one member could be singled out for taking part.
He added: "I think it got to a point where it was becoming malicious and offensive and that's when I realised it wasn't my friends making a joke, it was people targeting and being nasty."
Ms Sotire, 21, said she could not escape the abuse - which started in April - on social media.
"Me and Timi made the effort to... block them, delete them off everything. But they continued to target us with Snapchat, add me to Whatsapp groups.
"People have taken it upon themselves to bully me and Timi based on our skin colour. They don't even know us."
The second year psychology student added the abusive video was recorded at a pub and she feared bumping into the group.
"It's about 10 to 15 boys that we can bump into at any time.
"I just fear that this group of white boys will become more angry at black people, more angry at me - especially if I take it to the police."
"I'm not with Amanda any more," Freeman told the Financial Times, describing the split as "very, very amicable".
Abbington also gave an interview to The Sunday Telegraph's Stella magazine, in which she said she and Freeman had "realised we'd come to the end of our time together".
The couple, who met on a film set in 2000, have two children together.
"Martin and I remain best friends and love each other, and it was entirely amicable," Abbington said.
"There was no hostility, really, we just said that we couldn't live together anymore, so we put everything in place, he moved out to a flat in north London, I stayed at home and we've started a new chapter.
"It is sad and it is upsetting, because you think you're going to be with someone forever, but you either do that or you break up, and we both came to the decision that splitting was best for us. We've been really lucky to make it such a clean break, especially for the kids."
On Friday morning, Abbington tweeted: "Thanks for the beautiful and supportive messages. We are all ok! But thanks."
The couple will shortly be seen reprising their roles as John Watson and his wife Mary in Sherlock's latest series.
In his interview with the FT, Freeman said: "I'll always love Amanda."
The new series sees their characters with a baby daughter, named Rosamund Mary Watson.
Freeman and Abbington appeared with other cast members at an event this week to promote the first episode, to be broadcast on New Year's Day.
Abbington also appeared on Wednesday's edition of Christmas Kitchen, during which she said she would be spending Christmas with her children.
A spokesman for the BBC said it does not comment on the personal lives of its stars.
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The Hallaton Bottle Kicking contest pits teams from two Leicestershire villages who try to take control of a keg of beer.
The "ferocious rugby scrum" takes five hours to complete and is believed to have started before the Christian era.
A hare pie was also distributed to villagers during the event.
Hallaton's Bottle-Kicking chairman Phil Allan said: "It is something that has gone on from time immemorial - it is a very ancient custom."
He said a large traditional hare pie was paraded to the church gates and later taken to a hillside where it was "scrambled" or thrown into the crowd.
He said the bottle kicking - which involves teams from Hallaton and nearby Medbourne trying to move a keg of beer over the hills back to their respective village in a rugby-like scrum - is rough and tumble.
"The rules are very simple - there aren't any rules.
"We do add… that there is no murder, no gouging or no riding on horseback with the bottle allowed… it is actually like a very ferocious rugby scrum."
There is no limit to the number of people who can join in the event, but he estimated about 7,000 people were involved this year.
The first team to move two of the three kegs over the stream in their village is declared the winner.
The bottles or kegs are often moved over fences, hedges and ditches but the competitors simply "go straight through and there are some repairs to do the next day", he added.
Mr Allan, who has been Hallaton chairman for 30 years, said the event has only been cancelled once - in 2001 because of the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease.
Some members of the victorious side are allowed to climb to the top of the Buttercross monument in Hallaton and drink the beer from the kegs after the event is finished.
This year's event was won by Hallaton.
After Trevor Gray was jailed in May 2012, his wife traced a witness whose evidence led to his conviction being quashed on appeal in 2013.
When he returned to work, Mr Gray was suspended and then sacked following a Nottinghamshire Police investigation - a decision upheld by a tribunal.
The review will take place on a date to be fixed between 25 April and 27 May.
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An Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) report into the original investigation by Nottinghamshire Police - seen by the BBC - had initially recommended two senior detectives with the force, who looked into the case, face misconduct proceedings.
But the IPCC and the force agreed the pair would face no formal sanctions, and instead were "given management action relating to performance development".
IPCC lead investigator Stephen Webb also said one of the two detectives did not have the necessary qualification to lead the investigation, as the officer had not achieved a level 2 PIP accreditation.
Mr Gray, who had 25 years' experience with Nottinghamshire Police, said he still felt "an element of bitterness" over spending 14 months in prison.
"It shouldn't have happened," he said. "I look forward to having the perverse decision of the force in dismissing me overturned."
He added he would be making a claim for compensation, but said that was currently on hold pending the outcome of the review.
Mr Gray, of Watnall, Nottinghamshire, was retried and acquitted in February 2014.
A Nottinghamshire Police spokeswoman said: "The force acknowledges the IPCC report from July 2015... and has recognised there is some learning for the force."
An IPCC spokesman said it was "considering" making the report public.
This followed a three-day standoff between the soldiers and militants near the town of Pampore on Wednesday.
An army spokesman said the building was searched and weapons were recovered.
Indian-administered Kashmir has seen a wave of deadly unrest since a popular separatist leader was killed by the security forces in July.
On Monday, militants had entered an empty government building near Pampore town on the outskirts of the main city of Srinagar.
Troops, paramilitary soldiers and police surrounded the building while firing rockets, flame throwers and grenades, reports said. The militants fired back with automatic weapons and hurled grenades.
Major-General Ashok Narula of the Indian army described the operation as "tricky" and said the fighting was protracted because "the building was huge and we didn't want collateral damage".
Another building in the same compound was targeted by militants in February when the resulting gun battle left nine people dead.
The latest fighting comes after an attack on an Indian army base killed 18 soldiers last month. India blamed the attack on Pakistan, which denied the claim.
The nuclear-armed neighbours have accused each other of increasing hostilities along their de-facto border in Kashmir since last month's attack.
Later in September, India said it had retaliated by carrying out "surgical strikes" against suspected militants along the de-facto border.
Pakistan denied that India had carried out any strikes and said two of its soldiers were killed in unprovoked cross-border shelling.
The 20-year-old spent time on loan at Yeovil and Walsall last season, scoring nine goals in 19 league appearances for the Saddlers.
He is the fourth player to join the Championship club this summer after defender Jason Davidson and midfielders Dean Whitehead and Kyle Dempsey.
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UK Athletics says he will leave when his contract expires in December.
Dutchman Van Commenee, 54, set a target of at least eight medals at London 2012, including one gold, but the team fell two short.
In a statement, he said his job needed "new energy and approach" through to the World Championships in 2017.
UKA chief executive Niels de Vos said: "Charles has done an excellent job preparing British Athletics for the 2012 Olympic Games.
Born: Amsterdam, Netherlands in 1958
2000: Coaches GB's Denise Lewis to Olympic heptathlon gold
2001: Becomes UK Athletics (UKA) multi-events & jumps performance director
2004: Coaches GB's Kelly Sotherton to Olympic heptathlon bronze before criticising her for not winning silver
2004: Becomes performance director for the Dutch Olympic committee & steers them to 12th in the 2008 Olympic medal table
2009: Rejoins UKA as head coach
"There is no doubt Charles has helped to transform our culture and we can now look forward to further success under the leadership of a new team."
That new team will be announced at a press conference in Birmingham on Thursday.
Van Commenee added: "Niels and I have worked hard to implement accountability as it is vital to the culture of elite sport. My decision has the interests of British athletics at it's heart in sustaining this culture."
Van Commenee was appointed head coach in 2009, his second stint in British athletics, following a disappointing showing at the 2008 Games, in which the team fell short of their target and won just one gold medal.
With his direct and tough-talking manner, he was charged with reviving British athletics and ensuring athletes thrived at a home Games.
He had a proven track record, having coached Britain's 2000 Olympic heptathlon champion Denise Lewis to gold in Sydney and heptathlete Kelly Sotherton to Olympic bronze in Athens in 2004.
Despite Britain failing to achieve his London 2012 target, Van Commenee guided the team to four gold medals and took fourth place in the track and field medals table, their best since 1964.
But there were disappointments, with 400m hurdles medal contender Dai Greene finishing outside the medals, as did Lisa Dobriskey in the 1500m. The 4x100m men's relay team was disqualified for a poor changeover.
"I think he has done a fantastic job. Love him or hate him he has come in and was given a remit to change the mentality of British athletics, which he has done and it's disappointing for me to hear that he has decided to step down. Fair play to him because he asked his athletes to go out there and not rely on funding without achieving success. He gave them a target which they had to achieve at the Olympics, they didn't reach that target so now he has stepped down."
Some GB athletes have defended Van Commenee in the wake of London 2012, although he often cut an outspoken figure on the need for athletes to raise their expectations and goals.
This caused some public disagreements, most notably with leading triple jumper Philips Idowu, who demanded an apology from the head coach when he criticised the athlete's use of social media website Twitter in July last year. The pair have not spoken since.
For others, Van Commenee's leadership produced an environment for success and improvement, as Olympic long jump champion Greg Rutherford told BBC Radio 5 live.
"In the build-up, Charles did everything he could have done to get us where we needed to be," he said. "It's not just down to Charles, it's down to the athletes to perform."
Tasha Danvers, who won 400m hurdles bronze in Beijing, was positive on the legacy Van Commenee will leave behind.
"You've got to look at the results," she said. "He's been successful. We got one gold medal in Beijing and this time around, four."
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The initial campaign in 2015 helped 1.6 million females aged 14-40 start, or restart, a sporting activity.
"This Girl Can has made a real difference since it launched," said Sport England chief Jennie Price.
"But there's a lot more to do. The gender gap still exists."
Again funded by the National Lottery, the four-week campaign will feature poster sites, digital and social media, and TV ads to be screened throughout February.
Research conducted during and after the previous campaign revealed three targets for the 2017 roll-out:
"Most women still feel judged when they play sport or exercise," added Price.
"We feel guilty for stopping and starting, for hesitating, for not looking perfect. The women and girls in this campaign remind us that's normal and create some strong images that we hope millions of women will relate to."
Sport England cites a total of 7.2 million women and girls being engaged in regular physical activity in the UK - an all-time high - and it is hoped that number will rise further with a campaign focusing on issues that still prevent many from making the step to a healthier lifestyle.
If you want to find to find out how to get involved in just about any sport, have a look at our list of BBC Get Inspired activity guides.
The lovable, dysfunctional, yellow-coloured family has been delighting and scandalising fans for the last 26 years, but why has Fox decided to choose China to launch its flagship store? Particularly considering the on-off relationship China has had with the Simpsons.
The Simpsons was first screened by some Chinese broadcasters in the early 2000s, but then in 2006 China banned cartoons.
Along with Mickey Mouse it was dropped from peak-time TV, reportedly in an attempt to protect local animators and amid fears about the effect of foreign culture on Chinese children.
However, some commentators suspected that the ban was an attempt to keep the Simpsons off screens given its coverage of controversial topics and its mockery of anything and everything - China included.
The most controversial episode, as far as China is concerned, is one in season 16, where the Simpsons fly to China to help a relative adopt a baby.
This involves the family passing through Tiananmen Square, where they see signs saying: "On this site, in 1989, nothing happened", and later encounter a tank - both references to the 1989 Tiananmen massacre.
Homer also makes fun of Mao Zedong's embalmed body, which he likens to "a little angel who killed 50 million people", and poses as a Buddha to enter an orphanage.
China's authorities were also unlikely to be amused at the show's portrayal of Tibet Town, an area in Chinatown surrounded by barbed wire, or the fact that Lisa Simpson is also known as a supporter of the Free Tibet movement.
Homer Simpson utters those lines in the Goo Goo Gai Pan episode, first aired in the US in 2005. Within a decade, in 2014, the Simpsons were officially back in China, released for streaming on Chinese web portal Sohu after a deal with Fox.
They appear to have a dedicated following in China, although the TV series still languishes behind major local productions.
For example, the first episode of season 27 garnered 9.4 million hits on Sohu - a decent number, but far lower than the 51 million that Chinese animation The Legend of Qin V attracted.
A thread on Zhihu, a Chinese Q&A forum, asked why The Simpsons hadn't taken off in China. They also wonder if the Chinese audience just doesn't get the American screwball sense of humour.
One user said: "Most people in China think the Simpsons isn't cool enough - it doesn't have any good looking characters... people would rather watch the latest Chinese productions."
Others pointed out many Chinese viewers would have been offended by the controversial episodes. For many, the Simpsons' brand of satire is simply lost in translation due to both cultural differences, and censorship.
"I didn't understand a lot of the sarcasm until an American friend explained it to me..." another user wrote.
Despite this, there are efforts to increase the Simpsons' following in China.
The family have their own feed on microblogging network Weibo, run by a PR company in Shanghai, where administrators share memes and interact with fans.
Dedicated fans have also shared fan art.
But even as 20th Century Fox, which owns The Simpsons, is looking into selling more merchandise in an untapped market, it is also starting to grapple with a quintessentially Chinese problem: copyright infringement.
Earlier this month the Simpsons Weibo administrators posted a warning to overenthusiastic fans.
"If you are a Simpsons fan of outstanding artistic talent, then that is definitely admirable. But if over the long term you profit from second-hand creations of the original works of 20th Century Fox's The Simpsons, then please note: that is a serious legal issue," it said.
Additional reporting by Tessa Wong
The F-35's ejector seat "failed to meet neck-injury criteria" and the jet had a "limited ability to respond to threats", the US defence department has said.
The jet's development, by Lockheed Martin, has already cost billions, partly funded by the UK.
Previously, its UK planned deployment date was put back from 2012 to 2018.
"It's one of the most delayed and problematic fighter programmes in history," said Justin Bronk, a military analyst at the Royal United Services Institute (Rusi).
"While the aircraft could be operationally deployed in its current state, pilots would not be able to undertake such high-g force turns as planned with a lot of fuel on board because of limitations in the flight control software which will take time to overcome.
"If this sort of news keeps coming out in terms of continued problems with the testing... it's potentially embarrassing," he told the BBC.
But he added the aircraft should still be very advanced and capable when complete.
"They will make this thing work because they have no choice, there's no alternative," he said.
"They will chuck whatever money they need to at it."
BBC News has found evidence of children at a school in West Yorkshire being taught in a class of 46 pupils.
Analysis has also found that every region in England has seen a real-terms cut in school spending.
A Department for Education spokesperson said school class sizes had remained stable since 2006.
According to the latest school census, in 2016 there were 17,780 state secondary school children in 2016 being taught in classes with 36 or more pupils. This is the highest number for a decade.
In comparison, in 2011 the number was 6,107.
An investigation by BBC Yorkshire has found that Brighouse High Academy School in West Yorkshire has a Year 9 maths class where one teacher has 46 pupils.
Thirteen-year-old Silas Ennis said he has found it hard to cope in such a large class.
"It's difficult to learn because there's so many people around you, so you're not focusing as much on the lesson" he said.
"Everyone in the class agrees that there's too many people in the classroom."
Brighouse High said due to budget cuts and the difficulty of recruiting specialist maths teachers the class of 46 pupils was an experiment that would allow other maths classes with less able students to be taught in smaller groups.
The latest figures show there were 59,712 children at both state primary and secondary schools being taught in classes with 36 or more pupils in 2016.
About 90% of children who attend state schools in England are taught in classes with 30 pupils or fewer. However, teachers' unions warn growing pupil numbers and shrinking budgets are placing strains on the system.
"The squeeze on schools is coming directly from the government," said James Wilson from the National Union of Teachers (NUT).
"As far as we're concerned, it's unacceptable to have a class of more than 30 children.
"Ultimately, this is totally unfair and the people most affected are the pupils who will receive a poorer education."
Dr David Spendlove from the University of Manchester said there is no clear link between larger class sizes and the attainment of pupils being detrimentally affected.
"Children are only likely to feel the benefits of being in a small class if it has less than 15 students in it," he said.
"Interestingly there is some data to suggest that attainment in maths can rise in larger groups. It all depends on the context of the class, how it is being taught, what are the needs of the pupils and what their relationship is like with the teacher."
The average secondary school class in England contained 20.4 students according to the latest school census.
Data collected by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) found that the UK had some of the smallest average class sizes in the developed world.
Although class sizes in Japan and Germany tend to be larger, children in both countries out-performed UK students in the latest influential PISA rankings.
Helen Vickers, a parent with five children in West Yorkshire, said she has concerns about class sizes and the amount of money being spent on schools.
She said: "My concern is that if schools already have classes with 46 children in them, then students like my daughter who has dyslexia are potentially going to suffer in the future.
"I believe in the coming years schools are going to face more cuts and I've already had difficulty with my daughter's school in ensuring that she has the necessary resources in place to help her succeed."
£36.3 billion
the amount shared out between
21,977
schools in England in 2016/17.
118,285 the number of extra full time pupils attending school in 2016 compared to 2015.
£37 less in real terms is being spent on each pupil this year.
Analysing the latest government data, BBC News has found that average spending on each pupil in England has fallen in real terms from £4,408 in 2015-16 to £4,371 in 2016-17.
Real terms spending means the amount by which a budget increases or decreases once the effect of inflation is accounted for.
The data shows that whilst the individual schools budget in England went up by about £60m in real terms last year, an increase in the number of children being taught means less money is now being spent on each individual pupil.
Every region in England has seen a real-terms cut in funding in the past year for pupils who attend both state schools and academies.
How much does each pupil get in my area? Get the data here.
The number of full-time pupils attending classes in 2016 reached a 13-year high of 8.3 million.
The growth in pupil numbers is being fuelled by the effects of immigration and a higher fertility rate.
In 2012 the fertility rate for England and Wales hit its highest level since 1973 and the 725,000 children born in that year are now entering the education system for the first time.
In cash terms, and not accounting for inflation, the government has increased spending on the individual school budgets by £2.6bn since 2013-14.
Ahead of the last General Election former Prime Minister David Cameron said his government would protect England's schools budget in cash terms, but per pupil funding would not keep pace with inflation.
A recent report by the National Audit Office (NAO) warned that rising costs will mean schools will have to find a further £3bn in savings by 2019-20.
The government said the introduction of a new funding formula in 2018-19 would end "unfair" and "inconsistent" funding levels.
A Department for Education spokesperson said: "Despite an increase in population, class sizes in England's schools have remained stable since 2006 - in fact overall a bigger proportion of children are now taught in classes of under 30.
"Since 2006, the percentage of primary pupils in classes of 36 or more has actually fallen. In secondary schools it has remained at about 0.5% since 2013.
"School funding is at its highest level on record with more than £40bn being invested in 2016-17. Overall, taking per pupil funding and rising pupil numbers into account, the school budget will be protected for inflation.
"We have recently set out proposals to end the historic postcode lottery in school funding and we have announced a further £190m to provide more support to underperforming schools and ensure the number of good school places continues to rise."
As part of the analysis of individual school budgets, BBC News has applied the Office for Budgetary Responsibility (OBR) inflation forecast of 1.38% for 2016-17 to the Department for Education's spending data.
Additional reporting by Sean Stowell and Dave Edwards.
Skegness Town Council wants to create the hub on the site of Tower Gardens Pavilion, which dates back to 1879.
East Lindsey District Council, which owns the building, said it was backing the move.
Funding of £3.5m is being sought from the Coastal Communities Fund, after a successful first round bid.
If the bid is successful, work could start in 2017.
The proposed hub would include a tearoom, heritage museum and tourist information centre
Previous attempts to save the building, which has been empty since 2007, have been unsuccessful, and a survey found rising damp, corrosion, holes in the roof, collapsed floors and rotting woodwork.
Apple said its lightning connector could be used instead, which would make room for other components. It will also promote the use of wireless earphones, and has released a set of its own called Airpods.
The firm said it had taken "courage" to take the step.
However, it risks annoying users who will now require an adapter for existing headphones.
The US company unveiled its latest handsets at an event in San Francisco following a year in which its phone sales and market share shrank.
Other new features include:
The launch comes a week after the European Commission demanded Apple pay up to €13bn (£11bn) in back taxes to Ireland - a ruling the firm is appealing.
"The current difficulties with the EU will have little bearing towards the iPhone 7 at this juncture," predicted Ben Wood from the CCS Insight consultancy.
"But the dispute will drag on for years, and if sentiment turns against Apple that could have major implications for the brand.
"For now, there's a strong argument that the iPhone 7 is more than an iterative update.
"Upgrades are all important to Apple and for consumers coming from an iPhone 5S or iPhone 6, the iPhone 7 will feel like a considerable step up."
The 3.5mm headphone jack was made popular by Sony's Walkman cassette players, but was first introduced in one of the Japanese company's transistor radios in 1964.
Apple has repeatedly been willing to ditch connectors and other ageing tech from its products earlier than its rivals.
However, it was not first in this case.
"Lenovo's Moto Z and select models from Chinese manufacturer LeEco have launched without the 3.5mm socket in 2016," noted IHS's Ian Fogg.
"These manufactures have had little adverse reaction, in part, because they sell many fewer smartphones than Apple."
One audio expert also had doubts.
"If you've been interested purely in the audio quality then a wired connection has always been best," said Simon Lucas, editor of What Hi-fi magazine.
"You have greater stability - there's no possibility of drop-outs. Wireless headphones also need to be charged, and the louder you listen to them the quicker they will run out of power.
"With regards to headphones with a lightning connector, there's only about eight pairs currently available and they will all have had to pay Apple a licence to use its proprietary connector."
Apple, however, suggests there are advantages to using its Airpods, which will cost £159.
It demonstrated that the wireless headphones could be paired with the phone much more quickly than is normally the case with Bluetooth sets.
The Airpods also contain infrared sensors to detect when they are in the user's ears. This allows them to automatically stop music when they are taken out.
Motion sensors in the buds also allow the firm's virtual assistant Siri to be activated for voice commands by double-tapping their sides.
Users will, however, have to get used to charging another device.
Apple said the Airpods would last "up to five hours" on a charge, and come with a recharging case that can extend their life up to 24 hours before a plug socket is required.
Another related change is the introduction of stereo speakers - one at each end of the handset - which Apple said meant the iPhone 7 could deliver twice the volume of the iPhone 6S.
One company watcher said removing the 3.5mm socket would still annoy some users, but added that their frustration might be short-lived.
"Apple changed the charger port a few years ago and people got upset," said Francisco Jeronimo from the research firm IDC.
"But it didn't stop people from buying the iPhone. Removing the headphone jack won't either.
"What's more important is whether a consumer likes Apple's ecosystem or Android's, because at this point Windows and Blackberry phones have an extremely low market share."
The iPhone 7 Plus has both a wide angle and telephoto lens on its back, both using their own 12 megapixel sensor.
This allows the owner to quickly switch to a tighter shot without sacrificing image quality, and also allows the device to offer 10x zoom - double the amount than before - by digitally cropping the photo in the camera app.
A similar feature is already available on LG's G5 phone.
But Apple says it will also be able to combine data gathered by both camera sensors to simulate an effect associated with larger DSLR (digital single-lens reflex) cameras.
It said software would be able to automatically pick people's faces out from the background, keeping the humans in focus while blurring the rest of the shot in order to enhance the portraits.
The feature will not, however, be available at launch but will rather be provided as an update later on.
The iPhone 7 ranges from £599 to £799, depending on the amount of storage. The iPhone 7 Plus ranges from £719 to £919.
That marks an increase on last year's prices, when the entry-level iPhone 6S was £539 and the iPhone 6S Plus was £619, albeit with less storage. US consumers have not seen such significant increases.
They are available to buy from 16 September.
Apple has also raised the prices of other products in the UK, including its iPads, despite the fact that the tablets have just been given price cuts in the US.
The BBC understands this has been done to reflect the weaker pound.
The room went silent upon seeing Apple's adapter for using normal headphones in the iPhone 7's lightning port.
It's purposefully irritating and clunky, because Apple of course wants you to invest in wireless headphones.
But a big cheer rang out for the Airpods themselves. They look cool, and relatively discreet - but could be a bit prone to falling out of your ears. Charging them could also become a hassle.
Stereo speakers for external sound is a nice new touch - but Apple is really slow to this compared to rivals like HTC and ZTE. And, the grumpy man in me hates anything that encourages phone audio to be played out loud in public.
The demonstration of the iPhone 7 Plus's camera capabilities didn't exactly draw cheers, but more satisfied "mmm, nice" noise from most of those around me.
It also feels like Apple has had a slight rethink with the Apple Watch. The device is clearly a fitness device first, fashion statement second - no longer is it pushing a $10,000, gold-plated model.
Now the poster people of Apple Watch are the likes of Serena Williams, not Beyonce.
Apple also unveiled a new version of its smartwatch, which it described as the "ultimate fitness device".
The firm said the Apple Watch Series Two is water resistant to 50m (164ft), meaning it can be used while swimming or surfing.
It also introduces:
The original Watch is the best selling smartwatch on the market, but shipments of the device dropped more than 50% between the April-to-June quarter of 2016 and the same period the previous year, according to IDC.
"It seems people don't want all their smartphone features on a smartwatch - what they want is basic notifications and basic alerts, and that's why some other brands are now making traditional-looking watches with additional digital features instead," said Mr Jeronimo.
"That's a challenge for Apple as well as for Samsung and other tech firms selling feature-rich smartwatches."
Apple said it thought the device would have particular appeal to runners, and may be able to stoke interest through a partnership with Nike.
The fitness brand has created an app that lets its owner share details of their runs with others, and has also launched its own bands for the timepiece.
Although many of the details of the new devices had leaked in advance, there was one major surprise at the start of the event.
Video game character Mario's creator, Shigeru Miyamoto, appeared to announce that Nintendo's plumber would appear in his first iPhone video game before the end of the year.
Mr Miyamoto confirmed that the running-themed adventure would be an iOS exclusive at launch.
It follows the success of another Nintendo franchise, Pokemon, on the platform.
It was also revealed that the Apple Watch would soon gain the ability to tell owners how close they are to nearby monsters in Pokemon Go, and to show which characters have hatched from eggs in the augmented reality title.
Apple has a habit of being an early abandoner of tech it thinks has become outdated.
When Steve Jobs unveiled the original iMac, there was surprise that it was missing a floppy disk drive. Apple said 1.44 megabyte disks had become too small to hold the files owners would want to create. But the decision left the computer without a built-in way to get files on to removable storage as its CD-ROM drive could read but not write data.
An iMac refresh dropped built-in support for dialling up the internet via a telephone line. Most people in the US still did not have access to a broadband connection at the time, and some of those affected criticised Apple for making them buy a $50 add-on peripheral.
Apple boasted that the MacBook Air was the world's thinnest computer and ran TV ads showing it fitting into an envelope. But the achievement was only made possible by building a laptop without the ability to play CDs or DVDs. Many reviewers believed that the trade-off made it an impractical choice as a user's primary computer.
Apple had used its proprietary 30-pin connector ever since 2003's iPod. It ditched the data-and-power plug in the iPhone 5 to help slim down the handset. But it left many users with old chargers, docking stations and other peripherals that did not fit the new devices.
Last year's Macbook launched with a single USB-C port for data connections and charging. The firm describes it as the "future of the notebook", but for now users need to buy an additional hub if they want to use it with older plug-in hardware.
Some drivers - brought over from poorer countries by lorry firms based in Eastern Europe - say their salary is less than three pounds an hour.
They say they cannot afford to live in the countries where they work. One said he felt "like a prisoner" in his cab.
Ikea said it was "saddened by the testimonies" of the drivers.
The drivers the BBC spoke to were employed by haulage companies based in Eastern Europe, which are paid to transport Ikea goods.
Romanian driver Emilian spends up to four months at a time sleeping, eating and washing in his truck.
He moves goods for Ikea around Western Europe, and had been in Denmark most recently.
He says the salary he takes home is a monthly average of 477 euros (£420).
A Danish driver can expect to take home an average of 2,200 euros (£1,900) a month in salary.
EU rules state that a driver posted temporarily away from home should be ''guaranteed'' the host nation's ''minimum rates of pay'' and conditions. But companies can exploit loopholes in the law.
Emilian is employed by a Slovakian subsidiary of Norwegian trucking company Bring, and is being paid as if his place of work is Slovakia - even though he never works there.
He shows us where he sleeps - a sleeping bag in the back of his cab.
According to EU law, drivers must take 45 hours weekly rest away from their cabs, but governments have been slow to enforce it.
He says he cannot afford to sleep anywhere else - he receives around 45 euros (£40) a day in expenses, which is meant to cover all hotel bills and meals.
Zoe Conway was reporting for the BBC's Today and Victoria Derbyshire programmes.
During the working week, Emilian cooks and eats at the roadside. He says conditions have left him feeling "like a prisoner, like a bird in the cage".
"It's not good for drivers, it's not safe for other people on the road... it is possible to [cause an] accident," he says.
Asked if he has a message for Ikea, he says: "Come and live with me for one week. Eat what I eat. See what is happening in reality with our lives."
After a few months on the road he will board a minibus back to Slovakia.
His Slovakian employer, Bring, says Emilian is responsible for taking his rest breaks, and can return home whenever he likes.
Emilian is not alone. We have seen the contracts of drivers working for some of Ikea's biggest contractors - each paid low Eastern European wages while working for months at a time in Western Europe.
It is clear this way of treating drivers is widespread. It is not just within the Ikea supply chain, but also in those of several other big, household names.
In Dortmund, Germany - outside the biggest Ikea distribution centre in the world - truck drivers are drying their clothes. One is making his mash potato on a fuel tank.
There is no toilet, no running water.
Drivers from Moldova say they receive an average monthly salary of 150 euros (£130) from their employer.
Legal action is now being taken against some of Ikea's contractors.
In the Netherlands last month, a court ruled that Brinkman - which delivers Ikea flowers to the UK and Scandinavia - was breaking the law.
The court found that drivers' pay was "not consistent" with Dutch wages law.
The judge described conditions for drivers as an "inhumane state of affairs'', and contrary to EU law.
Edwin Atema, of trade union FNV, says he believes Ikea must have known of the conditions in which drivers are living.
"The Ukrainian, Moldovan, Polish guys remove the furniture from Ikea, they touch the furniture," he says.
"Ikea is the economic employer of all these workers here. They have so much power. Ikea has the tool in hand to change the business model with an eye blink."
One union, the International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF), met Ikea several times last year to discuss the issue - but talks ended in November.
Ikea said it takes what drivers have told the BBC "very seriously'' and are "saddened by the testimonies".
It said it puts ''strict demands'' on its suppliers concerning wages, working conditions and following applicable legislation, and audits them regularly to check compliance.
'Far more foreign lorries'
Increasing numbers of foreign haulage companies are now moving goods in Britain.
They are working for hundreds of different companies, including Ikea.
At a lorry stop in Immingham, Lincolnshire, one anonymous Polish driver explains: "We spend a lot of time living in lay-bys where there are no toilets, no showers, no facilities.
"The work is paid a bit better than what I would get in Poland, but this life is not good. I do it for my family.''
British haulage companies are nervous that they will be undercut by companies that could be breaking the law.
Jack Semple, from the Road Haulage Association, says: "We are seeing far more foreign lorries that are frankly less compliant with drivers' hours and road-worthiness regulations.
"There is a road safety risk, and the Treasury is losing a fortune in tax revenue.
"They have to get a grip on this because big, well-known UK retailers and other companies are making increasing use of these firms because they don't cost very much."
Lee Roberts, 33, and Anthony "Charlie" Munkley, 55, deny killing 25-year-old Sion Davies.
Mold Crown Court heard Mr Davies was shot with a crossbow before falling from a three-storey balcony at Caia Park estate, Wrexham, in October 2014.
Mr Roberts said he was concerned for his own mental health 10 days before Mr Davies' death, the court heard.
Consultant psychiatrist Dr Lucie Klenka said she had a consultation with Mr Roberts on 14 September.
"He did not trust himself with people and that was what he wanted help with," she said.
Film footage taken from the victim's phone showing some of the attack has been played to the jury.
The trial continues.
Frank To first met the actor, who plays Professor Xavier in the X men films, while studying at university in Huddersfield in 2000.
Sir Patrick, who was born in West Yorkshire, became vice chancellor of the university three years later.
When Frank, who comes from Glasgow, staged his degree show, Sir Patrick came along.
"He actually had a sneak preview because he couldn't come on the day of the show," Frank said.
"I couldn't believe it when he walked in. He didn't buy anything but he had a good look round, spoke to me for about half an hour and took one of my invitation cards away.
"A year later, I got an email from him. I thought it was a joke at first but I realised it was genuinely him, asking how I was, and our friendship took off from there."
Frank went on to Dundee to study for a Masters degree at Duncan of Jordanstone but continued to keep in touch, and it was at that point that Sir Patrick bought some of his work.
"He asked me to bring two paintings to his home in London - one from my masters' show and one from the earlier degree show," he said. "He bought both of them on the spot."
Despite the difference in age, and careers, the two have much in common.
"When we first met, Patrick had just had a heart operation and I had gone from degree, to masters to unemployment," Frank said. "It was a strange and confusing time for us both but we discovered we had so much in common.
"He became my patron, but he also became my mentor. Things haven't always gone smoothly but he's always been there for me.
"Thanks to him, I'm a lot more mellow. Perhaps he saw his younger self in me, all that passion and energy and wanting to take on the world."
Sir Patrick has purchased several of Frank's works over the years.
"I think he has the bookmarks of my career so far," Frank said.
But last summer the actor asked Frank to give him art lessons after his wife Sunny bought him a box of watercolours.
Frank, who now lectures in art at Perth College, University of the Highlands and Islands, has since given Sir Patrick a number of lessons.
"I have taught him all the things I've learned, sketching, use of colour and so on.
"He's got a great grasp of colour. So much so, that I think he may have had a say in the new Logan movie because I recognise the colour scheme in scenes, and even in what he's wearing.
"It feels like he's already incorporating what he's learned into his workplace."
Sir Patrick admitted he was taking lessons in art in a recent interview with The Australian in which he said of Frank: "I spotted him early on when I was chancellor of the University of Huddersfield and saw this young man's work in his final degree show.
"His career is really beginning to take off; his work is very bold, adventurous, unusual and distinctive.
"I'm now actually taking painting lessons from him myself, and enjoying myself immensely."
Although Frank has two exhibitions coming up - at Gallery Q in Dundee and the Glasgow Art Club - he doesn't think Sir Patrick intends to stage a public exhibition of his work.
"It's too early to tell, really. He doesn't see it as work, it's more a way to help him relax. But if he did stage anything, he says he'd like it to be at the University of Huddersfield."
The MP, on a trade trip to Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories, said advocates of a ban were a "bunch of corduroy-jacketed lefty academics".
Those who endorsed it were "foolish" and in a "very small minority".
The BBC's Karl Mercer said there was strong reaction to the London mayor's comments on Palestinian social media.
While Mr Johnson's meeting with Palestinian Authority prime minister Rami Hamdallah in Ramallah went ahead, other meetings with young Palestinians and female business leaders in the West Bank were cancelled because of fears of protests.
Advocates of a boycott, which has been in place by some organisations in recent years, claims it exerts pressure on the Israeli government, particularly in relation to the building of settlements in occupied Palestinian territories, which have been condemned by the UN.
But the UK and other leading governments do not recognise the consumer boycott.
Mr Johnson, who is regarded as a Conservative leadership contender when David Cameron stands down, was due to take part in a number of public events, having spent the past two days in Israel.
Earlier this week, he condemned talk of a "so-called" boycott of goods and services, as well as other punitive measures such as sanctions or divestment of shares in Israeli companies, describing their proponents as "corduroy jacketed-academics... by and large lefty academics who have no real standing in the matter and are unlikely to be influential on Britain".
Speaking after a trade export event in Tel Aviv, he added: "I cannot think of anything more foolish than to say you want to have any kind of sanctions or divestment or boycott against a country that, when all is said and done, is the only democracy in the region that is the only place, in my view, which has an open, pluralistic society. Why boycott Israel?
"This is a very small minority in our country who are calling for this."
The BBC's assistant political editor Norman Smith said he understood the charity which had asked Mr Johnson to the West Bank had withdrawn the invitation, while there was a suggestion that Palestinian politicians had also refused to meet him.
Many people would regard the comments as "undiplomatic", he added, although defenders would argue this was "Boris being Boris". ( see this 2007 list of where his comments caused offence)
Speaking in Ramallah, Mr Johnson said it was a shame that he could not fulfil some of his engagements, acknowledging that some people had "taken offence" at his remarks but suggesting they had been "whipped up" on social media.
Asked if he regretted what he said, Mr Johnson said it was a "simple repetition of what is not only British government policy but is a policy supported by the prime minister of the Palestinian Authority".
"It was very clear from the conversation I have just had with the prime minister that he does not support a boycott and does think that is the way forward. What you have got here is elements who do think that is the way forward, who are very vociferous and want to make a point."
About 500,000 Jews live in more than 100 settlements built since Israel's 1967 occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem. The settlements are considered illegal under international law, though Israel disputes this.
In recent months, Leicester City Council has boycotted goods from Israeli settlements in the West Bank while four Scottish councils have resolved to boycott Israeli goods in recent years, according to the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign.
Wolves' Kurt Gidley, 34, became the first rugby league player to wear a camera during Thursday's 22-8 defeat.
Television viewers were told at half-time that the device had been removed because of "technical issues".
"I don't know if it had any effect on what he did, but the camera went at half-time," said Wire coach Tony Smith.
"Kurt wanted to get on with playing footy. I don't think things were going great for Kurt at that stage. He needed to get it off and just get on with playing."
The camera, which was mounted on a vest behind a hole in Gidley's shirt, was worn to try to give viewers a unique perspective of the contact sport.
Gidley had said before kick-off that the experimental idea "painted a target" on him.
Wolves are bottom of Super League and without a win after five successive defeats, but Smith said the technology could not be used as an excuse.
"I hope they got some good footage from it," he added. "I think it was done for all the right reasons to try and give people a perspective of rugby league from a different angle."
Sky Sports, who broadcast live Super League, have said they will continue with the experiment.
"We had a few technical issues with the camera which could not be resolved in the half-time break," a spokesperson said.
"Kurt was happy to continue wearing it and it was a decision made by our production team and Warrington, not his, to take it off.
"After we have reviewed the game and the camera we will certainly look to give it another go."
The Dons had the lion's share of possession in the first leg of the second round qualifying tie but could not break the deadlock.
"I think we're more than capable of going over there and winning," McInnes told BBC Radio Scotland.
"It's not the worst result - we hope to win and we hope for better."
Niall McGinn and Peter Pawlett created the best openings for the Dons in a game of few chances.
We've got goals in us - I'm sure of that
"For spells, it looked as though the breakthrough was going to come," McInnes added. "We really showed we can pass the ball; we moved the ball well, it was like a game of chess at times.
"At the minute, they might think it's a better result - we've all seen the importance of scoring away from home. We know if we can score over there then they've got to go and score two.
"I don't think we're in a position where we need to chase the game, I really don't."
Of the impressive Pawlett, McInnes was full of praise, and he also singled out full-back Jonny Hayes for his attacking intent.
"Jonny was taking people on and beating them," he said. "He feels he can do that from that from a deep position. You see the pace of what they bring on, the boy Antonia, who they've just signed, is rapid quick but Jonny matched him stride for stride on more than one occasion.
"There was lots to be pleased about with the team; I thought there was a maturity and I'm pleased with that. There was a confidence about us.
"We just lacked that cutting edge towards the end. We've got goals in us - I'm sure of that."
Looking ahead to the second leg in the Netherlands, McInnes is predicting another tight contest but is sure his charges can come out on top.
"One goal could decide the tie - we just have to make sure it's us who gets it," he said.
Manchester-born Taylor-Brown, 23, was competing almost a week after the arena attack that killed 22 people in her home city.
"When you come away with flowers and a sticky face, it's been a good day," she tweeted. "Hope I made Manchester smile."
America's Taylor Spivey was second.
Taylor-Brown finished in a time of two hours, eight minutes, five seconds - 51 seconds ahead of second-placed Spivey.
She held her own in the swim, finished in a leading pack of eight after 20km on the bike and increased a slender lead over four laps in the run.
"It was one of the hardest races I've ever done in my career, but also one of the best ones," added the 2012 European junior champion.
"I loved the atmosphere, the hilly circuit and I just tried to save some energy during the bike for the run course, which I knew it was going to be also really hard."
The UN panel of experts said civilians were also being deliberately starved as a war tactic over the past nine months.
The panel called for an inquiry into human rights abuses.
The coalition is attempting to oust the rebels from Yemen's capital, Sanaa, and restore the country's government.
Saudi Arabia says the Houthis, who allied with forces linked to Yemen's former president, are supported militarily by its regional rival Iran - something it denies.
More than 5,800 people have been killed in fighting since March, and more than 80% of the population is in dire need of food, water and other aid, the UN says.
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"Not a single humanitarian pause to alleviate the suffering of the Yemeni people has been fully observed by any Yemeni party or by the coalition," the report says.
The UN's experts documented 119 coalition sorties that violated international law, the report says, many of which involved multiple strikes on civilian objects.
They also found that civilians fleeing coalition air strikes had been chased and shot at by helicopters.
The new report follows intensifying concern over the deteriorating situation in Yemen.
Earlier this month, Yemen's government briefly expelled the UN's human rights representative following reports that the Saudi-led coalition had been using cluster bombs.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon warned at the time that the use of cluster bombs could amount to a war crime.
Meanwhile, Dutch diplomats were forced to abandon a proposal in the UN Human Rights Council calling for an international fact finding mission to Yemen, reportedly under pressure from Saudi Arabia.
The new UN report also expresses concern about the build-up of weapons in Yemen.
The panel examined anti-tank guided missiles originating from Iran that were seized off the coast of Oman in September and are now in the US.
It also accused the Saudi coalition of supplying weapons to armed groups "without taking due measures to ensure accountability and due storage".
The panel relied on satellite imagery and other sources of information because its members were not allowed to travel to Yemen.
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England boss Roy Hodgson said Rashford was in his thoughts for France after the striker, 18, scored four goals in his first two appearances for United.
But Butt said: "I think talk of England is well too soon for Marcus."
He said Rashford had "phenomenal potential" but an international call-up now could do "more damage than good".
The 41-year-old Butt, who made 387 appearances for United, said: "It could backfire on everybody and might not be the right thing for him.
"I'm not telling an England manager what to do; it's his job to pick whoever he feels.
"But for me he's a young boy who's still learning the game and has got a long way to go yet."
Rashford scored twice on his debut against FC Midtjylland and added another two goals in a 3-2 win over Arsenal but has since not scored for four games.
Former England international Butt was speaking at a Manchester United event with Gulf Oil International.
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Murray and Soares, seeded fourth, beat Spain's unseeded Pablo Carreno Busta and Guillermo Garcia-Lopez 6-2 6-3.
It gives Murray and Soares a second major title after they won their first Grand Slam together at the Australian Open in January.
Scot Murray, 30, also held the number one ranking earlier this year.
Murray 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.
It is amazing what we've been able to do from a country of no history of tennis at all
"These tournaments are the hardest to win," said Murray.
"I've got a great partner in Bruno who makes a lot of returns for me and long may it continue."
Murray 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.
"I think we have been able to do a lot of amazing things in our lives on a tennis court," said Jamie Murray.
"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.
"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."
Murray 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.
The 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.
There 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.
An 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.
Murray 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.
"I am glad we got together," said Soares. "It is our first season. To win in Australia and here is extremely special."
Murray 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.
"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."
Mr Ashley responded after being summoned to appear in Parliament and warned he could be held in contempt.
He also urged MPs to attend his firm's Derbyshire headquarters - an invitation they declined.
The Commons business committee said it was "disappointed" about Mr Ashley's refusal to attend.
"It is telling that he chose to give his response to the media rather than to the committee directly," said Iain Wright MP, chair of the Business, Skills and Innovation Committee.
However, Mr Ashley told Sky News he felt MPs were "showboating".
Mr Ashley - who also owns Newcastle United Football Club - had been asked to attend Westminster on 7 June on the back of a BBC investigation into Sports Direct's warehouse working practices.
He had until Monday to respond to a letter from Mr Wright, the Hartlepool MP.
In his response, on 10 March, Mr Ashley asked the committee to come to the Sports Direct premises.
Mr Ashley said he will not "stand idle" while Sports Direct is "subjected to public vilification".
"The current intention is not to go, because [MPs] ought to see it for themselves," he told Sky News.
"In my opinion, they're just showboating. In my opinion, they're actually a joke.
"They don't care about the people, they care about the business of politics."
Mr Wright told the BBC the matter will be discussed at the next committee meeting on Tuesday.
"I'm very disappointed that Mr Ashley has refused to accept the committee's request to come and give evidence in Parliament, like every other witness for every other select committee voluntarily does," he added.
The committee will now need to raise a complaint of contempt, and the House of Commons would then decide whether a contempt has been committed.
Meet 26-year-old Melanie Biggs who has spent the last 15 years of her life Morris dancing, sometimes wearing black paint on her face.
On occasions the dance groups she has been a part of were labelled "racist", but Melanie has claimed they were not being "disrespectful" because it is an English tradition.
"I never felt bad. I just felt that people were being ignorant," she said.
It is not often Morris dancers are in the news, but that was before a photograph emerged showing the Prime Minister David Cameron standing with his young daughter and a group of blacked-up Morris dancers.
Anti-discrimination campaigners have told Newsbeat that the practice is "out of date" and "deeply hurtful" to the millions of black people living in modern Britain.
Mr Cameron's official spokesman has refused to answer questions about the picture, which was taken at the Banbury Folk Festival on Saturday.
However, people like Melanie insist blacking-up has no racial connotations.
"In the 16th Century, Morris dancing was banned," she explained. "This was a big problem for many poor people who were out of work and used to dance for money.
"The beggars started covering their faces in soot so they could continue dancing without being recognised. Blacking-up is now commonly accepted as a form of disguise."
"I have danced with people from all sorts of cultures including an Arab man who didn't black up because he didn't need to.
"Some teams have chosen not to black-up their faces because of political correctness, but I believe it is a part of English tradition which deserves its place in history."
However, while the charity Show Racism the Red Card has accepted the importance of celebrating traditional events it has said blacking up is no longer "relevant".
A spokesperson said: "The use of blackface is an out-of-date practice demonstrating that public attitudes have moved on and crude caricatures of black people should be considered unacceptable in modern day Britain."
When asked about the Prime Minister's decision to pose for a photo with blacked-up Morris dancers, Melanie was not concerned.
"I just think it's a storm in a teacup," she said. "The Prime Minister is just having a photo with his family."
The UK's leading independent race equality think-tank has said blacking-up is an example of the UK not doing enough to break down racial stereotypes.
Dr Omar Khan, Director of the Runnymede Trust, said: "The racist stereotypes associated with blacking-up may be less explicit in 2014, but inequalities in education, the labour market, and criminal justice indicate that racial discrimination persists.
"If we are serious about offering equal opportunities, we must do more to combat stereotypes, whether that is blacking-up or in employment."
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Pearce has been stood down from training, the club are investigating and they have informed the NRL.
The 26-year-old half-back said he had to address his alcohol issues and added: "It is not an excuse but a realisation that I finally need help."
The incident is said to have happened at a house party on Australia Day.
In the video, Pearce appears to try to kiss a woman, who accuses him of wetting himself after rejecting his advances, before he allegedly simulated a sex act on a dog.
"Together with the club I'm working on a solution for me to address these issues that will come out in the next couple of days," said Pearce.
The club issued the following statement:
In 2014, Pearce was fined £9,800 and suspended after an incident in which he was arrested and ejected from a Sydney nightclub.
He will not return to training with the Roosters until the club "concludes its internal investigation".
Pearce, the son of rugby league legend and NRL commissioner Wayne Pearce, looks certain to miss the trip to England for the World Club Series game against St Helens at Langtree Park on 19 February.
"I'd like to unreservedly apologise to everyone for my actions over the past couple of days," added Pearce.
"My behaviour was unacceptable. I'm embarrassed and take full responsibility for my actions."
It comes amid reports of potential buyers for the plant where thousands of jobs are at risk after Tata Steel said it was selling its UK operations.
The government says it is ready to offer help to secure a purchase.
David Cameron and Carwyn Jones will meet on Tuesday to discuss the situation.
It will come a day after assembly members meet to discuss the crisis during a specially-reconvened debate on Monday.
Mr Jones has called on the UK government to give the British steel industry the same support given banks during the financial crisis.
Writing in The Independent this weekend, Mr Jones said there was "a moral, economic and strategic case" to do the same for steel.
Business Secretary Sajid Javid said the government's plan to save the plant - and industry - was to find a commercial buyer for all of Tata's UK businesses.
Speaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr show, he said the government's plan to save the plant - and industry - was to find a commercial buyer for all of Tata's UK businesses.
"We're going to also have to offer support to eventually clinch that buyer and to give this steel plant a long-term viable future," he said.
A source close to steel tycoon Sanjeev Gupta, founder of commodities firm Liberty House, confirmed he had been in contact with the government as a possible buyer for the Port Talbot steelworks, which employs 4,100 people and is said to be losing £1m a day.
The source told the BBC the discussions had not been substantive yet, but Mr Gupta is due to arrive in the UK from Dubai this week and would be seeking further talks on the issue.
Tata announced plans last week to sell its loss-making UK plants. Unless a buyer can be found, thousands of jobs are at risk.
The business directly employs 15,000 workers and supports thousands of others and includes plants in Port Talbot, Rotherham, Corby and Shotton.
It also has sites in in Llanwern and Newport, Shotton in Flintshire and Trostre in Llanelli.
German steelmaker ThyssenKrupp has also been touted as another potential buyer, according to the Observer.
Meanwhile, the UK government said all public sector bodies would be required to think about the impact of using foreign steel for construction projects, in a bid to encourage buying British steel.
Ministers have faced criticism for failing to take more action to prevent the "dumping" of cheap Chinese steel - selling it cheaply at a loss - seen as one of the key reasons for the problems in the UK steel industry.
The Welsh Government said a task force was already looking at supporting the steel industry through public sector contracts in devolved areas.
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The Welsh Liberal Democrats say there are still questions for the first minister to answer about the Welsh Government's handling of the situation.
They point out that two of the things the steel industry have called for - action on business rates and public sector procurement - are in the hands of Welsh ministers.
A Welsh Conservatives spokesman said: "We are pleased to see that the UK government is taking steps to reform procurement rules to give UK steel a fair chance and that is a step the Welsh Government should also consider, along with offering business rate relief."
Jonathan Edwards, Plaid Cymru MP for Carmarthen East and Dinefwr, said: "Wales cannot go on with a government with such abject lack of ambition and which is willing to idly stand by rather than stand up for our vital steel industry."
Mark Reckless of UKIP Wales added: "The government has done next to nothing to save our steel or protect workers in Part Talbot and beyond."
The CCTV footage shows Brahim Abdesalam detonating his suicide belt in the Comptoir Voltaire cafe.
It has drawn shocked comments on social media but no formal complaint to France's broadcast regulator.
Documentary maker Christian Huleu said it was important to show the reality of the militants' violence.
He defended the use of the images, which are the most graphic of the attacks yet seen on French television.
The video was part of a 90-minute film broadcast on Sunday evening on Zone Interdite (Forbidden Zone) , a current affairs programme on the independent channel M6. M6 did not say how it obtained the footage.
There was widespread outrage in the aftermath of the attacks when it was reported that the Daily Mail had bought CCTV from another cafe for 50,000 euros (£39,000; $56,000).
The M6 documentary - which went out at 21:00 and carried a strapline warning of its explicit content - used eyewitness interviews as well as amateur and surveillance video to give a detailed chronological account of the November 13 killings.
Brahim Abdeslam was the elder brother of Salah Abdeslam, the only surviving attacker. Salah is now in jail in Belgium.
In the video, Brahim is seen inside the Comptoir Voltaire, wearing a black coat. He begins moving among the tables, where people are seated in twos and threes enjoying Friday evening drinks.
As he advances, he bows his head slightly and puts his left hand over his face. The next frame shows the explosion and the top half of his body being projected forward. In the next frame he is gone.
The faces of the people present in the cafe have been blurred in the video. Several of them were injured but no-one died at the Comptoir Voltaire. Elsewhere on that evening 130 people were killed.
Two million people saw the programme and afterwards social media buzzed with reaction. Some people said they had been too horrified to keep watching.
But in an interview with the Journal du Dimanche newspaper, Christophe Huleu said, "In order to make people see the true extent of the violence, you have to show it.
"I had to find a balance between the violence of what happened and the respect due to both the victims and the TV viewers."
Huleu said he and his team had watched footage from inside the Bataclan theatre - scene of the bloodiest attack - but it was too graphic to be usable. "I wish I had never seen it," he said.
He also said he had been struck by the different public reaction that followed the Brussels attacks last month.
He said: "In Brussels a feeling of inevitability appeared to have replaced the feeling of horror. But we must never give way to feeling it is inevitable. We must never let the violence seem normal."
Debate continues to rage in France and elsewhere over the advisability of broadcasting shock images of terrorist attacks.
Critics say it serves the purpose of the terrorists, who crave as much media attention as they can get.
Bruce Hoffmann, who wrote the influential study Inside Terrorism, said that the terrorists' aim was not just to kill "but to create power where there is none, through the publicity generated by their violence".
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The Dornier 17 is the last in the world - and historians are hoping its fragile frame is full of stories and secrets that will teach us more about Wold War II.
During the Second World War the Dornier 17 was used in bombing raids by the Germans as they sought to invade Britain.
The one the team are working on was shot down in August 1940, crashing in to the English Channel.
Despite living at the bottom of the sea for seven decades, parts of the plane are still in great condition.
It's a big job so we sent Martin so see how they're doing.
He was dropped for England's third Test against South Africa over the messages.
Pietersen said: "I truly didn't mean to cause upset or tension, particularly with important games at stake."
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But England managing director Hugh Morris said further talks were needed to see if trust and mutual respect could be regained.
Pietersen, who has cast doubt on his own England future and revealed he had points to "sort out in the dressing room", said in his apology: "The texts were meant as banter between close friends. I need to rein myself in sometimes.
"I did send what you might call provocative texts to my close friends in the SA team.
"I apologise to Straussy [captain Andrew Strauss] and the team for the inappropriate remarks at the press conference and for the texts."
Pietersen's omission from the England squad for the final Test at Lord's came at the end of a turbulent week in which he first hinted he could retire completely from international cricket. Then on Saturday he committed to playing for England in all forms of the game.
However, the ECB wanted assurances by Sunday afternoon from the 32-year-old batsman that he had not sent derogatory texts about captain Andrew Strauss.
Pietersen did not do so by the deadline and was then dropped from the squad to face the Proteas at Lord's.
Morris said a "successful conclusion to the process was in everyone's best interests".
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However, he added: "Further discussions need to take place to establish whether it is possible to regain the trust and mutual respect required to ensure all parties are able to focus on playing cricket and to maintain the unity of purpose that has served us so well in recent years.
"Critically, those discussions should take place behind closed doors, rather than in the media spotlight."
It is unclear whether the tensions can be resolved by Saturday when England's 15-man squad for the World Twenty20 in Sri Lanka must be confirmed.
Pietersen, who has 1,176 Twenty20 runs and was player of the tournament when England lifted the trophy in 2010, was not included in the original 30-man party after quitting limited-overs internationals in May. However, he can still be called up to the final squad.
Strauss said it would have been "untenable" to have Pietersen in the squad to face South Africa.
"He is a world-class player and no-one will deny that," he said. "When he is playing well and happy in dressing room he is a great asset, but that's not where we are at the moment. The selectors made a brave and correct decision.
"I'd prefer the issues were resolved in private without media and PR companies and press releases.
"It is a broader issue than just text messages. It is about trust and mutual respect.
31 May 2012: Pietersen announces retirement from international limited-overs cricket
14 July: Hints at returning to all forms of cricket providing the schedule is right
20 July: Told by players' chief Angus Porter he must commit to all England matches if he is to return
6 August: Pietersen throws fresh doubt on England career, hinting he may quit Test cricket after South Africa series
9 August: A parody Kevin Pietersen account on Twitter is closed - Pietersen felt his team-mates may have been behind it
11 August: Pietersen springs a surprise, announcing his commitment to all forms of England cricket in a YouTube interview
12 August: Pietersen is dropped for England's third Test against South Africa amid reports he sent derogatory text messages about team-mates
13 August: South Africa describes texts as "banter", but the ECB asks for assurances from Pietersen himself that they were not "derogatory".
15 August: Pietersen issues an apology for the texts, admitting they were provocative.
"It's going to be a long process, and it won't happen overnight. We have to address this issue. We can't sweep it under the carpet. It is going to be testing, no doubt about that.
"It has not been a good week for England cricket and that annoys me. I feel frustrated by that."
On Monday South Africa team manager Dr Mohammed Moosajee insisted: "Text messages were sent but it was banter."
And on Tuesday England's Twenty20 captain Stuart Broad denied any involvement in a spoof Twitter account that allegedly riled Pietersen and apparently formed part of his dispute with the ECB.
A member of the public claimed on Monday to be the author of the account, which was closed earlier this month.
Jonny Bairstow has been brought in to replace Pietersen in the England squad for the final Test against South Africa, which the home side must win to retain their number one world ranking.
And England all-rounder Tim Bresnan said on Wednesday that England "may be an even better side" without Pietersen.
"It's one of those things where a talented player is being replaced by another," said Bresnan.
"So why should we miss a certain individual because he's unavailable for selection?"
David Hughes, 73, has worked tirelessly for a tribute to the 49 men and one woman of Aldington, Bonnington and Hurst who died during both world wars.
His dream was realised on Saturday when a 9ft-high monument shaped as an "A" was revealed in Aldington.
Mr Hughes said it was in honour of "the sacrifice of these young lives".
More than 300 people gathered to pay their respects at a special service.
Some were relatives of the fallen whose names have been inscribed upon the memorial.
Mr Hughes said his campaign began on 11 November 1950 when, at the age of seven, he was approached by a family from London looking to lay flowers on the village war memorial.
He told them that Aldington did not have one and, instead, led them to a plaque in the local church, where the family told him that their deceased relative was not listed.
"I knew then that Aldington should have its own memorial," he said.
He later went on to discover there were 23 names missing from the church plaques because their families did not attend church services.
The ceremony was held a day after the centenary of the start of the Battle of the Somme, in which many of Aldington's servicemen were lost.
Flight MS804 was en route from Paris to Cairo with 66 passengers and crew when it vanished.
EgyptAir posted on Twitter that the plane had "disappeared from radar".
This prompted a response on social media from someone claiming to have a relative on board.
A Twitter user called "Perro" posted a photo purporting to be of his brother Alfonso, prompting several retweets from fellow users.
"My brother traveled (sic) there... please help me," he wrote.
But a Google reverse image search showed that the photograph had been used before online, and had been linked to a series of different Twitter handles.
One user distorted the same picture and tweeted: "My mom was on the plane. I'm afraid. Tell me what I have to do please."
Other Twitter users also claimed to have missing relatives using the hashtags #EgyptAir and #MS804.
The hoax posts came from Twitter accounts in Mexico and there is speculation they may have been linked to the same person.
Montel Williams tweeted: "It takes a sick and twisted person to fake having family aboard a crashed airplane. #MS804 @Support plz ban him."
It is unclear exactly where the photo is from and who the man pictured is, but it has been circulating online since December 2015, sometimes in reference to a dispute at a shopping centre in Mexico.
As speculation grew over what happened to the EgyptAir flight more incorrect information was being shared.
A video on the website viral-videos.today claimed to show a ball of fire supposedly spotted by witnesses around the time the jet disappeared.
The footage was tweeted by @githii with the post: "SAD.... A woman recorded this ball of fire in the sky, believed to be #EgyptAir #MS804".
It was also picked up and included in a news report by 7 News Sydney, which tweeted: "Residents of Greek Island claim they saw a ball of fire in the sky around the time #MS804 disappeared.@ChrisReason7"
But the fireball was in fact footage recorded last year in California.
The tweet has since been removed from 7 News Sydney's account.
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The video and photographs in the film were taken during a survey in 2015 of sites in the St Kilda archipelago and also the island of North Rona.
Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) and Edinburgh's Heriot-Watt University were involved in last year's study.
SNH has uploaded the three minute-long film of St Kilda's sea caves to YouTube.
St Kilda was inhabited for thousands of years until 1930 when the last 36 islanders left.
Today, scientists, conservationists and workers at a military radar station spend months at a time on the main island of Hirta.
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The second phase of the sport-participation campaign This Girl Can has been launched, as part of ongoing efforts by Sport England to get more women and girls exercising regularly.
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A first tranche of Scottish government funding of more than £1m has already been received towards the project.
Hundreds of people attended a two-day exhibition in August last year to find out more about the proposals.
Two further drop-in events will be held later this month to deliver an update on how public input has affected the project's design.
A survey carried out at the exhibition in 2016 found 85.5% of people attending supported the scheme.
The latest information days will be staged at the Heart of Hawick centre between 17:30 and 20:30 on 18 and 19 January.
Helen Bailey was found dead at her home in Royston, Hertfordshire, last July.
Her fiancé, Ian Stewart, 56, denies murdering the 51-year-old by plying her with sedatives in a financially-motivated plot.
Eileen Bailey told St Albans Crown Court her daughter had felt "highly anxious" and "spaced out" all the time.
Ms Bailey's body was found alongside that of her dachshund, Boris, under the garage at the home she shared with Mr Stewart three months after he had reported her missing.
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In the weeks before she had vanished, Mrs Bailey said her daughter had confided in her about leaving Boris on the beach by mistake and not being able to recognise her hands on a computer keyboard.
"That really worried me. She just had such a good memory beforehand," Mrs Bailey told the jury.
A post-mortem examination found traces of an anti-insomnia drug which had been prescribed to Mr Stewart, the court heard previously.
Mrs Bailey described how her daughter had called her and told her "in this panicked voice" that she had "just slept five hours" after having a full night's sleep.
She told the court she thought Mr Stewart had cooked her daughter breakfast on the morning of the call, but on cross-examination said she could not be sure.
Mrs Bailey, 88, also said she had felt "uneasy" about the relationship between Ms Bailey and Mr Stewart.
"Latterly I was quite unhappy - mainly because of Helen's state of mind," she said.
Mr Stewart denies murder along with five other charges - preventing a lawful burial, fraud and three counts of perverting the course of justice.
The trial continues.
In my family, Diwali was traditionally the festival of lights - when we decorated our homes with diyas (little clay lamps), prayed to Lakshmi, the "goddess of wealth", to make us rich, and Ganesha, the cute elephant-headed god who removed obstacles in our path, helped us pass our exams when we were young, and made us generally happy.
We would wear new clothes and gorge on traditional sweets - some bought from the market and some made at home by my extremely talented mother.
We never had firecrackers - as a child whenever I asked my dad for money to buy crackers, he would say "you might as well burn the money".
The first time I spent some money on crackers was when I became a mother and bought some for my son when he was a year old. He was so frightened by the noise that I had to hide in the house with him and so, that also became the last time.
But Diwali in Delhi no longer resembles the happy festival of my childhood days.
In recent years, it's degenerated into a mega shopping festival, with endless traffic snarls and noisy firecrackers adding to the thick blanket of grey smog already choking the city's lungs, making the mere act of breathing here a dangerous exercise.
The sorry state of affairs has been worrying many Delhi'ites. In the past few years, there have been campaigns to make people shun fireworks, but clearly they have failed.
The Delhi high court recently said crackers were "as bad as explosives" and the parents of three infants also appealed to the Supreme Court to ban them.
The court turned down the plea but the judges told the government to launch campaigns to "sensitise the public on the ill effects and pollution of bursting of crackers" and said they would be prohibited between 10pm and 6am.
But will that really happen? I doubt that - and I say that because in my neighbourhood in south Delhi, the crackers have already been bursting for days now. And they have been going on well past the 10pm deadline.
In an angry Facebook post, a friend who lives in east Delhi said he was woken up at 12:56am by neighbours bursting loud crackers.
But the things that have most come to symbolise Diwali in Delhi - and which I hate the most - are the shopping frenzies that take over the city in the weeks preceding the festival, coupled with some truly ludicrous gift-giving.
From several weeks before Diwali, daily newspapers grow noticeably thicker thanks to multiple pages containing just advertisements for all the shiny new things you can buy.
You are encouraged to buy a newer and bigger television set, replace that old washing machine even though it works perfectly well, get gadgets and home appliances that you neither have use - nor space - for.
And while you are at it, go out and buy some gold and diamonds too. And that swanky new car. Oh, and since you're buying around Diwali, you'd probably get a free gold coin, or a free music system to go with that new set of wheels.
And since Diwali is also a time to be generous towards your fellow beings, don't forget that unnecessarily large basket of dry fruits, chocolates or gifts to give away to friends, relatives and business contacts.
And of course the millions of boxes of unhealthy sugary Indian sweets. It doesn't matter that India is certified as the "diabetes and hyper-tension capital" of the world.
And then of course load them into millions of cars to deliver them to their intended recipients.
And then sit for hours in endless traffic jams, getting cranky, honking horns.
During Diwali, my mother would always end the prayer ceremony by drawing a path on the floor so that when the goddess of wealth came to our house - just like Santa at Christmas - she would know where to go.
But today, I doubt Goddess Lakshmi would come to Delhi, repulsed by its noise and pollution. And even if she did, she would probably just be stuck in the traffic jam.
He went off in Sunday's European Champions Cup win over Ospreys, and will require surgery after rupturing his left anterior cruciate ligament.
The 29-year-old, who has won 34 caps, has not featured for England since the 2013 autumn internationals.
"Thanks for the support, it's a hard pill to swallow," he tweeted.
He added: "Not gonna lie its a hard pill to swallow. I guess it's the nature of the beast #gutted #shouldhavekickedit #onwards."
Foden, who has seven international tries, played in England's five matches at the 2011 World Cup but with this year's tournament starting in September, he faces a race against time to be fit.
It is the latest in a series of injury blows for Foden, who missed last year's Six Nations with a knee problem, and sat out the 2012 autumn internationals after damaging his ankle.
With Mike Brown impressing at full-back, he had been used on the wing in a win against Argentina and a defeat by New Zealand in November 2013, and travelled with the squad for last summer's tour of New Zealand, but did not play in a Test.
And even although he was overlooked by Stuart Lancaster for last year's autumn internationals, his form for Saints this season had put him in the reckoning for a Six Nations place.
Premiership champions Saints will turn to James Wilson to provide cover at full-back.
More than 2,000 guests from around the world paid their last respects at the biggest such occasion since the Queen Mother's funeral in 2002.
Thousands of members of the public and the armed forces lined the funeral procession route through London.
PM David Cameron said it was a "fitting tribute" to a major figure.
Four thousand police officers were on duty in central London but, despite concerns about demonstrations, only a small number of protesters voiced their opposition to Lady Thatcher's policies and there were no arrests.
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The congregation at St Paul's included Lady Thatcher's family and all surviving British prime ministers Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and Sir John Major, the current cabinet and surviving members of Lady Thatcher's governments.
There were tears, and occasional laughter, as the Bishop of London, the Right Reverend Richard Chartres, paid tribute to Lady Thatcher's forthright character in a simple service, which, at her personal request, did not include any eulogies.
"After the storm of a life led in the heat of political controversy, there is a great calm," said Bishop Chartres.
"The storm of conflicting opinions centres on the Mrs Thatcher who became a symbolic figure - even an ism.
"Today the remains of the real Margaret Hilda Thatcher are here at her funeral service.
"Lying here, she is one of us, subject to the common destiny of all human beings."
Chancellor George Osborne appeared to wipe away a tear as the bishop reflected on Lady Thatcher's life.
The day began with Lady Thatcher leaving Parliament for the last time as a hearse took her body from the crypt chapel of St Mary Undercroft in the Palace of Westminster to the start of the military procession at St Clement Danes in The Strand.
The union jack draped-coffin was topped with a large bunch of white flowers and a note, by Lady Thatcher's children Sir Mark and Carol, reading: "Beloved mother, always in our hearts."
A gun carriage drawn by six black horses carried the coffin through the streets to St Paul's, where the funeral service began with readings from the King James Bible by Mr Cameron and Lady Thatcher's 19-year-old granddaughter Amanda, and hymns chosen by the former prime minister.
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The service ended with a blessing from the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby.
Lady Thatcher's coffin was borne out of the cathedral and returned to a hearse which took it to the Royal Hospital Chelsea and then to Mortlake Crematorium in south west London for a private cremation.
Lady Thatcher, who was Conservative Prime Minister from 1979 until 1990, died on 8 April, following a stroke, at the age of 87.
She was accorded a ceremonial funeral with military honours, one step down from a state funeral.
Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Mr Cameron said it would have been seen as extraordinary not to commemorate her life.
Asked about those who wanted to challenge his view of Lady Thatcher, the prime minister said: "Of course people have the right to disagree and take a different view.
"But when you're mourning the passing of an 87-year-old woman who was the first woman prime minister, who served for longer in the job than anyone for 150 years I think it's appropriate to show respect."
There were more than 50 guests associated with the Falkland Islands, including veterans from the 1982 conflict with Argentina, but Argentina's ambassador to London, Alicia Castro declined an invitation to attend.
Alan Southern, a former member of the Parachute Regiment who fought in the Falklands War, said: "Lady Thatcher was an absolutely wonderful lady. She loved the armed forces and she did so much for the country, she put the 'great' back in Great Britain."
In total, two current heads of state, 11 serving prime ministers and 17 serving foreign ministers from around the world attended.
Notable absences were former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who could not attend because of ill health, and former US first lady Nancy Reagan, who was also unable to come.
Six police forces from outside London sent specialist officers to help with escorting foreign dignitaries.
There were union jacks on display, as well as flags from the US, Canada, Scotland, Poland and the Falkland Islands.
St Paul's has published a full funeral order of service.
John Stingemore, 72, was found at his home in Stonehouse Drive, St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex, on Wednesday.
Mr Stingemore was due to stand trial at Southwark Crown court over 12 charges, which included indecent assault. He had denied the charges.
Seven youngsters were allegedly abused at Grafton Close Children's Home in Hanworth in the 1970s and 1980s.
Mr Stingemore had previously suffered a number of strokes and police were called to his home after concerns about his health.
Officers found him collapsed at the property and he was declared dead at the scene.
Sussex Police said his death was not suspicious. A post-mortem examination has yet to take place.
His co-defendant Father Tony McSweeney, 66, of Pease Pottage, West Sussex, pleaded not guilty to similar charges in November. Fr McSweeney was a Catholic priest in Norfolk.
Both men were due to stand trial on 2 February.
Cunningham, 39, led Saints to the semi-finals of both the Challenge Cup and Super League play-offs in his first season in charge.
He spent his entire playing career with his hometown team before moving onto the coaching staff in 2010.
"Keiron is a young, talented and ambitious British coach," said chairman Eamonn McManus.
"Even at the very beginning of his career he has already won the absolute respect of his team and of all at his club.
"In his first season he took the team to within a whisker of another Grand Final and against the background of an injury ravaged campaign. He will continue to gain experience, as will his young side."
The former Wales and Great Britain hooker made his St Helens debut in 1994 and went on to make 495 appearances at the club.
The 28-year-old's current deal was due to expire at the end of this campaign.
A Mercedes spokesman said: "We have long-term relationships with both our drivers."
The German driver, who won the opening race of 2014, is second in the standings, behind Hamilton, who is in the second season of a three-year deal.
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News of Rosberg's deal follows comments this week from Dieter Zetsche, the chairman of Mercedes-Benz Cars, that Ferrari's Fernando Alonso was "maybe the best driver in F1".
Zetsche's remarks, made during a visit to a Mercedes car factory in Spain, led some in F1 to wonder whether Mercedes might consider signing Alonso in the future.
But the Brackley-based outfit are happy with their current line-up and have no intention of breaking it up for the foreseeable future.
Mercedes bosses also point out that, during his trip to the car factory, Zetsche stated he felt his team had the best driver line-up in F1 but that this was not reported by the media.
Although Alonso, a double world champion, is widely admired as arguably the most complete driver in F1, many senior figures consider that he is difficult to work with and a potentially disruptive influence in a team.
Alonso's relationship with Ferrari has been going through a strained period because of their failure to win the World Championship following the 32-year-old Spaniard's transfer from Renault in 2010.
Mercedes have won every race in Formula 1 this season after producing a dominant car under the new rules that have introduced turbo-hybrid engines and a fuel-efficiency based set of regulations to the sport.
Hamilton has won four races to Rosberg's one, but they are only separated by three points going into this weekend's race in Monaco.
Reacting to the news, BBC F1 co-commentator David Coulthard told BBC Radio 5 live: "Nico's being rewarded for not only helping build the stability in the team over the last couple of seasons but also it gives him a platform to really have a clear head and take this World Championship battle head to head with his team-mate."
However, Coulthard believes Hamilton remains the team's number one driver. He explained: "The reality is you can only have one of your drivers standing on the top spot of the podium.
"Lewis Hamilton has been brought in as a former world champion, as the one that they would have expected to really be leading the charge for another championship.
"No disrespect to Nico but we've seen Lewis and Fernando go head to head before at McLaren and it didn't work.
"We've seen Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost within a team together as well and that didn't work.
"Ideally you have two number ones but there's always going to be one of them that's slightly stronger."
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Firearms and munitions were found by police during a two-day search operation in the grounds of a former convent on the outskirts of Lurgan.
The weapons that were discovered are believed to belong to the group known to as the New IRA.
Det Supt Karen Baxter said police believe one of the items is a "fully constructed explosive device".
"These items were in the advanced stages of readiness and some were ready to be used," she said.
It was a "significant and key" find that had saved lives, she added.
Specialist search teams scoured a wooded area close to a railway line and discovered the weapons hide.
Among the items found were homemade explosives, improvised mortars and launchers, a number of pipe bombs and three firearms.
Det Supt Baxter said it was difficult to say how long the hide had been in place.
She added that other hides in the area had been uncovered during the search and more items were found.
This is significant in two ways, firstly because of the quantity and variety of what was discovered.
But also because of where the items were found.
The dissident republican group referred to as the New IRA is known to be active in north County Armagh, and particularly in the Lurgan area.
Police believe this find has dealt a serious blow to that organisation's ability to carry out its activities.
Northern Ireland Secretary James Brokenshire said those who had hidden the weapons "want to drag Northern Ireland backwards" but added that they would "not succeed".
"This is a reminder of the continuing need for vigilance and to report any information, no matter how small, to the Police Service of Northern Ireland," he said.
Anne Connolly, the chair of the Northern Ireland Policing Board, thanked the police and army bomb experts who were involved in the searches.
"It's a great result for the PSNI to find these firearms and munitions and take them away from those who would have used them to cause harm in our community," she said.
Sinn Féin MLA Catherine Seeley said: "The fact that those who would try to roll back the progress we have made as a society will not be able to use these weapons is to be welcomed.
"I'm glad these materials have been taken out of circulation and cannot be used to endanger life."
Carla Lockhart, a Democratic Unionist Party MLA, praised the police for their work.
"It should be a wake-up call to those in our community who want to return to the past, that the PSNI will continue to work to defeat the threat of dissident activity," she said.
It is the third significant discovery of arms to be made this year.
In May, components for making bombs were found at Capanagh Forest near Larne in County Antrim.
Police said that was one of the most significant arms discoveries in years.
Arms, including parts that could be used to make under-car booby-trap bombs, were also found at Carnfunnock Country Park near Larne in March.
Ann Clwyd, the sitting MP, has made it. Her rivals include Sue Pickering (a Unite member, councillor and AM's caseworker), another councillor, Aysha Raza, and union official Katie Antippas.
Aysha Raza is a scientist and Labour councillor in Ealing, west London. According to her Facebook profile, her hometown is Aberdare, although her website tells a slightly different story. "Quite simply," she writes, "Ealing is home. And that's why it's the only parliamentary seat I'm interested in.
"Ealing is in the very fabric of who I am. I have lived in Ealing all my life and I know it inside out. I have played on its streets, attended its schools and have a vast extended family dotted all over the borough."
She has even gone to the trouble of publishing a photograph of a stick of rock bearing "Aysha Raza 4 Ealing & Acton" to demonstrate her local commitment. I suspect she is currently working on a different flavour rock.
She told my colleague Mark Hutchings: "Quite right. Hands up in the air. Guilty as charged" .
She said she hadn't changed her mind but she hadn't realised that the Cynon Valley seat would be coming up. Ealing and Cynon Valley are the only seats she'd stand for. (She was born in Aberdare and moved at the age of about 3 or 4).
"I don't go shopping for an MP's seat like going shopping for shoes", she added.
She says some people had mentioned the website in the meet and greet in Cynon Valley and she would now be changing it.
Figures suggest that by the final year of primary school, just 17% of pupils are doing the recommended 60 minutes of physical activity every day.
A spokesman for Public Health England described the drop in activity levels as "concerning".
More than a third of children in England are overweight by the time they leave primary school.
A new survey from Public Health England and Disney looked at the effects of physical activity on children's emotional wellbeing.
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More than 1,000 children aged five to 11 were questioned, with their parents acknowledging that being active made their children feel happier (79%), more confident (72%), and more sociable (74%).
But the survey also found that children's overall happiness declined with age, with 64% of five-and six-year-olds saying they always felt happy, compared with just 48% of 11-year-olds.
"Children's physical activity levels in England are alarmingly low, and the drop in activity from the ages of five to 12 is concerning," said Public Health England's Eustace de Sousa.
"Children who get enough physical activity are mentally and physically healthier, and have all-round better development into adulthood - getting into the habit of doing short bursts of activity early can deliver lifelong benefits."
Currently, just 23% of boys and 20% of girls, between the ages of five and 15, meet the national recommended level of activity, according to an NHS report published last December.
"Not being very good" was cited by many children as the reason they did not take part in some physical activities, with older children more likely to be self-conscious than their younger counterparts: 29% of 11-year-olds compared with 17% of five-year-olds.
As part of the Change4Life campaign, Sport England and Disney have joined forces to launch a 10 Minute Shake Ups programme, encouraging children to take part in accessible activities across the school holidays.
"The 10 Minute Shake Ups provide a load of fun activities to get kids moving more," said Olympic marathon swimmer Keri-anne Payne, who is backing the campaign.
"Being active is not just for Olympians, it's for everyone. "
The 17-year-old was driven from Drayton Road in Abingdon to Oxford against her will at around 19:40 BST on Sunday.
Jason Edmunds, 20, from George Street, Banbury, and Annie Newton, 18, from Bluebell Court, Oxford, were arrested and later charged with kidnap.
The pair have been remanded in custody and will appear before Oxford Crown Court on 1 May.
Ms Newton is also charged with possession of an offensive weapon and criminal damage.
Love letters between Gilbert Bradley and Gordon Bowsher, written in a time when homosexuality was illegal, came to light after Mr Bradley's death in 2008.
At that time armed force members could have been be shot for having gay sex.
A Shropshire museum displaying the letters has been contacted by hundreds of people including film producers.
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Mark Hignett, a volunteer at Oswestry Town Museum and who bought the letters off eBay, said the forbidden romance has received a huge amount of interest including producers, publishers and playwrights.
More quirky projects inspired by the story include a choral group who want to put the letters to music, and a student who wants to base a clothing range on the letters, Mr Hignett said.
He expects further interest following an upcoming heritage project.
Heritage Open Days have organised letter writing workshops after which letters will be burned in a memorial fire.
The ashes will then be transformed into a commemorative diamond.
Annie Reilly, Director of Heritage Open Days, said the jewel will be "a commemoration of this love which had to really fight against the odds to exist."
It will be inscribed with a paraphrased line from one of the letters: "Wouldn't it be wonderful if all our letters could be published in the future in a more enlightened time. Then all the world could see how in love we are."
The letters are highly unusual, but the museum's collection numbers almost 600.
It was not until 1967 that gay relationships between consenting men over 21 were legalised in the UK. It was not permissible to be openly gay in the armed services until 2000.
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Britain's 4x400m relay squad from the 2008 Beijing Games got their podium moment in front of a home crowd at the London Anniversary Games last month, finally becoming Olympic medallists after a nine-year delay.
They are among of dozens of athletes who are receiving medals after their competitors were disqualified retrospectively and stripped of their achievements because of doping offences.
The new approach of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), as part of a stated commitment to supporting clean athletes, is to "honour accomplishments in a more systematic manner".
That has been reflected at the World Athletics Championships, where 16 medals were reallocated at the recent meet in London, with Britain's Jessica Ennis-Hill receiving her gold from Daegu in 2011.
Medal reallocation is not a quick and easy process. It is a minefield of retests, appeals and constant calls for disqualified athletes to return their medals, which can sometimes fall on deaf ears.
The Russian Athletics Federation has been asking for 24 Olympic medals to be returned by their athletes. To date, just three have heeded those requests.
If all else fails it seems, the IOC just makes a new batch of medals, as happened in the case of the British 4x400m relay quartet.
The Russian doping crisis has dominated athletics since it was uncovered in 2014.
It culminated in Russian track and field athletes being banned from competing at Rio 2016 by the IAAF - athletics' world giverning body - after widespread, state-sponsored doping was uncovered in the country.
The IOC retested hundreds of samples from the 2008 and 2012 Olympic Games, using new methods to uncover banned substances that would have gone undetected at the time, covering a number of sports.
As of April 2017, 1,053 samples were retested from Beijing, resulting in 65 sanctions, while 492 samples were reanalysed from London, with 41 sanctions.
The Russians have taken the headlines recently, with eight disqualified from Beijing and nine from London - some pending appeals.
But going as far back as the 1984 Olympics, in athletics alone, athletes from a total of 11 countries have been disqualified and asked to hand back their medals.
On 23 August 2008 in Beijing, Michael Bingham, Martyn Rooney, Robert Tobin and Andrew Steele ran a season's best time of two minutes 58.81 seconds to finish fourth - 0.75 seconds behind third-placed Russia in the Bird's Nest stadium.
No quartet had ever run so fast but failed to win a medal.
"We all felt funny about it, felt it wasn't quite right and something didn't add up," Steele told BBC Sport. "It was a big shock for us."
Then, in May 2016, the IOC informed the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) that 14 Russian athletes were suspected of doping at the Beijing Games.
And in July 2016, 4x400m runner Denis Alekseyev told Russian news agency Tass that one of his samples had tested positive.
But it was two months later - on 13 September - that the IOC finally confirmed that the banned anabolic steroid turinabol had been detected in Alekseyev's sample.
The Russian team were disqualified from the 4x400m relay and ordered to hand back their bronze medals, diplomas and medallist pins, with the ROC tasked with ensuring their return "as soon as possible".
Steele was shopping in New York when he saw the news break on Twitter.
"It was just a relief to get official confirmation," he said. "That press release was the first I had seen. I had been hearing that this might happen and even a year before there were rumours.
"But I couldn't understand why they had not detected the substance in 2008."
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Alekseyev's disqualification was the start of a nine-month process for Steele and his team-mates to receive their bronze medals.
The 29-year-old Russian, who already served a two-year ban for another doping offence in 2013, was suspended for four years by the Russian Athletic Federation (Rusaf) in June 2017 for his Beijing infraction. He will be able to compete again from 15 November 2018.
Rusaf had appealed for the return of medals in February 2017, at a time when only Kokorin - who himself was not guilty of doping - had handed his back.
Kokorin, 30, did so in December 2016 and a press release at the time from Rusaf said: "The athlete confirmed adherence to the Olympic ideals and observance of the rules of the IOC."
Under IOC rules, the reallocation of medals takes place when "athletes/teams sanctioned have exhausted all their remedies of appeal and when all procedures are closed".
Medals are usually returned to the National Olympic Committees concerned, which sends them back to the IOC.
Team GB confirmed on 21 June of this year that they had finally received the medals from the IOC, but the ones handed to Steele and his team-mates were not the ones that Alekseyev and the Russians were given in Beijing.
To date, Kokorin remains the only member of the disqualified Russian relay quartet to have returned his medal.
The IOC told BBC Sport that four new medals were used to avoid delaying the award ceremony.
"The IOC has got a stock of blank medals for after the Olympic Games and those are engraved at request when it is justified," the IOC said in a statement.
It did not matter to Steele and his team-mates that the medals were not the original ones.
"It is nice to be able to say I am an Olympic medallist," said the Briton, who only found out he would be awarded the medal two weeks before the ceremony.
"In the rest of my career, I never got near a podium. It is shame I did not get to experience that at the time, but this was vindication - it means my career was not a waste of time, money and health.
"Having that medal makes it much more real, to actually own this item."
The Team GB quartet were greeted to a rousing reception from the home crown inside the London Stadium, something Steele describes as "surprisingly poignant".
He references the fact US shot putter Adam Nelson was given the Athens 2004 gold medal denied to him by drugs cheat Yuriy Bilonoh by a US Olympic Committee official at an airport food court eight years after the event.
He added. "It was the only podium moment I had in my career and I think I appreciated it more than if I had been younger. I am happy they made a fuss and it was the right thing to do. I guess, in retrospect, it all worked out in the end. "
Steele, 32, spent three years after Beijing struggling with injuries and glandular fever and ultimately missed out on a place at London 2012, finally retiring last year.
He added: "It is a shame we did not get it the medal at the time. It would have been an interesting change in my life trajectory because my career went downhill after that.
"If I had won a medal, it would have guaranteed four years of support. But I got ill with glandular fever and was forced to make sure I ran, as I was worried about my salary and income.
"Athletics became a job and I made myself worse. That may not have happened had I had four years of support."
However, Steele refuses to blame Alekseyev, saying he does not think the Russian had "bad intentions". Another of the Russian quartet - Dyldin - was also subsequently given a four-year doping ban.
"The Russians are good athletes and great guys but the real shame is that the wrong methods are being forced on them," he said.
"There is evidently a different approach to doping and the most upsetting thing is that the doping is from the boardroom level down, not just an individual cheating. When it comes from the men in suits, it is more worrying. "
Russia says some athletes' cases are still under consideration, so decisions have yet to be made about their reallocation.
Kokorin aside, Natalia Antukh returned her 4x400m silver from 2008 and Aleksandra Fedoriva-Shpayer gave back her London 4x100m relay gold.
None of that trio have been convicted of doping themselves, but were part of relay squads in which a team-mate has.
A further eight athletes are in the same situation, but have not returned their medals. And none of the 13 athletes disqualified for failing retests of their samples have handed back theirs.
The IOC says the reallocation process is not automatic and is done on a case-by-case basis. It says it is working closely with the ROC to make sure that all medals that have to be reallocated are returned in due course.
There are a further seven Olympic athletics medals reallocations under appeal.
That includes the potential British bronze medals from 2008 of Kelly Sotherton in the heptathlon and Goldie Sayers in the javelin, with appeals ongoing for Tatyana Chernova and Mariya Abakumova respectively.
Environmental group Transport & Environment will help it to collate the figures, which will be based on tests on open public roads.
The new testing procedure will be done in "real driving conditions", it said.
Fuel usage data will be ready by spring next year, with emissions figures ready by spring 2017, Peugeot said.
The move comes in the wake of the Volkswagen emissions-cheating scandal.
"In these troubled times for the industry, we must keep the trust of our consumers," said chief executive Carlos Tavares.
The carmaker said all the data would be audited and checked by an external third party.
Volkswagen's admission that it installed software to cheat emissions tests in 11 million of its diesel cars worldwide, has put the spotlight on cars' NOx (nitrogen oxide) emissions, as well as criticism of the tests themselves.
Peugeot said its new tests would include "urban, extra-urban and highway driving".
The carmaker, which almost collapsed during the car industry's global recession, reported a first-half profit for the first time since 2011 earlier this year.
Under Mr Tavares, who took the helm last year, the firm has cut the number of models it makes and increased prices.
The event is held every other year - alternating with the Farnborough Airshow - and is a showcase for the world's biggest commercial aviation and defence companies - as well as some plucky upstarts that are not quite household names.
Deals worth tens of billions of dollars are done at the show as the hundreds of firms exhibiting their wares pull out all the stops to encourage the top brass from the world's air forces of the world to stop by, as well as wooing slightly less visible customers.
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Several companies are working on ventures that aim to replicate Concorde's ability to exceed the speed of sound, including Boom Supersonic. The US firm aims to fly a demonstrator by the end of 2018, with the first paying passengers taking to the skies in 2023 - if all goes to plan. That remains a big if, but founder Blake Scholl insists the venture will be "profitable for airlines and affordable for customers".
Slovakia's AeroMobil has its flying car on display. Not just a prototype, the vehicle can be converted into something that takes to the skies in just three minutes. But buyers will have be patient as well as have deep pockets: they can order one of the 500 that will be built as long as they have about $1.5m to spare, and can wait until 2020 for delivery.
But even Airbus - one of the world's biggest plane makers - is taking the idea seriously. Jean-Brice Dumont, chief engineer of Airbus helicopters, says the technology for "flying cars" exists, but legal and social barriers remain, and might be trickier to solve. He makes a bullish prediction: there will be flying cars in our garages within 20 years.
An all-electric light aircraft has been designed by the French aerospace research lab Onera. which has a one-fifth scale model on display at its stand. The four to six-passenger plane would be powered by 32 small electric fans each about 50cm in diameter mounted on the wings. Only problem? No manufacturer has yet said it wants to make it.
In-flight entertainment systems are getting smarter and better. Thales, for example, is giving the latest version of its system capabilities such as wireless headphones, voice control and 4K high definition screens, as well as making it easier to use. Meanwhile, Panasonic has been showing off technology that allows passengers to select movies before and during a flight via the airline's app on their smartphone. The ability to order food and drinks, or control the lighting over their seat, can also be added.
An air show wouldn't be an air show without an announcement from the world's two biggest plane makers. Despite being on home turf, Airbus could only manage adding some wingtips to the A380 in a fairly desperate bid to drum up orders for the superjumbo, which have totalled precisely zero for more than 12 months. In a bid to cut operating costs for airlines, Airbus has also squeezed in another 80 seats, meaning a typical layout on the A380plus would be 575 seats.
Airbus has had more luck with the new versions of its short-haul A320 family, which has proved more popular with airlines. Meanwhile, Boeing announced a slightly longer model of the 737 called the Max 10. It can carry about 230 passengers, closer to 240 who can be packed into an A321neo - that capacity is one reason why Airbus has been winning the orders war at this end of the market at least.
While it may not be fashionable in certain circles for the super-wealthy to flash their cash, Gulfstream says deliveries to Europe have risen by 25% over the past five years to 230 planes. The General Dynamics-owned firm was at Le Bourget to let potential buyers evaluate its new G500 jet, which is still being certified by regulators. The plane can fly up to 5,000 nautical miles (9,260km) - London to Beijing or Los Angeles - at a speed of 0.85 Mach, which is comparatively quick compared with its rivals. When time is money, these things matter.
While you may think that charter or "fractional" operators such as NetJets or FlexJet are reducing the need for companies or individuals to buy a plane, a Gulfstream spokeswoman says these operators often act as a "stepping stone" to help customers determine whether they need (or simply want) their own aircraft.
Tarmac Aerosave calls itself Europe's leading aircraft storage and recycling company. The firm has now recycled 100 commercial planes and 85 engines since it was set up a decade ago.
It has 100 aircraft in storage at Tarbes, France, where the company will open a second hangar at the end of the year to meet demand. It also has another facility in Teruel, Spain.
Sometimes planes need to go on holiday too, it seems.
The Dassault Rafale fighter jet was one of the many defence aircraft that wowed the show with daring manoeuvres, along with the Lockheed Martin F35.
Some slightly less nimble planes also took to the skies such as the Airbus A400M, which is frankly a lot more useful than a fighter jet if you have a tank or two to transport.
Two years ago, American film maker Jeremy Saulnier took his revenge film Blue Ruin to Cannes to screen as part of the Directors' Fortnight - a strand of the film festival which has screened early works from Martin Scorsese and Ken Loach to more recent films by the likes of Clio Bernard.
His new film Green Room casts British acting royalty Patrick Stewart as the leader of a gang of white supremacists in a Portland backwater bar. They lay siege to a dressing room where a young band are cowering, having witnessed the aftermath of a brutal murder.
And it's all set to a thrashing punk soundtrack.
"I grew up in the punk rock hardcore scene in Washington DC and had always been attracted to the aesthetic of that world," he explains.
"It's also very kinetic and physical and I loved that world. My high school years were spent with my friends making movies and playing in punk rock bands so the idea's been gestating for quite some time."
The film also features Star Trek actor Anton Yelchin, as the band's bass player, with Arrested Development's Alia Shawkat as the guitarist. British actor Joe Cole, seen recently in Peaky Blinders, and Callum Turner play the other band members.
British actress Imogen Poots is also stuck in the room with them, sporting plenty of attitude and a rather marvellous Chelsea fringe haircut [a punk style long at the front and short or shaved at the back].
The decision to cast a renowned stage actor against type as a backwater racist is the one of which Saulnier is most proud.
"We were about two weeks out of shooting and we still didn't have Darcy [Stewart's character] and I thought the film would implode," he admits.
"But Patrick swooped in. He got the script, he saw Blue Ruin and he was up for an adventure."
The British actor arrived on set pre-prepared, having worked on a detailed back story with the director.
"You hear horror stories of big name actors being a nightmare and not knowing their lines but he came in, he knew everything he had to do and discussed everything," he says.
Saulnier also cast his best friend Macon Blair, who starred in Blue Ruin, as another member of the skinhead gang.
"He got his hair cut short and bought fake tattoos from the internet and auditioned for the role," says Saulnier. "I thought, 'not only is he going to get this role, he's the only person who can do it'."
Another key character is the music, which plays a major role in the film.
"We have Slayer, we have Bad Brains, we have CCR [Creedence Clearwater Revival]. All of these crazy awesome bands.
"But also in the background of some of the scenes, and in one of the live performances, are [songs] from my high school bands.
"Hearing these songs that I used to hear in 1994 in Virginia being played live by Anton and Alia was a dream come true.
The film is incredibly violent with various characters dispatched with shotguns, machetes and even a vicious dog.
But the director insists "ideally there is an emotional impact to everything. The visceral blowback of seeing these acts on screen is not easy to digest - it's never supposed to rest easy."
The press screening at Cannes over the weekend was punctuated with gasps and squeals, which delighted Saulnier.
"This is a straight up genre film, it's for my 19-year-old self and the kids I grew up with. It's a movie for fans, if you're a horror nerd.
"But I also wanted to make sure that the violence is not celebrated. It's grounded and brutal and it has to serve the intensity of the story. If it's just violence for violence's sake, you lose the value of it."
For all the horror, Green Room is not without lighter moments of comedy, which often serve as a release valve for some of the more intense moments. A neat running gag involves the band all choosing a band which they would take with them on to a desert island.
They all go for the most obscure, credible bands until they face genuine danger and the truth comes spilling out. Without ruining the joke too much, it seems the hardest punks have a weakness for pop music. And it has a great payoff in the film's closing scenes.
"I always find humour in dark places, it also seems natural. I really let it evolve and I find a little irony here or a moment for a character. I like the fact when the characters are not experts and [there is] lots of confusion and miscommunication, that is a good environment for dark comedy."
So, what is Saulnier's one desert island band? "Definitely (Black) Sabbath," he says.
Credibility intact Mr S.
Norma Bell, who cared for more than 50 children, died prior to a blaze at her home on Westbourne Road on 2 April.
She had lived at the house for 27 years and was due to celebrate her 80th birthday next month.
Gareth Dack, 32, made a brief appearance at Teesside Magistrates' Court and was remanded in custody.
Mr Dack, of Windermere Road in Hartlepool, was arrested earlier this week.
No plea was entered and he is due back in court on 12 April.
It is a riot of towers and tendrils, resembling something out of Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings.
It has been christened the Tooth Fairy Palace, but like many fairy tales, all is not as it seems as it has been designed to raise awareness about stem cell research and its implications.
The palace will gradually become encrusted with real teeth - the teeth of children.
It is 2m high and the same distance across and is made from clear crystal resin.
Light is refracted and reflected, making it shine and sparkle.
But in small clusters, baby teeth have been carefully glued on to the sculpture, making them appear as if they are little growths of coral.
These teeth can be a source of stem cells, the focus of pioneering and sometimes controversial research.
It was while attending a public workshop on stem cell research given by biologist Prof Sara Rankin, from Imperial College, London, that Gina first had the idea for a work of art that included ideas about stem cells.
But she says there was another source of inspiration much closer to home.
"It started with my daughter who was then seven, coming home from school and looking at me and saying 'just tell me the truth, is the Tooth Fairy real?'.
"And at the same time she was learning about Adam and Eve and evolution, and I thought, this must be really confusing for her.
"So this palace evolved from conversations about stem cells, but also about truth and illusion, and about consent to giving a piece of you to build a big public artwork that you're part of and you helped build."
The teeth are donated by children who surrender them to the project in return for a token they can then leave under the pillow for the Tooth Fairy.
That means they do not miss out financially when the Tooth Fairy comes to call.
And it is Prof Rankin who has been selling the idea to children in schools, telling children about the project and her work as a scientist.
"Once you've explained the issue of the tooth token, generally all the children I've spoken to are very excited about the prospect of having their teeth part of this palace.
"It depends on what age group you're talking to. The seven-year-olds just like the idea that this is a piece of art they are literally going to be part of.
"When I talk to older children, we get into the issues about stem cells and other important things for discussion."
And one thing the work does, says Prof Rankin, is to change the way we think about body parts we might otherwise dismiss as unimportant.
"These include things like fat from liposuction, umbilical cords, or indeed baby teeth.
"All these body parts, currently classified as clinical waste, are actually potential sources of adult stem cells that could be very valuable in our future health care."
The sculpture will be shown at Liverpool's Bluecoat, before moving to the Science Museum in London next year and then the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum in Coventry in 2013.
Alastair Upton, chief executive of the Bluecoat, says it is a work that will draw people in and make them think.
"It's beautiful and thought-provoking and then slightly disturbing.
"What we have here is art that is bringing us in to understand some of the work that science is doing and to make us think about the consequences of the by-products, literally and metaphorically, that science has."
The case was adjourned a week ago amid confusion over whether the Wrexham-based club had paid its tax debts.
That hearing was told the debts which led to the petition order had since been paid.
The club went into administration on 12 November, claiming inherited debt had "made the business untenable".
Registrar Jaques was told by Cathryn Addy, counsel for Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs that the club went into administration under a court order.
The registrar formally dismissed the winding up petition, with costs to be paid as part of the administration.
Joint administrators Peter O'Hara and Simon Weir were appointed to handle the club's affairs last week.
Mr O'Hara said: "We are currently pursuing a number of options and are talking to interested parties and the RFL [Rugby Football League] in the hope that a solution can be found to the club's current difficulties which would enable it to go forward and maintain rugby league in Wales."
This was by no means the only shock of this first round, since National Division Fort William ousted 2012 winners, Premiership side Glenurquhart, also on penalties following a 2-2 draw at An Aird.
Elsewhere a winner in the penultimate minute of extra time put Oban Celtic through away to their more fancied National Division colleagues Inveraray, while Kingussie went out 2-0 to Premiership bottom club Lochaber.
Other outcomes were more predictable. Newtonmore won 3-1 on Skye while Oban Camanachd brushed Ballachulish aside 4-0, and Glasgow Mid Argyll progressed 5-1 at Aberdour.
Meanwhile, Kyles went two points clear in the Marine Harvest Premiership with a 3-1 home win over Kilmallie.
Although Lovat and Kinloshshiel are both Premiership teams, Shiel's better recent form, combined with home advantage, meant they were widely tipped to progress, but the 3-2 shootout denied the holders.
Arran MacPhee got Fort off to a great start with the opener but Fraser Heath and James Hurwood had Glen ahead by half time. Then, with just 10 minutes left, MacPhee got the equaliser which sent the tie to extra time, before Fort's 2-0 penalties victory.
At the Winterton, Allan McDonald's hat-trick and one from Ruaridh Graham Junior for cup specialists Inveraray was cancelled out by Lee Askew's opener, one from Daniel Madej and the late saving grace of a Neil Carmichael double for Celtic. This took the game into extra time, in which Daniel MacMillan grabbed the winner in the 119th minute for Celtic in their first season as a national league club.
A Shaun Nicholson brace did the trick for Lochaber as Kingussie failed to score for the third time in four home games this season.
An Andrew McCuish double followed by one each from Daniel MacVicar and Daniel Cameron propelled Oban Camanachd through at Mossfield. Calum McLay's first-half double, split by a Brian Slattery goal, plus one in each half from Craig Anderson, put Mid Argyll 5-0 up before David MacKenzie replied for Aberdour.
Ian Robinson struck first for Newtonmore and Glen MacKintosh made it 2-0 after just nine minutes. However, Skye steadied and James Pringle made it 2-1 on the stroke of half-time before Mackintosh's second rounded it off.
A Robbie MacLeod penalty sent Kyles on their way to the 3-1 victory which extended their 100% Premiership record to five games and opened up a two-point gap over Kinlochshiel. Sandy MacKenzie soon got Kyles' second but Duncan Rodger pulled one back for Kilmallie before Roddy MacDonald put the game to bed.
A 3-0 win for Caberfeidh at Beauly allowed them to narrow Skye's National Division lead to a single point.
The prime minister gave the go-ahead for an increase of £41m above the £40m already budgeted for the opening and closing nights' shows.
The extra money comes from within the £9.3bn Olympic public funding package.
The venue security allocation has also risen by £271m to £553m after the number of security guards was revised.
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport said it now estimated 23,700 security staff would be required at Olympic and Paralympic venues next summer, more than double the original estimate of 10,000.
The BBC's Sports News Correspondent James Pearce said funding for ceremonies would normally come from the private budget of London 2012 organisers Locog, rather than the public purse.
He said: "The money which comes in to Locog comes not from government, it comes from ticket sales, from sponsorship and marketing, and from the IOC. The government money is meant to be spent on infrastructure, on building the venues and making sure they are secure.
"The opening and closing ceremonies of the Olympics and Paralympics are some of the most important ways that Locog spends its privately-raised money but now the government has stepped in by doubling the amount of money required."
Minister for Sport and the Olympics Hugh Robertson told the BBC the money was an investment to "drive the maximum benefit for the economy and for tourism".
"That's why we've invested that £41m - it's about the impression that people take away of this country. And we hope it's an impression that people will say 'we want to come back here, do business and spend tourism money'."
The figures were announced as part of the DCMS's
latest Olympic Quarterly Economic Report
, in which it said the extra money had been re-allocated from savings made from the public expenditure budget for the Games.
Security review
Funding for the venue security budget is likely to rise from £282m to £553m but the government said the increase in numbers of security guards was "not in response to any specific security threat".
Following a review of security arrangements in 2010 it said it was confident the core safety and security programme could be delivered within the £475m announced in the December 2010 Spending Review.
However, it said further funding was being made available to support Olympic organisers, Locog, in delivering security at all 2012 venues by funding extra security staff as well as specialist search and screening equipment.
Mr Robertson said: "The government and Locog have now undertaken detailed analysis of the numbers of security staff required to protect the more than 100 Olympic venues.
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"As a result, to ensure a safe and secure Games, they have revised the numbers of trained staff required. We are therefore investing additional funds in providing nearly 24,000 venue security personnel plus specialist security equipment."
He also said the opening and closing ceremonies were a "once-in-a-generation opportunity to showcase the very best of our country to four billion people around the world and have a potential advertising value of £2-5 billion".
"To get the ceremonies absolutely right, and boost the Games business and tourism legacy, we are putting additional investment into our ceremonies," he said.
Film and stage director Danny Boyle is the artistic director behind the Olympic opening ceremony, while choreographer Kim Gavin will lead the closing ceremony. The Paralympic ceremonies will be created by Jenny Sealey and Bradley Hemmings.
As part of the re-allocation of funds, an extra £25m has also
Olympic ceremonies budget doubled
been set aside for campaigns, both in the UK and abroad, to maximise the economic benefits of the Games.
According to the report the final cost of the Olympic Delivery Authority's (ODA) construction, infrastructure and transport programme is £6.865m, down £394m since July. Including funding for transformation work, this rises to £7.189 billion, which is down £61m.
The Olympics is set to be one of the UK's biggest security tests - a 64-day operation, from when the Olympic village opens on 13 July to the time the Paralympic village closes on 12 September, covering 34 venues across Britain.
Last month Defence Secretary Philip Hammond said ground-to-air missiles would be deployed to protect the 2012 Olympics if deemed operationally necessary, after reports emerged the US was unhappy with the UK's security plans.
The Guardian had claimed the US was furious with security plans and wanted to send up to 1,000 of its own people, including 500 FBI agents, although the US Embassy's Charge d'Affaires later rejected the story and said she had "the utmost confidence in the British government's arrangements to ensure safety and security for the Games".
Security personnel - which will be drawn from private firm G4S, the military and Locog volunteers - will be operational at more than 100 competition and non-competition venues across the UK.
Krishna Maharaj, now 75, spent a decade on death row before his punishment was reduced to two life sentences in 1997.
He says Colombian drug traffickers were responsible for the 1986 shootings of Duane and Derrick Moo Young in Miami.
The hearing, likely to take place later this year, could lead to a retrial or reduced sentence.
At the 11th Judicial Circuit Court of Florida in Miami on Thursday, Judge William Thomas granted the new hearing which will be able to hear from witnesses.
In his ruling, Reuters news agency reported, the judge said he was not "opining on the merits of the evidence" presented by the defence or "Maharaj's ability to establish his right to a new trial".
Lawyers for Maharaj say there is evidence the killings were carried out "at the behest of Pablo Escobar", former head of the Medellin cartel, who was shot dead by Colombian security forces in 1993.
Following the ruling, Maharaj, who previously lived in London, said in a statement: "I am absolutely elated by the judge's decision and I can't wait for the whole truth to come out in court."
His wife, Marita, added: "I don't even know how I feel right now.
"We have been fighting for 27 years. I know we haven't finished yet, but at least we won a battle."
Clive Stafford Smith, director of legal charity Reprieve and a lawyer for Maharaj, said the judge's ruling was "fantastic news".
"Judge Thomas has shown great courage in ordering this crucial new hearing, which is a vital step along the road to finally proving Kris's innocence," he said.
"At last, after 27 years in prison for a crime he patently did not commit, there is a chance that justice will be done in Kris's case."
According to a drug trafficker quoted in the defence motion, the Moo Youngs were "eliminated because they had lost Colombian drug money".
Prosecutors objected to reopening the case, saying the defence motion was based on "hearsay and inadmissible evidence".
Mason, 25, who has won one cap for England, has signed a three-year deal.
The fee for Keane, 23 is also undisclosed, but reported to be £1m.
The Tigers' previous record signing was the £10m they paid Italian side Palermo for striker Abel Hernandez on deadline day in September 2014.
Keane, who has also signed a three-year deal, worked alongside Tigers caretaker boss Mike Phelan when he was assistant manager at Old Trafford.
Cardiff goalkeeper David Marshall, 31, became the club's first summer signing earlier on Tuesday when he joined for a fee that could rise to £5m.
Mason told the club website: "I'm delighted and excited to be here.
"I can't wait to get started and I see this as a massive opportunity for me."
Keane has been on loan at Wigan Athletic, Queens Park Rangers, Sheffield Wednesday and Preston North End - where he scored twice in 22 appearances last season.
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Boro move ahead of Burnley and Brighton, who can climb above them again with wins in Monday's games.
Stephen Gleeson and Jordan Rhodes shared a goal apiece in the first half, before Gaston Ramirez put Boro ahead.
David Davis levelled, but Daniel Ayala had a goal disallowed to deny the Teessiders all three points.
Both sides had numerous chances to score more goals on a cold and wet night full of breathless end-to-end action and fabulous entertainment in Small Heath.
But Ayala wrongly had what would have been a winning goal chalked off for offside before visiting skipper Grant Leadbitter wobbled the Railway Stand End crossbar with a blistering volley which proved too hot for Adam Legzdins to handle.
Relive Middlesbrough's 2-2 draw at Birmingham as it happened
A first half hour of tactical stalemate suddenly came to life with a string of chances at both ends, before two goals in quick succession.
Both Blues keeper Legzdins and his counterpart Dimi Konstantopoulos made key saves, but both were culpable at crucial moments.
Such was the ferocity of the Blues midfielder Gleeson's well-struck shot that Konstantopoulos could only help it into the net.
At the other end, Ramirez's free-kick should not have troubled the keeper but Legzdins fumbled the ball as if it was a bar of soap - and the predatory Rhodes raced in to prod it over the line.
Rhodes had a great chance of a second when he latched onto deflected Leadbitter's free kick but the ball came back off the post and, in his desperation to latch onto the rebound, he got in the way of the better placed Albert Adomah.
It mattered little when, in Blues' next attack, Rhodes cutely headed down Adomah's cross for Ramirez to net from almost on the line, but Davis latched onto a loose clearance to equalise again.
Ayala was then denied by the referee's assistant's flag, while there were further chances for ex-Boro loanee Diego Fabbrini who headed over, David Cotterill, who saw his powerful shot saved then somehow scrambled out for a corner and Leadbitter - who saw his thunderous effort swerve out of Legzdins' grasp to hit the bar.
Rhodes may be a prolific scorer but he reacts in a phlegmatic way to disappointment.
Twice, when he perhaps ought to have scored, he was denied by saves from Legzdins, but was still on the spot to accept when the Blues keeper offered him a gift.
Similarly, after a bad miss early in the second half, it was Rhodes who then bounced straight back to head down for Ramirez to put Boro ahead.
After scoring for Boro in only his second appearance after signing from Blackburn for £9m in the January transfer window, Rhodes then went through an uncustomary eight-game barren spell.
But his first-half equaliser at St Andrew's was his fifth goal in seven matches, his 17th of the season and, at 26, the Oldham-born Scotland international is now just 12 short of 200 career goals.
Birmingham City boss Gary Rowett told BBC Sport:
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"A great game, a great advert for the Championship and we may have played our small part in who gets promoted this season.
"The Ayala goal was onside, but then I thought there was a slight suspicion about their first goal. Adam Legzdins will learn from his error and he had just made two good saves before that.
"And nothing can take away from the quality of our performance on a night which could easily have been a nervy occasion. The idea that my lads might be on the beach with their flip flops on was an insult to my players."
Middlesbrough boss Aitor Karanka: "We are in a good position. We have a chance to play at home with our crowd behind us next week.
"We have to be pleased with a point. Birmingham are a good team."
Karanka on Ayala's disallowed goal: "I like to think it was a mistake but there have been a lot of mistakes against us this season and it is not the day to discuss that."
Match ends, Birmingham City 2, Middlesbrough 2.
Second Half ends, Birmingham City 2, Middlesbrough 2.
Attempt blocked. Maikel Kieftenbeld (Birmingham City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Foul by David Nugent (Middlesbrough).
Jonathan Spector (Birmingham City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. David Nugent (Middlesbrough) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Gastón Ramírez following a set piece situation.
Nsue (Middlesbrough) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Viv Solomon-Otabor (Birmingham City).
Substitution, Birmingham City. Jonathan Spector replaces Paul Caddis.
Attempt saved. Grant Leadbitter (Middlesbrough) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by David Nugent.
Substitution, Middlesbrough. David Nugent replaces Jordan Rhodes.
Corner, Middlesbrough. Conceded by Adam Legzdins.
Attempt missed. Nsue (Middlesbrough) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Cristhian Stuani.
Substitution, Birmingham City. Viv Solomon-Otabor replaces David Davis.
Substitution, Middlesbrough. Cristhian Stuani replaces Stewart Downing.
Corner, Birmingham City. Conceded by Daniel Ayala.
Attempt missed. David Cotterill (Birmingham City) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Clayton Donaldson.
Attempt saved. Paul Robinson (Birmingham City) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Jonathan Grounds.
Attempt saved. David Cotterill (Birmingham City) right footed shot from a difficult angle and long range on the right is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Foul by Ritchie de Laet (Middlesbrough).
Paul Caddis (Birmingham City) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Gastón Ramírez (Middlesbrough).
Maikel Kieftenbeld (Birmingham City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Birmingham City. Paul Robinson replaces Diego Fabbrini.
Jordan Rhodes (Middlesbrough) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Maikel Kieftenbeld (Birmingham City).
Attempt blocked. Albert Adomah (Middlesbrough) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Albert Adomah (Middlesbrough) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Jonathan Grounds (Birmingham City).
Ritchie de Laet (Middlesbrough) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Clayton Donaldson (Birmingham City).
Attempt missed. Diego Fabbrini (Birmingham City) header from very close range is too high. Assisted by David Cotterill with a cross.
Offside, Middlesbrough. Jordan Rhodes tries a through ball, but Daniel Ayala is caught offside.
Albert Adomah (Middlesbrough) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by David Davis (Birmingham City).
Goal! Birmingham City 2, Middlesbrough 2. David Davis (Birmingham City) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner.
Attempt missed. Jonathan Grounds (Birmingham City) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by David Cotterill with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Birmingham City. Conceded by Adam Clayton.
Attempt blocked. David Cotterill (Birmingham City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt blocked. Diego Fabbrini (Birmingham City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by David Cotterill.
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Bale glanced in a Luca Modric cross just before half-time to claim his third goal of the season.
Ronaldo then scored his 16th after Lucas Vazquez was tripped late on.
Real avoided a third successive league defeat for the first time since the end of the 2008-09 season to move six points behind leaders Barcelona.
Benitez had received the backing of Real Madrid president Florentino Perez following his side's 4-0 defeat by Barcelona in last weekend's Clasico.
But the position of the former Liverpool manager would have been placed under further scrutiny had Real failed to beat the smallest club in La Liga and lost more ground in the title race.
Seventh-placed Eibar had lost only twice in the league this season and held their own for long periods.
But despite fielding a makeshift defence missing the injured Sergio Ramos, Raphael Varane and Marcelo, Real's lead was rarely threatened once Bale broke the deadlock before the interval.
Ronaldo missed good chances either side of the break when he had just goalkeeper Asier Riesgo to beat.
But he ended his frustration from the spot eight minutes from time after Dani Garcia brought down substitute Vazquez, as Real secured the result Benitez badly needed.
Benitez said: "We knew they were playing well, that they are an intense and aggressive team. That's why the victory has more merit.
"We are in November. We have had injuries and the games are getting tougher. We have a great team and we are going to keep fighting until the end."
Valencia had defender Joao Cancelo and midfielder Javi Fuego sent off either side of half-time as they lost 1-0 to Seville.
Afterwards, Valencia coach Nuno Santo confirmed that he would be leaving his position.
Villarreal missed the chance to move into the top four as a 2-0 defeat at Getafe means they have won only one of their last seven league games.
Angel Lafita and Alvaro Vazquez scored the goals which lifted Getafe four points clear of the relegation places.
Striker Aritz Aduriz, 34, scored a hat-trick and took his total for the season to 20 goals as Atletico Bilbao won 3-0 at Rayo Vallecano.
Match ends, Eibar 0, Real Madrid 2.
Second Half ends, Eibar 0, Real Madrid 2.
Simone Verdi (Eibar) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Luka Modric (Real Madrid) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Simone Verdi (Eibar).
Attempt missed. Karim Benzema (Real Madrid) right footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Gareth Bale following a fast break.
Foul by Nacho (Real Madrid).
Mikel Arruabarrena (Eibar) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Gonzalo Escalante (Eibar) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Luka Modric (Real Madrid) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Gonzalo Escalante (Eibar).
Pepe (Real Madrid) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Simone Verdi (Eibar).
Luka Modric (Real Madrid) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Simone Verdi (Eibar).
Substitution, Eibar. Mikel Arruabarrena replaces Sergi Enrich.
Substitution, Eibar. Izet Hajrovic replaces Saúl Berjón.
Substitution, Real Madrid. Karim Benzema replaces Daniel Carvajal because of an injury.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Daniel Carvajal (Real Madrid) because of an injury.
Goal! Eibar 0, Real Madrid 2. Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the centre of the goal.
Penalty Real Madrid. Lucas Vázquez draws a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty conceded by Dani García (Eibar) after a foul in the penalty area.
Substitution, Real Madrid. Casemiro replaces Mateo Kovacic.
Attempt missed. Takashi Inui (Eibar) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right following a set piece situation.
Lucas Vázquez (Real Madrid) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Lucas Vázquez (Real Madrid).
David Juncà (Eibar) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Pepe (Real Madrid) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Simone Verdi (Eibar).
Attempt missed. Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Luka Modric with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Real Madrid. Conceded by Dani García.
Danilo (Real Madrid) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Takashi Inui (Eibar).
Attempt missed. Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) right footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Lucas Vázquez with a through ball.
Substitution, Eibar. Simone Verdi replaces Adrián.
Corner, Real Madrid. Conceded by David Juncà.
Mateo Kovacic (Real Madrid) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Gonzalo Escalante (Eibar).
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Gareth Bale's header and Cristiano Ronaldo's penalty eased the pressure on manager Rafael Benitez as Real Madrid earned an unspectacular win at Eibar.
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Only the top eight teams on that date will compete in the tournament.
As well as Pakistan, Australia, India, South Africa, New Zealand, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh will join hosts England.
Bangladesh, who were last involved in the event in 2006, made sure of their place by beating South Africa in July.
The Windies, who won the Champions Trophy in 2004, suspended coach Phil Simmons on Monday for criticising selectors.
It is the first time they have missed out on a Champions Trophy, World Cup or World Twenty20 tournament.
At the World Cup earlier this year, they were thrashed by New Zealand in the quarter-finals, while Pakistan, India, England and South Africa have all beaten them in ODI series over the past two years.
The next cut-off date for teams is 30 September 2017 - when the top eight one-day sides will earn automatic entry to the 2019 World Cup, which will also take place in the UK.
The BBC has been told Devon and Cornwall Police and Devon social services are involved in the inquiry, said to be "at an early stage".
The academy said it wanted the concerns to be thoroughly investigated, but the school would continue to operate normally in the meantime.
The nature of the allegations that prompted the inquiry is not clear.
Letters have been sent to parents and those students over the age of 18, informing them of the investigation.
The academy is a charity and has a history dating back almost 200 years, with an international reputation. Its website says it currently has 76 students aged between four and 24.
Jonathan Farnhill, chief executive and principal, said: "We want these concerns to be investigated objectively and fairly and the academy will be working with Devon County Council and other appropriate authorities to review our practice.
"If, as part of this process, areas for improvement are identified then we will move swiftly to take any action needed to ensure the support and care we give our students is of the highest standard."
A spokesman for Devon County Council said: "It's important that any allegations are looked into sensitively and carefully. The council is working closely with the Police and the academy's chief executive about the investigation."
The defection, and Mr Cunha's threat to take his party with him, is a blow to embattled President Dilma Rousseff.
Mr Cunha has accused the government and Prosecutor General Rodrigo Janot of conspiring to incriminate him in a widening corruption scandal at state-run oil firm Petrobras.
Without Mr Cunha's PMDB party, Ms Rousseff has no majority in Congress.
"I cannot accept that the government uses its machinery to seek the political persecution of those who turn against it," Mr Cunha said in Brasilia.
His defection followed allegations made this week by a jailed former consultant to Petrobras, Julio Camargo, that Mr Cunha had demanded a $5m (£3.2m) bribe to push through contracts for equipment.
Mr Cunha has denied any involvement, and said Ms Rousseff and Mr Janot were unfairly dragging congressmen into the Petrobras investigations.
His name had appeared earlier this year alongside those of dozens of other congressmen on a list of people whom the police reportedly wanted to interview in relation to the scandal.
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Thirty-four congressmen and one state vice-governor are under investigation for taking bribes.
Investigators allege firms paid corrupt officials in order to get lucrative Petrobras contracts.
President Dilma Rousseff, who chaired Petrobras when much of the corruption is believed to have taken place, has been cleared of involvement.
Analysts say Mr Cunha's opposition to Ms Rousseff could become a major obstacle for any legislation proposed by her government, at a time when it is trying to introduce public spending cuts to stave off recession.
Mr Cunha, an evangelical Christian, is seen as a possible presidential candidate in 2018.
Ukraine's Petro Poroshenko and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin spoke by phone to discuss steps to make Friday's truce durable.
But by Saturday evening there were reports of shelling near the southern city of Mariupol.
Meanwhile, Russia vowed to respond if the European Union imposed new sanctions over the Ukraine crisis.
The EU says the sanctions, targeting more Russian individuals, will be introduced on Monday but could be later suspended if Russia withdraws troops from eastern Ukraine and observes a current truce.
Russia has repeatedly denied accusations by Ukraine and the West that it has been sending regular troops into eastern Ukraine to help the rebels.
Some 2,600 people have died in fighting after pro-Russian rebels seized towns in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk and Luhansk regions in April - a month after Russia's annexation of the southern Crimean peninsula.
In a statement Mr Poroshenko also said that the two presidents had stressed the need "to maximise the involvement" of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in monitoring the truce.
The two leaders also discussed ways of co-operating in delivering humanitarian aid to the region.
In his turn, President Putin said in a statement that an agreement was reached to "continue dialogue".
The ceasefire deal was signed during talks between representatives of Ukraine, Russia, the OSCE and the separatist rebels in Minsk, Belarus.
The truce came into effect at 15:00 GMT on Friday.
There were no reports of major fighting in the east for the first 24 hours, but by Saturday evening the BBC's Fergal Keane tweeted from Mariupol that shelling had resumed.
The spokesman for Ukraine's National Security and Defence Council, Andriy Lysenko, said earlier on Saturday that the rebels had fired 10 times on Ukrainian troops since the truce.
Unconfirmed reports also say a number of fighters from Ukraine's Aydar battalion were ambushed and killed after the ceasefire.
Meanwhile, the rebel leader of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, Aleksandr Zakharchenko, said the truce was "not being fully observed" and that rebels had been subjected to shelling in the town of Amvrosiyivka near Donetsk.
Also the International Committee of the Red Cross said in a tweet that aid trucks on their way to Lugansk had been forced to turn back by shelling, without giving any further details.
Our correspondent also spoke to Andriy Biletskiy, the commander of Ukraine's Azov battalion, who said he believed fighting would resume within "five to seven days".
"We will see how the situation develops," he said. "If it was a tactical move there is nothing wrong with it... if it's an attempt to reach an agreement concerning Ukrainian soil with separatists then obviously it's a betrayal."
A 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.
Earlier on Saturday, the Russian foreign ministry said there "will undoubtedly be a reaction from our side" if the new EU sanctions were passed.
The fresh sanctions would add another 24 to the list of people barred from entering the EU and whose assets have been frozen.
Among 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.
The Russian foreign ministry said the EU was "practically sending a signal of direct support to the 'party of war' in Kiev".
So far, 15,000 girls have put forward ideas for new badges, including App Design, Vlogging and Upcycling.
Olympic gymnast Beth Tweddle, one of several "inspirational women" involved, suggested a Resilience badge.
And Lil, aged nine, wanted a Gymnastics badge as: "I enjoy doing it and I can do lots of tricks."
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Girlguiding might be more famous for less adventurous badges like Homemaker and Hostess but they also have a long tradition of groundbreaking badges, including:
More recently, in the 1980s, there was a Radio Communicator badge, and the 1990s girls could do a Canoeist badge.
The current set of badges include Survival, Circus Skills and World Issues.
Parents and the general public are now being invited to contribute ideas for the new programme on social media, using the hashtag #BadgeGoals.
Girlguiding has more than 500,000 members aged five to 25 and 100,000 volunteers.
It runs Rainbows for five to seven-year-olds, Brownies for seven to 10-year-olds, Guides for 10 to 14-year-olds and Senior Section for 14 to 25-year-olds.
As well as Vlogging, App Design and Upcycling, potential badges suggested by members include:
Elena, 17, said: "A Chemist badge would be brilliant as girls could find out about acids and alkalis and have a go at conducting experiments.
"It would be a fantastic way to engage girls in chemistry."
Mihika, eight, said her top choice would be a Zip Line Badge, "because it is very fun and cool".
Sophie, 20, wanted a Video Journalist badge: "It would give girls the opportunity to learn about making vlogs and other video news pieces and understand how to harness one of the most powerful communication mediums available."
Beth Tweddle said her proposed Resilience badge would "give girls the chance to build their mental wellbeing".
She said resilience was a "valuable skill" which had helped her handle "the pressures of competing in gymnastics".
"A Resilience badge would help to tackle the stigma around mental health from a young age by empowering girls to talk confidently about these issues and equipping them with the skills they need to be resilient throughout their lives."
Girlguiding says the new programme, starting next year, will mark "the biggest investment in girls' futures outside the school system in the UK".
The aim is to equip hundreds of thousands of girls "with all the skill and experiences they will need to thrive, succeed, make change and be happy in the modern world", it adds.
In 2014 the Scout Association carried out a similar move, introducing 19 new badges after a 10-month consultation with its 12,000 scouts.
Among the new badges was geocaching - a modern take on orienteering where participants use GPS technology to find hidden treasure boxes.
Beth Tweddle is among several prominent women awarded honorary "I Give Girls a Voice" Guide badges for being role models for girls and young women.
Other recipients include fellow Olympians Lizzy Yarnold, Dame Kelly Holmes and Hannah Cockroft, as well as entertainer Kimberly Wyatt, campaigning journalist Bryony Gordon and adventurer Anna McNuff.
Gallagher stepped down with two years still left on his contract on Monday - nine days after his side's 4-17 to 0-14 qualifier hammering by Galway.
There has been speculation social media criticism contributed to his departure.
"I have no interest in social media whatsoever. It has no impact on my life or my decision to step away from the senior team," said Gallagher.
The former Donegal manager added that he does not have Facebook or Twitter accounts.
Speaking in a statement, Gallagher thanked his own family, the county's players over his seven years of involvement with the squad and the county's GAA officials for their support during his time with Donegal.
Fermanagh native Gallagher served as assistant to previous Jim McGuinness manager from 2011 to 2013 before being appointed boss in 2014.
Gallagher guided Donegal to the Ulster final in both 2015 and 2016 but they lost to Monaghan and Tyrone on both occasions, and went out to bow at the All-Ireland quarter-finals stage later those summers.
With several experienced players retiring over the last two seasons, Gallagher faced the task of building a largely new team in 2017.
Promising performances in the Football League had many pundits tipping Donegal for an extended championship run but the highly-rated side were hammered by Tyrone in the Ulster semi-final in June and the belief and energy seemed to drain from the players following that defeat.
"Only the players and their families, the management and county board officers can appreciate the effort that the 2017 squad made this season," continued Gallagher in his statement.
"We understand fully the road we are on. It is the beginning of a new team. It will continue to need huge levels of commitment over the next number of years.
"To the players who I have coached and managed thanks for your hunger and desire to be better for Donegal. You should be very proud of yourselves.
"It made the training pitch a special place to be. We have had tough days and great days. Along the way we have had lots of fun. Your total support and loyalty throughout the seven years means a lot," concluded Gallagher as he wished Donegal GAA the "very best in the future".
When Donegal won the All-Ireland title in 2012, Gallagher's role was regarded as crucial to the success and while he split with McGuinness' management team a year later, his good relationship with the Donegal players meant he was himself at the helm by late 2014.
Former Donegal player Eamon McGee tweeted on Monday evening that Gallagher had been "so important to our All-Ireland win in 2012".
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Manager O'Neill's selection included dropping star striker Kyle Lafferty but Northern Ireland won 2-0 to revive their hopes of reaching the last 16.
"It was a massive decision, and it paid off," said 25-year-old Magennis.
"If it had been Jose Mourinho or Roy Hodgson, he would be hailed as a magician."
Following a deserved day off, O'Neill and his Northern Ireland team returned to training on Saturday to prepare for the final Group C game against Germany.
After his team selection for Thursday's historic victory, few would put money on what O'Neill's line-up will be for Tuesday's crucial match at Parc des Princes.
Magennis said all the changes made by O'Neill after the opening 1-0 defeat by Poland had been entirely justified.
"There were not many who could say they deserved to stay in the team," he added.
"We went back to the format which worked for us in qualifying and the boys who stepped in were magnificent.
"We nullified their wide men who were their big threat."
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Magennis said Northern Ireland would not be going out to try to hold the Germans to a draw.
"They are a dominant force who can hurt you from all angles - we know it is going to be tough," said Magennis.
"But as a group, from the manager to the kitman, everybody who wears the badge on their chest believes we can progress in this tournament.
"Our attitude is we are going to try to win this game. Every team has weaknesses and it is just a matter of us finding Germany's.
"There is no team we fear in this tournament."
Overseas shipments fell 14% in July from a year ago and imports fell 24.7% leaving Japan's trade surplus at 513.5bn yen ($5.2bn; £4bn). The falls were the sharpest since 2009.
The benchmark Nikkei 225 closed 1.6% lower at 16,486.01.
The yen rose again on Thursday, passing the key 100 level against the US dollar for the third time this year.
"Looking ahead, we expect the yen to weaken against the dollar towards the end of the year, so the annual growth rates of export and import values should start to recover in coming months," senior Japan economist at Capital Economist Marcel Thieliant said.
"But with external demand sluggish, trade volumes are unlikely to stage a strong rebound."
Japan's broader Topix index matched the Nikkei's fall, losing 1.6% to end at 1,290.79.
Other markets are also trading mixed after Federal Reserve minutes diminished expectations of an interest rate increase next month.
Seoul's Kospi rose 0.6% to end at 2,054.89. The Shanghai Composite fell 0.2% to finish at 3,104.11.
Hong Kong's Hang Seng rose by 1% to close at 23,028.08, led by shares of internet giant Tencent which reported better-than-expected profit on Wednesday.
Australia's S&P/ASX 200 fell 0.5% to wrap at 5,507.80 despite better-than-expected data that showed the country's jobless rate fell in July.
The unemployment rate dropped to 5.7% due to an increase in part-time jobs created for last month's national election.
Shane Oliver, head of investment strategy and chief economist at AMP Capital called today's data "reasonably solid".
However, the overall jobs market is "not quite as strong as it looks" due to the fall in full-time employment, he said.
The second season of Netflix's hugely popular drama Stranger Things will premiere on Halloween 2017, the streaming service confirmed earlier this year.
The show stars Winona Ryder and David Harbour but also relies heavily on its cast of child actors, who play some of the main characters.
The young stars have been praised for their performances in the show, and could well have bright futures in Hollywood ahead of them.
But the glitz and glamour of the entertainment industry isn't for everyone.
For every Drew Barrymore or Jodie Foster, there are plenty of child actors who chose to go in totally different directions in their adult years.
Here are six child stars who left acting behind to pursue new careers.
You might not recognise the name, but Ostrum played Charlie in the big-screen adaptation of Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
The 1971 film saw Ostrum appear alongside four other child actors as one of Willy Wonka's five golden ticket winners.
"Everybody thinks that acting is such a glamorous profession, but it's a difficult profession," he said after starring in the film.
That may explain why he quit acting and became a vet as an adult instead.
Some of the other young actors in the film picked up a few more big screen roles in the years after the film, but nearly all drifted away from Hollywood.
Michael Bollner, who played Augustus Gloop, for example, now works as an accountant in Munich.
In the 1990s, it was difficult to go to the cinema without seeing a film with Mara Wilson in it.
She starred in Miracle on 34th Street, Mrs Doubtfire, A Simple Wish and Matilda.
But then, as she entered her teenage years, the former child actress retreated from the limelight.
"I was 13 and I was awkward, and I was gawky, and I was not a very cute kid anymore," Wilson told The Huffington Post in 2013.
"So, Hollywood didn't really want me at that point, and I was kind of over it too. So, after a while, it feels like a mutual breakup. That's the way that I'd describe it."
Wilson is now a writer and released a book last year called Where Am I Now?
She also came out as bisexual in support of the victims of the attack on an LGBT nightclub in Orlando.
Harper Lee's novel To Kill A Mockingbird was an instant literary phenomenon when it was first released in 1960, and is still considered a classic.
When the inevitable big-screen adaptation was made, Mary Badham was hired to play the role of Scout, the young girl who serves as the book's narrator.
Badham became the youngest actress ever nominated for the best supporting actress category at the Oscars after her appearance in the film (although the record was broken a decade later by the marginally younger Tatum O'Neal).
She went on to act in a few other films released in the 1960s, but then gave up on the profession for the rest of her life - with one exception.
Badham was coaxed out of retirement for a minor role in one film - 2005's Our Very Own - after its director, Cameron Watson, said he wouldn't accept any other actress for the part.
She now works an art restorer and a college testing coordinator, but often writes about her experiences on Mockingbird and attended a special screening of the film with President Obama in 2012.
"When I retired, I was at an in-between age. I wasn't a child anymore, I wasn't really a woman yet and they weren't really writing scripts for that age," she said later that year.
Not many of us can claim to have started our career at the age of three - but that's exactly what Shirley Temple did.
As a child actress, she starred in a whole host of films, including Bright Eyes, The Little Princess, Heidi and Captain January.
But in her adult years, she entered politics and public affairs, becoming a Republican fundraiser and serving three years as the United States Ambassador to (what was then known as) Czechoslovakia.
She also had a mocktail named after her - which, thank you for asking, consists of ginger ale (or lemonade) and a splash of grenadine, garnished with a maraschino cherry.
When Temple died in 2014 at the age of 85, she left behind a remarkable legacy - no child star since has ever come close to equalling her record of being Hollywood's top box office star for four years in a row.
Mark Lester was just 10 years old when he was cast as Oliver in, er, Oliver.
The film adaptation of the stage musical was released in 1968 - more than 130 years after Charles Dickens's novel Oliver Twist was first published
Lester took various roles over the following decade but decided to give up acting at the age of 19 and became an osteopath.
"Child actors going on to become adult actors never really works, apart from a few. Jodie Foster was the exception," he told The Independent.
He and Michael Jackson - who was born in the same year - were close friends, and Lester became godfather to the singer's three children.
Richards took on a few small acting jobs throughout her childhood, but shot to fame playing Lex Murphy in 1993's Jurassic Park - a role she filmed when she was just 12 years old.
She briefly reprised the role for The Lost World: Jurassic Park four years later, but then took a step back from acting to focus on her art career.
Richards graduated in 2001 with a degree in fine art and drama and went on to become a successful painter.
But, in 2011, she said: "Being interested in acting never changes. Acting is in your blood, and of course I'll always be interested in it."
Which explains why she was briefly tempted back in 2013 for a role in TV movie Battledogs.
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But it was not always this way.
The staple of the 31 October vegetable-based lantern was a turnip, or swede - or a neep as they are fondly known in Scotland.
Is the tradition of hollowing out the much tougher innards of a neep now long dead, or does it still survive in Scottish households?
Donna Heddle, professor of Northern Studies, at the University of the Highlands and Islands, says she remains committed to the hardy turnip.
She says: "This is a very old tradition in Scotland and Ireland based on will o' the wisps and Celtic mythology which settlers and emigrants took to the USA and, not really finding neeps, used pumpkins.
"The whole Halloween celebration today has been taken over by the US version which bears no resemblance to ours."
Prof Heddle concedes that colourful pumpkins with their soft insides make for an easier proposition than a neep.
She adds: "Pumpkins are sold very cheaply up to Halloween.
"However, my husband uses a drill bit to hollow our neeps out."
A Halloween lantern from a turnip, or a swede, can be made with a basic kitchen knife and spoon. But kids, always have a responsible grown-up ghoul to hand when sharp utensils are being used.
For this demonstration, a little spooky werewolf assisted, obviously.
Rachel Chisholm, curator of collections at the Highland Folk Museum in Newtonmore, remembers fondly the making of neep lanterns in her home.
She says: "I remember making our lanterns - or rather my dad making the lanterns - as they were extremely hard thing to do."
After a search through the museum's archives for details on the tradition of turnip lanterns, she says: "The only thing I found was the fact that as the summer came to an end people celebrated the great festival of Samhain.
"It was at this time that it was believed the dead could return to earth so at that time you went out masked to scare the evil spirits and having a light would also help to keep you safe.
"It was a custom that bonfires were lit also to scare the evil spirits."
The curator says: "Last year, we held a Halloween day here at the museum and had children, and adults, making turnip lanterns.
"It was great to see the traditional lanterns rather than pumpkins."
On other Scottish Halloween tradition, she adds: "My mother grew up on Skye and she tells of tricks that were played by the young men of the village.
"Gates were removed and hidden in ditches and even cows were moved between crofts so that by morning you never knew where to find your cattle."
The party had been moving its ministers in and out of the executive after the murder of Kevin McGuigan sparked a political crisis over the IRA's status.
In a statement the party said its ministers would be reappointed on Tuesday.
It said this was as it now had an up-to-date assessment of paramilitaries.
DUP leader Peter Robinson resumed his job as Northern Ireland first minister after stepping aside in September.
He said: "The issue always for all of the parties was whether the parties in government were committed to peaceful and democratic means - the report confirms that that is the case as far as the leadership's concerned.
"But I think depressingly it indicates that that leadership isn't in entire control of the rest of the organisation."
He said although his party had reappointed its ministers, the political institutions remained in grave danger.
"I don't think that there's anybody in our community that could be satisfied that after this period in time that these [paramilitary] groups have not self-expired," he said.
"They should have, but it's quite clear that they're not going to take themselves off the stage in their entirety unless they are required to do so and I think that's what this talks process has to do.
"We have a talks process and without a satisfactory outcome to that talks process there wouldn't be a basis to have a sustainable executive and assembly. So we have a couple of weeks to save Stormont."
The DUP had come in for criticism from other assembly parties over its "in-out" ministers.
Mr Robinson announced he would step aside as Northern Ireland first minister on 10 September after the party failed to get enough support to adjourn the assembly.
Other DUP ministers also resigned, although Arlene Foster remained as finance minister and took over as acting first minister.
The Alliance Party said DUP ministers had "resigned and resumed office more than 20 times since 10 September 2015".
In its statement on Tuesday, the DUP said: "We sought an up-to-date assessment by the PSNI and security services to inform our future decisions. That is now available to us.
"It confirms the chief constable's August statement rather than the contradictory implications that flowed from the arrest of [Sinn Féin northern chairman] Bobby Storey, and on that basis ministers will be appointed to office later today."
Mr Storey, a former IRA prisoner, is the northern chairman of Sinn Féin.
He was one of three senior republicans arrested and later released without charge in connection with the murder of Mr McGuigan.
Belfast is due to be handed the games at the closing ceremony of the Bahamas Games on 23 July.
However, the business case was not signed off by the Northern Ireland Executive.
A meeting will be held on Tuesday to see if the Games can be saved.
The DUP has said that due to "Sinn Féin collapsing the assembly this project is unable to proceed".
Sinn Féin has blamed the collapse of Stormont on both the DUP and the British government.
About 1,000 young athletes are due to take part in the Games and it would have been a landmark event for Northern Ireland's centenary year.
Sports stars like Carl Frampton, Michael Conlon, Jessica Ennis Hill, Beth Tweddle and Louis Smith have all taken part in previous events.
The hosting rights were awarded to Northern Ireland in February 2016.
The business case for funding has been with the department of the economy, but was not approved by the former DUP economy minister Simon Hamilton and brought to the executive table.
The department said the games were not "value for money", but the BBC understands that ministers could still have approved the project if it had been discussed, and backed, by the Executive.
The BBC has seen a letter from Roy Millar MBE - former head coach of the Northern Ireland national under-21 football team - which was distributed among sporting organisations in Northern Ireland saying the games were now in "grave danger".
"Failure to hold on to these games will have serious implications for Northern Ireland's global reputation and may adversely impact future bids for other international sporting events with further local ramifications likely," he writes.
The president of the Commonwealth Games Federation, Louise Martin, and David Grevernberg, the federation's chief executive, will both be in Belfast for the meeting on Tuesday.
Ciaran Kearney from the Northern Ireland Sports Forum has said there is still a window of opportunity to save the Games.
"We're hoping that on Tuesday we'll be able to come to a resolution," he said.
"We don't want to go down the route of losing the Games, we still hope and we still expect that the Games will go ahead.
"The Games would be a wonderful opportunity to inspire our young athletes and give them something to work towards."
The DUP had made a commitment to Commonwealth sporting events in their most recent Westminster manifesto.
It stated: "Northern Ireland should seek to host Commonwealth political and sporting events."
A DUP spokesperson said: "As a result of Sinn Fein collapsing the Assembly, subsequent elections and the talks process, this project has been unable to proceed.
"Minister Hamilton, who was the then minister, could not approve funding for the Commonwealth Games."
A spokesperson for the Department for the Economy said: "Officials have been unable to commit to funding this event as, despite the best efforts of all involved, it has not been possible to approve the business case because it does not demonstrate value for money.
"The Northern Ireland Commonwealth Games Council (NICGC) will be proceeding at its own risk in the event that it opts to accept the hosting rights without confirmation of support."
A spokesperson for the Commonwealth Games Federation said: "The Belfast 2021 Commonwealth Youth Games will be a proud and inspiring opportunity to put the Commonwealth's finest young athletes and Northern Ireland's ambitious sporting fraternity on the global sporting stage.
"With over four years to go, we're optimistic that all partners will come together to realise their shared legacy ambitions for this special event."
A Sinn Féin spokesperson said: "Martin McGuinness brought an end to the arrogance of the DUP in the midst of allegations of corruption and the RHI financial scandal.
"He also took a stand against their disrespect and discrimination to certain sections of our society including the Irish language community, the LGB and T communities and ethnic minorities.
"Both the DUP and the British government know what is required in order to get the institutions back up but so far they have displayed no political will to enable that happening."
Mark Noble's penalty cancelled out Matic Crnic's spot-kick for the hosts, but the Premier League side faded.
Crnic curled home a second, and Adrian had to save well from Amedej Vetrih to prevent a bigger margin of defeat.
Next week's second leg will be the first competitive game played at the Olympic Stadium, West Ham's new home.
The match looks set to be a sell-out, played in front of more than 50,000 fans.
Noble's penalty has given West Ham an away goal that means a 1-0 win in the home leg will take them through.
But, in front of barely 3,000 in Ljubljana - the game was moved from the home of Domzale, they looked well short of match sharpness.
Crnic and Noble exchanged early penalties - with Domzale's awarded for a Havard Nordtveit handball and West Ham's for a foul on Winston Reid.
The Hammers were without last season's standout player Dimitri Payet, and while new signing Sofiane Feghouli enjoyed an impressive start, he barely had a touch in the second half.
Michail Antonio was at fault for Crnic's second goal and looked fragile all night, while former Leeds full-back Sam Byram looked makeshift on the left.
First-choice Aaron Cresswell is set to be out for four months with a knee injury and Bilic may need to enter the transfer market before the start of the season.
West Ham assistant manager Nikola Jurcevic:
"Our performance was not so good, and maybe I can say it was average in the first half and it was 1-1. We were not satisfied with this result and in the second half we played badly.
"I am sure we will be better next week. It will be very difficult but I'm optimistic and I hope it will be a different game in the Olympic Stadium.
"We must be better. We must win this game in our stadium because we also have big ambitions in Europe, but it will be very tough because Domzale showed they are a good team."
The annual Newport Survey was one of the most significant results of a documentary photography course launched by David Hurn in 1973.
Senior lecturer Dr Paul Cabuts said the course enjoyed a worldwide reputation.
"People come to study photography at Newport because they see it as a centre of excellence," he said.
In pictures: Newport life in 1980s
Photography was first taught at the then School of Art, part of the Newport Technical Institute, in 1912.
School head William Bush was a keen amateur photographer who had judged the discipline at three National Eisteddfodau.
But Dr Cabuts said the thrust of the course was very different in those days.
"Despite being at an art school, the class was very much more technical, with engineering and industry driving it," he said.
"It enters the field of the arts more in the 1960s, when people like the painter David Hockney would visit."
The Swinging Sixties saw the emergence of the photographer as personality, with the likes of David Bailey, Terence Donovan and Brian Duffy becoming as famous as the stars they portrayed.
But Dr Cabuts says it was another figure who was particularly significant where Newport was concerned.
"It really took off when Magnum photographer David Hurn decided to return to Wales and set up a documentary photography course in what was the Gwent College of Higher Education in 1973," he said.
"He was interested in teaching photography in a humanist sense, to make the world a better place, encouraging students to say something about the world."
Hurn's presence at the college was a draw for visits by major photographers such as Henri Cartier-Bresson and Don Cullen, while others including Ron McCormick and John Charity joined the college staff.
Students of photography at Newport have included the war and landscape photographer Simon Norfolk, and Paul Rees, a current member of staff whose work represented Britain at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Recent students to have made an impact include Anastasia Taylor-Lind, who won a Guardian newspaper award in 2006 for her photos of Kurdish warrior women in northern Iraq, and Matt Dunham, who captured images of the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall's car caught up in the London riots of 2011.
The centenary is being marked by a series of events throughout the year, including the current exhibition based on the Newport Survey, which documented the changing face of local life during the 1980s.
A special event on Thursday will be attended by staff, students, and some of the people who appeared in the original photos.
Dr Cabuts said Newport had grown in reputation since being one of only a handful of UK colleges teaching documentary photography in the 1970s.
He said it now taught around 600 students from foundation level to PhD, and was globally renowned.
"We accept students from the USA, Japan, China, all over the world," he said.
"People come to study photography at Newport because they see it as a centre of excellence."
That was the verdict of George Osborne's former advisor, Rupert Harrison, as it became clear that the Conservatives are likely to need Democratic Unionist Party support to form a government.
But what price could the DUP extract?
One demand could be that EU funds, that will be lost as a result of Brexit, are replaced in full.
Northern Ireland agricultural industry benefits from about £350m a year in EU agricultural subsidies.
There are additional payments under the Peace and Interreg programmes which are aimed at community development and cross-border projects.
These programmes are due to spend about £400m in the period between 2016 and 2020.
Last August, Northern Ireland's then first minister and deputy first ministers wrote to Theresa May warning that "the absence of EU programmes in the future is of real concern to a range of sectors".
The DUP may also want money for the Northern Ireland Investment Fund.
It is essentially a public/private infrastructure fund which was first proposed by the then DUP finance minister Simon Hamilton in 2014.
It was hoped that the European Investment Bank (EIB) would help seed the fund, but after Brexit the EIB stepped back.
There is also the issue of corporation tax.
The main parties in Northern Ireland want the power to set their own corporation tax rate.
They also want to cut the rate to 12.5% (compared to the current UK rate of 19%.)
That cut in the rate will mean less revenue is collected for the Treasury.
EU rules mean the NI Executive would have to make up the shortfall through a cut in the block grant it receives from Westminster.
The Treasury wants to continue that principle even after the UK has left the EU, which is likely to mean a cost to Stormont of at least £100m a year.
The DUP could use its leverage to get the Treasury to significantly reduce that cost.
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The pair were due to fight in Las Vegas in January, but the bout was cancelled at the 11th hour when Barros failed a medical exam.
Welshman Selby, 30, feels higher-profile fights await after finally getting past his mandatory challenger.
"Getting Barros out of the way frees me up for the big fights," he said.
"It's been a long time coming, and on Saturday night, I'm looking forward to putting on a show and to see the back of Jonathan Barros."
The original fight was on the undercard of the WBA tight fight between Leo Santa Cruz and Carl Frampton, with the winners then set to meet in a unification fight.
But those plans were ruined when Barros was forced to withdraw 24 hours before the bout, with the Nevada Athletic Commission saying the Argentine had "not met fight requirements".
Cruz, who took Frampton's title, then suggested he was open to an unification fight with Selby, but the IBF ordered a mandatory defence with Barros after concerns over the 33-year-old's health were allayed.
"He's not this big, mean monster I've been making him out to be in my head," said Selby, who met Barros for the first time at Friday's weigh-in.
"He's very good, he's very strong. It's going to be a tough fight, but one I'm confident of winning. I believe I can beat anybody."
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Selby has decided to proceed with the fight against Barros despite the sudden death of his mother, Frankie, on Tuesday.
This will be only his third defence of the title he won by beating Evgeny Gradovich in May 2015 at the O2 Arena, highlighting the inactivity that has stalled his progress towards higher-profile opponents.
With no UK promoter, Selby knows he needs to deliver a convincing performance to raise his profile and attract the division's leading performers.
"Without the right opponent I can't see me headlining shows," he added.
The inventions are among those picked to represent various nations in the engineering prize.
Their makers were challenged to "design something that solves a problem".
More than 600 entries from 18 countries were entered into this year's competition.
It was open to university level students and recent graduates.
The contest is run by the James Dyson Foundation, a charity created by the vacuum cleaner creator to help young people develop engineering skills.
In an age when crowdfunding sites, such as Kickstarter and Indiegogo, exist to champion inventions that have yet to go on the market, such competitions still serve a valuable purpose, said one expert.
"The James Dyson Award provides a platform to showcase some of the very best new innovations in science, engineering and technology," Dr William Webb, deputy president of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, told the BBC.
"Whilst some of the entries might not make it beyond the prototype stage, the award provides a crucial role in encouraging new engineering talent, which the UK and other countries around the world so desperately need."
Below are a selection of the winners, which along with some of the runners-up will compete for a cash prize to be announced on 6 November.
Food labels filled with gelatine become bumpy to signal if the food inside has spoiled.
Current expiration dates are not always accurate - for example they do not take account of the fact that the meat, juice or vegetables inside might not have been refrigerated properly.
Bump Mark tackles the problem by allowing the producer to set the gelatine to decay at the same rate as the package's contents - the higher the concentration, the longer it takes to turn from a solid into a liquid.
Once the gelatine has changed state, bumps built into the plastic underneath can be felt, providing a tactile safety check.
Kit to inspect a beehive without having to open it up.
The measuring instrument is inserted into the hive, and then a pneumatic system allows the apiarist to select a single bee, which can be examined in isolation at length.
The idea is that this minimises disruption to the hive's climate, reducing the risk that the other insects will stop work.
The creators suggest Mima could be used to understand the increase in bee colony collapses.
A device to 3D print complex structures that mimic the epidermal and dermal layers of human skin.
These can be used to close the wounds of severe burn victims in order to help them recover.
The machine works by placing two types of human cell - keratinocytes and fibroblasts - layer-by-layer into a hydrogel to create the desired patterns.
The designers say early tests suggest that the resulting 3D-printed "skin" can be used to reduce the amount of time doctors need to wait before attempting to graft on real skin taken from a different part of the victim's body.
A device that heats liquid in a glass or other container, helping reduce wastage and cleaning.
The product consists of an induction base that plugs into the mains, which heats a rod placed inside the vessel.
Miito does not have an on/off button - instead it powers down when the base detects that the rod is not present or that the liquid has boiled.
A new fastening mechanism for backpacks that is designed to be safer than existing alternatives for mountaineers.
The system places the straps of the bag into a cross, with a buckle at the centre that can be split to allow the bag to be taken off with just one hand.
The idea is to minimise the risk involved in unpacking food, drink and emergency equipment when the climber is at a precarious spot.
Offering an alternative to barbeque and camping stoves, Solari promises to be an eco-friendly way to cook food outdoors.
The portable device is designed to use solar power to heat meals for between four to six people within a few hours.
It works by letting in light through its transparent lid, which then passes through a lens that directs it around an aluminium shell.
The design also incorporates a temperature gauge that transmits information about the food's progress to a smartphone app.
A vehicle for people with disabled lower limbs that allows them to move while both sitting down and standing up, and to move between the two positions.
Rather than rely on expensive and heavy motors, the machine uses the person's upper body motion to transfer them from one position to the other.
Qolo also uses a similar mechanism to help them move location: by tilting their upper-body forward they start travelling forward, and if they twist to one side the chair turns that way.
A tap gadget designed to encourage children to wash their hands, which also saves water in the process.
TipTapTop contains an infrared sensor that starts the water flow when it detects a hand underneath and also triggers a "jolly" music jingle.
When the child removes their hands to add soap, the water stops but the music continues playing to remind them they need to follow up the initial rinse.
Only after they have returned their hands, wiped off the soap and removed them again to dry their skin will the music and water switch off, ending the cycle.
A device that combines a doctor's tongue stick with a light source.
The light is automatically switched on by attaching a disposable, sterile stick to the handle, and is deactivated when the stick is subsequently discarded.
The idea is that Oralux frees up one of the doctor's hands and allows them to avoid touching the stick while it is in use.
A personal shopping trolley that can be collapsed and loaded into a car's boot without having to remove the goods carried inside.
Uplift's aluminium frame helps it remain lightweight, while its bright silicone handles both protect the kit and make the owner more visible.
The designer says it would be targeted at aging adults.
A device intended to make it easier to administer vaccinations to a specific layer of skin.
The designers say medical staff often struggle to find the right depth and angle when using existing syringes to carry out intradermal vaccinations, which are less painful and can obtain an improved immune response when compared to intramuscular or subcutaneous injections.
After Vax ID's plunger is used to deliver a dose of antigens, the needle returns to the body of the device and cannot be reused.
This reduces the risk of needlestick injuries to staff, and prevents medics transmitting diseases from one patient to another.
A biodegradable fishing net system.
An additive added to the net causes it to start breaking apart after four years, to address the problem of abandoned "ghost nets" that pose a threat to the marine environment.
Remora also incorporates RFID (radio-frequency identification) tags. These are scanned when the net is retrieved so that the fishermen can get an instant report from an associated app about whether parts have ripped off.
This tells them if they need to search the surrounding sea to find the lost parts.
Five levels of LED-lit, water-and-nutrient-fed containers that provide a way to grow vegetables and fruits in the home or at schools.
The wires and hoses are hidden inside the apparatus, which is intended to be visually pleasing so that it can be left out in view.
The owner can opt to combine different parts of the Home Hydroponic System to suit how much space they have and the amount of produce they want to grow.
The designers suggest that tomatoes, peppers, strawberries and herbs are some of the fresh produce that could be grown up to three times faster than in soil outdoors.
A system to connect a feeding tube to a patient's face without using tape, which can become an irritant.
Nutria also makes use of a terahertz radiation microchip to display the exact position of the tube inside the person's body on a smartphone app.
If the nurse or doctor who fits the patient with the apparatus takes a scan each time, software can then be used to highlight if any of the medics commonly fit the tube incorrectly.
But the other clubs in the play-offs, London Irish and Yorkshire Carnegie, would do so.
Irish and Carnegie have met the Rugby Football Union's minimum standards to play in the top tier in 2017-18.
Preferring Championship rugby for next term, Doncaster, in fourth, and Ealing, in third, did not apply for that audit.
A statement from Doncaster - who would have gone up if they had beaten Bristol in the 2015-16 play-off final - said they currently do not believe it is in the club's best interests to be promoted.
"Having previously looked at promotion we feel it is simply unaffordable and out of our reach in the current structure and financial arrangement for professional rugby union in England," Knights president Tony De Mulder and chief executive David Ryall said.
"If and when the future of professional rugby union in England becomes clear, then the ambition of Doncaster Rugby Club remains as fervent as ever but we will not cripple ourselves chasing something that is not feasible at this time."
This year's semi-finals, which take place over two legs, start with Yorkshire's trip to Ealing on Friday, before Doncaster host London Irish on Sunday, 30 April.
London Irish finished top of the Championship table in the regular season, with Yorkshire Carnegie second.
From 2017-18, the Championship play-offs have been scrapped, meaning the league winners next term will be set for automatic promotion instead.
Kieron Cadogan and Adam Coombes both threatened as Sutton made a decent start, but their hard work was undone in cruel fashion just before the break.
Shamir Fenelon and the in-demand Idris Kanu created havoc with a searing counter-attack for the Shots, before Nicky Bailey's attempted clearance went in for an own goal off goalkeeper Will Puddy after 42 minutes.
Bernard Mensah made sure of the win in stoppage time, lashing home after good work from Anthony Straker, ensuring Aldershot remain seventh and within reach of the play-off places.
Match report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Aldershot Town 2, Sutton United 0.
Second Half ends, Aldershot Town 2, Sutton United 0.
Goal! Aldershot Town 2, Sutton United 0. Bernard Mensah (Aldershot Town).
Substitution, Aldershot Town. Anthony Straker replaces Idris Kanu.
Substitution, Sutton United. Dan Fitchett replaces Adam Coombes.
Substitution, Aldershot Town. Matt McClure replaces Shamir Fenelon.
Gomis (Sutton United) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Sutton United. Kevin Amankwaah replaces Simon Downer.
Substitution, Sutton United. Maxime Biamou replaces Adam May.
Kundai Benyu (Aldershot Town) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Aldershot Town. Scott Rendell replaces Callum Buckley.
Second Half begins Aldershot Town 1, Sutton United 0.
First Half ends, Aldershot Town 1, Sutton United 0.
Own Goal by Will Puddy, Sutton United. Aldershot Town 1, Sutton United 0.
Will Evans (Aldershot Town) is shown the yellow card.
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
Boys as young as 12 were among the 27 youngsters who were taken in by George Heriot's school in 1916, after making a remarkable escape from Serbia as it fell to the armies of Germany and its allies.
Other refugees found homes in Glasgow, Dundee and Aberdeen.
They were among the lucky ones who survived a "retreat" over the mountains of Albania and Montenegro the previous winter, during which about 8,000 boys died. Many fell victim to the cold, starvation and disease; others were shot by the Albanians.
Within a few years the lives of these boys had been transformed. And in their later years many of the refugees credited Scotland - and George Heriot's - with giving them a second chance at rebuilding their lives.
The first 10 prospective Herioters arrived at Edinburgh's Waverley station in August 1916 - just before the start of the new school term.
Historian Louise Miller, who has researched the "Serbian Boys", said they had survived unimaginable horrors and they had barely a word of English between them.
But she added: "They were embraced by the school and supported by the generosity of the people of Edinburgh during the war years until they were able to return to what remained of their homes."
The school played host to the boys for three years, and several shone academically. However it was on the rugby field where they gained fame.
Historian Ms Miller said: "These boys, who had never played rugby before, embraced the game and showed extraordinary and unexpected talent.
"Several were good enough to join the 1stXV, where they played alongside future Scottish internationalists like Daniel Drysdale."
They went to form the first Serbian national rugby team for a match played at Inverleith in 1918, and they established it as a sport in their home country on their return.
Many of the boy refugees embarked on successful careers, enjoying healthy, happy lives and maintaining lifelong links with Scotland and Heriot's.
Aged just 15, Živojin arrived in Edinburgh in November 1916, speaking no English.
But the boy who months earlier had escaped Serbia and survived a mid-winter retreat, excelled in both the classroom and on the rugby field.
He went on to study civil engineering at the University of Edinburgh and when he returned home, he helped with the reconstruction of Serbia following the war.
His experience in Scotland changed his life completely, according to Živojin's granddaughter, Jelena Stankovic, who is among the relatives returning to Edinburgh this week to remember the boy refugees.
"He loved Great Britain and particularly Scotland as much as his native Serbia, and was extremely grateful to British people for all they had done for him," she said.
He built his home in Serbia in "British style" and he sang English nursery rhymes to his granddaughter when she was a child - songs she now sings to her grandson.
"Besides getting the very best education, he also adopted the British way of life," she said.
In 1982, 65 years after he left the school and, by then in his 80s, Živojin reflected on his time in Edinburgh.
"It makes me sad that I am not able to revisit Edinburgh and see the school once more," he said.
"My years do not permit me to make such a long journey but I often think of Edinburgh and my friends there."
After escaping from Serbia at the beginning of the Great War, the teenage Stevan Djordjević travelled first to Corfu before he was rescued by a British boat.
He eventually made his home in Glasgow, where he enrolled at Hillhead High School, before studying medicine at the University of Glasgow.
His family remember him talking about being cold and hungry while he was a student, when he often ate lard on bread.
But his experience in Scotland "totally changed his life", according to his daughter, Zora Buchanan, and he only returned to Serbia for family visits.
He changed his name to "Stevan George", worked as a family doctor in Glasgow, and married his Scottish sweetheart, Margaret. Within six years, they had three children.
After World War Two, he became a ship's doctor with Cunard Line and eventually settled in the Bahamas. He died in 1967, aged 67, and is buried in Nassau.
Mrs Buchanan, who is travelling from Canada for the events in Edinburgh, said: "As his youngest daughter I am very proud of what a young Serbian lad could accomplish."
Both the Serbian Ambassador to Great Britain, Dr Ognjen Pribicevic, and the British Ambassador to Serbia, Denis Keefe, will join 17 of the boys' descendents in Edinburgh this week.
As well as visits to the school and the rugby pitches, some of their relatives will reflect on their lives at a special event at the National Library of Scotland.
In conversation with Ms Miller, they will discuss the boys' experiences in Edinburgh and their lives after returning home. The event, on Monday, starts at 18:00.
Henry VIII's flagship has undergone 34 years of conservation since it was raised from the Solent in 1982.
Small viewing panels have been replaced with floor-to-ceiling windows and a balcony entered through an airlock, at the purpose-built museum in Portsmouth.
Conservation manager Dr Eleanor Schofield said it was an "emotional" moment.
"You think about all the people involved in the project and their commitment and perseverance. It's fabulous to see the ship like this.
"It feels like you can reach out an touch it - you get a sense of the compartments and relate it to all the artefacts and the people on board," she added.
The warship, which sank in 1545 while leading an attack on a French invasion fleet, was discovered in 1971.
It was taken to an atmospherically controlled dry dock where it was sprayed with a mist of cold water, then water-soluble wax, before an air-drying process began.
The latest development, which saw the ship close to public view in November, cost about £5.4 million to complete.
The £39m museum first opened its doors to visitors in May 2013. The ship goes back on public view on Wednesday.
Dr Alex Hildred, head of research and curator of ordnance, who was among those who dived on the wreck in the 1970s and 80s said: "When we excavated the Mary Rose we wanted people to see even a little of what we, as archaeologists, saw and experienced underwater.
"The fact that you can see it from three different angles that you've never been able to see before, except for when she first came up, is brilliant."
Ahead of Saturday's game at Twickenham, new England coach Jones criticised Ireland's tactics, specifically the kicking away of possession.
"Someone like Eddie is going to throw things out there," said Easterby, 40, holder of 65 Ireland caps at flanker.
"We have just got to focus on what we're doing."
Easterby says Ireland must laugh off the barbs from England's new boss, who has already freely admitted he will chase any available edge, including the use of mind games.
"It is what it is," added Easterby. "Characters like that are good for the game, and we'll see come Saturday night how much of that rings true."
On Monday, Jones said that he was preparing his England side for an aerial bombardment from the two-time defending Six Nations champions.
"They kick 70% of their ball away. If they want to do that, good luck to them," said the England coach.
"It has worked for them. It is not the way I think you should play rugby, but it has been successful for them, so good luck."
Prior to the England coach's comments on Monday, Irish boss Joe Schmidt had reacted to a previous Jones' jibe that Ireland play safety-first rugby, insisting: "Ireland have kicked less than a quarter of the possession we have had."
The Six Nations' own stats support Schmidt's view, with Ireland recorded as kicking away 23% and 24% of possession respectively in their first two matches of the 2016 tournament.
The injury-ravaged Irish will chase their first win at Twickenham since 2010 after drawing their opener against Wales and losing narrowly to France on 13 February.
The Met said a black Mercedes, which is thought to have been stolen, reversed into the Gucci store in Sloane Street at about 21:50 GMT on Wednesday.
The suspects, said to be three, then stole handbags before fleeing in a blue Audi A4. No arrests have yet been made.
Security guards were in the shop at the time but were said to be unhurt.
The exclusive store, which Gucci describe on their website as a "flagship boutique", is said to be reviewing its security and there are calls for greater protection from the Metropolitan Police.
BBC journalist Nick Beake, who is at the scene, said sources have told him that CCTV shows the men, who were wearing balaclavas, scoop the bags up and sling them across their shoulders.
Three conscripts were also also wounded when gunmen opened fire at the checkpoint in the town of El-Arish.
Security forces were searching for the attackers, who managed to flee.
Jihadist militants, largely based in Sinai, have killed hundreds of security personnel since the military overthrew President Mohammed Morsi in 2013.
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The government has responded with air strikes and ground operations.
The last major attack in El-Arish took place in December, when suicide bombers blew themselves up at a hotel, killing two judges monitoring the parliamentary elections.
Vallop Suwandee, who chairs an advisory board to the governor of Bangkok, was quoted as saying that street vendors would be removed from all 50 districts of the city.
It seemed that one of the most popular and distinctive aspects of Bangkok life was to be wiped out, days after CNN had voted Bangkok the best place in the world for street food, and just two months before the city government was planning to hold a street-food festival.
Mr Vallop now says he was misquoted: "Let me be clear, on behalf of the city of Bangkok. Street food will continue to be part of Bangkok life, on the condition that there will not be obstructions for pedestrians, and that the vendors observe sanitary rules in the interest of public health.
"We will allow them to be in certain areas, under strict conditions."
This is not the first time the Bangkok Metropolitan Authority (BMA), which is responsible for running the city, has tried to impose order and standards on the hundreds of thousands of food vendors operating on the streets.
Right after the BMA was first established in 1972 it launched a similar campaign to force the vendors to operate in designated markets instead.
Variations of that campaign were revived every few years but implementation has always been weak because the BMA recognised the vital role street vending played in providing a source of income in difficult economic times. Most of the time it has quietly chosen not to push too hard.
This time may be different. The number of officially approved locations for street food vendors has been cut dramatically, from a peak of 726 four years ago to 243 by the end of last year.
Tens of thousands of vendors have been forced to move already, leaving many downtown areas like Siam Square, Asok and Silom with few or no street-food stalls now visible during the day and night.
The most recent area to be cleared is the increasingly wealthy neighbourhood of Thonglor. A small side street, or soi, which for many years had been famous for its street food, is no more, although city officials say the vendors were offered alternative locations in smaller sois further away.
The BMA is not being specific about its ultimate plans but it looks as though it aims to have street-food confined to a very few well-known city-centre areas, like the backpacker hangout of Khao San Road and Yaowarat Road, which runs through the historic Chinatown area, and to be more widely permitted in outer city neighbourhoods.
With growing numbers of tourists and commuters coming into the downtown area, Mr Vallop says there is not enough space for street vendors.
A vendor may occupy a space where land prices run to many thousands of dollars per square metre, he told me - why should one person have that privilege? He said the BMA had received many complaints about blocked pavements.
These arguments, though, have been lost in the furore over the perceived threat to the city's much-loved street-cuisine.
Chawadee Nulkair is a self-styled street food fanatic who publishes a blog, bangkokglutton.com, cataloguing her culinary discoveries. She opposes the BMA's move against the vendors, even though she acknowledges the inconvenience to pedestrians.
"As much as we complain about the clutter and the chaos," she told me, "this is what defines us.
"This street food is Thai culture. Motorbikes drive on the pavements here. Even without the vendors the pavements would still be awful."
Chawadee took me to Yaowarat Road, sometimes described as the birthplace of street food, and still one of the best places to eat in Bangkok.
She explained how the Chinese immigrants, who settled in large numbers in the 19th Century, began cooking food along the roadsides to make a living, using simple stoves and iron woks.
That style of cooking, along with classic Chinese ingredients like noodles, significantly changed Thai cooking.
Street food has also become an essential service for the growing numbers of commuters, who may have long journeys to and from work, and limited time and space to cook at home.
We passed a number of stalls sending out mouth-watering aromas into the night air, before settling on a stall Chawadee knew would cook an excellent prawn noodle hot pot, a classic Thai-Chinese dish.
The kitchen was set out on the front steps of a bank, with the chef cooking fried rice and noodle dishes at lightning speed, sheets of flame curling around his blazing wok.
The stall has been run by Voracha Rujarawan and her family for three generations. She is worried by the city government's plans. Already she has to make regular payments to local officials and the police. Now they are insisting she needs proper dish-washing facilities, although it is not clear how they can do that without running water.
On cue, a uniformed municipal officer arrived and started questioning her at length about how she would meet the tougher new hygiene standards.
The city's argument that public demand for better pedestrian access has also been challenged by a survey carried out by the Urban Design and Development Centre, a city planning project started by the architecture faculty at Chulalongkorn University, which is actually campaigning to make walking better in Bangkok.
The UDDC Director, Niramon Kulsirisombat, says the survey of more than 1,000 respondents showed that food vendors were not considered the worst problem; in fact Bangkok's typically narrow pavements are such an obstacle course of electricity poles, hydrants, disused phone boxes and road signs that pedestrians usually find themselves walking in the road even without food stalls.
She said there were too few channels for Bangkok's residents to have their views heard by the city government; that it took too much of a government-knows-best, top-down approach to development.
This criticism has also been applied to the BMA's controversial decision to demolish a historic community in old Bangkok to make way for a tourist park, and its ambitious plan to build a concrete walkway 10m (33ft) wide and 14km (nine miles) long, along the bank of the Chaophraya river.
"The reasons the BMA gives for moving the street food, blocking the pavements and hygiene, are not enough. Like Singapore 50 years ago, when Lee Kwan Yew began modernising the city, they said we have to move all this street food chaos, that it is a symbol of a third world country. But actually, in Bangkok, you should see street food as a form of life support for so many people."
The name, suggested by former BBC Radio Jersey presenter James Hand, went viral, crashing the Natural Environment Research Council (Nerc) website.
Boaty McBoatface was the runaway winner with 124,109 votes. The second most popular choice, Poppy-Mai, had 34,371.
Nerc said that according to its competition rules it would have the final say on any name.
The result of the poll has sparked a mixed reaction on social media.
One person commented: "If this boat isn't named Boaty McBoatface, then democracy has failed", while another said "this was funny, but bored now".
Meanwhile, another wrote on Facebook: "Not a name that will inspire confidence in its ability to provide credible research".
RRS Boaty McBoatface - 124,109
RRS Poppy-Mai - 34,371
RRS Henry Worsley - 15,231
RRS It's Bloody Cold Here - 10,679
RRS David Attenborough - 10,284
At the height of the furore, Mr Hand tweeted an apology, but said that the storm his suggestion had created "had legs of its own".
The Royal Research Ship (RRS), which is currently being built by Cammell Laird on Merseyside, is due to become operational in 2019 and will replace RRS Ernest Shackleton and James Clark Ross.
It will study ice sheets, ocean currents and marine life as part of the Cambridge-based British Antarctic Survey.
When it launched the competition, Nerc said it was looking for "something inspirational" that would exemplify the ship's work, but that did not prevent people making suggestions which also included Pingu and It's Bloody Cold Here.
Usain Boat and What Iceberg? had been among nearly 7,000 other suggestions.
A spokesperson for NERC said: "Thank you to everyone who has taken part in the Natural Environment Research Council's Name Our Ship campaign.
"We've had an extremely high volume of suggestions and will now review all of the suggested names.
"The final decision will be announced in due course."
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For George Osborne today, there was another word that both leapt out and summed up what the Budget was all about.
By my calculations, he used it five times in the first two-and-a-half minutes.
That word: "Choose."
Which is just what the country has to do in 50 days' time - polling day.
He even used the phrase "we choose the future".
Literally, it's something we all have little option but to do.
Rhetorically, it amounted to this: it's them (Labour) or us.
Think of today as the equivalent of you or me being able to turn up at a job interview a day early - and have a crack before anyone else at trying to get the gig.
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That's the opportunity the chancellor had, to try to translate an increasingly perky-looking economy into votes for the Conservatives in May.
So that is why very early on there were direct, specific references to those he needs to court: "This Budget backs... savers and pensioners... the self-employed, the small business-owner and the homebuyer."
He also aimed to close off the attack lines the Tories anticipate from Labour during the election campaign, particularly over the scale of cuts to come.
Ever since the Autumn Statement in December, the chancellor's mini Budget, Labour has regularly been quoting the independent Office for Budget Responsibility's projection at the time.
The OBR said the spending plans Mr Osborne set out then would see "government consumption of goods and services" - or government spending - fall to its lowest level, as a share of national income, since 1938.
But today the chancellor said the squeeze on public spending would end a year earlier than previously announced and it would rise in line with economic growth in 2019/20 - meaning, as he put it, "state spending as a share of our national income the same size as Britain had in the year 2000".
Or, when Tony Blair was prime minister.
And, sure enough, those referees the OBR agree. On page five of their document published today, it says: "Public spending as a share of GDP no longer falls to a post-war low in 2019-20."
So what else was in there?
The electoral biscuit tin was out, and a few jammy dodgers offered to marginal constituencies, name checked here and there.
Burton, Keighley, Castle Point, Norwich North - they all got a mention.
So what did Labour have to say in response?
It is arguably the hardest day in the job for a Leader of the Opposition - being forced to reply to something he has only just heard, reliant on scraps of paper being handed to him in the chamber, the brain waves of his backroom team holed up somewhere nearby.
In essence, and as you would expect, he wanted to play what he sees as Labour's greatest hits in the election campaign: the NHS and the potential scale of cuts to come under the Tories.
Those cuts, he insisted, would still be "extreme" under the Conservatives.
Of course, there would be cuts under Labour as well.
And he picked up on George Osborne barely mentioning the health service - something Mr Miliband described as a "glaring omission".
Talking of things being left out - at the Autumn Statement in December, the Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg excluded himself, by not turning up.
He was there today, yellow tie on, but the reality of coalition meant he was glued to his seat, unable to contribute to the exchanges.
That reality of coalition only has days left to run - with the last big Parliamentary moment before the election now done, the campaign trail awaits.
The incident, which also involved five other cars and a bus, happened in Fernhill Road on the outskirts of Glasgow at 11:05.
The car driver was pronounced dead at the scene. The male driver of the agricultural vehicle is in a serious condition in hospital.
The road remains closed and police have appealed for witnesses.
Sgt Alison McAuley, of Police Scotland, said: "An extensive recovery operation, which is expected to last for several more hours, is currently underway and Fernhill Road is closed with local diversions in place.
"I would appeal to anyone who witnessed what happened to contact officers."
Firstbus confirmed that one of its vehicles had been at the scene when the crash happened.
"We can confirm one of our vehicles was caught up in the incident at Fernhill Road earlier today and we are providing assistance to the emergency services," a statement said.
Exactly half of the 1,000 Scots asked by the Carnegie UK Trust and Ipsos Mori said they had visited a library within the past year.
They found that families with young children, occasional readers and those who were "just about managing" financially were most likely to visit.
However, Scotland also saw the sharpest drop in library use since 2011 at 11%.
The five-year UK-wide study found that more than three-quarters (77%) of people said the facilities found at public libraries were important for their communities, while 37% said they were important for them personally.
Almost three-quarters (71%) of families with children aged five to 11 visited libraries last year, up 3% on 2011.
A total of 61% of people in the second lowest socio-economic group reported using a library at least once a month, while occasional readers - those who read a book every two or three months - rose about eight percentage points to just under 60% in 2016.
Across the British Isles, high levels of library use were also seen in Ireland, while the lowest recorded use was witnessed in Northern Ireland.
In England, many more people who read books infrequently were now found to be using libraries than previously. Young people aged 15-24 years tended to be the most likely to use a library, while over 55's were the least likely to use one.
The report also found the vast majority of those surveyed in Scotland (82%) were against replacing all library employees with paid staff, while 58% favoured the use of volunteers in conjunction with existing employees.
The most popular suggested improvements to libraries in Scotland were more events, better information on services, and a cafe or coffee shop.
Martyn Evans, chief executive of Carnegie UK Trust, said: "It's extremely promising that there's been a rise in library use in Scotland amongst households with primary school aged children, as well as an increase in frequent use among a key socio-economic group.
"However, we know that the future success of public libraries depends on how effectively they respond to the changing needs of their communities.
"Local authority budgets are under severe pressure. All of us who value libraries' rich and varied contribution to our wellbeing must provide clear and compelling evidence of their impact if future investment is to be secured.
"We also know that the public want libraries to do even more."
Pamela Tulloch, chief executive at the Scottish Library and Information Council, said: "It is clear from the research that public libraries in Scotland have an enduring place in people's hearts and that they are highly valued services.
"We need to ensure that libraries continue to prosper and deliver against key policy goals and wellbeing. The trust's recommendations set out a way in which we can all work towards a thriving future public library service."
He said almost 2,000 Labour councillors had won back seats and the party had "tens of thousands" of new members.
The party had made "huge progress" but had a "lot more work to do", he said.
Earlier, Labour deputy leader Lord Prescott said the party had failed to get its case across. The Tories said this was more evidence of "discontent".
Writing in the Sunday Mirror, Lord Prescott said Labour had wasted an opportunity to set the news agenda, and urged Mr Miliband to "kick out" under-performing shadow cabinet members.
He called for a "radical change" to shape up the policy of organisation and delivery alongside a clear set of policies and principles.
"There are millions of people looking to us as the only alternative to this heartless coalition," he added.
Mr Umunna dismissed recent criticism of the party as "hysteria" and insisted Labour were capable of winning the next general election.
"We have got a big job to do. We are looking to make history - to achieve the remarkable feat of being re-elected to office after one term in opposition and so we are seeking to do something very big," he told BBC News.
"We all know we can do it, but of course we have got a lot more work to do over the 90-odd weeks before the next general election to put our case forward to the British people - but that is precisely what we have been doing all over the summer."
He said it was difficult to foresee every policy detail that would be in a manifesto for the 2015 election.
"I have been on the road with my leader since he became the leader of the Labour party and seen the fantastic response that he gets from people all over the country," he added.
During a campaign visit to a south London market earlier this week, Mr Miliband was pelted with eggs.
He did his best to laugh it off, saying: "I'm always looking for new ways to connect with the voters."
Further criticism this weekend came from Labour peer Lord Glasman - who was given his peerage at Ed Miliband's request.
Writing in the Mail on Sunday, he said the party "gives the impression of not knowing which way to turn" and that it was time for the party leader "to show he is a grown-up politician big enough to lead this country".
Earlier this month, the shadow health secretary Andy Burnham said Labour must "put its cards on the table" and produce attention-grabbing policies by next spring or risk losing the next election.
He called for his party to "shout louder and speak in a way that captures how people are feeling and thinking".
But Mr Umunna said Mr Burnham's comments had been "overplayed".
"The point that Andy was making is of course by the time of the next general election we need to ensure that people know what Labour's agenda is."
Conservative Party Chairman Grant Shapps said Labour grandees were lining up to "take a shot" at a "weak" Mr Miliband.
He said: "The Labour leader's deepening summer of discontent is further evidence that he's not even capable of leading his own party, let alone standing up for the hard-working people of Britain."
They took an early lead through Ilya Kovalchuk, but the Finns hit back with goals from Juhamatti Aaltonen, Teemu Selanne and Mikael Granlund.
They will face Nordic rivals Sweden in the semis, while Canada will play USA.
USA eased to a 5-2 win over Czech Republic but holders Canada struggled to a 2-1 win over Latvia.
A powerplay strike from Nashville Predators defenceman Shea Weber, with less than seven minutes to play, proved decisive for the eight-time champions.
Both semi-finals take place on Friday.
Young, 41, replaces Lee Sinnott, who parted company with the Robins after five years in charge.
The former Chester and Colwyn Bay boss was most recently in charge of Conference North side Stockport County, but he resigned in January.
He has brought in his long-serving assistant manager Gary Jones, with whom he has worked with at three clubs.
Altrincham's relegation was confirmed on the final day of the season when they lost 3-0 at home to Braintree.
In October European leaders reached another deal to try to stop the contagion. But which countries are most at risk and why?
Three nations in the eurozone - the 17 nations that use the euro - have been recipients of bailouts as attempts to solve the crisis keep stalling.
Italy became the latest to feel the domino effect of the markets when its debt rating was lowered, the latest in a series of downgrades.
Greece, Spain, the Irish Republic and even Cyprus have also had their ratings cut this year. The future of the euro is being questioned in a way it never has since 1999.
Which countries have fallen, and which are feared to be next?
The problem: Greece's huge debts, about 340bn euros (£297bn; $478bn).
In late 2009, after months of speculation and sovereign debt crises in Iceland and the Middle East, Greece finally admitted its debts were the highest in the country's modern history.
Since then, a 110bn-euro bailout was passed by the eurozone last year and a second bailout of roughly the same size was agreed earlier this year - but not yet passed.
Most observers remain highly sceptical of Greece's ability to ever repay its huge mountain of debt. Talk persists of an unprecedented default or of Greece leaving the eurozone.
Because of the interconnectedness of the European economy, this would cause huge losses for French and German banks.
Thus, though Greece has been bailed out, fears of it running out of money continue to plague investors.
International credit markets remain wary of Greece because of its sovereign debt rating.
Ratings: Greece is now considered to be "junk" by the ratings agencies, meaning it has a very high chance of defaulting. S&P has cut its debt seven times since 2009, from A to CC, the third-lowest rung on its rating scale.
S&P: CC
Moody's: Ca
The problem: Italy has the highest total debt in the eurozone, amid stagnant growth.
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In the summer, the country was charged record levels to borrow, which prompted renewed calls to pass spending cuts.
The alternative, selling more debt, was unsustainable at rates that reached 6%.
Rome laid out 60bn euros of austerity measures and aims to balance its budget by 2013, but markets have been concerned over its growing debt load in relation to GDP - the second-highest behind Greece in the eurozone.
If Italy was to be bailed out, few think that the eurozone (or Germany in particular) could actually afford it.
But Italy has the advantage of having most of its debt owed to its own people rather than external investors. This buys it more breathing room than, say, Greece.
Ratings: Italy was last triple-A in 1995. Since then, its rating has been fairly stable near the top of the investment grade rankings.
S&P: A
Moody's: Aa2
The problem: The housing boom turned to bust, leaving the country's banks loaded with bad debt and the highest unemployment rate in the eurozone.
Spain has also seen record borrowing costs recently, forcing its government to adopt numerous austerity measures to get its finances under control.
Spain, like Italy, is considered too expensive a proposition for the eurozone to realistically bail out.
This is why the eurozone has tried to help lower its cost of borrowing, rather than give it loans as it did to its neighbour, Portugal.
Ratings: Last at the highest rating in 1992, the Iberian nation has been cut twice since 2009.
S&P: AA
Moody's: Aa2
The problem: The country's banks bear a heavy exposure to Greek debt.
While France's public finances have not yet been questioned heavily by the market, its banks have seen sharp falls on the stock market.
In September, Moody's downgraded Credit Agricole and Societe Generale after reviewing their exposure to Greek debt.
Credit Agricole and Societe Generale have seen their share prices fall by about two-thirds since February, while BNP has fallen by more than half.
France has also announced plans to cut spending by 45bn euros over the next three years.
Ratings: France was given the top rating by Moody's in 1988, and kept it ever since, despite anaemic growth.
S&P: AAA
Moody's: Aaa
The problem: Most of its neighbours are broke.
Unlike many of its neighbours, Germany enjoyed vigorous economic growth - GDP rose by 3.6% in 2010. Unemployment is lower than before the 2008 crisis.
And the government plans to cut the budget deficit by a record 80bn euros by 2014.
While that growth has slowed, the main problem is that Europe's largest economy is the biggest contributor to the bailout fund used to help stricken nations.
And Germany's banks have a heavy exposure to debt from Greece, Europe's biggest headache.
This means in the event of a Greek default, Germany would probably have to bail out its own banks.
But having taken the lead in bailing out three nations - Greece twice - how many more can the country afford?
Ratings: Following reunification, the country was given the highest possible creditworthiness by S&P in 1992 and Moody's in 1993.
S&P: AAA
Moody's: Aaa
The problem: UK banks have a heavy exposure to Irish debt.
Other than that, the UK has been relatively unscathed, while its eurozone neighbours endure turmoil.
The coalition government has announced the biggest cuts in state spending since World War II.
UK gilts are viewed as one of the safest investments in the world, with the country's borrowing costs falling to recent lows.
But the situation remains precarious. The country's budget deficit was 10.3% last year - this is just behind Greece, greater than Spain's and more than triple that of Germany.
Ratings: In 2009, S&P lowered its outlook on British debt to "negative" from "stable" for the first time since the agency started rating its public finances in 1978. But the triple-A rating has been affirmed since 1993.
S&P: AAA
Moody's: Aaa
The problem: The country's banking system collapsed.
The country's biggest banks were taken under government control in the financial crisis and recapitalised. The cost of doing that has been about 70bn euros.
The Irish received a bailout worth 85bn euros from the eurozone and IMF, then passed the toughest budget in the nation's history.
Since then, the IMF has said the Irish Republic is "showing signs of stabilisation" and there is a sense that the worst has now passed.
Ratings: The Irish Republic held the highest triple-A rating as recently as 2001. S&P has cut it five times since 2009.
S&P: BBB+
Moody's: Ba1
The problem: A shrinking economy straining its budget.
The country has been the third to get a bailout, worth 78bn euros. The previous government fell after failing to pass austerity measures, which the subsequent government had passed.
Investors have since moved on to ongoing worries about Greece, Spain and Italy.
Ratings: Portugal has been cut four times since 2009. It was once triple-A, way back in 1993.
S&P: BBB-
Moody's: Ba2
Brent crude sank by 4.2% to $34.88 a barrel, surpassing its late December fall, and taking the price to its lowest level since 1 July 2004.
The price of US crude dropped 3.3% to $34.77 a barrel.
The sharp falls followed a short-lived rally on Monday after Saudi Arabia broke diplomatic ties with Iran.
Analysts said fears over the worsening relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran, which had initially raised concerns about possible supply disruptions and boosted the oil price, had now been overtaken by pessimism over oil cartel Opec ever agreeing on a production ceiling.
Historically, Opec has cut production to support prices. But led by Saudi Arabia, by far the group's most powerful member, the group has resolutely refused to trim supply this time.
Rising tensions over Saudi Arabia's execution of Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr mean that any agreement is now deemed less likely than ever.
"With relations between Opec kingpins Saudi Arabia and Iran at a historic low point, it solidifies an already unlikely scenario that Opec might cut output," said Barclays analyst Alia Moubayed.
Since mid-2014, oil prices have slumped 70% mainly because of oversupply. This in turn is largely due to US shale oil flooding the market.
At the same time, demand has fallen because of a slowdown in economic growth in China and Europe.
Iranian oil exports are also expected to rise later this year once Western sanctions against Tehran for its nuclear programme are lifted, increasing the oversupply of oil.
Opec is hoping that refusing to cut production will help to drive US shale producers out of business, believing that they will fall victim to lower prices long before its own members, and has forecast that prices will recover to $70 a barrel by 2020.
Goldman Sachs has warned that oil prices could go as low a $20 a barrel, but most analysts are expecting the price to stabilise in the second half of the year as supply from non-Opec nations slows and demand remains relatively robust.
The images were the top sellers in an auction of post-war and contemporary art at Sotheby's in New York.
Jeff Koons' sculpture Popeye went for $28.2m (£16.8m), breaching its estimated value of $25m.
The buyer, casino magnate Steve Wynn, said the sculpture would go on display in one of his Las Vegas properties.
Other highlights included Gerhard Richter's Blau, which fetched $28.7m (£17.1m), Jean-Michel Basquiat's Undiscovered, which took $23.7m (£14.1m), and an untitled work by Mark Rothko that sold for $12.2m (£7.2m).
Artists reaching new records for their works included Keith Haring, James Rosenquist, Dan Flavin and Mike Kelley.
An untitled work by Willem de Kooning, which was expected to sell for up to $25m (£14.9m), went unsold after it failed to reach the lower estimate of $18m (£10.7m).
Alex Rotter, Sotheby's worldwide head of contemporary art, described the market as "solid", although the sale failed to match the frenzied bidding at a Christie's sale earlier this week.
The Christie's sale of post-war and contemporary art, also in New York, raised $744m (£441m), the highest ever total for a single auction - with two works from Warhol's Death and Disaster series selling for a combined $100m (£59m).
Shares worldwide have risen after the FBI said Hillary Clinton should not face criminal charges over her emails.
In the US, the S&P 500 index surged 2.2%, or 46.34 points, to 2,131.52.
On Friday, the index had closed lower for the ninth trading session in a row - its worst run since December 1980.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average soared 371 points to 18,259.60, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq index jumped 119.8 points at 5,166.17.
"Investors are reacting this morning to moving the email controversy to the sidelines, but still looking at a race that is too close to call," Art Hogan, chief market strategist at Wunderlich Equity Capital Markets said.
Cyber-criminals are targeting financial institutions as Pyongyang faces tough nuclear sanctions, the Financial Security Institute (FSI) claims.
Suspected hacking attempts were until recently thought to be aimed at causing disruption or accessing data.
North Korea has routinely denied involvement in cyber-attacks.
The FSI analysed cyber-attacks between 2015 and 2017.
The impoverished country is now facing even tougher international sanctions aimed at stopping the flow of money that would support the development of its weapons programme.
Perhaps the most high profile hack linked to North Korea in recent years targeted Sony's entertainment business in 2014 - wiping out massive amounts of data and leading to the online distribution of emails, personal and sensitive employee data as well as pirated copies of new movies.
However the FSI is not alone in saying there had been a shift away from this kind of disruptive, embarrassing hack, and towards cyber-attacks raising money.
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Some cyber-security firms have also connected North Korea with the global "WannaCry" cyber attack that affected 150 countries in May and crippled parts of Britain's National Health Service (NHS). and demanded victims pay to access data.
US officials are also believed to be building a case linking last year's $81m (£62m) cyber-heist at the Bangladesh central bank to North Korean hackers.
And Russian firm Kaspersky has linked North Korea to attacks on Polish banks.
A report by FireEye says that North Korean cyber-operators are "increasingly engaged in financially motivated activity" and targeting virtual currency services.
"Actors are targeting virtual currency service providers such as exchanges and brokerage services based in South Korea," FireEye said.
"It is not yet clear how North Korean actors are leveraging virtual currencies, although targeting of these services demonstrates definite interest."
North Korea is also reported to be mining the virtual currency Bitcoin.
Fireye said that such currencies were attractive to criminals because they could be traded in relative anonymity, compared with currencies that are managed and tracked by central banks.
The FSI report identifies eight specific instances where hackers targeted South Korean government and commercial institutions.
The report also identified a hacking group named Andariel that "has been active since at least May 2016," according to a translation of the document by Reuters.
Andariel is believed to have tried to steal bank card information by hacking into automated teller machines to either withdraw cash or sell the data on the black market.
It has also allegedly created malware to hack into online poker and other gambling sites and steal cash.
The FSI was launched by the South Korean government in 2015, following attacks on major South Korean banks.
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John Bainbridge, now 54, raped a mother at knifepoint in front of her two children in Nottingham in May 1986.
He then murdered a woman in similar circumstances in October 1986, and was jailed for this.
Police always suspected the two crimes were linked but had not been able to prove it until recently.
Semen samples taken as evidence in 1986 were tested using DNA-17 profiling, a more sensitive test that has only been used by police since 2014.
Bainbridge had been released from prison and was living in Burton-on-Trent in Staffordshire when police arrested him in June 2016.
Bainbridge initially denied rape and had been due to stand trial, but he changed his plea on Friday at Nottingham Crown Court.
The judge told him he will serve a minimum of eight years before being considered for release.
Bainbridge planned both of his attacks and targeted the women after their husbands had left their homes.
He raped his first victim, who was then aged 34, in Vernon Road, in the Basford area of Nottingham, on 15 May 1986.
He was armed with a knife, which he used to threaten her and also cut open her underwear.
One of her children was already in the room, but Bainbridge made her call the other child in, meaning both children witnessed their mother being attacked.
He also threatened to kill one of the children, who was upset, shouting at the other to "shut up or I'll kill him."
Adrian Langdale, prosecuting, said: "She went on to describe to police how she tried not to struggle or fight for fear of her own safety and that of her children.
"It may well be that that particular action by her saved not only her life, but her children as well."
Five months later Bainbridge murdered his second victim - 43-year-old Rosemary Scott - by stabbing her in the chest at Simkins Farm in Adbolton Lane, West Bridgford, on 16 October.
He cut open her underwear with the knife, mirroring the way he had attacked the other woman.
Police believe the attack was sexually motivated, and he stabbed Mrs Scott while she struggled to defend herself.
He was given a life sentence for this in 1987, and originally served 20 years before being released.
However, he was sent back to prison twice for breaching his licence conditions, meaning he has already served 26 years and 10 months in prison.
Det Insp Justine Wilson praised the rape victim and her children, who were all prepared to give evidence if the trial had gone ahead.
"I absolutely give the best praise for the courage that both the victim and her two children have had to come forward," she said.
"One of her reasons behind it was she didn't want this man out on the street, she wanted him locked up so she could never, ever, do this again to anybody else."
Lawrence English, from the Crown Prosecution Service, said the case shows how valuable it is to preserve all evidence in a case.
"There is no doubt that this conviction was made possible by the decisions by the police all the way back in 1986 to keep and preserve the samples, despite not knowing how DNA technology would develop," he said.
"Advances in technology now mean that we can match DNA to a suspect, regardless of how long ago the samples were taken."
The bones, said to be in pristine condition, were found on land earmarked for development at Exning.
Andrew Peachey, from Archaeological Solutions, said the finds were "totally unexpected" as initial searches had not indicated a burial ground.
The skeletons, dating from about AD650, have yet to be properly examined.
The 20 graves, one of which was a double burial, were uncovered in the last two weeks.
Mr Peachey, contracted to survey the area by Persimmon Homes, said the skeletons included those of four or five adolescents, but it was too early to say more about the ages of the bodies.
"One burial was very intricate with a wooden or iron frame possibly underneath the body. It may be what's known as a bed burial, but again it's too early to tell until everything is cleaned up properly," he said.
"Another appears to be a warrior burial. A spearhead and dagger were found with the bones."
Most of the skeletons were found with grave goods including a glass bowl, brooches and other items of gold-plated and copper jewellery.
The quality of the items indicated the bodies may have had "royal connections" as the area had close links with King Anna, who ruled East Anglia the 7th Century, Mr Peachey said.
The graves were uncovered about 30cm (12in) from the surface of land which has been used for agricultural purposes for centuries.
"It is incredible that there was absolutely no disturbance caused to the graves, when you think ploughs must have just about been skimming across them," Mr Peachey said.
The "excellent preservation" of both the skeletons and grave goods meant the finds were of "high analytical value", he said.
The bones and other items are currently being prepared and sent away for analysis. Mr Peachey said it could be "weeks or months" before more was known about the likely history of the people buried there.
It has not yet been determined whether the skeletons will eventually be housed in a museum in Suffolk but a number of Exning residents said they would like to see them on permanent display in the village.
The items of jewellery will be assessed by the Portable Antiquities Scheme to determine whether any of them are considered to be "treasure trove" in which case they would be kept for the nation.
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Two shots were fired at the man, who was on a bicycle outside St Edmund's RC Primary School and Nursery in Springhill, Birmingham.
The man later fled and the school was locked "to maintain the safety of everyone", said police.
A staff member's car was damaged but no-one was hurt. Police said the shooting appeared to be targeted.
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Officers were at the school on Thursday to reassure people.
"It is not believed that the school or any of the children or staff were the target of the attack.
"We are still searching for the victim, who is also thought not to have been injured, and the offender who made off in the vehicle," said West Midlands Police.
Det Insp Richard Marsh said a number of people were outside the school at the time and he urged them to contact the force.
"We are still trying to identify the vehicle and the public could have crucial information to assist our enquiries," he said.
"We appreciate this will have caused some shock in the community, but we believe this was a targeted incident unconnected to the school.
"We are still trying the establish the full circumstances behind what happened and we need the victim to come forward, along with the help of witnesses in the area at the time."
The state's Supreme Court acted hours before convicted murderers Don Davis and Bruce Ward were due to die, but the Davis decision could yet be reversed.
Their lawyers had argued they were mentally unfit to face execution and were denied proper assessment.
But there was a victory for the state when a federal court lifted an order that blocked all seven executions.
A blanket ruling made on Saturday that the executions could not go ahead on the grounds that the lethal injection causes suffering has been overruled.
The unprecedented pace at which Arkansas plans to put the seven men to death has drawn international attention.
It is driven by the state's desire to use a batch of drugs before it expires later this month.
But it has been condemned by critics as an inhumane "assembly line".
There were two rulings - in the first, the Arkansas Supreme Court stayed the executions of Davis and Ward, in a 4-3 decision. They have each spent more than 20 years on death row.
The state attorney general's office said it would not appeal against the stay for Ward. It did appeal against the stay for Davis but the US Supreme Court upheld it in a last-minute decision on Monday.
Davis had already been served his last meal and moved to the Cummins Unit, which holds the lethal injection gurney.
In the other decision, the 8th US Circuit Court of Appeals in St Louis cancelled the weekend ruling to halt all seven executions.
Bruce Ward - Strangled teenage shop clerk Rebecca Doss
Don Davis - Condemned for the execution-style killing of Jane Daniel as he burgled her home
Stacey Johnson - Murdered Carol Heath, who was beaten, strangled and had her throat slit
Ledell Lee - Bludgeoned Debra Reese to death with a tyre iron her husband had given her for protection
Jack Jones - Condemned for the rape and murder of accounts clerk Mary Phillips, and the nearly fatal beating of her 11-year-old daughter
Marcel Williams - Raped and murdered Stacey Erickson, after kidnapping her from a convenience store
Kenneth Williams - Murdered farmer Cecil Boren during an escape from prison where Williams had been incarcerated for murdering cheerleader Dominique Hurd
Like many US states, Arkansas has struggled to find the drugs it needs to carry out executions. Its last was in 2005.
The state's use of midazolam in its three-drug cocktail is controversial, because opponents of the death penalty say it is not effective at rendering the inmate unconscious.
The drug raised concerns after it was used in executions in three US states in 2014 that took longer than usual.
There are five more executions in Arkansas scheduled to happen by the end of April, so expect daily legal arguments on both sides.
The state is determined these executions be carried out, but those who have campaigned against the methods of execution will do all they can to block them.
The case of British nurse Pauline Cafferkey, who remains in a serious but stable condition in hospital in London, is a timely reminder of how little is known about the lingering after effects of the killer virus.
The World Health Organization says there's only one other well-documented Ebola survivor who has suffered severe complications after recovering from the virus, American infectious disease expert Dr Ian Crozier.
He was originally infected in September 2014 while treating patients in Sierra Leone. He was sent back to the US to receive treatment in a special Ebola unit in Atlanta. He left the hospital in October, after being given the all clear.
"I walked out of the isolation unit in Atlanta a very different person," Dr Ian Crozier tells me from his family's home in Arizona.
"I returned to Pheonix, where my family was, and began the long process of reattaching to life.
"I was very fortunate to be alive."
But a new, unexpected challenge awaited Dr Crozier, as it did the thousands of Ebola survivors in affected West African countries.
"I quickly realised it wasn't over," he says.
"I began to struggle with severe joint pains, muscle pain and stiffness. I suffered profound fatigue, and I lost the hearing in my left ear."
There was worse to come.
A couple of months after his initial recovery, Dr Crozier's left eye became extremely painful and inflamed.
He returned to the Emory University hospital, where medics used a tiny needle to withdraw fluid.
To their astonishment, the inside of Dr Crozier's eye was "teeming" with the virus.
Dr Crozier says: "We found hundreds of millions of copies [of the virus]. It was active, multiplying Ebola virus."
His eyeball became soft, and he temporarily went blind in his left eye.
At one point, his eye temporarily changed colour, from blue to green.
"It was quite shocking," he says.
"I was terrified of potentially spreading the virus to my family through my tears."
But tests quickly revealed fluids on his eye, and his tears did not contain the virus, so he posed no danger to others.
Ebola can persist in "immune privileged sites" - parts of the body immune cells cannot reach - after a patient recovers from their illness.
Recent research published in the New England Medical Journal found Ebola lingered in semen for nine months after men recovered.
But it is unclear whether those men are contagious.
The WHO says the risk of sexual transmission is "probably low", otherwise there would be far more new infections.
As well as the inner eyeball and semen, other immune privileged sites include the central nervous system, breast milk and the placenta.
Dr Crozier says: "You take it very personally.
"In a sense, this virus was hitching a free ride for months and months. That was difficult to come to terms with.
"Many of us [survivors] are angry and indignant that the virus is persisting."
There have been a number of reports of people experiencing eye problems in affected West African countries.
However, unlike in Dr Crozier's case in the US, and Pauline Cafferkey's case in the UK, most of those experiencing these sorts of problems are not investigated rigorously, so data and evidence about what is going on is scarce.
Dr Crozier describes life after Ebola as a kind of balancing act of being grateful to be alive, but acutely aware of the uncertainty.
"That tension is much more pronounced for the West African survivors." he says.
"This virus is the chief of home-wreckers.
"Many lost their entire families and are now facing these problems, as well as stigma in their communities, when they thought the worst of it was over."
Dr Crozier says his health and eyesight is improving, but he is not entirely better. "I've continued to struggle with joint pains, hearing loss and fatigue."
As Pauline Cafferkey continues her second fight for life because of Ebola, Dr Crozier says he and many other survivors stand alongside the British nurse and her family.
"We're all learning. This virus is teaching us as we go along," he says.
"I've learned to take nothing off the table in terms of what we know or what we think we know about Ebola.
"You become resilient and prepared for the unexpected."
The collision took place on Broomielaw under the Kingston Bridge at about 12:10.
The man is believed to have sustained leg injuries and was taken to Glasgow Royal Infirmary.
No one else was injured.
The male victims were all confronted in Colchester, Essex, between 23:00 BST on Friday and 02:30 on Saturday.
Essex Police said extra patrols would be made in The Hythe and New Town over the weekend.
The force said the crimes were being linked and that it was "working with the victims in each incident to identify the suspects".
The first victim managed to flee unscathed after being surrounded by a group of up to 15 men, one armed with a knife, in Hickory Avenue at 23:00.
A man then had his wallet and phone stolen after he was approached by two men who pulled out a knife. The pair were with two women at Hythe Station at 01:30.
Forty-five minutes later, a gang of up to six males stole a man's phone at knifepoint in Winnock Road, before a fourth man managed to push a would-be robber away when he was threatened with a knife at 02:30 in Hythe Hill.
Det Ch Insp Leighton Hammett said: "We have a zero tolerance stance on this type of behaviour and these incidents are not acceptable."
The Argentine, second only to president Sepp Blatter in the Fifa hierarchy, was taken to hospital in Buenos Aires on Wednesday with cardiac failure and later died, the governing body said.
Grondona had been head of the Argentine FA (AFA) since 1979 and a member of Fifa's executive committee since 1988.
Writing on Twitter, Blatter said he was "sad for the loss of a great friend".
The South American Football Confederation (Conmebol) confirmed Grondona's death in a statement, adding that he would be remembered for "giving his country recognition in football".
The AFA responded to the news by announcing the postponement of all matches in Argentina's domestic leagues this weekend as a mark of respect.
The governing body also announced a halt to all administrative functions until Monday, meaning a press conference at which Argentina coach Alejandro Sabella was due to confirm his future has been postponed.
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During Grondona's time as head of the AFA, Argentina won the World Cup in 1986 and lost the final in both 1990 and 2014.
He had been due to step down from his AFA role when his current term came to an end in 2015.
Argentina forward Lionel Messi was among those to send condolences after the announcement.
"It's a very sad day for football, for all of Argentina and for me," the Barcelona forward wrote on his Facebook account.
"Our president, Julio Grondona, you have left us. I want to send my sincere condolences and a large hug to all his family members and friends."
Grondona made headlines earlier this summer after his troubled relationship with retired Argentina captain and manager Diego Maradona spilled into the public domain.
It was Grondona who hired Maradona as the national team coach, only to hastily dismiss him after Argentina lost in the quarter-finals of the 2010 World Cup.
During the tournament in Brazil last month, Maradona responded to being called a "bad luck charm" by Grondona by making an obscene gesture on live TV.
Ndung'u Gethenji, head of the defence committee, told the BBC he had reports that "some of these facilities are being used as a training ground".
More than 500,000 Somalis have sought refuge from war and poverty in Kenya.
Officials say 67 people died after militants from Somalia's al-Shabab stormed the Westgate on 21 September.
Five militants were killed by security forces during the four-day siege, while nine people are in custody after being arrested in connection with the attacks, the authorities say.
Al-Shabab, a Somali Islamist group, said the attack was in retaliation for Kenya's military involvement in Somalia.
Mr Gethenji said that Kenya had to rethink "its hospitality in supporting refugee camps within our borders".
Kenya is host to the largest refugee camp in the world, Dadaab - home to about half a million people - while it is believed that more than 30,000 Somali refugees live in Nairobi alone.
The BBC's Robert Kiptoo in Nairobi says many people in the city would like Somali refugees to return home - partly for security reasons but also because the influx has led to steep rises in rents, especially in the mainly ethnic Somali district of Eastleigh.
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However, our correspondent says the repatriation of all refugees is unlikely to happen, as the camps are controlled by the UNHCR, which had permission from the government to open them.
Such a move would also contravene international agreements, he notes.
Last year the Kenyan government announced a plan to move all asylum seekers and refugees out of urban areas - a plan which was denounced as unlawful by human rights groups.
Earlier the Kenyan Red Cross said the number of missing after the Westgate shopping centre attack had dropped to 39 from an initial figure of 61.
Fourteen of the missing have been found alive and seven bodies have been identified, it said.
A Red Cross tracing manager has told the BBC that some of those who were classed as missing were counted because of "reports from people who could not get through to their relatives on the phone and thought they might have been at the mall".
The government has said there are hardly any people still unaccounted for after the attack, and that it did not think any hostages were killed when a car park collapsed inside the mall, ending the siege.
However, the rubble is still being moved, so Interior Minister Joseph Ole Lenku has said it is possible more bodies might yet be discovered.
Meanwhile, Kenya's joint parliamentary defence and national security committees have started a probe into alleged intelligence failings over the Westgate attack.
Mr Gethenji said MPs would question security chiefs, including the head of the National Intelligence Service (NIS), Michael Gichangi.
The MPs visited the Westgate site on Monday as part of their inquiries.
Security sources have told the BBC that the militants rented a shop at Westgate in the weeks leading up to the siege.
Mr Gethenji told the BBC last week that "people need to know the exact lapses in the security system that possibly allowed this event to take place".
Kenyan newspapers have reported that the NIS warned a year ago of the presence of suspected al-Shabab militants in the capital and that they were planning suicide attacks, including on the Westgate shopping centre.
The Daily Nation newspaper has reported that Kenyan intelligence had established that al-Shabab leaders had begun singling out Westgate and the Holy Family Basilica for attack early this year.
Government figures said to have received the intelligence briefings include Mr Lenku, Treasury Minister Julius Rotich, Foreign Affairs Minister Amina Mohammed, Defence Minister Raychelle Omamo and Kenya Defence Forces chief Julius Karangi.
On Sunday, Mr Lenku refused to answer questions on the issue, saying the information was confidential and would not be discussed in public.
However, a senior interior ministry official earlier denied that ministers had ignored intelligence warnings.
The official - who was speaking on condition of anonymity - told the BBC the government received intelligence daily, that action was taken and that many attacks had been averted.
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"Not in a billion years did I think I would be made a dame," said the 81-year-old after Thursday's investiture ceremony at Buckingham Palace, London.
"It wasn't anything I ever aspired to. I just wanted to be jobbing actress."
She was honoured for charity work with the NSPCC, breast cancer research and children with learning disabilities.
Accompanied by her fifth husband, Percy Gibson, and her daughter, Tara Newley, Dame Joan said she was still working and had "a lot of irons in the fire".
One of them is The Time of Their Lives, a film project for which she and prospective co-star Pauline Collins are attempting to raise funds.
Dame Joan can also be seen alongside Elizabeth Hurley in The Royals, a US TV series about a fictional version of the British Royal Family.
Spedaking last year, the onetime Rank film starlet said she was "ecstatic" to receive her latest honour as she was "very patriotic and quite a royalist as well".
"This is a very special moment, to have a statue of me," the 29-year-old said.
The statue is part of Ronaldo's personal museum, housing mementos and awards from his career including his two Ballon D'Or titles, awarded to him as the world's best player in 2008 and 2013.
The former Manchester United striker, who lifted the Club World Cup with his current club on Saturday, is favourite to win the 2014 accolade in January.
He has scored 34 goals in 27 games for club and country this season.
"Ronaldo has never forgotten his origins," added his mother, Dolores Aveiro.
Ramsey, 26, limped off with 20 minutes of the game remaining at the Emirates Stadium and was replaced by Danny Welbeck.
Arsenal host Everton in their final league game of the season on Sunday and face Chelsea in the FA Cup final on 27 May.
Wales face Serbia in a crucial World Cup qualifier in Belgrade on 11 June.
Chris Coleman's side will be without suspended Real Madrid forward Gareth Bale for the game in Belgrade.
After the Arsenal victory, manager Arsene Wenger said Ramsey was 'alright' when asked about the fitness of the Wales midfielder.
On Monday Uber boss Travis Kalanick sent an email to his employees with more information about the probe - and further plans the company has to address the issue.
“It’s been a tough 24 hours,” he began, adding that the company was “hurting”.
The investigation will be lead by former US attorney general Eric Holder, who served under President Obama between 2009 and 2015, and Tammy Albarran - both partners at law firm Covington and Burling.
Arianna Huffington, best known for being the founder of the Huffington Post, will also help carry out the review. Ms Huffington has been on Uber’s board since April last year. Also conducting the review will be Uber’s new head of human resources, Liane Hornsey, and Angela Padilla, Uber’s associate general counsel.
Diversity figures
After coming into widespread criticism for never having published statistics on diversity at the company, Mr Kalanick said he would deliver figures in the "coming months". He said that of the employees working as engineers, product managers or data scientists, 15.1% are women - a number which he said hadn’t changed significantly in the past year.
“As points of reference,” he wrote, “Facebook is at 17%, Google at 18% and Twitter at 10%.”
Until now, Uber had been standing firm on not publishing its diversity figures. Most major technology companies make public their EEO-1 - a government filing that breaks down employees by race, religion, gender and other factors.
Uber has not specified if it will publish its entire EEO-1, or just post select figures from the company.
In her blog post, Susan Fowler cited anecdotal figures of women leaving Uber in droves.
Speaking specifically about the site reliability engineering team, which she worked on for a year, she said that by the time she left, “out of over 150 engineers in the SRE teams, only 3% were women”. She now works at San Francisco-based payment firm Stripe.
Uber said it would be holding an “all hands" meeting on Tuesday to tell its employees what its “next steps” will be.
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The committee said the forthcoming changes were complex and confusing and had been poorly communicated.
It concluded that HMRC's communications strategy was "inadequate".
A key change is the abolition of the tax deduction scheme whereby banks deduct tax from most interest earned.
The committee said most taxpayers were unaware of the imminent change, and whether or not they may have to file a tax return and pay tax to HMRC on interest earned in future.
The House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee is also concerned that the complexity of the tax system and compliance burden placed on individual taxpayers is growing.
It says the government must demonstrate how it is delivering a simpler tax system.
It also called for an effective strategy of communicating with taxpayers and a public awareness campaign led by HMRC in partnership with banks, building societies and other financial institutions.
Lord Hollick, the chairman of the committee, said: "Changes to how we are taxed can have a huge impact on financial planning, including savings and pension arrangements.
"A great many savers will have no idea that from April they may for the first time have to check whether they need to report or pay tax on interest they have received, rather than have their bank deduct the tax they owe."
Police said the men, who appeared to be armed with a firearm, stole more than £20,000 from the Santander Bank in Cowgate, Kirkintilloch on Monday.
Two G4S security guards were carrying the cash inside the bank when the men forced their way in at 18:05.
The robbers then made off in a dark VW Golf, which was later found burnt out in Bishopbriggs.
Police said no-one was injured in the incident.
The suspects are described as white with local accents. They were all wearing dark clothing and balaclavas to try and shield their faces. The men were also wearing dark shoes and gloves.
As they made their getaway, the men drove the VW Golf up Glasgow Road towards the city.
The car was later found burnt out in Glenburn Gardens, Bishopbriggs at about 21:10.
Officers are checking reports that a man, wearing grey clothing, was near the car before it was set on fire.
Det Insp Alasdair Barlow said: "I am appealing to anyone who was in the area at the time of the incident to contact us, perhaps you noticed the suspects either prior to, or just after.
"We understand the suspects got into a black VW Golf which was then driven erratically and recklessly along Glasgow Road.
"I'm sure this is something other motorists and members of the public will have noticed.
"This car was then recovered burnt out in Bishopbriggs so I'm appealing to local residents in that area to think back and consider if they saw this car and any of its occupants.
"If you have any information or if you have any dash cam footage, which perhaps captured the car, please do contact us. Your information could prove vital in our investigation."
Police said they were carrying out door-to-door inquiries and high visibility foot patrols would also be taking place.
Area risk consultant for G4S Cash Solutions Duncan Watson described it as a "brazen attack".
He added: "Fortunately our colleagues have not suffered any serious injuries but understandably have been shaken by the attack.
"We are working closely with Police Scotland and I would urge anyone who may have been nearby and seen this attack to get in touch with the police or dial 101 so that those behind it can be brought to justice."
The jury was played a pre-recorded video of the boy talking to police two days after the toddler died.
Nyomi Fee, 29, and Rachel Fee, 32, deny murdering Rachel's son Liam in a house near Glenrothes.
The boy being questioned is the one the women are accused of falsely blaming for the two-year-old's death.
In the video played to the jury at High Court in Livingston, the boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, is talking to a social worker and a police officer.
When asked what had happened, he at first told them: "I don't want to tell anyone. It's a long story. I don't want to talk about it."
He later added: "I don't know anything about Liam."
When he was asked about coming to the police station after the toddler's death, he said he had felt "sad".
After being repeatedly reassured by the adults that he was not in any trouble, he later told them that on the night in question he had been "bad".
The social worker asked: "What did you do that was bad?"
"I strangled Liam," the boy replied.
Asked how he did that, the boy could be seen putting his hand to his face, over his mouth, before telling the interviewers he had used just one hand.
When asked how long he had done this for, the boy replied "a minute".
He was asked: "What did Liam do when you were doing that?"
"Nothing" the boy replied.
"What happened when you took your hand away?" the social worker said.
"He was sitting up," the boy said. He told the adults that he had been watching a film called the Green Lantern, and that Liam was "looking around", adding "at the telly".
The High Court was closed to the public as the recording was played to the jury.
Earlier in the video evidence the child described being with Rachel and Nyomi Fee - who are originally from Ryton, Tyne and Wear - Liam and another child on the day of the death.
He said they all got on the bus to Glenrothes.
Liam was in his buggy because he could not walk very far, the boy said.
He said they all went to McDonald's and Liam ate a happy meal before they returned to the Fee's house.
The boy described playing with Liam and the other boy after dinner that evening and seeing Rachel and Nyomi drinking Vodka in the living room.
The murder charge alleges that the couple assaulted Liam at a house in Fife on various occasions between 15 March and 22 March 2014.
They also face a catalogue of allegations of wilfully ill-treating and neglecting two other young boys over a period of more than two years.
The pair are accused of falsely telling others, including police, that a young boy was responsible for Liam's death.
They deny all the charges and the trial continues.
Figures from Cancer Research UK found obese women in the UK have 40% greater risk of being diagnosed with a weight-related cancer.
The charity has said more than a fifth of women are obese in Northern Ireland,
Cancer Research UK said obesity increases a woman's risk of at least seven types of cancer, including bowel and post-menopausal breast.
Dr Julie Sharp, head of health information at Cancer Research UK, said helping people understand how they can reduce their risk of developing cancer "remains crucial in tackling the disease".
"Lifestyle changes like not smoking, keeping a healthy weight, eating a healthy diet and cutting back on alcohol are the big opportunities for us all to personally reduce our cancer risk," she said.
"Making these changes is not a guarantee against cancer, but it stacks the odds in our favour."
They watched the victim enter her code as she paid for her shopping at the Balham High Road Waitrose store.
And when the 86-year-old left, one man distracted her by pretending to be lost while another person stole her card.
Scotland Yard said the gang managed to spend £21,000 before the card was reported missing the following day.
Police, who have been unable to find those responsible, have only now sought the public's help to solve the crime, which happened at the supermarket in Balham on 17 March.
"The money was the victim's life savings that she was keeping for her grandchildren," a police spokesman said.
As well as buying food and six second-hand cars, the gang used the card to withdraw cash and purchase clothing.
Two men and one woman were captured on CCTV watching the victim as she entered her Pin when paying for her shopping.
They have been described by police as a white woman aged in her 40s, a slim Asian man in his 20s, and an Asian man of medium build aged in his late 30s.
The Met have appealed for anyone who recognises any of the suspects to contact them.
Gui Minhai said he turned himself in after being on the run for 12 years over a drink-driving conviction.
Mr Gui, a Swedish national, is one of five Hong Kong booksellers to go missing recently.
Some in Hong Kong have alleged they are being detained by China because of a book critical of the mainland.
Thousands joined rallies in Hong Kong last week over the disappearances, saying it amounted to an erosion of freedoms.
The Chinese state news agency Xinhua said Mr Gui, 51, was involved in a fatal car accident in the eastern city of Ningbo, in which a female college student was killed. It said he fled while under a suspended two-year jail term.
"I am taking my legal responsibilities, and am willing to accept any punishment," he told CCTV, according to Xinhua.
Mr Gui was the owner of the Mighty Current publishing house in Hong Kong. He failed to return from a holiday in Thailand in October.
Activists believe he was unlawfully transported to China because of an unpublished book about the private life of the Chinese president.
The five who went missing either work for Mighty Current or a small bookstore it owns called Causeway Bay Books.
The bookshop is known for selling works critical of China which are banned in the mainland.
Mystery disappearances in Hong Kong book world
Gui Minhai: 51, disappeared while staying in Thailand in October 2015. The China-born Swedish national owns the Mighty Current publishing house
Lui Bo: last seen in mainland China, just north of Hong Kong, in October 2015. General manager of Mighty Current
Cheung Jiping: 32, last seen in mainland China in October 2015. Mighty Current's business manager
Lam Wingkei: 60, last seen in Hong Kong in October 2015. Manager of Causeway Bay bookstore
Lee Bo: 65 - also known as Paul Lee - disappeared in Hong Kong in late December 2015. A shareholder in Causeway bookshop and a UK passport holder. Wife withdraws request for police to help find him in early 2016 saying he has been in contact from mainland China
During the recorded interview, Mr Gui also asked the Swedish authorities not to get involved.
"Even though I am a Swedish national, I truly feel that I am still Chinese and my roots are still in China. So I hope that the Swedish side would respect my personal choice, rights and privacy and let me solve my own problems," he said.
A spokeswoman for the Swedish foreign ministry said it was aware of reports but not commenting, and was seeking clarification from China.
Last Sunday, thousands of protesters marched to the offices of Beijing's representative in Hong Kong, chanting "say no to political kidnapping".
The latest to vanish was Lee Bo, in late December - Mr Lee raised the alarm after four of his associates went missing in October.
Hong Kong authorities have said they are conducting a "thorough" investigation into the disappearance of the five men.
Under the "one country, two systems" principle, Hong Kong is supposed to enjoy high degrees of autonomy from China.
Albert Chan, a politician with the pro-democracy People Power Party, told the BBC last week he believed the case was "the first time there has been such a clear violation of Hong Kong's law".
Police were called to a house in Rowcon Close in Audenshaw at about 12:40 GMT. Officers discovered the body of a 39-year-old woman.
A 53-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder and remains in police custody for questioning.
The scene was sealed off while forensic investigations were carried out.
The claimant count has now fallen by 26,000 since the most recent peak in February 2013.
The other measure of unemployment, the Labour Force Survey, fell by 0.1 percentage points to 5.9% from September to November 2015.
That is higher than the UK unemployment rate which stands at 5.1%.
The proportion of people aged 16 to 64 in work, the employment rate, increased over the quarter and over the year to 68.8%.
That is now just 0.1 percentage point below the peak employment rate of 68.9% in April - June 2007.
The long-term unemployment rate, which is the percentage of unemployed people who have been out of work over a year or more, was 48.9%.
That is down by 4.6 percentage points over the year. However it is still far above the UK average rate of 28.5%.
The figures suggest that Derry and Strabane remains the council area with the highest unemployment.
The percentage of working age claimants is 6.3% which compares to just 2% in Lisburn and Castlereagh.
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Michael McGill told Mr Whyte's fraud trial he only learned about the Ticketus deal after Mr Whyte bought Sir David's majority stake at Ibrox.
A jury heard how a bid financed in that manner would not have been "approved".
Mr Whyte, 46, denies a charge of fraud and another under the Companies Act.
At the High Court in Glasgow, chartered accountant Mr McGill also denied that the selling of Rangers had been a "firesale".
Mr McGill, a former director of Sir David's Murray Group and then Rangers, was giving evidence for a second day.
He had earlier told the trial that Mr Whyte stated cash for the buyout was coming from his "personal resources".
But prosecutors claim Mr Whyte helped fund his takeover by obtaining a loan from Ticketus against three years of future season ticket sales.
Before Mr Whyte took the helm, Rangers had a sizeable debt to Lloyds Bank - including an £18m loan.
The jury was shown a March 2011 letter from Liberty Capital to Ticketus signed by Craig Whyte.
It referred to re-paying the debt to Lloyds in raising money by selling tickets to the firm and that the "current owner" was "comfortable" with it.
Prosecutor Alex Prentice asked Mr McGill if he had any "knowledge" of that, to which Mr McGill replied: "No."
Mr Prentice said: "Would you have approved of that?" Mr McGill replied: "No."
The witness said he only found out about any Ticketus deal in early 2012.
This was after there had been "a lot of rumour" before stories emerged in the press.
Mr McGill told the jury: "We were appalled."
He said he "ceased involvement" with Rangers after Mr Whyte took over.
Prosecutor Mr Prentice also asked what he thought about the selling of the club being described as a "firesale".
He replied: "Absolutely not. We had ceased actively marketing in May or June 2010.
"We first started discussions with Mr Whyte around October 2010 and ultimately completed the sale in May 2011.
"That timetable does not fit in any way with a firesale."
Mr Whyte's QC Donald Findlay later put to Mr McGill that the Rangers board, before Mr Whyte took over, "pursued a spend to win model".
This was despite the club being in debt.
Mr Findlay claimed Sir David had taken the club to his "heart", but left it to directors who "manifestly did not know what they were doing".
Mr McGill said he could "not answer that" on behalf of Sir David.
The jury later heard that a tax scheme that could have landed Rangers with a huge bill from HMRC was "dreamt up by a porn star".
One of the people behind Employment Benefit Trusts was said to be Paul Baxendale Walker - also described in court as "a struck-off solicitor".
Sir David earlier told how EBTs gave Rangers "the opportunity to get players we may otherwise not been able to afford".
It led to the so-called "Big Tax Case", which currently remains unresolved.
The court was told the scheme was introduced by a firm to the Murray Group board and then brought into Rangers.
Mr Findlay asked Mr McGill if it had, in his view, been "properly analysed".
Mr McGill replied: "I have reservations about the scheme."
The QC said Baxendale Walker had been involved in EBTs and went on to call him a "porn star and a struck-off solicitor".
Mr McGill claimed that if Rangers had lost the tax case at that time, he believed the club "would have entered insolvency".
Mr Findlay suggested the "legacy" would "not be great" had that happened.
Mr McGill was also quizzed on what "due diligence" was carried out on Mr Whyte before the takeover.
The witness agreed that no-one had been "hired" to do this.
Mr McGill said checks were carried out to discover if Mr Whyte was a banned director.
Prosecutors allege Mr Whyte pretended to Sir David Murray, and others, that funds were available to make all required payments to acquire a "controlling and majority stake" in the club.
The Crown alleges Mr Whyte had only £4m available from two sources at the time but took out a £24m loan from Ticketus against three years of future season ticket sales.
The court has heard the sale was eventually made to Mr Whyte for £1 but came with obligations to pay an £18m bank debt, a £2.8m "small tax case" bill, £1.7m for stadium repairs, £5m for players and £5m in working capital.
The second charge under the Companies Act centres on the £18m payment between Mr Whyte's Wavetower company and Rangers to clear a bank debt.
The trial, before Lady Stacey, will continue on Tuesday.
Ward, 21, has played four games this season for Albion's under-21 side in the EFL Trophy.
The former Chelmsford City player will be eligible for Lincoln's FA Trophy tie at Gateshead on Saturday, but not the FA Cup replay against Ipswich Town.
He would also be ineligible should Lincoln progress to meet Albion in the fourth round.
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The man had been under surveillance as a "person of interest", and was being investigated over claims of terrorism, the ABC broadcaster said.
Two police officers were reportedly stabbed by the man before he was shot.
They have both been taken to hospital and one is reported to be in a critical but stable condition.
The incident happened when the man arrived at a police station in the Endeavour Hills suburb of Melbourne on Tuesday evening.
He had been asked to attend an interview there, ABC reports.
According to Sky News Australia, the man was brandishing a flag of the Islamic State (IS) militant group.
A police statement said that an Australian Federal Police officer and a Victoria state police officer - part of a joint counter-terrorism team - met the teenager outside the station. It was then that the violence erupted.
The Melbourne Age quoted onlookers as saying that the man had been shouting insults at Mr Abbott and the Australian government in general in the moments before he was shot.
Sources quoted by The Australian said that he was a "known extremist" who was intercepted by two teams of police. The paper said it is believed that he had recently had his passport cancelled.
The incident has occurred amid heightened tensions due to major counter-terrorism raids last week in Sydney and Brisbane.
The raids were aimed at disrupting alleged IS-linked plans to publicly behead a randomly-selected Australian.
Australian authorities believe at least 60 Australians are in the Middle East fighting with IS (also known as Isis or Isil) and other militant groups.
Caerphilly council's planning committee gave the go-ahead to the development at Nine Mile Point Industrial Estate on Wednesday evening.
Cwmfelinfach residents objected to the plant on the grounds of a weather phenomenon called temperature inversion.
A report for applicants Hazrem Environmental said the site would have a "negligible" impact on air quality.
People living in the area feared the weather event, which causes warm air above the valley to trap cold air beneath it, would have kept emissions and fumes from the plant in the area for days before dispersing.
The plant will turn household, commercial and industrial waste, which may normally go to landfill, into bales of fuel.
The 20-year-old scored 10 goals in 23 appearances for Boro after joining the Ryman League Premier Division side in November 2015.
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"Fejiri was brought to my attention while I was at Luton. He can also play wide, he's quick and strong," Daggers boss John Still told the club website.
Dagenham dropped back into non-league after finishing 23rd in League Two in 2015-16, ending their nine-year stay in the Football League.
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Ramirez, 53, was on death row in San Quentin prison after being convicted in 1989 of 13 murders. Officials said he died of natural causes.
Ramirez terrorised Southern California in 1984-5 with a rampage of sexual assault and murder.
Satanic symbols were left at some of the murder scenes by the killer, who broke into victims' homes at night.
Ramirez was captured and beaten by residents in East Los Angeles in 1985 as he attempted to hijack a car.
He was recognised from a photo published in newspapers after police identified him as a suspect from a fingerprint.
Los Angeles prosecutor Alan Yochelson, who was involved in the case, said his death ended "a pretty tragic period in the history of Los Angeles County".
"Richard Ramirez hurt a lot of people and I think our thoughts should be with the next of kin and the survivors, because their lives were changed forever by this man."
A drug addict and self-styled devil-worshipper, Ramirez mutilated the bodies of some of his victims.
They included an accountant, a lawyer, a mechanic and a church official. Some were children, others grandparents.
Most of the killings happened in the space of a few months in 1985. The random murder spree caused widespread fear, leading to a surge in sales of guns and locks for doors and windows.
Ramirez has also been linked to other murders for which he was never brought to trial.
After he was given the death sentence, he said: "Big deal. Death always went with the territory. See you in Disneyland."
Once in prison he attracted a number of female admirers. Some visited him and in 1996 he married freelance journalist Doreen Lioy at a visiting room in San Quentin jail.
A horror film based on his life - titled Night Stalker - was released in 2002.
California has not executed a prisoner on death row since 2006 because of a legal battle over how inmates are put to death.
This is one of the world's poorest countries with among the highest rates of malnutrition and child mortality.
And yet, walking around a hospital ward, a doctor told me that as well as malaria, pneumonia and all the other serious health challenges, there was another emerging problem - obesity.
I don't remember seeing many overweight people but the doctor assured me there was serious concern about the potential for future weight-related health problems - cardiovascular disease, diabetes and so on.
So it was no surprise to see a raft of research papers in the Lancet discussing the need for global action to tackle the obesity pandemic.
Most developing countries are facing a dual challenge - that of under and over nutrition; the former gets far more publicity because it is an immediate and often life-threatening danger.
Obesity stores up a host of health problems for the future. The World Health Organization (WHO) calls it a "double burden" of disease and says: "It is not uncommon to find under-nutrition and obesity existing side-by-side within the same country, the same community and the same household".
The WHO says that 65% of the world's population lives in countries where overweight and obesity kills more people than underweight.
The rise in urban living, the shift away from manual labour, the increase in car use and the availability of cheap energy-dense food are among many factors behind the increase.
One of the research teams led by Professor Boyd Swinburn from Deakin University in Melbourne described the "passive overconsumption" of energy: "The simultaneous increases in obesity in almost all countries seem to be driven mainly by changes in the global food system, which is producing more processed, affordable, and effectively marketed food than ever before.
In a comment article attached to the Lancet papers, Sir David King, the UK government's former Chief Scientific Advisor recalls the influential Foresight study published in 2007:
"One of the key findings of the report was that individuals had much less choice in the matter of their weight than they would assume, and that the present epidemic of obesity is not really down to laziness or overeating but that our biology has stepped out of kilter with society."
Obesity is a global issue, which requires global solutions.
Clearly individual responsibility is key, but a call for leadership is being urged in the run-up to a UN meeting on non-communicable diseases in New York next month.
"Eat less, move more" maybe the simplistic answer, but today's research suggests that the issue is far more complex requiring effort from government, industry and society.
He told the operator the bird had attempted the lunch food heist in Bristol city centre and urged officers to check nearby CCTV for evidence.
In another call a woman reported the owner of a guest house where she was staying for refusing to cook breakfast.
Police are highlighting the number of calls they get in a day with 25 out of 1,000 on Wednesday "inappropriate".
Another 999 call to the Portishead HQ came from a woman who had locked herself out of her home.
"Not something that should be reported via 999 - you might be blocking an emergency call," the police tweeted.
Acting Deputy Chief Constable Gareth Morgan said he hoped a 24-hour "tweetathon" on Wednesday would give an insight into the works that goes on behind the scenes.
Members of Lochaber Mountain Rescue Team were able to find the pair on Meall an t-Suidhe by tracing their mobile phones.
On Tuesday, Lochaber MRT rescued hillwalker Arthur Bowden, 71, after he went missing overnight on Ben Nevis.
Earlier that day, the team was alerted to a party of French walkers after they were avalanched but not injured.
A trial on 163 heart failure patients found supplements of the vitamin, which is made in the skin when exposed to sunlight, improved their hearts' ability to pump blood around the body.
The Leeds Teaching Hospitals team, who presented at a meeting of the American College of Cardiology, described the results as "stunning".
The British Heart Foundation called for longer trials to assess the pills.
Vitamin D is vital for healthy bones and teeth and may have important health benefits throughout the body but many people are deficient.
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The average age of people in the study was 70 and, like many people that age, they had low levels of vitamin D even in summer.
"They do spend less time outside, but the skin's ability to manufacture vitamin D also gets less effective [with age] and we don't really understand why that is," said consultant cardiologist Dr Klaus Witte.
Patients were given either a 100 microgram vitamin D tablet or a sugar pill placebo each day for a year.
And researchers measured the impact on heart failure - a condition in which the heart becomes too weak to pump blood properly.
The key measure was the ejection fraction, the amount of blood pumped out of the chambers of the heart with each beat.
In a healthy adult, the figure is between 60% and 70%, but only a quarter of the blood in the heart was being successfully pumped out in the heart failure patients.
But in those taking the vitamin pills, the ejection fraction increased from 26% to 34%.
Dr Witte told the BBC News website: "It's quite a big deal, that's as big as you'd expect from other more expensive treatments that we use, it's a stunning effect.
"It's as cheap as chips, has no side effects and a stunning improvement on people already on optimal medical therapy, it is the first time anyone has shown something like this in the last 15 years."
The study also showed the patients' hearts became smaller - a suggestion they are becoming more powerful and efficient.
In the UK, people over 65 are advised to take 10 microgram supplements of the vitamin.
However, Dr Witte does not think high-dose vitamin D should be routine prescribed just yet.
He told the BBC: "We're a little bit off that yet, not because I don't believe it, but data have shown improvements in heart function, they may show improvements in symptoms and we now need a large study."
It is also not clear exactly how vitamin D is improving heart function, but it is thought every cell in the body responds to the vitamin.
Most vitamin D comes from sunlight, although it is also found in oily fish, eggs and is added to some foods such as breakfast cereals.
Prof Peter Weissberg, from the British Heart Foundation, cautioned that the patients seemed no better at exercise.
And added: "A much bigger study over a longer period of time is now needed to determine whether these changes in cardiac function can translate into fewer symptoms and longer lives for heart failure patients."
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Reade, 25, described the move to the US as temporary and said her ultimate goal was to win Olympic gold for Britain.
"I'm looking forward to gaining more experience and using this in my campaign for Rio [in 2016]," she said.
Reade, team sprint world champion on the track in 2007 and 2008, has the "full support" of British Cycling.
Head coach Shane Sutton said: "The door is always open to her as and when she decides to return to BMX Supercross.
"Shanaze has been a real asset to us over the years and she is an inspiration to youngsters, which has always been great to see."
Reade had been leading this year's 2013 BMX Supercross Word Cup Series until a knee injury sustained in July prevented her from competing for the rest of the season.
But Nathan Gill told BBC Wales he did not back Gareth Bennett's statements.
Mr Gill also said there were issues when a "huge amount of immigrants" came into an area and local councils could not cope with the "excessive rubbish".
UKIP's National Executive Committee (NEC) endorsed Mr Bennett's candidacy for South Wales Central on Monday.
The decision followed a vetting panel recommendation, despite calls for de-selection and 16 party candidates complaining.
UKIP is still yet to issue an official statement in response to the decision to endorse Mr Bennett, as lead candidate for South Wales Central.
Party leader Nigel Farage has said he was "less than impressed" with Mr Bennett.
Speaking on Radio Wales' Jason Mohammad programme on Friday, Mr Gill said he backed the candidate because "he was chosen by the membership of Wales".
"I don't back the statements he made, absolutely not, they were his own statements, that's something that he should answer," he said.
"It certainly isn't UKIP policy and it isn't something we acknowledge.
"What we do acknowledge is that there are issues and have been issues due to too much immigration too fast, which has not allowed the councils to catch up with that."
"So if you suddenly got an area where there are a huge amount of immigrants coming into it and the local council is unable to deal with the excessive rubbish and the extra school places that are needed, that is poor planning, isn't it?" he added.
Mr Gill said he would be "extremely happy" for UKIP to win "six or seven" seats in May's election.
"The Lib Democrats are pretty much in free-fall and have pretty much destroyed themselves as a party.
"In the last two major elections in a row we beat Plaid Cymru here in Wales, and absolutely it is our goal and it's our target to beat Plaid Cymru in this election."
Mr Gill told the programme he would consider resigning if UKIP only won one seat in the poll.
Asked if he would quit if the party failed to win any seats, he said: "If I won zero then yeah, I probably would actually."
Liberal Democrat Peter Black called Mr Gill's defence of Mr Bennett the "appalling true face of UKIP".
"In many regional seats the choice for the fourth seat is between UKIP and the Welsh Liberal Democrats, that is the clear choice that many people must make," Mr Black said.
Fell, 23, hit more than 1,000 County Championship runs in 2015 before two bouts of cancer, only getting the all-clear halfway through last season.
He has scored 2,867 first-class runs in his career, at an average of 33.72, but is averaging around half that in 2017.
"Hopefully I'm just one score away and it should all fall into place again," Fell told Worcestershire's website.
"It is a good time to be at the club. I think the future definitely looks good and it's nice to know I'm going to be a part of that future and hopefully keep taking the club forward."
Last summer, Fell won the MCC Spirit of Cricket award after signalling his foot had touched the rope when trying to stop a boundary in the County Championship match with Sussex at Hove.
His new deal comes just two days after 19-year-old paceman Josh Tongue agreed a four-year contract with the club.
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The number reported by Parliament's petitions website is at about 1.8 million.
There is also a petition saying that President Trump should be welcomed with a state visit, which has passed 200,000 signatures.
Any British citizen or UK resident is entitled to sign a petition on the site and asked to confirm their status when they do so.
An email is then sent to the address given, containing a link that signatories must click on before they are counted.
The House of Commons says: "All petitions are checked for fraudulent activity, using both automated and manual checks. The checks prevent fraudulent signatures being added to petitions by individuals trying to repeatedly sign, or automated attacks (bots)."
It adds that there is a balance to be made between making it easy for people to sign while making it harder to do so repeatedly.
The procedures have been tightened up since last June, when at least 77,000 fraudulent signatures were removed from a petition calling for a second EU referendum.
An investigation was launched after posts were found on websites from people claiming to have written programs that would automatically sign the petition thousands of times.
The House of Commons will not give details of either the original or new security procedures it has put in place.
It is not immediately obvious how the system works to prevent people voting more than once, but fraudulent signatures have been disqualified in the past.
It should be said that both petitions have received considerably more than the 100,000 signatures, above which petitions "almost always" trigger a debate in Parliament.
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The 25-year-old filled in as skipper for much of 2015 when Key was out of the first-team, and he scored over 2,000 runs in al competitions.
"It's a very special moment and I am extremely honoured," Northeast told BBC Radio Kent.
"I've had a good mentor in Rob Key and he did a fantastic job for many years. Hopefully I can emulate his success."
Key spent nine of the past 10 years as Kent captain, with spinner James Tredwell leading the side in 2013.
Northeast came through Kent's academy and signed a new "long-term" contract at the St Lawrence Ground earlier this summer.
The right-hander, who has been vice-captain since late 2013, was named in the Professional Cricketers' Association's team of the year on Tuesday.
"The vice-captaincy role was massive for me," Northeast added.
"It helped me to get an insight of how the club is run and get a taste of it before taking it on fully.
"Rob and I have got a lot of similar ways in which we view the game. This winter is where I can put my own print on it.
"I will sit down with [director of cricket] Jimmy Adams, put our thoughts together and come up with a plan. We can start delivering on the talent we have got."
Kent finished seventh in Division Two of the Championship this summer, but reached the knockout stage of both limited-overs competitions, before losing in the quarter-finals.
She pulled it down and replaced it, telling fans she was "embarrassed" by the debacle - not least because her breakthrough hit, All About That Bass, lambasted magazines "working that Photoshop" on female models.
"I'm the poster child for no Photoshop!" she protested. "That is my thing!"
The incident highlighted double standards in the music industry, but also gave the 22-year-old a platform to promote her message of body positivity and self-empowerment.
"A friend said to me, 'You talk about things that people feel but they're too shy or embarrassed to admit, and you make us feel comfortable again,'" the singer tells the BBC.
It's a formula that won her the best newcomer award at this year's Grammys, while she continues to preach the message on her new album, Thank You.
Sipping water in a luxurious central London hotel, the singer talks about her whirlwind success, the vocal surgery that nearly derailed her career, and her ambition to appeal to audiences of all ages.
"I don't want just 13-year-olds coming to my show. I want 50-year-olds and all ages to enjoy the music."
Congratulations on winning the Grammy. How did you feel going up to get the trophy?
My heart felt like it was exploding. I felt like Cinderella. All my dreams were coming true.
You brought your dad along to the ceremony. What was his reaction?
He was bawling! He whispered in my ear, "you made it" - because that's the big joke we have. Everything I do, I'm like, "I made it, dad, I'm famous!"
Right now, you're ticking off everything on the pop star bucket list. What's the next "I made it" moment?
Just to keep doing it. If you do it once, that's amazing. But if you constantly do that and you have a career like Beyonce? I want to be one of those icon legends - but seen as an amazing songwriter.
I'd say you're a more relatable sort of pop star than Beyonce.
Yeah, she's up there. That's why, when I want to be remembered as a legend, I want the songwriting to be first. I want them to say: "She wrote about things I dealt with. Every age I was in, I related to that."
Do you have a role model for that?
Carole King. She wrote the same way.
How so?
When I write songs, I'll pick a topic but I don't get too specific. I don't say "he" or "she". I don't say "you" or "me". I avoid all that stuff so I can relate to everyone.
So I have a song, Thank You, that's to my fans. But I make sure that when you hear that, you can also be like, "I want to say thank you to my parents". That's a very hard thing for a songwriter to do.
You were signed as a writer before you became a performer. Did that feel like an endorsement of your skills?
I should have taken it like that. But I thought, "no-one sees me as the face of the song" and I was kind of sad about that.
But now, looking back, I can't believe I was in high school and these people wanted to pay me to write music. That's such an honour.
How do you start a song, with the melody or the lyrics?
Melodies are very easy for me. I can get that done in minutes. But the words, I had to learn how to craft them perfectly, and All About That Bass was the first time I was like, "every part of this is genius and I love it."
Is it true that the label released the demo of that song?
Yes! There's never been another version. There's no background vocals, no auto-tune. They were like, "put a stamp on it, it's good to go." It's very raw, very real. I think that's why it had its own lane on the radio.
Did you try to maintain that rawness on the new album?
Well, at first I started writing doo-wop again. I was like, "I've got this figured out, let's go!" and they were like, "No, Meghan, you're just doing what everyone expects you to do."
So I thought, what do I miss from the radio? And it was *NSync and Destiny's Child.
Did you have N*Sync posters in your bedroom?
I wasn't allowed to have a lot of posters because they kept ruining the paint. But I did have Hilary Duff on my wall. I loved Lizzie McGuire, that show.
The video for No is like a classic Britney clip - with a big dance number in a cavernous warehouse. Did you have fun making it?
Yeah! A lot of the treatments had me playing basketball, which didn't make any sense, so I started Googling old videos like [Janet Jackson's] Rhythm Nation and I was like, "I need something like this."
Was the choreography hard to learn?
Well, a lot of those dance moves are just me messing around. I'm not a professional dancer but my choreographer Charm [La'Donna] will go, "can you just freestyle for me?" And I'm like, "Oh my God, I hate this." And then we turn it into a routine.
You had to have surgery on your vocal cords last year. How is your voice now?
Before the surgery, you have to sign papers that say, "if you can't sing again it's not our fault." But my voice came back stronger. It's like starting from scratch. You get a clean slate. You get beautiful cords. So I was singing my butt off. I was doing riffs I've never done before. And you can hear from the last album to this one how much my voice improved.
Let's talk about the rest of the album… You've recorded a duet with your mum?
Yeah! I was brushing my teeth one day and I thought I had a million-dollar idea: "I need a mother's day card song." You know, when you open up the card and there's a cute little jingle? I was like, "Easy! How do I do that?" And I was brushing my teeth and I wrote the chorus.
But we didn't have a bridge and I said, "Yo, let's call my mom!"
So they put the microphone in front of me and I called her and put her on speaker. And I was like, "I love you. I miss you so much!" She instantly knew something was up. She was like, "Ooooh?! I love you too, honey... Are you ok?" Totally suspicious.
But they turned it into the most beautiful bridge. They made it sound like a movie scene.
It sounds like you're a very close family
They're really involved in everything I do. We'll even sit down and watch and critique my music videos. Right now, my dad's mad at me because this one ballad's not on the album. I'm like, "Dad, I have three ballads on the album. I can't just have slow songs."
What's the song?
It's called Remind Myself and it's a very soulful, beautiful song about remembering everything is good when I'm upset. Which is something I had to learn, because I've always been a worrier.
I played it for a woman in a hair salon who recently went through breast cancer and had to have a mastectomy, and she was just bawling. She said: "This is what I needed to hear."
I'd never met her before but this song related to her so personally that it showed me I can affect a lot of people I've never met before. I can change the world.
Meghan Trainor's album Thank You is out now on Epic Records.
The government fears too many teenagers have a false view of what constitutes rape, and are unaware of the risks of being raped by people their own age.
It is highlighting research suggesting that a third of teenage girls and about one in six boys have experienced some form of sexual violence from a partner.
The new campaign will include TV, cinema and online advertisements.
A 2009 survey by the children's charity NSPCC suggested that the highest proportion of sexual abuse experienced by teens (66%) was perpetrated by people under 18.
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, who is launching the campaign, said: "This hard-hitting campaign shows that rape is not just about violent attacks by strangers.
"We want to bring this issue out into the open and get young people talking about the importance of consent.
"The campaign will give teenagers the facts and support they need to recognise abuse and form healthy relationships."
One of the adverts - aimed at 13 to 18-year-olds - features a teenage girl being coerced into sex at a party.
The girl says "I don't want to", but the boy persists.
A double of the boy appears from behind an invisible wall, and the viewer is asked: "If you could see yourself, would you see rape?"
Jon Brown, head of the NSPCC's sexual abuse programme, said many young people misguidedly accepted rape or other sexual acts as part of a relationship and did nothing about it.
Research had shown as many as 250,000 teenage girls at any one time were suffering in this way but were too embarrassed or frightened to say anything about it, he added.
"They will report a sex assault if it's committed by an adult, but when another teenager carries out the offence the same alarm bells don't ring and they suffer in silence."
Holly Dustin, director of the End Violence Against Women Coalition, welcomed the campaign but said the Department for Education should be promoting it in schools, not just on Twitter and Facebook.
Lib Dem Equalities Minister Lynne Featherstone, who is launching the campaign alongside Mr Clegg, said: "This campaign aims to dispel the myths that can lead to acceptance of rape in relationships.
"Bringing the issue out in the open will help teenagers feel confident about challenging abuse when they see it and ultimately protect potential victims."
This latest push for greater awareness builds on the government's wider This is Abuse campaign which aims to help teenagers develop healthy relationships.
The paper shows a picture of local woman Kathleen McBride with the man himself.
Mrs McBride had the chance encounter with the football legend at Buckingham Palace where she received an MBE.
Becks told her he had enjoyed his time in Coleraine when playing in the Milk Cup.
Also in the paper, there's a row brewing up north between unionists.
The paper reports that DUP MP Gregory Campbell has urged Jim Allister to "see the wider picture" after the TUV leader lodged an uncompromising objection to a new north coast hotel development.
Mr Allister, who owns a home near the site, questioned the need for more hotel beds, however, Mr Campbell said the need was "unquestionable".
"Don't be a stinker," pleads the front page of the Antrim Guardian. Sound advice indeed, but, in the words of the late Cilla Black, what's it all about?
The paper says angry residents of the town have complained after "yet another local area fell foul of dog waste".
Residents of Brantwood Gardens in Antrim have said enough is enough and they are fed up with the amount of dog dirt in the area.
The council said it takes the issue of dog fouling seriously and enforcement action is ongoing. It said eight people have been hit with a fine this month.
Milkman are few and far between these days, but the paper has feature with a man who's lifted the lid on the job.
Retired milkman John Robinson, who now collects bottles from around the world, has let the paper in to some of the more bizarre experiences he's had.
Some of the more unusual notes he's had: "Dear milkman, money on the table, wife in bed, please help yourself" - what an offer.
Another gem is "Milkman, please do not leave any milk at number 14 as he is dead until further notice".
There's only one story in town in the The Newry Democrat.
Earlier this month, the Southern Health Trust announced the emergency service at Daisy Hill Hospital in Newry was unsustainable as it relied too heavily on locums.
"The writing's on the wall" - the paper warns. It quotes Jim Kerr, who was involved in trying to save the service.
He said he believes the permanent closure of the emergency department is a possibility as closures can be like a "house of cards".
Doh! The paper also reports on a woman from Dromore who is bringing Moe's Tavern from popular cartoon The Simpsons to the Emerald Isle.
Lisa McMahon's company is setting up an inflatable Moe's Tavern where punters can drink just like Homer, Lenny and Barney.
"Tragic road racer was living his dream" - The Portadown Times reports that the Italian motorbike rider who died after coming off his bike at at the Tandragee 100 at the weekend would be devastated if the race was scrapped for safety reasons.
Dario Cecconi sustained critical injuries in the last lap of the senior support race on Saturday.
Anne Forsyth, clerk of the course and a friend of Dario's said the 38-year-old loved the road race and was living his dream.
She added that it would be a "disservice to the riders if they didn't continue with it".
The paper also features a woman from Moyraverty who has been to the infamous island of Fernandos. Fans of the ITV dating show Take me Out will know just what this means.
Ciara DeCartaret, a former pupil of St Anthony's Primary School and Lismore Comprehensive School, went to the island with her date Daniel.
Sadly it was "no likey" for Ciara, but she doesn't regret the experience.
The Strabane Chronicle has a tribute to a local woman who died in a fatal road traffic accident on Monday.
Margaret McLaughlin, 69, was a passenger in a car returning from a bingo game with her husband Pat and was involved in a collision with a lorry.
Mrs McLaughlin's priest and friend Fr Michael Doherty described her as a "gentle woman". She had worked for the priest for 27 years as a housekeeper.
Also in the paper - there's an 83-year-old who's just run his 37th London Marathon.
Pensioner Ken Jones belongs to a group of people called the "Everpresents" who have run the marathon every year since it began.
"At my age you're always in doubt because you never know if you're going to be fit enough, but I'm already thinking about it next year," Ken told the paper.
The Impartial Reporter reports that young entrepreneurs from a Fermanagh primary school have produced a CD that "helps children to learn their times tables" with the help of the latest chart hits.
The pupils from Tattygar Primary School, Lisbellaw have put together the 'Times Tables CD' as part of their participation in the Junior Entrepreneur Programme (JEP).
One of manager Malachy O'Rourke's key players will be sidelined for 12 weeks with torn medial knee ligaments.
Hughes, 30, suffered the injury during a game for his club Scotstown at the weekend and scans on Wednesday confirmed the extent of the damage.
Monaghan, Ulster champions in 2013 and 2015, open this year's campaign against Fermanagh on Saturday 20 May.
Hughes told the Irish News he will be forced to undergo surgery if the injury fails to respond within the next four weeks, which would rule him out for the year.
"It's not the cruciate so I suppose that's kind of a bonus," he said.
"At the minute I don't need surgery - they were afraid of a full rupture but they don't think it is so. I've just to look after it and hopefully it'll heal well."
The winning number - 79140 - appeared on 1,600 tickets in the town, with each now worth €400,000.
Second-prize winners included ticket-holders in Seville and Granada.
El Gordo is the world's biggest Christmas lottery, and the live televised draw grips the nation.
As is customary, the winners' numbers, revealed on wooden balls, were sung by a group of children at Madrid's Royal Theatre.
The lottery has taken on special importance as Spain as it struggles with high unemployment and austerity measures.
The Almeria province was badly hit when the country's massive property boom turned sour.
Jose Juan Rodriguez, deputy mayor of Roquetas de Mar, told state-owned broadcaster RTVE that the windfall would be a huge boost to the town's economy.
The town has an unemployment rate of over 30% - higher than the national average of 21% - and tourism and agriculture are the main industries.
Unlike many other lotteries, there is no single jackpot in El Gordo. Instead the winnings are distributed among thousands of people.
People traditionally chip in together and buy shares of several or many tickets among friends, families or workmates in one of the most popular Christmas customs in Spain.
Organisers said they would be handing out a total of €2.2bn this year.
The second prize was worth a total of €1.25m and the third prize 500,000.
Charles Mumbere was arrested last month after a government raid on his palace in which more than 80 people died.
It is not clear whether the terrorism charges relate to the recent clashes or to existing charges he faced over the murder of a police officer in March.
The king denies any involvement in the violence.
Extra charges of aggravated robbery and attempted murder were also laid against him during the court hearing in the eastern town of Jinja, where he was remanded in custody until 28 December.
Twelve others, including royal guards and a witch-doctor, have also been charged.
They have not been asked to plead.
More than 100 people were arrested following the security forces' deadly raid on the king's palace last month.
The government has accused the Rwenzururu kingdom in Kasese district of recruiting and training militants that are seeking secession from the rest of Uganda to create their own republic, to be called Yira.
The region, which lies on the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo, has been plagued by clashes between the army and armed groups, which have claimed dozens of lives in recent months, including members of the armed forces and civilians.
Before becoming king, Mr Mumbere spent many years living in the US, where he worked in a Pennsylvania nursing home.
The two firms have signed a conditional deal for £47.5m in cash and £7.5m in shares.
The sale, should it go through, includes 99p Stores' network of 251 shops, which trade as 99p Stores and Family Bargains.
Discounters in the UK have been taking market share from supermarkets.
Over time, 99p Stores will be converted to Poundland shops, a spokeswoman for the firm said. The deal is subject to approval by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA).
The company floated in March 2014 at 300p per share.
Poundland shares closed 15.4% higher on Friday at 413p, valuing the company at £970m.
Chief executive Jim McCarthy said: "Poundland will improve choice, value and service for 99p Stores' customers, bringing Poundland's proven know-how and range to 99p Stores."
Since 1990, Poundland has opened almost 600 shops in the UK, Ireland and Spain, and plans to open 16 new shops per year for the next two years in the UK and Ireland.
It trades as Poundland in the UK, and Dealz in Ireland and Spain.
Independent retail analyst Nick Bubb said the deal would ease Poundland's effort to expand in the south of England.
"Having always said that it wasn't interested in buying out its aggressive but smaller rival 99p Stores ... as it came south, Poundland has decided that it is better to deal with the nuisance by pursuing a path of 'consolidation' and buying the company," he said.
Nevertheless, because of the way the chains overlap, Mr Bubb said the CMA could take up to two months to decide whether the takeover should be permitted.
He said Poundland's proposed £7.5m share sale, to fund the "relatively modest" £55m acquisition, will be "up in the air for some time" due to the CMA scrutiny.
In a research note, US bank Citi said 99p stores had sales of £370m in the year to February 2014, but that its underlying profits suggested "very thin" margins compared with Poundland.
In November, Poundland reported a 12% rise in half-year profits to £9.3m.
Analysis
BBC business correspondent Jonty Bloom
Pound shops face a continual struggle to keep prices down, after all, inflation means that a pound doesn't go as far as it did. So how do they do it?
Buying up stock from bankrupt companies was a very successful move during the downturn, but not so easy now. Also they search out products that have been redesigned, are coming to the end of their shelf life, and have been made for different markets where they didn't sell; they are all available at much lower prices.
And there are companies importing and making cheap jewellery, hair accessories, plastic flowers, toys, stationery and a thousand other things, all for under a pound. Many are made in Yiwu, a city in China that specialises in the pound shop market.
Other techniques include, continually reducing the size of products rather than raising the cost, so fewer biscuits in a packet or smaller shampoo bottles.
But the margins are still very tight as highlighted by the savings planned by Poundland, which is buying 99p Stores. Handing out all those 1p pieces will end and of course prices will rise by a penny.
According to the Fung Business Intelligence Centre (FBIC), pound shops have boomed in the UK, mirroring the rise of discounters such as Aldi and Lidl.
"The low-price, no-frills formula has found particular resonance in Britain's era of sluggish economic growth," said FBIC head of global retail and technology Deborah Weinswig.
Nina Rahmatallah, of marketing consultants Added Value, said that "consumer behaviours adopted during the downturn, such as shopping for cheap items at stores like Poundland, have stuck".
She said Poundland faced a challenge in "ensuring customers continue to shop there as the economy grows ever stronger".
More than 20 Kent bathing beaches were closed to swimmers after a failure at Southern Water's Foreness Point pumping station near Margate in June 2012 saw sewage discharged into the sea.
Prosecuted by the Environment Agency, Southern Water admitted two unauthorised releases of wastewater.
The firm apologised unreservedly after the Maidstone Crown Court hearing.
The Environment Agency said the pumping station failures led to prolonged discharges of untreated and partially-screened sewage, containing sanitary items and sewage-related debris, to the beach and sea.
Because of public health concerns, beaches were closed for nine days including over the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Bank Holiday weekend.
Southern Water said the incidents happened during heavy storms when station pumps became blocked with large amounts of unflushable items.
After heavy rain, the station became overwhelmed and emergency measures were taken to use outfall pipes to prevent flooding inland.
Environment Agency area manager Julie Foley said: "The failures to contain sewage resulted in risk to public health, polluted a considerable length of coastline, including numerous beaches, and resulted in a negative impact on Thanet."
She added: "Because of these very major pollution incidents, damage was caused to the reputation of Thanet's designated bathing waters, bays and 'Blue Flag' beaches."
The Environment Agency asked the sentencing judge to consider further illegal discharges into the sea in 2014, she said.
Southern Water director Simon Oates said £4m had been invested in the site since 2012 and the company had a £6m investment plan.
He said Thanet's beaches now consistently achieved excellent bathing water status and the company would continue to work "to ensure Thanet's bathing waters are clean now and in the future".
Thanet council's chief executive Madeline Homer said: "This is clearly a regrettable incident which impacted on the area and I am pleased that Southern Water has taken full responsibility for it."
It said the weakening had come "amid increasing financial turbulence and falling asset prices".
The IMF's report comes before the meeting of G20 finance ministers and central bank governors in Shanghai later this week.
It said China's slowdown was adding to global economic growth concerns.
China's economy, the second-biggest in the world, is growing at the slowest rate in 25 years.
"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.
"Adding to these headwinds are concerns about the global impact of China's transition to more balanced growth, along with signs of distress in other large emerging markets, including from falling commodity prices."
The IMF also noted any future prospects for global growth "could be derailed by market turbulence, the oil price crash and geopolitical conflicts".
The agency has called on the G20 group to plan new mechanisms to protect the most vulnerable countries.
Earlier this year, the IMF downgraded its forecast for global economic growth. It now expects economic activity to increase 3.4% this year followed by 3.6% in 2017.
A coroner has said Zane Gbangbola, of Chertsey, in Surrey, was killed in 2014 by carbon monoxide from a pump used to reduce flood levels at his house.
But Kye Gbangbola and Nicole Lawler dispute this, calling the conduct of the inquest unsatisfactory.
They promised to fight for "the truth".
But Spelthorne Borough Council, whose area includes Chertsey, said there was "no evidence" a leak of hydrogen cyanide from a former landfill site near the house had caused Zane's death, adding there was "no wider risk" to the public.
Shadow home secretary Andy Burnham has criticised the handling of the inquest into seven-year-old Zane's death, describing it as "seriously flawed".
In his parents' first interview since the verdict earlier this month, they told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme they intended to campaign for a full public inquiry into their son's death in February 2014.
Ms Lawler said: "We were disappointed but not surprised [at the verdict], given the conduct of the inquest.
"We had profound concerns over the content and the conduct, the way that anything to do with hydrogen cyanide was marginalised, anything to do with carbon monoxide was magnified.
"We weren't given the witnesses that we called for. We'd called for significant disclosures that weren't there."
Mr Gbangbola, who was paralysed from the waist down in the same incident in which Zane died, said people did not "die from low-level carbon monoxide exposure", adding: "They're not routinely being carried by air ambulance to hospital in cardiac arrest."
Hydrogen cyanide - the chemical the couple allege had leaked from a landfill site - had been "clearly indentified" at their home next to the Thames, he said.
Mr Gbangbola said: "What happened here was the authorities were not investigated, simply exonerated."
He added: "The way in which you would get to the truth is by conducting full investigations into the areas that are of concern to us and the first responders. That wasn't done.
"In controversial cases, you do need to have independent people coming along to find out and look at all of the evidence in a proper, orderly manner, and that hasn't happened."
Recording his verdict at an inquest in Woking, coroner Richard Travers said the cause of death was "carbon monoxide toxicity from fumes generated by a petrol pump used by his family to clear the house of floodwater".
Zane was found unconscious by his mother and pronounced dead an hour later in hospital.
Zane's father Kye Gbangbola, who had been working upstairs in another bedroom, was left paralysed.
Spelthorne Council said it had been "a long and harrowing process for Zane's parents" and that "we continue to offer our condolences to the family".
Surrey Police have said no criminal charges will be brought over the boy's death.
The Victoria Derbyshire programme is broadcast on weekdays between 09:00 and 11:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News channel.
Eight officers and 14 gunmen were killed in the fighting, Interior ministry spokesman Ivo Kotevski said.
Those named were members of the now dismantled Kosovo Liberation Army.
Mr Kotevski said the operation near the Serbian-Kosovan border was now over and the armed group had been "neutralised", with a large amount of weapons seized.
Last month, Macedonian police said about 40 ethnic Albanians from Kosovo briefly took over a police station in the village of Gosince near the border, demanding the creation of an Albanian state within Macedonia.
In 2001, rebels demanding greater rights for the ethnic Albanian minority launched an uprising against the government, and tensions have continued despite a peace deal.
About a quarter of Macedonia's two million population are ethnic Albanians.
Sami Ukshini, Beg Rizaj, Dem Shehu, Muhamet Krasniqi and Mirsad Ndrecaj were the leaders of the armed group that clashed with police in a suburb of Kumanovo, some 40km (25 miles) north of the capital, Skopje on Saturday, the interior ministry spokesman said.
Only one of the 14 uniformed bodies had been identified - that of another Kosovo national, named Xhafer Zymberi, said the spokesman.
"More than 30 terrorists, mainly Macedonian nationals and one from Albania, surrendered yesterday [Saturday] to the police forces," Mr Kotevski added.
He said 37 police officers were also wounded in the clashes.
Residents returning to the city are finding many of their homes damaged as a result of the fighting, one Reuters reporter at the scene says.
"It's total destruction. Thank God we're safe," Haki Ukshini said after finding his home largely destroyed.
The men who surrendered would face Macedonian justice, Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski said.
The group had tried to destabilise the country, he said, after paying tribute to the security forces.
His government is already under pressure over claims of illegal wire-tapping and police brutality.
The opposition and the government have accused each other of deliberately destabilising the country.
Nato Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said he was following the situation with "great concern" and urged all sides to "exercise restraint and avoid any further escalation, in the interest of the country and the whole region".
Earlier, the European Commission issued a similar call.
Macedonia, which is a candidate for European Union membership, is observing two days of mourning.
Terry, 31, was removed as captain pending his trial in July over alleged racial abuse of QPR's Anton Ferdinand.
Capello told Italy's state broadcaster RAI he "absolutely" does not agree with FA chairman David Bernstein's decision.
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"I thought it was right that Terry should keep the captain's armband," said the 65-year-old Italian.
"I have spoken to the [FA] chairman and I have said that in my opinion one cannot be punished until it is official and the court - a non-sport court, a civil court - had made a decision to decide if John Terry has done what he is accused of."
Capello indicated that he did not believe someone should be punished by sporting authorities before a court had reached a verdict.
Terry, who first lost the England captaincy in February 2010 following allegations about his private life, has entered a plea of not guilty to the charge.
Capello is free to select the Chelsea defender for the Netherlands friendly in February and the European Championship in the summer.
The FA declined to comment on Capello's remarks, but former chief executive David Davies said that they would not be a surprise to his bosses.
"My understanding is that when it was discussed with Fabio Capello, who last week was in Italy, he made it clear to the chairman of the FA that was his view," Davies told the BBC.
"Having said that, the reality is that the board of the FA had taken the decision that they had and life has gone on.
"He clearly wants to support John Terry, a guy who Fabio appointed twice to this very special job.
"He probably also wants to prevent John Terry walking away from international football altogether."
Capello, who became England coach in December 2007, is reportedly due at Wembley on Monday to speak to Bernstein.
The former Italy midfielder, who earns a £6m a year, is due to stand down when his contract runs out after Euro 2012.
Author Mark Ryan, who wrote a biography of Capello, told BBC Radio 5 live: "I think Capello is very angry.
"He is a proud man and he did not like having his authority undermined.
"He has gone out there and said if you are going to undermine my authority I am going to undermine yours. He has not long to go on his contract and he wants to make it quite clear he wants to go his own way.
"I think he will be talking to the Football Association in the days to come to try to thrash out some way forward together. If that does not happen already some talk of him joining Franco Baldini at Roma and there is further talk of Inter Milan."
Meanwhile, Capello must decide who takes over from Terry as captain, Anton's brother Rio Ferdinand having said that he does not want the role.
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Central defender Rio was briefly captain after Terry first lost the armband two years ago, but Capello turned back to the Chelsea captain in March 2011.
Italian football journalist Gabrielle Marcotti says there is confusion over the FA's position.
"This thing where you can play for your country but can't wear the captain's armband comes across as a bit of a fudge," he told the BBC.
Meanwhile, Manchester City goalkeeper Joe Hart, 24, is flattered to be linked with the captaincy, but feels there are more obvious candidates.
"There are a lot stronger candidates than me," he said. "I don't have a view on who should be captain. As long as I'm playing, I don't care."
The visitors began the day strongly as they enforced the follow-on after bowling Durham out for 208.
Keaton Jennings (41) and Stoneman (116 not out) started the second innings well, making Durham's first century partnership of the season.
Durham however lost wickets at key moments, as they ended the day on 244-4, trailing Yorkshire by 105 runs.
Resuming their first innings on 140-5, Scott Borthwick (54) and Ryan Pringle (69 not out) both made half-centuries to steady Durham.
The batsmen were unable to keep Yorkshire's bowlers out for long, with John Hastings falling to Tim Bresnan (3-40) first-ball.
Jack Brooks (2-59) claimed two wickets in one over, as Durham ended their first innings trailing Yorkshire by 349 runs.
Asked to follow-on, Stoneman and Jennings played sensibly in the heat to put on 116 for the first wicket.
Jennings and Borthwick (11) fell in quick succession, before Adil Rashid (2-81) had captain Paul Collingwood (20) caught at slip.
Despite narrowly avoiding being caught on 99, Stoneman played patiently for his century but his batting partners were unable to emulate his innings.
Durham now enter the final day knowing they will probably have to bat for the majority of three sessions to secure their position at the top of the County Championship table over Yorkshire.
Most councils have a camera trained on box junctions enabling them to enforce the traffic regulations.
One box junction in Fulham has earned the council £2.4m in Penalty Charge Notice (PCN) fines in 18 months.
The Institute of Highways Engineers (IHE) said high infringement suggested there was a wider traffic flow issue.
Hammersmith and Fulham Council has received £12m in fines from the Bagley's Lane box junction in seven years.
It said: "This is one of the busiest routes into London. Seven million drivers navigate the junction each year without breaking the rules and getting a ticket."
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Waltham Forest
£447,892 Kingston
£435,116 Hounslow
£372,945 Barnet
However, Richard Hayes from the IHE said: "Something is definitely wrong.
"Should there be a lot of infringement, then I think there is something wrong with the installation."
"The situation isn't the box junction - it's the traffic flow ahead of the box junction that is causing the problem," he added.
1.Read it carefully. Check the registration number of your vehicle, the location, date and time. If any of these are wrong you have grounds to appeal
2.Ask to see a video of the alleged contravention. Check another car did not cut in front of you and force you to stop in the yellow box
3.Write to the local authority with a full explanation of why you think the ticket is incorrect. Be courteous and professional
4.Include copies of any evidence. Do not send originals
5.If the council refuse your appeal you must either pay the fine or take your case to an independent adjudicator
Andrew Ashe, who has campaigned for better traffic management at Bagley's Lane said it was the "perfect money box".
"As the cars are coming through you will see one traffic light which is green, encouraging traffic into the box, and the other one is red, and then they are stuck."
The Highway Code rule 174 states: "You must not enter the box until your exit road or lane is clear."
The only exception is if you want to turn right, in that instance it allows you to enter the box and wait until there is a break in oncoming traffic to make your turn.
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Homerton High Street Homerton Fire Station - managed by TfL
£641,599 Berkley Street at Piccadilly, council managed
£524,830 London Road and Armfield Crescent, council managed
Mr Ashe said: "My big concern is that the councils are allowed to keep the money themselves, this means they are motivated not to make improvements, because it's leading to massive abuse."
In 2015 Transport for London earned £6.5m from its box junction fines. It said it was using enforcement appropriately and was "not just using them as some sort of cash cow".
20 February 2017 Last updated at 08:31 GMT
Four bands became three over the weekend and they will battle it out in Saturday's final.
Jonnie from Drive, Yazdan from Five to Five and Bradley from Nightfall spoke to Ayshah about what it's like watching themselves on TV and performing in front of a live crowd.
The actor missed the top 10 last year but has seen his earnings rocket to $55m (£41.6m) after starring in Jason Bourne and The Martian.
He was beaten by Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, who became the world's highest paid actor following appearances in San Andreas and Central Intelligence.
He earned $64.5m (£48.8m) between June 2015 and June 2016.
Forbes released its list of the highest-paid actresses earlier this week.
The figures take into account advances actors have already received for forthcoming movies.
For example, Johnson has already signed up for roles in the Baywatch movie adaptation and the eighth instalment of the Fast And The Furious franchise.
Last year's highest-paid actor, Iron Man star Robert Downey Jr, dropped to ninth place in the list with $33m (£25m) in earnings.
His only film to be released within the 12-month period was Captain America: Civil War, although he is also currently filming Spiderman: Homecoming.
Source: Forbes
Jackie Chan held on to second place in the list, having earned $61m (£46.2m) across the year.
Tom Cruise placed fourth with $53m (£40.1m), while Johnny Depp was ranked fifth with $48m (£36.4m).
The five highest-paid actors each earned more than the world's highest-paid actress, Jennifer Lawrence, who received $46m (£34.9m) over the same period.
Four Bollywood actors made the top 20, with Shah Rukh Khan highest placed at number eight after earning $33m (£25m).
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Communication with the craft as it passed over Australia was achieved again on Thursday, but not all of the commands prompted a response.
Phobos-Grunt was launched two weeks ago on a mission to visit one of Mars' moons, but became stuck in Earth orbit.
Engineers still hope to fix the probe and get the mission under way.
But first they need to be able to talk with it. Europe's 15m dish in Perth was the first to successfully make contact with the spacecraft in a fortnight of trying by tracking stations around the globe.
Esa modified the big antenna to widen its beam, and also reduced the power of the transmission to match the type of X-band signal Phobos-Grunt would have expected to receive nearer the Red Planet.
On Wednesday (Western Australia), those modifications prompted the probe to switch on its transmitter and send down some basic telemetry. On Thursday, a further five efforts were made to contact the spacecraft, with the first at 0420 local time (2020 GMT, Wednesday) also initiating a stream of data from Phobos-Grunt.
But the next four passes saw nothing come back down.
"The first Perth pass worked in both directions and even this time the signal strength was better than on the previous night, most likely because we had better pointing data," explained Dr Manfred Warhaut from Esa's European Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt, Germany.
"We've had some [information] we've now passed to the Russians. So, a glimpse of hope, but all this is a very, very challenging task," he told BBC News.
Phobos-Grunt moves very fast across the sky, giving an opportunity for communication that lasts little more than five minutes to upload commands and receive telemetry.
The situation is now being assessed by engineers at the probe's Russian manufacturer, NPO Lavochkin. Esa says it stands ready to help in any way, and will continue to work with Russian engineers and the Russian space agency (Roscosmos) as they try to diagnose the mission's problems and find a solution.
Phobos-Grunt may still have a short window in which to start its journey across space before a change in the alignment of the planets makes the distance to Mars too big to cross.
The probe was built to land on the larger of Mars' two moons, Phobos, and scoop up rock to bring back to Earth.
Such a venture should yield fascinating new insights into the origin of the 27km-wide object and the planet it circles.
The mission is also notable because China's first Mars satellite, Yinghuo-1, has been launched piggy-back on the main Russian spacecraft.
Even if the Mars opportunity is lost, if engineers can get the probe working properly it might still be possible to re-task it to visit a new target, such as an asteroid.
"Whatever happens, it's important that we at least try to understand what happened in order to avoid such a mishap occuring again in the future," commented Dr Warhaut. "This is why we do all this work."
Tags and slogans associated with Bristol City were found early on Thursday morning on the gates, which act as a war memorial for rugby players who lost their lives in World War I.
The Horfield stadium is used both by City's rivals Bristol Rovers and by Bristol Rugby.
Officials from both football clubs have condemned the attack and City fans are raising funds for a clean-up.
Kirsty Pugh, Bristol Rovers' press officer, said: "We were all very shocked and disgusted this morning.
"Graffiti of that style is bad enough but then to desecrate a war memorial, it oversteps the mark."
Colin Sexstone, chief executive of Bristol City football club, said: "I am sure all Bristol City fans will join me in condemning this senseless act of vandalism, which tarnishes the memory of those who laid their lives down for this country."
Fans of both clubs have used online forums to slam the graffiti and Bristol City Supporters Club have set up a fund to pay for it to be cleaned up.
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The negotiations will be held in the capital of Ecuador, Quito.
The talks follow the success of four years of negotiations with Colombia's largest rebel group, the Farc, which signed a peace accord in December.
President Juan Manuel Santos says he now wants to achieve "complete peace" in Colombia.
The talks are going ahead after the rebels agreed to free a former congressman it had been holding as hostage.
ELN peace talks: What are the challenges?
The ELN, or National Liberation Army, is Colombia's second largest rebel group.
On Monday, it released a soldier it had been holding hostage for two weeks.
The soldier, Freddy Moreno, was handed over to delegates from the International Committee of the Red Cross in Arauca province.
The talks were due to begin at the end of October. But they were delayed as the government refused to go sit down for formal negotiations while the rebels still held Odin Sanchez, a former congressman.
Mr Sanchez was released last Thursday, after 10 months in captivity.
The rebels had demanded that in exchange the government pardoned two of its members serving time in Colombian jails.
The two sides struck a deal and the two ELN members were released on Saturday.
The two who have been released are expected to serve as rebel negotiators at the peace talks in the Ecuadorean capital, Quito.
The ELN was founded in 1964 with the stated aim of fighting Colombia's unequal distribution of land and riches, inspired by the Cuban revolution of 1959
The government reached a peace agreement with Colombia's largest rebel group, the Farc, in December, after four years of negotiations in the Cuban capital, Havana.
Members of the Farc have been gathering in "transition zones", where they are to demobilise and lay down their weapons under the supervision of United Nations monitors.
The last of the Farc rebels are expected to reach the designated demobilisation areas by Wednesday, government officials said.
The Manxman slipped 26 seconds behind Dimension Data team-mate Edvald Boasson Hagen on Wednesday's third stage.
But the Norwegian punctured 8km from the end of the 189km fourth stage to drop to fifth, 19 seconds off the lead.
His compatriot Alexander Kristoff won Thursday's stage to climb into fourth place, nine seconds behind Cavendish.
Kristoff beat Belgian Greg van Avermaet - who is second overall - in a sprint finish, with 2013 winner Cavendish fifth in a reduced bunch.
Intermediate and finish-line time bonuses are available on the final stage, and could yet determine the overall outcome.
Stage four result: (Al Zubarah Fort-Madinat Al Shamal, 189km):
1 Alexander Kristoff (Nor) Katusha 3hrs 57mins 12secs
2 Greg van Avermaet (Bel) BMC same time
3 Jacopo Guarnieri (Ita) Katusha same time
4 Sam Bennett (Ire) Bora Argon 18 same time
5 Mark Cavendish (GB) Dimension Data same time
6 Manuel Quinziato (Ita) BMC same time
7 Viacheslav Kuznetsov (Rus) Katusha +6secs
8 Soren Kragh Andersen (Den) Giant-Alpecin +8secs
9 Moreno Hofland (Ned) LottoNL-Jumbo +9secs
10 Michael Morkov (Den) Katusha same time
Leading overall classification after stage four
1 Mark Cavendish (GB) Dimension Data 10hrs 51mins 13secs
2 Greg van Avermaet (Bel) BMC +2secs
3 Manuel Quinziato (Ita) BMC +6secs
4 Alexander Kristoff (Nor) Katusha +9secs
5 Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor) Dimension Data +19secs
6 Soren Kragh Andersen (Den) Giant-Alpecin +30secs
7 Sam Bennett (Irl) Bora Argon 18 +41secs
8 Sven Erik Bystrom (Nor) Katusha +49secs
9 Viacheslav Kuznetsov (Rus) Katusha +50secs
10 Michael Schar (Swi) BMC +58secs
The real-time monster-hunting game has become wildly popular since its UK release on 14 July.
One post by Police Scotland's Stirling division, saying someone found on a shop roof used the game as an excuse, got over 7,000 retweets in 24 hours.
Police Scotland confirmed that the tweet was a joke.
The official police accounts have become known for posting cheeky humour amongst police updates.
The Twitter account covering Glasgow North used the Pokemon slogan 'gotta catch 'em all' to refer to the apprehension of four people.
The phrase 'Pokemon Go' has now been tweeted over 15 million times across the world
The game, which comes in the form of a mobile app, combines reality with gaming and requires players to walk around outside to find Pokemon.
Scottish Fire and Rescue Service also used the trend to encourage people to test their fire alarms.
Jokes aside, Ayrshire Police Division relayed a safety message to those taking part in the gaming craze.
The 20-year-old centre-back is yet to make his debut for the Blues but has been a regular for the club's under-21 side over the last two seasons.
"Dion has to force his way into the side but this move will be good for his development," Shots manager Garry Waddock said.
"The physical demands of the league will be a learning curve for him."
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In a speech to business leaders on Monday, Tony Hall urged changes to the way the broadcaster is regulated.
He wants licence fee payers to have a greater say than politicians.
Lord Hall said there has been a "major change" over the past 20 years which has made the foundations of the BBC's independence "weaker". The government has yet to comment.
"When I was working in news and current affairs in the '90s, the independence of the BBC was protected by a set of quiet customs and traditions," he said.
"Back then it was Willie Whitelaw who'd provided us with the certainty of a 15-year Charter, underpinning our independence by allowing us stability through the political cycle.
"When I returned to the BBC as director general, I was struck by a major change. The foundations of the BBC's independence had become weaker. The traditions and informal arrangements which protected it had been eroded."
He cited the decision to fund government programmes such as digital switchover, rural broadband and local TV as examples of how the licence fee should not have been used.
He also suggested recent licence fee settlements have been decided behind closed doors without a "full process".
Future licence fee negotiations should, he said, be made with the input of licence fee payers possibly by an online vote.
The speech to the Cardiff Business Club comes in the midst of negotiations for the corporation's next 10-year charter.
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport is reviewing the size and scope of the BBC and what sort of programming the corporation should provide. One key part of the process is deciding who should oversee and regulate the corporation.
The current system, a BBC Trust, is both a watchdog and also the decision-making body controlling the size and strategy of the corporation.
Lord Hall, echoing the current BBC chairman, Rona Fairhead, said the roles should be split and the BBC should for the first time have an external regulator.
He also said the new BBC Charter should not say what programmes the BBC should be allowed to make nor should they be told to back away from output or ventures deemed to be too promising or popular.
"If, having cut our money, the charter also cuts our creative freedom to reinvent our services, or our commercial freedom to make up the shortfall... Letting this happen would not just have unintended consequences for the BBC, but for the UK's creative economy as a whole.
"Some might think, for example, that a call for us to focus only on content sounds reasonable. But 10 years ago that kind of prescriptive regulation would have prevented the BBC from investing in Freeview or creating the iPlayer. And it would have meant none of the ripple effects of that investment, which helped to create a new market for video-on-demand and benefit all players."
And he added that the suggestion, made by some, that the BBC should renew its charter every five years would be a "sword of Damocles" in which the BBC's existence could be threatened at every election.
Instead, he called for the charter period to be extended to 11 years, which would take it out of the electoral cycle and that any changes to the system should only be changed in Parliament with a two thirds majority and a vote by licence fee payers.
The 34-year-old centre-back rejoined the Gunners from Lincoln Ladies in January 2014, having previously played for Arsenal between 1999 and 2002.
She helped the north London side win the FA Women's Cup in 2014 and 2016, and the Continental Cup in 2015.
Stoney scored one goal in 18 appearances in Women's Super League One this year.
Arsenal finished third in the table after winning 5-3 at Liverpool on Sunday.
"I'm sorry I never got the chance to say goodbye" tweeted Stoney, who was appointed an MBE in 2015. "But I would like to say a big thank you to my team-mates and all the amazing fans for all your support.
"Looking forward to my next chapter."
Oxford's town crier Anthony Church had claimed he was a "regimental sergeant major" and wore a Falklands medal.
Mr Church, 63, said he had been "very stupid" and apologised to genuine members of the armed forces.
He has resigned from his position as Oxford town crier and from the same role in five other places.
Mr Church, 63, whose voice could reach 118 decibels, had attended town crying events around the country and even appeared on television making bogus claims about his background.
But allegations he had fabricated his military career surfaced on the internet on Sunday.
He told BBC Radio Oxford: "When I became town crier, when people questioned me about my background I stupidly told them I am an ex-serviceman... that is absolutely not true. I have never served in the military."
Mr Church admitted buying medals to wear but said the British Empire Medal he donned had belonged to his father, an RAF pilot
He added: "It was very stupid and I categorically now apologise to everybody who has served in the forces. It was never my intention to cause any distress or upset.
"I made a mistake, I told someone I'd served and it's been going on from there. I can't apologise enough for the hurt and distress it has probably caused people."
He added that he was "absolutely distraught".
"How can I stand on a street corner and have people come up to me? People will probably feel, with hindsight, that I have misled them," he said.
As well as standing down from the Oxford job, Mr Church has resigned as town crier for Wallingford, Chipping Norton, Banbury, Daventry and Thame.
Banbury Town Council chairman Kieran Mallon said his actions were "disgraceful".
"To wear medals and decorations you are not entitled to is morally wrong and disrespectful to those who served," he said.
Helen Stewart, town clerk of Thame, said she had accepted the resignation of Mr Church, whom she described as "well liked and jovial".
"It's very unfortunate. We can't understand what compelled him, but the consequences will have a significant effect on him and his future," she said.
Goals from Mohamed Salah and Abdallah Saied gave the Pharaohs the victory.
The result means Egypt are two points clear at the top of Group E.
Ghana are already in danger with just one point so far, but with four more qualifiers to come.
Egypt's first goal came from the penalty spot after Black Stars defender Harrison Afful brought down Mohamed Trezeguet two minutes before the break.
Roma's in-form winger, Salah, struck his spot-kick firmly into the middle of the goal to put his side ahead.
Salah had also come close after 25 minutes with an effort from close range but Ghana came back strongly after half-time, with Egypt's 43-year-old goalkeeper Essam Al Hadari making key saves from Christian Atsu just after the hour mark and Emmanuel Agyemang Badu in the 79th minute.
Saied then scored on the counter attack with five minutes to go to ensure the victory as Egypt bid for a first World Cup spot since 1990.
In the play-off for a place at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, Ghana hammered Egypt over two legs to qualify for a third successive finals appearance.
Uganda are second in the group, two points behind Egypt, following their 1-0 win over Congo Brazzaville in Kampala on Saturday.
Democratic Republic of Congo regained first place in Group A on goal difference from Tunisia after a 2-1 comeback victory over Guinea in Conakry.
The match was won through two goals in quick succession during the second half from England-based attackers.
Neeskens Kebano from second-tier club Fulham equalised on 54 minutes and Everton's Yannick Bolasie snatched the winner two minutes later.
Seydouba Soumah had raised Guinean hopes of a first group win by converting a 23rd-minute penalty.
DR Congo and Tunisia have six points each and Guinea and Libya are pointless in the only group where two teams have won both their opening two matches.
Only the five group winners will qualify to represent Africa at the 2018 World Cup in Russia.
It will fund new excavations, marine mapping and landscape modelling at the islands off Pembrokeshire and the Llyn Peninsula in Gwynedd.
The research aims to help safeguard the sites from the risk of climate change and minimise the impact on local economies.
Sites in Ireland will also benefit.
The five-year EU-funded project will also support plans for future climate change management and look at the longer-term changes to Wales and Ireland's coasts.
It will also provide training to encourage the development of tourism opportunities in both areas.
The project will be led by the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, along with Aberystwyth University, the Discovery Programme: Centre for Archaeology and Innovation Ireland and Geological Survey, Ireland.
Exclusive footage and testimony from the east of Iraq's second city, recaptured in January, reveals how the extremist group persecuted women and religious minorities and tried to control all aspects of people's lives.
However, the videos also show how schools and cafes are reopening and shops restocking with previously banned products.
Journalist Ghadi Sary captured the scenes after returning to the city three years after exposing the brutality of life under IS in secretly-filmed videos for the BBC.
While Iraqi security forces have reclaimed most of Mosul, part of the west remains under IS control.
WARNING: This article contains disturbing details about violent acts.
The videos, filmed in March on mobile phones, show how some aspects of women's lives are returning to normal, with shops starting to sell clothes and cosmetics once again. However, women living in the city describe how the legacy of IS rule remains.
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Maha, 36, Al Zuhour neighbourhood: I will never forget that awful day and what happened to a little seven-year-old on our street.
The girl had come down to the small neighbourhood shop to buy some sweets when IS militants approached her.
The girl, chatting innocently to the old shop owner, was asked by the militants where her home was. She pointed it out before running and hiding.
Her parents come to see what was going on and the IS fighters lectured them about how their daughter was violating Sharia law by being alone with the seller.
Even this innocent young girl was not allowed to enjoy her childhood and go and buy sweets.
Mosul from above: 360 aerial view
Mosul: The story so far
After a long debate, the fighters decided the girl's punishment was to be bitten or pinched in her face or on her hands by the women of the Hisba [the religious police], or the more adequately described "monsters of Hisba".
The terrified mother begged them to punish her instead of her young daughter but there is no room for discussion with IS.
The child was punished in front of her screaming mother. The monsters aggressively and repeatedly beat her and pinched her.
The child was screaming until she passed out and her heart stopped.
The wailing mother completely lost her mind when she saw her child die in front of her.
The whole neighbourhood went mad in fear for our children after that day.
Reem, 27, Al-hadbaa neighbourhood: My father was quite protective of us growing up, and during the two-and-a-half years of IS rule, he worried about where we were, so we were homebound for most of the time.
It felt like living in prison all this time, and our outings we extremely rare.
Once, I was walking down the street when I started stumbling because of the way our faces were constantly covered by black fabric.
IS fighters saw me and started following me. This only made me run faster and stumble even more - like a prisoner escaping some death sentence.
I managed to make it home that day, but that feeling never left me.
I constantly have nightmares about being followed by those men, and I wake up completely terrified and exhausted.
Even after liberation I still have those nightmares.
Our lives under IS were empty and boring as we were locked in our homes. They shut down our universities and wrote on the front door: "A woman's kingdom is her home".
Unnamed female resident: Schools, universities and education in general were the biggest losers of the dark rule of IS. Most of those institutions were shut down, and education under IS was focused on teaching jihad and combat techniques. Women and men were separated and women were told to completely cover up.
Women suffered the most under IS as many had chosen to stay at home throughout all the years they had been controlling our city. The city itself was one large prison.
Life for the city's residents was changed beyond recognition under IS. Footage reveals how the city's closed university was badly damaged. However, residents are trying to restart classes.
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Hussein, 30, Al-Andalus neighbourhood: A year-and-a-half into the control of IS, they decided to ban satellite dishes.
My father worried we would be severely punished if we were caught in possession of one at our home, so we had to remove it.
But after several weeks of staying at home under almost total lockdown - we were left jobless and without any university or other activity since IS had taken over - we eventually grew bored and decided to set it up again.
We did it in a way that was not obvious to those looking in from the street, by locating it on the roof behind some water tanks.
A few days later, we heard loud knocking and yelling on our street and we knew the Hisba [religious police] had come, so I ran upstairs to dismantle the dish.
As soon as I peeked my head out, I heard a voice shout, "Come down we saw you", and I realised they had agents peering in from higher rooftops.
At that point some men knocked on our door and started dragging my father outside.
I ran quickly and pushed them off. As a result, I was taken away along with many men from my neighbourhood.
I was then locked up for nine sleepless nights. We rotated between standing and sitting in our overcrowded cell.
I was then put in front of a judge who was younger than I was and clearly couldn't read or write. He sentenced me to be flogged 60 times.
They asked me which part of my body I would choose, but I didn't understand the difference, so I said the upper part.
They tied me down and started flogging the upper part of my body.
Every time I screamed in pain they would start again from zero. It felt like an eternity until my ordeal ended. I felt my life was ending I was in so much pain.
Tamarra, 25, English literature graduate: My father works for Iraqi intelligence and the last two years have been spent in full-on psychological war with IS.
When we didn't leave Mosul, we started hiding within the city and my father was arrested on nine separate occasions.
The first time they took him away for three days, which felt like three years.
He was told by a judge that he was going to be put before a "blood judge" [an IS executioner], but they subjected him to immense torture and then released him.
We were so happy when he was released. All was over, my dad was standing amongst us again.
But they [IS militants] were back within days, and the disappointment returned as we lived another three nights of horror.
At that time, we were all showing signs of depression.
Our house was looted by IS and then it was bombed by international coalition air strikes. We had to move to the top floor of my uncle's neighbouring house.
A few days later the door bell rang again, and when my young cousin Ahmed went to open the door, IS fighters grabbed him and asked him about my father's whereabouts.
Ahmed told them he wasn't there, but they beat him up and climbed up the stairs to where we were.
They threw my dad on the ground. The female religious police were cursing at us, even at my poor old grandmother in her wheelchair.
One of the women in the religious police was being really violent to my grandmother. She strip-searched her and left her without clothes.
They then took my father away.
It has been months since I laid eyes on him. I have cried till my tears ran dry.
The day that my father was longing for has happened. We were liberated, but he wasn't there to witness it.
Ahmad, 28, Al-Arabi neighbourhood: I stopped going out. I was sick of seeing people punished all the time by IS.
They made a point of rallying everyone whenever someone was punished, beaten or even beheaded.
People were accused of all sorts of crimes - adultery, conspiring with security forces and other excuses they used to subdue people.
I was already out of work by that point so I decided to stay at home.
But only two days later the power went off and the neighbourhood back-up generator failed to kick in.
I figured the guy in charge had forgotten to switch it on, so I decided to go and check it out.
As I was leaving, my eight-year-old nephew decided to come along. He was also stuck at home because his school was closed. We didn't want him learning in the IS-controlled schools.
As we approached the generator, I noticed many people had gathered around it, but I quickly spotted the IS fighters there too.
They had forced the generator owner to shut it off, just so that people would come out and gather around and watch their heinous crimes.
I regretted coming out that day and I blame myself for allowing my nephew to be exposed to the awful scenes that I know he will never forget.
IS imposed strict controls over economic activity during their three-year rule. One grocery shop owner describes how he had to cover up faces and flags on products while the militants were in charge. Residents say images on baby milk and nappies also had to be hidden.
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Unnamed female resident: Trade was very difficult under their rule, as IS increasingly gave traders a hard time and set impossible rules for them to follow.
IS enforcers would set the type of goods traders were allowed to sell. The first thing they did was to ban the import of beef and chicken and forced everyone to rely on local produce.
They also forbid men from trading in women's cosmetics and accessories. Those caught breaking that rule were flogged and fined.
They also ensured that any wrappers that featured a man or a woman's face were covered. It was the same with pictures showing women's hair or babies. Even baby milk and nappies had to be covered up because of that.
When news of the "battle of liberation" was announced, IS fighters were confused, and they intensified their harassment of people by raising prices and issuing tough rules.
They even banned satellite dishes and started publishing their own audiovisual publications through their own channels.
They were spreading rumours about their victories and their so called "conquest" of liberated cities. They were going door-to-door searching for mobile phones and having one was punishable by death.
Churches and mosques have been destroyed by IS, as well as people's homes. Residents have spoken about how empty houses were looted - especially those belonging to Christians.
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Hamza, 32, Al-Jazaera street: After IS entered the city, they raided churches and some mosques and looted whatever they found in them.
They used the furniture from some of the churches at some of their so-called media points, where they disseminated their propaganda.
IS militants were looking all across town for empty houses to loot and where they could confiscate belongings, especially the houses of Christians who had fled the city.
They also looted the houses of Muslims who had fled calling them apostates and seized their property.
People tried to protect these houses by lodging members of their own family in them and pretending the houses were still occupied.
One of my neighbours was given the key to his Christian friend's house before he fled town.
One day, armed men showed up to confiscate the house, so my neighbour told them that this house is under his protection and safekeeping, and that if they [IS] respected the Prophet, they should respect the concept of protection.
They let him be that day, but they kept coming back. Once they took him away to be flogged but he never yielded.
He eventually convinced them he had bought the house for his son, and he kept it until the liberation, when he handed the key back to his friend who came to check on his house.
Note: names have been changed to protect people's identities
Satellite maps: Google
IS territory data for maps: IHS
Video production and editing: Olivia Lang
Web production: Lucy Rodgers, Zoe Bartholomew, Steven Connor
Only the driver is still being treated for shoulder and rib injuries, a spokesman for the Confederation of Passenger Transport (CPT) said.
The crash happened just before 10:00 BST close to junction 13 for Stroud.
A spokesperson for Action for Children, which chartered the coach, said 25 children aged between 11 months and eight years had been on board.
Christopher Nice from the CPT, which represents operators of UK buses, said: "All the passengers were discharged last night and the coach company was able to transfer them back to West Bromwich.
"The only person who remains in hospital is the driver who has sustained some shoulder and rib injuries, although they are not believed to be too serious."
Mr Nice said the vehicle would be checked by the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency "to see if there were any problems".
He added the coach driver was due to be interviewed to try to find out what led to it overturning and ending up in a ditch.
The coach, carrying 53 people, had been taking a group of youngsters from a children's centre in Sandwell on a trip to the beach in Weston-super-Mare.
It was operated by Stourbridge-based Prospect Coaches. Five adults and one child were injured.
The southbound carriageway of the motorway was closed for several hours after the crash.
Barinder Kaur, who was on board with her two children, said people "started screaming" before the coach left the road.
"The coach started to shake then it just turned over. My eyes were closed. I hit something and when I opened my eyes there was broken glass and blood everywhere."
A Gloucestershire Police spokesman said an investigation was continuing.
They brave the elements 24 hours a day to protect the memorial from nationalists who have vandalised it, denouncing the opposition politician as a traitor.
The pictures and candles have also been swept away by city cleaners in the dead of night after police detained those standing guard.
"They're still battling Nemtsov after his death," Nadir said this week, brushing snow from bunches of flowers with a paint brush.
"But it's no use," the activist believes. "People just bring more flowers, more photos and more icons."
Boris Nemtsov was shot in the back as he walked home late at night last 27 February in a killing that shocked Russia.
His political allies believe it was meant to terrify them into silence.
A former deputy prime minister once mooted as a successor to President Yeltsin, Mr Nemtsov was a reformer and a democrat who became fiercely critical of Vladimir Putin.
On what was to be his last night alive he had been at the liberal radio station Ekho Moskvy, calling on listeners to join a protest rally that weekend.
In typically feisty form, he accused Russia's president of launching an illegal war with Ukraine, prompting Western sanctions and an economic crisis.
Certain that his murder was politically motivated, Boris Nemtsov's family and friends argue the official investigation does not dig deep enough.
Five men from Chechnya were captured quickly and face trial later this year as the suspected contract killers.
"But what about those who organised the murder and promised the money?" the lawyer for Boris Nemtsov's family, Vadim Prokhorov, wants to know.
The accused have ties to people in the inner circle of Chechnya's strongman leader, Ramzan Kadyrov, and the lawyer wants them questioned.
Instead, investigators have identified the driver of an interior ministry battalion deputy commander as the supposed mastermind of the murder - but he has vanished without trace.
His supposed motive and access to funds are unclear.
"It means real steps to the inner circle of Ramzan Kadyrov were blocked," Mr Prokhorov argues, fearing a cover-up.
The Chechen leader himself has denied any link to the killing, suggesting Mr Nemtsov's allies look closer to home.
Meanwhile, the self-declared "loyal foot soldier" of President Putin has taken to social media to denounce Kremlin critics as jackals and traitors.
In January, Mr Kadyrov posted a video of one of Boris Nemtsov's closest allies in the sights of a gun. The target, Mikhail Kasyanov, took it as a direct death threat.
Not long after, a man slammed a cake into his face in a restaurant yelling that he was the "shame of Russia".
"There are a lot of changes [since Nemtsov died]. But all to the worse. The threats are growing," Mr Kasyanov told the BBC, linking the rising tensions to the approach of parliamentary elections in autumn.
"The problems in the economy help people see Russia is heading in the wrong direction.
"That's why the authorities are so nervous and angry, and encourage these hooligans to prevent our activity," he argues.
Earlier this month, Mikhail Kasyanov was forced to break off a campaigning trip to Nizhny Novgorod after he says his colleagues were attacked and threatened.
The next day, nationalist groups rallied outside the hotel where he was due to appear.
"Go to the USA or Brussels. That's where they pay you!" a bearded speaker urged Mr Kasyanov, addressing the small, flag-wielding crowd.
Other slogans called for ideological enemies to be purged and the crowd chanted 1-9-3-7, the year that Stalin's Great Terror reached its height.
"We are sure the West wants a revolution here but we won't let it happen," one speaker insisted. "Our country backs Vladimir Putin!"
"Of course I'm worried," Mikhail Kasyanov admitted, after his early return to Moscow. "People don't feel secure at all."
Whoever pulled the trigger, or paid for his murder, Boris Nemtsov's supporters also blame the climate of hate they say has built up here.
They date its roots to Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea and the patriotic fervour whipped up in its wake. Critics of that policy were viewed as traitors.
Zhanna Nemtsova remembers warning her father that it was a dangerous moment.
"I told him we probably should leave and he said we should wait. He was very optimistic," the politician's daughter recalls.
"He told me one day he could be in prison, he was ready for that. But he wasn't ready for death at all," she added.
Three months after her father's murder, Zhanna left Russia for her own safety. She has now begun her own battle from abroad, for justice.
"I think I owe it to my father, I think it's my mission to have this investigation and I think it's important for Russia," Zhanna told the BBC.
"Because if there is no resistance, then these awful things will go on."
Yevi Ilangakoon - originally from Sri Lanka but living in Whitstable - was diagnosed with myelofibrosis in 2009.
The condition causes scar tissue to develop in the bone marrow, affecting its ability to make healthy blood.
Mr Ilangakoon's "only hope" is a bone marrow transplant but despite searching worldwide registers, his medical team have been unable to find a 100% match.
He said: "I can manage to go on like this for a few more years just on medication but with a stem cell transplant there is a 55% chance that within three to five years I would be cured 100%."
The rare condition - which can progress into leukaemia - only affects about 1 in every 100,000 people.
The family's plight has attracted the attention of Sri Lankan cricketer Mahela Jayawardena, who helped to raise awareness on social media - but they have still had no luck.
Mr Ilangakoon's son, Yovaan, said this was mainly due to the South Asian community being under-represented on bone marrow registers.
He added: "From the entire register only 4% are from a South Asian background and only 3% are from an Afro-Caribbean background.
"It doesn't mean to say that any other background can't be a match for my dad or anybody else but the tissue type is more likely to be from a South Asian background."
Mr Ilangakoon said a recent bone marrow biopsy showed his condition had progressed and was "very aggressive".
His wife Andrea added: "He is losing weight quite rapidly at the moment which means now it is imperative he finds a donor."
Sarah Rogers of the Anthony Nolan charity added: "At the moment we find a perfect match for about 60% of Northern European patients who need a transplant, but that drops to around 20% for any patient of ethnic minority."
With the situation becoming increasingly desperate, Yovaan Ilangakoon is appealing for people to sign up as donors online.
He said: "Donating your stem cells is as simple as donating blood."
The ozone hole that appears annually over Antarctica has also stopped growing bigger every year.
The report says it will take a decade before the hole starts to shrink.
Scientists say the recovery is entirely due to political determination to phase out the man-made CFC gases destroying ozone.
The study was published by researchers from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the UN Environment Programme (UNEP).
"International action on the ozone layer is a major environmental success story... This should encourage us to display the same level of urgency and unity to tackle the even greater challenge of tackling climate change," said WMO Secretary-General Michel Jarraud.
Dr Ken Jucks from the US space agency Nasa told BBC News that humans "have started to do the right thing in order to convert the atmosphere back towards what it was before the industrial revolution started".
Scientists cannot be absolutely certain yet that the hole will heal itself. Prof David Vaughan from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) said that test results from his organisation would throw extra light on the WMO's findings.
"We have to be a bit cautious, but this does look on the face of it like some very good news," he told BBC News. "Our own data from the Antarctic will take a few weeks to process but we hope to confirm the findings. If it's accurate, it underlines the potential power of international agreement."
The good news on ozone comes in the wake of bad news on the gases fuelling climate change. The WMO said this week that atmospheric greenhouse gases had reached a record high.
Tackling a gas like carbon dioxide (CO2) which is central to so many facets of human life is of a completely different order to reducing a few chemicals for which substitutes can be found.
The 1987 Montreal Protocol that banned or phased out ozone-eating depleting chemicals, including chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) once widely used in refrigerators and spray cans, would prevent two million cases of skin cancer annually by 2030, according to UNEP.
It would also help prevent damage to wildlife, agriculture, peoples' eyes and immune systems, the agency added.
The WMO say ozone should recover towards its 1980 level by mid-century, or slightly later for Antarctica, where it gets dangerously thin every year between mid-August and November or December.
It says progress could be improved by as much as 11 years if existing stocks of ozone-depleting substances - many of them stored up in old fridges and fire-extinguishers - were destroyed.
Cpl Joshua Hoole, 26, of Ecclefechan, near Lockerbie, died on 19 July while training for the Platoon Sergeants' Battle Course at an infantry training centre.
Dyfed-Powys Police investigated the death of Cpl Hoole, who collapsed after finishing an eight-mile (13km) course.
He was a member of the Rifles regiment at ITC Catterick.
His grandfather, John Craig, told BBC Wales the family had been informed by officers of the conclusion it was natural causes.
He died on what was the hottest day of the year so far, when temperatures in the Brecon area peaked at just above 30C (86F).
Shortly after he died, Morag Craig, his aunt, described him as "absolutely fantastic" and with a "heart of gold".
Cpl Hoole, who was due to get married and be the best man at his brother's wedding, was described by his grandfather, John Craig, as a "beautiful grandson" and a "super fit boy".
Maj Dean Murch, officer commanding The Rifles, 1st infantry training battalion, said at the time his colleagues were "utterly devastated", and his family had "lost a son, a brother, a fiancé and a very special friend".
Police have referred the matter to the Powys coroner.
Researchers have found evidence for a landmass that would have existed between 2,000 and 85 million years ago.
The strip of land, which scientists have called Mauritia, eventually fragmented and vanished beneath the waves as the modern world started to take shape.
The study is published in the journal Nature Geoscience.
Supercontinent
Until about 750 million years ago, the Earth's landmass was gathered into a vast single continent called Rodinia.
And although they are now separated by thousands of kilometres of ocean, India was once located next to Madagascar.
Now researchers believe they have found evidence of a sliver of continent - known as a microcontinent - that was once tucked between the two.
The team came to this conclusion after studying grains of sand from the beaches of Mauritius.
While the grains dated back to a volcanic eruption that happened about nine million years ago, they contained minerals that were much older.
Professor Trond Torsvik, from the University of Oslo, Norway, said: "We found zircons that we extracted from the beach sands, and these are something you typically find in a continental crust. They are very old in age."
The zircon dated to between 1,970 and 600 million years ago, and the team concluded that they were remnants of ancient land that had been dragged up to the surface of the island during a volcanic eruption.
Prof Torsvik said that he believed pieces of Mauritia could be found about 10km down beneath Mauritius and under a swathe of the Indian Ocean.
It would have spanned millions years of history, from the Precambrian Era when land was barren and devoid of life to the age when dinosaurs roamed the Earth.
But about 85m years ago, as India started to drift away from Madagascar towards its current location, the microcontinent would have broken up, eventually disappearing beneath the waves.
However, a small part could have survived.
"At the moment the Seychelles is a piece of granite, or continental crust, which is sitting practically in the middle of the Indian Ocean," explained Prof Torsvik.
"But once upon a time, it was sitting north of Madagascar. And what we are saying is that maybe this was much bigger, and there are many of these continental fragments that are spread around in the ocean."
Further research is needed to fully investigate what remains of this lost region.
Prof Torsvik explained: "We need seismic data which can image the structure... this would be the ultimate proof. Or you can drill deep, but that would cost a lot of money."
Assembly election campaigning has been suspended for the crisis recall after Tata Steel UK went up for sale.
About 6,000 Welsh jobs are under threat, including more than 4,000 in Port Talbot.
The assembly meeting comes after tycoon Sanjeev Gupta was linked to a potential purchase of the plant.
Opening the assembly session on Monday, Mr Jones said: "I have one simple message for the people of Wales and the UK government - these plants cannot close."
The first minister said it emerged at the weekend that it was not the European Union holding the UK back, "but the other way around".
Mr Jones said he would support UK government ownership if necessary while a buyer was being found.
AMs banged their desks in support when he ended his statement by saying he wanted the assembly to tell steelworkers: "We stand beside you, shoulder to shoulder."
Responding for the Welsh Conservatives, leader Andrew RT Davies said it was "vital" that domestic steelmaking capacity was kept, while acknowledging "international whirlwinds" surrounding the industry.
He added that the proposed M4 relief road in south Wales "could contribute demand for Welsh steel".
Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood said there were "serious questions for the Welsh Government to answer", accusing ministers of being slow to act.
She said nothing should be off the table, including temporary nationalisation, a joint venture or a permanent public stake.
Mr Jones responded by saying a joint venture should be considered but it would need UK government involvement.
He added that Tata had at no time told the Welsh Government it would close its plants.
During the session the first minister confirmed a package of support worth more than £60m that had been available for Tata "remains on the table".
It was made up of a commercial loan plus cash for environmental improvements and for skills and training.
Welsh Liberal Democrat leader Kirsty Williams spoke of a need "to see what steps we can take to make the plants as attractive" for a buyer as possible.
The industry was "too good to let fail", she added.
The meeting was being held in the old assembly chamber in the Ty Hywel building in Cardiff Bay, as the current Senedd chamber is being refurbished.
Dozens of protesters gathered outside the Welsh Assembly buildings in Cardiff Bay ahead of the meeting.
Steelworker and Unite union rep Matthew Pearcy said the recalling of the assembly was a "really positive sign" which gave a "glimmer of hope".
But he added: "I think the Welsh Assembly are limited on what they can achieve.
"It's really down to the UK government to stand up and show us that they mean the words that they have said."
Welsh Secretary Alun Cairns said the UK government "stands ready and waiting to support any potential investor" with the cost of taking on the Port Talbot works, such as pensions and power bills.
Following a steel industry taskforce meeting in Cardiff Bay on Monday, he said: "There are no guarantees on anything in relation to this. We will do whatever we can."
Mr Cairns said he could not disclose how much public money could be involved in the middle of commercially confidential negotiations, but confirmed he had spoken to Mr Gupta about a possible takeover.
The Welsh Government's Economy Minister Edwina Hart said she wanted to avoid "fragmenting" the steel industry, with Tata's British assets being "cherry picked".
UKIP Wales leader Nathan Gill called for the UK government to set up an emergency task force to cut energy costs for industry.
But he claimed European Union rules restricted the scope of UK and Welsh ministers to help the steel industry, and accused the first minister of "political grandstanding".
"It's all very well Carwyn Jones calling an emergency meeting of the assembly and caterwauling about public ownership, but simply passing the plant into public ownership does not solve any of the problems," he said.
"All it does is instead pass the culpability of the £1m loss per week onto the taxpayer, from Tata Steel."
Tata has other Welsh plants at Trostre, Shotton, Llanwern and Newport, while UK plants in Rotherham, Scunthorpe and Corby are also affected.
Trade unions representing Tata Steel workers across the UK have called on the prime minister to take personal charge of the rescue talks.
Union officials from the threatened plants meeting in London accused Business Secretary Sajid Javid of "taking his eye off the ball", and called on David Cameron "to get a grip" of the negotiations.
A photo has emerged apparently showing a hole has been cut into the wall of the Grade II* listed building, on which the Spy Booth artwork was painted.
On Thursday it was confirmed it was being removed, but the council warned that planning permission may be needed.
The work, depicting men "snooping" on a telephone box, appeared in April.
Councillor Colin Hay, of Cheltenham Borough Council, said Q Scaffolding had been warned that listed building consent was required if work was being done to the fabric of the building on the corner of Fairview Road and Hewlett Road.
He said: "If they breach that they're in trouble. It's quite a serious offence. If they're making a hole then they're removing the fabric of the building.
"If you're taking a large part of the wall out that would be a serious breach of listed building consent. It's a criminal offence.
"They can be given a stop notice if they're carrying out some work, and then they really do have to stop."
On Thursday John Joyce, from Q, confirmed that the property's owner had contacted street art collector Sky Grimes to sell the piece, a week before Banksy confirmed that he had painted it.
He said the artwork was due to be removed over the weekend, ahead of it going on show at a London gallery for a month on 4 July.
According to English Heritage the maximum penalty for carrying out work to a listed building without listed building consent is "two years' imprisonment or an unlimited fine".
The organisation's website states: "In determining the fine a judge must have regard to any financial benefit which has accrued or appears likely to accrue to the wrongdoer so as to deny them any benefits."
However, campaigners trying to stop the Banksy being removed say that in fact the wall belongs to the county council.
Retired chartered surveyor Phil Jones said the mural was on a wall which was formerly part of a house which was bought by the county council to be demolished for road improvements in the 1960s.
He said: "64 Hewlett Road was acquired by the county council in about 1962 for a road improvement. It was terraced with 159 Fairview Road which means the wall in between is a party wall. Logically 159 owns to the middle of the wall and 64 owns the [external] side of it, to the middle."
In response, a Gloucestershire County Council spokesperson said the council "has no claim to the wall".
At the beginning of June, Banksy admitted painting the artwork, which is situated three miles from the government communications headquarters, GCHQ.
The Belgian, 24, who signed from Everton for £75m, got the winner seven minutes before half-time to add to Henrikh Mkhitaryan's equaliser after United had fallen behind on 20 minutes.
United then lost Juan Mata to injury and Antonio Valencia to a red card.
"[Lukaku's goal] is nice for him but not important for me," said Mourinho.
"I told him I love what he does. He assists, he moves. He holds the ball well. I like everything he does."
Mata limped off following a heavy challenge from Sebastian Saucedo but is expected to be out of action for a week at most.
Valencia was then sent off for a tackle on Saucedo, referee Allen Chapman speaking to Mourinho before belatedly dismissing the Ecuadorian.
"The delay was because the referee asked me to change the players and I didn't because I don't agree with the card," added the Old Trafford boss.
"Saucedo was really aggressive with what happened to Mata and some other actions where he was a bit dangerous. It's pre-season so no problem - it's a good experience."
United face Manchester City in Houston on Friday morning UK time (02:30 BST).
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You know when you don't want to do something but you have to?
As soon as Valencia thundered through the back of Saucedo, referee Allen Chapman knew he had to act.
Chapman - whose previous claim to fame was being the first video assistant referee to make an actual decision during a United States Soccer League game in 2016 - first looked warily at Jose Mourinho. Then, after making sure the injured player was being taken care of, he walked over to the United manager.
Please take Valencia off, requested Chapman, aware dismissing a United player in a friendly would create a stir.
No, came Mourinho's reply. So, almost apologetically, Chapman walked to Valencia, went to his back pocket and sent the Ecuador player off.
We asked some of those who have fallen ill, and the families of others, to share their experiences of winter 2016-17.
My dad's mental health has really deteriorated - I blame the trauma of the fall and the time he's been forced to spend in hospital
Sue's father's life changed dramatically after he fell out of bed while in hospital in December 2016.
Bryan, 84, had been admitted to hospital near their house in Cornwall for a hip operation.
Sue says she was not told about his fall for several days, eventually she was told he would not walk again and possibly had only six months left to live.
"I am devastated - six weeks ago everything was fine, now this is not the world I imagined I'd be in.
"In December he was walking into town, doing gardening, he loved mechanics and tinkering.
"Now in hospital his mental health has really deteriorated, he does not speak and strips naked in public.
"I blame the trauma of the fall and the time he's been forced to spend in hospital.
"I'm really on edge, I feel like I'm about to fall off a cliff.
"I break down in tears at least once a day.
"He's had his life taken away too soon.
"Are we saying that because he's too complicated, our society can't care for him?
"It seems like such a big fight to just find out from the hospital what is going on.
"I just hope to God that he doesn't understand what is happening to him.
"I feel like he'll never come home again, he seems lost to us."
I was driving when I realised I was having a heart attack... it felt like a horse was kicking me in the chest
John Perrins was on the M6 motorway, driving home from Cambridge, when he realised he was having a heart attack.
An ambulance driver himself, he had feared he would never see his wife again - so intense was the pain. But a paramedic saved his life at the side of the road.
"I was vomiting and felt like a horse was kicking me in the chest.
"My wife called an ambulance, which arrived within 10 minutes - seeing the blue lights was the most wonderful thing I've ever seen.
"I passed out, but apparently they performed three lots of heart massage - 90 compressions.
"When I came round they spoke to me and, although I was scared, the way that the paramedic spoke to me made me feel safe.
"The ambulance crew were absolutely phenomenal.
"A friend who is a paramedic came to see me and he told me that the last six heart attack patients he worked on had died - I felt so lucky that I had this particular ambulance crew.
"They have given me my life back.
"The paramedic was treating me, teaching a trainee and looking after my wife in the ambulance - I could not have asked for a better person.
"I am trying to find out the names of the ambulance crew - I want to find them so I can say thank you."
Trevor Dallimore-Wright says his local GP and hospital are "like a family" to him, regularly providing life-saving care for his complex health conditions.
"The NHS has been absolutely brilliant," says Trevor, from London, who has diabetes and depression.
"My GP keeps me sane and out of hospital - I would give her 10 out of 10.
"I've had emergency admittance twice recently with sepsis - I went to A&E and was treated very quickly.
"They've had a great impact on my life.
"NHS treatment has helped me during the times that I could not get out of bed.
"My GP is extremely kind and patient. They are so patient-centred, I would put them in the luxury bracket.
"All the hospital staff are extraordinarily friendly.
"They are there despite the infrastructure problems in the NHS, and the care could not be better.
"From the moment I walk in, I know I'm being looked after.
"My only problem is that the NHS won't pay for immunotherapy drugs which are at the front line of treatment but are expensive."
Thirty six-year-old Nikki Alldis' satisfaction levels are at the other end of the spectrum, however, despite also living London. She says she has waited 15 months for a bowel operation, which has been twice cancelled.
When the procedure was scheduled for early January, she mentally prepared her young children and rearranged her work. But Nikki has twice received a last-minute call telling her there is no bed space.
She is still waiting.
"I'd prepared mentally - I planned my whole Christmas around the operation and recovery. I prepared frozen dinners for my kids, they are seven and 13, and I said a farewell goodbye.
"Then in the morning the nurse called me and said, 'We have no bed for you.'
"I was gutted. The kids were so confused when they came home and I was still there.
"I've been waiting for 15 months now - it's hanging over me.
"I did not believe the second appointment would happen, but I packed my bags anyway.
"We didn't even bother to rearrange my husband's work that time, if he's not working we're not earning, so we can't afford these cancellations.
"I put things in place with my work for people to cover me.
"I'm still waiting, hopefully it's third time lucky."
When 29-year-old Paul was feeling suicidal in January, the NHS crisis care team in west London gave him 24-hour care to keep him safe.
He has received treatment for bipolar disorder for four years and says his consultant and crisis team are outstanding.
"They helped me in my darkest and most depressive hours," says Paul, who asked for his surname not to be revealed.
"I came back home after New Year and went back to day-to-day life, but it kicked off a hefty depression and I was left feeling really low and suicidal.
"My partner called the crisis team, and they came to our house three or four times a day.
"They come at 02:00 or 03:00, they are really responsive.
"I don't feel like they are just doing their jobs, they have genuine care for me.
"They take away my medication to make sure I will not overdose and when they visit, they make me take the medication.
"Sometimes they just spend time with me.
"They ask how I am, what did you eat and sometimes they make me do things like go and buy some milk, which I don't always feel able to do.
"I would not be alive without them.
"But one problem I have with NHS mental health care is that they medicate but do not do counselling, there is a massive waiting list, so now I have to get counselling privately."
I stayed on a chair beside my mum and slept on the floor - she died a week later
"Before she was diagnosed with cancer, my mum could run a marathon," says Richard Taylor, 55 from Liverpool.
He was devastated after watching her "undignified" death last month.
The local cancer centre did not have the capacity to give her end-of-life care.
"After she received the second diagnosis, she was sent home and we got caught in a communication loop between three hospitals. It was an emotional rollercoaster.
"Eventually I had to take her to A&E - she could not eat or drink.
"She spent 13 hours on a trolley, behind a curtain in a noisy and busy ward.
"I stayed on a chair beside her and slept on the floor - she died a week later.
"My gripe is with the lack of communication and the delays in my mum's treatment.
"The nursing staff were fantastic, but there is only so much they can do - they could not give my mum 24-hour attention.
"She was a very proud and dignified woman - but in the end she was simply scared to be alone.
"It was awful watching someone die in this extremely undignified way.
"If she was an animal, they would have put her down - she was starving and dehydrated.
"The nurses were lovely and compassionate, but they offered me no support.
"The NHS is a great thing, but it is under the hammer."
A week of coverage by BBC News examining the state of the NHS across the UK as it comes under intense pressure during its busiest time of the year.
By Georgina Rannard, UGC & Social News
Although distressing at the time, the intensity of the feelings usually fades quickly and we are able to continue with our lives as before.
If we are subject to or witness an exceptionally traumatic, the effects are likely to be longer lasting.
This is a normal response and can interfere with daily life.
The majority of people will gradually adjust to the experience, but for one in three people the effects will be longer lasting and more debilitating.
These people will develop symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
Psychological
Physical
Symptoms of PTSD usually start within six months, and sometimes only a few weeks after the trauma.
After the traumatic event you can feel grief-stricken, depressed, anxious, guilty and angry. In PTSD you may also:
PTSD can occur at any age, but if it happens during childhood it may affect how the child develops as a person.
They may feel guilty or ashamed or find it difficult to trust others.
Try to get back to your usual routine, talk about what happened to someone you trust and try relaxation exercises. Eat regularly, take exercise and spend time with family and friends.
It could help to go back to where the traumatic event happened, but make sure you feel ready for this. Take care with driving - you're more likely to have an accident .
Don't be hard on yourself or expect too much. PTSD symptoms aren't a sign of weakness, They're a normal reaction of normal people to terrifying experiences. Don't avoid other people, drink or smoke a lot, miss sleep or meals.
You will know you're on the road to recovery when you:
Community Veterans' Service
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Veterans' Groups
Service Veterans' treatment and education groups which meet monthly in Penzance and Bodmin.
Last Wednesday of each month 1.00 - 3.00 pm at Richmond House, Tolver Place, Tolver Road, Penzance, TR18 2AB.
Second Tuesday of each month 1.00 - 3.00 pm at The Keep, Lostwithiel Road, Bodmin, PL31 1DL.
Surf Action
A non-profit organisation focusing on the wellbeing and support of combat veterans and their families.
Tel: 01736 811920
For support websites and more information, see our weblinks on the top right hand side of this page.
Police Scotland said they had been alerted to footage showing a car overtaking on the A941 Lossiemouth to Elgin road.
The incident allegedly occurred on Tuesday 8 March.
Police said irresponsible drivers should be aware dash cams were now in common use in all types of vehicles.
Lubanga, who led one side during fighting between two Congolese communities, was the first person to be convicted by the ICC, in 2012.
He was sentenced to 14 years for using child soldiers and raping girls.
He is eligible for release after serving two-thirds of his sentence.
He has been in custody since being arrested in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2005.
Lubanga told the hearing at The Hague that he wanted to return to DR Congo and pursue a doctoral thesis in the city of Kisangani, to identify a new form of sociology to help "tribal groups to live together in harmony".
He led a militia in the gold-rich Ituri region of DR Congo during a conflict between the Hema and Lendu communities, in which an estimated 50,000 people died and hundreds of thousands were made homeless.
His legal team argued that in general, "convicts are systematically released once they have served two-thirds of their sentence" in international justice.
Prosecutors objected to his request, saying he had been interfering with witnesses in another case linked to the conflict in DR Congo.
Lubanga denied the accusation.
The judges did not say when they would issue their decision.
Thomas Lubanga
•Leader of the Union of Congolese Patriots (UPC), an ethnic Hema militia
•Head of the UPC's military wing, the Patriotic Forces for the Liberation of Congo (FPLC)
•Accused of recruiting children under the age of 15 as soldiers
•Arrested in Kinshasa in March 2005
•Held by the ICC at The Hague since 2006
•Born in 1960, has a degree in psychology
Lubanga profile
David and Angela Cockburn, 48 and 49, his daughters Carley Ann, 21, and Bethany, 18, and Bethany's one-year-old daughter Lacie died on the A18 near Grimsby two years ago.
The family, from County Durham, were on their way to a dance competition.
Humberside Police confirmed the family had made a formal appeal.
Ch Supt Judi Heaton said: "The Cockburn family has made a formal appeal to the Crown Prosecution Service to review their initial decision not to prosecute.
"We are awaiting the outcome of this appeal."
Inquests are due to take place next year.
In July, the CPS said no criminal charges would be brought in connection with the incident.
Three members of the family, from Ouston, died at the scene in Laceby, North East Lincolnshire. Two others later died in hospital.
The 24-year-old was attacked as she walked along Adderlane Road in Prudhoe at about 05:00 BST on Sunday.
Northumbria Police said the assault happened in a rear alley between Holyoake Street and Neale Street.
A force spokeswoman said the attacker was described as being white, in his early 30s, about 5ft 11in (1.8m) tall and of broad build. He was wearing a blue hooded top.
15 September 2015 Last updated at 14:48 BST
Can they repeat their success of 2003? Or will New Zealand, Australia or South Africa claim a record third win?
The competition first started back in 1987 and since then has grown in size and significance with 20 teams due to battle it out this time round.
But if you're new to rugby and are wondering what it's all about then check out this brief history of the World Cup.
The Family and Childcare Trust's survey of Britain's nurseries and childminders suggests a week's childcare in holiday periods now averages £109.23.
This is a rise of 9.2% since last year and more than £100 for the first time.
Charity chief executive Anand Shukla said with many nurseries closing for holidays, and cuts to youth services, more children may be left unsupervised.
Holiday childcare can be a particular problem for parents with schools, school-based nurseries and playgroups closed. And as prices continue to rise, many may find it difficult to find holiday cover.
The trust surveyed the 161 family information services based in local authorities across England, Wales and Scotland in May, asking them the average cost of holiday childcare in their area. Some 77% of authorities responded.
Its report suggested paying for childcare for two children over four weeks of the holidays would cost parents more than £850 - a price beyond the reach of many on modest incomes.
Six local authorities reported average costs per child of £175 a week.
The report found older school-age children were likely to be hardest hit with cuts to youth services leading to reductions in the availability of play schemes and youth clubs.
Mr Shukla said: "We seem to be moving to a situation where childcare is increasingly thought of as something that affects only the under-fives.
"Our research shows that many local authorities are failing to fulfil their obligations to working parents, in particular those with school-age children who are poorly served or priced-out in many areas."
He added that it was "deeply disappointing to learn that such little progress has been made to meet the holiday childcare needs of older children".
The impact of cuts to youth services, which at one time provided an alternative to formal childcare, adds to the burden faced by working parents.
Mr Shukla added: "With holiday childcare costs rising faster than wages, and with the average weekly rate in Britain now breaking the £100 a week threshold, we are likely to see more parents forced to take unpaid leave - or unable to afford to enter the labour market - and more children left without adult supervision during the summer break.
"We need to ensure that recent proposals to allow schools to determine their own term times do not add to the problem."
The government has set up a Childcare Commission to look at making childcare more affordable. It is expected to report imminently.
Education minister Elizabeth Truss said the charity had raised some important issues.
"The government wants to make sure that good quality, affordable and reliable childcare helps parents to work. We will shortly set out plans to tackle the affordability and availability of childcare, before and after school and during school holidays.
"Our reforms are already helping working parents. We are making it easier for new providers to enter the market, and enabling childminder agencies to give parents more choice - these agencies will be a one-stop shop for parents and childminders providing holiday cover and training."
Shadow children and families minister Sharon Hodgson said: "Labour tripled the number of places for holiday childcare between 2003 and 2010. But under David Cameron, costs are up by over 12%, local services have disappeared, and financial support has been cut.
"David Cameron promised to make Britain the most family-friendly country in Europe, but after three years ministers still have no plan to help parents out during the school holidays. Instead of helping mums and dads to get affordable help with childcare over the Summer, the Tories prioritised tax cuts for millionaires."
Chief executive of the National Day Nurseries Association Purnima Tanuku said every year the issue of expensive summer childcare came up.
"We are currently facing a difficult economic time and for providers the cost of delivering childcare has had to go up due to increased running costs such as business rates, utilities and rent.
"There have also been funding cuts at local authority level which has impacted on the amount of provision available to working parents."
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Freddie Gray, 25, died on Sunday after suffering a fatal spine injury under unexplained circumstances after his arrest earlier this month.
The US Justice Department has opened a civil rights investigation.
A thousand people gathered on Tuesday at the site of his arrest, kicking off seven days of protests against what they believe is excessive police force.
As people raised their hands, Pastor Jamal Bryant, one of the demonstrations organisers, said the gesture was not an act of surrender.
"It's a sign of strength, of one unity and one commitment that we will not rest until we get justice for Freddie Gray," he said.
Gray was arrested on 12 April. Officials said that he ran away after he "made eye contact" with officers on patrol.
Officers pursued him and took him into custody minutes later. The officers' reasoning for detaining Gray is not clear.
"There is no law against running," Police Commissioner Anthony Batts told reporters on Monday.
"Running while black is not probable cause," Billy Murphy, a lawyer hired by the Gray family, said.
What we know about Gray's death
Mobile phone video shows police pinning Gray to the ground before a detention van arrives to transport him to a police station.
In the video, officers are seen dragging Gray's limp body into the van. It is not known whether Gray's body was limp because of a deliberate act of defiance or because of a medical condition.
Gray was in the van for approximately 30 minutes. At one point, police stopped to put Gray into leg shackles after determining he had become irate.
He asked officers for medical care on multiple occasions, Mr Batts said.
He was eventually rushed to hospital where he lapsed into a coma and died a week later.
A national debate over the use of police force has been going on since last summer, when a black teenager was killed in Ferguson, Missouri.
"The world is watching, and the world needs to see that black Baltimore is unified," said Pastor Bryant.
The MT Sunrise 689, heading to Vietnam's Quang Tri port, disappeared shortly after leaving Singapore.
The crew said about a dozen men armed with guns and knives had boarded the ship and beaten them.
They siphoned off the oil before leaving the ship and freeing the crew on Thursday morning.
"The pirates broke the communication system, robbed the oil and goods on board," Nguyen Nhat, director of Vietnam's Maritime Department, told AFP news agency.
He said the pirates had taken about a third of the cargo.
Ship captain Nguyen Quyet Thang told Vietnam's Tuoi Tre newspaper that the hijackers had pulled alongside the Sunrise in a high-speed boat and two fishing boats about two hours after they left Singapore on 2 October.
The pirates then boarded the ship and took control of the crew.
Some crew members were assaulted when they tried to resist them, he said. One had a broken toe and injured kneecap, while another had an injured ankle.
Crew members were given only a meal per day, he added.
The ship's deputy captain Pham Van Hoang said he believed the pirates were Indonesian.
"They put knives on our throats and threatened to kill us if we resist," he told the Associated Press by phone from the ship.
The MT Sunrise 689, now expected to arrive in Vietnam on Thursday evening, is the 12th tanker to be hijacked in South East Asia since April this year.
The International Maritime Bureau says there has been a steady rise in piracy across southeast Asia, particularly in the busy Malacca Strait between Singapore, Indonesia and Malaysia, despite regional efforts to tackle the problem.
Globally, piracy is estimated to cost the shipping industry as a much as $8bn (£5bn) a year.
Sandra White said she had not intended to retweet the picture, and had deleted it when she realised what had happened.
The image showed six piglets suckling at a sow with the word "Rothschild" and the Star of David on it.
The piglets are shown as representing the UK, the US, Israel and terror groups Islamic State, Al Qaeda and Boko Haram.
Ms White has written a letter of apology to the Scottish Council of Jewish Communities (ScoJec) for any offence that had been caused.
In her letter, the Glasgow Kelvin MSP wrote: "I would like to take this opportunity to apologise unreservedly for the offence that has been caused by my accidental retweeting of this offensive image which I too find repellent and offensive.
"I had not intended to retweet this picture, and was horrified to learn that I had done so. As soon as this was brought to my attention, I deleted the tweet.
"Anyone who knows me or has known me over the many years I have served in public office will know of my love and tolerance for all peoples; all faiths and all religions."
Ms White led a debate at the Scottish Parliament earlier this year calling for Holyrood to recognise the Palestinian state and the need for a two state solution to the situation in Israel and Palestine.
But she said in her letter that "there is nothing that happens in Israel or Palestine that can be justification for any racial or religious hatred".
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has also written a letter to ScoJec director Ephraim Borowski in which she stated that "the image in question is certainly not something I would expect to see tweeted by Sandra or by any member of the party."
Ms Sturgeon added: "Having spoken to Sandra directly about this matter I know that she understands the seriousness of this accidental re-tweet and deeply regrets the offence it has caused. We all share the view that nothing must be done that provides the views expressed in the image any legitimacy whatsoever.
"Regarding the original tweet itself, I find it and the image it contained abhorrent. I will not tolerate anti-Semitism or religious or racial hatred of any kind at any level in our society."
Mr Borowski welcomed Ms White's apology and Ms Sturgeon's comments.
He added: "Her original post was exceptionally public, broadcast on Twitter to an international audience, and remained there for three days before being deleted.
"We are glad she has now, as we requested, made her apology and unqualified condemnation of anti-Semitism in all its forms, wherever it may be found, equally public, by posting that on Twitter too.
"We are grateful to the first minister for her unequivocal condemnation of the original post as 'abhorrent' and 'completely unacceptable', and for making unambiguously clear her refusal to tolerate any form of antis-Semitism in Scottish society.
"We have replied expressing the hope that we will continue to maintain a constructive relationship with her government to the benefit of the Jewish community and Scotland as a whole."
ScoJec said the image retweeted by Ms White had been "reminiscent of the very worst of Nazi propaganda" in its use of "cartoon hook noses and rubbing hands" and had contained pictures that originated on neo-Nazi websites in the US.
It said the image had "played to the enduring anti-Semitic charge that Jews use wealth to control others to go to war on their behalf."
Even Benitez's critics at Chelsea, and you do not have to look far to find them, cannot lay blame for their Champions League elimination at the Spaniard's door as they were effectively out when he succeeded Roberto Di Matteo.
So this left Benitez with the task of securing a place in the Premier League's top four and attempting to win the FA Cup, Europa League and Capital One Cup.
After a hard-fought, but just about deserved, FA Cup quarter-final win against Manchester United three of those targets remain within Chelsea's reach and Benitez's remit.
The good:
The bad:
Being a personality that encourages extreme reactions, he was wasting his time suggesting there should be some measure applied to the Blues' progress throughout the season.
He said: "After getting a draw against Manchester United in the first FA Cup game, beating Steaua Bucharest and West Ham we were the best in the world. We lost at Southampton and were the worst in the world and today we won so we are the best in the world. We have to have balance."
Balance and Chelsea do not belong together so Benitez can forget that. Examine the facts, though, and they suggest he may yet leave those at Stamford Bridge who have railed against his presence from the moment he walked through the door something to remember him by.
They remain in the top four, have now secured an FA Cup semi-final against Manchester City for the right to face either Wigan or Millwall in the final, and have a winnable Europa League quarter-final against Rubin Kazan on their agenda.
No-one can suggest Benitez is shaping up for a blaze of glory because failure to qualify for next season's Champions League would undermine everything and would be a wound that could not be healed by any silverware, even though that would not harm his own CV as he seeks his next post.
For all the enjoyment a trophy might bring, it would actually do Benitez more good than Chelsea. The season will be judged in the framework of Champions League qualification but at least there is still the promise of something tangible at the end of this most uneasy of arranged football marriages.
Benitez was able to revel in the sound of silence at Stamford Bridge as he overcame his old rival Sir Alex Ferguson (yes there was a handshake) to leave United with only the formalities of completing a 20th title triumph to occupy them for the remainder of the season.
He was not the recipient of a single approving cheer or comment for the victory but there were no banners to be seen and no abusive chants to be heard. In other words, as good as it is ever going to get for Benitez as he comes to the close of his time at Chelsea.
And his body language, especially in the second half, gave the lie to those who suggest he is passing through without a care for the club.
Benitez, on the basis that he is many things but not daft, will have known what would have awaited him had it gone wrong against United after fielding a weakened team in what may yet prove a crucial league defeat at Southampton.
He left John Terry, Frank Lampard and Fernando Torres on the bench at Stamford Bridge and came out on top - so perhaps, quietly under their breath, Chelsea fans may just be pleased with their manager's day at the office.
The first 45 minutes looked like leftovers from players who had played 48 hours earlier, or less in Chelsea's case. Dull and lifeless, it only emerged into the light in the second half, illuminated by two moments of undisputed world class.
Chelsea's winner came four minutes after the restart. Juan Mata's vision and precision to find Demba Ba was matched by the striker moving off Rio Ferdinand's shoulder to show perfect technique, athleticism and timing to hook a right-foot finish past David de Gea.
Just as crucial as the goal was a piece of breathtaking brilliance from Blues keeper Petr Cech on the hour mark that drew instant comparisons with all the great saves. When Javier Hernandez applied a flying header to Danny Welbeck's cross at the far post and directed it high and back across the goal, Cech seemed to defy all logic by arriving in time to stretch out a hand and turn it over the top.
The Blues are just one match away from their fifth FA Cup final in seven seasons. They lifted the trophy in 2007, 2009, 2010 and 2012.
Chelsea are now unbeaten in 29 FA Cup games (excluding penalty shootouts). It is the longest ever run without defeat by a single side.
Words cannot do full justice to the magic of the moment. Hernandez smiled in the knowledge he could not have done better and with a nod of appreciation to the keeper. It revived memories of Cech's save against Andy Carroll against Liverpool in last season's FA Cup Final - but the immediate instinct was that this was even better.
So Benitez relied on that quality but he was also deeply involved in his technical area. Tic-tac to players in all parts of the pitch, instructions and hand signals that meant nothing to his team but perhaps calmed his own anxiety, and frantic tactical adjustments as the game entered its final phrase.
Of course victory over United and Ferguson means much to him but he looked involved as Chelsea manager as well as on a personal basis.
For all his calls for balance, Benitez will know his time at Chelsea moves on a match-by-match basis. This was a good one - and there may even be better ones ahead.
Zero Dark Thirty features the voice of Betty Ann Ong, who was on one of the planes that hit the World Trade Center.
Brother Harry Ong told the New York Times the film was "just outrageous".
The Oscar-nominated film tells the story of the hunt and killing of Osama Bin Laden. Screenwriter Mark Boal told the paper Ms Ong was a "national hero".
Ms Ong, a flight attendant on American Airlines Flight 11, made a 23-minute phone call to authorities from an onboard phone to give them details of the hijacking.
She is among the victims whose voices are heard during a sequence at the start of Zero Dark Thirty. Her brother said the clip was used without permission.
"I thought it was just outrageous, and totally poor judgment, and an abuse of the voices," Mr Ong told the New York Times.
He has requested an apology be made at the Oscars if the film wins any of the five awards it is nominated for.
He also asked the film-makers to donate to a charitable foundation set up in Ms Ong's name, include a credit for Ms Ong and put a statement on its website and DVD release making it clear that the Ong family did not endorse torture, which is depicted in the film.
Mark Boal told the newspaper: "As the 9/11 commission justly proclaimed, Betty Ong is without a doubt one of our national heroes."
In a statement, film studio Sony and Annapurna Pictures said Mr Boal and director Kathryn Bigelow had been in close contact with the families of victims since releasing the film, which was privately screened for many of them.
"Zero Dark Thirty is, in some small way, a tribute to those forever affected by the attacks," the statement said.
A link has now been added from the official Zero Dark Thirty website to the Betty Ann Ong foundation, the Voices of September 11th organisation and the 9/11 memorial site.
The movie has been at the centre of much controversy since its release, including over its depiction of torture, the links between the film-makers and the CIA and whether it was a propaganda tool for President Barack Obama's re-election.
The men were condemned as "sexual predators" by the judge after they were found guilty of grooming teenage girls for sex.
Some of the defendants wept in the dock at Sheffield Crown Court as the sentences were handed out.
Three other men, were found not guilty of sex offences against girls aged between 12 and 16.
Zafran Ramzan, 21, was jailed for nine years after being found guilty of raping a 16-year-old girl in her own home and two counts of sexual activity with a child.
The other four men were convicted of sexual activity with a child.
Razwan Razaq, 30, was jailed for a total of 11 years. Umar Razaq, 24, for four and a half years. Both Adil Hussain, 20, and Mohsin Khan, 21, were sentenced to four years in prison.
The five, who are all from Rotherham, have been placed on the sex offenders register.
Judge Peter Kelson QC said "I've listened to the backdrop of some of you sobbing - I have to say your weeping cuts no ice with me at all.
"The message must go out loud and clear that our society will not tolerate sexual predators preying on children."
The jury heard how the men developed relationships with three teenage girls - having sex with them in cars and parks in the Rotherham area.
The girls believed they were in relationships with the men.
The authorities were alerted after changes were noted in the behaviour of the teenage victims.
As well as the rape conviction, Ramzan, of Broom Grove, Rotherham, was found guilty of two counts of sexual activity with a child in relation to another girl.
He was cleared of two further counts of rape.
Umar Razaq, of Oxford Street, Rotherham, was found guilty of one count of sexual activity with a child - a 13-year-old girl.
He was cleared of raping another girl.
Razwan Razaq, also of Oxford Street, Rotherham, was found guilty of two charges of sexual activity with a child, relating to two different girls.
Adil Hussain, of Nelson Street, Rotherham, was found guilty of one charge of sexual activity with a child - a 13-year-old girl.
He was cleared of three similar charges.
Khan, of Haworth Crescent, Rotherham, was found guilty of one count of sexual activity with a child - a 13-year-old girl.
He was cleared of two similar charges and four charges of rape.
Nicholl was assistant to O'Neill as the national side, with McGovern in fine form, reached the last 16 at Euro 2016.
While O'Neill signed a new four-year deal in March, McGovern is out of contract with Hamilton Academical.
"The big job for Michael - I think it will happen. He is very clever," said Nicholl of 46-year-old O'Neill.
"Not that we've spoken about it. He's very quiet. He keeps his cards close to his chest.
"He's a shrewdy. Put it this way - it won't faze him.
"I think he deserves it - at least a Championship club down in England - the way he goes about his job."
Should O'Neill move on, Nicholl agreed that former team-mate Tommy Wright would be in the running to succeed the former Brechin City and Shamrock Rovers boss after regular top-six finishes with St Johnstone.
"He hasn't done himself any harm, Tommy, over the last few years," the former Raith Rovers and Cowdenbeath manager told BBC Radio Scotland's Off The Ball. "He is a great candidate, so he would be."
McGovern has spent his whole career in Scotland, having started as a youth with Celtic before spells with Dundee United, Ross County and Falkirk, going on to join Accies in 2014.
The 31-year-old has been offered a new contract by the Scottish Premiership club but is considering other options.
"I watched Michael seven or eight times last year and I saw Hamilton got beaten three or four-nil, but he stopped them getting beaten by seven or eight," Nicholl told BBC Scotland.
"Michael got his opportunity against Scotland at Hampden. Big Roy Carroll was injured at the time, he got his chance and he took it."
Nicholl thinks that McGovern's story typifies the way O'Neill has built his national team's success.
"They went on a South American tour to Chile two years ago and people were phoning up and saying, 'I can't go, I've got a wedding to go to or I've got a hamstring problem,'" the former Manchester United and Rangers full-back said.
"See the ones that went on that tour, they've stayed in the team. Michael said he was going to build round Steve Davis and all those who showed up.
"There were players who didn't show up and haven't been seen again."
Nicholl believes the success of the Northern Ireland team has helped unite the communities in his homeland.
"This Catholic-Protestant thing - they are still talking in Northern Ireland about what Michael has done," he said.
"We had 15,000 people in the fan zone when we came back on Monday night, all mixed. He has brought the place together."
Nicholl also believes that their progress at the finals will help the national team develop and retain talent.
"We have lost players to the Republic of Ireland," he points out. "Why? Because the Republic of Ireland were qualifying for everything and Northern Ireland weren't.
"That's not the case now. That's all the national manager should be interested in - making sure the country is qualifying for tournaments and that'll bring on young players."
Northern Ireland were knocked out in the last 16 when they lost 1-0 to Wales, who have since progressed to the semi-finals after beating Belgium 3-1.
"It was a magnificent experience and I had a magnificent time," Nicholl said.
"When we went out against Wales, we were really down.
"Although it was a great experience, you think: Imagine going out the way we did.
"And then, when you look at what Wales did to Belgium, all of a sudden it does not look too bad.
"Maybe we will have gone out to the winners. Who knows? So it picks you up."
MYC Rowing Porthmadog aims to reach the Wales Millennium Centre in time for its 10th anniversary celebration finale.
Rowers like Maggy Clarke, 71, from Porthmadog, plan to work in relays, completing between 20-30 miles a day.
Their planned arrival on 12 September coincides with a celebration in the Bay to mark the art centre's anniversary.
They will join a flotilla of boats playing their part in an outdoor theatrical production, Ar Waith Ar Daith, which involves 700 participants.
The rowers from Porthmadog are also carrying a slate plaque for the arts centre taken from Llechwedd Quarry, Blaenau Ffestiniog.
It is symbolic gesture because slate for its construction was to be ferried along the coast on a schooner in 2003 before bad weather thwarted the plans and it was transported by a helicopter instead.
Matthew Hanley, 22, and Connor Allsopp, 20, admitted charges relating to the massive data breach in October 2015.
The Old Bailey heard Hanley hacked into the telecom giant's website and shared a customer's personal and financial details with Allsopp.
The pair, of Tamworth, Staffordshire, were told they would be sentenced in May.
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Hanley supplied data for hacking to another man and gave Allsopp the personal and financial details of a TalkTalk customer for the use in fraud.
Allsopp admitted supplying a customer's details for fraud and as well as files for hacking.
Hanley, of Devonshire Drive, denied other charges of hacking into Nasa, the National Climatic Data Centre and another 23 websites including Spotify, Telstra, the RAC and The Eton Collection which were ordered to lie on file.
Allsopp, of Coronation Street, pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing.
Judge Michael Topolski QC ordered reports for both defendants and adjourned sentencing until 31 May.
In November last year, a 17-year-old youth was handed a 12-month rehabilitation order after he admitted sparking off the TalkTalk hacking when he posted details of a chink in the firm's online security.
Even though he did not gain from it, the youth paved the way for others to exploit the weakness for money by accessing the data of 160,000 people.
The teenager found the vulnerability in the TalkTalk website using "legitimate software" and shared details of this online.
The TalkTalk website was targeted more than 14,000 times after the boy exposed the vulnerability.
The firm said the fallout from the cyber attack in October 2015 cost it £42m.
The teenager told magistrates at Norwich Youth Court he was "just showing off" to his "mates".
Anton Levin, 24, from Dagenham, east London, was found stabbed to death at a flat in Southend, Essex, in November.
Danielle Russell, 26, and two teenagers were found not guilty of murder but guilty of manslaughter, at Chelmsford Crown Court.
Russell and the two boys - one aged 16 from Thurrock, the other 17 and from Basildon, will be sentenced on 3 July.
All three were also found guilty of conspiracy to commit grievous bodily harm on another man and guilty of conspiracy to commit robbery.
They were found not guilty of the attempted murder of another man, aged in his 20s.
Mr Levin was stabbed and died at Russell's Southend flat and another man was injured.
Det Ch Insp Simon Werrett said: "The jury have heard the evidence and have decided Danielle Russell and the two youths were responsible for the death of Anton Levin.
"This was another unnecessary death linked to gang activity in Essex. The defendants have never any shown remorse for the attack and the needless loss of life."
A family statement said: "He was a young educated man who had just graduated from Greenwich University and had a bright future ahead of him in the property market.
"I feel for such a bright and intelligent young man he had his whole life ahead of him, which was cut too short. No one deserves to go so young.
"He was very protective of me and helped me to bring up his little sister too. "
Colin Parry said he had asked Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness to speak at the Tim Parry Johnathan Ball Peace Centre during a visit to Belfast.
Johnathan Ball, three, and Tim Parry, 12, died in the attack in March 1993.
The Northern Ireland deputy first minister, who was a senior IRA figure, has agreed to the visit in principle.
The two boys died and 54 others were injured when two bombs hidden in litter bins went off in Bridge Street.
Mr Parry made the request to Mr McGuinness after travelling to Belfast for a BBC Radio Five Live documentary.
He said he had invited the politician to speak because "part of our ethos is that we talk to everyone".
"We don't just talk to victims of terrorism or young people who are at risk of being radicalised. We also talk to people who have been associated with terrorist acts," he said.
"In simple terms, you make peace with your enemies, not with your friends.
He added that while Mr McGuinness was "now a mainstream politician, Martin's history is one of being involved with the IRA".
"His past would have placed him beyond the pale for many people, but not for me and my foundation," he said.
Mr McGuinness has previously met with Mr Parry and visited the centre and the town for private meetings.
During a visit in 2001 he said he was sorry that Irish republicans were responsible for the boys' deaths and that the bombing had been wrong.
He was first-team coach at the Championship club and previously worked with new boss Uwe Rosler at Leeds.
The 51-year-old has also spent time at Leicester City, Preston North End, West Bromwich Albion and Nottingham Forest.
"Rob has worked at all levels of football, as a manager, coach and assistant manager, and he will be a great addition," said Rosler.
A three-judge panel said it will not postpone implementation of net neutrality rules, despite opposition from firms such as Verizon and AT&T.
Federal Communications Commission chairman Tom Wheeler called it "a victory for internet consumers".
But it is unlikely to be the end of legal action from opponents.
Mr Wheeler, who pushed the rule changes through, welcomed the decision.
"Starting Friday, there will be a referee on the field to keep the internet fast, fair and open," he said.
"Blocking, throttling, pay-for-priority fast lanes and other efforts to come between consumers and the internet are now things of the past. The rules also give broadband providers the certainty and economic incentive to build fast and competitive broadband networks."
But Berin Szoka, president of lobby group TechFreedom which is opposed to the new rules, said: "The denial doesn't say much (if anything at all) about how the case will ultimately be decided.
"Today simply marks the beginning of a protracted legal fight over the legality of the FCC's takeover of the internet."
The new rules were agreed in February and saw internet services put on a par with other utilities, meaning they would be subject to greater regulation.
While net firms say the regulations are too onerous, consumer groups felt that they were a necessary way to protect a free and open internet.
The main issue was over whether net firms should have the right to make deals with content providers to offer them a better service for a fee.
USTelecom, a US broadband association that opposes the rules, said it was disappointed by the court's decision but added that it would continue to fight.
President of the firm Walter B McCormick said: "We look forward to providing the court a more fulsome, detailed accounting of the legal problems with the commission's order."
After fouling out late in the fourth quarter, a frustrated Curry threw his mouthguard, which hit a supporter.
The 28-year-old apologised to the fan before leaving the court in Cleveland.
Victory in Oakland on Monday would make the Cavaliers the first team to win the finals having trailed 3-1.
It would also be their first NBA title.
"I had some stuff I wanted to get off my chest," said Curry, who top scored for his side with 30 points. "It was just frustration and I thought it was kind of hilarious how the last two fouls kind of unfolded."
Warriors coach Steve Kerr added: "He gets six fouls called on him, three of them were absolutely ridiculous. I'm happy he threw his mouthpiece."
LeBron James scored 41 points for the Cavaliers and Kyrie Irving added 23 in front of a home crowd at the Q Arena.
Golden State set an NBA record of 73 wins in the regular season.
Cardiff University and the National Botanic Garden of Wales launched the hunt last summer for honeys which can counteract bacteria.
They have created a honey map of Wales, pinpointing where the jars are coming from but they want to fill the gaps.
Bee keepers in south Wales and other parts of the UK are taking part.
Honey's anti-bacterial properties have been known since ancient times and it is believed it was used by both the ancient Greeks and Egyptians.
Since last summer's appeal, scientists at Cardiff University's school of pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences have been analysing honey sent in from across the UK.
They are checking for honey with the potential to counter hospital acquired infections MRSA and Clostridium Difficile.
Then the National Botanic Garden in Llanarthne, Carmarthenshire, profiles the DNA of the most powerful honeys, checking for the plants which contributed.
This could allow scientists to create new treatments.
Prof Les Baillie of Cardiff University said: "We have had a very enthusiastic response to our honey appeal, with jars coming in from as far afield as the Isle of Wight.
"We've had some 200 samples sent in, 60 of them from Wales, and we have some very promising candidates for further research.
"We now want to build up our picture of what's happening in Wales, and for that we need more honey from the middle and the north of country."
Last year, scientists said Manuka honey could be used to combat some of the most hard-to-treat infections that are resistant to powerful antibiotics.
Lab experiments show it can clear bacteria found in festering wounds and contaminated hospital surfaces.
It works by breaking down the defences bacteria use against antibiotics, making it useful in treating super bug infections such as MRSA.
Plans to transform the stadium into a modern 38,000-seater Gaelic games venue are being probed over safety fears.
Nelson McCausland said the investigation into concerns over emergency exits at the planned new stadium was proving difficult.
He said: "No-one seems to know anything. It's almost like Fawlty Towers, and Manuel - 'I know nothing'.
"That's how this is operating," the chair of the the culture, arts and leisure committee added.
"Everybody's saying: 'Nobody told me, I didn't know.'
"There's something wrong in the system in the way it's been operating."
But Mr McCausland, a former DUP minister, was criticised for the way he has handled the committee's inquiry into Casement Park by some nationalist politicians.
Dominic Bradley of the SDLP took issue with a media statement issued by Mr McCausland on Wednesday, in which he described the Casement project as "shambolic and dysfunctional".
Mr Bradley said Mr McCausland was drawing premature conclusions and undermining the inquiry.
He asked: "Is there any point of us continuing with it?"
Mr McCausland responded that he was entitled to make public comment and pointed out that the statement was issued in his party capacity, not as committee chairperson.
The committee hearing continues.
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The hosts were reduced to 20-6 after five overs as Kagiso Rabada and Wayne Parnell struck in overcast conditions.
Jonny Bairstow (51) offered some resistance but England were bowled out for 153 with 18.5 overs remaining.
South Africa briefly wobbled after losing Hashim Amla (55) but chased down the total with relative ease.
England, who sealed the three-match series in Southampton on Saturday, put in a valiant performance with the ball - but their batsmen lacked concentration in their final match before the Champions Trophy.
The hosts, who play Bangladesh at The Oval in the first match of the tournament on Thursday, remain the bookmakers' favourites to secure their first 50-over title.
Although England lost the toss and were asked to bat in conditions suited to bowling, for a side that has scored more than 300 runs in 11 of their past 12 one-day internationals, batting should not have been as difficult as they made it look.
Opener Jason Roy, who has reached double figures just once in his past five international innings, was the first to fall as he edged Rabada to slip - and England's top order followed suit.
A collapse of four wickets in seven balls, spearheaded by Rabada's pace and clever seam bowling from left-armer Parnell, meant England made their worst start to a one-day innings at Lord's.
Successive poor shots, with Jos Buttler and Adil Rashid falling to consecutive deliveries by playing almost identical shots, left the hosts facing an uphill battle by the fifth over.
There is no reason for Eoin Morgan's side to make sweeping changes before the Champions Trophy, and the collapse at Lord's seemed to be indicative of a lack of concentration rather than a side in decline.
However, it is a performance England could have done without just three days before the start of an international tournament on home soil.
Former England captain Alec Stewart on Test Match Special:
"Taking the attack to the opposition is what has been successful, and is one of the reasons why England are one of the favourites for the Champions Trophy.
"What disappointed me was we looked as though we were the visitors, batting at Lord's for the first time, not taking into account the slope. You still have to apply yourselves to the conditions."
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England had opted to change their team before the first Champions Trophy match, with Chris Woakes, Moeen Ali, Liam Plunkett and Ben Stokes all rested.
This gave Bairstow, who performed solidly in the two-match series against Ireland but was dropped when players returned from the IPL, a further chance to press for tournament inclusion.
Arriving at the crease with England 15-3, Bairstow stayed firm and played sensibly, anchoring England's innings as they tried to rebuild.
He had a contained aggression, cutting and pulling in a 51-run partnership with Yorkshire team-mate David Willey as England crept to three figures.
When Willey fell he was ably supported by debutant Toby Roland-Jones (37 not out), who overcame an early blow to the head to strike pace bowler Chris Morris for six.
South Africa's chase, unsurprisingly, began easily, but there were some uncomfortable moments for the number one-ranked ODI side.
Openers Amla and Quinton de Kock (34) looked serene, guiding South Africa to 95-0 with some patient batting.
Amla became the fastest batsman to reach 7,000 ODI runs in international cricket in his 150th innings, surpassing the previous record by India captain Virat Kohli, who took 161 innings.
His dismissal - a swing at a Roland-Jones delivery that he edged onto his stumps - was the only real error in his 54-ball innings.
It was after the innings break, when it began to cloud over at Lord's, that South Africa struggled as Jake Ball produced a fine display of swing bowling.
England had a brief flicker of hope as Ball forced Du Plessis to edge behind, but unlike the hosts, South Africa weathered the storm.
AB de Villiers (27 not out) and JP Duminy regrouped and crawled towards the total, before De Villiers struck Willey for back-to-back boundaries to win with 21.5 overs remaining.
England captain Eoin Morgan: "I think the batting was summed up in the first hour. A tinge of green and we seemed to nick everything this morning.
"They made us play a hell of a lot and managed to get the ball moving around. Certainly, it's not down to a lack of trying. We've put in a lot this series but today was just a bit of a hiccup.
"We've gained a lot of confidence from this series and it's important we take that into the Champions Trophy. It's flattering to be favourites but today is a reminder not to get too carried away with us as a side. We'll give it a good crack."
South Africa captain AB de Villiers: "It's looking a lot better now after winning a good game of cricket. We had a lot to play for today. We said it's not all about the result but there were some encouraging signs in this last game.
"The boys hung on to almost everything that came their way. There's still a few areas to work on in the field but the boys struck from the word go.
"All three grounds have been different, the conditions have changed from ground to ground. It's all about the senior players adapting and communicating to the rest of the team what will work well."
Migrants' Rights Network said some people in insecure jobs on low wages, were surviving in the city by sleeping on open ground in unauthorised camps.
The charity said it was "regrettable" but it was "a feature of London life".
The Home Office said EU migrants in unauthorised camps could be deported, but the charity said the government had a responsibility to house these people and was misinterpreting the law.
A spokesman for the Home Office said: "It is unacceptable for anyone to come to the UK with the intention of sleeping rough or to beg on the streets to support themselves.
"Rough sleeping is an abuse of free movement rights and we will take action, where appropriate, against European Economic Area nationals who refuse to find alternative accommodation."
He said the Home Office worked closely with councils and homelessness outreach services to support vulnerable people but since May had reinterpreted the law to deport self-sufficient EEA workers if they were homeless.
Migrants Rights Network director Don Flynn said EU law on European Economic Area (EEA) residency rights only allowed two circumstances in which people from the EEA could be deprived of the right to free movement; if they were reliant on benefits, or if they had committed a serious public order offence in the UK.
He said: "These people are not in that position. They are working but they have been unable to find accommodation which they can rent."
"What we would like to see is local authorities right the way across London, along with the mayor, making greater representations for the housing needs of this group.
"London is basically badly failing to provide housing and more needs to be done," he continued.
"Michael" is a Polish builder who lives in an unauthorised camp near Ermine Road in Tottenham, north London.
He denied littering and said he had been living in the UK for 14 years, working as a builder and volunteering at a local church.
He claimed to own two houses in Poland and said he was working to send money home for his nine-year-old daughter.
He said: "There is no problem for me, this is my home now."
"This place here is the equivalent of a garden shed in Poland.
"I have two homes, back home [in Poland] but I just don't want to go back."
Reginald Seals lives in a house further down Ermine Road and said: "Nobody should be living in this squalor.
"We should all have somewhere to live, some running water and heating."
A neighbour, Caterina Dipisa, has lived in her home for 19 years and said: " I don't want to open my door. I'm scared. Maybe they do nothing to me, but I'm scared."
Nearly 400 people at all levels of racing took part in the study, which has been seen by BBC Sport.
It found more women are entering racing from college courses, outnumbering men by a ratio of nearly 70:30.
But the report identifies what is being described as "career stagnation" once women try to make progress.
It recommends an independent diversity steering group is set up for racing.
Nearly 80% of the participants in the research were female. All those who answered questions were given anonymity in the report, which was commissioned by Women in Racing (which seeks to develop the profile of women in the sport), researched by Oxford Brookes University, and funded by the Racing Foundation charity.
Among the key findings are:
Susannah Gill, a Women in Racing committee member who is also a director at Arena Racing Company which owns 15 British racecourses, said: "The report shows what you would hear anecdotally from people in racing. I think sometimes racing is seen as a conservative sport and people haven't openly shared their views.
"If you look who is on the senior boards of organisations in racing, the average is 16% women and we have several boards which don't have any women at the top level at all.
"So we're seeing a stagnation of career progression. That's something we certainly recognise in other industries as well, and I think we've probably known about it in horse racing. But this report is the first time we've seen it and talked about it.
"Most other sports, certainly those which receive public and lottery money, have already done this piece of work and are at the next stage."
Despite the high number of women employed at racing yards around the country, the report highlights the failure of many women to make progress in high-profile roles as trainers or jockeys. Women have struggled to break into the top 10 in the annual championships for those who ride winning horses or train them.
Amy Murphy is in her first year of training horses at Newmarket, the centre of Britain's racing industry. Still only 24, she became the youngest trainer in the town, and is one of the few women running a yard there - of 75 registered Newmarket trainers, only eight are female.
Murphy told BBC Sport: "You have to get the support and I think sometimes as a woman you probably have to prove yourself before people want to support you. Whereas if you're a man, they'd support you from day one.
"But we've had great support and loyalty from some big owners. Whether I would have had that support if we hadn't had the results we've had, I'm not sure."
Asked if she felt owners would be inclined to trust a man to train their horses rather than a woman, she said: "Not so much now, definitely that's probably what used to happen.
"But I think it's a much more open sport now. Women are doing great things. Five years down the line, there shouldn't be that question.''
Across Newmarket, trainer John Berry has been involved in racing for over 30 years. He believes some women jockeys hit a barrier in their 30s if they take a break from the sport to have a baby and have to re-establish themselves afterwards.
But he does not believe that gender should inhibit the way people in the sport are treated.
"I don't regard gender as an issue for any of the roles in racing, but then on reflection, not everyone thinks the same way," he said.
"So there is a lot of point in this report because everyone should feel that, and they don't, and if this report can help that to come about, then that would be good.
"In racing, the athlete is the horse and with all the jobs around that, whether jockey, trainer, people who work in the stables, who run the racecourse - no one gender is better than the other, and I mean that as jockeys as well.
"There are very good female jockeys, and moderate female jockeys. There are very good male jockeys, there are very moderate male jockeys. Neither gender guarantees you'll be good at something, neither gender guarantees you won't be good at it."
Already, 2017 has featured high-profile moments for women jockeys in racing.
Lizzie Kelly rode in the Cheltenham Gold Cup and then won the Betway Bowl at Aintree's Grand National festival. Katie Walsh rode again in the National, a race in which she finished third back in 2012.
The British Horseracing Authority's (BHA) figures show that women account for 12% of all licensed jockeys, but just 6% of all rides and only 1% of rides in the very top races.
Gill believes individual breakthroughs could mask more serious issues for the sport.
"In a way, those two examples [Katie Walsh and Lizzie Kelly] pinpoint the problems," she said.
"Both those examples are people who've had great family support, who've worked really hard but who have come from within racing. Whatever area of racing you come into, it can be hard to get on if you haven't already got the connections.
"So, while we want to celebrate success, we have to acknowledge it's not easy to get on in racing when you start from outside."
In an effort to promote opportunities for women jockeys, a series of nine races is being run through the season which will be reserved for female riders.
The Silk Series, organised by Arena Racing, began at Lingfield last week with the final race at Doncaster in September, featuring total prize money of £100,000.
The diversity report acknowledges the work of the BHA, racing's governing body, in increasing female representation on its own board. Seven of its 21 directors are now women.
The BHA says it "welcomes publication of the first ever research study of women's representation and diversity in racing. While this confirms that progress is being made on gender diversity, racing faces similar challenges to other sports in ensuring that people from all backgrounds are represented at all levels of our sport."
Chief executive Nick Rust said: "This survey serves as a stark reminder that while some progress has been made, there is much more that British racing needs to do to ensure that people receive the necessary encouragement, support and opportunities regardless of their age, gender, ethnicity, disability or social background.
"Today, we're restating our commitment to improve diversity in our sport.
"As the survey report highlights, to be successful, this requires a cross-industry effort, so we will now consult with racecourses and horsemen on additional actions we need to take, including the recommendations contained in this report."
Women in Racing believes voluntary targets for diversity in roles across the sport could potentially be introduced, but wants "champions" at the top of the sport to be driving through change.
The BHA has promised an update on progress by July.
Relatives had been contacted as authorities sought "confirmation of their circumstances", he said.
"At this stage we are not able to say anything more," Mr Turnbull said.
Two additional Australians were injured. One, a woman, was recovering in hospital, while the other was a man already on his way back to Australia.
"There are around 130,000 Australians living in the UK at any given time, and many Australian visitors, and there were many Australians in the vicinity of the attack," Mr Turnbull told reporters.
The prime minister vowed his nation would stand in solidarity with Britain, describing the attackers as "cowardly criminals".
"We defy them and we reject the poisonous ideology that they peddle," he said.
The Australian recovering in hospital was Queensland woman Candice Hedge, according to her mother, Kim Del Toro.
Ms Hedge, who is in her 30s, had been stabbed in the throat.
"She was hiding at the time, and the guy got her, and stabbed her in the neck somewhere," Ms Del Toro told the Australian Broadcasting Corp.
"She is ok. She has had surgery and she is quite OK."
Meanwhile, family and friends of a young woman from Brisbane have posted on social media that they have not been able to make contact with her.
They said Sara Zelenak was separated from her friends on London Bridge during the attack and hasn't been able to be reached since.
The 21-year old had been working in London as a nanny.
Clyde Campbell, two, died in his bed on 23 February 2014. Inverness Sheriff Court heard the cause was cot death.
Amanda Hardie, 30, of East Kilbride, pleaded guilty to neglecting him and exposing him to unnecessary suffering.
Sheriff Gordon Fleetwood said she had "placed her own desires, work and socialising ahead" of her child's.
Inverness Sheriff Court heard in March that medical enquiries established "no clinical basis" to link the neglect to Clyde's death.
Hardie pleaded guilty to wilfully ill-treating, abandoning, neglecting and exposing the child to unnecessary suffering or injury in her flat in Inverness between 1 October 2013 and 23 February 2014.
The charge went on to say she left him for prolonged periods and in particular during the hours of darkness whilst unattended and without adult supervision.
Sentencing Hardie in Inverness, Sheriff Fleetwood said: "You are not being punished for Clyde's death. I fully accept his death is not at your door.
"That a child should die is a magnification of the possible risks of leaving a child unattended. She has to take responsibility for that. This can only be dealt with by a custodial sentence."
Police Scotland has acknowledged the sentence.
Det Ch Insp Iain Smith said: "This harrowing case understandably shocked and saddened communities across the city of Inverness and wider Highlands.
"Amanda Hardie had a duty of care towards her children which she chose to ignore, not only on the night of Clyde's tragic death but on several other occasions."
He added: "Officers and partners who dealt with the incident and carried out the subsequent investigation are to be commended for their efforts in bringing this sad case to a conclusion.
"Residents of MacIntosh Road and the community of Raigmore are to be thanked for their assistance and strength shown throughout the investigation."
In March, Inverness Sheriff Court was told that Hardie often left Clyde in the flat when she went out to work at an Inverness nightclub until the early hours, or was seeing her boyfriend.
Fiscal Roderick Urquhart gave details of days leading up to Clyde's death, including the weekend of 15 and 16 February.
He said: "A neighbour states that over that weekend, while the accused was out at work, she passed the accused's flat in the evening and heard Clyde Campbell crying and repeatedly asking for his mum. She knocked on the door, but no-one answered and the crying stopped.
"On 19 February, Hardie found Clyde in the kitchen with a bottle of cleaning fluid, some of which had been spilt on his clothing. She took him to the Accident and Emergency Department of Raigmore Hospital, Inverness, to be checked. There was no indication he had swallowed the cleaning fluid and he was discharged."
Mr Urquhart also told of occasions when Hardie made no arrangements for childcare.
The fiscal said there had been concern about Clyde later in the day of 23 February and neighbours went round to the flat.
He said: "One of them saw that Clyde was lying lifeless in his bed and he contacted the emergency services. He struggled to perform CPR until ambulance staff arrived a short time later and they formally confirmed the child was dead at 15:11.
"Realising that something had happened, another neighbour contacted Hardie via Facebook and told her she had to return home as something was wrong."
Hardie was at her boyfriend's home at the time.
She eventually picked up the message and later told police there was no babysitter looking after Clyde.
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London Fire Brigade was called to Loampit Vale, Lewisham at 18:03 GMT.
No-one is believed to have been injured and firefighters are still at the scene.
Taxi driver Robin Mezin was passing through Lewisham, after dropping a passenger off at Canada Water, and filmed the scene on his mobile.
He said: "I looked to see if anyone was inside but it was empty, thank God."
She tweeted she was "proud to announce" she would be doing an eight-week run.
The Pitch Perfect and Bridesmaids star will play nightclub singer Miss Adelaide in the multi-award winning musical, which first debuted on Broadway in 1950.
Further casting for the show at the Phoenix Theatre will be announced in due course.
Wilson trained at the Australian Theatre for Young People, where she appeared in a number of musicals and plays. She also wrote and performed in her own productions before beginning her film career.
"I saw my first musical at age 14, a show called 42nd Street, after one of my family's dogs had unsuccessfully auditioned to be in it. It blew me away and I've loved musical theatre ever since," the 36-year-old said.
She added that playing "such an iconic role as Miss Adelaide" was "truly an honour".
"Hopefully I crush it, but you'll have to come and see me to find out!"
Set in Prohibition-era New York, Guys and Dolls depicts the city's gamblers, hustlers and nightclub singers. Some of its most famous musical numbers include My Time of Day, Luck Be A Lady and Sit Down You're Rockin' the Boat.
It is currently running in the West End, having moved from Chichester Festival Theatre, and is directed by Gordon Greenberg and choreographed by Carlos Acosta, the former principal with the English National Ballet.
Wilson recently presented a Bafta film award, and made light of the Oscars diversity issue, saying she had been "practising my transgender face" in the hope of winning a future award.
She also played actor Matt Lucas's sister in the hit comedy film Bridesmaids in 2011 and the two were recently housemates for three years in California.
Hose, 24, smashed 76 off just 43 balls to help the Birmingham Bears chase 174 to beat the Lightning at Edgbaston.
The innings was Hose's highest-ever score in T20 cricket and came just four days after joining the club on a three-year contract from Somerset.
"I can't remember a time when somebody has come out on debut and played like that," Bell, 35, told BBC WM.
"I've seen a lot of cricket here and that's probably the best debut I've ever seen from a Warwickshire player.
"I don't say that lightly. I've seen a lot of cricket and a lot of players, but it was incredible striking - he hit one into the top tier, which I don't think we've ever seen anyone do before."
Jos Buttler had earlier struck 80 off 43 balls for Lancashire, but Hose's aggressive innings, which contained seven fours and five sixes, and Grant Elliott's 45 from 33 balls took the Bears to a five-wicket win with two balls to spare.
It was their fifth victory from nine T20 Blast matches this season and moved the Bears into third place in the North Group, level on 11 points with leaders Yorkshire Vikings and second-placed Derbyshire Falcons.
The Bears play defending champions Northants Steelbacks next in the competition on Tuesday before the local derby with Worcestershire Rapids at Edgbaston on Friday.
Prime Minister Mark Rutte's centre-right VVD party had sought to strike a deal with the liberal D66, the Christian Democrats and the Green-Left.
The talks had been ongoing for 61 days since an election in March.
The Green-Left support open borders, while the other three want stricter controls.
The minister who had been tasked with forming the new government will submit a report to parliament before the members discuss how to proceed.
Geert Wilders, the leader of the anti-EU, anti-Islam Freedom Party, welcomed the news, saying he was ready to talk.
His party came second in the polls.
In 2012 it took 54 days for two parties to form a government in the Netherlands, the sixth-biggest economy in the EU.
A woman was attacked in a property in Cathays Terrace early on Tuesday.
This followed the sexual assault of another woman in the early hours of Sunday close to the Civic Centre.
Supt Andy Valentine of South Wales Police said officers were "keeping an open mind" as to whether the two are linked.
Earlier on Wednesday, police warned people to walk in pairs at night and stick to well-lit areas following the second sexual assault.
Supt Valentine added: "We understand this is likely to cause concern within the local community and enhanced patrols by our local Neighbourhood Policing Teams are continuing."
Karl Stoddart, 29, was on a jury hearing a case at Newcastle Crown Court in July 2014 when he researched the defendant's previous convictions.
He said he did not tell his fellow jurors until after they had all agreed on their verdict of guilty.
The part-time chef from Gateshead accepted he was in contempt of court.
He was given a sentence of four months in jail suspended for 12 months and he was ordered to pay £1,000 costs within three months.
After the matter came to light, the defendant's conviction was quashed at the Court of Appeal and a retrial was ordered, although it did not take place.
Mr Stoddart, of Swalwell, Gateshead, said he was ashamed of his stupidity and said the proceedings had hung over him like a "living nightmare".
The many regional and national public broadcasters - organised in line with the federal political structure - vie for audiences with powerful commercial operators. Each of the 16 regions regulates its own private and public broadcasting.
Around 90% of German households have cable or satellite TV, and viewers enjoy a comprehensive mix of free-to-view public and commercial channels. This has acted as a brake on the development of pay-TV.
Germany is home to some of the world's largest media conglomerates, including Bertelsmann and the publisher Axel Springer. Some of Germany's top free-to-air commercial TV networks are owned by ProSiebenSat1.
Germany has completed the switch to digital terrestrial TV broadcasting. Public broadcasters ZDF and ARD offer a range of digital-only channels.
While the press and broadcasters are free and independent, the display of swastikas and statements endorsing Nazism are illegal.
There are several national newspapers, but the press market is strongest at a regional level, with more than 300 titles. The Bild tabloid is the best-selling daily.
By 2014, 71.7 million people were online, InternetLiveStats.com reported. The leading social network is Facebook, with more than 25 million users. Its rivals include meinVZ.
She took part in a two-minute silence before laying a wreath at the Cenotaph in Whitehall.
The Queen was joined by the Duke of Edinburgh, Prince William and party leaders at the memorial parade.
She later joined a service of remembrance at Westminster Abbey, where she laid a wreath at the Grave of the Unknown Warrior.
A second day of services also took place in Australia, Turkey and New Zealand to mark the centenary.
Gallipoli centenary: In pictures
The national flags of Australia, New Zealand, Turkey and the UK were carried through Westminster Abbey and placed close to the high altar as a sign of reconciliation between old enemies.
The eight-month campaign on the Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey was one of the bloodiest of the war and the first to involve troops from Australia and New Zealand.
The allied operation was an attempt to force the Ottoman empire out of the war.
The Very Reverend Dr John Hall, Dean of Westminster, told the congregation: "We honour today the courage of the men at Gallipoli.
"The memory of the Great War provides for us warning and encouragement. We are warned that war must involve terrible suffering and death. We are encouraged by the spirit of national pride and determination shown by those we remember this Anzac Day."
At dawn the Prince of Wales, together with Prince Harry, attended a ceremony at the Anzac commemorative site in Turkey.
At the Cenotaph, the Queen joined crowds paying tribute to the 131,000 troops who died during the Gallipoli campaign - including some 25,000 British military personnel and 10,000 from Australia and New Zealand.
Descendants of those who fought and representatives from countries involved in the operation attended the ceremony.
And the principal party leaders - breaking off from the general election campaign - were also in attendance.
In Scotland, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and Scottish Secretary Alistair Carmichael joined veterans and members of the public to mark the anniversary at the Scottish National War Memorial at Edinburgh Castle.
Earlier, the Princess Royal took part in a dawn service at Hyde Park Corner, where crowds gathered to watch her laying a wreath at Wellington Arch.
And the Duke of Edinburgh joined a service of remembrance at St Paul's Cathedral in London.
Those gathered at the Cenotaph today heard music led by the massed bands - pieces drawn from some of the countries that took part in the Gallipoli campaign.
Those waiting along Whitehall listened in silence: service personnel, veterans of more recent conflicts, and members of military associations including the Gallipoli Association. Also present were descendants of those who fought in the campaign.
Among those watching was 10-year-old Edward Jackson, wearing the medals of his great-grandfather, Commander Arthur Mallet, who served in the Royal Navy and was injured during the conflict.
Near the Cenotaph, artist Nadir Imamoglu, who was born in Turkey but has lived in the UK for 40 years, has set up a sculpture based on a larger one he has created at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire.
It is made of young oak trees to reflect the ages of the men fighting at Gallipoli - the bare branches reaching into the sky. The sculptor explains this represents the arms of those injured in battle reaching out for help.
At dawn on 25 April 1915, thousands of allied troops launched an amphibious attack on the strategically-important Gallipoli peninsula, which was key to controlling the Dardanelles strait, a crucial route to the Black Sea and Russia.
1915-16
350,000 British troops, 25,000 died
79,000 French troops, 10,000 died
74,000 Anzac troops, 10,000 died
400,000 Turkish troops, 86,000 died
Among other events held on Saturday at Gallipoli:
Abdul Basit said no meetings were currently scheduled between the foreign secretaries of the two countries.
Diplomatic talks were postponed after an attack on an Indian air base in January which Delhi blamed on Pakistan-based militants.
Pakistani investigators were in India recently to investigate the attack on the base in Pathankot.
Indian media reports said that the team had told the Pakistan government the attack had been "staged" by India.
Last month, Pakistan also said it arrested an Indian spy in the restive Balochistan province.
India denied the allegations, but said the man was an Indian national and a retired naval officer.
Mr Basit told foreign journalists on Thursday that his country would like to have a comprehensive dialogue with Delhi to resolve their outstanding issues and were willing to wait if India isn't ready.
"As of now there is no date for the foreign secretary talks. I think you can say for now that the Comprehensive Bilateral Dialogue is suspended. Let's see if we can commence the process," he said.
However, a spokesperson for India's foreign ministry told The Hindu newspaper that the "countries are in contact" to work out dates for talks between the two foreign secretaries.
India accused Pakistan-based group Jaish-e-Mohammad of carrying out the assault in January.
Seven Indian soldiers and six militants were killed in the attack.
Ali Crawford opened the scoring for the home side, before a header from Lucas Tagliapietra made it 2-0.
Carlton Morris - on-loan from Norwich City - notched his first goal for Accies to make it 3-0.
United were lacklustre throughout and offered relatively little in attack. Christian Nade rubbed salt in United wounds, making it 4-0 in injury time.
Hamilton raced out of the blocks, with attacking midfielder Crawford shooting over after just 28 seconds.
Next to threaten was Hamilton's new German forward Gramoz Kurtaj, but his close range shot was well saved by Luis Zwick.
It took until the 14th minute for United to threaten and when they did it was a tame effort from John Souttar, easily gathered by Hamilton keeper Michael McGovern.
Hamilton finally got their first goal of the season in the 19th minute, and it came from the excellent Crawford. He weaved his way into shooting range before firing a low effort into the net.
The home side kept up the pressure and were soon 2-0 in front. Brazilian-born Italian defender Lucas powering in a header, which found the net via a post.
Three minutes later it was 3-0. Morris evaded the United defence to go one-on-one with United keeper Zwick and managed to poke the ball under the German and into the net.
United were lacklustre, and the best they could muster was a Chris Erskine effort from close range which McGovern palmed wide.
The second-half was much more tame, with Hamilton content to protect their lead while United struggled to respond.
Blair Spittal fired in a shot which McGovern easily saved and substitute Robbie Muirhead curled an effort wide.
In the final minute, a tricky run into the box from Erskine resulted in the attacker firing in a low shot, but McGovern got down quickly and produced a good save.
But substitute Christian Nade would provide the icing on the Accies cake as he converted from close range after good play from Kurtaj.
He has resigned with immediate effect and it was announced former party chairman Steve Crowther would lead UKIP on an interim basis.
Mr Nuttall took 3,308 votes in Boston and Skegness - more than 10,000 fewer votes than the party's result in 2015.
He said it was clear "UKIP requires a new focus and new ideas" but was confident it had a "great future".
Since resigning as leader he has deleted his Twitter and Facebook accounts.
Mr Nuttall said the party was more relevant than ever and would continue to be "the guard dogs of Brexit".
"The prime minister, and I suspect it will be a Tory, must know that if they begin to backtrack or barter things away then they must know they will be punished at the ballot box and that will only happen if UKIP is electorally viable and strong.
"We are in effect the country's insurance policy on Brexit," he said.
UKIP saw its popularity collapse in the election after securing only 593,852 votes - down from 3,881,099 in 2015.
Mr Nuttall said after the election of a new leader, the party needed to relaunch and rebrand itself and required a new focus, new ideas and a renewed energy.
"I say to members: keep the faith, politics will come back onto our turf and we have to be organised and ready to take full advantage when it does," he said.
"To the voters I say: UKIP is still here and UKIP is not going away."
The party announced Mr Crowther had "overwhelmingly" been chosen by the national executive committee (NEC). He resigned as UKIP chairman in July 2016 but stood as a candidate in North Devon in the election.
UKIP chairman Paul Oakden said: "Conversations have taken place within the NEC to establish who is best placed to offer that stability in the very short term".
He added: "Steve has a solid relationship with the NEC, both former leaders and our biggest donors. He has seen this situation before and will know how best to navigate through these tumultuous weeks. Knowing that Steve came top in the last NEC elections by a clear margin, also gives us confidence that he has the support of our membership."
Mr Nuttall took over from Nigel Farage as leader of UKIP last November.
Asked about a future role for Mr Farage in the party, Mr Nuttall said: "If Nigel Farage wants to come back, I would be more than happy to do a job swap.
"I'll take his slot on LBC (radio station) and he can come back as leader of UKIP."
Mr Nuttall, a former history lecturer, joined UKIP in 2004 after running for the Conservatives in a council election in Bootle two years earlier.
He became an MEP for North West England in 2009 and served as UKIP deputy leader from 2010 until September last year.
After Mr Farage resigned as UKIP leader following the Brexit referendum in July, Mr Nuttall ruled himself out of taking over.
But when Diane James quit after just 18 days in the job, he put himself forward and was elected with 62% of the vote.
Mr Nuttall's resignation came shortly before UKIP's general secretary, Jonathan Arnott, also announced he would be resigning.
In a departing statement, he said the party had "lost its way in recent times" and he "profoundly disagreed" with UKIP's election campaign.
He attacked the party's "clumsy, blundering approach" to tackling female genital mutilation and its "hardline anti-Islam messages".
"The people pushing such an agenda need to reflect on the party's future. They need to stop making it difficult - impossible, even - for many people to vote UKIP," he said.
"This election result is the last wake-up call that they will ever get."
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Mr Oakden paid tribute to Mr Nuttall's leadership over "difficult months" for the party.
He said: "I want to offer my heartfelt thanks to Paul Nuttall for having had the courage and strength of will to forge on.
"Paul is a good, decent and humble man and I've no doubt that he will be remembered as the person who kept UKIP alive when everything seemed determined to bring it to an end."
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Referee Ibrahim Nour El-Din was attacked by players, officials and fans of Jordanian club Al Faisaly who lost 3-2 to Tunisia's Esperance after extra-time.
Esperance's 102nd-minute winner sparked violent protests from Faisaly who immediately vented their fury on the referee, claiming the goal was offside.
Despite being head-butted and elbowed as he walked off the pitch, the referee felt he was right in allowing the match to continue.
"I decided not to cancel the match because it would not be good for Egypt," Ibrahim Nour El Din said after the game.
"One of Al Faisaly's officials came to me and said sorry after his players attacked me, but then suddenly he also beat me.
"I accepted the insults from Al Faisaly because this tournament was on Egyptian soil and I did not want to fail - especially because it was the final," he added.
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It is the third time in Esperance's history that the Tunisians have been crowned Arab champions, having also achieved the feat in 1993 and 2009.
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Lochhead, who was appointed the second Scots Makar early in 2011, wins the prize for her body of work.
"Liz Lochhead has made a unique contribution to Scottish poetry," said Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy, who chaired the judging committee.
The medal is awarded annually, for either many years' work or a collection published in the year of the award.
"Since the early 1970s Liz has influenced an entire generation of other writers bringing a new kind of poetry performance to the stage, as well as a different set of rhythms to the page," Duffy continued.
"From the start, she spoke in her own feisty, female voice, mixing old Scots with new Scots... and she did this with a galvanising spirit and vitality that helped to change the landscape of British poetry."
Lochhead became a professional writer after teaching and lecturing in Fine Arts for eight years.
Her first collection of poems, Memo for Spring, was published in 1972 and won a Scottish Arts Council book award.
Her most recent collection, A Choosing, came out in 2011 and she is currently working on another one.
Lochhead, who will receive her award from the Queen in 2016, served as Poet Laureate for Glasgow from 2005 until her appointment as Scots Makar, Scotland's national poet.
The gold medal was first presented by George V in 1933, after a suggestion by then-Poet Laureate John Masefield.
The recommendation for the winner, which has to be approved by the Queen, is made by a panel of experts chosen by the Poet Laureate at the time.
On Tuesday the council cabinet decided to look for a private firm to run the nursing dementia home at Bodlondeb Care Home in Penparcau, Aberystwyth.
But four councillors have written to the council saying they would prefer residential care remains alongside the nursing dementia beds.
The scrutiny committee will review the decision over the next two weeks.
Another vote is possible if the committee disagrees with the decision.
The 15-year-old went missing after a night out in Donegal in 1994.
Her body has never been found. Child killer Robert Howard, who died in prison last year, was the main suspect.
Arlene's sister Anita McGale appeared for the first time at her inquest at Omagh Courthouse on Monday.
Timeline: child killer Robert Howard
Ms McGale said the Castlederg schoolgirl always told her where she was.
She also told the inquest that Arlene had never told her she was pregnant or had had a miscarriage.
The inquest heard in February that Arlene was from a troubled background and that she may have been pregnant when she went missing.
Asked by counsel for the coroner why Arlene would have told such a story to other people, Ms McGale said she did not know.
Arlene lived with her sister Anita for one and half years after her mother died.
Social services said she could not live with her father who had started drinking heavily after his wife's death.
The arrangement ended after Anita's then husband Seamus McGale was accused and subsequently jailed for sexually abusing Arlene in 1993.
Naz Malik, ex-head of All Wales Ethnic Minority Association (Awema), is also accused of using charity funds to pay for £3,500 life assurance for his wife.
Awema was wound up in 2012 when its public funding was stopped after claims of financial mismanagement.
Mr Malik denies three counts of fraud.
The charity distributed public money to projects across Wales in order to promote equality and diversity.
Prosecuting, Jim Davis, said in March 2010 Mr Malik asked the charity's finance director Saquib Zia for an advance to cover expenses, using a blank cheque signed by its treasurer.
Mr Zia said the request would need to be approved by the board, but eventually gave one to Mr Malik, which he later made out for £2,500 to reduce his credit card bill.
Four months later Mr Malik took another signed cheque from Mr Zia's drawer while he was away from the office, the court heard.
The cheque was then paid into Mr Malik's account in August 2010 for the sum of £9,340.36 - the exact amount owed on his credit card.
Mr Davis said: "While the defendant was running Awema he defrauded the charity by drawing two cheques for £2,500 and £9,340 which he was not entitled to.
"He was acting dishonestly when he did that.
"The defendant was not authorised to use charity money to reduce his own credit card bill. He knew full well he was not entitled to do so."
The court also heard Mr Malik used the company's bank account to pay for a life assurance policy in the name of his wife, Bronwen Malik.
The policy would see her receive a lump sum of £120,000 in the event of Mr Malik's death.
The monthly direct debit payments of £89.52 were paid from early 2008 to early 2012 leading to a total of more than £3,500.
Jim Davis said these monthly payments had been hidden in the company accounts as "insurance", adding: "He was being dishonest and defrauding the charity."
Mr Malik claimed the two cheques were for expenses and and he was entitled to the life assurance policy because of a salary sacrifice arrangement he had made.
The trial continues.
The 32-year-old was released by League One side Northampton Town last week despite being named player of the year.
Diamond, who began his career with Aberdeen and has also played for Oldham and Burton, played 45 games for the Cobblers in 2016-17.
Stags manager Steve Evans said: "He is a dominant centre-back who is vociferous on the pitch and a leader of men. He is still highly ambitious."
The length of Diamond's contract has not been revealed.
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They also point to the lack of any reference to the scale of this change in the Conservative manifesto.
In local authorities where most of the schools are good, including some core Conservative heartlands, councillors are outraged at the prospect of no longer having a role in the quality of local education.
They're bridling at the implied criticism of their stewardship.
There is, says Christine Blower, general secretary of the National Union of Teachers, opposition that is "both very wide and very deep".
So what form might opposition take? Trade unions can consider industrial action but only on a legitimate trade dispute, not government policy.
If all schools become academies that would mean an end effectively to national pay scales, so that is where union opposition is likely to be located.
Conservative councillors will lobby MPs and the party leadership. Their influence lies in the ability to embarrass.
A very slender government majority among MPs, no majority in the Lords and a party fractious over the European Union aren't a recipe for making passing any legislation easy.
There is bound to be significant wrangling over amendments to any law to force schools down the road to becoming academies.
But there is no sign of any wavering from ministers. When I asked Schools Minister Nick Gibb this morning how he felt about opposition from within his party, he told me they were pressing ahead because in every area there are some schools that fall behind and that's not acceptable.
They want to break what they see as a monopoly of local authorities, to offer parents a choice between different brands of education from different chains of academy schools.
On Saturday, Nicky Morgan is likely to tell audience of teachers at the NASUWT teacher union conference that she, and the government, are not for turning on this issue.
And there is a thought provoking precedent. In the last Parliament, under a coalition government, the largest reorganisation of the National Health Service in living memory was carried out despite sustained and noisy opposition. The details had not been spelt out in the manifesto.
The difference maybe is that the issues in this case are easier for the public to grasp, particularly as for the moment thousands of parents are involved in sitting on the governing bodies of their local schools.
It takes something to unite union stalwarts with Tory leaders from the county shires.
But that's exactly what the plans to compel all state schools to become academies have done.
The 40-year-old American won his 14th major at the US Open in 2008 but has not won a PGA Tour event since 2013.
He has not played since August 2015 after back surgery, and postponed his planned return at the recent Safeway Open, stating his "game is vulnerable".
Speaking to CBS, Woods was asked if he thinks he can reach Nicklaus' tally of 18 majors. He said: "To be honest, no... I'm going to get more [than 18]."
Woods was still world number one in May 2014, but has now slipped to 802 in the rankings. He missed the entirety of the 2016 season and has not competed since the Wyndham Championship 14 months ago.
The four-time Masters champion will turn 41 on 30 December - Nicklaus won just one of his majors at an older age, claiming the 1986 Masters at the age of 46.
Woods added: "Jack has always been one of my heroes. I looked up to him. I wouldn't say I lusted for his record, I just think that was the gold standard."
In the aftermath of the latest delay to his comeback, six-time major winner Nick Faldo told BBC Sport "everything is stacking up against" Woods competing against the best in the world.
However, Woods is still hopeful of competing at the Hero World Challenge - a tournament he hosts - in December.
The ruling is a significant, although not totally unexpected, setback for Theresa May.
What will the prime minister do next and what impact will the ruling have on the process of leaving the EU, following last year's referendum vote?
The highest court in the UK dismissed the government's argument that it has the power to begin official Brexit negotiations with the rest of the EU without Parliament's prior agreement.
By a margin of eight to three, the 11 justices upheld November's High Court ruling which stated that it would be unlawful for the government to rely on executive powers known as the royal prerogative to implement the outcome of last year's referendum.
But it said the precise form the legislation should take was "entirely a matter for Parliament".
Attorney General Jeremy Wright said the government would "comply with the judgement of the court and do all that is necessary to implement it".
In a statement to Parliament setting out details of the government's legislative response, David Davis said he intended to publish an outline bill "within days".
The BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg said the details could be announced as early as Thursday, with a view to staging the first vote next week and getting it through the Commons within a couple of weeks.
We will get more details from the government later this week, with draft legislation already said to have been prepared in preparation for the appeal being rejected.
The new bill is expected to be short, with the government's lawyer suggesting during the hearing that "one-line" legislation could be put forward.
The justices did not specify the form the new legislation should take.
Both the House of Commons and House of Lords will have to vote in favour of it.
The bill will be given special priority by Parliament, whose order of business is still largely controlled by ministers.
While Tory MPs would like to see it fast-tracked through Parliament, many Labour, Lib Dem and SNP MPs will want as much time as possible to discuss a variety of issues and to make amendments.
The SNP responded to the ruling by saying it would table 50 "serious and substantive" amendments.
Labour said it too would seek to amend the bill but would not "frustrate" the Brexit process.
However it pans out, BBC Parliamentary correspondent Mark D'Arcy says the bill could pass through the Commons before the half-term recess in the middle of February, giving ample time for the Lords to then consider it and for it to become law before the end of March.
While there are some MPs who want the process to be delayed, they are vastly outnumbered by those who want the government to get on with it so that the UK will have left the EU by the time of the next election - scheduled for May 2020.
In theory, yes there is. But in reality it is extremely unlikely to happen.
Few, if any, Conservative MPs are likely to vote against Article 50. In fact, only one - the europhile former chancellor Ken Clarke - has said he will do so.
Given that the Tories have a working majority of 15 in the Commons, this means that the bill is guaranteed to pass - especially since a majority of Labour MPs have said they will not stand in the way of the process and many will actually vote for Article 50.
Although the Lib Dems, the SNP and some Labour MPs are likely to vote against, this will make little difference. What will be more interesting is if a coalition of pro-European Conservatives and opposition MPs join forces to win concessions, over the extent of Parliamentary scrutiny of the two-year process.
Events in the Lords - where the government does not have a working majority and there are 178 non-affiliated cross-bench peers - could be more unpredictable. Mark D'Arcy says there are murmurings of an organised attempt to resist Article 50 and a "doomed last stand" by diehard Remainers.
But amid warnings that any attempt to block Brexit could trigger a general election, in which the future of the Lords would be a major issue - it is likely that the skirmishes will amount to just that and the government will eventually get its way.
The Supreme Court case wasn't just a battle over the powers of the executive and the legislature.
The justices heard a number of separate but related challenges to the government's Brexit approach, centred around the involvement of the devolved administrations in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
But the court unanimously ruled that devolved administrations did not need to be consulted, and did not have a right to veto Article 50.
The government has previously said Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland will be kept fully involved.
A suicide bomber blew himself up when security forces surrounded the building he was in, the interior ministry says.
The building collapsed, injuring 11 people, including police officers. Five other suspected militants have been taken into custody, officials say.
Millions of Muslims from around the world have gathered in Mecca for the end of Ramadan.
Saudi officials released no further details about the foiled attack.
Saudi Arabia has in recent years seen a series of deadly attacks, many of which were claimed by so-called Islamic State.
Most assaults have targeted the country's Shia minority and security forces.
In July 2016, four security officers were killed in a suicide attack near the Prophet's Mosque in Medina.
Saudi Arabia is a member of a US-led coalition fighting IS and other jihadist groups in Syria and Iraq.
But 13 years on from his election as a Labour MP he has found himself pleading guilty in an Edinburgh court to breach of the peace and facing a £1,500 fine.
The 53-year-old - who avoided jail but received a fine and a three-month pub ban in 2012 following a brawl at Westminster - was once a respected Army major and a Ministry of Defence aide.
In recent years, he has been better known for fighting with the Labour Party, and earning the unenviable tag of "Britain's most expensive MP".
Joyce was fined £1,500 at Edinburgh Sheriff Court after admitting abusive behaviour at the city's airport.
He was also ordered to pay compensation of £100 to the airport worker he abused in an incident on 19 May last year.
Two years ago he spoke outside a London court of his "personal shame" for assaulting four fellow politicians in a House of Commons bar, for which he was fined £3,000 and ordered to pay £1,400 in compensation to his victims.
Four years ago he was convicted of drink-driving and following the February 2012 bar brawl, allegations of an inappropriate friendship with a teenage girl were splashed in a tabloid newspaper.
It all started out out so differently for the former Army major, who spent 21 years in the forces, latterly with the Royal Army Education Corps.
He went on to serve as an aide to four ministers, including two defence secretaries.
Joyce first came to public attention in 1998, when he branded the Army "snobbish and rife with racism and sexism", while still a serving soldier.
Writing a series of articles, including an unauthorised pamphlet for the left-wing Fabian Society, Joyce said he had a duty to speak out, insisting he only did so to change the forces for the better.
He later began making regular media appearances and launched a magazine, the Armed Services Forum, which contained severe criticism of the forces.
His comments were too much for the Army, which branded him unemployable.
Joyce, who by the end of 1998 was suspended but still on the Army payroll, made it onto the shortlist of Labour candidates for the first Scottish Parliament elections in 1999 - sparking Tory claims that he was being protected by the government.
But it was Westminster, rather than Holyrood, where Joyce would begin his career as an elected member.
The Falkirk by-election in 2000 was a headache for Labour in itself, given it was triggered by the resignation of popular MP Dennis Canavan, who had quit the party in protest to stand as an independent for the Scottish Parliament, after being excluded from Labour's candidate list.
Joyce won the seat - just - after a swing of more than 16% from Labour to the SNP, giving him a 705-vote majority.
He then got down to business, giving his backing to the UK government's military strategy in Afghanistan.
So far, so good for Joyce - until he began raising eyebrows over his travel claims.
Back in 2006, the full scale of the MP expenses scandal was years away from exploding, but Joyce went straight to the top of the list, after claiming a total of £174,811.
He put the bill largely down to travelling between London and his constituency, and pledged to halve his costs.
Despite his promise, Joyce again put in the highest level of allowances, claiming more than £187,000 in 2007-08.
Again, he said he would reduce claims by taking the train, rather than flying, as well as publishing a regular travel diary.
He also became one of several MPs who voted in favour of keeping the additional costs allowance for second homes, worth up to £24,000 a year. He was later told to repay some of his expenses claims.
MP expenses claims, 2006: "Expenses for Scottish MPs are different to other MPs, because of the geography and distance."
MP expenses claims, 2007: "When the details are exposed to me and to the public, then you have to sit back and say, 'is that something that is feasible' and my own view was that it probably wasn't."
Arrest for drink driving, 2010: "I had one of those bottles of wine on the plane, but not excessive."
Guilty plea over bar brawl: "I'm ashamed of that - and particularly apologetic to the people who were so badly affected, to my constituents, to my family, of course, and all the other people that were involved. Clearly that's a long list and a significant litany of sins on the evening."
Guilty plea over abusive behaviour: "My instinct is to stay [as an MP] but I don't know how I will feel in a few days. I am very embarrassed that this has happened. My constituents have seen this before, so they might think other apologies are not meant, but they are."
In 2009, Joyce also defended a decision to open two offices less than six miles apart in his constituency, saying his beefed-up operation would bring him closer to the voters.
Meanwhile, the MP was working away as an aide to the then defence secretary, Bob Ainsworth.
At a time when ministers were under intense criticism over their bid to reduce payouts for wounded soldiers, Joyce criticised the government's decision to appeal against compensation awards for two wounded soldiers, calling the move "bonkers".
He said the cases, if successful, would have been a victory for "bureaucracy over bravery".
Despite his previous support for the Afghan campaign, Joyce had become concerned and quit his defence role in September 2009, saying the UK could no longer justify growing casualties by saying the war would prevent terrorism back home.
Then, during a fringe meeting at the 2010 Labour conference, tensions between Joyce and his former boss boiled over in a very public way.
Launching a salvo, Mr Ainsworth accused Joyce of failing to come up with a single idea when he worked for him at the MoD, while Joyce, in a counter-strike, said Mr Ainsworth was "to the right of the Tories".
Before the last election, Joyce had added his name to the list of Labour MPs concerned about the direction of the party and afterwards, saying the party had become "sluggish" and had "no appetite at all for new thinking".
He had also questioned the government's commitment to renewing Trident nuclear weapons.
But in opposition, it seemed Joyce was on the comeback trail after being handed the role of shadow Northern Ireland minister under the new leadership.
However, he was forced to quit the role, after he was banned from driving after failing to provide a breath test in his constituency.
Pictures of Joyce emerging from a local police station in a dishevelled state after a night in the police cells did not help.
The scene at the Commons' Strangers' Bar in February 2012 was described as like something from the Wild West, as Joyce got stuck in to several of its patrons, after declaring there were "too many" Tories present.
Also on his list of victims was Labour whip Phil Wilson and two Tory councillors as Joyce, who had been drinking wine, shouted at police trying to restrain him: "You can't touch me, I'm an MP."
News of Joyce's drunken assault, coupled with the newspaper allegations, which were denied by Joyce, were enough for Scottish Labour leader Johann Lamont, who said he had become unworthy of representing the party.
A year later he was arrested again following an alleged brawl in a different Commons bar, which led to a ban on him buying alcohol in the Houses of Parliament.
He lost the Labour whip at Westminster after his 2012 arrest and, once again deemed unfit for service by his employer, Joyce announced his intention to quit as an MP, but not until the next election in 2015.
With no requirement for Joyce to stand down from parliament, given the community sentence handed down for the attack, he pledged to carry on as an independent MP after expressing remorse for his actions.
But this latest incident has left him reflecting on whether to continue as an MP until the next general election in May 2015.
Activists from Glasgow Palestine Action gained access to the Thales Group site, in Govan, on Tuesday morning.
They say the firm makes components for drones which have been used against Palestinian people in Gaza.
Police Scotland said seven women and three men had been arrested. They were due to appear from custody at Glasgow Sheriff Court on Wednesday.
Dywedodd Janet Ajao, sydd yn byw yn Sir Gaerfyrddin: "Rydw i wedi cael fy syfrdanu a fy nhristau gan weithredoedd fy mab sydd wedi lladd ac anafu pobl ddiniwed yn San Steffan."
"Ers sylweddoli mai fy mab oedd yn gyfrifol rwyf i wedi diosg dagrau i'r bobl a gafodd eu dal yn y digwyddiad erchyll yma.
"Rydw i eisiau gwneud hi'n gwbl glir, er mwyn osgoi unrhyw amheuaeth, nad ydw i yn cytuno â'i weithredoedd na'r hyn roedd e'n credu ac a arweiniodd ato'n cyflawni'r digwyddiad erchyll yma.
"Fe hoffwn ddiolch i fy ffrindiau, fy nheulu a'r gymuned o waelod fy nghalon am y cariad a'r gefnogaeth a roddwyd i ni."
Yn dilyn yr ymosodiad bu heddlu yn archwilio nifer o gartrefi gan gynnwys tŷ Mrs Ajoa.
Pwysleisiodd yr heddlu nad oedd Mrs Ajoa yn cael ei hamau o unrhyw drosedd.
Saethwyd Masood yn farw gan yr heddlu ar ôl iddo ladd pedwar o bobl wrth iddo yrru car dros balmant pont Westminster, cyn ymosod ar blismon y tu allan i blas San Steffan.
Russell, 29, is returning to Notts having played for them in wins against Worcestershire and Derbyshire in June.
He has since helped Jamaica Tallawahs win the Caribbean Premier League.
"The opportunity of bringing back one of the world's best players for the format is too good to miss," said Nottinghamshire director of cricket Mick Newell.
"In the two matches Andre played for us, he bowled at 90 miles-an-hour, batted explosively and was the best fielder on show.
"We'll take a squad of players to Finals Day, including Dan Christian, Imran Tahir and Andre as overseas players, and will pick the team when we get there."
Russell was part of the West Indies side that won April's World Twenty20.
Notts will face Northamptonshire in the first T20 Blast semi-final on Saturday.
Earlier this month, a Congolese man was beaten to death following a dispute over hiring an auto-rickshaw.
India has promised tough action against attackers who target Africans.
Thousands of Africans are studying at Indian universities. A student group is holding an anti-racism rally next week.
Three separate cases have been registered following last Thursday's incidents, in which six African nationals suffered injuries.
Delhi police official Ishwar Singh said the scuffles on Thursday night took place after local residents objected to the Africans drinking alcohol and playing loud music in the street.
The Africans said they were racially abused and attacked by a mob.
Indian Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj tweeted that she had spoken to police about the attacks and had asked them to meet the African students who were planning the demonstration at the Jantar Mantar site in Delhi.
Last week, heads of African diplomatic missions in Delhi refused to attend Africa Day celebrations in protest at the murder of Congolese national Masunda Kitada Olivier.
They said African nationals in Delhi were living in a "pervading climate of fear and insecurity".
Two men have been arrested over Mr Olivier's death.
In February, a Tanzanian student was assaulted and partially stripped by a mob in the southern city of Bangalore.
The "bugs" could cause companies to think users had spent longer reading news articles than they had done, and that more people had been exposed to non-paid posts than had been the case.
The alert comes two months after the firm revealed it had overestimated the average time users had watched videos.
But Facebook says none of the cases would have affected its fees.
Neither would all of the examples have worked in its favour.
One of the newly revealed flaws meant it was underreporting the percentage of users who had watched videos on its platform to their end.
Facebook makes more than 200 metrics about its site available to third parties.
The latest mistakes might appear relatively minor in nature, but one digital marketing expert said they undermined confidence in the social network.
"It certainly doesn't help when they keep having to restate metrics, especially when companies are buying ads based on that data," said Ian Maude, group development director at Be Heard.
"It adds to concerns that advertisers and agencies already have and underlines the argument that there should be some sort of independent third-party measurement system, which could give people a little bit more confidence in the numbers."
Facebook said that it planned to create a measurement council to give businesses a say in the development of future metrics, and that it had also created a new internal review process.
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From 214-5 overnight, the Proteas were bowled out for 361, with Quinton de Kock making 51 and Vernon Philander 52.
Off-spinner Moeen Ali took two wickets to end with 4-49, while left-arm spinner Liam Dawson claimed 2-67.
England's first-innings lead was 97, Alastair Cook then compiling 59 not out to leave the home side finished on 119-1, giving them a lead of 216.
It seems likely that England will be able to declare on Sunday, setting up the push for a first Test victory at Lord's in four attempts.
They will be aided by a surface showing increasing turn - the efforts of Moeen and Dawson make this only the second time since 1969 that England have taken six wickets with spin in the first innings of a Test on this ground.
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Moeen registered both his 2,000th run and 100th wicket in Test cricket on the second day and once again impressed with the ball on a sun-kissed Saturday.
Overlooked at the beginning of the day, he arrived to snare the important wicket of Temba Bavuma for 59, finding extra bounce to take an edge that was held at slip.
From 248-7, more than 200 behind, South Africa still had hopes of getting towards parity when De Kock blazed his way to a 36-ball half-century, the second fastest in a Lord's Test.
But he was well held at short cover off James Anderson by Ben Stokes and it was left to Philander, who suffered a painful blow on the hand off Anderson, to grit South Africa past 350.
Philander was the last to fall, bowled after a charge down the track to seal Moeen's best figures in a home Test in almost three years.
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In his first Test since giving up the captaincy, Cook gradually extended England's lead on a stodgy evening where the scoring rate failed to reach two and a half runs per over.
Without the injured Philander, whose right hand is swollen but not broken, South Africa persevered. Cook twice survived reviews for leg before and a difficult leg-side stumping chance.
Driving the spinners and angling the pace bowlers through third man, he shared an opening stand of 80 with Keaton Jennings, whose patience was finally broken with a waft at Morne Morkel that resulted in an edge behind.
Gary Ballance, in need of runs on his return to the side, ended 22 not out, a platform from which he can cement his place on Sunday.
In his first Test as captain, Joe Root had a mixed day, combining correct calls with others that were more dubious.
The decision to bowl pacers Mark Wood and Stokes first up in favour of Moeen was curious, but later a plan seemingly concocted with Anderson and Stuart Broad to post a short, square cover for De Kock worked.
Root was also bold enough to take the advice of Jonny Bairstow in calling for a review against Keshav Maharaj, who was well down the track when struck on the pad by Dawson. Root, arriving from mid-on, was swift to follow the conviction of his wicketkeeper and was vindicated by the lbw verdict.
The new skipper's next decision is likely to be the timing of England's declaration.
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Former England captain Michael Vaughan: "It's been a tremendous cricket wicket. South Africa will look back on day one and think they could have easily bowled England out if they'd kept the feet behind the line.
"England today, Joe Root made a couple of mistakes, he left the spinners and then turned to the second new ball. He should have started with Moeen after lunch. Steve Waugh used to say who were the best two bowlers and start with them straight away.
"South Africa, with the ball, were very disciplined but the technical side of Cook's batting is fantastic and I was really impressed with Gary Ballance, who came out with a positivity.
"It has ebbed and flowed, England have been on top and they should create an opportunity to go one up in the series."
BBC cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew: "England want to bat longer to make the pitch wear. They need more overs to really rough it up and make South Africa's task as difficult as possible.
"However, from an entertainment point of view, that last session was not high octane."
England seamer James Anderson: "We're in a very strong position and we're very happy with it. We've worked really hard. It didn't go smoothly in the first innings with the bat, then we bowled pretty well.
"Joe has been really good as captain. The guys have enjoyed him. He tried to be as positive as he could be and rotated the bowlers well. It was his idea to set that field for De Kock.
"Alastair Cook seems more relaxed. It's probably a strange week for him. I'm sure he's missing being captain to an extent, but it's a great opportunity to show that he is still hungry to score runs."
South Africa batsman Temba Bavuma: "It's quite frustrating that none of our batsmen could kick on. England had one guy who got in and went big for them and that has been the difference.
"We'll learn from that in the second innings and, hopefully, whoever manages to get in can do something big for the team."
On the suspension of South Africa pace bowler Kagiso Rabada, who is banned for the second Test following an altercation with Ben Stokes on Thursday: "There's no sense of injustice over the ban. He's quite an emotional character and he was aware of the consequences. He's heartbroken that he has let down the team, but we understand it happened in the heat of the moment."
Legendary Test Match Special commentator Henry Blofeld was asked to ring the five-minute bell before the start of play on Saturday - and he didn't disappoint...
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Robertson compiled a stylish century on the way to a 4-1 lead, despite three-time winner Higgins opening up with the 600th ton of his career.
And although two more centuries helped the Scot level at 4-4, Robertson held his nerve to progress 6-5.
China's Liang Wenbo opened with three centuries as he beat Marco Fu 6-5.
Wenbo said he played "beautifully" at the start of his match against Fu, and both he and Robertson expressed their relief at getting through.
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Robertson told BBC Sport: "It was a bit of an emotional rollercoaster.
"I played brilliantly to go 4-1 up but even at 4-1 the game is far from over against a player as good as John.
"Overall I am really happy with my mindset throughout the match and the way I played."
A final-frame decider in either match seemed highly unlikely after a breathtaking beginning at the York Barbican.
Robertson's response to falling behind was to repeat the majestic form he showed in his last-16 win over Stephen Maguire as he won four consecutive frames.
But world number seven Higgins then scored a 69 and two breaks of 134 in three frames to level at 4-4 and, although he hit back to force an 11th frame, a missed red early on proved telling and Robertson took full advantage.
The Cambridge-based Australian faces either Mark Selby or Matthew Selt in the semi-finals.
On the other table, Liang made breaks of 106, 132 and 138 and had 49 on the board in the fourth frame, but Fu made a brilliant 64 clearance that included a tricky green along the cushion to get off the mark.
Hong Kong's Fu reduced the gap to 3-2, and although he then slipped 5-2 behind he forced Liang into a decider, which the world number 29 edged.
Wenbo plays either Londoner Martin Gould or world number 81 David Grace in the semi-finals.
He urged China to act in order to reduce tensions, the White House said.
The US has in the past accused China of being involved in hacking government and commercial computer systems.
Earlier this month, the Chinese were blamed for a security breach involving the records of four million past and present US federal employees.
Speaking in Washington at the end of the talks, US Secretary of State John Kerry said the two countries would now work together to come up with a code of cyber conduct.
"There was an honest discussion, without accusations, without any finger-pointing, about the problem of cyber theft and whether or not it was sanctioned by government or whether it was hackers and individuals that the government has the ability to prosecute."
The US made it "crystal clear" that this was not acceptable, Mr Kerry added.
"We need to work through how all countries are going to behave, but particularly how we're going to work this out in terms of the bilateral relationship."
China has denied being behind the huge security breach at the US Office of Personnel Management (OPM) three weeks ago.
State Councillor Yang Jiechi said in Washington the US must "respect the facts".
He added that China was cracking down on hacking and was ready to co-operate with the US on cybersecurity issues.
Earlier in the year, China also denied accusations it was behind an attack that stole data from US health insurer Anthem.
The White House said President Obama also expressed concerns about the growing Chinese presence in the South China Sea.
But the two sides were keen to emphasise areas of agreement, including on ocean preservation, illegal fishing and climate change.
Pressley, 42, replaced former Scotland team-mate Graham Alexander in October 2015 with the club in the relegation zone and guided them to safety.
"The decision was made this morning following a meeting," said a statement on the club website.
"It was agreed it would be best to take the club in a different direction."
Assistant manager Neil McFarlane has also left Fleetwood on an announcement that came just 11 days before the start of the new season on Saturday 6 August, when Fleetwood travel to promoted Northampton Town.
Former centre-back Pressley, who was previously in charge of Coventry and Falkirk, had signed 10 players this summer ahead of the new campaign.
"Fleetwood would like to thank Steven for his professionalism and effort during his nine months at Highbury, particularly in successfully maintaining the club's League One status last season," the statement added.
"Our focus will now turn to the prompt recruitment of a new manager to take the club forward."
The Lancashire side failed to win any of their four pre-season friendlies and first team coach Barry Nicholson and academy director Stuart Murdoch will take charge of Tuesday's game against National League side Southport.
Having been beaten 5-0 at home by Liverpool, they went on a tour of the Netherlands where they drew 0-0 with Fortuna Sittard, lost 5-0 to AZ Alkmaar and were beaten 1-0 by Roda JC.
Former Fleetwood midfielder Keith Southern told BBC Radio Lancashire:
"Only he will know the reasons why he has decided to walk away, but it is frustrating from a fan's point of view because we're on the verge of a new season.
"It didn't think it worked out probably as he, or as chairman Andy Pilley, would have hoped.
"There will be reasons behind it but I think Steven Pressley will say he wasn't given the opportunity to bring in the players I'm sure.
"The way Fleetwood is structured at board level, Gretar Steinsson and Steve Curwood have a massive say on who comes into the club."
The so-called Internal Ball Camera drone was sent to take pictures and video of the work of the astronauts.
The drone can float in a zero-gravity environment and is operated from earth.
Dubbed a little ball of cuteness floating about in space it has been offering a window into life on the ISS.
Japan's Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) said the drone was delivered to the ISS in early June. But only now have the first images and videos that it captured been released.
According to the space agency, it can move "anywhere at any time via autonomous flight and record images from any angle".
Its purpose is quite simply to take pictures and videos - which until now had been done by the astronauts themselves as they document their work and experiments.
According to JAXA this currently "amounts to about 10% of their working hours".
The images can be sent in real time back to earth and will allow "flight controllers and researchers on the ground to check the crew's work from the same viewpoint as the crew".
The Prototype Fast Reactor (PFR) was shut down in 1994 after 20 years in operation.
Remotely-operated robotic tools have been specially designed for dismantling the reactor.
The facilities at Dounreay, near Thurso, are being dismantled and the site cleaned.
Among the most complex tasks involve dealing with the PFR and the Dounreay Fast Reactor (DFR). The DFR is contained within the site's landmark dome.
Graeme Dunnett, senior project manager of the PFR clean-up, said his team were using original schematics of the reactor to help them work out how to decommission it.
He told BBC Scotland: "Since it was operational no-one has been in that area for over 40 years so everything is having to be done remotely.
"We have gone back to the drawings and operating aspects of how it was put together.
"We are also fortunate enough to have senior members of the team who were present when it was operational and we have been able to use their experience to design and manufacture tools to take the reactor apart."
The man, who has not been identified, had received a tattoo with the words "Jesus is my life" five days before going for a swim in the Gulf of Mexico.
The man was then admitted to a Dallas hospital complaining of severe pains nearby to the tattoo on his calf.
Doctors advise that new tattoos be kept clean in order to prevent infection.
The man had a history of alcohol cirrhosis of the liver, and reportedly told doctors that he drank six beers daily.
Doctors at the Parkland Memorial Hospital put the man on life support 24 hours after he was admitted, as he went into septic shock.
Doctors say he tested positive for the flesh-eating bacterium Vibrio vulnificus.
The British Medical Journal reports that the pathogen is common in the Gulf of Mexico's coastal waters, and the risks of infection rises during warmer months.
According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, V. vulnificus causes 80,000 illnesses and 100 deaths each year in the US with most infections being attributed to eating raw shellfish.
Medical professionals advise that new tattoos be covered during bathing, and that people avoid swimming after getting new ink.
We ran a series of in-depth interviews with high profile women, such as singer-songwriter Alicia Keys, who talked to us about race, Donald Trump, and why she's determined to look the way she wants to look, and Simone Biles, who told us about becoming the greatest gymnast of all time and how she is coping with her new-found fame.
We also featured a mini series of films about women who have been part of groundbreaking moments of defiance. Ieshia Evans faced down a line of heavily armed police during the Baton Rouge protests against police killings of black men; Winnie Harlow defies the expectations of the modelling industry by building a highly successful career despite the fact she has the skin condition vitiligo.
And we hosted our first ever live festival - in the heart of Mexico City - which featured music, art, dance and debate. It was there that we showcased first BBC-made virtual reality experience. Based on testimonies from rescued women, the documentary allows you to "live" the story of a woman who is trafficked by cartels and is just about to be rescued.
Our main debate this year was on the inclusivity of feminism. Kimberle Williams Crenshaw, Heather Rabbatts and Gail Lewis explored whether the feminist movement has succeeded in engaging all women regardless of race, ethnicity, and sexuality.
A series of first person online articles from across the world challenged stereotypes and stimulated conversation - we heard from a French woman who regrets having children; a Chinese woman who regularly takes menstrual leave; and an Australian woman who helps treat rapists.
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A strong focus of our seasons is also on the women you may have never heard of before but who are doing astonishing things in their own communities. One of these is 105-year-old Saalumarada Thimmakka, who has planted and nurtured hundreds of banyan trees in rural India, in a bid to improve her environment and combat the stigma surrounding her childlessness.
We also asked our audience for their stories: Over one weekend they reported to us the street harassment they experienced in more than 43 cities and we then created a global map of the incidents.
We ended the 2016 season by asking: Is the internet sexist? Wikipedia is the seventh most popular site in the world but only 15% of Wikipedia editors are women and fewer than 17% of its notable profiles are of women. We held a 12-hour edit-a-thon in 13 countries and multiple languages to encourage more women to edit and write articles and profiles about women. The event was a record-breaking success with more than 450 articles about women added or edited - the highest number in a single event.
It suggests new EU regulations will make it much harder for beaches to attain the top "excellent" rating.
More than 99% of English beaches passed last year's tests, but this is forecast to drop by 6%, with the water of 25 beaches possibly classed as "poor".
Among those at risk are ones in Margate, Ilfracombe and Blackpool.
Others at risk are in Lancing, Lyme Regis and Fleetwood.
1: Allonby, Cumbria
2: Blackpool Central
3: Blackpool North
4: Budleigh Salterton, Devon
5: Burnham Jetty North, Somerset
6: Clacton (Groyne 41), Essex
7: Cleveleys, Lancashire
8: Fleetwood, Lancashire
9: Hastings, Sussex
10: Haverigg, Cumbria
11: Henleaze Lake, Bristol
12: Ilfracombe Wildersmouth, Devon
13: Instow, Devon
14: Lancing, Beach Green, West Sussex
15: Lyme Regis Church Cliff Beach, West Dorset
16: Morecambe South, Lancashire
17: Mothecombe, Devon
18: Porth, Cornwall
19: Porthluney, Cornwall
20: Seaton, Cornwall
21: Silloth, Cumbria
22: Spittal, Northumberland
23: Staithes, North Yorkshire
24: Teignmouth Town, Devon
25: Walpole Bay, Margate, Kent
Each week until the end of September, Environment Agency (EA) officials will wade in to the sea and in to lakes to take water samples at 400 locations across England.
The samples will be analysed within 24 hours at a laboratory near Exeter.
The agency's results will be available on a new website.
At the end of the summer, sites will have to display signs at all bathing areas showing if the standards have been passed and whether or not people should swim.
The measurements upon which ratings are based assess the levels of certain bacteria, including E. coli and intestinal enterococci, per 100ml of water.
Under the new EU regulations, in order to attain the "excellent" rating, the concentration level of bacteria can be only half of what used to be allowed.
It will also be harder to avoid the bottom "poor rating" under the regulations, introduced in January.
According to the EA, the two most significant sources of pollution that reduce water quality are sewage from water company infrastructure and pollution from agriculture.
The weather can also have a significant impact, with heavy rainfall washing pollution into the sea.
The hot, dry summer of 2013 saw lots of beaches getting an excellent rating, while the downpours of the second wettest summer on record, in 2012, reduced water quality.
This is on top of local issues such as mess created by dogs and seagulls, misconnected drains, or fats being poured down the drains.
However, the condition of the waters of the English coastline has dramatically improved.
In 1988 only 65% of beaches were declared fit for bathers.
Water companies have invested heavily, pouring £2bn into direct improvements to bathing water quality since 1990.
They have also pledged to spend £350bn over the next 15 years.
Ed Mitchell, executive director of environment and business at the EA, said: "Good bathing water is essential for people's health, local tourism and economic growth, and these new higher standards for bathing water will further protect the public."
Dr Stephen Bird, chief operating officer of South West Water, said that last year only one beach in the region failed the standards. With the new tests, this could now be nine.
He said: "We have already invested a huge amount in the bathing waters if you look in to our previous investment of £2bn.
"We are talking about another £20m to achieve these tighter standards, so in terms of additional investment, there's virtually no significant impact on the bill at all for these extra standards."
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When Conservative MP Michelle Rempel accused the government of treating the province of Alberta "like a fart in the room" over jobs, Green Party leader Elizabeth May took exception.
However, it was not the accusations of inaction which riled Ms May.
"I heard her say a word I know is distinctly unparliamentary, and I think she may want to withdraw it," the shocked Ms May said.
"The word was f-a-r-t," she continued, spelling it out clearly so as not to repeat the offending term.
Ms Rempel, who has represented Calgary Nose Hill since 2011, became equally incensed.
"Is my colleague actually serious? I just gave an impassioned speech about Alberta jobs, and that's what the leader of a political party has to say? No, I don't withdraw it."
Ms May was not letting it go, however.
"Decorum is important, and respect is important in this place," she scolded.
Unsurprisingly, the row has caused great hilarity on social media - especially in light of the political upheaval taking place just across the border.
"With all eyes on Trump's destruction of US politics and civil society, a silent but deadly political scandal in Canada," tweeted Josh Greenberg, director of one of Canada's leading journalism schools.
"Today was the first day I ate vegetables in 40 days. Today I could eat tomatoes," he told the BBC's Broadcasting House programme.
"It was fantastic, it tasted different, it tasted delicious, because I thought that I would not eat vegetables for years."
Mr Kalif is among the two million people who remain in Aleppo, which has seen escalating fighting in recent days between government and rebel forces for control of the key city.
More than 50 people were killed over the weekend, activists say, most in air strikes on villages surrounding the city,
Mr Kalif's comments give a glimpse of life for civilians caught in the fighting, with shelling so routine that a blast could be heard during the interview.
He talked about being frightened of being killed going to the marketplace, and his concern for his six-month-old daughter.
"She makes me optimistic. When I look at her eyes I see a good future," he said.
For years control over Aleppo has been split between the government-held west and rebel-held eastern neighbourhoods.
Residents lack water and power, the UN says. Most live in government areas, but around 250,000 are thought to be in rebel-held areas.
In July, government forces encircled the east, breaking rebels' supply lines. But opposition fighters struck back, reopening a corridor.
Clashes on Sunday appeared to focus on areas near the rebels supply corridor, with monitors saying opposition fighters sent a truck bomb into a government held district.
It may be an attempt by the fighters, made up of various rebel and Islamist groups, to secure their supply chain.
Reports from rebel-held areas suggest little has improved since the government siege ended.
"So far, nothing has really changed," Salem Sabbagh, a grocer in eastern Aleppo, told al-Jazeera.
Russia, who has been backing Syrian government forces, has said it will observe a three-hour daily ceasefire to allow in aid.
But the UN says this is not enough, calling for a 48-hour weekly pause.
In many ways Mr Kalif is lucky to have vegetables at all. Another resident told the BBC she was forced to cook leaves off trees to survive.
Despite the desperate situation, life goes on, says Mr Kalif.
"Every morning I will get up, I will see what happens, who is killed. This is the life that we live here."
During a heated BBC Wales Ask the Leader programme, Neil Hamilton said an extreme "strand of Islam" was having a "dramatic and disastrous effect".
He said the Manchester suicide bomber was a "fundamentalist Muslim".
He denied UKIP was targeting Muslims, but claimed "the problem exists only within the Muslim community".
The AM for Mid and West Wales said: "Part of the problem with Islamophobia today in Western society is that people feel that we've not been able honestly to discuss problems that undoubtedly exist within the Muslim community.
"There is a strand of Islam which is extreme and fundamentalist, which don't believe that women have any place in society.
"It doesn't matter how tiny the percentage is. It clearly has a dramatic and disastrous effect.
"The views espoused by the person who was responsible for that disgraceful, disgusting outrage in Manchester a few days ago is somebody who believes in fundamentalist Islam.
"The overwhelming majority of Muslims are just as outraged by this as anybody else. But until we actually deal with the particular problems that exist within that religion and no other within Western society - let's be honest about this, it is solely within Islam - this is something which will never truly be sorted out.
When challenged that UKIP was unfairly singling out Muslims, Mr Hamilton replied: "We're not targeting the Muslim community. The problem exists only within the Muslim community.
"This suicide bomber was a fundamentalist Muslim. All suicide bombers have been fundamentalist Muslims. We are targeting the root cause of the problem."
Mr Hamilton went on to say that it was an "unfortunate feature of the Muslim community that a very substantial proportion of Muslim women, towards a quarter, have very little command of English as a language".
"We will never get proper integration unless we do something to address this particular problem."
Asked how he would change that situation, he said it was "difficult" and that people could not be compelled to do what they do not want to do.
"I think it's got to come within the Muslim community itself," said Mr Hamilton.
Asked about UKIP's policy to ban face veils worn by Muslim women, he said: "You can force people to change the outward symbols".
He added: "The veil is a barrier not just to integration but also to treating women, I think, in a way which frees them from the confines of what I personally regard as anachronistic views about the role of women in society."
If the latest polling data is anything to go by then we are about to witness one of the quickest declines a political party has faced in recent times.
In the 2016 Welsh Assembly election, UKIP won 12.5% of the constituency vote and 13% of the regional vote.
For the upcoming election, polling data from the Wales Governance Centre puts UKIP on 5%. This is an 8% drop from opinion polls in January, a remarkable decline in such a short amount of time.
With UKIP voters seemingly moving in their droves to the Conservatives as Theresa May asks for a "strong hand" in Brexit negotiations, it is difficult to see what the party can offer.
UKIP's entire purpose has been to campaign for the UK to leave the EU - now that this is happening, what else does the party offer?
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Analysis of an election survey suggests 10.6 million voters aged 50-69 voted - about two-thirds of Britons that age.
But only 6.4 million - 46% - of Britons aged 16-24 voted, the study suggests.
The findings, based on the British Election Study, show a trend that began in the mid-1990s when the generational turnout gap began widening, continues.
However, part of the reason for the gap in number of votes is because there are more older voters.
Concern about apathy among younger voters has been a feature of the past few general elections, and organisations such as Bite the Ballot have been set up to try to get more young people on the electoral register.
But research from the Resolution Foundation suggests that the gap continues to be much wider than in elections of yesteryear.
It notes that there was just three percentage points in turnout between 66- to 80-year-olds and those aged 21 to 35 in 1964, when the study was first carried out.
That had widened to 26 percentage points in 2005 - slightly narrowing to 25 percentage points in 2015.
While they are not precise figures, the Resolution Foundation's findings are based on the BES, a survey which has taken place immediately after every general election since 1964.
The foundation measures turnout based on those who voted as a proportion of the voting age population - rather than those on the electoral register.
The report's authors point out that in 1992 - the last general election before turnout figures among younger voters began plummeting - 74% of 21- to 35-year-old voters surveyed said they cared "a great deal" which party won.
In 2015, that had dropped to 56%.
Over the same period, the figure rose from 78% to 81% for voters aged 66-80.
Laura Gardiner, senior research analyst at the Resolution Foundation, said: "This poor turnout among young people is a deep-rooted problem dating back to the mid-90s when young generation X-ers started turning away from the polling booth.
"This generational divide in turnout matters for our democracy but also has profound implications for policy if politicians feel they only need to target the votes of older generations to win power."
Under the terms of the deal, the two businesses will be run in a joint venture called Penguin Random House.
Bertelsmann will own 53% of the joint venture, while Pearson will own 47%.
The two firms said last week that they were discussing a deal. A report at the weekend also said News Corporation was planning a bid for Penguin.
The Sunday Times reported that News Corp - which owns publisher HarperCollins - was prepared to make a "substantial cash offer" for Penguin, expected to be about £1bn.
The tie-up between Penguin and Random House marks the first deal between the world's big six publishers. The others are Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan and Simon & Schuster. It would bring together the publishers of the Fifty Shades series and Jamie Oliver's cookbooks.
When news of the talks emerged last week, industry observers said that such deals were inevitable as firms sought to adapt to the changing publishing landscape. They are being hit hard by the proliferation of ebooks and the closure of some traditional High Street book retailers.
The rapid take-up of ebooks means publishers are trying to bolster their negotiating strength, most notably with Amazon.
Pearson chief executive Marjorie Scardino, who is leaving the firm at the end of the year, said: "Penguin is a successful, highly-respected and much-loved part of Pearson. This combination with Random House... will greatly enhance its fortunes and its opportunities.
"Together, the two publishers will be able to share a large part of their costs, to invest more for their author and reader constituencies and to be more adventurous in trying new models in this exciting, fast-moving world of digital books and digital readers."
John Makinson, chairman and chief executive of Penguin, will be chairman of the merged group, with Random House boss Markus Dohle becoming chief executive.
Based on recent results, combining the two firms will create a business with annual revenues of about £2.5bn and about one-quarter of both the UK and US book markets.
In 2011, Random House's revenues were 1.7bn euros (£1.5bn) with an operating profit of 185m euros. Meanwhile, Penguin recorded revenues of £1bn and a £111m operating profit.
London-based Penguin employs 5,500 people across the world, with almost 1,000 in the UK, and last year accounted for about 11% of the UK market. Random House has 5,300 global staff and accounted for almost 15% of the UK market last year.
Given the size of the combined group, the competition authorities may look closely at the tie-up, analysts said.
"In the UK the market share will be around 27%, so they may have to divest themselves of some non-core interests," said Philip Jones from the Bookseller magazine.
However, he said given the dominance of Amazon in digital books, such a move would be contentious.
"Amazon has 90% of the ebook market - if [the competition authorities] allowed that to happen, how can they block a merger that gives Penguin Random House 27%?"
The joint venture is subject to regulatory approval, but the two firms hope the deal will be completed in the second half of 2013.
Analysts suggest it could be the first of many deals between publishers.
"We have already seen a bit of consolidation, for example [French group] Lagardere buying [UK publishers] Orion and Octopus, but it is likely to accelerate as publishers need all the buying power they can get," said media analyst Theresa Wise.
"Amazon is so big that [at the moment] they don't have much power."
In a trading update, also released on Monday, Pearson said overall sales had increased by 5% in the first nine months of the year, with "good growth" at the Financial Times Group and at its International Education division.
However, operating profits were down by 5%, largely due to the sale of FTSE boosting revenue in the same period a year earlier.
Set a notional 539, the hosts were bowled out for 361 shortly before tea on the final day thanks to 21-year-old pace bowler Kagiso Rabada's 5-92.
Usman Khawaja made 97 and Peter Nevill an unbeaten 60 for Australia, who lost 3-0 in Sri Lanka in August.
Victory was South Africa's third in a row at the Waca, after 2008 and 2012.
It was completed without Dale Steyn, the world's number two-ranked bowler who was ruled out of the series on Friday with a fractured shoulder.
Australia, 169-4 overnight, survived for 119 overs in total in the fourth innings on a pitch featuring large cracks.
However, their first-innings collapse proved costly, slipping from 158-1 to 244 all out in response to South Africa's 242.
JP Duminy made 141 and Dean Elgar 127, putting on 250 for the third wicket in South Africa's second-innings 540-8 declared.
The second Test in Hobart starts on Saturday and the final Test in Adelaide on 24 November.
Australia batsman Joe Burns will replace Shaun Marsh, who suffered a broken finger in Perth, for the second Test, while the uncapped Callum Ferguson has been added to the squad.
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A total of 41 letters from the comedy legend, who was born in Ulverston, to Nellie Bushby between 1947 and 1965, go under the hammer on 16 September.
Newcastle auctioneers Anderson & Garland expect them to sell for up to £12,000.
Last year, one letter from the star to the wife of a friend, sold for £1,400.
The letters are owned by theatre buffs Rodney and Margaret Hardcastle, from York, who have built up a large collection of Laurel and Hardy memorabilia over the past 40 years.
Mr Hardcastle, a former chair of York Theatre Royal, said the couple were selling the collection because of a decision to downsize to a smaller home.
Mrs Hardcastle said: "We've always valued the letters, not in a financial sense, but through being able to have them.
"We bought them at Sotheby's in the late 1990s. We couldn't go to the auction because of work, so we thought we'd put a bid in and we didn't think we'd get them."
Stan Laurel, who was born in 1890, wrote to his cousin from his home in California, while filming in France and on tour in the UK.
They recall several spells of ill health and his thoughts following the death of Oliver Hardy. One of the letters was written days after his screen partner's death in August 1957.
The collection also includes theatre programmes, play bills, and a copy of Mr Laurel's birth certificate.
Anderson & Garland auctioneer, Fred Wyrley-Birch said: "The letters give a fantastic insight into the personal life of a very public man."
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The 29-year-old limped off during the first half of Friday's Premiership win over local rivals Bristol.
The former Scarlets player - who switched to the English club in 2015 - will see a specialist on Wednesday, Bath head coach Tabai Matson said.
"It is not looking really good. He is going to be out for a chunk of the winter," Matson told BBC Points West.
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Priestland was omitted from Wales' squad for the autumn Tests, as he was not one of their three players selected from outside Wales, a decision he "expected".
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Coastguards found the woman, who has dementia, on Sunday morning after a three-hour search of the Penzance area.
Lyn Hughes, manager of Tolverth House in Longrock, said "all procedures were followed" and the woman "escaped through a fire exit".
The care home has been rated as requiring improvement in its safety by the Care Quality Commission.
Ms Hughes said: "The patient escaped through a fire exit which had recently been fitted with new locks. All procedures were followed.
"She was checked every hour [by law residents must be checked every two hours] and once staff realised she was missing the authorities were alerted."
Penzance, St Ives and Lands End coastguard rescue teams joined the police and the Penlee RNLI lifeboats and a coastguard rescue helicopter in searching several miles of coast.
Andy Cattrell, senior coastal operations officer, said: "We and the police were very concerned. She was 90 years of age, a vulnerable patient of a local care home. With someone that age, she needed finding."
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Championship side Reading face Crystal Palace at home, while Watford will travel to Arsenal, who beat Hull 4-0 in a replay.
Manchester United earned a routine 3-0 win at Shrewsbury to set up a home tie against West Ham.
Matches will take place across the weekend of 11-14 March.
Chelsea beat Everton in the FA Cup final in 2009 when interim boss Guus Hiddink was in his first spell in charge of the Blues.
"It was a long time ago," said the Dutchman, after his side's 5-1 win over Manchester City in the fifth round on Sunday.
"They are longing for revenge. We hope to maintain the flow we are in in the FA Cup."
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Ruddington Parish Council faced some opposition when it decided to install dog poo bag dispensers around the Nottinghamshire village.
Now, some of the bags disappear almost as soon as they are restocked.
It is costing the council hundreds of pounds a year, so it has decided to remove some of the dispensers.
Nick Tegerdine, chairman of the council's environment and policy committee, said: "I really do worry what it is all about.
"There's a militant fringe of dog walkers in Ruddington who take the view that their dog can go wherever it likes and do whatever it likes, and I did get some opposition when we first proposed putting these dispensers in."
Other theories are that people are stealing them to use as nappy sacks, or taking dozens at a time and stockpiling them.
"What's happened is that certain dispensers are emptied systematically almost as soon as they are full," said the councillor.
"You're certainly barking if that's the attitude you take."
Like many areas, Ruddington has had an ongoing problem with dog poo not being cleaned up.
Last year, the council handed out chalk and asked residents to draw sad faces on the pavement next to dog mess to encourage owners to clean up.
Mr Obama said the memory of 6 August 1945 must never fade, but did not apologise for the US attack - the world's first nuclear bombing.
Mr Obama spoke to two survivors and in an address called on nations to pursue a world without nuclear weapons.
At least 140,000 people died in Hiroshima and another 74,000 three days later in a second bombing in Nagasaki.
Mr Obama first visited the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum before walking to the Peace Memorial Park, accompanied by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
Both men stood in front of the eternal flame. Mr Obama laid a wreath first, followed by Mr Abe.
"Death fell from the sky and the world was changed," Mr Obama said in his address, noting that the bombing had shown that "mankind possessed the means to destroy itself".
Mr Obama said the memory of Hiroshima must never fade: "It allows us to fight complacencies, fuels our moral imagination and allows us to change."
Of nuclear weapons, he said: "We must have the courage to escape the logic of fear and pursue a world without them."
Mr Obama then spoke to two survivors, hugging 79-year-old Shigeaki Mori.
"The president gestured as if he was going to give me a hug, so we hugged," Mr Mori said.
Mr Obama also talked to Sunao Tsuboi, 91.
The image of President Obama hugging a survivor will resonate deeply with the Japanese public. Opinion polls show that the majority of people welcome this visit and most, it seems, do not mind either about the absence of an apology.
The deep symbolism is enough; the leader of the only country ever to have used an atomic weapon laying a wreath in a city that has become a monument to the perils of our nuclear age.
But others will point out that, while his speech was long on lofty idealism, he remains the commander in chief of one of the world's largest nuclear arsenals, one that he has approved billions of dollars to modernise.
Standing just a few rows away from the president, as he always does, an officer could be seen holding the briefcase containing the nuclear launch codes.
Mr Obama had earlier flown into the nearby Iwakuni Marine Corp base nearby, after leaving the G7 summit.
Mr Obama told service personnel at the base: "This is an opportunity to honour the memory of all who were lost during World War Two."
Mr Obama praised the US-Japan alliance as "one of the strongest in the world", with his visit "a testament to how even the most painful divides can be bridged - how our two nations, former adversaries, cannot just become partners, but become the best of friends and the strongest of allies".
Many in the US believe the use of the nuclear bomb, though devastating, was right, because it forced Japan to surrender, bringing an end to World War Two.
The daughter of one survivor, who was visiting the memorial on Friday, said the suffering had "carried on over the generations".
"That is what I want President Obama to know," Han Jeong-soon, 58, told the Associated Press news agency. "I want him to understand our sufferings."
Seiki Sato, whose father was orphaned by the bomb, told the New York Times: "We Japanese did terrible, terrible things all over Asia. That is true. And we Japanese should say we are sorry because we are so ashamed, and we have not apologised sincerely to all these Asian countries. But the dropping of the atomic bomb was completely evil."
China responded to the visit by saying that Japan's six-week attack on the Chinese city of Nanjing, which began in December 1937, was more worthy of reflection.
The Chinese say 300,000 people were killed, although other sources say the figure was lower.
"Victims deserve sympathy, but perpetrators should never shirk their responsibility," Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said.
The Chugoku Shimbun urges Mr Obama to "hear the voices of Hiroshima". "The people of Hiroshima will be watching the president closely, eyeing to what extent he is truly resolved to advance the abolition of nuclear arms," it said.
The Asahi Shimbun carries an article saying Mr Obama's "gestures will shape the visit", with the "most powerful gesture" being to "just listen to the bomb victims' memories of suffering and activism".
The Japan Times says: "To truly pay homage to those whose lives were lost or irrevocably altered by the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, Obama's visit must galvanise the international community to move without delay toward a world free of nuclear weapons. The fact that these weapons have not been used over the past 70 years does not guarantee a risk-free future for our children."
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Costelloe spent last season with the British Basketball League side.
Lokan, 25, who is also capable of playing as a centre, spent the summer with Western Australia state league side Perth Redbacks.
"Simon is a versatile big guy that can stretch the floor with his outside shooting," coach Daryl Corletto said.
"He'll give us options to play with a big line up at stages in some games."
Raiders head coach Jonathan White said Costelloe was "a great story" for the club last season.
"He was definitely one of the positive things to come out of the roller coaster season on court. Dylan was a major part of our results towards the end of last season," White added.
The star plays the lost stanza sitting at her home piano, hesitating as she tries to make the words fit the melody.
"This is a verse that I haven't ever sung," she explains. "I wrote it a while ago on a pad, but it never made it into the song."
But the lyrics do not reveal the subject of the song, whose identity remains one of rock's biggest riddles.
"A friend of yours revealed to me / That you'd loved me all the time," sings Simon, who is now 71.
"[You] kept it secret from your wives / You believed it was no crime."
The lyrics were previously printed in Simon's 2015 memoir, Boys In The Trees, but she has never before sung the verse.
The clip comes from the latest episode of the BBC's Classic Albums series, which looks at Simon's 1972 album No Secrets.
You're So Vain was the album's first single and introduced a rockier sound for the singer-songwriter - something she initially resisted.
"I didn't really like the direction of the record," she says in the documentary, explaining that she "fought" producer Richard Perry "all the way", until she first heard You're So Vain on the radio in a New York taxi cab.
"It sounded so good over the radio and I thought, 'no matter what the other songs sound like, I don't mind because this one turned out so well.'"
The song went on to top the US charts and reached number three in the UK. It is a critical portrait of a self-absorbed man who "walked into the party like he was walking onto a yacht".
Over the years, Simon has refused to say who the song is about; although in 2015 she told People magazine that the second verse referenced actor Warren Beatty.
"It was my [book] publisher who called up and said, 'People Magazine will put you on the cover if you tell who You're So Vain is about, or just give one verse up.'" she told the BBC.
"And so I therefore decided to give a little bit away. Now, that doesn't mean that the other two verses aren't also about Warren. It just means that the second one is."
Arlyne Rothberg, Simon's manager in the 1970s, says "endless numbers of people" had asked her to reveal the secret, but "we never talked about it at all.
"The answer wasn't as important as the game."
However, she revealed, "the subject, [the person] who it was about, loved the fact. He couldn't have been more pleased."
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21 January 2016 Last updated at 07:08 GMT
It's thought Sir David Attenborough has uncovered the world's biggest dinosaur for his latest documentary.
He told Newsround he believes there's a very small chance the prehistoric beasts could be brought back from extinction.
Leah went to meet him.
Statutory pre-tax profits for the year to March to £1.054bn, down 17% from last year's figure of £1.279bn.
However, Nationwide said 795,000 new current accounts had been opened in the year to March.
That was a record for the society, it said, and more than any other provider in the UK.
The rise of 35% represented one in seven of all new accounts opened. It added that nearly one in five people switching their accounts became customers of the building society.
Chief financial officer Mark Rennison said: "Nationwide has delivered a very strong trading performance over the last year, with record levels of active members, mortgage lending and current account openings."
The Bank of England cut its benchmark interest rate to a record low of 0.25% last summer following the Brexit vote. Nationwide said it kept rates unchanged on some savings accounts while passing on the rate cut to its mortgage customers.
Mr Rennison said: "We chose to protect savers from the full effects of last summer's interest rate cut, knowing that this would reduce our full year profitability in the continuing low interest rate environment, but considering this to be in our members' best interests."
Chief executive Joe Garner said the building society had seen "record use of online services driven by our mobile app" but added that branches continued to play an important part in the business.
He said that £80m was being invested in upgrading branches this year and added: "We still see a vital role for the branch network, despite the continued withdrawal of financial services providers from High Streets over the last two decades.
"We are exploring ways to ensure branches remain financially viable in a future where members may use them less.
"Similarly, we're piloting a new community branch in Glastonbury, which opened in April, to test the viability of combining personal service and the latest technology to serve communities left without a bank."
Mr Garner also revealed that Nationwide will stop offering car insurance to new customers from next month, will wind down its commercial lending business and will stop offering inheritance planning advice.
"We believe it is not in the interests of our society to provide services which are not core to our business," he said.
Bad weather at the Fox Glacier has hampered attempts to reach the site.
The bodies of four of the seven victims have been recovered so far.
The Britons are Andrew Virco, 50, and Katharine Walker, 51, from Cambridge, and Nigel and Helen Charlton, aged 66 and 70, from Hampshire.
The aircraft crashed in a crevasse on the glacier, on New Zealand's South Island, on Saturday morning.
The crash site is on the island's remote west coast, which is a popular tourist area.
Also among the dead are Sovannmony Leang, 27, and Josephine Gibson, 29, both from New South Wales, Australia, and pilot Mitchell Gameren, 28, from Queenstown, New Zealand.
The bodies which have been recovered have been taken to a temporary mortuary facility nearby for formal identification, which New Zealand Police say might take several days.
The cause of the crash is being investigated.
Rebecca Walker, 22, said her mother, Katharine, "worked hard and she played hard".
"She affected so many people in so many good ways," she told the BBC.
She added that the couple's "big adventure" to New Zealand was to celebrate turning 50.
Colleagues of Ms Walker, who was head of radiotherapy at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge, are said to be "devastated" by her death.
The family of grandparents Mr and Mrs Charlton, who lived in the village of Dunbridge, near Romsey, said they were "deeply saddened".
"They were very adventurous when it came to travel and this holiday was to be their last big adventure together," their statement said.
Operation commander inspector John Canning said they were "determined to return these people to their families" but said they faced a "complex and technical task".
"The site is near the top of the glacier, it's all ice, it's not level and there are blocks of ice as big as buildings with crevasses between them," he said.
The helicopter involved is believed to be a Eurocopter "Squirrel" operated by local firm Alpine Adventures, which also trades as Fox Glacier Heliservices.
In a statement the firm said: "Fox Heliservices' thoughts are with the families of the passengers and pilot.
"The pilot was a very valued member of our team. The New Zealand Police and Civil Aviation Authority have taken over the investigation."
A UK Foreign Office spokesman said it was providing consular assistance to the families of those killed.
The woman was attacked in Mountcastle Drive North at 03:00 on Sunday as she was getting out of the front passenger side of the car.
She was dragged to the ground, receiving minor injuries, and her red canvas bag was stolen.
Detectives believe the crime could be linked to an attempted break-in at a nearby property.
The suspect was described as being white, in his 20s, about 5ft 8in tall and of medium build.
He was wearing a grey hooded top with grey bottoms, and was last seen heading towards Hamilton Drive.
Officers are also keen to trace another man seen in the area at about the same time.
He was described as being white, in his 20s, 5ft 8in tall and of medium build. He was wearing black clothes.
Det Con Stevie Herd said: "We believe that an attempt may have been made to break-in to a nearby home shortly beforehand and are currently treating this as linked to the robbery.
"Anyone who may have witnessed the robbery, or saw any suspicious behaviour in the area around this time, is urged to get in touch."
British citizen Nicky Paul Mitchell claimed that being sent to the US would breach his human rights.
He argued that if found guilty, he could face indefinite detention as a sex offender and two decades in jail.
But two High Court judges rejected his case, two years after the US Department of Justice called for his extradition.
The allegations against Mr Mitchell relate to 2013 when he worked as a nanny to a family in Georgia with three children.
An undercover FBI officer used a peer-to-peer online network and observed that someone with the username Mitch287 had 897 files in a protected folder - containing images of boys exposing themselves or engaging in sexual acts.
In March 2014, after a federal grand jury hearing in Atlanta, Georgia, Mr Mitchell was accused of inter-state distribution of child pornography.
The charge does not involve allegations of "contact molestation" with any child, that court heard.
After the US requested his extradition to Atlanta in October 2014, Mr Mitchell was arrested in the UK and appeared before Westminster Magistrates' Court, which referred his case to the then home secretary Theresa May.
In April 2015, she agreed to the extradition.
Mr Mitchell appealed on the grounds that if convicted, he faced the risk of a civil commitment order under which he would face indefinite detention as a sex offender, as well as a lengthy prison sentence.
But Lord Justice Gross and Mr Justice Nicol rejected his claim and he now faces extradition.
Mr Justice Nicol said an assurance had been received from the US Department of Justice that Mr Mitchell, if found guilty, would be deported from America "as quickly as possible" on completing any prison sentence.
Taylor, 23, joins the Clarets on a four-year contract.
The full-back turned down an offer to stay at Leeds, where he was out of contract, but Burnley will still have to pay a fee as he is under 24.
Republic of Ireland forward Walters, 33, is also heading for Turf Moor after Burnley agreed a fee with Stoke that could reach £3m.
Taylor, who made 104 appearances for Leeds, said: "I've been there since I was nine and I knew it was the right time. There were so many things that attracted me to Burnley; it ticks every box and it was a no-brainer really.
"That's the huge attraction of the Premier League, just everything about it. Week in, week out, you are playing teams like Chelsea and Manchester United, so I just can't wait to get started."
Burnley have so far been unable to agree a fee with Leeds for Taylor, and the matter is likely to be settled by a tribunal.
Walters has spent seven years at Stoke, scoring 43 goals in 226 Premier League appearances, and is thought to be keen to link up with Burnley manager Sean Dyche.
Clarets striker Andre Gray, who has reportedly rejected a new contract, has been linked with a £15m move to fellow Premier League side West Ham.
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Sylvia Baillie was left scarred for life after the attack by a Japanese Akita in Paisley on 13 July.
Patrick Maher, 45, and Leeanne McHugh, 35 appeared in private at Paisley Sheriff Court.
They were charged with breaking the Dangerous Dogs Act. They made no plea or declaration.
Maher faces two additional charges under the same section of the act.
Prosecutors claim he was in charge of the dog at a Keystore in Paisley's Glenburn Road on 26 June when it was again dangerously out of control.
And on 30 June it is said to have attacked another person in Paisley's Glenfinner Road.
The case was continued and the pair were released on bail to an address in Renfrew.
17 February 2016 Last updated at 13:30 GMT
Incumbent President Mahamadou Issoufou faces four main rivals in the presidential race - one of whom is in jail.
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Qasab, 21 at the time, was the only surviving member of the group that launched a bloody rampage across the Indian city, killing 166 people.
In the immediate aftermath of the attacks, security forces struggled to collect information about the young man.
Only after several months did Pakistan admit that he was one of their citizens, from the province of Punjab.
More specific details are hard to pin down. Indian officials originally portrayed him as a middle-class boy who spoke good English.
But subsequent reports suggested he came from a remote village called Faridkot, where his father sold food.
He had received little education, the reports said, and had spent his youth alternating between labouring and petty crime.
In an interview with Pakistani media, a resident of Faridkot identified Qasab as his son. He said that he had left home four years before the attacks.
"He had asked me for new clothes on Eid [the Muslim festival] that I couldn't provide him. He got angry and left," Dawn newspaper quoted the man as saying.
At some point, India says, Qasab came under the influence of the Lashkar-e-Taiba militant group. After training in one of several remote camps, they say, he was hand-picked for the Mumbai operation.
He was captured on camera at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, a slight figure in combat trousers and a blue sweatshirt, clutching an assault rifle.
He "walked as if no-one can touch him", a photographer who took the picture of him told the court in June.
"Initially I saw two dark figures. They fired towards the ticket window. When they opened fire towards us it confirmed they were terrorists," Sebastian D'Souza said.
Captured after a shoot-out with police, Qasab was interrogated and then charged with 86 offences, including murder and waging war on India.
Prosecutors said he had confessed - but his lawyers then said his statement had been coerced, and it was retracted.
His trial began in March 2009 and at first, correspondents say, he appeared relaxed. He smiled periodically and occasionally joked with officials.
His defence had attempted to argue that he was under 18 and so a minor. Asked in May 2009 to confirm his age, he provoked laughter by stating that if prosecutors had believed him then he would not now be in court.
Later his demeanour grew more serious, even erratic.
When a 10-year-old girl injured in the attacks identified him in court, witnesses said he looked grave.
In May 2010 Qasab was sentenced to death by a special court which found him guilty of many charges, including murder and waging war on India.
Judge ML Tahaliyani said "he should be hanged by the neck until he is dead", adding that he had lost his right to "humanitarian treatment".
Qasab's lawyer called for leniency, saying his client had been brainwashed by a terrorist organisation and could be rehabilitated.
Qasab appealed against the sentence, and the High Court in Mumbai began hearing the case in October 2010.
He initially attended proceedings through a video link for security reasons.
But after two hearings he demanded to attend court in person. The request was refused and he was reprimanded for his outburst, following which he failed to appear by video link.
The Mumbai High Court rejected his appeal in February 2011 and in July of that year, Qasab took his appeal against his death penalty to the Supreme Court.
In a statement submitted in court, Qasab said that the prosecution had "failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt the charges against me". He said he "may be guilty of killing people and carrying out a terrorist act but I am not guilty of waging war against the state."
On 29 August 2012, the Supreme Court rejected his appeal and upheld his death penalty. He then appealed unsuccessfully to the president for clemency.
He was hanged in prison in the city of Pune on 21 November 2012.
The average house price in cities rose by almost 3% to £186,000 in the past year, compared with 1% across Scotland.
The rise was steeper than average wage growth over the same period, according to a Bank of Scotland review.
As a result, average home affordability has worsened for the fourth year in a row - from 5.2 to 5.3 times gross average earnings.
Stirling remained the most affordable city for homebuyers in Scotland, and also regained the UK top spot after falling to second place last year.
At £173,848, the average property price there is 3.7 times average gross annual earnings, compared with a UK cities' average of 6.9.
Edinburgh was once again Scotland's least affordable city, with an average house price of £236,136 - six times annual gross average earnings.
Aberdeen, Perth, Dundee and Inverness made up the top five least affordable cities north of the border, but the latter three - plus Glasgow - were included in the UK's top 20 most affordable spots.
Perth has recorded the biggest price rise of any Scottish city over the past decade, with a gain of 31% compared with the UK cities' average of 21%.
Industry body Homes for Scotland said the deterioration in home affordability was "a worrying trend" for both those looking to purchase in Scotland's cities as well as for the industry as a whole.
Chief executive Nicola Barclay said: "Rents and house prices are continuing to rise as demand outstrips supply, meaning many individuals and families are facing growing pressures and aspirations are being stifled.
"With housing production having fallen by 40% since 2007, but the number of households rising, it is vital that we see the bold action and investment needed to provide enough homes of the right types in the right locations to meet the diverse housing needs of our growing population."
Rangers said it was aware of "the disgust" felt by fans who "were subjected to a sickening and shameful display of outright sectarian hatred".
Celtic said they would not get involved in a "tit for tat spat" on the issue.
They went on to thank "the overwhelming majority" of fans for their backing of the team in their 5-1 win over Rangers.
Rangers fans group - Club 1872 - said banners which read "kill all Huns" and "know your place Hun scum" were threatening and disgusting.
Supporters were also offended by two blow-up dolls - one wearing a Rangers scarf, the other an Orange sash - which were dangled by ropes from the upper tier of the stadium.
Directors at the south side club said they shared the anger of their fans.
After the first Old Firm league derby in Glasgow in four years, it emerged that extensive damage had been caused to a toilet block at Celtic Park.
Police Scotland said it was aware of the destruction in the away section of the ground but the club was dealing with it as an internal matter.
Following the lunchtime game, the police said that the majority of Celtic and Rangers fans had behaved responsibly and "appeared to heed the advice given in the run-up to the fixture".
However, Assistant Chief Constable Bernard Higgins, of Police Scotland, added: "What is hugely disappointing and frustrating is that a minority of individuals behaved in a manner which has no place in our communities, football and modern society and which has resulted in Police Scotland carrying out investigations to identify those responsible."
An SPFL spokesman said: "The SPFL has a match delegate present at every Ladbrokes Premiership game. We will take time to study carefully the match delegate report from Saturday's Celtic v Rangers fixture."
The Wallabies led by a point at half-time courtesy of the boot of Bernard Foley, after Dan Cole and Mike Brown had crossed for England, and Foley and Dane Haylett-Petty for the hosts.
Michael Hooper and Israel Folau tries cancelled out a Billy Vunipola score.
But Owen Farrell's boot kept England in touch and Jamie George's try helped them to a record score and a 3-0 win.
It was England's biggest ever points total against the Wallabies, and earned them the first 3-0 series win by a touring side in Australia since South Africa in 1971.
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After their defensive heroics in the 23-7 second Test win last weekend the tourists were keen to show more of their attacking game in Sydney, and they duly delivered as what could have been a flat dead rubber turned in an epic encounter as both sides looked to move the ball at will.
It was not a day for the defence coaches as the sides shared nine tries between them, and in the end the difference probably came down to the narrow ascendancy of the English pack.
Shorn of the tackling machine James Haskell through injury, coach Eddie Jones turned to Teimana Harrison in his only change.
But the flanker was withdrawn after only half an hour, with Courtney Lawes coming into the second row, Maro Itoje moving to blind-side flanker and Chris Robshaw shifting to open-side.
And, with a steady supply of replacements reinforcing the visitors' eight, England finally killed the game off with five minutes remaining - the giant Taqele Naiyaravoro's try doing no more than applying late gloss to the scoreboard for the wounded Wallabies.
The game was tit for tat from the opening stages, with England prop Cole finishing off from short range a move started by front row colleague Mako Vunipola's barrelling run, before Australia hit back as the loping Folau beat Jack Nowell down the left wing and linked with Matt Toomua to send Foley cruising over.
Haylett-Petty soon strode over out wide on the right for the hosts but England went back in front as Brown raced on to Anthony Watson's classy chip.
With Farrell landing his kicks the visitors looked set to lead at the break, but a late Foley penalty made it 18-17 at half-time.
If the first half had been exciting, the second half was dizzying.
Billy Vunipola rampaged over from a five-metre scrum to put the visitors back into the lead, but Australia looked dangerous every time they managed to wrest the ball from England's grasp, and flanker Hooper stretched over before the Leicester-bound Toomua burst through in midfield and gave 6ft 5in Wallaby full-back Folau a run to the line.
Australia suddenly led by four points with 20 minutes to go, but replacement hooker George dotted down for England's fourth try to put them back in front, and Farrell's accurate kicking ensured the tourists finally pulled away.
His 79th-minute penalty gave them a decisive nine-point lead and although Naiyaravoro had the final word, the Wallabies had already had to accept they had been whitewashed for the first time by England.
England captain Dylan Hartley: "We have scored 44 points and not played the perfect game yet, so there is still a lot to work on. We can all be proud of what we have achieved down under. We are very happy with the tour."
Australia captain Stephen Moore: "To England's credit they deserve it. They've played well. They deserve to win the series."
England: Mike Brown; Anthony Watson, Jonathan Joseph, Owen Farrell, Jack Nowell; George Ford, Ben Youngs; Mako Vunipola, Dylan Hartley (captain), Dan Cole, Maro Itoje, George Kruis, Chris Robshaw, Teimana Harrison, Billy Vunipola
Replacements: Jamie George, Matt Mullan, Paul Hill, Joe Launchbury, Courtney Lawes, Jack Clifford, Danny Care, Elliot Daly
Australia: Israel Folau, Dane Haylett-Petty, Tevita Kuridrani, Matt Toomua, Rob Horne, Bernard Foley, Nick Phipps; James Slipper, Stephen Moore, Sekope Kepu, Will Skelton, Rob Simmons, Scott Fardy, Michael Hooper, Sean McMahon
Replacements: Tatafu Polota-Nau, Scott Sio, Greg Holmes, Adam Coleman, Wycliff Palu, Nick Frisby, Christian Lealiifano, Taqele Naiyaravoro
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Justices said Oklahoma could not execute Richard Glossip, John Grant and Benjamin Cole by lethal injection using midazolam while the case is pending.
The men's lawyers argue that midazolam presents an unconstitutional risk of pain and suffering.
The drug was used in three executions seen as botched in 2014.
Richard Glossip's execution had been scheduled for Thursday night while the other two were scheduled for lethal injection in the coming weeks.
Correspondents say the court's brief ruling left open the possibility that Oklahoma could carry out the executions using different drug combinations.
However, Oklahoma Department of Corrections spokesman Jerry Massie said the state has not been able to find an alternative drug.
The case is now due to go before the Supreme Court in April and be decided by late June.
Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin said: "I disagree with the necessity to grant Glossip yet another round of legal appeals. However, given that the US Supreme Court has decided to hear his case, it is entirely appropriate to delay his execution until after the legal process has run its course."
Lawyers for the three inmates argue that midazolam cannot achieve the level of unconsciousness required and is therefore unsuitable for executions.
They say its use amounts to "cruel and unusual punishment" which violates the US constitution.
Without the coma-like sedative effect, Oklahoma cannot ensure the prisoner does not experience intense pain when other drugs are injected to kill, lawyers argue.
The execution of Charles Warner on 15 January was the first in Oklahoma since the botched lethal injection of Clayton Lockett in April 2014.
Lockett's execution was stopped after 20 minutes when one of his veins ruptured, preventing the drugs from taking full effect. He writhed and shook uncontrollably after the drugs were administered and died of a heart attack soon afterwards.
Prison officials said Warner did not suffer before dying.
Sunderland Hospital is no longer taking new referrals and dozens of patients are having to be treated at other hospitals.
Sunderland's Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) said it could no longer provide a consultant-led service.
But a spokesman added that patient treatment was not being compromised.
He said he hoped the service would resume soon, but it would take months rather than weeks.
Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust said it had had around 100 more referrals from the Sunderland area since the service was halted in December.
Newcastle's Royal Victoria Infirmary said it used to have five referrals from Sunderland a month, but that had gone up to 50.
A spokesman for Sunderland Hospital said: "This difficult decision was made in the interests of patient safety as we cannot currently provide a consultant-led service for our local population, despite our best efforts.
"We continue to work to ensure local residents have access to a high quality local breast service.
"This is clearly not an ideal situation, but the quality and safety of the breast service that is provided to local residents is of paramount importance."
Hospitals taking on extra breast cancer patients include the Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI), in Newcastle and Bishop Auckland General Hospital.
A spokeswoman for the RVI said the extra workload had not "compromised" treatment quality and waiting times were being met.
Judges at the Court of Appeal said the six year prison term that was imposed on James Richardson for killing Natalia Czekaj had been "unduly lenient".
The 35-year-old of Berridge Green, Edgware had admitted manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility.
His sentence was increased to 12 years.
It is believed that both Richardson and barmaid Ms Czekaj, 34, were functioning alcoholics and had been drinking on the evening of the killing.
The court was told that while they celebrated, the jobless plumber took three knives from the kitchen and stabbed his girlfriend more than 20 times.
Richardson, who was found to be four times over the drink-drive limit, then called 999 to report the attack.
During the original trial, prosecutors had accepted James Richardson's alcohol dependency was a medical condition that substantially impaired his responsibility.
His defence lawyer had told the court although his client could not remember the killing, "his remorse and shock have been wholly genuine".
However, Solicitor General Robert Buckland said he had referred the sentence imposed at trial as he "felt that it did not properly reflect the severity of the case".
He said Ms Czekaj had been "stabbed in the back deeply enough to penetrate her heart" and her throat had been cut "so severely that all the structures of her neck were severed".
"I hope this increased sentence gives some comfort to the victim's family," he said.
An extended licence period of five years originally imposed at trial remains in place.
The Assembly's independent Remuneration Board is considering a change in the rules to allow AMs to claim more than £8,000 for Cardiff accommodation expenses if they live in England.
The idea has been criticised by Plaid Cymru AM Bethan Jenkins.
But the board said it is required by law to put in place financial resources to allow AMs to carry out their duties.
Mr Hamilton, the leader of the seven-strong UKIP group in Cardiff Bay and is AM for Mid and West Wales, lives in Wiltshire.
A consultation on the proposal is underway until 16 September.
Under existing rules, AMs who live in the "outer area" of Mid and West Wales and North Wales can claim up to £8,820 per year.
AMs are allowed several options which include claiming the cost of renting a furnished property in Cardiff, reimbursing expenses relating to a property in Cardiff used by a member, or claiming the cost of overnight stays in Cardiff.
Under the proposal, outlined in a letter to AMs from board chairwoman Dame Dawn Primarolo, this rule would be amended so those who live outside Wales would be eligible - extending the outer area.
The letter said the existing rules were based on the assumption all AMs live in Wales.
There is nothing in current legislation that says AMs should reside in any particular location "either when they are elected or subsequently", Dame Dawn said.
It is understood rules which reduce the expenses allowed if you live nearer Cardiff would remain under the proposals - effectively extending the outer area to England, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
Currently, members who live in the "intermediate area" of Gower, Neath, Swansea East and Swansea West constituencies can get £3,420 for overnight stays.
Those in the inner areas of South Wales West, Central and East can get "overnight stays in exceptional circumstances".
But Bethan Jenkins, Plaid Cymru AM for South Wales West, criticised the proposals.
She said: "I genuinely believe that AMs should live and work in Wales if they are serious about representing their constituents.
"If you live outside Wales how can you possibly be as in touch and as close to your community?
"If there were interim proposals in place to help AMs who live outside Wales to move here then I would be relaxed about that, but I am worried immensely about the precedent this sets - that it will say to people, become an AM for Wales and live elsewhere."
Labour's Llanelli AM Lee Waters said on Twitter: "Remuneration Board plans to let AMs who don't live in Wales to claim for [a second] home in Cardiff.
"Shouldn't be allowed to stand, let alone claim."
Dame Dawn said: "The independent Remuneration Board is required by law to put in place financial resources that enable assembly members to carry out their duties as elected representatives."
She said: "No member should be impeded from undertaking the role they have been elected to do.
"The people of Wales decided who they wanted to elect on 5 May and they expect the board to ensure that those 60 members have appropriate and reasonable resource in place to represent them to the best of their ability."
She said she would welcome "any comments" the public and AMs may have.
At the time Mr Hamilton became group leader he said he lived "less than an hour from Cardiff".
"For the time being I'm living where I lived for the last ten years," he said, adding there was a "big logistical problem to solve" about where he based himself.
A spokesman for Mr Hamilton has been approached for comment.
Messi and his father Jorge, who manages his financial affairs, are accused of defrauding Spain of more than €4m (£3m; $4.5m) between 2007 and 2009.
The authorities allege that the two used tax havens in Belize and Uruguay to conceal earnings from image rights.
The Spanish tax agency is demanding heavy fines and prison sentences. They deny any wrongdoing.
The trial is expected to last for three days, with Messi appearing in court on Thursday.
The income related to Messi's image rights, including contracts with Banco Sabadell, Danone, Adidas, Pepsi-Cola, Procter and Gamble, and the Kuwait Food Company.
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Messi's lawyers had argued that the player had "never devoted a minute of his life to reading, studying or analysing" the contracts.
But the high court in Barcelona ruled in June 2015 that the football star should not be granted immunity for not knowing what was happening with his finances, which were being managed in part by his father.
Messi and his father made a voluntary €5m (£3.8m, $5.6m) "corrective payment" - equal to the alleged unpaid tax plus interest - in August 2013.
Messi is the five-time World Player of the Year and one of the richest athletes in the world.
Diego Simeone's side were without seven players because of injury and suspension but strikes by Koke and Filipe Luis sealed a deserved win.
Koke capitalised on good play by Fernando Torres to put Atletico ahead after 26 minutes, while Torres was also involved for the second as Filipe Luis chipped home his first of the season.
Defeat leaves Malaga six points above the drop zone.
"We didn't make mistakes and when we got our chance in the second half, Filipe finished it fantastically," said Simeone.
"The 2-0 [scoreline] makes it look like something it wasn't. I always felt there were difficulties and danger."
Atletico move on to 58 points, above Sevilla who host Sporting Gijon on Sunday. Leaders Real Madrid, who have 65 points, entertain Alaves on Sunday, while champions Barcelona, two points behind, visit Granada.
Also on Saturday, Real Sociedad's hopes of a top-four finish were hit by a 1-1 draw at home to Leganes, who went ahead through Alexander Szymanowski. Juanmi levelled for Sociedad in the second half.
Eighth-placed Eibar maintained their hopes of qualifying for Europe for the first time with an impressive 3-2 win at Villarreal, while Athletic Bilbao were 2-1 winners at bottom side Osasuna.
Match ends, Málaga 0, Atlético de Madrid 2.
Second Half ends, Málaga 0, Atlético de Madrid 2.
Foul by Federico Ricca (Málaga).
Koke (Atlético de Madrid) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt missed. Ignacio Camacho (Málaga) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Juankar.
Attempt saved. Ángel Correa (Atlético de Madrid) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Gabi.
Substitution, Atlético de Madrid. José Giménez replaces Filipe Luis.
Attempt blocked. Sandro Ramírez (Málaga) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Juankar.
Sandro Ramírez (Málaga) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Gabi (Atlético de Madrid).
Attempt saved. Roberto Rosales (Málaga) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Recio.
Substitution, Atlético de Madrid. Diego Godín replaces Antoine Griezmann.
Attempt missed. Michael Santos (Málaga) header from a difficult angle on the right misses to the right. Assisted by Sandro Ramírez with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Málaga. Conceded by Jan Oblak.
Attempt saved. Michael Santos (Málaga) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner. Assisted by Sandro Ramírez.
Attempt saved. Sandro Ramírez (Málaga) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Michael Santos.
Attempt missed. Diego Llorente (Málaga) header from very close range is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Sandro Ramírez with a cross following a set piece situation.
Michael Santos (Málaga) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Lucas Hernández (Atlético de Madrid).
Attempt saved. Sandro Ramírez (Málaga) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Roberto Rosales with a headed pass.
Sandro Ramírez (Málaga) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Saúl Ñíguez (Atlético de Madrid).
Recio (Málaga) is shown the yellow card.
Juankar (Málaga) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Juankar (Málaga).
Ángel Correa (Atlético de Madrid) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Goal! Málaga 0, Atlético de Madrid 2. Filipe Luis (Atlético de Madrid) left footed shot from the left side of the six yard box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Fernando Torres.
Attempt missed. Antoine Griezmann (Atlético de Madrid) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Fernando Torres.
Substitution, Málaga. Michael Santos replaces Keko.
Dangerous play by Pablo Fornals (Málaga).
Filipe Luis (Atlético de Madrid) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Juankar (Málaga) left footed shot from the left side of the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Sandro Ramírez following a corner.
Corner, Málaga. Conceded by Filipe Luis.
Corner, Málaga. Conceded by Stefan Savic.
Hand ball by Filipe Luis (Atlético de Madrid).
Substitution, Málaga. Recio replaces José Rodríguez.
Attempt missed. Roberto Rosales (Málaga) left footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by José Rodríguez.
Attempt saved. Fernando Torres (Atlético de Madrid) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Ángel Correa.
Attempt missed. Pablo Fornals (Málaga) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Sandro Ramírez with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Málaga. Conceded by Stefan Savic.
Beto O'Rourke, a Democrat from El Paso, and Will Hurd, a Republican from San Antonio, had their flights from Texas to Washington DC cancelled due to heavy snow in the capital.
The two men, who did not know one another well, decided to share a car and make the 30-hour drive.
They livestreamed much of the trip on Periscope and Facebook Live.
O'Rourke called it "the longest bi-national congressional live town hall in the history of the United States".
They used the time to interact with their constituents and share their views on hot button political issues, from immigration (both men live along the US-Mexico border) to the terrorist threat posed by the so-called Islamic State (Hurd is a former CIA analyst.)
It wasn't all high-level policy debates. The men sang along to Willie Nelson, The Clash and Buddy Holly, and made several stops for coffee, burritos and donuts.
Votes in DC were scheduled for 630pm Wednesday night. The men left San Antonio at 7am on Tuesday and stopped in Nashville at 3am the next morning, after a day spent on the road and on camera.
"The last couple hours were tough," O'Rourke told the audience.
"You stuck with us, kept us company, suggested songs for the playlist, gave us some good questions. Settled the pie v cake dispute," he said, referring to a battle of dessert supremacy that ignited a lively debate.
While travelling, they received phone calls from current and former members of congress, including House Majority leader Kevin McCarthy, Hawaii Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, Wisconsin Congresswoman Gwen Moore, and retired Majority leaders Bill Frist and Tom Daschle.
The current elected officials who called in were asked to talk about a programme they were working on in Congress - and who they would choose as a bipartisan road-trip buddy.
"Joe Kennedy would be a good one - he'd have some good Kennedy family history and is a great guy," said Republican Randy Webber.
Though O'Rourke and Hurd both oppose President Trump's plan to build a wall along the Texas-Mexico border, they differ on several key issues.
"Beto likes to get the tank down close to E before we fill up," Hurd, who had a more conservative petrol policy, told viewers.
O'Rourke also prefers to drive without stopping, while Hurd favours more pit stops.
"Will wanted to stop at every school house along the way," and engage the students, O'Rourke said, but school schedules and their tight timeline made such a request impossible.
"It would have been fun, man!" Hurd insisted.
The men were not above stunts to boost their ratings - or ease the monotony of the road.
"We're at 600 live views," O'Rourke said on Wednesday morning. "We peaked early at 750 when Will was doing 20 push-ups in the Pilot gas station parking lot in cowboy boots."
As the day went on, viewership grew to as many as 4,000 viewers, helped by interviews the men gave to news programmes and shares on social media. They attracted comments from India, the UK and Philippines.
With three hours and thirty minutes left before votes in the House, their GPS showed them three hours away from Capitol Hill - but they would be driving through Washington during rush hour.
At 5:51pm local time, they arrived in front of the Capitol building, having reached their destination ahead of schedule and together.
"We always talk about the things that divide us, when we could be talking about the things that unite us," Hurd said during the trip.
"Even if we do disagree, we don't have to be disagreeable,"
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Johns, 25, is undefeated in his 13 professional MMA fights, including his UFC debut in Belfast in November.
The Welshman takes on England's Entwistle at UFC Fight Night 107 at London's O2 Arena on Saturday.
"I'm feeling brilliant, it's an amazing atmosphere and I can't wait. It is a Battle of Britain," Johns said.
He added to BBC Wales Sport: "It's the first ever Wales v England fight and fingers crossed the Welsh will have that first win.
"It feels strange. This is a home fight for me but I'm behind enemy lines."
Johns had no problem making the bantamweight ahead of his fight, however his his opponent Entwistle came in 3 pounds over.
"I can't slate anyone for missing weight as I have done that in the past. It means that I get a bit of his money so I'm looking for a big pay cheque, now," Johns said.
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Johns is one of 12 British fighters on the bill for the event as the UFC arrives in London.
It is the first UFC event of 2017 to be held in Europe as the sport looks to win more fans, with around 15,000 people expected at the O2 Arena on Saturday.
"It's a massive stage and will only get bigger from here, but I'm not looking forward to the fight or Entwistle. This is going to be a hard fight. Stylistically this is going to be a different match up but I'm ready to gom" he added.
"I'm going to punch him in the head as that's the only trick I've got, but tomorrow it will be 14-0. I will stay undefeated and the journey goes on."
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An "administrative error" was blamed when the Trust claimed former director Leigh Dineen had been reappointed to the board without its consultation.
The club's new American owners had previously apologised to the Trust for a lack of communication.
Bradley hopes fans get behind the side for Saturday's visit of Crystal Palace.
"Supporters speak up and voice their opinions," he said. "It's all fair. They are the heart and soul of the club.
"But supporters also know that when that team steps on the field, for that 95 minutes, the only thing that matters is what happens with the result."
The Swans are bottom of the Premier League and five points from safety, having failed to win since the opening day of the season.
Bradley has not won in five games since succeeding Francesco Guidolin as manager while Palace have lost their past five games - conceding 13 goals - and are 16th.
"We're just focusing on making sure we put a bad stretch behind us and it's going to happen this week," added Bradley.
"There will be plenty of time for the other things to work themselves out. But let's make sure that the relationship between the team and the supporters carries us through this stretch.
"I want the players to feel that support and the supporters to know the players are going to give everything for them."
Swansea signed Borja Baston, Fernando Llorente, Alfie Mawson, Leroy Fer and Mike van der Hoorn in the summer, but Bradley will look to the January transfer window in order to turn his side's fortunes around.
"The discussions have been positive about identifying ways we can improve the team. The idea is that we are going to look to improve our squad," Bradley said.
"We have a road ahead that will require looking at all the possibilities and fighting like crazy.
"You can make cases for different parts of the field [where we need to strengthen]. Just before January we will make a decision."
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Shares in the Canadian firm, which has been investigated over its business and accounting practices, sank 14% in pre-market trading.
Valeant posted a loss of $373.7m for the first three months of 2016, against a profit of $97.7m a year earlier.
The company's new chief executive Joseph Papa said it had been a "difficult" period for the company.
It now expects full-year earnings per share of $6.60-$7, compared with its previous estimate of $8.50-$9.50.
"The first quarter's results reflect, in part, the impact of significant disruption this organisation has faced over the past nine months," said Mr Papa, in a statement.
"This has been a difficult period for Valeant and its stakeholders, and while there are some challenges to work through in certain business operations in 2016, such as our US dermatology unit, the majority of our businesses are performing according to expectations."
Sales at Valeant's dermatology business sank 43% to $228.6m in the first quarter.
Mr Papa took over from Valeant's previous head, Michael Pearson, in May.
Last week, it emerged that Mr Pearson would receive $9m (£6.2m) in severance payments along with thousands of dollars in consulting fees.
Valeant came in for criticism for buying older drugs and raising the prices without investing in research and development of new drugs.
Earlier this year, the company's financial results for 2015 were delayed while Valeant's board looked into its accounting practices.
"We have made progress toward stabilising the organisation over the past few months, and we expect to file our financial results in a timely manner going forward," Mr Papa said.
Shares in the company have fallen by nearly 90% over the past year.
The violence broke out in Turpan prefecture early on Wednesday.
Police opened fire after a mob armed with knives attacked police stations and a local government building, Xinhua news agency quoted officials as saying.
There are sporadic outbreaks of violence in Xinjiang, where there are ethnic tensions between Muslim Uighur and Han Chinese communities.
Confirming reports from the region is difficult because information is tightly controlled.
By Celia HattonBBC News, Beijing
China's state media have been quick to issue an official version of events regarding the latest round of violence in Xinjiang, but it will be tough to verify those reports.
Xinjiang lies on China's remote north-west border and it is difficult for foreign media to travel there. Many people on both sides of the conflict are reluctant to speak to visiting journalists for fear of reprisals if they dispute the government's stance.
Unfortunately Xinjiang usually hits international headlines when violence flares between the region's minority ethnic Uighur Muslims and the majority Han Chinese. Many Uighurs contend that their language and religion are being smothered by an influx of Han Chinese migrants.
Xinjiang is a large geographic area rich in oil and gas deposits. Soon it will also become a major supplier of coal to China's energy-hungry cities. The region's fertile land also grows produce that is shipped to the rest of the country. The Han Chinese who move to Xinjiang hope to benefit from the region's untapped resources.
The violence occurred in Turpan's remote township of Lukqun, about 200km (120 miles) south-east of the region's capital, Urumqi.
The Xinhua news agency report, citing local officials, said rioters stabbed people and set police cars alight.
Seventeen people, including nine security personnel and eight civilians, were killed before police shot dead 10 of the rioters, it said.
At least three others were injured and were being treated in hospital, it added.
The Xinhua report did not provide any information on the ethnicity of those involved in the riot or on what sparked it.
But Dilxat Raxit, a spokesperson for the World Uighur Congress, an umbrella organisation of Uighur groups, told the Associated Press news agency the violence had been caused by the Chinese government's "sustained repression and provocation" of the Uighur community.
In 2009 almost 200 people - mostly Han Chinese - were killed after deadly rioting erupted in Urumqi between the Han Chinese and Uighur communities.
In April an incident in the city of Kashgar left 21 people dead.
The government said the violence began when "terrorists" were discovered in a building by officials searching for weapons.
But local people told the BBC that the violence involved a local family who had a longstanding dispute with officials who had been pressurising the men to shave off their beards and the women to take off their veils.
Uighurs make up about 45% of Xinjiang's population, but say an influx of Han Chinese residents has marginalised their traditional culture.
Beijing authorities often blame violent incidents in Xinjiang on Uighur extremists seeking autonomy for the region. Uighur activists, meanwhile, accuse Beijing of over-exaggerating the threat to justify heavy-handed rule.
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Kenya missed a deadline last week to prove to Wada it was tackling cheating.
It comes after a spate of positive drugs tests among some of the country's athletes and allegations of corruption.
"We have to be much more proactive," said Coe, president of the sport's world governing body the IAAF.
Coe said he would impose serious sanctions on any nation guilty of attempting to cover up drug-taking.
Kenya is to be placed on a 'watch-list' of nations at risk of breaching Wada's code and could be banned from international competition if non-compliant, as happened with Russia's athletes.
"We know that a disproportionate amount of reputational damage is caused by a relatively few countries," he told BT Sport's The Clare Balding Show.
"If it means pulling them out of World Championships or Olympic Games then we will have to do that.
"I know the World Anti-Doping Agency has looked very closely at the Kenyan National Anti-Doping Agency. We, of course, monitor that through the IAAF, so that work is ongoing."
On Tuesday, the chief executive of Athletics Kenya said he wanted to step down temporarily amid allegations he asked athletes for bribes to reduce doping bans.
Isaac Mwangi denies wrongdoing but wants to leave his post for 21 days while the claims are investigated by the IAAF.
For several months, Wada has been trying to persuade Kenya to set up an effective national agency so more drug tests can be conducted, but progress has been slow.
The East African country, whose athletes are dominant in distance running, topped the medal table at the 2015 World Championships in Beijing with seven gold medals.
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But since 2011, more than 40 of its athletes have failed drugs tests.
David Howman, Wada's director general, said "a fully functional" anti-doping agency is "a vital step for a country of Kenya's sporting stature" if it is to "effectively protect clean athletes".
He added that it must be established "at the earliest opportunity".
Meanwhile, former marathon world record holder Wilson Kipsang has urged Kenya's government to strengthen their fight against doping.
Kipsang, 33, is president of the Professional Athletes Association of Kenya and was among 80 athletes who met in Eldoret on Wednesday to formulate an appeal to Kenya's government to fast-track legislation criminalising doping.
He told the Daily Nation newspaper: "We must all step up the fight against doping because if we are banned, Kenya will never be the same again. This is a country which has made its name as an athletics giant."
Since 1945, the world's population has tripled to seven billion, and feeding that population has relied increasingly on artificial fertilisers.
Phosphates, among the most important fertilisers, come from an ore that is in limited supply. It is mined, processed and spread on to our fields, whence it is ultimately washed away into the ocean.
So what will happen if one day we run out of the stuff?
"Crop yields will drop very, very spectacularly," chemist Andrea Sella, of University College, London, told Wednesday's Business Daily programme on the World Service.
"We will be in very, very deep trouble. We have to remember that the world's population is growing steadily, and so demand for phosphorus is growing every year."
As Dr Sella explains, phosphorus is essential for life. The element - which is so reactive that it spontaneously combusts in its pure form - is used by plant and animal cells to store energy.
It also forms the backbone of DNA, and it is an essential ingredient of our bones and teeth.
Farming without it is not a realistic option.
While this may sound rather alarming, there are two important caveats.
First, the supply of phosphates is forecast to last for many decades, if not centuries, to come.
US Geological Survey
So humanity is at no immediate risk of running out of the means to feed itself, even at the current rate at which it is gobbling up phosphates.
Second, one of the biggest problems with phosphates over the past 60 years is arguably that they have been far too cheap and abundant.
There has been no incentive to use them sparingly.
Only a small fraction is actually absorbed by plants, and much is washed off by rain.
And this glut of fertilisers being washed into river systems, both phosphates and also nitrates, has created a nasty environmental problem - eutrophication.
This is where the abundant nutrients feed algae in rivers and ponds, creating blooms that turn the water green.
The algae then die, providing a feast for microbes, which in turn multiply and suck the oxygen out of the water, killing off all the fish and other animal and plant life.
It is a common problem in the lower reaches of major rivers such as the Thames and Rhine in Europe, and the Yangtze in China.
Similar algal blooms occur in our oceans, where large areas - notably the Baltic Sea and the Gulf of Mexico - have become "dead zones".
Purely from an environmental perspective, the price of phosphates has clearly been too low.
Yet this now appears to be changing. The price of phosphate ores has risen fivefold over the past decade as demand, particularly from the developing world, has grown steadily.
Meanwhile, the cost of fertiliser production has also risen as the richest, cheapest phosphate seams have already been mined.
"Commodities are priced on the cost of extracting the next tonne that you need," says Jeremy Grantham, of US fund managers Grantham Mayo van Otterloo. "It is a hopelessly bad system.
"As long as we can mine a vital resource cheaply, we will price it cheaply, and run through the reserves until they become very expensive. And then we'll start to conserve."
There are various options:
And then there is the sewage option.
Why not just capture the phosphorus from our own waste and recycle it? Sweden and Germany have been leading the way.
There is also a cottage industry among the eco-friendly in Western countries of "compost toilets".
Now the UK's Thames Water is getting in on the act, launching a new "reactor" that turns sewage sludge into nice clean fertiliser pellets.
How much of future supply could ultimately be provided by recycling is open to debate - Thames Water says 20% using the current technology.
But perhaps the more important point lies in the fact that Thames Water and Canadian partners Ostara, which developed the technology, expect to make a profit.
This should come from selling the pellets as well as from saving the cost of cleaning and replacing pipes that have become blocked by a phosphorus-based sediment called struvite.
Any benefits, as far as the environment or the long-term sustainable usage of a limited resource are concerned, are but a happy by-product.
The important point is that it is the rising price of phosphates that has made it worthwhile to start recycling the stuff.
So should we welcome the higher price? Well, it depends who you are.
In general, the lower your income, the more of it you spend on food and therefore the more sensitive you are to the higher food bills that might come with more expensive fertilisers.
In other words, rising phosphate prices hurt the poor most, which is hardly a recipe for social cohesion.
And that goes for whole countries too.
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As Jeremy Grantham points out, many North African countries depend on food imports, and rising food prices contributed to the discontent behind the 2011 Arab Spring.
One of those countries is Morocco, which by a freak of geography controls about three-quarters of the world's remaining good-quality phosphate reserves.
"Morocco has the most impressive quasi-monopoly in the history of man," says Mr Grantham. "It makes oil look unimportant in comparison."
That could make Morocco a very rich nation in the future, one that the rest of the world will be keen to court.
And it gives the country a great responsibility in pricing its product in a way that eventually weans the world off it in a manageable way - much like Saudi Arabia and oil.
Ironically, the higher prices that monopolists like to set may actually be what the planet needs.
But Morocco's unique position could also make it a centre of intrigue.
For example, much of its phosphates are actually located in the territory of Western Sahara.
It is occupied by the Moroccan military, which currently has an uneasy ceasefire in place with the local Algerian-backed Saharawi resistance.
This poses moral questions for the multinational companies that mine the stuff there, as well as some obvious strategic issues for the rest of the world about securing future food supplies.
Mr Grantham points out that half of nearby Mali - admittedly the sparsely populated Saharan half - was recently briefly overrun by militants affiliated with al-Qaeda, and he warns that Morocco itself may one day become the scene of rising social tensions, terrorism or revolt.
"I would almost guarantee to you that the major militaries of this world are well aware of this problem.
"They would not allow Morocco to become a hopelessly failed state," he says reassuringly.
"You don't want to look forward to the great fertiliser wars of 2042."
You can listen to Business Daily on BBC World Service at 08:32 GMT and 15:06 GMT.
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The Cardiff Children's Literature Festival features talks from leading authors and illustrators, while writers have also been going into schools.
Well-known names lined up include comedian and Young Bond author Charlie Higson and Horrible Histories illustrator Martin Brown.
The event, which runs to Sunday, takes place at venues around the city centre.
"This is such an exciting event for the city, and a wonderful addition to our programme," said Cardiff council cabinet member for culture, Huw Thomas.
"We've seen the power that books have to fire youngsters' imaginations, and so we have assembled some of the most popular figures in children's literature in both English and Welsh to bring this to life in March and to enthuse and inspire youngsters to read."
Those taking part include How to Train Your Dragon creator Cressida Cowell, Tintin expert Michael Farr, Wales children's poet laureate Eurig Salisbury and young people's laureate for Wales Catherine Fisher.
Tracy Beaker author Jacqueline Wilson was due to take part but had to cancel due to illness.
Sarah Edmonds of Literature Wales - one of the partner organisations of the festival along with Cardiff council, Cardiff University and the National Museum of Wales - said the aim was to create a love of reading and writing.
"We're trying to broaden literature as much as possible to make it accessible," she told BBC Radio Wales.
"We've got graphic novels, picture books, we've even got a zombie walk based on Dan Anthony's trilogy The Rugby Zombies."
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"We've also got an exhibition at the festival which is celebrating and showcasing work produced by the schools over the last couple of months," said Ms Edmonds.
"Throughout the spring term, we've had authors and illustrators going into schools and doing workshops so we're displaying all that work."
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Terry Wright has announced his retirement after 30 years with the island's prison service.
He joined as a prison officer in 1983 after a career in the Royal Marine Commandos and was appointed governor in 1998.
David Matthews, the deputy governor, is due to take over as governor from 21 March.
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The UKIP leader failed to win the seat, losing out to Conservative candidate Craig Mackinlay.
Mr Farage secured 16,026 votes, with Mr Mackinlay achieving 18,838.
A spokeswoman for Kent Police said "inquires were ongoing" and the force could not say any more at this stage.
The result was not declared at the count at Margate's Winter Gardens until about 10.35 GMT on Friday, hours later than expected.
BBC reporters were told by officials at the time the delays were caused by the sheer volume of ballot papers and problems verifying the postal vote.
Turnout was 69%, up from 65% in 2010.
Claims of suspicious behaviour appeared on social media following the delays.
Labour's South Thanet candidate Will Scobie, who received 11,740 votes, said he thought the count took a long time because they were "trying to do two constituencies at once".
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Mr Brown said Labour must not become "a party of permanent protest".
He said he was not attacking a leadership candidate, but some comments appeared to warn against Jeremy Corbyn. Mr Corbyn's team said he was most likely to engage non-Labour voters.
The other candidates are Yvette Cooper, Liz Kendall and Andy Burnham.
Mr Brown's comments come as a poll suggested Mr Corbyn is considered the candidate most likely to worsen Labour's prospects of winning the next election.
Polls also suggest Mr Corbyn is the front-runner in the leadership race.
Mr Brown did not use Mr Corbyn's name but made it clear he disagreed with many of his economic and social policies.
He said the UK must continue to build international alliances under a future Labour government.
He added: "I have to say that if our global alliances are going to be alliances with Hezbollah and Hamas and Hugo Chavez's Venezuela and Vladimir Putin's Russia, there is absolutely no chance of building a world-wide alliance that can deal with poverty and inequality and climate change and financial instability, and we've got to face up to that fact."
Mr Corbyn has previously described Hezbollah as "friends" and said that he wanted Hamas to be "part of the debate".
Analysis: Alex Forsyth, political correspondent, BBC News
Gordon Brown didn't need to mention Jeremy Corbyn's name for his message to be understood; if he wins the leadership race Labour risks electoral oblivion.
The warning was couched in more subtle terms than those used previously by people who've called Mr Corbyn a potential car crash, but it was no less potent.
Steeped in references to Labour's past, this was a speech designed to tug heart strings from a man who commands the attention of some on Labour's left.
The question will be whether it makes any difference.
Many of Mr Corbyn's supporters say he provides an alternative to the current political system - so they may not be swayed by the views of established politicians.
Mr Brown also referred repeatedly to the need for Labour to become more than a party of protest - while also warning it needed to be different from the Tories.
"What I am here to say is that the best way of realising our high ideals is to show that we have an alternative in government that is credible, that is radical, and is electable - is neither a pale imitation of what the Tories offer nor is it the route to being a party of permanent protest, rather than a party of government," he said.
BBC political correspondent Ross Hawkins said part of the speech was as much a "coded dig" at Ms Kendall as it was at Mr Corbyn.
Mr Brown went on: "It is not a mistake to want power. It is not a mistake to do what is necessary to get back to power."
The former MP also said the party had to offer "hope" to the public that it could be an alternative government.
"I believe that our vote is both a public duty and a sacred trust.
"It is a public duty because we have got to show that the Labour Party can be at the service of the country and that we can change society for the better in the future," he said.
Last week, Mr Brown's predecessor at Number 10, Tony Blair, warned that Labour risked annihilation if it elected Mr Corbyn.
A spokesman for Mr Corbyn said he was the candidate "most likely to engage with voters beyond Labour's existing supporters" and credibility did not mean signing up to austerity.
Ms Cooper said it was "no good just being angry at the world if you can't change the world".
Mr Burnham said the country "needs a strong opposition" and Mr Brown and others "need to be listened to".
Earlier, Ms Kendall insisted she had no intention of stepping aside in the race, with polls suggesting she is lagging behind other candidates.
Mr Brown spoke after a ComRes study of 2,035 adults in Britain, for the Independent on Sunday and Sunday Mirror, found 31% of those polled thought Mr Corbyn would worsen Labour's prospects of electoral success. Mr Burnham was the poll's least damaging candidate.
Conversely though, 21% thought Mr Corbyn would be most likely to boost Labour's chances of winning the next election.
610,753
total electorate, though this may fall as party removes those not entitled to vote
Of which, full party members: 299,755
Affiliated to a trade union: 189,703
Registered to vote by paying £3: 121,295
Stephen Port was charged with four counts of murder last year but the new allegations relate to eight living complainants.
The 41-year-old from Barking denied the charges during a pre trial hearing at the Old Bailey.
He allegedly met the four murder victims on the internet between June 2014 and September 2015.
It is alleged he then invited them to his flat on Cooke Street where he is said to have poisoned them with the psychoactive drug GHB.
Mr Port faces 29 charges in total and is set to stand trial on 4 October.
He was originally charged with four counts of murder and four of administering a poison, but at the Old Bailey on Monday prosecutors added six more counts of administering a poison, seven charges of rape and four of sexual assault.
Mr Port now also faces four alternative charges of manslaughter.
These are alleged to have occurred between 2011 and 2015.
Some of the charges relate to the deaths of:
The deaths were not initially linked but after further investigation they were referred to the Metropolitan Police homicide and major crime command in October last year.
The force has referred its handling of the case to the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC).
Parliament's president Martin Schulz is to issue the invite - and report back next week with the PM's answer.
The leader of the Liberal group in the parliament, Guy Verhofstadt, said he hoped the PM would seize the chance - "there is nothing to be afraid of".
Mr Cameron wants to get changes to the UK's terms of membership before holding an in/out referendum before 2018.
Mr Verhofstadt said: "I am delighted the British prime minister will now be invited to a special session of the European Parliament.
"I hope David Cameron seizes this opportunity and will transparently outline his demands for a renegotiation of the UK's membership, in what is Europe's democratically elected chamber.
"This renegotiation is an issue not only of concern to the UK citizens, who will have a vote in a forthcoming referendum, but an issue that concerns the establishment of a new relationship between the Union and one of its members. This is of concern to all the Union's citizens."
The leader of the UK Independence Party - and Member of the European Parliament - Nigel Farage said in a tweet he was "happy" that the invitation was being issue.
Du Beke told Chris Evans on BBC Radio 2 it was "impossible" the show is fixed.
Proms presenter Derham added: "Chris, like you I've worked for the BBC for a very long time. That sort of stuff just doesn't, cannot, wouldn't happen."
Some newspapers have reported that fans were angry after the judges saved Katie and Anton and removed Anita and Gleb.
The Sun's headline read: "Strictly Conned Dancing". The paper added that viewers claimed "producers used dry ice to disguise Katie's poor footwork" and the judges unfairly saved him so he could dance in the final.
It is the first time in the show's 11-year history that Du Beke has reached the final, having usually been eliminated early on. His previous partnerships have included Anne Widdecombe, Nancy Dell'Olio and Kate Garraway.
Speaking on Radio 2, Derham said there were "too many people [at the BBC] keeping an eye on all the Ts being crossed and the Is being dotted. And also, can I just say, how can it be fixed when it's mostly the public voting?"
Du Beke added: "Forget it. Forget it. It's impossible!"
He said the dance-off is "judged on the dance that you put in front of the judges".
He added: "That's the moment when they've got to go, and the dance-off went well. There were no mistakes."
Du Beke and Derham were up against journalist and presenter Anita Rani and Gleb Savchenko in Sunday's dance-off. Although Rani and her partner had a higher combined score for their two semi-final dances, they lost out.
Anita Rani and Gleb Savchenko performed a salsa and earned 32 points, as well as another 32 for their foxtrot.
Du Beke and Derham danced a waltz in the dance-off as it had scored 31 points, beating their Charleston from the same show, which earned them 25 points and put them at the bottom of the leader board.
Bruno Tonioli said of their waltz: "All errors have been erased from my memory."
Head judge Len Goodman said: "I'm just judging this on this one dance. Nothing that's been, nothing that could be in the future or in the final, on this one dance. It was totally clear - Katie and Anton."
The event, the biggest on the boccia calendar outside of the Paralympics, will run between 9 and 19 August at the Exhibition Centre Liverpool.
Britain's David Smith, who won gold at the Rio 2016 Paralympics and is a two-time individual world champion, will be one of the 192 competitors.
"I'm so excited that the Worlds will be held in the UK," he said.
"Performing in front of a home crowd in London 2012 was one of the finest moments of my career."
Boccia is a precision ball sport that is played by people with cerebral palsy and other impairments that affect motor skills
Liam Norwell took 5-36 as Middlesex slumped to 114-6 after 23 overs, but Adam Voges (81) and Toby Roland-Jones (65) helped the hosts recover.
Steven Finn also hit 21 from 14 balls as Middlesex made 256-9, and the visitors struggled in their reply.
Gloucestershire fell to 65-5, but Cockbain's 108 from 123 balls led them to victory with five balls to spare.
Benny Howell also hit 86 from 71 deliveries for the West Country side in an unbroken 192-run sixth-wicket partnership.
Tom Helm outshone England seamer Finn (0-59) with economical bowling figures of 1-31 from nine overs, but his efforts were in vain as Cockbain struck Ryan Higgins for six to secure victory.
Middlesex have yet to win in the One-Day Cup this season after their opening game with Sussex was abandoned because of rain, while Gloucestershire lost their first 50-over contest against Glamorgan.
Middlesex bowler Tom Helm told BBC Radio London:
"We did very well to get to where we were and we thought we had a very good chance to defend it, but we take our hats off to their guys, they played very well at the end.
"We made a few mistakes towards the end that cost us, but we'll learn from that and hopefully do better next week.
"We're not naive enough to think we should have won that game, they are allowed to play well, but it's disappointing nonetheless."
Gloucestershire centurion Ian Cockbain told BBC Radio Bristol:
"It did seem a long way away. We just tried to take it as deep as we could and hope to be in touching distance when the last 10 overs came.
"If me or Benny got out then the game was almost done and dusted, which was a big factor in the way I batted. Benny struck it beautifully from ball one which took some of the pressure off me.
"We need to get wins under our belt and hope to take this momentum into our next match against Essex."
The club who were once so penniless they required a bucket collection to survive now find themselves mixing it in the billionaires' playground of English football's top flight.
Just seven years ago they were five minutes from liquidation, a year later they were a game away from going out of the Football League. Now, after a 3-0 win against Bolton which means only a loss, a Middlesbrough win and a 20-goal swing on the final day can deny them, they are celebrating a different piece of club history - playing in the Premier League for the first time.
Bournemouth's place in the elite of English football is a far cry from the financial problems the club has experienced over the past two decades.
In January 1997, the club were so penniless a bucket collection was arranged at the Winter Gardens in Bournemouth town centre. Players attended, money was raised and under the guidance of former chairman Trevor Watkins, Europe's first community club was formed as they came out of administration.
"I don't think many of us Bournemouth fans could have dreamt this was a possibility," Watkins told BBC Sport.
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"We were down on our knees and collecting money in buckets. Current manager Eddie Howe was a player when the fans led the rescue. Our assistant manager Jason Tindall was one of the first signings the supporters' trust made at the end of the first season. Steve Fletcher was a player and they are all still together with that passion, spirit and togetherness."
That rescue act did not signal the end of the club's financial troubles, though. Problems continued and in 2008 the Cherries were placed in administration for the second time in just over 10 years.
Gerald Krasner of Begbies Traynor was appointed as the man tasked with saving the south coast club - who had debts of around £4m at the time. Krasner recalls one particular occasion when he came within five minutes of closing them down.
"There was one press conference at 12 o'clock when, at five to 12, I didn't know if I had the money to continue trading," Krasner told BBC Sport. "I came within five minutes of liquidating the club.
"It was only through the good grace of its current chairman Jeff Mostyn, who came up with the money for the next month, that the club came through that ordeal and successfully out of administration."
Krasner revealed Mostyn paid out sums running into "hundreds of thousands" and never imagined they would be in the Premier League during those dark days.
"I can't honestly say I ever envisaged a time when Bournemouth would be in the Premier League in such a short time," he added. "When I see them on Match of the Day next season I'll just have a big smile on my face."
While the club survived administration they did not survive relegation and began the 2008-09 League Two season with a 17-point deduction and a transfer embargo.
Things looked grim for the Cherries and when Jimmy Quinn was sacked on 31 December, the club appointed Howe as manager. He led them to a remarkable escape, with Fletcher's goal 10 minutes from time against Grimsby in their last home game of the season confirming survival.
"I vaguely remember the commentary 'It's Fletcher…Legend!' as he smashed home a loose ball in the box," recalls BBC Radio Solent commentator Laurence Herdman.
"The big man ripped off his shirt during the goal celebration in front of the main stand revealing a muscular physique and rippling bodybuilder biceps. The goal kept AFC Bournemouth in the Football League and the Great Escape was complete."
All those struggles will now seem a world away as they prepare for life in the most popular - and most financially rewarding - league in world football.
"The reach of the Premier League is extraordinary," said Trevor Birch of business advisory firm BDO.
"It's now in over 200 countries and it reaches four billion people, so Bournemouth are going to be catapulted into the world's view."
Howe, 37, has only been a manager for six years but has already achieved enough to be named as the first Football League manager of the decade.
He first arrived at the club as a shy 13-year-old defender and went on to break into the first team, establishing himself as a key player. Injury forced his early retirement from the game in 2007 but the lessons he learned as a player from various coaches were soon put into practice as a manager.
He was just 31 when he first took charge of the Cherries in January 2009, becoming the youngest boss in the Football League in the process.
Meticulous in his preparation, Bournemouth's style as they have gone through the leagues has never altered, with Howe sticking to his philosophy of free-flowing, passing football.
In two spells he has guided them to Football League safety, promotion into League One the following season and - after a brief spell as manager of Burnley - a rise from the foot of League One to promotions to the Championship and, now, the Premier League.
Harry Redknapp has always been considered Bournemouth's greatest manager - but even Redknapp accepts his status has gone.
"I had 10 years at Bournemouth and I was the most successful manager in their 100-year history. Eddie Howe has come along and blown me out of the water. He is fantastic - I love watching them play.
"If I wasn't involved next year, I'd buy a couple of season tickets and watch them every week."
So little is known of Bournemouth's mystery Russian millionaire owner, Maxim Demin, he could wander through the town centre and not be recognised.
He was introduced to the club by former chairman and owner Eddie Mitchell, who had been building Demin's house in Sandbanks. As time passed his influence grew, he became co-owner in 2011 and bought out Mitchell in 2013.
Demin is based in Switzerland and is said to have been too superstitious to attend games during their run-in this season. He has made his money in petrochemicals and transformed the club both on and off the pitch. He is yet to give an official interview but Krasner is in no doubt how big his influence has been.
"He's made the difference between Bournemouth being just another Championship club fighting for survival and now having Premier League status," he said. "The manager and the owner seem to work very well. If the owners and manager work well together you've got a much better chance of success."
The Cherries began the campaign with a 4-0 victory at Huddersfield, which sent them to the top of the Championship. It set the tone for the rest of the season.
Six weeks of indifferent form followed before a 2-1 victory over Bolton sparked a six-game winning run that sent them back to the summit. From 4 November onwards, the club did not drop out of the top six as they held off the challenge of former Premier League clubs Middlesbrough and Norwich.
Their 8-0 win over Birmingham in October was the first time they had scored eight in a league game, barring a 10-0 win in 1939 which was expunged after World War Two broke out the next day.
More club records would tumble: most league goals in a campaign, most away league wins, most away league goals, highest points total, best league finish and the ultimate record: first time in the Premier League.
All this was achieved on a relatively small budget, with the arrival of Callum Wilson for around £3m their big summer outlay. The majority of the squad were the players that helped achieve promotion from League One.
"This is the best Bournemouth side I have seen going back to 1986," former Cherries defender John Williams told BBC Sport. "I speak to fans of 50 and 60 years and they say they have never seen such dynamic football."
The Cherries recorded an annual turnover of £5.1m in their last official financial results. The figure is about to be dwarfed by the riches awaiting them in the Premier League.
The club lost £15.3m in the financial year ending July 2013 and in total, their net debt is just over £15.5m. They only just passed Financial Fair Play regulations earlier this season.
"A prudent estimate for a newly-promoted club is upwards of £120m," Sheffield Hallam University football finance expert Rob Wilson told BBC Sport.
"We are looking at a figure of anywhere between £100-£120m in terms of the value of promotion and the lion's share of that will come from television broadcasting. Depending on how well the club can leverage commercial and sponsorship opportunities you are talking about another £20m."
Making the most of such opportunities might be a challenge for the Cherries, particularly since no club has ever been in the Premier League with a smaller stadium.
And if they are to survive in the top flight, Howe may want to break the club's transfer record. That was set last summer when Wilson, who has gone on to score 23 times this season, joined from Coventry.
A busy summer awaits on the south coast.
Herath, 38, surpassed the record of 362 wickets set by New Zealand's Daniel Vettori as Bangladesh were all out for 197 on the final day of the first Test.
He has 366 wickets in 79 Tests, after finishing with match figures of 9-131, including six in the final innings.
He is second to only Pakistan's Wasim Akram (414) of all left-arm bowlers.
In taking 6-59 in the final innings, Herath also claimed the 29th five-wicket haul of his career, drawing level with Australia's Glenn McGrath.
Only Herath's compatriot Muttiah Muralitharan (67), Australia's Shane Warne (37), New Zealand's Richard Hadlee (36) and India's Anil Kumble (35), have taken more five-wicket hauls in Tests.
Gavin Riley, 28, attacked William Gibb in the 47-year-old's flat at Elizabeth Street in Ibrox on 1 February.
He then ordered another man, William McIntyre, to get a chainsaw to cut up the body.
But Mr McIntyre alerted a neighbour who contacted police.
Riley, who admitted murder, was given a mandatory life sentence and ordered to serve a minimum of 17 years in prison.
Jailing him, judge Lord Boyd told Riley: "Having listened to the account of this dreadful act it is clear you engaged in a prolonged and brutal assault on him."
The judge said that the injuries inflicted on the victim were "truly horrific".
He told Riley: "I note you claim to have no recollection of what you did because of the level of your intoxication. Clearly, you were under the influence of alcohol and drugs."
The judge pointed out that Riley had been assessed as posing "the maximum risk to the public".
The court previously heard that Riley and Mr Gibb were friends and they lived in the same building.
At about 16:00 on the day of the murder, Riley took Mr McIntyre to Mr Gibb's flat where they socialised for a number of hours.
Later, Mr Gibb said something to Riley, who motioned to hit him but did not.
A few minutes later Riley grabbed Mr Gibb from the sofa and repeatedly punched him on the face.
Mr Gibb pleaded: "What are you doing I'm your friend?".
Riley appeared to back off but then told Mr Gibb to punch him and threatened to hit him if he did not.
He then grabbed the victim, threw him to the floor again and hit him with an ashtray and another item, before leaving the flat.
Riley returned a few minutes later with a kitchen knife, which had a 10in blade.
He asked Mr Gibb if he needed help to get up and became more angry when the victim replied: "No, you've just done this to your pal."
The court heard Riley then repeatedly stabbed Mr Gibb in the buttocks, legs and back.
He again asked the victim if he wanted help to get up but Mr Gibb replied: "No, you've put me there."
This angered Riley further and he repeatedly stabbed Mr Gibb on the left side of his body and slashed the left side of the neck, killing him.
Riley tried to wrap the body in a rug then started cutting his arm and ordered Mr McIntyre to get a chain saw.
Mr McIntyre left and asked a neighbour to contact police.
He returned to the building to find Riley dragging Mr Gibb's body at the back of the close.
When police arrived Riley tried to flee but he was arrested and taken to Cathcart police station where officers found he was in possession of a bloodstained knife.
Left-back Kitching has yet to make a first-team appearance for Boro, but played in two EFL Trophy games for their Under-21 side this season.
The 21-year-old, who had a loan spell with York last season, is out of contract at the Riverside in June.
"He played for us in a behind-closed-doors game on Tuesday and I was really impressed," manager Keith Hill said.
"He's a good player, he meets our DNA and I think once he warms up with respect to meeting the demands of the team and the environment, then I'm sure that we've got a very good young player."
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Anthony Grainger, 35, of Bolton, who had served a prison sentence for handling stolen cars, was stopped by armed police in Culcheth on Saturday.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission said Grainger, who was shot at 19:20 GMT, died from a chest wound.
Three men have been charged with conspiracy to commit robbery.
David Totton, 33, from Manchester, Robert Rimmer, 26, of New Moston, Manchester, and Joseph Travers, 27, of no fixed address, are all charged with conspiracy to commit robbery between 24 January and 3 March.
All three will appear at Manchester Magistrates' Court on Monday.
The operation in Culcheth was carried out by Greater Manchester Police (GMP) officers. GMP said its officers had performed first aid on Grainger but he died at the scene.
An inquest is to be opened on Monday at Warrington Coroner's Court.
In a statement, the IPCC said: "The independent investigation will consider the actions of all the officers at the scene, as well as the planning, decision-making and implementation of the operation which led to the death."
Grainger was a defendant in a drugs trial in Manchester in 2010.
That trial collapsed when juror Joanne Frail used Facebook to contact another defendant, a woman called Jamie Sewart, who had already been acquitted.
Frail was later jailed for contempt of court.
At a retrial, a jury was unable to reach a verdict on Grainger, who was accused of conspiracy to supply drugs, but he was jailed for 20 months after admitting handling stolen cars.
Eyewitness Jessica Brown, 15, said of Saturday's incident: "I saw loads of police cars driving past and I saw three men run past the pizza place with gasmasks on and guns and police chasing them.
"Then my friend's dad came and picked us up and said it wasn't safe to be out here."
Her father Anthony said: "I was just putting out my tea when Jessica ran in screaming. I went to look but the police told me to get inside. It's shocking, Culcheth is normally a quiet village."
A car was later removed from the scene of the shooting, a public car park near Jackson Avenue, which is close to the village supermarket and a care home for the elderly.
Manager of the nearby Cherry Tree pub, Mike Davies, said his chef had been in the back yard at the time.
"He said he heard what he thought was a firework. He saw a whiff of smoke and then he heard screaming.
"We are all pretty gobsmacked that something like this could happen here in Culcheth, a semi-rural village," he added.
Greater Manchester's Deputy Chief Constable, Ian Hopkins, said: "Our thoughts are with the man's family during what will clearly be a very difficult and emotional time, and specially trained family liaison officers have been in contact with the family.
"I want to assure them that ourselves, Cheshire Police and the Independent Police Complaints Commission will carry out a thorough investigation which will establish all the facts."
Cheshire police said patrols had been increased in the area. It said the community of Culcheth "should be reassured that this is an isolated incident and there is no risk to the community as a whole".
The new vaccine will target the two remaining strains of the virus under a switchover 18 months in the planning.
There were just 74 cases of the paralysing disease in 2015 and there have been 10 so far this year.
All of the cases were in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Africa has been free of polio for more than a year.
Switching the vaccine from one successfully used to fight polio for more than 30 years is a huge logistical exercise.
Thousands of people will monitor the changeover in 155 countries during the next fortnight.
It is taking effect mainly in developing countries, but also in richer ones such as Russia and Mexico.
The new vaccine will still be given as drops in the mouth, so healthcare workers will not need fresh training.
It will no longer include a weakened version of type 2 polio virus, which was eradicated in 1999.
Dr Stephen Cochi, from the US-based Centers for Disease Control (CDC), said: "The current vaccine contains live weakened virus relating to three types of polio.
"But we don't need the type 2 component, as it's not in the world any longer.
"And in very rare cases it can mutate and lead to polio, through what's called circulating vaccine-derived virus.
"So removing type 2 from the vaccine takes away that risk - and ensures we have a vaccine which will work better dose by dose."
Source: World Health Organisation
The history of polio
The planning involved in the switchover has included dealing with a global stockpile of 100 million doses of vaccine targeting just type 2, built up as an insurance policy in case of any outbreak.
The World Health Organization denied some media reports that "millions" of doses of the old vaccine would need to be destroyed, by incineration or other approved means.
Its director of polio eradication, Michel Zaffran, said: "Some will need to be destroyed - but this will be a few vials, not trucks full of vaccine.
"This has been carefully planned because of the huge amount of resources, so countries have been using up the old vaccine, to minimise leftover quantities.
"We're closer than ever to ending polio worldwide, which is why we are able to move forward with the largest and fastest globally synchronised vaccine switchover."
Mike Ray, who contracted polio when he was six years old and has been affected for decades afterwards, told BBC Breakfast he was "absolutely delighted" at the latest news.
He said he was "exceedingly lucky" that he had never had calipers and has been able to get around using crutches and walking sticks.
"I'm not happy it's taken this long [to get close to eradicating the disease] because it has affected so many other people but more power to their elbow. [It is] great news."
Police were called to a house on Murmount Avenue, Montenotte, Cork city at 08:00 GMT on Monday where a woman's body was found.
A man in his 60s was taken to Mercy University Hospital Cork with non-life-threatening injuries.
A man in his mid-20s was arrested at the scene, police said.
He is being held at Mayfield Police Station.
RTE is reporting that the woman had been stabbed.
The scene is being preserved for technical examination.
A study in Los Angeles, California, showed gonorrhoea and chlamydia were more common in gay men using apps than in those meeting in clubs or online.
Sexual health experts said technology was creating more opportunities for sex than ever before.
One of the apps, Grindr, said it was committed to promoting safe sex.
The researchers were curious about the impact of apps such as Grindr and Scruff which use a smartphone's location to help find partners.
They quizzed 7,184 men attending a sexual health clinic at the LA Gay and Lesbian Centre.
The results showed men were 23% more likely to have gonorrhoea and 35% more likely to be infected with chlamydia than men using other websites or clubs to meet new partners.
There was no difference in the risk of HIV between the groups.
Their report concluded: "Technology is redefining sex on demand.
"Advances which improve the efficiency of meeting anonymous sexual partners may have the unintended effect of creating networks of individuals where users may be more likely to have sexually transmissible infections."
Dr Steve Taylor, a consultant in sexual health and HIV medicine at Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, told the BBC: "Yes this is definitely something we are seeing in our sexual health and HIV clinics, both among gay men and heterosexuals.
"Without a doubt technology has facilitated rapid partner change and therefore it is a perfect environment for sexually transmitted infections and HIV to spread."
Justin Harbottle, a health promotion specialist at the Terrence Higgins Trust, said: "However good the sex is, it's not worth contracting a long-term condition.
"Gay men today have more opportunities to meet for sex than ever before.
"Part of the problem is that communication on dating apps can be brief, making it easy to cut corners on important discussions like safe sex."
He said condoms were still the best defence against infection.
Grindr told the BBC: "Grindr is highly committed to promoting safe sex within the community and strongly encourages our users to engage in safe sex practices, get tested and know their HIV status."
It added that it collaborated with a range of organisations to raise awareness about safe sex.
Such groups must now declare they rely on foreign money in communications with officials, in the media and online.
Israel's prime minister said the public needed to know when foreign states were "meddling" in its internal affairs.
But the EU said the requirements, which mostly affect human rights groups, went "beyond the need for transparency".
Groups that largely rely on private donations from wealthy individuals, which tend to be the case for right-wing organisations, are exempt.
The so-called "NGO Law", approved by the Israeli parliament on Monday night, requires groups to declare that they receive more than 50% of their funding from foreign state entities - including the EU - to declare as such in their reports to the registrar of non-profit associations and in all their official publications.
Representatives must also tell the heads of parliamentary committees when registering to attend meetings.
Failure to comply with the rules will result in a fine.
Analysis by the Israeli justice ministry found there were 27 NGOs in Israel that would be affected by the law, of which 25 were human rights groups identified with the Left, Israeli media reported.
They include B'Tselem, which monitors human rights violations in the Occupied Territories, and Zochrot, which advocates for the return of Palestinian refugees and their descendants.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wrote on his Facebook page that the law aimed "to prevent an absurd situation, in which foreign states meddle in Israel's internal affairs by funding NGOs, without the Israeli public being aware of it."
"Unlike the Left's claims, the law's approval will increase transparency, contribute to creating a discourse that reflects Israeli public opinion, and will strengthen democracy," he added.
But the EU's External Action Service said the reporting requirements seemed "aimed at constraining the activities" of civil society organisations.
"Israel enjoys a vibrant democracy, freedom of speech and a diverse civil society which are an integral part of the values which Israel and the EU both hold dear. This new legislation risks undermining these values," a spokesperson warned.
The director of Human Rights Watch in Israel and the Palestinian territories, Sari Bashi, said: "If the Israeli government was truly concerned about transparency, it would require all NGOs to actively alert the public to their sources of funding - not just those that criticise the government's policies."
The settlement watchdog Peace Now, another affected group, said it would challenge the law at the Supreme Court.
The visitors looked to have claimed an unlikely win through Alex Gilbey's header just before half-time.
But Tom Bradshaw levelled with a minute remaining when he latched on to Matt Preston's flick-on.
Defender Preston then netted the winner in the fourth minute of added time when he found the top corner with a left-footed strike inside the area.
Victory for the Saddlers leaves them level on points with second-placed Wigan, but behind the Latics on goal difference.
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Walsall interim head coach Jon Whitney told BBC WM: "We knew Colchester would be a serious test, they've got some really good offensive players.
"We needed to keep believing because we knew it might come down to that one chance you get, and that came into fruition."
Gurney has taken 306 wickets for Notts in all competitions since joining from Leicestershire in August 2011.
The 30-year-old made the first of 12 limited-overs appearances for England against Scotland in May 2014.
His previous contract at Trent Bridge was set to expire at the end of next season.
"Harry has taken massive strides during his time with us and he's developed into one of the most senior players at the club," director of cricket Mick Newell said.
"He bowls in pressure situations, particularly with the white ball, and does it very well - and in four-day cricket he has the knack of getting wickets in clusters."
It comes after an inquiry by the All Party Parliamentary Group on body image heard evidence that more than half of the public has a negative body image.
Girls as young as five now worry about how they look, the MPs' report said, while cosmetic surgery rates have increased by nearly 20% since 2008.
Media images of unrealistic bodies were said to be largely to blame, they said.
The MPs released the
Reflections on Body Image report
after a three-month inquiry, involving an online consultation and oral evidence given to the cross-party group.
Appearance-related discrimination
Among other recommendations was a review into whether the
Equality Act 2010
should be amended to include appearance-related discrimination, which would be put on the same legal basis as race and sexual discrimination.
Under the current act, people can be prosecuted for verbal abuse if it is considered to be serious enough.
If this was amended it would be a offence to harass someone because of their appearance, for example by drawing attention to their weight.
APPG chairwoman, Jo Swinson MP, said there was a "definite problem" with body image and that has "serious consequences".
"It's something which has existed for a long time... but in terms of the scale of it, that is what is new, and it is being driven by the proliferation of media imagery portraying a so-called 'perfected ideal' that is entirely unattainable for the vast majority of people," she told BBC Radio 4's Today Programme.
The inquiry found evidence that suggested body dissatisfaction in the UK was on the rise.
It is a key factor in health and relationship problems and low-self esteem, the report, co-authored by health and education charity Central YMCA, said.
The report suggested it is also a major block to progression at school and work.
Children often reflected their parents' own body-related anxieties, the evidence suggested, while appearance is the greatest cause of bullying in schools.
Body dissatisfaction, the report said, is a problem that affects people regardless of age, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, disability, body size or shape.
However, the evidence suggested young people and children were particularly vulnerable to anxiety over their bodies.
Parents were one of the main influences on children - but peer groups became a stronger influence by secondary school age.
About half of girls and up to a third of boys have dieted to lose weight, the report said.
More than half of British people have a negative body image, a study by the Centre for Appearance Research at the University of the West of England, quoted by the report, found.
The inquiry - which heard from academics, magazine editors, company chief executives, the public, and other experts - also heard that:
The report made a series of recommendations, including:
Ms Swinson told the BBC the media and companies should take "positive steps to show a greater diversity and authenticity in the images we are bombarded with on a daily basis".
The Lib Dem MP for East Dunbartonshire also said a form of kite-marking as a reward for organisations that take action would be welcome.
Central YMCA chief executive Rosi Prescott said: "It is clear there is something seriously wrong in society when children as young as five are worrying about their appearance."
The inquiry was conducted between 24 November 2011 and 24 February 2012.
It consisted of an online consultation and 10 evidence sessions where witnesses representing organisations with an interest or association with body image gave evidence at the House of Commons. In total, the online consultation had 601 submissions.
The pledge was made by a party spokesman in an off-camera briefing to journalists.
Labour has claimed the Tories plan to cut child benefit as part of their planned £12bn welfare savings.
Shadow chancellor Ed Balls accused the Conservatives of "weasel words", saying they had not ruled out taking it "from millions of families".
The Tories say they will freeze working-age benefits, including child benefit, for two years but have not spelt out what else will be targeted.
During Thursday night's special edition of Question Time, Prime Minister David Cameron said child benefit was "vital" to parents and "stays" in place.
On Friday he told ITV News: "Let me be absolutely clear. We are not cutting child benefit, we are keeping child benefit."
Later a Conservative spokesman clarified the party's position and said the Tories would not cut child benefit for the whole of the next parliament.
Labour leader Ed Miliband, however, has said it is "brutally clear" the benefit would be cut under the Conservatives, saying family budgets faced being "devastated" by the £12bn welfare savings, which have not yet been set out in detail.
Labour claims the Conservatives cannot save that amount without restricting tax credits and child benefits.
In a speech in Cardiff, Mr Miliband focused on welfare, promising to begin the process of reversing cuts to housing benefits for social tenants - dubbed by critics as the "bedroom tax" - on day one of taking office.
The opposition has seized on Lib Dem claims that their coalition partners considered £8bn worth of curbs to child benefit in 2012.
"The prime minister was asked three times (on Thursday) whether he had a plan to cut child benefit," Mr Miliband said.
"He apparently used 600 words when just one word would have done - the word no. But he did not use that word."
This election issue includes access to benefits (apart from pensions), poverty and inequality.
Policy guide: Where the parties stand
The Conservatives have said they will freeze working-age benefits, including tax credits and child benefit, between 2016 and 2018, affecting 11 million households and saving £3bn.
This comes on top of a one-year freeze in the value of child benefit in 2013-4 and a 1% cap on increases between 2014-6.
Speaking during a visit to an Asda depot in Leeds, Mr Cameron suggested there would be no further reforms to child benefit.
"With child benefit we've made our reform. We said that it's absolutely a vital benefit for Britain's families: it goes straight to the mother in most cases; it forms the key part of families' budgets; and we've made our reform.
"We've said that we had to freeze it in this Parliament, we said that we're going to have to freeze it for the start of the new parliament, but child benefit stays because it's so important."
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It's hoped pupils will learn to care for their own space and shared areas, and learn good habits for the future.
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The company is closing its call centre at Springvale Business Park.
It provides outbound calls to potential customers for insurance firms RIAS and Castle Cover.
The firm said the Belfast site has become "increasingly uneconomical" due to changing consumer behaviour.
A 90-day redundancy consultation period has started.
SDLP assembly member Alex Attwood said it was a devastating blow for west Belfast and had not been expected.
"I am urging Ageas Belfast to hold back on any final decision, to meet political representatives, the enterprise minister and Invest NI to seek answers to this critical situation," he said.
"Those workers had no idea of anything that was coming and, as best as I can determine, nobody in any of the government or economic agencies in Northern Ireland knew that anything was coming," he said.
"All the indications were over the last number of years that business was good."
The firm has said it will "do all it can to help employees find alternative employment".
One employee said the workers had had no advance notice of the move and it had come as a "terrible shock".
Sinn Féin MP Paul Maskey said he was shocked by the news.
"I was extremely disappointed that Ageas Retail have announced a 90-day consultation on the future of 200 jobs at its west Belfast site," he said.
"This decision has come out of the blue to staff who are understandably shocked. Some of them left today in tears concerned about their future."
Mr Maskey said he would be "engaging" with the company throughout the consultation process to ensure that everything possible was done to help staff find alternative employment.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called it a "creative solution" that would "unify the people of Israel".
Orthodox Jews voted against the move but said they accepted the decision.
Until now, in accordance with Orthodox beliefs, men and women have prayed separately at the Western Wall.
The decision was welcomed by the more liberal Reform and Conservative Jewish movements in Israel and North America and the group Women of the Wall (WOW), which has long held monthly prayers - upsetting the Orthodox leaders of the site.
A founding member of WOW, Anat Hoffman, called it an "historic day".
"We have been fighting for 27 years. We were single when we started; we are grandmothers now. And what we have done is liberate another part of the wall that will be open to all. It will be tolerant and equal and friendly," she said.
Shmuel Rabinowitz, the Rabbi of the Western Wall, said he received news of the decision "with a heavy heart and a sigh of relief", acknowledging the Wall had gone "from being a unifying site to one of incessant quarrels".
"The Western Wall will continue to remain open to any worshipper - man or woman - at all hours of every day, with respect and loyalty to Jewish tradition and Jewish heritage, as the Western Wall is the clear symbol of these," he said.
The new mixed-gender prayer area will be built beside the the current male and female prayer sites and will be managed by a separate committee which includes representatives of the Reform and Conservative movements.
The Western Wall is a remnant of the retaining wall of the mount on which the Holy Temples once stood, and is one of the most sacred sites in Judaism. Every year, millions of Jews from all over the world visit the wall to pray.
Correspondents say the dispute over the wall became a symbol of the greater tensions in Israeli society between ultra-Orthodox Jews, who abide by a very strict interpretation of Jewish law, and more modern elements of Judaism.
US firm Reynolds American's takeover of rival Lorillard was cleared by regulators on Tuesday, on condition that the firms sells the Winston, Kool, Salem and Maverick brands.
Imperial Tobacco is set to buy the brands, and its shares rose 2.4%.
The FTSE 100 index was up 32.56 points at 6,981.55.
Shares in British Airways owner IAG rose 1.6% as the airline group closed in on a takeover of Irish carrier Aer Lingus.
On Tuesday, the Irish government agreed to sell its 25% stake in Aer Lingus to IAG, removing a major hurdle to the deal.
In the FTSE 250, shares in De La Rue dived 8.8% after the banknote printer reported a drop in profits and slashed its dividend.
Underlying operating profit for the year to 28 March fell to £69.5m from £89.3m a year earlier, and the banknote printer cut its dividend by 40%.
On the currency markets, the pound rose 0.19% against the dollar to $1.5414, but fell 0.09% against the euro to €1.4130.
Terry Oldham, 63, died as a result of injuries caused by a serious sexual assault, jurors previously heard.
Richard Rosevear, 33, said he found Mr Oldham with a head injury and facial cut at their shared home.
Mr Rosevear, from St Austell, and three fellow housemates deny murder.
Aaron Mallon, 25, Michelle Casterton, 43, Daniel Quinn, 24, all from Falmouth, and Mr Rosevear also deny causing or allowing the death of a vulnerable adult.
Mr Rosevear told Truro Crown Court he found Mr Oldham "black and blue" at the house in Camborne, Cornwall, in April last year.
His three co-accused were waving papers around, saying Mr Oldham was a paedophile, he said.
"They said he'd tripped over the dog and hit his head on a bike," he told the court.
Mr Rosevear, the only one of the four defendants to give evidence, told the court that Mr Oldham's valuables had disappeared.
"He had two cabinets full of DVDs," he said.
"They'd all evaporated. His stereo had evaporated, his big TV, his phone had all evaporated."
During his evidence, Mr Rosevear told the court Mr Oldham had been thrown out of his bedroom and forced to sleep in what he called the "junk room".
When asked who moved into the bedroom, Mr Rosevear said it was Mr Mallon and his partner Ms Casterton.
During the four-week trial, the prosecution has said the four killed Mr Oldham after learning he was a convicted paedophile.
The case continues.
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A sublime pass by Joe Allen set up Aaron Ramsey for the first goal, Neil Taylor doubled the lead and Gareth Bale scored his third goal of the tournament to cap a performance he described as the "best I've ever been involved in" for Wales.
But who were Wales' best players in Toulouse?
A spectator for most of the match, but alert to deny Artem Dzyuba in the first half.
Under less pressure defensively than against England, freeing him to fly down the right flank with gusto.
Never flustered, the West Brom defender continued his fine form with some important interceptions, with one contributing to the opening goal.
Coped with the physical threat of Artem Dzyuba and marshalled Wales' defence through a relatively simple 90 minutes.
Always composed in possession, covered Neil Taylor well as the wing-back pushed forward.
Untroubled defensively, scored his first goal for club or country since 2010 to cap an energetic display.
Busy defensive work and one-touch passing helped Wales start the match at a furious pace.
Enjoying an excellent tournament and gave his best display yet, battling ferociously and providing a brilliant assist for the opening goal.
Man of the match. Arguably his greatest game for Wales, scoring a fine goal and threading intricate passes at will to pick holes in the Russian defence.
Tormented Russia's defence with a performance brimming with power, pace and purpose, yet could have scored to make the winning margin even greater.
Something of a surprise starter, the Burnley striker missed a good early chance but provided a solid outlet for Wales on the attack.
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Solid enough when introduced late on to give Joe Allen a deserved rest.
First appearance of the tournament was a routine one, helping Wales see out the game.
Another making his competition bow, on too late to make much of an impression.
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These are just some of the labels applied to Eritrea in recent years. The problem with labels is they stick. They become the lens through which the country is viewed.
Although many of these headline-grabbing descriptions are exaggerated and over-simplified, Eritrea is facing immense challenges, some of the most serious in its short, 25-year history.
This month a United Nations-appointed Commission of Inquiry found that crimes against humanity, including enslavement, torture, murder, rape and enforced disappearance, have been committed on a "systematic and widespread" scale.
It has recommended the UN Security Council refers the matter to the International Criminal Court.
Eritrea, which has never held national elections, has no parliament, no opposition parties and no free press, acknowledges there have been "individual transgressions of human rights", but describes the accusations as "legally indefensible" and "politicised".
It says the report is "entirely one-sided" because members of the Commission only spoke to Eritreans outside the country, many of whom have their own agendas.
Just a week after the report was released, another bombshell hit Eritrea. There was a serious flare-up on its border with Ethiopia, perhaps the most significant since the devastating 1998-2000 border war in which tens of thousands died.
Details of the latest clashes are murky. Eritrea says 200 Ethiopian troops were killed, Ethiopia says there was a "major engagement". Both sides blame the other for starting the violence.
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Eritrea is in close proximity with another conflict. Just 40km across the Red Sea, a civil war has been raging in Yemen.
As if these were not enough, there are a number of other serious problems in Eritrea.
During the past few years, there has been a spike in people leaving the country. Many of them are young, seeking better opportunities and escaping long years of obligatory national service.
In 2015, Eritrea - a relatively small country - was the biggest source of African migrants to Europe. This year, according to the UNHCR, Eritrea has slipped to joint fourth position, behind Nigeria, The Gambia and Somalia.
In 2009, the UN imposed targeted sanctions on Eritrea for its alleged support for Al Shabaab Islamists in nearby Somalia. This led to further international isolation and hurt the country's economy, already damaged by the closure of its border with Ethiopia.
Eritrea was left out in the cold, an international pariah.
Ironically, some of these challenges, old and new, have started to lead to opportunities for Eritrea.
Let's start with the easier ones.
The conflict in Yemen has already led to stronger ties with some Gulf countries, especially those in the Saudi-led coalition against the Houthi rebels. Eritrea is providing the United Arab Emirates with what the foreign minister, Osman Saleh, describes as "logistical facilities" at its southern port of Assab.
He said the UAE is helping to improve the port there, and will later work on the port in Massawa. There are also reports of supplies of desperately-needed fuel, something Eritrea denies.
Europe is also engaging more, mainly because of the migrant crisis. It has announced a $227m "development fund" for 2016-2020, almost four times the sum it gave for a previous period covering 2009-2013. It says Eritrea can also benefit from its new Emergency Trust Fund for Africa, which aims to discourage so many people from leaving the continent.
Some Eritrea experts, such as Cedric Barnes of The International Crisis Group, have argued that Eritrea and Ethiopia should use the latest outbreak of border violence as an opportunity to sort out once and for all the dispute that has run like a festering sore since 1998.
This will not be easy. Eritrea feels betrayed by the UN and Western powers who failed to push Ethiopia to abide by an international border ruling in Eritrea's favour.
Like Eritrea, Ethiopia has been accused of serious human rights abuses, a lack of democracy and repression of the media. But it is a key Western ally, and foreign powers may be reluctant to pressurise it in the same way as they do Eritrea.
It is even more difficult to see how Eritrea could turn the UN Commission of Inquiry's findings into an opportunity, especially if some of its senior officials end up at the ICC.
True, the ICC is viewed with great scepticism by many Africans who accuse it of disproportionately targeting individuals from their continent.
Kenya's president and deputy president were voted into power after being indicted by the ICC. Sudan's Omar al Bashir became something of an African hero after he was charged.
Eritrea has shown some signs of taking human rights more seriously. It has accepted 92 out of 200 recommendations put forward by the UN's latest Universal Periodic Review of Human Rights, although implementation is slow.
This year, for the first time, it allowed the UN office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights to visit a prison.
Bizarrely, Western diplomats in Eritrea often have very different views from their governments.
One went as far as describing Eritrea as a "perfect development partner" due to what was described as its relatively low levels of corruption, strong work ethic and lack of religious extremism in a region where many countries have been affected by Islamist violence.
One elephant in the room is the question of who will succeed the country's first and only president, Isaias Afwerki, who is 70 years old.
One Western diplomat said: "He is about the only African president who cares about his people, but he is like a stubborn camel leading his country in the wrong direction."
Although a growing number of people are arguing that it is probably wiser to engage with Eritrea than isolating it further, there will have to be huge shifts in attitude from all sides for constructive dialogue and lasting change to take place.
The 23-year-old was part of France's squad at the 2014 Fifa World Cup and helped the side to reach the quarter-finals in Brazil.
Griezmann, who had been with the Basque club for 10 years, has signed a six-year contract with the Spanish champions.
He joins Mario Mandzukic in signing for Atletico this summer.
Speaking at the launch of Connect Out, a lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender network set up by Arup, the engineering and design consultants, he said: "My sense is that the business world remains more intolerant of homosexuality than other worlds such as the legal profession, the media and the visual arts. I am one of a handful of publicly gay people to have run a FTSE 100 company.
"In some industries, the situation is particularly bad. Among the many people I know in private equity, where I now work, fewer than 1% are openly gay."
He therefore wants "leaders in companies, and not just in human resources" to "think about inclusion in every decision they take". He says: "It comes down to a simple maxim - don't do anything that excludes people."
And he feels that change requires "rigorous performance measurement", the establishment of "concrete targets".
Lord Browne, who has never before spoken publicly about sexuality in the workplace, says it can be what he describes as "the smallest things" that can discourage gay people from being open with their colleagues about their sexuality.
"It is things like homophobic jokes that you somehow get used to, but never accept. Or it's the conversational assumptions about spouses and children. Perhaps, even, it's the games of golf at the weekend."
It was not until the end of his 41-year career at BP that he came out. Looking back on it, he says: "Hiding my sexuality did make me unhappy and, in the end, it didn't work. People guessed, and it was only a matter of time before it came out. I realise now that the people we dealt with certainly knew I was gay. Putin had files on everybody. But at the time I was trapped by the fear of exposure."
He goes on: "In fact I was trapped for most of my adult life, unable to reveal who I was to the world. I led a double-life of secrecy, and of deep isolation, walled off from those closest to me."
Just over five years ago, Lord Browne quit as BP's chief executive in painful and humiliating circumstances. He admitted that he had lied to a court about the circumstances in which he had met a former boyfriend.
He told me, when I interviewed him on Tuesday, that he had got so used to lying about his sexuality that he didn't think through what he was doing when he misled the court.
Lord Browne points out that when he first realised he was gay, in 1960 at boarding school, homosexuality was illegal, though the law was abolished when he went to Cambridge.
He says: "After Cambridge, when I joined BP as a graduate, it was immediately obvious to me that it was unacceptable to be gay in business and most definitely the oil business. It was a very macho and sometimes homophobic environment; I felt I had to conform."
Also, he did not want to upset his Jewish mother, who had been in Auschwitz: "My mother, whom I dearly loved, rejected any discussion of my sexuality. With her background of being persecuted she was sure that the same would happen to me."
Lord Browne believes the UK has a duty to promote sexual and gender equality internationally.
"Homosexuality remains illegal in more than 70 countries. In seven countries, it can carry the death penalty. That injustice is primarily a British export, shipped abroad in the days of the empire. In my view, we should be working overtime to correct it."
About 200 athletes and up to 25,000 amateur runners will race 13.1 miles (21km) in the IAAF Cardiff University World Half Marathon on 26 March.
The "500 club" runners have been recruited for research on whether they continue to exercise after the race.
The study will also look at what motivates them to run or stop.
Dr Liba Sheeran, leading the research, said her team would also collect data on race finish times and whether there were differences in the perceptions of those who finished and those who did not.
"Knowing what motivates people to run in the half marathon and participate in regular exercise before and after the race - and what can be done to help them to continue to run - would be very useful for future mass race event organisation," she said.
The runners will be given advice on injury prevention during the study.
The route will start outside Cardiff Castle and finish on King Edward VII Avenue in the city centre.
The Rail Accident Investigation Board (RAIB) report said the driver suffered a severe shock on the track at Sutton Weaver, Cheshire, on 23 September 2014.
The man had not seen an overhead wire hanging down as he walked on the track.
The RAIB also recommended that Network Rail extend its overhead line checks for wire damage at attachment points.
The driver was hospitalised for 10 weeks with severe burns to the right-hand side of his body as well as suffering broken ribs, broken collar bone, and a head wound thought to have occurred when he fell and hit his head against a rail.
Virgin Trains report that he is making a good recovery.
The report found that the wire broke at an attachment point because some strands had "fractured due to fatigue".
Its report said the Virgin Trains driver left the train to report his location at Sutton Weaver, to help the team who would reset the circuit breakers which had been tripped after two previous trains touched the live hanging wire.
RAIB said the Rail Safety and Standards and Safety Board should investigate whether "clarification is needed relating to the actions that train crew should take if they are required to leave a train" where an overhead live wire is damaged.
Coaches were called to take passengers away from the scene, and the incident caused disruption between London Euston and Liverpool Lime Street.
Volunteers monitoring nests near Lovers Beach on Nevis had found the green sea turtle hatchlings in undergrowth.
The prince, who is on a tour of seven Caribbean island nations as the Queen's representative, was handed the creatures one by one.
He later helped excavate a nest which the babies had left.
Willing the turtles to "Go, go, go... that way", the prince observed that one was "waiting for the water to come to him", adding: "That's really clever".
The volunteers from the Nevis Turtle Group work every night on the beaches, tagging turtles and collecting information about their nesting habits and movements.
They also excavate nests which the baby turtles, either leatherback, green sea or hawksbill, have left and count the remaining egg cases to monitor numbers.
It is illegal in Nevis to hunt for turtle eggs to eat but experts say there is insufficient enforcement to prevent people from doing so.
The prince's tour began on Sunday in Antigua and Barbuda before he moved on to St Kitts and Nevis.
The visit will also take him to Barbados, Grenada, St Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines, and Guyana.
The visitors took control of the game inside the opening 20 minutes thanks to tries from Chris Dean, Stefan Marsh and Charly Runciman.
Michael Lawrence got the Giants on the board but Macgraff Leuluai's try reasserted the Vikings' authority.
Marsh got his second and Corey Thompson went in twice, with Larne Patrick and Jamie Foster crossing for the hosts.
It was a great day for the Vikings who had not previously won at Huddersfield since 1996.
Widnes had suffered a home defeat by Salford last time out but got off to a great start at the John Smith's Stadium and never looked like slipping up.
Huddersfield, who are missing seven players through injury, are only off the bottom of Super League on points difference, and lost half-back Jamie Ellis to injury during the game.
Paul Anderson's side next face last placed Leeds Rhinos at Headingley on Friday with both teams looking for their first win of the season, while Widnes host the other winless team in the top flight, Hull KR.
Huddersfield coach Paul Anderson:
"Three quarters of our salary cap have watched today. One or two might have a chance for Friday but we've got to battle on. The key is to stick together.
"I thought Widnes were very good we were poor and pretty soft if I'm honest.
"It was the same team (that almost beat Wigan) but our attitude was not quite right today. If your attitude is not right, you get challenged and Widnes did that. They ran harder than us and they had more vigour in everything they did."
Widnes coach Denis Betts:
"We've not won here for 20 years and it was a great overall performance. There are things in there we can do better - Joe Mellor was finding ways not to score a try.
"The lads are really made up with the fact we've been away from home three times and we've come out with six points from four games. We would have taken that early in the year.
"This next month the games are going to be coming thick and fast and it will be a real test for us. It becomes a war of attrition and the squad gets tested.
Huddersfield: Murphy, McGillvary, Cudjoe, S. Wood, Foster, Connor, Ellis, Rapira, Hinchcliffe, J. Johnson, Ta'ai, Lawrence, Patrick.
Replacements: Smith, Leeming, Mason, Roberts.
Widnes: Hanbury, Thompson, Bridge, Runciman, Marsh, Mellor, Brown, O'Carroll, White, Dudson, Dean, Houston, Cahill.
Substitutes: Whitley, Manuokafoa, Leuluai, Heremaia.
The 19- and 53-year-old were walking on Cathcart Road in Glasgow, near Somerville Road, at about 00:55 when a car was reversed into them.
The younger man was released after treatment at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital.
His companion is in a serious but stable condition in the same hospital, with leg and head injuries.
Det Sgt Martin Smith said: "Inquiries are at an early stage and we are currently viewing CCTV to try and establish the circumstances surrounding this incident.
"The car involved is a small white three door, with a dark roof and dark alloy wheels. It was last seen travelling north on Cathcart Road.
"At the time of the incident the area would have been busy with members of the public and I urge anyone who witnessed this incident or anyone who has any information that could assist our inquiry to contact Cathcart CID immediately."
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Wheater, 29, made more 100 league appearances in five years at the club.
Heskey, 38, will also leave after scoring only three goals in 45 league appearances for Wanderers.
Goalkeeper Paul Rachubka, 34, midfielder Neil Danns and striker Stephen Dobbie, both 33, will also depart in the summer.
Defenders Oscar Threlkeld, 21, and Niall Maher, 20, will also leave.
Departures also include midfielder Liam Feeney, 29, striker Rob Hall, 22, and defender Hayden White, 21 - who ended the season on loan at Ipswich, MK Dons, and Blackpool respectively.
In addition, 10 development squad players will not have their contracts renewed.
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Trump trailed China's Liang Wenbo 6-3 overnight and lost the first frame.
But Trump won five in a row - and seven of the next eight - to progress and will face China's Ding Junhui next.
Qualifier Kyren Wilson became the last man into the second round after a thrilling 10-9 win over Joe Perry.
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Both matches delivered nerve-jangling tension and high-quality snooker at snooker's showpiece event.
A relieved Trump delivered on his promise to fund a few drinks for his fans.
"I will put a couple of hundred quid behind the bar at The Graduate and whoever comes in first can have a free drink," he said after earlier promising as much on Twitter.
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In the evening session, the final first-round match was even tighter, with a 57-minute frame won by Perry forcing a decider.
Shanghai Masters champion Wilson was 5-4 ahead overnight only to fall 8-7 behind.
But the Kettering man persevered with the attacking style and fearless long-potting and he finished with six half-centuries and two tons in his victory.
"It was a fantastic match and the way snooker should be played. Fans love a decider," said Wilson. "I come to tournaments believing I can win but try not to get too far ahead of myself."
The afternoon drama came in seeing world number five Trump keep his Crucible quest alive against an increasingly nervy Liang.
Trump's generous gesture to buy drinks for his fans will hardly make a dent in his wallet, having already assured himself of £22,000 for reaching the second round at the Crucible.
The 26-year-old's prize money looked like being just the £13,250 reserved for first-round losers as UK Championship runner-up Liang took the opening frame of the morning.
But the Bristolian stopped the rot in a scrappy 11th frame and looked a different player after scoring a majestic ton to win the 13th.
Liang levelled at 8-8 but Trump closed out the win with ease.
"It seemed like when I had my back against the wall that's when I thrived," added Trump. "I played some real good snooker, just solid snooker. I wasn't forcing it really."
Seven-time world champion Stephen Hendry on BBC Two: "Judd Trump was my tip at the start of the tournament. I think he should have won the title by now but he's maturing, working harder and taking his career more seriously. He came into the tournament in form and he's going to take some beating."
Thursday's late session also saw two-time World Championship runner-up Ali Carter lead veteran Scot Alan McManus 5-3 in their second-round meeting.
In the other round two match, world number 14 Marco Fu took a 5-3 lead over Scotland's Anthony McGill.
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Judd Trump honoured his mid-session interval promise and "put £200 behind the bar" after completing a sensational 10-8 comeback win in the first round of the World Snooker Championship.
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Ardbeg Distillery, on Islay, sent a vial to the International Space Station in a cargo spacecraft in October 2011.
Another vial of the same whisky was kept at the distillery for comparison.
The distillery said its space samples were "noticeably different" in terms of aroma and taste.
The company had set up the experiment to investigate how micro-gravity would affect the behaviour of terpenes, the building blocks of flavour for many foods and wines as well as whisky spirits.
It has now identified "major differences" in its analysis of the two sets of samples.
Earth sample: "The sample had a woody aroma, reminiscent of an aged Ardbeg style, with hints of cedar, sweet smoke and aged balsamic vinegar, as well as raisins, treacle toffee, vanilla and burnt oranges.
"On the palate, its woody, balsamic flavours shone through, along with a distant fruitiness, some charcoal and antiseptic notes, leading to a long, lingering aftertaste, with flavours of gentle smoke, tar and creamy fudge."
Space sample: "Its intense aroma had hints of antiseptic smoke, rubber and smoked fish, along with a curious, perfumed note, like violet or cassis, and powerful woody tones, leading to a meaty aroma.
"The taste was very focused, with smoked fruits such as prunes, raisins, sugared plums and cherries, earthy peat smoke, peppermint, aniseed, cinnamon and smoked bacon or hickory-smoked ham. The aftertaste is intense and long, with hints of wood, antiseptic lozenges and rubbery smoke."
Ardbeg said the maturation experiment paved the way for "unprecedented flavour profiles".
Dr Bill Lumsden, Ardbeg's director of distilling and whisky creation, said: "The space samples were noticeably different.
"When I nosed and tasted the space samples, it became clear that much more of Ardbeg's smoky, phenolic character shone through - to reveal a different set of smoky flavours which I have not encountered here on earth before."
Dr Lumsden added: "Ardbeg already has a complex character, but the results of our experiment show that there is potentially even more complexity that we can uncover, to reveal a different side to the whisky."
Ardbeg was invited to take part in the space experiment in late 2011 by Texas-based space research company NanoRacks.
The vial was launched by Soyuz rocket from Baikonur in Kazakhstan and spent nearly three years in space.
NanoRacks chief executive Jeffrey Manber said: "It's hard to find companies willing to be pioneers. To have a partner like Ardbeg that is willing to make this sort of commitment augurs well for the future of commercial space research into flavourings and what it changes for consumer products in general."
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The 36-year-old former England international, who left Chelsea in the summer, came off the bench to equalise in the 1-1 draw at Etihad Stadium.
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"Frank Lampard is a Man City player," Mourinho told Sky Sports.
"When he decided to go to a direct competitor then love stories are over."
The Portuguese coach added: "I don't believe in stories of passion and heart, maybe I am too pragmatic in football. He did his job as a professional."
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Lampard's goal came on his home debut for City, having joined the club on loan from Major League Soccer side New York City.
It cancelled out Andre Schurrle's opener for Chelsea, which had come minutes after the hosts had Pablo Zabaleta sent off for a second bookable offence after fouling Diego Costa.
The equaliser denied Chelsea the chance to move five points clear at the top of the Premier League.
"I feel that when a player leaves another club and plays for a direct opponent, he is not going there for a holiday, he is going there to try and beat his club - the one everyone considers the club of his heart, but not any more," Mourinho told BBC Sport.
"Maybe again [Chelsea will be in his heart] when he leaves City, but while at City he wants to beat Chelsea. That is the nature of football."
Lampard was applauded by both Manchester City and Chelsea fans when he came on with 12 minutes remaining.
"The reception I got when I came on was amazing, I can't speak highly enough of the fans," he said.
"I came here to do a job and it was a special and weird day. It was a difficult day for me at the end because what do you do? You're caught in the middle.
"What was a win for me today? Maybe a draw and keeping the Premier League close and a reception from both sets of fans that I won't forget."
The man tested negative for Ebola in standard checks when he arrived at Delhi airport.
However, officials said he was being quarantined because the virus was still present in his semen - and could be transmitted by the "sexual route".
Ebola has killed more than 5,000 people this year, mostly in West Africa.
Most of the cases in the latest outbreak - the deadliest ever - have been recorded in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone.
Men who have been successfully treated for the disease are advised against having sex - or to make sure they use a condom - because their semen can still carry traces of the virus for up to 90 days after they have been cured.
The Indian Health Ministry said the man, a 26-year-old Indian national, had arrived in the country on 10 November.
He had been carrying documents with him that stated he had been successfully treated for Ebola in Liberia.
He was tested for the disease according to the guidelines of the World Heath Organization (WHO). No traces of the virus were found - effectively confirming that he had been cured.
According to a government press release, however, the man was isolated at Delhi airport "as a matter of abundant caution".
Semen samples were then taken, which tested positive for the virus.
The ministry said the man would be kept in isolation until the virus was no longer present in his body.
Many experts fear Ebola could wreak havoc if it reached India because of poor public hygiene and the lack of basic health services in many areas.
There are nearly 45,000 Indian nationals living in West Africa, according to the Reuters news agency.
No cases of Ebola have been reported in India.
Posh needed an injury-time equaliser from Marcus Maddison to earn a point, their fifth draw in six league games.
"If I'm honest, I thought we were a bit individualised up there. There was no combination," said McCann.
"I think once (Paul) Taylor played Marcus in and we nearly scored. We're never going to be perfect at this stage but we'll continue to work hard."
Neither of McCann's preferred forward pairing of Tom Nichols and Paul Taylor have scored since 20 August.
Maddison scored his fifth goal of the campaign, but McCann said it only made up for his error which allowed Southend's Anthony Wordsworth to score the opener at Roots Hall.
"It was a great finish, he had to do that to be fair because he lost his runner for the goal," McCann told BBC Radio Cambridgeshire.
"He's held his hands up in the changing room because that's the sort of person he is and he's produced a great strike. He can produce that on any given day with the talent he's got."
The controversial drug room was opened by Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo and Health Minister Marisol Touraine on Tuesday. It is near the Gare du Nord, a busy station where drug crime is common.
The users will exchange hard drugs like heroin and crack for substitutes, along with sterile injection kits.
Critics fear it could fuel drug abuse.
Ms Touraine said France had become the tenth country to set up drug rooms, which Switzerland pioneered in 1986. There are plans to open two more - in Strasbourg, eastern France, and Bordeaux in the south-west.
"This is a very important moment in the battle against the blight of addiction," Ms Touraine said.
One of the chief arguments for such places is that they put addicts - often poor, marginalised and sick - in touch with medics and social workers, who can help them.
Consuming substitute drugs in a clean environment also reduces the risk that addicts face from contaminated hard drugs bought from criminal dealers.
The Paris facility is in the Lariboisiere Hospital, and has a separate entrance. It will formally open its doors to addicts on Friday, and about 200 are expected there daily.
The addicts will have to register, but are not obliged to give their real name, and will not be pursued by police for going there.
The facility has a dozen cubicles affording some privacy to addicts when they inject. It is run by Gaia, an association that helps to treat addicts, and the annual running cost is put at €1.2m (£1.1m; $1.3m).
A leading Paris politician in the centre-right Republicans party, Philippe Goujon, is among the opponents who fear the initiative will undermine efforts to stop the hard drugs trade.
"We're moving from a policy of risk reduction to a policy of making drugs an everyday, legitimate thing. The state is saying 'you can't take drugs, but we'll help you to do so anyway," he told the daily Le Figaro (in French).
According to French health ministry data from 2011, more than 10% of drug abusers in France have HIV/Aids and more than 40% are infected with hepatitis C. Dirty needles and unprotected sex are the main routes for virus transmission.
Drug rooms exist officially in several European countries, including Switzerland, the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark and Spain, as well as in Canada and Australia.
The sale was finalised at a meeting in Washington between US defence chief Jim Mattis and his Qatari counterpart.
It comes days after US President Donald Trump accused Qatar - a major US ally - of funding terrorism "at a very high level" - a charge Qatar denies.
Other Gulf countries recently cut ties with Doha, accusing it of destabilising the region through its alleged support of extremist groups and links to Iran.
UK Prime Minister Theresa May spoke to the kings of Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, as well as the emir of Qatar, on Thursday, urging them to "urgently de-escalate the situation" and "engage meaningfully in dialogue", according to a statement from Downing Street.
Qatar is home to the biggest US air base in the Middle East, Al-Udeid. It houses around 10,000 troops and plays a key role in the US-led operations against the so-called Islamic State (IS) group in Syria and Iraq.
Mr Trump's comments appeared at odds with the US Department of Defence, which had praised Qatar's "enduring commitment to regional security" just days earlier.
Saudi Arabia, another key US ally, has led moves to isolate the gas-rich emirate since earlier this month. Riyadh sealed its border, closed its air space to Qatari Airways and - along with Bahrain, the UAE and Egypt - severed diplomatic relations.
A Qatari official said the deal for the fighter planes was "proof that US institutions are with us but we have never doubted that," Reuters news agency reported.
"Our militaries are like brothers. America's support for Qatar is deep-rooted and not easily influenced by political changes," the unnamed official was quoted as saying.
A Qatari defence ministry source told Reuters Doha had bought 36 of the planes.
The deal comes just weeks after the US agreed to sell the Saudis more than $100bn-worth of weapons.
As tensions between Qatar and its neighbours escalate, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu was due in Kuwait on Thursday as part of a shuttle mission to try to resolve the crisis.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has strongly backed Qatar, calling the Saudi-led measures "inhumane and against Islamic values". Kuwait has also been mediating.
Last week, the Turkish parliament authorised the deployment of Turkish troops to Qatar in what was seen as a show of support for the embattled emirate. Ankara has also sent planeloads of food to Qatar, which had been dependant on imports from Saudi Arabia.
It follows an inquiry into the arrest of a man who ended up in intensive care after taking legal highs.
The incident happened on 1 December 2014 in Edinburgh.
The investigation found officers should have ensured the man was examined sooner by a healthcare professional.
Commissioner Kate Frame said: "Where there exists a suspicion that prisoners have swallowed or absorbed drugs or other harmful substances it is imperative that police officers seek immediate medical attention for those individuals."
The investigation revealed that following reports of a disturbance in a common close, the man was handcuffed, arrested and placed into a police van.
On the way to the police office, officers needed to stop the van due to the man's behaviour, at which point they saw him remove a package, which had been hidden in his body, and put it into his mouth.
Officers recovered as much of the package as they could but were unsure if the man had swallowed some of the material.
However, they were able to see he had a blue substance on his lips.
Due to his violence, the officers continued to the police station where a nurse was on duty.
On the way to the police station, the officers asked for the man be admitted to custody urgently, however these requests were treated as routine rather than urgent and the man had to wait for 26 minutes in the police van before being received into custody.
Although it would have been possible for the officers to request the nurse to examine the man while he waited in the van, she was not asked.
The man then told officers he had swallowed two of three "legal highs" contained in the package.
He was then examined by the nurse before being transferred to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary where his health deteriorated, resulting in sedation and care in the intensive treatment unit for three days.
Medical staff were unable to confirm if "legal highs" had caused his condition.
The case was referred to the PIRC by Police Scotland for independent investigation.
The government said on Sunday that Dinh La Thang, 57, was no longer part of the top decision-making Politburo.
Mr Thang's alleged misconduct was first leaked on social media last year.
His sacking comes amid a wider crackdown on PetroVietnam, the country's largest enterprise.
It is extremely uncommon for a Politburo member to lose their place in the one-party state. Since Vietnam started economic reforms in 1986, only two other Politburo members have been dismissed.
Mr Thang is said to have committed the violations between 2009 and 2011 while he was chairman of PetroVietnam.
Last September, writer Huy Duc attacked Mr Thang on Facebook with articles accusing the politician of being responsible for a recent huge loss at PetroVietnam.
Although Huy Duc's articles, which seemed to be based on leaked documents, polarised public opinion on the internet, the issues he raised were not reported in state media.
In late April, the Central Inspection Committee, the top watchdog of the party, suddenly announced it had investigated and held Mr Thang responsible for "serious" violations at PetroVietnam.
The party's inspectors accused Mr Thang of allowing PetroVietnam to make loans to the local Ocean Bank that caused "serious losses" to the company.
They also said Mr Thang had advised the prime minister "to designate many bidding packages that failed to meet legal regulations".
On Sunday, a government statement said more than 90% of the party's central committee had voted to remove Mr Thang.
It said he had committed "serious violations in his leadership, command and staff works", which "hurt the Party's reputation" and caused "a loss of confidence" among people and party members.
Mr Thang, a former transport minister, became a member of the new Politburo at the party congress last year and was made the party's chief of Ho Chi Minh City, the country's largest city and commercial hub formerly known as Saigon.
The party is expected to soon name a new party chief for the city, a position always held by a Politburo member.
He was catapulted into political stardom for being unusually outspoken among normally reticent officials, and was known for his forthright rhetoric on state media.
His fall from grace follows other arrests at PetroVietnam and linked companies.
Another former PetroVietnam chairman was arrested in 2015 and later expelled from the Communist Party. Three other senior executives are also facing possible sanctions.
Last year four senior employees at a construction subsidiary of the firm were prosecuted for mismanagement that allegedly cost the company $150m (£116m).
Communist Party chief Nguyen Phu Trong, who is effectively the most powerful man in Vietnam, is serving his second term. He has launched an anti-corruption campaign and has issued resolutions aimed at improving ethical conduct among party members.
Critics claim that the recent high-profile arrests and trials are mainly the result of political infighting.
However, Mr Trong's supporters say he is seriously concerned about systemic corruption and wants to do more to combat the problem.
Vietnam is ranked 113 out of 176 on Transparency International's corruption index.
A disjointed opening 40 minutes saw Quins winger Tim Visser score the only try while Priestland pushed Bath into their 9-7 half-time lead off the tee.
Harlequins started the second 40 with a try from winger Marland Yarde before Max Clark put the hosts back in front.
Bath's bench added intensity and Priestland's accuracy rewarded his side's endeavour with the victory.
Bath were far from their best but victory keeps them inside the top four and four points ahead of fifth-placed Leicester, who made light work of struggling Bristol.
Their pack gained the ascendancy at scrum time in the first half as both sides looked to play with tempo but neither had crisp enough handling.
Eventually Harlequins tidied up their act and Scotland international Visser finished a well-worked overlap to score the first try of the game either side of Priestland's second and third penalties.
The visitors started the second half with purpose and hooker Rob Buchanan charged forwards before making a superb offload out of contact to Yarde to score in the corner.
A missed conversion by Ruaridh Jackson saw the hosts move up a gear and Clark's powerful drive put them back in front. Priestland denied Harlequins a losing bonus-point with two more penalties before the finish.
Bath director or rugby Todd Blackadder:
"It was just one of those games when we felt in control, out of control.
"There were lots of mistakes, and then we showed some real grit in the last 20 minutes to win it.
"The Six Nations period was always going to be a bit like this. We had planned for it to be a little bit messy.
"We have a lot of injuries and it is really hard to build on combinations when you have a load of injuries."
Harlequins director of rugby John Kingston:
"I am gutted. I felt the guys deserved as an absolute minimum a point out of the game, and for them to not come away with that is really hard to take.
"The team had been gathering momentum in the Premiership, so to come away with nothing - particularly in light of the effort the guys put in and how the game was played - was a bit harsh on them.
"There are seven (Premiership) games to go. Four of those are at home, where our record is terrific. You end up where you deserve to be and we will see where that is in May."
Bath: Homer; Rokoduguni, Clark, Jennings, Davies; Priestland, Fotuali'i; Catt, Dunn, Lahiff, Stooke, Ewels, Denton, Louw, Faletau.
Replacements: Batty, Obano, Palma-Newport, Ellis, Grant, Cook, Hastings, Atkins.
Harlequins: Morris; Yarde, Marchant, Hopper, Visser; Jackson, Mulchrone; Evans, Buchanan, A Jones, Reddish, Matthews, J Chisholm, Ward (capt), Luamanu.
Replacements: Gray, Gendall, Shields, Merrick, Naoupu, L Jones, Evans, Alofa.
Referee: Craig Maxwell-Keys.
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Tony Rucinski was suspended from the £90,000-a-year role by the Board of Community Health Councils (CHC) in February 2016.
No reason has been given publicly for his suspension or sacking.
The Welsh Conservatives raised concerns over a lack of transparency in the case. Dr Rucinski said he cannot comment for legal reasons.
The Welsh Government said it was a matter for the CHC board.
Opposition AMs have previously criticised the lack of information given by the board and the Welsh Government about Mr Rucinski's lengthy suspension.
In a statement, the board's acting chief executives Alyson Thomas and Clare Jenkins said: "We can confirm that the employment of Dr Tony Rucinski as the chief executive officer of the Board of Community Health Councils in Wales has now been terminated.
"It would be inappropriate for us to make any further comment on an internal HR matter."
In response to a Freedom of Information request, the board said the bill for extra salary payments to other staff to cover for Dr Rucinski while he was suspended, stands at £58,135.
The organisation describes itself as the "independent voice of patients" in Wales.
It and the seven CHCs it oversees had an annual budget in 2015-16 of £3.8m.
Dr Rucinski was appointed as chief executive of the board in a newly-created role in July 2015.
At the time, he told BBC Wales he had been "put in place to make things happen" but was suspended seven months later.
Welsh Conservative leader Andrew RT Davies said: "Dr Rucinski's sacking is the latest episode on a worrying journey towards the total dismemberment of Community Health Councils and the removal of a vital plank of scrutiny."
"The Welsh Government's lack of communication to AMs and the public throughout this protracted case shows their outright disdain for the vital role Community Health Councils play in holding ministers to account."
He said Health Secretary Vaughan Gething's "silence" on the issue had been "deafening".
Some 18 months on from the initial suspension "we are still left waiting for answers," he said.
"This is not the transparent democracy once envisaged by Rhodri Morgan," added Mr Davies.
The Welsh Government is currently considering replacing Community Health Councils and setting up one national body.
A Welsh Government spokesman said: "This is wholly an internal matter for the CHC board, not the Welsh Government."
Radio 1 Vintage will broadcast on DAB and iPlayer for three days from 30 September.
Tony Blackburn, who was the first voice ever heard on the station, will team up with current breakfast show host Nick Grimshaw to launch the project.
Classic shows from the archive presented by the likes of John Peel and Chris Moyles will also be broadcast.
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The hour-long "best of" programmes will also feature old shows from Noel Edmonds, Kenny Everett, Johnnie Walker, Trevor Nelson, Zoe Ball, Zane Lowe and Sara Cox.
Radio 1 controller Ben Cooper said: "Radio 1 is the soundtrack to young people's lives in the UK and has been for the last 50 years, so it's going to be a lot of fun reliving that pop culture and great music."
Grimshaw added: "Radio 1 is the only station I've loyally listened to my whole life. From John Peel playing punk on night times and Sara Cox playing Missy [Elliott] on Breakfast - it was key in forming my musical education.
"I can't wait to celebrate 50 years with the legend that is Tony Blackburn."
The station also announced that Foo Fighters, Rag'N'Bone Man and Royal Blood will perform during Live Lounge Month, which will also be held in September.
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Facebook has agreed to send a team to Pakistan to address reservations about content on the social media site, according to the interior ministry.
Blasphemy is a highly sensitive and incendiary issue in Pakistan.
Critics say blasphemy laws, which allow the death penalty in some cases, are often misused to oppress minorities.
Earlier this week Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif voiced his support for a wide-ranging crackdown on blasphemous content on social media.
In a statement on his party's official Twitter account, he described blasphemy as an "unpardonable offence".
Then on Thursday, Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar reasserted Pakistan's determination to tackle the issue, saying he would take "any steps necessary" to make sure Pakistan's message got across.
He said he had asked officials to liaise with the FBI in the US and with social media platforms on a daily basis.
"Facebook and other service providers should share all information about the people behind this blasphemous content with us," he is quoted as saying by the Dawn newspaper.
There has been little official description of what blasphemous content has been found online so far, but in the past blasphemy accusations have ranged from depictions of the Prophet Muhammad to critiques and inappropriate references to the Koran.
But some critics say that this latest move is simply a way of cracking down on dissent.
When five liberal bloggers and activists recently went missing, they were accused of blasphemy on social media. It is a very serious allegation in the deeply conservative nation, which can make those accused of it a target of public anger.
Analysis - Tahir Imran, BBC Urdu social media editor
In Pakistan there is a growing popular resentment to this so-called "blasphemous content" on social media, especially on Facebook.
People are often openly accused of "committing blasphemy on social media". One top security agency has openly urged the masses to report anyone who is involved in posting such material online.
Digital rights groups have expressed "serious reservations" and have called such steps "playing with the lives of innocent people".
They have also criticised Facebook "for colluding with authorities and censoring content infringing freedom of expression".
In a statement quoted by the AP news agency, Facebook said it viewed government requests with care keeping in mind "the goal of protecting the privacy and rights of our users.
"We disclose information about accounts solely in accordance with our terms of service and applicable law. A Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty or other formal request may be required for international requests, and we include these in our Government Requests Report.''
But Facebook has not yet made any public comment about a delegation being sent to Pakistan.
Pakistan has often blocked access to pornographic sites and sites with anti-Islamic content and in 2010 a Pakistani court blocked Facebook over caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.
From 2006 to 2011, the proportion of Brazilians who were overweight went up from 42.7% to 48.5%.
The health ministry described the trend as "worrying", but said it was not a direct result of rising prosperity.
It highlighted major programmes to promote healthier eating and increased physical exercise, saying now was the time to confront the problem.
The study was based on 54,000 telephone interviews in all the country's state capitals as well as Brasilia.
It found that 52.6% of men and 44.7% of women were overweight.
The proportion of people with obesity increased from 11% in 2006 to 15.8% in 2011.
The health ministry said the consumption of high-fat food was a major cause, particularly among men.
But Health Minister Alexandre Padilha rejected the idea that the increase in the proportion of overweight people was linked to Brazil's rising prosperity.
"Eating habits have not changed much over the last six years, it wasn't in this period that people started consuming full-fat milk and fatty meat," he said.
The health ministry says it is working with major food producers to reduce levels of fat in processed food and offer more healthy alternatives.
It also highlighted major spending programmes on health education and sport in communities and schools.
"Now is the time to act to ensure we don't reach the levels of countries like the US, where more than 20% of the population is obese," the ministry said.
On a positive note, the study found that the proportion of men who led sedentary lives had fallen from 16% in 2009 to 14% in 2011.
The proportion of Brazilians who smoke has also continued to fall.
Being significantly overweight can contribute to a range of health problems, including diabetes, heart disease and some cancers.
The 35-year-old centre-half, who has 89 caps for his country, has won the championship with clubs in his homeland, Russia and Turkey.
"This is one of the best feelings that I have in my career and the last time I was a champion at a club was in Fenerbahce," he told Rangers' website.
"I want to have this feeling again."
Alves, who becomes compatriot Pedro Caixinha's first summer signing, made 36 appearances for Cagliari after joining from Turkish outfit Fenerbahce last summer and helped them finish 11th in Serie A.
Rangers finished third in the Scottish Premiership, with Celtic retaining the title and 39 points ahead, but the Portugal defender believes he can add to his winners' medals at Ibrox.
"I have this feeling and this desire to win and I think to move here will bring this back to me and to my career," he said.
"At almost all the clubs I have played for, I win and I expect to win here for the fans and for the club. I think I can do this here."
Alves, who is part of Portugal's squad for the Confederations Cup in Russia, was keen to work with Rangers manager Caixinha.
"I know him and I know about the work he did in Portugal and also some players that he coached before," said the defender.
"I think he has the quality and he has the ideas to make this club successful again."
Alves began his career with Porto and had spells on loan to Farense, Vitoria Guimaraes and AEK Athens before becoming a first-team regular with the Dragons.
In his eight years with Porto, he gathered nine major honours, including four Primeira Liga titles, before switching to Zenit Saint Petersburg for £18m in 2010.
After winning two Premier League titles and the Super Cup in Russia, he next moved to Fenerbahce for £4.5m in 2013.
A Super Lig title and the Turkish Super Cup followed before his switch to Italy.
That came after he was part of the Portugal squad that won the European Championships in France, his country's first ever major trophy, with Alves playing in the semi-final victory over Wales.
Alves was also in the Porto squad that lost 3-2 to Rangers at Ibrox in a Champions League group stage match in 2005 and recalled "a fantastic environment".
Caixinha said that his compatriot would be a "leader" for the team and brings "a winning mentality" to the club.
"In my opinion all teams need to be built and organised from the back and Bruno is a very talented and experienced player," the Rangers manager said. "He is also really mature and a leader with a strong character.
"What is important is that he is a winner and that is something we all want, to put the club on a winning track again.
"Bruno will be a leader in the dressing room and he will demand a lot from himself and others in the squad, both on the pitch and in our training sessions.
"The players we are trying to bring to Rangers, we want them to have that character, that experience and that maturity, but also that winning mentality."
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The guidelines, which come into force from July, reflect 2014 changes to the law that increased maximum sentences.
The Sentencing Council said sentences were "likely to be higher than in the past" but must be "proportionate".
A council member said some irresponsible owners' dogs "put people at risk of injury and... even death".
The 2014 changes raised the maximum jail sentence for a fatal dog attack from two years to 14.
The 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.
The 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.
The banned breeds are:
District 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".
He 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."
Amanda 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.
She 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".
She said the dog attacked her for an hour and a half during which it "kept coming back and taking chunks out of me".
"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.
"I knew if he could have got my throat that would have been the end of me."
Speaking about changes to the sentencing guidelines, she said "99% of the time there's not a bad dog there's a bad owner".
She said it was important for irresponsible owners to be targeted before their animals attacked anyone.
Mr 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.
Other 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.
Those who are already disqualified from owning a dog will also face the toughest penalties.
The same factors will also be used to assess blameworthiness in cases where a victim is injured.
The 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."
James 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."
He said such attacks were "traumatic" and might stop dogs from working, meaning their owner "may find it impossible to leave home on their own".
The Kennel Club said owners needed to take responsibility for training their dogs.
It 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".
That is despite the fact the Italian club have accepted an identical offer from Serie A rivals Napoli.
Liverpool hope a deal can be done as Zielinski wants to join them, having indicated he is prepared to see out the remaining two years on his Udinese contract and leave on a free transfer.
Meanwhile, Mario Balotelli is back at Anfield after a loan spell at AC Milan.
The Italy striker, who signed for Liverpool from Milan in August 2014 in a £16m deal, returns to a much-changed squad following his season-long loan at the San Siro.
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has made four major signings ahead of the new Premier League season, adding £34m forward Sadio Mane, goalkeeper Loris Karius, midfielder Marko Grujic and defender Joel Matip to his squad,
Balotelli returned to the San Siro on loan in August 2015 after a disappointing first season at Anfield, where he netted just four times in 28 appearances.
The 25-year-old started pre-season training with Liverpool on Saturday.
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McBurnie, 19, joined League Two side County in November and scored a hat-trick on his debut against Luton.
The Scottish youth international made two other appearances for Newport.
He had initially signed on loan until January but, following his recall, McBurnie will be available for Swansea's Boxing Day Premier League game against West Brom.
McBurnie has yet to make a senior appearance for the Swans, who he joined from Bradford in July.
The Welsh club are currently in the Premier League relegation zone having won only one of their last 13 league matches.
Swansea have scored just 15 goals in their 17 Premier League fixtures this season, with Aston Villa and Stoke (both 14) the only teams to have scored fewer.
Last season's top-scorer Bafetimbi Gomis has scored five goals this season but has found the net only once since August.
His main competitor for a starting spot, Portuguese striker Eder, is currently injured.
Police said no-one was injured when a lorry hit the central reservation after a tyre blew out near the Calder junction on the A720, at about 07:20.
Footage from a dashcam filmed from on the other side of the road shows the lorry hurtling down the steel barrier.
The lorry appears to have mounted the central barrier and comes close to crossing into oncoming traffic.
The bypass was closed eastbound throughout the morning but reopened at about 14:30.
There were queues several miles long following the crash, which also affected the M8 heading into Edinburgh, back to Junction 3 at Livingston.
There were also queues on the M9 southbound heading down to the M8, with traffic back to 1a at Kirkliston.
There were further queues on all routes heading to the bypass, the A71, the A70 and the A772 Gilmerton Road.
The move follows a Police Scotland investigation into poisoning and the illegal use of traps at the properties in Stirlingshire and the Borders.
General licences allow land managers to carry out actions which would otherwise be illegal.
These include controlling some wild birds to protect crops or livestock.
The three-year licence restrictions have been placed on Raeshawe Estate and Corsehope Farm in the Borders, and Burnfoot Estate and Todhalls Farm in Stirlingshire.
Nick Halfhide, director of operations at Scottish Natural Heritage, said: "This measure should help to protect wild birds in the area, while still allowing necessary land management activities to take place, albeit under tighter supervision.
"We consider that this is a proportionate response to protect wild birds in the area and prevent further wildlife crime."
RSPB Scotland welcomed the restrictions which it said provided a "meaningful deterrent to the serious problem of the illegal killing of birds of prey".
Spokesman Duncan Orr-Ewing said: "The use of the open general licence to control what are considered by some to be 'pest species' of bird, including crows and magpies, for conservation and other legal purposes, is a privilege and not a right."
Scott Coupland, 48, claimed his computer had crashed and he had lost vital information which meant his VAT returns ended up being for the wrong amounts.
He was found guilty by a jury after a four day trial at Perth Sheriff Court.
Coupland, 48, of Crieff, made two false VAT repayment claims between March 2011 and November 2012.
The trial heard that Coupland, sole director of WDR Coupland (Produce) Ltd, aroused suspicion because of the large sums he claimed to have made in net value sales.
Sheriff William Wood said Coupland had made no attempt to pay back the money he had fraudulently obtained and had to go to jail despite his previous good character and service to the community.
Coupland was found guilty of submitting false repayment claims for £124,172 between 1 March 2011 and 6 June 2012.
He was also found guilty of submitting a false claim for £37,056 between 1 June and 30 November 2012.
Coupland offered to pay back £20,000 in an attempt to avoid a prison sentence but Sheriff Wood noted that no money had been paid back in four years.
The sheriff said: "I take into account the fact your business was a legitimate one and I dare say claims were made to fund your lifestyle and continue your children's education.
"It should have been clear your business was failing. You had a somewhat cavalier approach to corporate accounting.
"You have shown no remorse or acceptance of culpability and made no offer of restitution until today.
"I appreciate the impact this will no doubt have on your family, but I will sentence you to two years and six months imprisonment.
"You bear sole responsibility for these offences."
He told the BBC that boats should be turned back to deter migrants from attempting to make the journey.
And the UK should only accept "a few thousand" Christian refugees fleeing across the Mediterranean, he said.
His comments come after 800 migrants are thought to have died when boats sank off Libya at the weekend.
The UNHCR has described the tragedy as "the deadliest incident in the Mediterranean we have ever recorded".
Experts have warned that up to 30,000 migrants, including 2,500 children, could be killed in 2015 unless the crisis is tackled.
An emergency EU leaders' summit on the migrant issue will be held on Thursday.
Speaking to BBC Breakfast, Mr Farage said that unless action was taken by southern European countries "millions" of migrants would arrive on European soil over the next couple of years.
"The big message has to come from Italy, the big message has to come from Greece," he said, adding: "Unless you send a message that you're not going to unconditionally accept unlimited numbers of people, they will keep coming."
"That's not our decision but that is a decision that's got to be taken by those southern Mediterranean countries," he said.
The UKIP leader said migrants trying to reach Europe by boat "should be put on vessels that are seaworthy and taken back to where they came from".
He said there may be cases where people "genuinely need refugee status", adding, "if Britain has to give a helping hand and give, for example, some Christians refugee status, given that with Iraq and Libya there is almost nowhere for them to go, then fine".
"But," he continued, "Europe can't send a message that everybody that comes will be accepted. If it does then the numbers we're talking here could literally be millions".
Asked how many refugees he would be willing for the UK to accept, Mr Farage replied: "I would suggest a few thousand, because we as a country can't take unlimited numbers of people."
He said Prime Minister David Cameron would be under "intense pressure" at Thursday's EU summit on the Mediterranean crisis to take "very big numbers, and I am afraid we simply can't do that".
Mr Cameron has said the UK will contribute to search-and-rescue efforts in the Mediterranean, to help stop migrants becoming a "cargo of death".
London Mayor and Conservative parliamentary candidate Boris Johnson has suggested British special forces could be sent to Libya as part of European efforts to tackle human trafficking.
He told LBC radio action was required to "choke off the problem at source" to stop migrants being sent "to their deaths" on "unseaworthy vessels" travelling across the Mediterranean Sea.
The EU withdrew funding for Italy's "Mare Nostrum" search-and-rescue operation last year, replacing it with the smaller Operation Triton - a move which has drawn criticism, including from the United Nations.
Labour leader Ed Miliband has called for the rescue patrol operations to be restarted, and Lib Dem Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has said it was a mistake to abandon Mare Nostrum.
The BBC's Great Debate prompted up to 150,000 viewers to use the #bbcdebate hashtag during the final chance for voters to hear the two sides' arguments on primetime TV before going to the polls on Thursday.
Two of the other most popular hashtags on the night were #projectfear, with 10,000 tweets throughout the debate, and #takebackcontrol with almost 5,000 tweets.
The "take back control" slogan - which was used widely by the Leave campaign but was also adopted by some Remain supporters - prompted some imaginative memes and gifs.
One tweeter wanted more facts, but other random themes and moments - including the Leave campaign's Boris Johnson's reference to Haggis exports being hampered by EU membership - were picked up by the social media audience.
Others turned to drinking games, reacting to some of the slogans on both sides of the debate.
In an increasingly lively debate, people on social media reacted to the participation of the audience of 6,000 at Wembley Arena.
Viewers also reacted with a mixed response to the jostling between current and former London mayors Sadiq Khan - from the Remain campaign - and Mr Johnson - from the Leave campaign.
And tweeters were quick to comment on debate moderator David Dimbleby.
For one tweeter, Marcus Payne, the whole thing resembled a German synth-pop gig at the famed music venue.
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The Maritime and Coastguard Agency was alerted to the fire in the hold of the Maltese-registered bulk carrier "V Due" on Thursday at 16:30 GMT.
The 23,000 tonne ship, which had sailed from Liverpool, is 181m (593ft) long and has dropped anchor four miles away from the village of Moelfre.
The ship is said to be stable and there are no reports of any pollution.
The coastguard said salvors are currently on board the vessel to carry out an assessment.
Democratic Governor-elect Roy Cooper announced the repeal after Charlotte City Council voted to strike down a local law that prompted HB2.
The law requires transgender people to use toilets that correspond to the sex listed on their birth certificates.
The ruling led to boycotts by sports teams, businesses, and entertainers.
Public bathrooms have become a flashpoint in the battle over transgender rights in the US.
The Justice Department sued North Carolina over the law and US Attorney General Loretta Lynch likened that law to the policies of racial segregation. The state's Republicans argued that the law was necessary for privacy and safety.
But the incoming governor, Mr Cooper, said he had received assurances from the senate leader and House speaker, both Republican, that the law would be scrapped at a special session on Tuesday.
"I hope they will keep their word to me and with the help of Democrats in the legislature, HB2 will be repealed in full."
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The Charlotte City Council voted unanimously to invalidate its LGBT non-discrimination ordinance, which allowed transgender people to use restrooms based on gender identity.
Republicans have said the statewide law was passed to overturn the Charlotte rule.
The announcement comes just days after the Republican-controlled legislature called a special session to strip the incoming governor of some of his powers when he takes office next month.
Mr Cooper, the state attorney general, defeated incumbent Governor Pat McCrory in a contentious and protracted election in November.
Mr McCrory came under fire earlier this year for enacting the bill, leading to a huge backlash from campaigners, businesses and artists, with stars such as Bruce Springsteen and Ringo Starr cancelling concerts across the state.
Graham Wilson, a spokesman for Governor McCrory, blamed Charlotte lawmakers for the controversy.
"Governor Pat McCrory has always advocated a repeal of the over-reaching Charlotte ordinance, but those efforts were always blocked by Jennifer Roberts, Roy Cooper and other Democratic activists," Mr Wilson told the Charlotte Observer newspaper.
"This sudden reversal, with little notice after the gubernatorial election, sadly proves this entire issue originated by the political left was all about politics and winning the governor's race at the expense of Charlotte and our entire state."
In May, the Obama administration issued a directive ordering public schools to allow transgender students to use toilets that correspond to their gender identity.
The president's announcement prompted 12 states to announce they would sue the federal government over the directive, including in Texas, Alabama and Wisconsin.
In August, a Texas judge approved a temporary injunction suspending that directive.
References to Madeleine McCann, Adam Johnson and Josef Fritzl were displayed after fans were invited to post messages during the game.
The Barmy Army, an unofficial England fan group, criticised those who posted.
"It's a no-go area. It's a very sick thing to do," said Paul Burnham, the group's managing director.
Burnham said that he was not aware who was responsible for the messages that appeared during India's victory over England at the Wankhede Stadium.
"We're 99% certain that it is not anybody connected with us," he said. "If it was, we would not react well to that in terms of their membership.
"I completely condemn the messages. They're not funny at all. There's a line you don't cross, and this has gone well over the line. People shouldn't be allowed to do things like that and get away with them."
The comments posted by fans included a message about McCann, who was three years old when she disappeared from a holiday apartment in Praia de Luz, Portugal, in 2007, and has not been found.
There were also references to Fritzl, who kept his daughter Elizabeth captive in the basement of his home in Austria for 24 years, and former Sunderland footballer Johnson, who was sent to prison for six years in March for child sex offences.
In addition, there was a joke about Bobby Sands, an IRA hunger striker who died in the Maze prison in Northern Ireland in 1981.
Burnham added: "The way technology is now, it allows people to do things that they normally wouldn't. I hope that the media can track these people down."
South Korea forward Ji So-Yun put Chelsea ahead with a low first-half strike and Gilly Flaherty's header from a second-half corner made it two.
Liverpool went close through Katie Zelem and eventually pulled a deserved goal back through Caroline Weir.
But Chelsea held on to inflict a first league defeat of 2016 on Liverpool.
The defending champions had looked comfortable when Flaherty, who signed a new two-year contract earlier on Wednesday, nodded in their second.
But Chelsea goalkeeper Hedvig Lindahl, who had done brilliantly to deny Weir before the break, had to be withdrawn after taking a knock.
Her replacement, Rebecca Spencer, then produced a superb reaction save to keep out Niamh Charles' late effort.
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Liverpool boss Scott Rogers told BBC Radio 5 live sports extra: "I thought we deserved a point. I'm delighted with the performance.
"They (Chelsea) are the champions for a reason. They've probably not performed at their best but they've still managed to win the game.
"They're a top class team and we've caused them a lot of problems tonight."
Chelsea Ladies boss Emma Hayes told BBC Radio 5 live sports extra: "Credit to Liverpool. I thought they deserved something from the game.
"It just showed how much work we're going to have to do, if we're to progress any further. We lacked experience in the middle of the park."
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Benitez was unveiled as the club's new manager on Friday, hours after Steve McClaren was sacked.
"I don't think they would have stayed up if it had remained the same, but Benitez has given them a big opportunity," Shearer said.
Newcastle are 19th, one point from safety, but have a game in hand.
Shearer, who is Newcastle's record goalscorer and also managed the club in an ill-fated spell at the end of the 2008-09 season, said Benitez must be allowed to have full control over the team.
"It's a great coup for Newcastle to get someone like Benitez, if - and it's a big if - he can manage the football club the way he wants to manage," Shearer said.
"What's been clear is that every manager that Newcastle have appointed has come from a point of weakness, where they've not been able to set their own agenda.
"They've always had to work to a certain structure, whereas I think Rafa will be different - he'll set what he wants, he can demand that he controls the transfers, and he can run the football club as he wants to run it."
Benitez has previously managed Liverpool and Chelsea, winning the FA Cup and the Champions League with the former and the Europa League with the latter, and Shearer believes that record of success will endear him to Magpies fans.
"When you look at his success rate, almost wherever he's been he's delivered trophies," Shearer said.
"[Newcastle fans] will love anyone who gives them success. He's shown he can manage in tough situations.
"They're crying out for something to grab hold of up here. They just want people to sweat blood for the black and white shirt."
However, Shearer criticised the treatment of McClaren, whose sacking was widely reported in the media before it was confirmed on Friday.
"They did it all wrong," Shearer said. "The way they've treated McClaren this week has been so disrespectful.
"If they'd decided to make that decision, which obviously they had, they should have done it last Saturday night after the game, or Sunday morning.
"It was so unprofessional and so hard for Steve to take, and he shouldn't have been put through that."
You can listen to the full interview with Alan Shearer on BBC Radio 5 live shortly after 19:00 GMT.
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Swansea's Brett Johns was so poor he could not afford to travel home from the gym. So he stopped there.
As a man desperate to reach the top of MMA, there was no way he was letting a lack of money stop him from training.
"I went through a phase when I had nothing," he told BBC Wales Sport. "I couldn't afford the bus ticket home.
"I lived in the gym for the winter where there was no heating and all I had was a sleeping bag."
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That might explain the outpouring of emotion when he was told he had been called up to the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC).
His manager filmed the video call he made to Johns and uploaded the Welsh fighter's moving reaction to Facebook.
"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.
"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."
The 24-year-old, who trains in Fforestfach, will make his debut at UFC Fight Night 99 in Belfast on Saturday.
He 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".
"It was very frustrating," he admitted. "I was thinking 'what more do I need to do?' Now I've achieved my dream."
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Johns was not the first Welsh fighter to be signed by the UFC. That title goes to a soldier from Monmouthshire.
Jack 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.
Marshman 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".
"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.
"Instead of going out on the weekend I was training Friday night and sparring Saturday morning."
Marshman 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.
"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."
Wales waited a long time for its first UFC fighter. Now two have turned up at once.
The 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.
"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.
"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."
Marshman believes it will not be long before MMA becomes as popular in the UK as boxing.
"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.
"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."
For 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.
"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."
The statement added directors are seeking "a long-term and stable financial solution for the club".
Macleod joined Brentford on Wednesday in a deal believed to be worth £1m.
Meanwhile, Rangers also confirmed a purchase of shares by Douglas Park, George Letham and George Taylor, who bought Laxey Partners' 16% in the club.
The three businessmen have also offered funding for the club, who need investment to see out the season. Over 40,000,000 shares are due to be issued in a fundraising offer in January.
The statement to the Stock Exchange read: "The Company has been informed that on 31 December 2014, George Taylor, Douglas Park and George Letham acquired 5,000,000, 5,000,000 and 3,299,415 ordinary shares of 1p each respectively, representing 6.14%, 6.14% and 4.05% of issued share capital.
"A DTR announcement is expected to follow in due course.
"The Board of Rangers is delighted that George Taylor, an existing Significant Shareholder, and George Letham, who provided the Company with a credit facility in 2014, together with Douglas Park have demonstrated their commitment to the Company through this purchase.
"The Directors welcome their continued enthusiasm towards contributing to the future success of the Company and club."
According to the latest States figures on kerbside recycling, the amount of black bag waste sent to Mont Cuet has dropped by 950 tonnes.
This is in comparison to when the trial started in March last year.
Deputy Scott Ogier said the plan to deal with the island's waste was heading in the right direction.
Mr Ogier said: "In just over 10 years, the proportion of household material being recycled has gone from less than 20% to more than 45%. That is something that we can all be very proud of."
Nearly 470 tonnes of additional materials have been recycled in the first full year of kerbside collections, the States of Guernsey reported.
Vanessa Sahinovic sustained multiple fractures and a head injury - but is not in a life-threatening condition.
Luna Pajer, 15, gained injuries to her arms and has also returned to Vienna for specialist treatment.
The Austrian Olympic Committee (AOC) said the team would still compete.
"It's a very, very sad day," said Dr Karl Stoss, AOC president. "It's a tough day for the team. Sporting motives and goals are not important at this moment."
Event organisers said the matter was now being investigated by police.
Team doctor Dr Robert Kandelhard accompanied Sahinovic and Pajer back to Vienna. The private jet belonging to Azerbaijan president Ilham Aliyev was used to fly the injured athletes back to their homeland.
"They have already landed and can get the best care there," added Stoss. "I'm not a medical expert but the treatment has been really good so far.
"It's a real shock for us and tough to motivate the team to focus on sport."
The AOC said the collision happened at 08:30 local time on Thursday, when the athletes were walking on the pavement in the Olympic village.
Verena Breit, 15, was also injured in the incident and she spent an hour in hospital in Baku with a thigh injury, but has now returned to the athletes' village.
A Baku 2015 spokesperson said: "This is a terrible accident, and at this time our thoughts and concerns are for the athletes involved, their families and the remainder of the Austrian delegation.
"The incident is now a matter of a police investigation and until that process is complete we will be making no further statement."
The inaugural European Games feature 20 sports, 16 of which will be included in next year's Olympics, and begin on 12 June.
Meanwhile, British newspaper the Guardian claims it has been banned from entering Azerbaijan to cover the event.
It says the decision "appears to be linked" to its report on the country's preparations for the event, which contained criticism of the government's "clampdown on freedom of speech and any political opposition".
Damien Chazelle, 32, said he aimed to "celebrate the act of dreaming".
He and many other directors also addressed President Donald Trump's travel ban in their speeches.
Mr Chazelle praised Iranian director Asghar Farhadi, who has said he will not now attend the Oscars and said excluding filmmakers was "anti-art".
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He said Mr Farhadi - whose film The Salesman is nominated for an Oscar - came from "a country my government tells me I shouldn't be in dialogue with".
Iran is one of the seven mainly-Muslim countries affected by President Trump's order, which has been temporarily suspended by a federal court judge.
Last month La La Land broke the record for the most Golden Globe Awards, winning seven prizes.
Meanwhile Mexican director Alejandro Inarritu, who won an award last year for The Revenant, called the US political situation "a bad remake of one of the worst stories of the last century".
Other winners at the ceremony included Garth Davis for the film Lion.
It tells the true story of an Indian man who was lost as a five-year-old and 25 years later used Google Earth to retrace his steps to his hometown and his birthmother, not knowing the name of either.
The film had given some refugees the courage to find their families, he said.
The ceremony also saw Sir Ridley Scott, director of films including Alien, Blade Runner and Gladiator, receive the 35th Directors Guild Lifetime Achievement Award.
Sgt Stephen Chilton, of Nottinghamshire Police, put the 17-year-old in an unapproved neck lock to restrain him.
Assistant Chief Constable Simon Torr said the allegations were unproven, adding the panel did not find the use of force disproportionate.
Sgt Chilton will be given further training before resuming full duties.
The misconduct hearing, the first the force has held in public, was shown video footage of Sgt Chilton holding the youth around his neck for 56 seconds and punching him in the stomach.
The teenager had been considered at risk of self harm and had attempted to barricade himself in his cell at Bridewell custody suite in Nottingham.
When Sgt Chilton entered the room, the youth allegedly lunged at him and he was cuffed and put in the neck lock.
Parvin Fernando, representing the force, said: "There was an opportunity for that neck restraint to be loosened or removed.
"Sgt Chilton persisted with the neck restraint applied to [the prisoner] despite it being obvious that it was unsafe to do so in the circumstances."
Earlier in the hearing, the panel was told by the force's trainer in officer safety that although the hold was not taught, it appeared to be a "dangerous and comparatively unusual situation".
Judging the allegations of misconduct to be unproven, ACC Tor said: "We do not find the force used was disproportionate to the perceived threat."
Exiles' 1-0 win over Accrington Stanley lifted them out of the relegation zone for the first time since November 2016.
They were 11 points adrift of safety when Flynn took over in March and have won six of their 10 matches since.
"I want to finish the job. Getting this close now and not doing it would be heartbreaking for me and the club," Flynn told BBC Radio Wales.
Ryan Bird's goal lifted Newport two points clear of Hartlepool who lost 2-0 at home to Barnet and they could secure Football League football for another season if they win at Carlisle on 29 February.
A week later the Exiles face Notts County at home in their final game of the season.
Hartlepool have matches at Cheltenham and at home to Doncaster to come.
"It's a great three points and I'm over the moon," said Flynn.
"If fingers are crossed and lady luck smiles on us we could be safe, but all we can do is take care of what we can look after and we'll see what happens at five o'clock next week."
He also played down the fact that his record since taking over could lead to a permanent position as manager.
"It's a good record, but there's nothing achieved yet," he said.
"It's not about Michael Flynn it's about keeping Newport County in the Football League and we'll worry about people's views after that.
"It has been a great turnaround and the boys have been fantastic. Again today, their work rate, their application and togetherness was everything that we've asked for.
"I would have wanted a few more goals because I'm going greyer by the minute but I'll take another couple of 1-0 wins before the end of the season, definitely."
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That is not the case for the defending champions so far this season, however.
Claudio Ranieri's side were beaten only three times in the whole of 2015-16, but Saturday's 2-1 defeat at Sunderland means they have lost seven of their 14 league games in 2016-17, and are only two points above the relegation zone.
What is going wrong for the Foxes? Deeney, who helped Watford beat Leicester 2-1 on 19 November, compares playing them now with what it was like during their fairytale campaign.
N'Golo Kante made 175 tackles and 156 interceptions for Leicester last season, more than any other player in either category. Since his move to Chelsea, he has made 44 tackles and 39 interceptions in 2016-17. Only Everton's Idrissa Gueye has made more in total.
Deeney: "Probably the biggest factor that has changed for opposition teams against Leicester this season has been in the middle of the park.
"You can get through their midfield and get at their back four a little bit easier now.
"Whenever we broke on them last season, I always had the fear factor that N'Golo Kante was coming back and I knew we didn't have much time before he got there.
"Even if I actually did have time, I always thought he might be there, so I would rush things a bit.
"Now that element of playing Leicester has gone, and there seems to be a bit more freedom in midfield when you play them.
"It is inevitable really, unless they were to play with two dedicated defensive midfielders instead.
"I always felt Kante did the work of two players, so without him it is very hard to get the same sort of balance they had with him and Danny Drinkwater playing together.
"Kante was everywhere for them. He is still the same player now of course, getting up and down the pitch, but it is for Chelsea instead."
Jamie Vardy scored 24 goals for Leicester last season but has not found the net for 16 games in all competitions for the Foxes. In the Premier League alone, Vardy has had six shots in his past 10 matches, with none on target.
Deeney: "Leicester's gameplan last season was based on hitting sides on the counter-attack.
"They are not doing anything too differently now - against us they were still going out wide to Riyad Mahrez for him to work his magic.
"I just think teams have got used to playing against them, and I mean that in the most respectful way.
"I looked at their team before we played them and I knew Jamie Vardy would be up front, and I also knew he would be trying to run in behind our defence.
"Last season, it surprised a few teams to begin with when he did that, and then it got to the point where he and the other Leicester players were playing so well, it did not matter if teams adjusted.
"They did not care if the opposition dropped off, because they were confident they could score in other ways - look at the long-range volley Vardy scored against Liverpool in February, for example.
"Now teams are defending deep against them from the start, to deal with the threat of Vardy's pace, and letting Leicester have possession.
"That does not seem to suit the players Leicester have got, especially with confidence levels the way they are at the moment."
Leicester have taken only one point from a possible 21 on the road in the Premier League this season. They have lost six out of seven away games, with their only draw coming at Tottenham. In 2015-16, the Foxes won 11 of their 19 away games, losing only two.
Deeney: "Because they became the team to beat, a lot of sides have changed their approach when they play Leicester, thinking they will keep hold of the 0-0 for as long as possible and then try to nick it.
"When we played them, in November, we did things a bit differently and decided to start by going at them.
"It was our first game since losing 6-1 to Liverpool, so our approach was a bit of a ploy to try to get our fans back onside straight away.
"We set our stall out to put them under pressure straight away. We started fast and scored after 33 seconds, and part of the reason it worked was because it was so early in the game.
"What Leicester's back four were doing last season was sinking deep, with all four of their defenders inside their area, inviting crosses and sort of saying 'go on then, try to beat us'. It was very effective.
"This time, we nicked the ball off them and counter-attacked them so it was very difficult for them to get back into position and be ready for it."
Leicester manager Claudio Ranieri has made twice the number of line-up changes this season compared to this stage of 2015-16. In the whole of last season, Ranieri made 33 changes, the fewest in the top flight.
Deeney: "It is partly down to injuries, like the one to goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel, and partly down to Leicester being in the Champions League too, but Claudio Ranieri has made far more changes to his team this season.
"When their team stayed the same, I always got the sense everyone knew what everyone else was doing off the ball. That is no longer the case.
"I think they spent a lot of money in the summer on players who were a bit different to what they had already got.
"Firstly, it was always going to be hard for all those signings to quickly slot into a team that has a definitive way of playing. It would be the same at any club.
"Another problem Leicester had is they are the champions. By that, I mean the people who are coming in have to drop their ego and behave a bit differently to the way they would if they were big-money signings at other clubs.
"I am not saying anyone at Leicester is not doing that but I was linked with a move there myself in the summer and that was one of the things I thought about straight away.
"If that move had happened, I knew it would not be about me being the big fish there.
"To succeed, I would have had to have got in line with everyone else and adopted the culture that brought them success in the first place.
"It is something that Claudio Ranieri has spoken about - he knows it is going to take a little while.
"There is an adjustment stage when players sign for any club, let alone the champions."
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After 14 games last season, Leicester had lost once and were second in the table with 29 points, behind Manchester City on goal difference. This season, they are 16 points worse off.
Deeney: "Part of Leicester's problem in the Premier League is definitely that they have got the Champions League to think about as well.
"I would not say their players have switched focus but obviously there is a lot of excitement around them being in Europe and mentally it must be hard for them to be at the same level for every game they play.
"In the space of 18 months, a lot of their squad have gone from fighting relegation to winning the league and then reaching the knockout stages of the Champions League.
"Now their manager has come out after Saturday's defeat against Sunderland and said they are in a battle at the bottom.
"Looking at the table, that is the way it is. To get out of it, a lot is going to come down to their attitude and how they approach their Premier League games.
"It shows how standards have risen so much in recent seasons that not even the defending champions are safe.
"At Watford we are buying players from Juventus now - for me, that sums up how much more of a level playing field the Premier League has become.
"Last year, Newcastle and Aston Villa spent a lot of money but got relegated, and I don't think you can say anyone is too good to go down.
"You have to be on your mettle every game you play. If you are not, then you get found out - whoever you are."
Troy Deeney was speaking to BBC Sport's Chris Bevan.
Thieves got away with 18 mainly Jade Chinese pieces worth about £15m in a raid at Cambridge's Fitzwilliam Museum in 2012. Several people were jailed but the items have never been located.
A further 14 men have been convicted for roles in that and other raids.
Roger Keverne, who helped value the £15m jade said if it had been taken to China, "that's possibly goodbye".
On 13 April 2012, thieves broke in through the rear of the museum, smashed display cabinets and made off with artefacts described as being of "incalculable cultural significance".
Five months later three men were jailed and a boy of 16 was given a detention order.
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The stolen items, believed to be worth up to £15m, could be worth tens of millions more on the "booming" Chinese auction market, police said.
Despite appeals by the museum and police, and a "substantial" reward, the jade appears to have been spirited away.
Mr Keverne, a London-based dealer who specialises in Chinese ceramics and works of art, was contacted by the Fitzwilliam Museum following the theft.
The Fitzwilliam raiders were "very fortunate... that they were able to breach the security," he said.
Security would "always be a problem" for museums as "the works of art and the treasures they hold have to be to a certain extent accessible to the public".
Asked whether the Fitzwilliam Museum was likely to get its stolen artefacts back, he said: "It looks like they may not.
"These things do have a habit of turning up eventually - well, they get put back to the market, things get recycled, they get passed on.
"They move up the chain until they're probably in the hands of someone who doesn't realise they have been stolen."
On Monday, 14 men were convicted over their roles in stealing artefacts from the Fitzwilliam and other museums and an auction house. On the open market the haul could be worth up to £57m, investigators said.
One of them, Donald Chi Chong Wong, 56, of London, was described in court as a "fence" who made frequent trips to Hong Kong.
A number of these took place around the time of the Fitzwilliam heist and by the summer of 2012 Wong was under police surveillance, having met several times with other members of the gang.
It is not known whether he managed to transport any of the museum's artefacts overseas, but Mr Keverne said: "If they've gone to mainland China - that's possibly goodbye."
The Fitzwilliam Museum declined to comment when contacted by the BBC.
The 14 convicted men from Cambridgeshire, Essex, Kent, London, the West Midlands and Northern Ireland will be sentenced on 4 and 5 April.
The Local Government Association - which represents councils in England and Wales - said some "scam traders" were selling dirty mattresses that had been thrown away.
Others were importing them without the proper safety certificates. The mattresses are then repackaged - often in branded wrapping.
Some sellers pretend a local hotel is selling them after ordering too many.
Councils across England have dealt with mis-sold mattresses:
Simon Blackburn, the chairman of the LGA's safer and stronger communities board, said: "These fly-by-night sellers don't care about the risks these mattresses pose, they just want to make a quick buck and leave you with phoney details so they can't be traced.
"These mattresses may be described as memory foam but are carefully wrapped so you have no idea what you are buying.
"They generally fail fire safety tests and are often worn-out, dirty and unhygienic items destined for the tip.
"Anyone offered a cheap mattress on their doorstep should not buy one."
Administrators have been appointed to Obel Ltd, Obel Offices Ltd and Donegall Quay Ltd the three firms which control the office and residential complex.
The main firm, Donegall Quay, owes the former Bank of Scotland Ireland (BoSI) more than £51m according to its last set of accounts filed in 2011.
BoSI has been shut down by its parent company, Lloyds Banking Group. Its loan book is being aggressively wound down.
The Obel consists of a 28-storey residential tower and an adjoining six-storey office block.
It was launched onto the market in 2005 and dozens of apartments were sold off plan, mainly to buy-to-let investors.
However as the property market crashed sales slowed and many of the apartments are still empty.
Most of the office block is let to the international law firm Allen & Overy.
The administration will have no effect on tenants or any owners of apartments in the development.
The Obel project was originally backed by a consortium of developers, but in 2008 the Blackbourne family took full control, buying out their partners with the backing of BoSI.
The Blackbournes have other business interests which are unaffected by the administration of the Obel firms. One of the owners, Aaron Blackbourne, said he could not comment.
This is the latest in a series of high profile projects to face enforced action from BoSI - it was the lender to the Lough Erne golf resort, Comber Mill Village and the firm which built the Four Corners Hotel in Belfast's Catherdral Quarter.
Earlier this month Lloyds sold £1.47bn of BoSI loans to an investment company for just £149m, equating to a 90% loss.
Kelly was reported to the FA by Plymouth Argyle after an incident in Orient's 3-2 win on 14 February.
Orient's captain denied a charge of violent conduct, but the FA found him guilty, deeming the standard three-match ban to be "clearly insufficient".
"I think it's extremely excessive, when you look at the past cases," Webb said.
He told BBC Radio London: "For me it was a three-match ban, but to go to six, I feel like we're being used as an example just to try and stop people doing that.
"You shouldn't do it, and Liam shouldn't have done it, but for me it's excessive."
Webb, who has been in charge of relegation-threatened Orient since January, was also critical of Plymouth's role in the incident, which happened in the 86th minute of the League Two match.
"The referee - did he see it, did he not? Who knows," Webb, 33, added.
"Plymouth definitely saw it, and I think that's the most disappointing thing, that a club that hold such high moral standards as Plymouth have got the nerve to criticise, to try and make a bigger thing out of something."
Having sat out of The O's 3-2 defeat by Notts County on Saturday, Kelly will now miss five more matches for 23rd placed Orient, including crucial ties against fellow strugglers Cheltenham Town, Newport County and Accrington Stanley.
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They will face Australia or India, who meet in Thursday's second semi-final.
"Everything we've done in the last 18 months has gone towards getting there," Knight said.
"There's nothing better than a sold-out Lord's in a home World Cup, it's been hard not to think about it."
A crowd of more than 26,500 is expected at the final - swelled by the ranks of MCC members, who will be the only people able to attend if they do not already possess a ticket.
It will be a record attendance for an International Cricket Council (ICC) World Cup match - with the ICC also announcing that the group stage matches have had a global reach of more than 50 million people - with a global TV audience anticipated to be 80% higher than the last World Cup in 2013.
Tuesday's tense two-wicket win at Bristol was sealed with just two balls to spare when Anya Shrubsole came in and hit her first ball for four.
Knight, whose side have now won seven successive games after losing their opening match against India, said: "We've not put the perfect performance together yet, but we just keep finding ways to win.
"We were quite smart with our bowling and we probably stopped a few extra runs in the field, and Jenny Gunn had nerves of steel at the end.
"We've known this final would be at Lord's for a long time, it's special and well done to the ECB [England and Wales Cricket Board] and ICC for selling it out.
"There have been some outstanding games at this tournament and the standard just keeps going up and up."
England all-rounder Jenny Gunn, who was at the crease for Shrubsole's winning hit, was quick to console the South African players as a few tears flowed at the conclusion of such a gripping game.
The Proteas have never made a World Cup final, and Gunn said: "I just told them they made their country proud.
"It's a huge achievement for them as it's horrible to lose when you get that close."
Knight said: "South Africa have been brilliant - I said to their captain Dane van Niekerk afterwards 'just keep getting better'.
"They're quite a young team and have some really good players so potentially will be a force to be reckoned with on the world stage."
Van Niekerk conceded: "We thought we were 30 runs short but we went out there believing. Credit to England, it was a great game of cricket and we hope we made everyone proud."
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Having been set 219 to win, England looked to be coasting when Knight and player of the match Sarah Taylor were together at 139-2 - but a flurry of wickets soon made it 145-5.
However, Fran Wilson anchored the lower-middle order with a measured 30 from 38 balls, and although she was caught behind with two overs left, the experienced Gunn (27 from 27 balls) shepherded the tail home.
"Fran was really calm throughout, we had a clear plan and we knew we could hit boundaries if they bowled it in the wrong areas," Gunn explained.
"As soon as you get the runs down, it puts the pressure back on the fielding side."
Wilson said: "We were ahead of the rate for a long time, it was just resisting the urge to tee off, staying in the game for a long time and hitting the bad ball."
Knight conceded: "It probably wasn't my most fluent 30. Sarah and I felt we'd done the hard work, until I made an error of judgement and ran her out. I'm a dreadful watcher, but we back the depth in our side."
Shrubsole told BBC Test Match Special: "We've worked very hard on being a bit tougher as a team.
"Jenny and Fran's partnership was brilliant as it settled things down and we made it over the line. Jenny was really calm, I thought I'd chance my luck and thankfully it was in the one area I can hit the ball!
"I hadn't realised Lord's would be a sell-out, but it's a huge thing for this team."
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Former England seamer Isa Guha: "An incredible game of cricket. What incredible handling of pressure by the lower order. Fran Wilson played beautifully until she got out, but because of her fearless attitude, she got England back into the game. I'm proud of how Jenny Gunn has played in this tournament, she's taken every opportunity she's had.
"The way England have that depth and believe in each other has kept them in good stead. This was perhaps the toughest game when the pressure is on to make it to a sellout final at Lord's."
Ex-England batter Ebony Rainford-Brent: "I'm looking forward to Australia-India on Thursday - India have turned Derby into their little fortress."
South African commentator Natalie Germanos: "A few years back, nine times out of 10, South Africa would never have come back into that game. But now, the coaches are speechless as no-one expected to come that close to the final and have it ripped away from them."
Heavenly Lights and Shifting Shadows at Shrewsbury Museum & Art Gallery tells the untold story of Margaret Rope.
Born in Shrewsbury in 1882, experts say her work shows "startling modernism".
But she joined a convent, requesting her work be destroyed after her death, and her "genius" went uncelebrated.
Rope died aged 71 in relative obscurity.
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Rope's colourful windows survive today in churches across the UK, Australia, South Africa and Rome - and in museums in Los Angeles and New York.
Marga, as she was known to her friends, wore her hair short, smoked cheroot cigars and forged a career at a time when women were largely suppressed, Dr Sally Hoban, a historian at Birmingham University, said.
"There's a story about her and her sister riding across England on their motorbikes at the beginning of the First World War," her cousin Arthur Rope said.
"When they got to Suffolk they got arrested for being German spies because people couldn't imagine what two women were doing on motorbikes."
Aged 18, Rope enrolled at the Birmingham School of Arts where she learned to design and make stained glass.
Less than 10 years later, when she began to gain recognition for her art, Rope became a devout Catholic and chose the harsh life of poverty and prayer as a Carmelite nun, Mr Rope said.
Rope joined the Carmelite Monastery in Quidenham, Norfolk, where, shut off from the world, she continued to create stained glass in a small studio.
Stuart West, Shropshire Council's cabinet member for culture and leisure, said he hoped the exhibition, which runs until 15 January, would attract the recognition the artist never experienced.
"Margaret Rope was one of the greatest stained glass artists of the early 20th Century, and her works can be seen all over the world," he said.
"Despite her obvious genius, her name is hardly remembered at all, and we hope this exhibition - the first dedicated solely to her work and times - will give her reputation the boost it deserves."
See more on the life and work of Margaret Rope on BBC Inside Out West Midlands on Monday 26 September on BBC One at 19:30 GMT and available afterwards on iPlayer.
Ko Ni, who was an adviser to Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) party, was shot in the head at Yangon airport.
A suspect has been detained but there are no details on the motive.
Ko Ni, who the NLD described as "irreplaceable", was a rare prominent Muslim in a Buddhist-majority nation.
It is not clear whether his religion was a factor in his death. The well-respected constitutional lawyer had spoken up in defence of rights for Muslims and had also criticised the military's grip on power.
Political killings are extremely rare in Myanmar, also called Burma. A taxi driver who tried to stop the gunman escaping was also shot dead.
Ms Suu Kyi does not appear to have made any public comments yet. But in a statement, the NLD said: "We strongly denounce the assassination of Ko Ni like this as it is a terrorist act against the NLD's policies."
Senior NLD leader Tin Oo described Ko Ni's death as a "great loss for the country, for democratic forces and for us (the party)".
Rights group Amnesty International said the killing had "all the hallmarks of an assassination". It called for a thorough investigation into the death of a man it described as a "tireless human rights campaigner".
Large crowds of mourners, including MPs, activists and Buddhist monks turned out for his funeral at a Muslim cemetery.
"All I want to say is, of course we are all shocked and really sad,'' said US Ambassador Scot Marciel. "I knew Ko Ni and his commitment to his country and democracy.''
Exactly 24 hours after he was shot dead Ko Ni's funeral took place on the outskirts of Yangon. A large, emotional crowd, mainly of Muslims but including Christians and Buddhists, filled the Ye Way cemetery.
Among them was a three-year-old called Erfan. He'd been in the arms of his grandfather at Yangon airport, when the assassin walked up behind them and shot Ko Ni in the head. Incredibly Erfan appears to be fine, chuckling away as his mother sobbed.
As I soon discovered, publically asking people why they think Ko Ni was killed is a sensitive matter. Among those at the funeral willing to talk, most thought he'd been assassinated for his work on constitutional affairs.
As well as being a top lawyer, Ko Ni was a legal adviser to Aung San Suu Kyi's political party. He's been credited with finding loopholes in the existing military-drafted constitution and in particular with creating the far-reaching role of state counsellor, which Ms Suu Kyi now occupies.
So far there's been no word from the police on what the alleged assassin has been saying in custody. The authorities in Mandalay say that Kyi Lin spent more than a decade in prison for illegally dealing in Buddha's heads and antiquities, before being released in a presidential amnesty in 2014.
Ko Ni was shot at point blank range outside the terminal as he held his grandson. The suspect then fled but several taxi drivers chased him, according to The Irrawaddy. The suspect shot one driver, U Nay Win, before being detained by police.
The suspect has been named by police as Kyi Lin, 53, but there is no information as to motive.
Ko Ni had been returning from a meeting in Indonesia to discuss sectarian tensions in Rakhine state when he was killed.
Anti-Muslim feeling is high in Myanmar, and there is significant public support for a military operation in Rakhine, which is home to thousands of Rohingya Muslims.
The military says it is restoring security after a deadly attack on police officers in October last year that it blamed on Rohingya. But it has been accused of widespread human rights abuses, including arbitrary arrests, beatings and the burning of villages.
Rohingya are denied citizenship and are considered illegal immigrants by the government. The NLD runs the current government but the military-drafted constitution ensures the military retains power over key institutions.
Ko Ni's daughter, Yin Nwe Khine, told Reuters he was "often threatened" because he had spoken out against the continuing influence of the military on politics.
"We were warned to be careful, but my father didn't accept that easily. He always did what he thought was right.
"A lot of people hate us because we have different religious beliefs, so I think that might be why it happened to him, but I don't know the reason."
It has agreed to sell 25% of its assets in Hywind Scotland pilot park to Abu Dhabi renewable energy group Masdar.
Statoil said the 30MW wind farm, which will lie about 15 miles from Peterhead, could power 20,000 households.
Production is expected to start in late 2017.
Under the transaction, Statoil and Masdar have agreed to share the development risk, with Masdar covering 25% of previous and future costs.
Statoil will continue to hold a 75% share in Hywind Scotland.
It said substructures for the project had already been constructed in Spain. They are due to arrive in Norway in the spring for assembly before being moved to Peterhead.
Irene Rummelhoff, Statoil's executive vice president for new energy solutions, said: "The Hywind Scotland pilot park has the potential to open attractive new markets for renewable energy production worldwide.
"With Masdar onboard as a strong strategic partner we are teaming up with a company with high ambitions within renewable energy."
Masdar chief executive Mohamed Jameel Al Ramahi said: "Hywind Scotland represents the next stage in the evolution of the offshore wind industry, combining the project management experience and technical expertise of one of the world's largest offshore energy players - and our own capabilities in renewable energy development acquired over the last decade in the UK and international markets."
A petition of almost 2,000 signatures, calling for the Ministry of Defence to consult residents about its plans to lease part of the site, was handed into Number 10.
The government says leasing to a commercial operator will reduce costs.
But residents are concerned it will put too much strain on the roads.
David Harrison, Liberal Democrat county councillor for Totton South and Marchwood, was part of the group travelling to London.
He said: "Already the stretch of road from Southampton to Marchwood is one of the most frequently congested roads for HGV traffic."
Other concerns include additional noise, lighting, and impact on the New Forest National Park.
Mr Harrison said: "At the moment the Ministry of Defence is cloaking everything in secrecy."
Some of the UK's biggest commercial dock operators have expressed an interest in using the 300-acre (121 hectare) port.
They include ABP, which runs Southampton Docks, and Peel Ports, which runs the ports in Liverpool.
The port will continue to be used by the military.
A spokeswoman for the Ministry of Defence said it was working with New Forest District Council's planning team.
"It will be the responsibility of any future Marchwood Port operator to comply with any planning requirements," she said.
"The MoD will continue to facilitate discussions throughout the concession process."
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The West Brom boss succeeds Fabio Capello after talks with the Football Association on Monday and Tuesday.
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He will remain in charge of the Baggies for their last two games of the Premier League season.
The 64-year-old will lead his country after managing 18 teams, including three national sides, during a coaching career spanning 36 years.
"Let's hope we can get everybody behind us and make certain that we work as a team and help the team get the results everyone in England expects and wants," said Hodgson.
Hodgson's contract at West Brom runs out on 30 June but the Premier League club said they have agreed to release him after their final game of the season on 13 May so he can prepare for Euro 2012.
England have two friendlies, at Norway on 26 May and home to Belgium on 2 June, before their first match in the tournament in Poland and Ukraine against France on 11 June.
The Football Association said in a statement it was "delighted" to announce the appointment of Hodgson, whose contract also covers the 2014 World Cup and Euro 2016.
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"Hodgson has won a total of eight league titles in a distinguished career, and coached the national teams of Switzerland, Finland and the United Arab Emirates," it added.
"Along with his vast experience of international and European football, Hodgson is the only English manager currently working in the top flight to have won the League Managers' Association Manager of the Year award."
The FA announced on Sunday it had approached Hodgson for the job despite widepsread speculation linking Tottenham boss Harry Redknapp with the vacancy after Capello quit in February.
Hodgson guided Switzerland to the 1994 World Cup and the side achieved a Fifa ranking of third in the world as they qualified for Euro 1996.
His former clubs include Inter Milan, Blackburn, Grasshoppers, FC Copenhagen, Fulham and Liverpool. He has also managed in Norway and Sweden, and been a member of Fifa and Uefa's technical study groups at tournaments.
Hodgson leaves West Brom after 15 months at the club.
Chairman Jeremy Peace said: "We did not want Roy to leave and he will be a tough act to follow.
"But we understand Roy's desire to take the England job and he will leave us after the Arsenal game on 13 May with our best wishes.
"Of course, with Euro 2012 around the corner, we appreciate that some of Roy's focus over the next 12 days will be on England matters. But we are delighted he will be seeing the season out with us.
"The board will now concentrate on the important task of appointing a new head coach to continue our project as we prepare for a third successive season in the Premier League."
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He joins Lulu, Squeeze, Tom Odell and a string of other acts in the Dumfries and Galloway event.
Cliff is best known for chart-topping hits like Wonderful World, Beautiful People and You Can Get It If You Really Want.
The festival takes place at Dundrennan on 24 and 25 July.
The 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.
"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."
A joint statement said a deal had been agreed with the government, which had allocated £900m for the authority to spend over 30 years.
Portsmouth leader Donna Jones said the official announcement was expected within weeks.
But she said plans to create a joint mayor would be postponed until May 2018 at the earliest.
Southampton City Council said neighbouring district authorities had now been excluded from the proposed Solent Combined Authority, because of opposition from Hampshire County Council.
The leader of Labour-controlled Southampton, Simon Letts, said: "We are disappointed that despite our best efforts to persuade them, Hampshire County Council will not sign up and support our bid to double the size of the regional economy."
But Hampshire's Conservative leader Roy Perry said: "It's not correct to say that Hampshire County Council has opposed any proposed deal.
"We have simply confirmed that we are not prepared to join any arrangements unless and until the residents of Hampshire show their support."
Mr Perry said his authority would hold a full public consultation.
Isle of Wight Council leader Jonathan Bacon, an Independent, said: "The Island has recently been told by the Secretary of State... that no extra money will be found for the Isle of Wight to meet its current financial difficulties.
"It is, therefore, important that we... obtain a share in the pot of £900 million that has currently been set aside for a local devolution deal."
The joint statement said as a result of the combined authority, "more people would get jobs, businesses would prosper, and the whole of South Hampshire and the Isle of Wight would become better off".
Ms Jones, who leads a Conservative administration at Portsmouth City Council, said that much of the £900m would initially be spent on transport projects, including a new light rail system between Southampton and Fareham.
She said the new authority could be up and running by March, following legislation in parliament.
The three councils would leave the current system of government funding in exchange for keeping business rates, of about £400m a year, on top of the £900m agreed with the government.
The Spectrum ZX Vega+, backed by Sir Clive Sinclair, had achieved its original crowdfunding target.
But then Indiegogo halted further fundraising because of delivery delays and a lack of communication to backers.
The project's organisers had asked the BBC not to reveal the development.
The BBC understands no consoles have been delivered to backers, despite a pledge last month that they would "ship after 20 Feb 2017".
And the company behind the project - Retro Computers Limited - suggested these details might put its team at risk.
"Following a credible threat of violence against personnel of Retro Computers Limited, including threats made as recently as last night, we asked [technology desk editor] Leo Kelion and the BBC to refrain from publishing a story we believe to be factually inaccurate and might put people at risk of physical harm, alarm and distress," Retro Computers Limited founder David Levy said in a statement on Wednesday.
"Since December 2016 the BBC have formally been on notice that this is a police matter, and we ask that the BBC and Mr Kelion do not compromise the police investigation."
The BBC delayed publication of this report to give RCL managing director Suzanne Martin time to provide evidence of the threats, but she did not do so.
In the meantime, the Gizmodo news site also published and then deleted an article about the matter because it too was told of threats.
RCL had already received more than £513,000 ($624,000) from Indiegogo crowdfunders for the Vega+ .
And before the fundraising campaign was halted, the project had been listed as "in demand" to allow new people to become backers, despite having already reached its funding target.
But in recent weeks, many backers have expressed anger that they still have not received their console and claimed their requests for more information were going unanswered by the company.
Although, Indiegogo is clear in its terms and conditions that those who back a project are supporting an idea rather than buying a product - and that hardware in particular tends to be more difficult to deliver.
In 2015, RCL brought a different Sinclair computer to fruition after a smaller campaign.
RCL originally said the new Spectrum ZX Vega+ was due to go into production in the summer of 2016 and it might even "be able to improve on this delivery date".
But in December 2016, after the BBC contacted RCL to ask about the status of the Vega+, the broadcaster was threatened with legal action.
"Our clients are concerned that the BBC is in fact supporting and participating in a malicious campaign intended to denigrate our clients' reputation," wrote lawyers Michelmores LLP in a letter to the broadcaster.
They went on to request that the BBC show them its report at least 48 hours ahead of publication so they could identify any false information, which the BBC refused to do.
Ms Martin then apologised to backers for the delays and said there had been unexpected issues with the console buttons.
"In November, we identified an improvement we believed was essential to the Vega+ gaming experience," she said at the time.
"An improvement that would make the feel of the product far better, including a correction in the design of one of the buttons, making it more robust and able to withstand the rigours of extended game-play.
"We also wanted to make sure we did justice to the Sinclair legacy.
"This change has caused a brief delay, and we are truly sorry about that, but we needed this time to improve the product, and we have now completed the necessary revisions, and we are delighted to announce that we will ship the first units in February 2017."
Since then, RCL has suggested it had been unable to respond to some backers' requests because of a business dispute with two former directors.
And in its last public update, 11 days ago, the company released some technical details about software used by the device.
Many recent comments left by backers on RCL's Indiegogo page, which remains live but has stopped taking funds, are requests for refunds.
"I don't expect a response. I'm just being polite in letting them know this is their last chance before they have to deal with small claims court," wrote a backer called Paul Brookfield.
"Please receive this email as written notice of cancellation of my pledge and a request for a refund," wrote Drew Miller.
"I no longer believe you are capable of providing the product I pledged for in April, considering the drastic number of delays and your lack of communication toward fellow backers."
Update 10 March 2017: Retro Computers Ltd has issued a new statement announcing a delivery delay, but says it expects the first batch of Vega+ consoles will be available in a few weeks' time.
The Welsh Young Persons Discounted Travel Scheme applies to local journeys and longer distance TrawsCymru routes.
The project, costing £15m between now and April 2017, is part of a Labour-Liberal Democrat deal to pass the Welsh government's budget.
The first minister launched the scheme at an event in Corwen, Denbighshire.
Carwyn Jones encouraged all 110,000 16 to 18-year-olds in Wales to register their interest at Gov.wales/mytravelpass.
The Swans have rejected £40m offers from Everton and Leicester City for the Iceland midfielder, who they value at £50m.
Sigurdsson missed Swansea' 2-0 friendly win over Birmingham on Saturday because of the transfer speculation.
"It's not something that we want [or] will be allowing to drag on until the deadline," said Clement.
"The deadline I want it to be is imminently for everyone involved at Swansea and Gylfi included. I'm not going to put an actual day on it, but imminently means in the very near future."
If Everton improve their offer for Sigurdsson, a new bid could include Toffees defender Callum Connolly.
The 19-year-old full-back had a spell on loan at Wigan Athletic last season and was a part of the England team which won this summer's Under-20 World Cup.
Sigurdsson did not travel with Swansea for their tour of the United States with his omission from the match at St Andrews coming despite the player resuming training with the first team after spending part of the close season with the under-23 squad.
"It was the best decision for everybody involved that he wouldn't take part in games at this point, but as I said recently we want a resolution to this situation soon," added Clement.
Asked if Sigurdsson had said he wanted to leave Swansea, Clement replied: "He hasn't said that.
"Gylfi is a player with Swansea, he has three years left on his contract, he's a very good player, we rate him very highly, we want him to stay.
"But at the same time if another club wants him they have to play what this club feels is the right valuation for the player.
"With either situation, assuming it's done in the right way in the right time it's going to be a win-win for us as a club because either we get the valuation we want and we can reinvest and improve the team or we get to keep a very good player."
Clement confirmed that "all parties" are still talking about the potential transfer, but it is understood Everton have not improved on their initial offer, believed to be £40m.
The film chronicles his political life focusing on his role in the 2014 protests which made him an icon at 16.
Hong Kong's so-called Umbrella Movement demanded universal suffrage for the semi-autonomous Chinese territory.
Currently, the leader of the city is elected by a 1,200 member committee, seen as pro-Beijing.
In unprecedented scenes, the 2014 protests saw the streets of central Hong Kong filled and blocked by angry crowds demanding a fully democratic selection process.
At the time Joshua Wong, one of the student leaders, was held up as the unofficial "poster boy" of the movement and even made it to the cover of Time Magazine.
The documentary will be available to Netflix's 93 million subscribers worldwide, but not in China where the service is not available.
The deal was announced days after the premiere of "Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower" at the Sundance Film Festival on 20 January.
Directed by Joe Piscatella, the documentary follows Mr Wong, now 20-years-old, from 2012 to 2016.
After winning no concessions from the Chinese government, Mr Wong's latest political move has been the establishment of his political party "Demosisto".
In a press release, Netflix describes the documentary as "a remarkable portrait of courage, resilience and youthful idealism".
"In an era where we are witnessing heightened civic participation and freedom of expression, we are pleased to offer a global platform for audiences to engage on these issues," says Netflix VP of Original Documentaries Lisa Nishimura.
Andrew Duncan, one of the documentary's producers, says: "Their global platform will allow us to share Joshua's message about the importance of due process of law and freedom of speech with a worldwide audience."
According to Hollywood Reporter, the rights were sold "in the low-seven-figure range".
In a letter to shareholders dated October 17, 2016, Netflix said: "We now plan to license content to existing online service providers in China rather than operate our own service in China in the near term."
"The regulatory environment for foreign digital content services in China has become challenging."
Netflix said it hoped to launch the service in China eventually, but did not say when.
Mr Lightyear, formerly Sam Stephens, had changed his name by deed poll but said the DVLA would not honour his request, citing reputational damage.
The 26-year-old from Devon, who also has a tattoo of the character, said he had now been issued with a new licence.
The DVLA said a "range of evidence" was needed with the application.
The spokesman said: "We recognise people may choose to change their name for many reasons. The driving licence is an important official document which is used both here and abroad.
"That is why we look for a range of evidence to support the application before we update our records."
Mr Lightyear said he wanted to do "the most outrageous thing" possible to raise money for the children's cancer charity CLIC Sargent, and chose the Buzz Lightyear theme because Toy Story was his favourite childhood film.
As part of his fundraising campaign, Mr Lightyear got a tattoo on his leg, ran the Brighton marathon in April 2015 and signed the deed poll on the finishing line when he reached his target of £2,000.
"Cancer's not the greatest thing and in children it's horrible", he said.
He said his original application to change his driving licence was rejected in May 2015, despite having sent the DVLA his legal paperwork.
The electrical wholesale manager described how his new name meant he had struggled to book tables at restaurants, and had had online shopping orders cancelled, but would still do another "name-changing fundraiser".
"I'm not married yet - I am looking for Mrs Lightyear", he said
He may have received some military training in the past but the red-bereted "Commander in Chief" of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) as he is known, is a populist politician, not a Che Guervara guerrilla leader.
During the launch of his party's manifesto a few days ago, Julius Malema similarly warned that South Africa's soldiers were among his supporters - a fact that is probably true given the pluralist nature of the South African National Defence Force. But how much should we read into Malema's military musings?
Malema may be a wannabe revolutionary who frequently alludes to Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe and Venezuela's former leader Hugo Chavez's revolutionary fervour. But he is smart, quick-witted and no fool.
He knows how to capture the public's imagination and press the buttons of the leader who he once said he would be prepared "to die for".
A few months ago, when the Constitutional Court ruled that Jacob Zuma had violated the country's basic law by failing to head calls to "pay back the money" after security upgrades to his rural home, one of South Africa's defence unions responded in anger.
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Sandu (The South African National Defence Union) accused both the President and parliament of having "constitutional dirt on their hands". They appeared to speak for many South Africans.
That sense of frustration also bubbled over in 2009 when more than 1,000 disgruntled soldiers went on the rampage in the administrative capital Pretoria, to protest against poor pay and conditions. But tear gas and rubber bullets quickly quelled their "rebellion" and no-one for one moment thought it was the start of a coup.
Some in the armed forces clearly align themselves with many ordinary South Africans concerned about the integrity of their president.
But Jakkie Cilliers from the Institute of Security Studies - himself a former South African soldier - believes it is unlikely that Malema "can a tap into a deep vein of running discontent" even though the military is "underfunded and overstretched".
The new South African National Defence Force (SANDF) is home to a wide range of interests.
Among its members are former apartheid era soldiers, fighters from the MK (Umkhonto we sizwe) the former armed wing of the ANC, other freedom fighters such as the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) and a new generation of "born free" South African soldiers, who were still children when the armoured vehicles of the old apartheid security state swept through the streets crushing everything in their path.
Central to today's South African military is the lack of a core political identity. And central to the South African state is the fact that it is a constitutional democracy and soldiers are given space to express their views, just like any other South African.
Unlike other countries where South African troops have been deployed as peacekeepers, including Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo, the South Africa military is credited with a sense of professionalism. That has meant it has kept out of politics.
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The top brass of the armed forces are largely made up of those loyal to the governing party.
And despite problems of resources, Cilliers argues that it is unlikely to be enough to provide political ammunition for Malema.
He said: "I think there is no possibility of senor military aligning themselves with anyone other than the ruling party. The values of constitutionalism are taught and understood at every level of the military, so we are unlikely to see anything like insubordination, let alone an attempted coup."
So when Malema talks about soldiers "turning their guns" against President Zuma is he perhaps speaking metaphorically, threatening more civil unrest rather than the potential for a military coup?
"There is no doubt," says Somadoda Fikeni, a political analyst, "that such language prepares people for discontent." But it is ambiguous, perhaps deliberately so.
He worries about ordinary South Africans, the millions of unemployed for whom Julius Malema clearly holds some appeal.
His talk of "revolution" may hold "tantalising appeal" but to Fikeni the danger is not with the EFF leadership, "but the people who take him literally".
The ANC did take Mr Malema literally when in a recent TV interview the "Commander in Chief" issued a chilling warning, that made headlines around the world - that the Zuma government would be removed "through the barrel of a gun". The ANC responded by threatening to sue him for treason.
President Zuma, as a former head of intelligence for the ANC and a member of MK, knows a thing or two about insurgency.
He also knows that the best counter-insurgency strategy is to win the propaganda war, erode your opponents' support base and offer a legitimate alternative that keeps your supporters onside.
Julius Malema may picture himself as a revolutionary making waves in the run-up to municipal elections - but he relies on questions over President Zuma's legitimacy to breath oxygen into his campaign.
Until that is addressed, some would argue, Malema will draw a crowd.
The aim is to see if computers can learn, in the same way a human would, what links images, to help them better understand the visual world.
The Never Ending Image Learner (NEIL) program is being run at Carnegie Mellon University in the United States.
The work is being funded by the US Department of Defense's Office of Naval Research and Google.
Since July, the NEIL program has looked at three million images. As a result it has managed to identify 1,500 objects in half a million images and 1,200 scenes in hundreds of thousands of images as well as making 2,500 associations.
The team working on the project hopes that NEIL will learn relationships between different items without being taught.
Computer programs can already identify and label objects using computer vision, which models what humans can see using hardware and software, but the researchers hope that NEIL can bring extra analysis to the data.
"Images are the best way to learn visual properties," said Abhinav Gupta, assistant research professor in Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute.
"[They] also include a lot of common sense information about the world. People learn this by themselves and, with NEIL, we hope that computers will do so as well."
Examples of the links that NEIL has made include the facts that cars are found on roads and that ducks can resemble geese.
The program can also make mistakes, say the research team. It may think that the search term "pink" relates to the pop star rather than the colour because an image search would be more likely to return this result.
To prevent errors like this, humans will still need to be part of the program's learning process, according to Abhinav Shrivastava, a PhD student working on the project.
"People don't always know how or what to teach computers," he said. "But humans are good at telling computers when they are wrong."
Another reason for NEIL to run is to create the world's largest visual knowledge database where objects, scenes, actions, attributes and contextual relationships can be labelled and catalogued.
"What we have learned in the last five to 10 years of computer vision research is that the more data you have, the better computer vision becomes," Mr Gupta said.
The program requires a vast amount of computer power to operate and is being run on two clusters of computers that include 200 processing cores.
The team plans to let NEIL run indefinitely.
Yanis Varoufakis said it was felt his departure would be helpful in finding a solution to the country's debt crisis.
Eurozone finance ministers, with whom he repeatedly clashed, had wanted him removed, Mr Varoufakis explained.
Meanwhile, global financial markets have fallen over fears that Greece is heading for an exit from the euro.
The European Central Bank (ECB) is to discuss whether to raise its emergency cash support for Greek banks, which are running out of funds and on the verge of collapse.
Greece's Economy Minister, Georgios Stathakis, told the BBC the ECB had to keep Greek banks alive for seven to 10 days so that negotiations could take place.
But even if the ECB continued to freeze the Emergency Liquidity Assistance (ELA) at €89bn (£63bn; $98bn), the current cash withdrawal and transfer restrictions on banks of €60 per day could stay in place until Friday, without any of them collapsing, he said.
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BBC Europe editor Katya Adler says the 19-nation eurozone's most powerful members, France and Germany are at odds over what to do next, with France taking a softer and Germany a harder line.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel will meet French President Francois Hollande in Paris later on Monday, and there will be a summit of eurozone leaders on Tuesday.
The majority of Greeks say they want to stay in the single currency, but their angry "No" vote in Sunday's referendum has made that far harder, our correspondent adds.
Mr Varoufakis announced his resignation on his blog only hours after it emerged that 61.3% of the 6.16 million Greeks who voted had rejected the demands for more austerity from the ECB, the European Commission and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
He said Sunday's referendum would "stay in history as a unique moment when a small European nation rose up against debt-bondage".
He went with a typical rhetorical flourish: "I shall wear the creditors' loathing with pride," wrote Yanis Varoufakis, known as much for his leather jackets as his flamboyant language - "austerity is like trying to extract milk from a sick cow by whipping it", being just one of his gems. But Greece's outgoing finance minister was an obstacle to an urgent deal with Brussels. Adored by his supporters back home, he was hated by eurozone leaders, whom he accused of "terrorism" towards Greece.
His departure - or removal - is a clear gesture by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras that he wants fresh debt talks and a deal as soon as possible. He certainly needs one: Greek banks are so critically low on funds that they could collapse in days without an injection of cash from the European Central Bank. But it will only lend if Greek banks are solvent - which they're not - or Greece is in a bailout scheme - which it isn't. So the door to a eurozone exit inches ever closer.
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Mr Varoufakis added that he had been "made aware of a certain preference by some Eurogroup participants, and assorted 'partners', for my... 'absence' from its meetings".
Prime Minister Tsipras had judged this to be "potentially helpful to him in reaching an agreement", he noted.
Belgian Finance Minister Johan Van Overtveldt told VRT radio: "To say that it wasn't nice to hear him more or less saying that his fellow ministers were terrorists is of course an understatement."
As thousands of Greeks took to the streets celebrate the referendum result on Sunday evening, Mr Tsipras said they had "made a very brave choice".
"The mandate you gave me is not the mandate of a rupture with Europe, but a mandate to strengthen our negotiating position to seek a viable solution," he added.
He said that he was willing to go back to the negotiating table on Monday, noting that an International Monetary Fund (IMF) assessment published this week confirmed that restructuring Greece's debt of more than €300bn (£213bn; $331bn) was necessary.
The BBC's Chris Morris in Athens says there is huge scepticism in other capitals and this is a big gamble.
Without some sign that an agreement on longer-term funding is still possible, the ECB could soon be forced to pull the plug, he adds.
Eurozone finance ministers said they expected to hear "new proposals from the Greek authorities" when they meet in Brussels on Tuesday.
"The basis of a dialogue is on the table, but it's up to Greece to show us that it takes the dialogue seriously," French Finance Minister Michel Sapin told Europe 1 radio.
German government spokesman Steffen Seibert said "conditions to start negotiations on a new aid programme are not met yet".
The European Commission's vice-president for the euro, Valdis Dombrovskis, said the stability of the eurozone was "not in question". But he also stated that the commission had not been given a mandate by member states to negotiate.
In a telephone conversation with Mr Tsipras, Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed support for the people of Greece "as they overcome difficulties", Russian media reported.
Greece had been locked in negotiations with its creditors for months when the Greek government unexpectedly called a referendum on the terms it was being offered.
Greece's last bailout expired on Tuesday and Greece missed a €1.6bn (£1.1bn) payment to the IMF.
The European Commission - one of the "troika" of creditors along with the IMF and the ECB - wanted Athens to raise taxes and slash welfare spending to meet its debt obligations.
Greece's Syriza-led government, which was elected in January on an anti-austerity platform, said creditors had tried to use fear to put pressure on Greeks.
Brian and Freda Cooke married 50 years ago but were "too wrapped up" in wedding plans to notice the game.
"Our vicar told us he was glad it was a morning wedding so he could watch the football in the afternoon," said Mrs Cooke, 73, of Writtle, Essex.
"The cup didn't detract from the wedding at all - it was rather lovely."
A series of events is taking place to mark the 50th anniversary of England's victory, with a minute-by-minute live event at Wembley Stadium retelling the story of the day itself.
The newlyweds headed to a caravan site for their honeymoon straight after the ceremony, where Mr Cooke, 70, ended up watching some of the match on a big screen in black and white.
"I saw one of the England goals. As it went in, the roar went up - you could hear it six or seven miles away in Brighton," said former RSCPA chief inspector Mr Cooke.
But the groom did not spend too long away from his new bride, and "wasn't tempted to stay and see if we won - it was more important I got back."
The pair - who have four children, five grandchildren and four great grandchildren - will be celebrating their golden wedding anniversary with a family party at home.
"Even now, I can close my eyes and see the way she looked when she came into the church," Mr Cooke said.
"I turned to look at her and and saw this figure there in an aura of light. I couldn't see her dad, only her. It was the most beautiful sight I've ever seen."
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Fe wnaeth Kath Stewardson hefyd gydymdeimlo gyda theulu gŵr Mrs Burke, Donald, ei frodyr Kevin a Barry, ac hefyd gwraig Kevin, Ruth.
Dywedodd: "Rydym wirioneddol wedi'n llethu gyda'r holl gariad a chefnogaeth.
"Mae ein meddyliau ar yr adeg hon yn arbennig gyda thri o blant Sharon a Donald, mae'r tri wedi bod yn glod i'w rhieni.
"Hoffem ddiolch yn arbennig i bob un o'r gwasanaethau brys a'r cyhoedd a helpodd wrth chwilio am ein hanwyliaid, ac hefyd swyddogion cyswllt yr heddlu sydd wedi bod o gymorth mawr yn ystod y cyfnod anodd hwn."
Dywedodd Olivia, merch Donald a Sharon Burke bod ei theulu "wedi newid o fewn diwrnod".
"Maent wedi eu cymryd yn llawer rhy fuan, ac mae'n anodd i ni ddeall pam y byddai trychineb o'r fath yn gallu digwydd i'r math gorau o bobl, a oedd mor anhunanol a diffuant i bawb oedd yn eu hadnabod," meddai.
"Fyddwn ni byth yn anghofio'r ddau, ac fe fyddwn ni'n gobeithio i'r ddau fod yn falch ohonom bob amser.
"Byddem yn ddiolchgar pe bai pawb yn parchu ein dymuniadau i gael llonydd i ddod i delerau â'r hyn sydd wedi digwydd, drwy gefnogaeth ein teulu a ffrindiau."
Bydd archwiliad manwl o'r gweddillion nawr yn cael ei gynnal gan y Gangen Ymchwilio i Ddamweiniau Awyr (AAIB).
Ddydd Llun, fe wnaeth y Prif Arolygydd Richie Green o Heddlu'r Gogledd ddiolch i'r gymuned leol ac i ymwelwyr am eu cefnogaeth a'u cydweithrediad.
"Rwy'n ddiolchgar iawn am yr amynedd a dealltwriaeth barhaus y cyhoedd yn ystod yr ymchwiliad cymhleth ac anodd yma," meddai.
Ychwanegodd bod swyddogion yn dal i apelio am wybodaeth gan unrhyw un oedd yn yr ardal ar y pryd.
Aravindan Balakrishnan, 74, has been charged with one count of cruelty to a person under 16, four counts of rape and 19 counts of indecent assault.
The suspected offences relate to three women. No further action is being taken regarding his wife arrested last year.
Mr Balakrishnan, who was arrested in Lambeth in November 2013, is due before Westminster magistrates on 17 December.
Anthony Connell, senior prosecutor at the Crown Prosecution Service, said there was "insufficient evidence" for the prospect of conviction relating to Mr Balakrishnan's wife, who was arrested at the same time.
The three alleged victims - a Briton in her 30s, an Irish woman in her 50s and a Malaysian woman in her 70s - had lived at an address in Brixton until October 2013.
A false imprisonment charge against Mr Balakrishnan relates to a 14-year period between January 1999 and October 2013.
The four rape charges span periods from 1980 to 1983, and the indecent assault charges cover periods from 1980 to 1992.
Another woman connected to Mr Balakrishnan, Sian Davies from west Wales, died aged 43 in 1997 at the house where they were living.
Thousands of excited fans - or jaded journalists - pack into grandiose events to be deafened by Coldplay or U2 and hear nervous executives read from an autocue that they are "really excited" to reveal a "life-changing" innovation that looks much like last year's model.
And yes, there was a certain amount of that at the Samsung Unpacked event in Barcelona last night. The Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge are what you would expect from the Korean company - extremely capable, state-of-the-art smartphones with excellent cameras.
But these days half a dozen manufacturers can build a device we would have thought miraculous a few years ago, so a company like Samsung has to do more.
And last night it did. The first clue was the Gear VR headset placed on each seat as we trooped into the vast hall.
A voice from the sound system - in between snatches of Coldplay - explained patiently how to put it on. Then during the event we used the headset twice - once for the moment of the big reveal of the Galaxy S7, where a virtual box was opened, and more impressively to demonstrate Samsung's new 360 camera.
Looking around at a Barcelona street scene with footballers playing keepy-up gave a glimpse of what users might do when they get their hands on the Gear 360 and share what they see on YouTube or Facebook.
But it was the real coup de theatre which came next. As we removed our headsets, the most famous young man in the technology world appeared on the stage.
Mark Zuckerberg is known to be an enthusiast for VR - after all he spent a chunk of Facebook's money buying Oculus Rift - but by appearing at a Samsung event and evangelising about its potential he gave a rocket-powered boost to his host's efforts in this field.
He told us how he started sketching out what seemed an unlikely vision of virtual reality from the age of 11 (which young geek didn't?) but that it was now beginning to happen.
"VR is the next platform where anyone can experience anything they want," he said."It's going to change the way we live and work and communicate."
He pictured sitting at a virtual campfire with friends around the world, watching a movie together, or sharing his baby's first steps with a 360 degree view. And of course this would become the future of social media, and Facebook - along with Samsung - would be at the heart of it.
So, an event about a couple of new phones had become a kind of TED talk about a transformational technology. What a win for Samsung, still the world's leading smartphone maker but being squeezed by Apple at the high end and cheap but very capable Chinese smartphones at the budget end of the market.
Like many others in this industry it is trying to look beyond smartphones for its growth, as profit margins get ever slimmer. Making money from its major investment in virtual reality will take time - the company is giving away a Gear VR headset to anyone who orders one of the new Galaxy S7 phones in advance.
But, with the help of Facebook's founder, Samsung managed to change the conversation about the company last night and make itself look more far-sighted than many of its rivals.
He died in the US, where he lived and had been a citizen since the 1960s.
He became famous after writing about his experiences as a teenager in Nazi concentration camps, where he lost his mother, father and younger sister.
He dedicated his life to ensuring the atrocities committed under the Nazis were never forgotten, and the president of the World Jewish Congress has called him "a beacon of light".
Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust remembrance centre announced his death on Saturday.
US President Barack Obama said Mr Wiesel was "one of the great moral voices of our time".
Elie Wiesel was born in Romania in 1928. In 1940 his town, Sighet, was part of a region that was annexed by Hungary. Four years later the town's entire Jewish population, including 15-year-old Elie and his family, was deported to Auschwitz.
Mr Wiesel's mother and one sister were killed in Nazi death chambers. His father died of starvation and dysentery in the Buchenwald camp. Two other sisters survived.
After the war, Mr Wiesel lived in a French orphanage and went on to become a journalist.
He wrote more than 60 books, starting with Night, a memoir based on his experiences in the death camps.
It included the lines: "For the survivor who chooses to testify, it is clear: his duty is to bear witness for the dead and for the living.
"To forget would be not only dangerous but offensive; to forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time."
Mr Wiesel's use of the term Holocaust helped cement the word's association with Nazi atrocities against the Jews.
In 1986, he was awarded the Nobel Peace prize for his role in speaking out against violence, repression and racism.
When accepting it, he said: "Whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation, take sides.
"Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented."
After Mr Wiesel's death, the head of the World Jewish Congress said he was "undoubtedly one of the great Jewish teachers and thinkers of the past 100 years".
Ronald S Lauder said: "We have lost the most articulate witness to history's greatest crime.
"His passing leaves a void that will be impossible to fill. At the same time, his writings will live on."
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Elie Wiesel "served as a ray of light and an example of humanity that believes in the goodness of man".
The country's president, Reuven Rivlin, called him "a hero of the Jewish People, and a giant of all humanity", while Barack Obama said he was "not just the world's most prominent Holocaust survivor, he was a living memorial".
Mr Wiesel leaves a wife, Marion, who also survived the Holocaust, as well as a son, Elisha.
More than £14m will be spent expanding the quayside at Greenock's Ocean Terminal and building a state-of-the-art visitor centre.
The area will also benefit from about £9.4m being invested in a renewables hub at the Inchgreen dry dock.
And a further £4m will be spent on improvements to the A78 at Inverkip.
The projects are part of the £1.13bn Glasgow and Clyde Valley City Deal - which is backed with £500m of cash from each of the Scottish and UK governments, along with £130m from the eight local councils.
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said: "The port at Greenock provides the gateway to Glasgow and the west coast of Scotland, and I am delighted that it may be one of the first beneficiaries of the city deal being supported by the Scottish government.
"This proposed investment in the Ocean Terminal would significantly expand cargo and cruise berthing facilities, creating and supporting local jobs.
"With passenger numbers at the terminal reaching more than 100,000 this year, this planned expansion will help cement Greenock's position as one of Europe's leading cruise liner terminals, which plays an important role in developing a thriving local economy."
Ms Sturgeon, who spoke as her cabinet visited the Inverclyde town, added: "The Scottish government recognises that cities and their regions are the engines of our economy, and we are working strategically with local authorities, such as Inverclyde, to unlock investment and stimulate growth.
"This proposed development at Greenock is just part of an infrastructure investment programme that can unlock benefits from more than £1.13bn in support being provided through what is the biggest city deal of its kind anywhere in the UK."
Inverclyde Council leader councillor Stephen McCabe said: "The cruise market through Greenock has grown substantially in recent years and sustaining that expansion is a crucial outcome of the project.
"With the expansion of the quayside and development of a new visitor facility, Greenock Ocean Terminal can continue to be a major economic and tourist boost locally in Inverclyde and in Scotland.
"The Glasgow and Clyde Valley City Deal project shows the key role local authorities play in working jointly with each other and both national governments to deliver the key infrastructure to further develop our areas."
The new service means Messenger users will be able to ask for an Uber vehicle without leaving the Facebook software.
Users will not need to download the Uber app separately.
"Uber on Messenger" began in parts of the US this week, the two firms said.
The companies announced their new venture via separate blogs.
Facebook has some 1.5 billion users globally and Uber is the world's biggest driver-hailing app in terms of financing.
If successful, the partnership between the firms will give Uber access to many new and potential clients - Facebook's Messenger app has some 700 million users worldwide.
"With the ability to request, view, and pay for an Uber ride in Messenger, taking your next ride is as simple as sending a message," Uber said on its news blog.
"You can request a ride from a car service without ever needing to download an extra app or leave a conversation," Facebook explained.
The social media giant said the new transportation function on its Messenger app was part of its ongoing development.
"More countries and other transportation partners will be available soon," it added.
Facebook also said the service would be "super easy".
"Driver status updates and payment receipts will get delivered to a private conversation between you and Uber," the firm explained.
"With everything in one place, you can seamlessly keep track of your ride and payment history."
Uber and Facebook said they would offer users their first ride for free - for a trip worth up to $20 (£13.37). Facebook said the offer would be in place for a limited time.
In April, the social media giant removed its instant messaging service from its main mobile app and said users would have to download the Messenger app in order to send and receive messages on their smartphones.
San Francisco-based Uber was founded six years ago. It has operations in about 60 countries but has faced opposition in various parts of the world.
Earlier this year, Facebook bought the messaging service WhatsApp for $19bn (£11bn).
It contracted by 0.2% compared with the previous three months, the government's statistical agency said.
However, this was not as bad as the 0.5% contraction that economists had expected.
The country, the seventh largest economy in the world, has seen economic growth fall sharply in recent years.
The slowdown is partly a result of low commodity prices, sluggish global growth and low investor confidence.
Higher interest rates and tax increases have also held back consumer spending, an important element of Brazil's economy.
The better-than-expected figure was partly due to a rise in the agricultural sector which saw an increase in coffee prices.
But that was offset by a fall in household consumption of 1.5%, the biggest drop since the credit crunch of 2008.
Brazilians are struggling to pay back debt built up during the boom years, a struggle intensified by higher interest rates.
Analysis: Daniel Gallas, South America business correspondent
If Brazilian authorities are right in their forecast, 2015 will see the country's worst economic contraction since 1990, when the country was still experiencing hyperinflation.
Planning minister Nelson Barbosa predicts a 1.2% drop in the GDP for 2015.
Part of Brazil's current problems are self-inflicted.
After three years of overspending, in an attempt to get the economy growing rapidly, President Dilma Rousseff has now moved towards austerity.
Many sectors that received benefits - such as labour tax breaks - are now facing steeper costs. A weaker Brazilian currency has also contributed to higher inflation, which is predicted to rise above 8% - well beyond the government's 4.5% target.
A new finance minister has a mission to get Brazil's economy growing in 2016 or 2017.
But everyone accepts that 2015 will be a year of relatively high inflation and negative growth.
The government has also reined back spending, and the figures showed a fall of 1.3% in government consumption.
A massive corruption scandal at the state oil giant Petrobras has seen the firm cut back on investment to save money, causing thousands of workers to lose their jobs.
Dozens of senior politicians and business leaders are implicated in the Petrobras scandal.
Thousand of workers have felt its impact, with dozens of small firms laying off employees and leaving contracts unfulfilled.
For example, one of Brazil's leading construction companies, Galvao, filed for bankruptcy after Petrobras stopped paying it for services. That meant a major road project Galvao was expected to complete has now been mothballed.
Economists expect Brazil's economy to continue to shrink throughout the year.
Cristian Maggio, head of emerging markets research for TD Securities, said: "The trend is for weaker growth going forward.
"Brazil is getting back into a recession."
The deficit will hit C$29.4bn (£16bn) by 2017 and balancing the books could take at least five years, the government projects.
The budget called is a departure from former the Conservative government's austerity policies.
Dropping oil prices and currency values have contributed to a weakened economy.
"This budget puts people first and delivers the help Canadians need right now," Finance Minister Bill Morneau said, addressing the House of Commons. "It is an essential step in a sustained and strategic effort to restore prosperity and optimism."
The government aims to spur growth by 0.5% in 2016-17 and by 1.0% the next fiscal year.
Mr Morneau said the government will invest in green technology projects and offer tax breaks for energy efficiency.
"Some believe we must choose between a strong economy and a clean environment. They are simply wrong," he said.
Also notable in the budget is C$8.4bn allocated over five years for the country's aboriginal population, with nearly half the money to be spent on education. The allocation is a significant increase from the Conservative budget under former Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
Mr Trudeau promised during his campaign to improve relations with Canada's indigenous peoples.
The government also announced funding to sponsor 10,000 more Syrian refugees, with C$245 million (£132 million) over five years. The government hit its goal of resettling 25,000 Syrian refugees by the end of February.
"The world saw the best of Canada in our response to this crisis," Mr Morneau said.
New Democrat Party leader Tom Mulcair said the Liberal budget does not do enough for indigenous children and that "promises are not being kept".
"Families across Canada are worried about their jobs and struggling to make ends meet - but today's budget told them they would have to wait longer for help," said Mr Mulcair in a statement. "The government missed an opportunity today to really deliver change."
Conservative opposition leader Rona Ambrose said the budget is a "nightmare scenario for taxpayers who will be forced to pick up the tab for today's Liberal spending spree".
Kaleigh Elwell, was 35 weeks pregnant when she was admitted to Birmingham Women's Hospital experiencing bleeding in October 2016.
The hospital's investigation found communication problems led to a delay in Ms Elwell's emergency C-section.
Ms Elwell believes her baby son would be alive if there had not been a delay in his delivery, her lawyer said.
When Cohen Mark Joseph Cross was born on 1 October 2016, he was floppy and did not open his eyes.
A report carried out by the trust that runs Birmingham Women's Hospital found staff had struggled to find the baby's heartbeat for several hours.
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Ms Elwell was being treated as a "high-risk patient" due to problems in previous pregnancies and she later learned she had suffered a placental abruption.
Ms Elwell from Birmingham said her and her family are "struggling" to come to terms with Cohen's death.
"The findings of the report into his birth are incredibly hard to read and it has left us with many questions regarding whether more should have been done to prevent his death."
The trust claims "important lessons" have been learnt and they have carried out "enhanced training" for staff.
A spokesperson for Birmingham Women's Hospital said: "We would like to offer our sincere and heartfelt condolences to Kaleigh and her family following the tragic death of baby Cohen.
"We recognise that there were a number of failings in the care we provided upon admission to the ward and the staff involved are devastated about what happened."
Vettel was given a 10-second stop-and-go penalty in the race in Baku for deliberately driving into Hamilton.
Governing body the FIA decided at a hearing on Monday not to take more action against the Ferrari driver.
"I would have been uncomfortable to go further than what has been done," said FIA president Jean Todt.
"I would be very comfortable to be very strong if it happens again. He knows that."
Todt did not specify what he meant by a "very strong" punishment, but it can only mean a disqualification from at least one race.
Todt, who was talking to BBC Radio 5 live, said: "Clearly I wish that he would have been able to control himself better."
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Vettel was also put on a warning after last year's Mexican Grand Prix, when he swore over the radio at FIA F1 director Charlie Whiting because was unhappy about a lack of action over the driving of Red Bull's Max Verstappen.
Todt said: "People say he had already a warning after Mexico. This is true, but it was a completely different matter. He lost control and was insulting one of the stewards. It was a different category.
"So on the first category he has no more joker, on the second category he has no more joker."
Vettel has apologised publicly for the incident, and also for falsely accusing Hamilton of brake-testing him.
It was Vettel's belief that had caused him to run into the back of Hamilton, provoking his anger and leading to him then banging wheels with the Mercedes.
Hamilton has said Vettel did not apologise in their first conversation about the incident on the day after the Baku race, but that the following day he did so when they exchanged text messages.
Todt said he called the meeting on Monday to ensure Vettel understood Hamilton had not been responsible for the incident in any way and to acknowledge the German was the one who carried the responsibility for it.
"I felt it was very bad for the sport and very bad for the image of the sport and for the fans, because when you are a champion at this level you must be an example," Todt said.
"I am sure a lot of young people and fans were shocked by this attitude and particularly - even if I said the matter was judged by the stewards - I was not very comfortably with the statements after the race where the team and the driver seemed not to understand what had happened. So I thought in this case I wanted to understand even myself better.
"I was confused - was Hamilton part of it, responsible for some unnecessary action? And I got confirmation that what he did was exactly the same as what he did at the first safety car and he had absolutely no responsibility.
"So I thought it was important to have that said and understood by Sebastian Vettel, which was not what he said (after the race), including also his team.
"I do respect a lot pressure and i can sympathise the emption and we can allow special circumstances in special conditions.
"So he acknowledged he was the only one guilty, that he would not do that any more - which was very important."
Todt said Vettel had also offered to talk to young drivers and give them the benefit "of his good and bad experience".
The robber called at the victim's home in Lytham Road, Preston, at about 13:30 GMT on Saturday, and claimed he was owed money for work on the house.
He forced his way inside, where he assaulted the pensioner and made off with a "four-figure" cash sum, Lancashire police said.
The victim suffered serious arm injuries, the force said.
Once inside the house, the man had tried to get rid of the attacker by giving him some cash, but was followed to his bedroom as he went to retrieve money.
He was then set upon, and left with an injured right arm and swelling to his hand, police said.
His attacker was described as a stocky white man in his 40s, wearing a blue coat.
Det Con Will Hogan, of Preston Police, said: "This was an absolutely shocking robbery where a 92-year-old man was targeted and we need to find the person responsible immediately.
"This crime has left officers disgusted and it is crucial we locate the attacker."
The force has appealed for information.
Ministers said the move would be phased in from 2018-19. In return, rules on paying for catch-up services such as iPlayer might be introduced and the licence fee will rise with inflation.
Funding free licence fees for over-75s cost the government £608m in 2013-14 - about a fifth of the BBC's budget.
The BBC said it was the "right deal... in difficult economic circumstances".
BBC director general Tony Hall said: "Far from being a cut, the way this financial settlement is shaped gives us, effectively, flat licence fee income across the first five years of the next charter."
Shadow culture secretary Chris Bryant said Labour would oppose the government's plans if they were a "smash and grab raid" on the BBC.
The current BBC charter - which sets out the corporation's remit and how it is governed - is due for renewal at the end of 2016.
By Nick Higham, BBC News correspondent
At first sight today's announcement looks like pretty bad news for the BBC.
The cost of licence fees for the over-75s is only set to rise as the number of households with someone over 75 increases.
Yet the BBC's director general Lord Hall was positively upbeat, claiming the deal he's done with the government is a good one which will leave the BBC, at the end of five years, no worse off and possibly slightly better off - though that's in cash terms, not real terms.
Cue much head-scratching among analysts, trying to work out from the available numbers if the picture is really as rosy as the BBC maintains.
And significantly, perhaps, Lord Hall would not rule out possible cuts to services.
But there has also been forthright criticism of the way the deal was done.
Lord Hall and the chair of the BBC Trust, Rona Fairhead, were only told by the government a week ago that this was happening.
Lord Birt, himself a former BBC head, says the government had set "a very dangerous precedent" by doing a deal on BBC financing behind closed doors with no public consultation for the second time in five years - suggesting the BBC's independence from government has been compromised.
£3.72bn
received from licence fee
BBC One's budget £1bn
Radio Four's budget £91m
Cost of free licence fees for over-75s £608m
* £271.4m of the total used by the Government to fund S4C, the local TV scheme and broadband rollout.
In a statement to the Commons, Culture Secretary John Whittingdale said the charter renewal process would ensure the BBC could "adapt to a changing media landscape".
Mr Bryant called the announcement an "utter shambles" after the plans were revealed in a Sunday newspaper ahead of Wednesday's Budget.
In an angry exchange in the Commons, Mr Bryant stressed the process must be "open and transparent", adding it was "no way to run a whelk stall let alone the world's most respected broadcaster".
Mr Whittingdale said he was pleased "the BBC had agreed to play its part" in helping tackle the government's "challenging fiscal position" while further reducing its "reliance on taxpayers".
Lord Hall said there had been "intense negotiations" to ensure the BBC had "secured a strong deal for our audiences".
"If anything, I believe it will put the BBC slightly up," he said.
"Crucially, it gives us room for investment in the first two years of that charter. This will help us to manage the transition we all know is coming to an online world."
In a letter to Mr Whittingdale, BBC Trust chairman Rona Fairhead said the Trust accepted the decision "although we cannot endorse the process by which it has been reached".
"We are disappointed that [licence fee payers] have not been given any say in the major decisions about the BBC's future funding," she said.
"However, we accept that those decisions now set a clear financial framework, subject to the terms... for a charter review process that will focus on what the BBC provides in return for its funding. We will want to make sure the public are at the centre of that debate."
Mr Whittingdale also confirmed plans to bring forward legislation to modernise the licence fee next year "to cover public service broadcast catch-up TV".
He added the government would "carefully consider" decriminalising non-payment of the licence fee.
When asked if over 75s would be means-tested to determine whether an individual or household was eligible for the free licence, Mr Whittingdale replied: "The commitment made in the Conservative manifesto that all households with an over 75-year-old will be eligible to a free TV licence will be honoured throughout this Parliament.
"As requested by the BBC, they will take responsibility for this policy from thereon."
Speaking on Radio 4, former acting BBC Trust chair Diane Coyle said: "It's the second time the government has forced a deal on the BBC.
"There has been no consultation with the public and it's a major change in the BBC's responsibilities. The public who pay for the BBC should have been consulted."
Mr Whittingdale added the government, depending on the Royal Charter agreement, expected the licence fee to rise in line with consumer price index (CPI) inflation over the next charter period.
"I don't think it will balance out in the long run," said Ms Coyle.
"I welcome getting the inflation link back, but the number of people over 75 is going up all the time and it's not clear to me in the long time it can avoid service closures to cover it."
About two-thirds of the cuts will be in the rail division, Bombardier Transportation, with the rest in the aerospace division.
The move will prompt a restructuring charge of $225-$275m (£184-224m) in the fourth quarter and through 2017.
The company has said it has too many sites producing similar components.
In February, Bombardier said it was cutting 7,000 jobs. Nearly half of these cuts are being made in its rail division, which has a large workforce in Europe.
The latest round of cuts includes 2,000 workers in Canada - 1,500 of them in Quebec. Nonetheless, chief executive Alain Bellemare said he was taking this action "because we want to save jobs in Canada".
The company said it would streamline its administrative and non-production operations and reorganise its design, engineering and manufacturing activities by creating new "centres of excellence".
Mr Bellemare said: "We understand these are difficult decisions... but in the end, what we are going to be left with is a leaner, stronger organisation."
Bombardier has a strong presence in Northern Ireland, employing 6,000 people and is responsible for 10% of Northern Irish manufacturing exports.
There, it makes major aircraft structures including fuselages and wings.
Bombardier Belfast said it was not yet clear how the new round of cuts would affect it: "We will be evaluating the impact on our Belfast operations and will communicate with our employees when that is completed. We are not in a position to elaborate further at this time."
In the rest of the UK, Bombardier has about 3,500 employees at eight sites and 23 service locations, including Crewe, Plymouth, Derby and Burton-on-Trent.
It also operates from several locations in and around London, including its heavy maintenance depot at Ilford.
Bombardier's Derby site has produced trains for both mainline operations and the London Underground.
The GMB union said it would work to minimise the impact on its members.
In relation to Bombardier's Derby operations, Mick Cash, leader of the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union, said: "RMT is keeping a close watch on any potential impact of today's Bombardier announcement on the train-building operations in Derby.
"We have been in contact with the company today and we are seeking firm assurances from them.
"The union will, of course, continue to campaign to defend and expand train-building in the UK."
The 28-year-old was stopped trying to board a Qatar-bound flight at Melbourne Airport, last December.
He told officials his final destination was northern Iraq, Australian Federal Police (AFP) said in a statement.
The Melbourne man was arrested on Monday, accused of preparing to take up arms with Kurdish-aligned forces.
Travelling to Syria or Iraq to support those involved on either side of conflicts there is illegal under Australian law, with a maximum penalty of life imprisonment.
A charge sheet filed with the Melbourne Magistrates Court on Tuesday said the man, Jamie Williams, was preparing to enter a foreign country "with the intention of engaging in a hostile activity", local media reported.
Combat-style equipment and clothing was allegedly found in the man's luggage when he tried to leave Australia on 28 December.
"While this individual did not actually travel, people need to be aware that actively planning and undertaking preparations to travel to the conflict area still constitutes a criminal offence," National Manager Counter Terrorism Assistant Commissioner Neil Gaughan said in an earlier statement.
Mr Williams was remanded in custody to reappear in court on 20 October.
According to the government, more than 200 hundred Australians are either fighting with terror groups in the Middle East, or supporting such groups from inside Australia.
A small number of Australians are also believed to be fighting with Kurdish forces against IS.
According to local media, a 28-year-old former Queensland army reservist, Ash Johnston, was killed by IS while fighting with Kurdish forces earlier this year.
A traditional Kurdish funeral was held in Melbourne on Sunday for 23-year-old Gold Coast man Reece Harding after he was killed by a land mine while he was fighting with Kurdish forces against IS militants in Syria.
After a drab first half the Bees went ahead when Lasse Vibe pounced on an awful mix-up between Kelvin Wilson and keeper Dorus De Vries to poke in.
Nico Yennaris smashed home from Jake Bidwell's corner before Sergi Canos swept in a fine first-time shot.
Forest's misery was compounded when Eric Lichaj was sent off after picking up two yellow cards in four minutes.
Brentford had collected just seven points in 2016 before kick-off - the lowest tally in the Championship - but maintained their good recent record at the City Ground with a third win in four visits.
Forest captain Henri Lansbury's return as a second half substitute, after almost three months out with a knee ligament injury, provided the only cheer on a miserable afternoon for the hosts.
The Reds rarely threatened and have now failed to score in eight of their last 12 matches, with just two goals in their last seven home games.
The win moved Brentford nine points clear of the bottom three and up a place to 17th, level on points with Forest who dropped to 16th.
Nottingham Forest manager Paul Williams:
"I am really disappointed with the performance and the reaction to the fans to that performance is entirely valid.
"We did not put them under pressure. We did not get in their faces. I would not say I feel let down. They are human beings like everyone else.
"I will be looking for a reaction from this side, because that is the least the fans deserve. Can I explain it? Not really. We were second best from minute one. I thought Brentford were here for the taking and we had told the players that.
"I really do apologise to the fans for that performance. I will have a look at our preparation and see if it was too much and we will look at how we prepare for the next game now."
Brentford boss Dean Smith:
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"Every win is a big win and our previous performances had merited far more than we had got. I thought it was a deserved win.
"We were defensively organised and allowed them very few chances - and Forest got very frustrated because of that.
"We capitalised on their indecision at the back, we got the first goal and that gave us renewed confidence after that.
"We have been on a bad run and they want to put that right. That was the kind of character we were always going to need."
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Netherfield Primary School's James Willis was named as one of the top teachers in the country.
The head teacher at Trinity Catholic School, Michael McKeever, was honoured with a lifetime achievement award for his work.
Tom Brown reports.
The bank increased provisions for payment protection insurance (PPI) compensation in the year to £4bn.
That was after the City watchdog said it was considering a deadline on compensation claims.
Lloyds shares closed up 13% to 70.57p, making the bank the biggest riser on the FTSE 100.
Lloyds Banking Group has faced the largest amount of PPI compensation claims. The new provisions takes the total the bank has set aside to pay compensation to £16bn.
The bank said it welcomed "the decision of the Financial Conduct Authority to consult on a deadline for PPI complaints and the certainty that this will bring for both customers and shareholders".
The FCA has proposed a time bar that will allow people to claim compensation for mis-sold PPI until 2018 before drawing a line under the affair.
The bank also said it incurred a charge of £837m relating to complaints about packaged bank accounts and "a number of other product rectifications primarily in retail, insurance and commercial banking".
The bank, which restarted dividend payments to shareholders last year after a six year break, announced it would pay shareholders an ordinary dividend of 2.25p per share, plus a special dividend of 0.5p giving a total payout to shareholders of £2bn.
Lloyds Banking Group chief executive, Antonio Horta-Osorio said: "We made a strong start in 2015 to the next phase of our strategy and have delivered a robust financial performance, enabling increased dividend payments."
The bank announced he had been awarded a deferred bonus of 723,977 shares and his salary had risen by 6% to £1.3 million.
Ian Gordon, an analyst at Investec, said today's results suggested that "the storm clouds are really clearing at last."
He said investors were now looking at Lloyds as "an increasingly safe, but boring, regular bank with with little or no balance sheet growth but a strong outlook for further dividend growth."
And market analyst, Michael Hewson of CMC Markets said the share price was also boosted by the perception that the payouts for PPI were coming to an end.
"It really does seem the worst is behind us and that there can't be much more left to pay out for customers mis-sold these policies."
Paying out a dividend, despite the fall in profits, he said, was a sign of confidence from the bank's management.
The bank's annual results come a month after the Treasury announced it was postponing plans for a sale of Lloyds' shares to retail investors worth £2bn until global stock market volatility had eased.
The government, which held 43% of Lloyds after its rescue in 2008 has reduced the taxpayer's stake in the bank to around 9% now.
Edwards ended her international career last month after speaking to Robinson.
Robinson said social media abuse was "part of the territory" and it was "no surprise" the decision to drop Edwards, 36, led to a "backlash".
But he added to BBC Sport: "It's tough for your daughter to read some things from cowards on social media."
Speaking at the unveiling of Heather Knight as the new England captain, Robinson said he understood why the decision to replace Edwards provoked such a strong reaction.
Made a CBE in 2014, 36-year-old Edwards is the only player - man or woman - to captain England in 200 internationals.
"The easy thing was probably to do nothing because you're going to get a lot of flak - as I have done - for the decision that you've made," explained Robinson.
"You'd search the breadth of the earth to find those type of players [like Edwards] who are as driven and successful.
"But nothing lasts forever so it's no surprise when somebody who is well loved and well thought of finishes and there is a backlash."
There were 200 fatalities in 2014, an increase of 16% on the previous year. The number of people seriously injured also increased by 1% to 1,694.
The figures showed there were 1,040 child casualties, a fall of 2%.
Overall the total number of road casualties - 11,240 - was the lowest since records began in 1950.
The road casualty figures have been declining for almost four decades but for the first time for eight years the number of fatalities went up.
The official government figures showed that the 200 road deaths included 93 car users, 56 pedestrians, 31 motorcyclists and eight pedal cyclists
They showed seven children among the 200 deaths, two fewer than 2013.
There were 171 children seriously injured, up from 143 in 2013.
According to the statistics, there were five fewer pedal cyclists killed but 18 more pedestrian fatalities.
There were also eight more motorcyclists killed and four more car user fatalities.
The statistics showed:
Transport Minister Derek Mackay said: "The increase in fatalities and the number of people seriously injured in road accidents in 2014 is disappointing.
"However it also demonstrates the need for every one of us to take responsibility when using the road network. The longer term downward trends and the annual decline in the total number of casualties, to the lowest level since records began, are encouraging but more can, and must, be done."
The minister added: "Some of the more recent interventions such as the landmark change in Scotland's drink-drive legislation - which has seen us leading the way in the United Kingdom - will undoubtedly help prevent the tragic and unnecessary loss of lives on our roads.
"Other innovations such as the A9 average speed camera programme are already delivering benefits, and significant investment is improving safety for cyclists.
"We are also encouraging councils to cut speed in towns and cities through our revised 20mph limit guidance. I am confident that these developments will have a positive impact going forward."
Early tries by Michael Allen and Viliame Mata, three from Stuart McInally and two from Nasi Manu put Edinburgh in firm control.
Stephen Shennan got Timisoara's first score in the first half.
Mata's second-half try and Manu's third of the game continued the rout before Shennan replied with his second.
Acting head coach Duncan Hodge's side join Harlequins on five points, with the top two meeting at Murrayfield next Saturday.
Stade Francais and Timisoara Saracens prop up the group and meet in Paris on Thursday.
Hooker McInally set up wing Allen to cross within the opening minute and fly-half Jason Tovey converted.
And debutant Mata, who won an Olympic gold medal with Fiji sevens in the summer, soon crossed and Tovey's kick took the visitors to 14 points.
Driven mauls led to captain McInally's initial brace, Tovey unsuccessful with the first conversion but knocking over the second.
Scrum-half Valentin Calafetnanu's penalty at 14-0 down and wing Shennan's try after McInally's first had given the Romanians some reward for their first-half endeavours.
But the visitors finished the half strongly with McInally going over to complete his hat-trick, Tovey missing the conversion.
Flanker Mata offloaded for Manu's first try and the number eight went over again soon after, Tovey adding the extras on both occasions.
Edinburgh were not done there as Mata crossed again early in the second half and Manu's tap and break extended the hosts' misery, Tovey converting both.
Shennan went over for the hosts and Calafetnanu maintained his record with the boot.
Timisoara Saracens: Catalin Fercu, Fonovai Tangimana, Brian Sefanaia, Jack Umaga, Stephen Shennan, Jody Rose, Valentin Calafeteanu; Gigi Militaru, Eugen Capatina, Horatiu Pungea, Valentin Poparlan, Marian Drenceanu, Daniel Ianus, Vasile Rus, Sandu Stelian Burcea (capt).
Replacements: Andrei Radoi, Edmund Aholelei, Samuel Maris, Ionut Muresan, Randall Morrison, Gabriel Conache, Tevita Manumua, Daniel Vladut Zaharia.
Edinburgh: Rory Scholes, Alex Northam, Sasa Tofilau, Junior Rasolea, Michael Allen, Jason Tovey, Sam Hidalgo-Clyne; Allan Dell, Stuart McInally (capt), Murray McCallum, Fraser McKenzie, Ben Toolis, Viliame Mata, John Hardie, Nasi Manu.
Replacements: Neil Cochrane, Rory Sutherland, Jack Cosgrove, Lewis Carmichael, Viliami Fihaki, Nathan Fowles, Blair Kinghorn, Glenn Bryce.
Referee: Ian Tempest.
South Ribble MP Seema Kennedy said there should be clarity about the restoration of the water supply.
Almost 300,000 households have been boiling their water since 6 August.
The company previously said it would have an idea of when restrictions could be lifted once UV light treated the water.
United Utilities began installing eight rigs to treat the water with UV light last week. The treatment instantly kills the bug.
Levels of cryptosporidium are "very low" but the company urged people to continue boiling water as a result of the microbial parasite - which causes diarrhoea and abdominal cramps.
Affected areas include Blackpool, Chorley, Fylde, Preston, South Ribble, Wyre and the Mellor area of Blackburn.
The warning was originally issued after traces of the bug were found at the Franklaw treatment works near Preston.
Ms Kennedy said: "This situation has now been going on for 18 days and I keep asking United Utilities when is an end date in sight because people need to plan."
"At the beginning we had this notice and we thought it would be a matter of a couple of days or a week," she said.
"I have made two telephone calls today to United Utilities to have further clarification about when this will be ended."
She said the Drinking Water Inspectorate had informed her the water company had been told "to get on with providing a plan and managing the public's expectations."
The BBC has contacted United Utilities for a response. The Drinking Water Inspectorate was not available for comment.
Dr Andrew Goodall said the health service in Wales would instead look to keep making "steady and sustained improvements across the board".
Last week, his counterpart in England suggested patients could face longer waits for knee and hip operations.
But Dr Goodall wants improved waiting times over a range of services.
In recent years, the NHS in Wales has been heavily criticised over its waiting times performance.
Research by BBC Wales shows Welsh waiting times continue to lag behind England in most key categories for treatment and diagnosis.
But NHS Wales chief executive Dr Goodall said "good progress" had been achieved on reducing waits, including an 80% fall in diagnostic waiting times over the past couple of years.
Meanwhile, in his third annual report, he said NHS Wales was operating in a "culture of steady and sustained improvement", despite pressures.
The report takes a look back at the challenges and improvements over the past year and said there had been a "steady decline" in hospital discharge delays.
Dr Goodall said the quality of care patients should expect should be "seamless" across Wales.
"It's no secret that the NHS - and this includes NHS Wales - is facing ongoing financial and service pressures.
"Combine this with the good news that more of us are living longer, albeit many with chronic conditions, this shows that we need to fundamentally change the way we do things to meet our needs over the coming years.
"In redesigning the ways in which we deliver better and sustainable services, we must not forget that one size will not fit all when we look, for instance, at how we provide healthcare to very rural areas, and the commitment to provide services in both Welsh and English."
Among improvements, he highlighted the performance of the ambulance service, as well as 150 new staff being recruited to support mental health services for children and young people.
Dr Goodall has also defended the decision of the health secretary not to offer financial bail-outs to four health boards that have overspent significantly.
Last week, BBC Wales revealed Betsi Cadwaladr, Hywel Dda, Abertawe Bro Morgannwg and Cardiff and Vale health boards had built up combined deficits of £146m - almost three times as much as the previous year.
Dr Goodall said health boards had to live within their means given that the Welsh Government had provided "fair and reasonable" funding.
He added there had been "some recovery" in the financial position of overspending health boards recently and he expected "better performance" next year.
He also said health boards should learn from each other in an effort to have a "more consistent range of services and standards across Wales".
After falling at the open, the FTSE 100 ended up 4.29 points, or 0.07%, at 6,200.12.
Hopes of economic stimulus measures in China sent miners higher, with Anglo American up 6.93% and Glencore 3.4% up.
Housebuilders were the big fallers, on concerns about a market slowdown, especially in London. Berkeley, Taylor Wimpey and Persimmon fell more than 3%.
Tesco closed up 1.55%. The supermarket reports results on Wednesday.
Banking shares were trading higher. Standard Chartered was up 0.99% - having been more than 2% ahead - with the Bloomberg news agency reporting that the bank is aiming to sell at least $4.4bn of assets in Asia.
Banks were also helped by expectations that their peers in Italy could be restructured. Italian bank shares surged.
Shares in Next fell 1% after Exane cut its price target for the stock and warned 25% of the retailer's profitability could be at risk in the future.
Shares in Daily Mail and General Trust were down 0.65% after the firm said it was in talks with potential bidders about a possible offer for Yahoo.
On the currency markets, the pound jumped 0.78% against the dollar to $1.4236 and was also up 0.66% against the euro at €1.2478.
The stands, at the Railway End of the Big Fellas Stadium, have been moved from the McCain Stadium at Scarborough Football Club.
The work has helped increased capacity at the ground from 6,700 to 8,000.
Featherstone Rovers chairman Mark Campbell said: "We get off our backsides and make things happen."
In 2011, Scarborough Council voted to demolish the McCain Stadium, which had been derelict since the football club was wound up in 2007.
Featherstone Rovers then agreed to buy two of the stands from the Seamer Road site and carry out demolition as part of the deal.
Volunteers and Rovers fans have been working for two years on the project to improve the stadium at Post Office Road.
The new look will be unveiled at the club's Championship match against Bradford Bulls on Sunday.
The North East county have also lost the right to stage Test cricket at their Riverside ground.
Durham have accepted a £3.8m financial aid package, which has been approved by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB).
They will start next season in Division Two with a 48-point deduction.
Durham will also face a four-point penalty in the 2017 T20 Blast and a two-point deduction in the One-Day Cup.
Additionally, the club will be subject to a revised salary cap from April 2017-2020, with the level determined annually by the ECB board.
All prize money from ECB competitions, except for player awards, will be withheld until the club's debt to the national governing body is cleared.
The steep penalty has been accepted by the club after they accepted help from the ECB in managing current and historic debts.
"The financial package and associated conditions approved by the ECB board reflect the unprecedented seriousness of Durham County Cricket Club's financial situation," said ECB chief executive Tom Harrison.
"To help them through these difficulties and continue as a first-class county, this had to be addressed with immediate, practical financial assistance."
In August, chief executive David Harker called a meeting of the players to reassure them that the club was not going bust and all contracts would be honoured following rumours about their financial situation.
Talks followed, however, with the ECB, who said they wanted "to ensure a successful and sustainable future" for the club.
All-rounder Scott Borthwick and opening batsman Mark Stoneman are both moving to Surrey for 2017, which will alleviate some of the salary pressure on the club.
And the unprecedented bailout will allow Durham to continue to pay their players' salaries, meet the costs owed to Revenue and Customs and operating bills and settle "a substantial debt to a secured creditor", who has not been named.
David Harker, DCCC Group chief executive said: "We are clearly disappointed at the position we are in and the sanctions we have accepted, particularly for the players and staff who have worked so hard to keep us in the First Division.
"It is important that the club addresses its serious financial challenges and puts the business on a sustainable footing and therefore we have had to accept the conditions offered by ECB.
"Other counties have faced serious financial challenges but have been able to find other solutions including private investors without this reliance on ECB."
The Professional Cricketers' Association, meanwhile, is to meet the Durham players to discuss the situation.
"I have emailed all Durham players today to assure them that they can call myself or other PCA staff should they need advice or support during this uncertain period," said chief executive David Leatherdale.
Durham captain Paul Collingwood, who came through the academy ranks at Chester-le-Street, said on Twitter that he was angry his side had been relegated.
The 40-year-old former England all-rounder signed a one-year contract extension in July through to the end of 2017 to commit to his 22nd summer of county cricket with the club.
"Yes I'm angry, yes I'm devastated along with all the other players at this great club but far better being in Division 2 than none at all," Collingwood tweeted.
Hampshire chairman Rod Bransgrove said he felt sympathetic towards Durham's plight although happy at his club's reprieve.
"It's been a very difficult time in county cricket, especially if you have one of these big grounds to maintain," Bransgrove told BBC Radio Solent.
"We had some tough times in 2011, 2012 and we understand exactly what they've been living with for a long period of time.
"It's very mixed emotions, but I'm obviously pleased now that it's sunk in, because I do feel that in many respects we deserved another go.
"We had extraordinary injury problems during this summer so we didn't really have a chance to show ourselves as we really can be."
Division Two runners-up Kent had previously argued they should be promoted instead of Hampshire retaining their top-flight place.
"We were not asked to make a formal representation by the ECB as the case was solely concerning Durham's debts etc," a club spokesperson told BBC Radio Kent.
"We're disappointed that the special circumstances of one up, two down being introduced weeks before the season were not considered."
BBC cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew
"Durham's is a sad and salutary tale. Ambition and enviable cricketing infrastructure, that produced eight Test players, but also over-ambition in that the county had its head turned by the foolish central policy of encouraging all to stage Test cricket.
"By overextending financially to fulfil their dream, this was the undoing of Durham, who have now lost the right to host Tests.
"The rescue package comes to £3.8m and they will resume in the second division, having won the County Championship three times in six years.
"While this has been a lesson to other counties similarly tempted to enter the big time, it should also discourage the ECB from encouraging counties to take such a gamble."
Durham are the youngest first-class county, having entered the County Championship for the first time in 1992.
Former England all-rounder Ian Botham played for the club in their inaugural season and part of the next, and Dean Jones, David Boon and Shivnarine Chanderpaul are among the overseas players to have appeared at the Riverside.
Chester-le-Street first hosted international cricket in 1999, when Scotland played Pakistan in a one-day international and in all, six Tests, 16 one-dayers and three T20 internationals have been staged at the ground.
Durham had to wait until 2007 to win their first trophy, but then won the Championship three times between 2008 and 2013, before lifting the One-Day Cup in 2014.
Mr Lightman has led the heads' union since 2010, through the era of the coalition government and into the present administration.
His deputy, Malcolm Trobe, will replace him as an interim general secretary.
Mr Trobe paid tribute to his predecessor's "unwavering commitment" to supporting head teachers.
A statement from the ASCL head teachers' union said he was leaving "with immediate effect to pursue other professional interests".
Mr Lightman has been an influential figure in debates about education, representing head teachers in the major changes to the school and qualifications system in recent years.
Mr Trobe said Mr Lightman had "worked tirelessly with ministers, top civil servants and other key influencers to shape and influence the education policy of successive governments".
"Brian has shown unwavering commitment to championing and supporting the work done by ASCL members in ensuring that the job of school and college leadership continues to be fulfilling and worthwhile," said Mr Trobe.
State involvement remains of a matter of debate. Russian officials have strenuously denied having anything to do with the hacks.
In an earlier incident, Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton said her party had been targeted, and Defence Secretary Ash Carter warned Russia against "interfering with democratic processes".
The developments came in the wake of reported hacking of voter databases in two US states. The FBI is also investigating whether Russian hackers attacked the New York Times.
Such claims are by no means new.
Suspected Russian cyber attacks against political opponents abroad go back at least a decade, and usually coincide with times of particular tension in relations.
In spring 2007, Moscow was infuriated by the removal of a Soviet monument from central Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. Soon afterwards, Estonian government, banking and media websites came under sustained attack. A pro-Kremlin youth activist claimed responsibility for what he described as a private act of "civil disobedience" carried out in protest at the alleged violation of the rights of Estonia's ethnic Russians.
US diplomatic cables leaked by WikiLeaks described Estonia as an "unprecedented victim of the world's first cyber attacks against a nation-state".
The following year, several Georgian government websites were hijacked in the run-up to and during the Russian-Georgian war in August 2008. The Georgian foreign ministry then accused Russia of waging "a campaign of cyber warfare".
Ukraine, another post-Soviet state that has had troubled relations with Russia and is now in effect at war with its neighbour, has been the target of such attacks too.
The biggest cyber-attack on Ukraine took place on 23 December 2015, when hackers took control of the power grid in western Ivano-Frankivsk region, leaving tens of thousands of people in the dark. According to Wired magazine, it was the first-ever confirmed cyber-attack aimed at taking down a power grid. It also said that the hack involved a telephone denial-of-service (TDoS) attack that appeared to come from Moscow.
The Ukrainian government in Kiev pointed the finger of blame at Russia. SentinelOne, a US-based cybersecurity start-up, said the attack was part of "a nation-sponsored campaign".
More recently, Western organisations too have experienced similar attacks. This is happening at a time when Russia's relationship with the West is at its lowest since the end of the Cold War over the conflicts in Ukraine and Syria.
Last May, Germany's domestic intelligence agency (BfV) reported what it believed was an attempt to sabotage Germany's political internet infrastructure. The head of the BfV said the agency had "indications it [the attack] is being steered by the Russian state".
In August 2016, the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) said hackers had accessed personal records of Russian athlete Yulia Stepanova, who blew the whistle on large-scale doping in Russia.
Russia has in the past largely ignored accusations of state-sponsored hacking. However, it has strongly and repeatedly denied the recent US statements about its alleged interference in the US presidential election.
"Russia never does this at state level," President Vladimir Putin told Bloomberg news agency.
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov described the allegations as nonsense, while ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that "not once" had America provided facts to support such claims.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said "these statements are still absolutely groundless… they are absolutely unsubstantiated".
Russia's IT and online security community too has taken a sceptical view of claims that the Russian state is engaged in cyber-warfare against its opponents.
Several members of well-known online security firms said these allegations were the result of myths and stereotypes.
"Russian hackers are a myth whose existence is based on political and economic factors," the Russian online technology magazine CNews quoted the head of Informzashchita information security firm, Yevgeny Klimov, as saying.
This "classic stereotype of the 1990s and early 2000s... is widely used for propaganda purposes", Artyom Baranov, an information security analyst from the Slovak-headquartered IT security firm ESET, told CNews.
And Alexander Gostev of Kaspersky Lab said attacks by "Russian-speaking cyber criminals" from the former Soviet republics are often wrongly attributed to Russia.
Kaspersky Lab itself has been accused of links to Russian intelligence services. The founder of the firm, Eugene Kaspersky, denied this, however, saying his company was "1,000 per cent transparent and honest".
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One of the original Winter Olympic sports, skating in the UK has enjoyed a renaissance with the rise of reality TV - but the sport requires serious skill and dedication to be successful.
Why is it good for you?
Figure skating is reported to burn almost 900 calories per hour at its most intense, though beginners won't be doing anything quite as strenuous.
Skating around a rink at close to 30mph requires a great deal of strength in both the leg muscles and core, as do the jumps and lifts associated with the sport, which add the aerobic workout of dancing while on the ice.
The National Ice Skating Association's flagship campaign is Skate UK, a 10-stage programme to increase participation and involvement in all forms of skating from beginners to more experienced skaters.
Skate UK aims to nurture the skating stars of the future by promoting all skaters through the Nisa system, encouraging and identifying "talented skaters" who can be fast-tracked.
To find your nearest skating rink, use the rinks and clubs finder.Skate NI offers similar services.
Nisa offers membership to those skating at Nisa-accredited skating rinks. Membership includes £5m civil liability insurance whether competing at home or abroad, as well as basic personal injury cover.
Modern figure skating originated in the 19th Century and claims to be the oldest of all sports contested at the Winter Olympics - though its original incarnation was extremely rigid and didn't allow for the expression and movement of today's figure skating.
The International Skating Union was founded in 1892, a year after the first European Championship had been held in Hamburg.
In 1896 the first World Championship took place, although both the European and World Championships remained for men only until 1908, where pairs skating was introduced for the first time.
Figure skating was featured at the inaugural Winter Olympics of 1924 and has been a fixture within the Games ever since. The United States and Russia are world leaders, with both winning numerous medals throughout the sport's history.
Though success has recently been hard to come by, Great Britain also features prominently in the record books, with a haul of 15 medals including five gold. Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean were Olympic champions in 1984 before going on to TV stardom as the faces of Dancing on Ice.
Are you inspired to try Figure Skating? Or maybe you are an enthusiast already? Get in touch and tell us your experience of the activity by tweeting us on @bbcgetinspired or email us on [email protected].
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The Great Exhibition of the North will get £5m, with "public and private funders" providing any further budget.
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport said a £15m "legacy fund" to attract cultural investment in the North would also be provided.
The competition will run until June, with the winner announced in October.
A board has been set up to handle applications to host the two-month show, chaired by the chief executive of Welcome to Yorkshire, Sir Gary Verity.
Sir Gary said he hoped to see bids from the "many towns and cities across the north of England that have what it takes to host the Great Exhibition of the North".
"We will be showcasing our art, design and culture to the world in 2018 and high quality bids are an essential part of ensuring that we deliver an incredible Great Exhibition."
The funding for the exhibition was confirmed in March's Budget, having originally been proposed in 2014's Autumn Statement.
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It's called the exoskeleton and it's currently being tested out in several hospitals across the UK.
The device is strapped to the outside of a person's limbs and can then be controlled by them.
Nikki Fox, the BBC's disability reporter, went to test it out and took her friends and family along to see how it works too.
The Englishman, 43, was on course to be the sole overnight leader but bogeyed the final two holes to finish with a round of 67 in Mexico City.
Westwood is joined on four under by compatriot Ross Fisher, Americans Phil Mickelson, Ryan Moore and Jimmy Walker and Spain's Jon Rahm.
World number three Rory McIlroy is a shot further back after a 68.
The 27-year-old Northern Irishman is playing his first tournament after seven weeks out with a rib injury.
McIlroy made par on 14 holes, hitting one eagle, two birdies and one bogey in a solid round.
Westwood was more uneven in his scoring, making eight birdies in his first 16 holes before ending with back-to-back bogeys to add to two others earlier in his round.
England's Chris Wood and Spain's Sergio Garcia are part of a six-man group tied for seventh, a shot behind the leaders.
Tommy Fleetwood carded a two-under-par 69, a shot ahead of fellow Englishmen Tyrrell Hatton and Justin Rose, with world number one Dustin Johnson also on one under.
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He sat in the House of Commons from 1962 to 2005, representing West Lothian and Linlithgow for Labour.
Mr Dalyell became known for his formulation of the "West Lothian Question" about the role of Scottish MPs after the establishment of the Scottish parliament.
His family said in a tribute that he had made an enormous contribution and "devoted his life" to public service.
They said: "The family of Tam Dalyell are sorry to announce his death earlier today at the age of 84, after a short illness.
"Tam Dalyell devoted his life to public service in Scotland, in the UK, and beyond. He made an enormous contribution in many spheres.
"He will be much missed both publicly, and more importantly personally, by his family and many friends."
Mr Dalyell persistently questioned Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher over the sinking of the General Belgrano during the Falklands War.
He challenged her over the sinking of the warship during the conflict between Britain and Argentina - with the loss of more than 300 lives - and whether it had been necessary.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said Mr Dalyell had been a "good friend and comrade".
"Tam was a titan of parliamentary scrutiny, fearless in pursuit of the truth. From Iraq to the miners' strike, he doggedly fought to expose official wrongdoing and cover-ups," he said.
"The title of his autobiography summed Tam up to a tee: 'The Importance of Being Awkward.'
"But he was much more than that: Tam was an outstanding parliamentarian, a socialist and internationalist, and a champion of the underdog, here and abroad."
Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown said: "For four decades, Tam Dalyell was one of the truly great characters of Scottish political life.
"He was widely respected and admired for his insight, his integrity and his eloquence.
"My thoughts are with his family."
Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale said: "The Labour movement has lost a giant. Tam Dalyell was one of the most influential MPs, writers and thinkers of his generation.
"Tam served the people of West Lothian tirelessly for decades through periods of great change. He truly was their champion. As Father of the House his wisdom was passed on to countless MPs, serving as a parliamentarian while Britain had eight Prime Ministers.
She added: "A man of peace and a man of principle, his legacy will live on in the Commons for decades to come.
"Our thoughts are with his family and many friends at this time."
Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson added: "Tam Dalyell will be remembered as one of this country's greatest ever campaigning MPs.
"Throughout his long career, he championed a countless array of causes, giving voice to people who otherwise would not have been heard.
"He was unique - thoughtful, gracious, decent and utterly tenacious. All political parties today will mourn his loss while celebrating a great political life."
MSP Fiona Hyslop, who represents Linlighgow for the SNP, said: "I am so sorry to hear of the passing of Tam Dalyell - a remarkable political force whose sharp intellect and tenacity commanded respect both nationally and in his former West Lothian constituency.
"While his politics were anti-establishment, he was truly an institution in Scottish politics.
"Visiting him at the House of the Binns in recent years, I enjoyed our stimulating historical and political discussions.
She added: "Tam Dalyell will be sorely missed by all who knew him and my thoughts are with Kathleen and his family at this sad time."
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The former MP Tam Dalyell has died at the age of 84 after a short illness.
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Zika is thought to cause a form of infant brain damage, microcephaly.
Brazil is the country worst affected by the Zika outbreak, with 270 cases of microcephaly confirmed by the health ministry and 3,448 being investigated.
German virologists say the type of mosquito that carries Zika - Aedes aegypti - does not exist in Germany.
The mosquito is known to be spreading through Latin America and the Caribbean.
The German health ministry said a patient in Bavaria "spent some time on the island of Martinique in early January, but has got better since then".
Three to four million people could be infected with Zika in the Americas this year, experts have warned.
Some experts are concerned that another mosquito - Aedes albopictus - might spread Zika, and that species does inhabit parts of southern Europe.
Concerns have arisen about Brazil's ability to safely host this year's Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. Thomas Bach, the head of the International Olympic Committee, has said steps are being taken to protect the event.
The IOC said it would issue guidelines later on Friday for athletes and visitors taking part.
A group of Brazilian lawyers, activists and scientists is to ask the country's supreme court to allow abortions for women who have contracted the virus.
Abortions are illegal in Brazil, except in health emergencies or cases of rape or, since 2012, another brain condition known as anencephaly.
The new petition is to be delivered to the supreme court in two months' time. The BBC has learned that it argues that "the Brazilian state is responsible for the Zika outbreak" for not having eradicated the Aedes aegypti mosquito.
Most people do not develop Zika symptoms but may pass the virus on to their children. There is no known cure or vaccine. The US says it hopes to begin human vaccine trials by the end of 2016.
The head of the World Health Organization (WHO), Dr Margaret Chan, said Zika had gone "from a mild threat to one of alarming proportions". She has set up a Zika "emergency team" following the "explosive" spread of the virus.
The team will meet on Monday to decide whether Zika should be treated as a global emergency.
Zika was first detected in Uganda in 1947, but has never caused an outbreak on this scale. Brazil reported the first cases of Zika in South America in May 2015.
WHO officials said between 500,000 and 1.5 million people had been infected in Brazil, and the virus has since spread to more than 20 countries in the region.
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Five people in Germany have Zika virus infections, having visited Latin America and the Caribbean in recent months, German health officials say.
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Figures collated by Prof Chris Oliver, a consultant at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital, showed 252 people have suffered injuries.
A breakdown of the statistics indicated 191 of those injured were cyclists.
Prof Oliver, who specialises in trauma and orthopaedic surgeries, will present his figures later this year to the British Orthopaedic Organisation.
There have been 119 men and 72 women (total 191 patients) with cycling injuries from tram tracks.
The most common injury was from getting the bike wheel caught in the tram track (142) while the second was the wheel sliding on a tram track (32).
Accidents due to wheels sliding on the tram tracks were more likely to happen in wet conditions.
At least 55 patients had upper limb fractures or dislocations, while eight sustained lower limb fractures and two had facial fractures.
One sustained both upper and lower limb fractures and one had facial and lower limb fractures.
Prof Oliver said: "We deal with thousands of fractures a year in the Royal and it's become a new work steam for us.
"It's not the £1m cost to the NHS, the problem is the suffering caused by the accidents and people having time off work, often ending up with some chronic disability with reduced function in a wrist or a shoulder and perhaps not getting back to sport, not being inclined to get back to cycling.
"These are more significant things that are less tangible to measure."
Lesley Hinds, City of Edinburgh Council's transport convener, said: "We have yet to be shown the full report but the safety of pedestrians and cyclists is of utmost importance to the council and transport for Edinburgh.
"Since the launch of Edinburgh trams we have gone to every effort to raise awareness of its impact on all road users and have ensured clear signage to guide cyclists along the safest routes throughout the city."
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Injuries caused by tram tracks in Edinburgh over the last seven years have cost the NHS more than £1m.
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Campaigners holding gravestone-shaped placards marched through Newbury on Saturday
West Berkshire Council had planned to close eight out of nine branches, but announced this week only Theale and Wash Common are to be closed.
Community groups are now able to bid for a £1.4m "transition fund" to continue running the other libraries.
The library service will receive £475,000 funding over two years, to enable it to transition to a self-service system to save money.
West Berkshire Council said nearly half the comments received through a recent consultation about the funding were about keeping libraries open.
The march travelled to Conservative MP for Newbury Richard Benyon's office.
Campaigners said the changes could mean some people would be left with a 20 mile journey to visit a library.
The council said: "Libraries will move to a self-service model which will allow seven branch libraries and one mobile library to remain open with only Wash Common and Theale libraries closing completely unless communities find the resources to take them on."
Tubbs joined Rovers from Portsmouth on a one-year deal in July, making nine league appearances before joining Woking on loan in September.
The 32-year-old scored three goals in six games for the Cards, before playing two more games for Forest Green.
"This is a superb signing for the club. Matt has a proven record at this level," Sutton boss Paul Doswell said.
A Met Office yellow "be aware" warning was in force as a depression moved westwards across central and southern Scotland on Thursday.
Up to 2.5in (6cm) of snow could fall, mainly in areas above 330ft (100m) with up to 4in (10cm) on higher ground.
Heavier snow is forecast in eastern Scotland overnight into Friday, extending into northern England.
Up to 6in (15cm) could fall on higher ground in Scotland, while an area including north west England, Yorkshire and East Midlands could experience lighter snowfalls.
Lower than average temperatures for late April saw minus 5.6C recorded at Kinbrace in Sutherland in the early hours of Thursday morning.
The fresh snowfall has prompted the Mountaineering Council of Scotland to warn walkers and climbers to be aware of the potential for avalanches.
The Met Office chief forecaster said: "A depression moving into the area is encountering cold air, bringing snow even to low levels at times."
The forecasting service said it was harder to predict how far east or southwards the snow would progress, or give an accurate indication of how it would affect lower levels.
"There are differences between models in the position which brings uncertainty about location, with latest indications that it is likely to be further south than previously expected," the forecaster said.
"In addition, there are uncertainties about the lowest level to which snow will fall, which could be 100m either side of heights quoted in the warning. "
The royal couple were resident there as newlyweds before the Queen's accession to the throne, and celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary there in 2007.
The monarch will open the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (Chogm) in the capital Valletta during the visit.
British High Commissioner to Malta Rob Luke said the Royal Family had an "enduring affection" for the island.
The Queen and duke were greeted by Malta's Prime Minister Joseph Muscat at the airport ahead of a ceremonial welcome, attended by President Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca.
This was due to be held in the capital Valletta but has been moved due to bad weather, and took place instead inside the presidential palace in Attard.
The couple will be meeting some former associates from the time they spent on the Mediterranean island, from 1949 to 1951, during the visit.
By Nicholas Witchell, royal correspondent, BBC News
Nowhere outside the United Kingdom, it has been suggested, holds happier personal memories for the Queen than the small Mediterranean island of Malta.
It was to Malta that she came to live for nearly two years in 1949. They were comparatively carefree times. She was then a 23-year-old princess. The burdens of the crown were then nearly three years in the future.
She was two years into her marriage to a young naval officer, Philip Mountbatten. He'd been posted to Britain's then naval base in Malta. They left their one small child, Charles, with Elizabeth's parents, King George VI and his wife.
It has been said that it was the one and perhaps only opportunity that Elizabeth had to lead a comparatively "normal" life as the wife of a serving naval officer. They lived in Villa Guardamangia near the capital Valletta and were able to move about with a degree of freedom that was never to be repeated.
It all changed in February 1952 when George VI died unexpectedly and Elizabeth succeeded to the throne. Her life since then has been constrained by the formalities, scrutiny and ever-tighter security that are the inescapable accompaniment to her role as queen and head of state.
So on this brief visit to Malta to open the 24th conference of Commonwealth heads of government she may perhaps - in amongst all the demands of duty - recall with some nostalgia that brief glimpse of "ordinary" life that Malta afforded her.
President Coleiro Preca presented the couple with a watercolour of Villa Guardamangia, their former home on the island, by a local artist.
In an exchange of gifts, the Queen gave the president a gold lace tablecloth from Nottinghamshire and a Royal Crown Derby fruit bowl, while the president's husband Edgar was handed a hamper from the Windsor farm shop.
The Queen is being accompanied by the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall on the tour.
The duchess has visited the Mdina Glass store in Ta' Qali, a traditional glass blowing factory and shop.
"This is what I call retail therapy," she said. "I haven't done any Christmas shopping yet."
It will be the fourth time Charles, who is due to make a speech on climate change at a business forum, has attended Chogm.
The monarch will open the event on Friday with a speech to the Commonwealth leaders and attend a banquet that evening.
UK Prime Minister David Cameron and Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond are expected to attend the meeting.
Mr Cameron wants discussions to focus on ways Commonwealth countries can work together to defeat terrorist groups.
A motion supporting the name change was passed at a meeting of Derry City and Strabane District Council in July.
All previous attempts to change the name have failed.
DUP councillor Drew Thompson said: "We've been through this before and we know a lot of people are interested in keeping the name as Londonderry."
He added: "We have been approached by an overwhelming number of people since our last council meeting. They want the city to remain named Londonderry.
"A decision was taken last month to seek more details from the DoE minister about how the name changing process would work.
"Challenges can be put forward to council if a minority is not happy and that's what we have done.
"There is a process that we can go through if this doesn't work out and that is a legal process.
"We wouldn't be exercising this particular challenge if we didn't think it would be successful.
"The DUP and other unionists didn't raise this in council but we will speak up if we are not happy about something."
The London prefix was added to Derry when the city was granted a Royal Charter by King James I in 1613.
In 1984, the name of the nationalist-controlled council was changed from Londonderry to Derry City Council, but the city itself continues to be officially known as Londonderry.
The issue was addressed in the High Court in 2007 when the judge ruled that only legislation or Royal prerogative could change the city's name.
A spokesperson for Derry City and Strabane District Council confirmed that the challenge had been received.
The Council will be now seek legal advice as required by law and this will be brought before the council after the summer break.
A spokesperson for the Department of Environment said: "The department has not been contacted by Derry City and Strabane District Council.
"Any correspondence received will be considered very carefully."
A curate at St Eugene's Cathedral in Londonderry's Bogside, he attended the civil rights march in his capacity as parish priest, but instead became irrevocably linked to what was one of the darkest days of the Troubles.
He went on to become bishop of Derry and during nearly 20 years in the post, worked tirelessly to promote peace.
Bishop Daly gave evidence to both the Widgery and Saville inquiries into the events of 30 January 1972 and when the Saville Report was published in June 2010 he spoke of his "enormous relief" that the "burden has been lifted off my shoulders".
"I said on Bloody Sunday that those people were murdered, and a lot of people didn't believe that at the time, but I think all will believe it now," he said.
Edward Daly was born in Ballyshannon in County Donegal on 5 December 1933, and grew up in the border village of Belleek, in County Fermanagh.
He came to Derry as a teenage boarder at St Columb's College, then went to Rome to study for the priesthood at the Irish College.
His first parish was in Castlederg in County Tyrone, and he moved to St Eugene's Cathedral in 1962.
Bishop Daly's chief responsibility was always to his parishioners, but as a priest in the Bogside in the 1960s, it was inevitable that he would have first-hand experience of many of the tragedies of the Troubles.
His priority was always the victims, and he made clear that he was "a religious and moral leader, not a political one".
It was in that capacity that he attended the civil rights march in Derry in January 1972.
Thirteen civilians were shot dead by members of the British Parachute Regiment on what would become known as Bloody Sunday. Another victim died later from his injuries.
Fr Daly was standing near 17-year-old Jackie Duddy when he was shot.
"I went in front with this handkerchief in my hand and they carried Jackie behind me.
"We were very nervous and frightened and when we laid him down on the pavement he had died," he said.
The television footage made Fr Daly recognisable around the world, but he was uncomfortable with his fame.
"It changed my life completely. I lost my anonymity," he said. "I think all the other things I did were forgotten.
"I was involved a lot in the ministry of people in that area, and theatre work, and everything else took second place.
"I was the priest with the handkerchief and that was it," he said.
Later the Duddy family gave him a photograph of Jackie, which he always kept on his desk.
In an BBC interview that day, he was adamant that the marchers had been unarmed.
"There was nothing fired at them, I can say that with absolute certainty because I was there."
He repeated this to the Widgery Tribunal, and, controversially, said he had seen a civilian gunman on Bloody Sunday.
"That didn't exactly make you the most popular person in town. People would have preferred to forget about that," Fr Daly said.
In 1973, he left Derry to work as a religious advisor to RTE in Dublin, and the year after returned to Derry as bishop.
At just over 40, he was the youngest bishop in Ireland, but said he was "quite certain" he would not have received the appointment without Bloody Sunday.
As the city's bishop for almost 20 years, he worked to bring the different churches, and their parishioners, together.
He was unafraid to speak out against violence, and introduced a ban on paramilitary trappings at funerals.
In November 1976, Fr Daly helped organise a protest in response to a spate of sectarian murders.
"Virtually every clergyman in Derry city, and led by the two bishops, walked in silent procession across the city from Altnagelvin Hospital to the City Cemetery.
"It was the first time that the clergy of the city had made such a statement, such a witness, together," he said.
In 1980, James Mehaffey became the Church of Ireland bishop of Derry and Raphoe, and the two formed a close friendship.
They were both founders of the Waterside Churches Trust, as well as founder trustees of the Inner City Trust, designed to inject commercial and social life into the city centre after a decade of bombing.
A stroke forced him to retire as bishop in 1993, and he began ministering at the Foyle Hospice.
He celebrated Mass every Sunday, as well as looking after the spiritual needs of the terminally ill and their family and friends, and described his work there as "an immense privilege".
Bishop Daly was in the Guildhall on 15 June 2010 to hear what he knew to be the truth - that the marchers had been unarmed - acknowledged to the world.
"It was a very emotional afternoon, and I felt a sense of uncommon relief that this burden has been lifted off my shoulders, and the shoulders of the people in this city," he said.
"It's wonderful when the truth emerges, when people whose characters have been sullied are vindicated.
"It was good to have lived to witness this unforgettable day."
'Grave injustice'
The same year, he criticised the Police Ombudsman's report into the 1972 Claudy bombings, saying he had difficulty accepting his conclusions that a priest was involved in an atrocity which killed nine people.
Bishop Daly said he had interviewed Fr James Chesney in the 1970s, and had been told he was only a "verbal republican".
"There was no intimation he was actively involved," he said.
But he also spoke of his sympathy with the victims of Claudy, and said he believed it was a grave injustice to them that Fr Chesney had not been arrested.
In 2011, he called for a change to the law on clerical celibacy, saying there needed to be a place in the modern Catholic church for a married priesthood.
Around the world, Bishop Daly will be remembered as "the priest with the white handkerchief" who became one of the symbols of Bloody Sunday.
In Derry, his legacy will be as a man of peace who was the constant champion of the people he served.
He said taking millions of 100-bolivar notes out of circulation had smashed the black market.
The withdrawal prompted protests and looting in several states as the supply of ready cash rapidly ran out.
On Saturday President Maduro postponed the withdrawal until early January.
But there were still reports of rioting on Sunday as anxiety continued to run high.
Local reports said some businesses were still refusing to accept the 100-bolivar notes, even though they will now remain legal tender until the new year.
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In the western state of Tachira people raided warehouses in search of food.
Many said they were afraid of what will happen next, even after the government's attempt calm the situation down with the postponement of the withdrawal.
At the Colombian border there were scuffles as people scrambled to buy food and medicine, which are scarce in Venezuela.
The president said that Venezuela's borders with Colombia and Brazil would remain closed until the 100-bolivar note ceases to be legal tender on 2 January, in order to prevent black market trading.
Venezuelans are only allowed to cross the border on foot for family visits.
Mr Maduro said on state TV 300 alleged looters had been arrested.
Addressing opposition parties, he said, "Don't come and tell me they are political prisoners."
He accused the riot leaders of taking instructions from President Barack Obama, alleging they wanted to engineer a coup against Venezuela's left-wing government.
Mr Maduro said the first batch of new higher denomination bank notes which will replace the 100-Bolivar note would arrive on Sunday and be put into circulation.
A fresh round of cross-party talks to resolve the crisis, sparked by the murder of a former IRA member, have ended for the evening.
Police said last month they believe IRA members may have been involved in the shooting of Kevin McGuigan Sr.
Sinn Féin has denied this and maintains the Provisional IRA no longer exists.
Tuesday's talks lasted about two hours.
Afterwards, Ulster Unionist leader Mike Nesbitt said whether or not the Provisional IRA still exists "is the issue and the only issue that we will speak on".
"We will consider going into the session which deals with the IRA. We will consider it, but we need to see the papers and the terms of engagement," he said.
"The fact that no other party supported us and said 'let's change this proposed agenda, forget the Stormont House Agreement until we resolve the issue of Sinn Fêin being in denial about the IRA' is frankly appalling."
First Minister and Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Peter Robinson said the talks were extremely important.
"If the assembly and executive falls we are probably talking about the best part of a decade before it would ever be revived," he said.
His party colleague, Arlene Foster called Mr Nesbitt "the master of hokey cokey politics".
"One day Mike Nesbitt is in the executive and the next day he's out. One day he's in the talks and the next day he's out," she said.
Earlier, Secretary of State Theresa Villiers told MPs she did not believe the time was right to suspend the devolved institutions.
However, she said she would keep the option open if circumstances changed dramatically.
She said there were two issues creating instability - continued paramilitary activity and the failure to implement the Stormont House Agreement.
On his way into the talks, Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams said any decision about suspending Stormont would be "beyond Ms Villiers' pay grade".
Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness said the secretary of state's comments contrasted with a recent conversation he had with the prime minister, in which David Cameron did not indicate he was ready to suspend Stormont.
Alliance leader David Ford said his party did not want any quick fixes, but a resolution of Stormont's longer-term problems.
Last week, Alliance supported a DUP request for a voluntary adjournment of the Stormont assembly to create space for negotiations.
However, Mr Ford said that in the light of the DUP blocking executive meetings, his party would not support any more adjournment motions.
The Ulster Unionists also released a paper calling for £20-£25m of what they described as unspent legacy funding to be diverted towards mental health care. The UUP argued this could help ease Stormont's financial impasse.
The talks are also being attended by Irish Foreign Minister Charlie Flanagan.
On his way in he expressed disappointment about what he described as the British governments unilateral action in indicating it will impose welfare reform if there is no agreement.
However, Mr Flanagan said he understood this would only be a last resort and hoped the talks would be successful making welfare legislation via Westminster unnecessary.
The current talks are expected to last four to six weeks.
East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust which runs Hastings's Conquest Hospital and Eastbourne District General Hospital, was put in special measures in 2015.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has rated the trust as "requires improvement".
The trust said it had made progress but there was still "work to do".
Both the trusts's hospitals had previously been rated as "inadequate" by the CQC.
The CQC inspectors found surgery at both hospitals had improved from "inadequate" to "good" but improvements were "fairly recent and not fully embedded".
Prof Sir Mike Richards, the chief inspector of hospitals for the CQC said: "While the trust continues to make substantial progress, I remain concerned that performance within the emergency department is not as robust as it could be, and this is having an impact on the quality and timeliness of services for patients."
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Both of the trust's accident and emergency departments had poor staffing levels, poor record keeping and "deteriorating performance", inspectors reported.
The CQC said a new leadership team had been put in place and previous concerns of bullying "appeared to have been tackled".
The inspectors also said there were delays in transferring patients from ambulances to the A&E department due to a lack of staff.
Dr Adrian Bull, chief executive of the hospital trust said: "I am very pleased that the CQC has recognised the progress that has been made since our last inspection.
"However, we still have a lot of work to do to ensure we provide consistently high standards of care across all of our services."
He said the trust would be concentrating on recruiting and retaining more permanent clinical staff and reducing waiting times.
From going out for a beer to washing your hair or choosing a new car, countless aspects of vegan life involve making a choice about how far principles should trump practicality.
As the row over the new fiver demonstrates - the banknotes had already been in circulation for weeks before it emerged they contained traces of animal fat - living a life entirely free of even the merest animal traces is far from straightforward.
As the Vegan Society states: "To live as a vegan in a non-vegan world takes both courage and curiosity." So just how difficult is it?
Sam East, 44, has been a vegan for 25 years.
She believes people can "only do the best they can" when it comes to avoiding traces of animals in what they eat, or what they use - and she says she will be using the new £5 notes.
"I am not happy about the money but we are foolish as vegans to think this is the only thing that has got past us," she said.
"It's about choice and control - what can I do if it's out of my control?
"Processing film used to use gelatine, so vegans would have unknowingly been doing that for years when they got their photos printed.
"Because we didn't know that, does it make us any less vegan?"
Cambridge cafe controversy
Nestled in an alleyway directly opposite King's College Cambridge, the Rainbow Cafe has long been known as one of the city's veggie and vegan hotspots.
Its owner's choice to stop accepting new £5 note, because the polymer contains a type of animal fat, has catapulted the cafe into the centre of a public debate.
Comments flew back and forth on social media, with one Facebook user posting: "So reject all customers wearing leather shoes, jackets, woolly jumpers & hats etc & go bankrupt!
"Unbelievable that yet again an insane minority is dictating to a sane majority!"
The cafe's owner, Sharon Meijland, said she had simply been making a stand, and had been left "shocked and frightened" at some of the "hatred" she had received online.
Earlier this year, hundreds of thousands of people read a BBC News story about fish swim bladders.
Not a topic regularly on the news agenda, granted - but the story was also about beer, and the gelatine made from fish swim bladders that is widely used to make the drink clear, bright and more attractive.
Certain beers are already approved by the Vegetarian Society, and the Campaign for Real Ale called on other brewers to look for vegetarian and vegan-friendly alternatives.
But brewers are far from the only producers to use animals as part of the manufacturing process.
Winemakers also often use animal products, including gelatine or milk protein, to remove impurities.
Like the new £5 notes, soap, candles, lipstick, crayons and plastic bags can all contain tallow.
Avoiding animal products becomes particularly difficult if you want to buy a car, where they are widely used in all manner of components.
"There's a kind of Bentley that uses 14 individual cow hides," said motoring journalist Ryan McElroy from Car Keys.com.
He wrote an article on which car to buy if you are a vegan after realising there was very little information available.
"Every single vehicle on the road has animal products in - you can't avoid it," he told the BBC.
"Tallow is used to toughen tyres and tubing, steel is coated with lubricants made from animal products, and leather often features heavily in interiors.
"It definitely surprised me, the extent to which things aren't vegan-friendly."
Mr McElroy said Tesla was one company offering an alternative, as it had started manufacturing vegan-friendly models, and an imitation suede product had increased in popularity.
"Paul McCartney got a Lexus kitted out with Alcantara, the faux suede, which is approved by Peta," he said.
"But apparently he was a bit miffed about the carbon footprint when they flew it out to him instead of shipping it."
For many, choosing to avoid animal products is a way of life, and being forced to use a banknote containing tallow is simply unacceptable.
Damian Eade, co-owner of Havant-based ethical vegetarian company Vegeco Ltd, believes the notes contravene the Equalities Act 2010.
"We would never choose to carry products made from animal fat in our pockets. That is being imposed upon us by the Bank of England," he wrote in a letter to the UK's central bank.
He suggests there is a case for indirect discrimination against a religion or belief, saying "a failure to immediately remove the animal fat from new notes and withdraw old ones would be a failure to make 'reasonable adjustment' towards millions of vegetarians, vegans, Hindus, Jains, Buddhists, etc."
Mr Eade said making a legal case would present the hard facts and "take the emotion" out of the argument.
It has been calculated that the total amount of tallow contained in all the new banknotes equates to just over half a cow - but Mr Eade says that to argue there is "just a trace" of animal fat in each plastic fiver "misses the point completely".
"Most people wouldn't feel it appropriate if a restaurant claimed there was only 'trace' of the chef's urine in the soup - or that a trace of child labour in your cheap clothes is not worth worrying about," he said.
But Ms East, who runs a business selling vegan and spiritual jewellery and crafts, said she believed there were more important issues to deal with than the £5 note.
"You can say you're vegan, but if you buy non-organic veg, it'll be covered in wax sometimes," she said.
"We have to make choices on a daily basis - a holiday cottage I went to this year had a leather sofa in, and I chose to sit on it instead of the floor.
"Nobody can lead this perfect lifestyle. You can only do the best you can, and no-one's going to judge you.
"If you're on a desert island and the only thing you can survive on is meat, what would you do? While I have a choice, I choose the vegan path, but self-preservation always comes through first."
The Met Police say they are "treating seriously" reports that the man has "quantities of petrol and combustible material" at his home in Northolt.
Armed officers have been outside since the early hours of Friday. The Met, who are concerned about his mental health, say he has "not engaged at all".
About 80 residents have been forced out of their homes.
A 200m (650ft) cordon has been in place around the property on Wood End Lane since Friday.
No attempts have been made to enter the house over fears such an action "may make his behaviour unpredictable".
Local residents said members of the man's family had assisted the police with negotiations.
The Met said it could take some time to end the stand-off safely.
Ch Supt Paul Martin said: "Our aim is to bring this to a safe conclusion for everyone. I know that our operation has been ongoing for some time now and that it is causing disruption and inconvenience to local residents and the community of Northolt.
"I would like to thank them for their continued patience and co-operation."
He added: "The operation will continue for as long as is necessary and I would like to stress that we are doing all we can - using all our tactics - to end this incident safely."
BBC reporter Ayshea Buksh said neighbours had told her the man had "aggressive, dangerous dogs", which was one of the reasons why police were being particularly cautious.
A woman claiming to be the cousin of the man told the BBC he had recently had a "breakdown".
The man is believed to be in his 40s and, according to several local residents, has regularly been seen walking four Rottweiler dogs.
Ealing Council said the vast majority of evacuated residents had made their own arrangements but the elderly, vulnerable or those with young children had, where necessary, been placed in bed and breakfast accommodation.
The authority's leader Julian Bell said: "They're a little bit frustrated by the disruption; they've got lives to get on with and jobs to go to and they want to be able to return to their homes.
"But equally they recognise that everybody's got to be kept safe. We want a safe outcome and nobody to be hurt. So I think they're bearing it with patience and forbearance."
Yasir Ali, 28, received a 20-year term at Cambridge Crown Court, while Daaim Ashraf, 19, was sentenced to 12 years in a young offenders institution.
The offences relate to eight teenage girls, the youngest of whom was 13.
The men's victims were collected from their homes and taken to secluded spots or to a hotel and plied with alcohol, the men's trial was told.
The offences took place between 2008 and 2013 and involved girls from Peterborough, Lincolnshire and Rutland. The pair were convicted in May after a two-month trial.
Prosecutor Patricia Lynch said the girls had been used as "sex objects".
Police said six of the victims were abused at a hotel in Peterborough in January and February last year. One victim was filmed on a mobile phone.
Two victims were raped in cars at Ferry Meadows in 2008 and 2010 and another girl was raped in an alleyway in Stamford, police said.
BBC Look East's Louise Hubball said Judge Mark Lucraft told Ali he was "dangerous", with Ashraf laughing as his sentence was passed.
Ali, of Grange Road, was convicted of 15 charges including four rapes, seven charges of trafficking for sexual exploitation, possession of two indecent images, engaging in sexual activity in the presence of a child and intimidation. He was cleared of one charge of rape.
Ashraf, of Almoners Lane, was found guilty of nine charges including five trafficking offences, a sexual assault, sexual activity with a child, sexual activity in the presence of a child and a further count of intimidation.
Det Supt Gary Ridgway, of Cambridgeshire Police, said: "They are controlling individuals who gave no thought to the consequences their actions would have on such young victims.
"They were well aware of how young they were, yet still pursued them, using social media to win their trust and impressing them with their cars and by taking them to hotels."
In February, five men were jailed by a judge at the Old Bailey for similar offences in Peterborough.
Variety surveyed industry figures for the study before estimating the fees that the top talent command on the small screen.
Big Bang actors Jim Parsons, Kaley Cuoco and Johnny Galecki all receive an estimated $1m (£786,000) per episode.
Gilmore Girls stars Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel come joint second.
They each earn an estimated $750,000 (£590,000) per show, according to Variety.
The revival of the mother-daughter drama is coming to Netflix next month, with four new episodes, each representing a season of the year.
Big Bang Theory, which centres on a group of high-functioning science "geeks", is currently on its 10th series.
The total cost is said to be $9m per episode - half of which goes on salaries for its stars.
In the category of reality shows, chat shows and news, Judge Judy topped the list with an annual $47m (£37m), followed by Matt Lauer of Today on $22-25m (£17-20m) and then Ellen DeGeneres on $20m (£16m).
Other high earners in the world of TV drama include Mark Harmon of NCIS, on $525,000 (£413,000) an episode.
He is followed by Kevin Spacey of House of Cards, who is said to receive $500,000 (£393,000) a show.
Variety estimates that the same amount is paid to Game of Thrones cast members Peter Dinklage, Lena Headey, Kit Harington, Emilia Clarke and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau.
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Accounting firm KPMG has been appointed as the administrators of Specialist Subsea Services (S3), which was established in 2007.
A total of 77 of the company's 82 staff were immediately made redundant, and assets are being marketed for sale.
S3 specialises in areas including remotely operated underwater vehicles (ROVs) and offshore survey.
Joint administrators Blair Nimmo and Geoff Jacobs of KPMG are exploring whether an early sale of the business, infrastructure and assets can be secured.
Mr Nimmo said: "The company is well known in the subsea services industry and has a significant infrastructure comprising several ROV systems together with significant subsea equipment, a customer base and intellectual property.
"We will do everything we can to seek a buyer who may be able to protect the business and which would maximise recoveries for creditors whilst also helping to maximise opportunities for the workforce.
"We will be working with the employees and the relevant government agencies to ensure that the full range of support is available to all those affected."
The remaining five staff have been kept on in the short term to help market the business and assets for sale.
A hydraulic breaker has been used to remove concrete at the front of the almost 60-year-old Williams Stand, ahead of it being taken down.
When the demolition has been completed work will begin on building a new 11,000 seat, two-tier West Stand.
Work is already under way on a new South Stand and on refurbishing the Dolman Stand as part of a £45m scheme.
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The tree is set up four metres below the surface of the icy water, and can be seen from the top of the lake.
According to local press, the decorations are dedicated to children suffering from rare diseases.
The United Airlines flight landed at the international airport on Saturday, dumping 50,000 litres of fuel.
Jeremiah Mathias Thede, 42, an American citizen with an address of The Alameda, Berkley, California, was arrested and appeared before magistrates on Monday.
He was charged with endangering the safety of the plane.
He was also accused of being disorderly and assaulting one of the cabin crew.
Police constable William Robinson, who is in charge of the case, said he had been told that 15 minutes into the flight, Mr Thede had got to his feet while the seatbelt sign was still on.
He was asked by a cabin crew member to return to his seat but refused to do so until he was given nuts and crackers, the constable said.
Ten minutes later, he got up again, asked for more and was refused. He then shouted and was abusive, the court in Coleraine was told.
The cabin crew member felt threatened by his demeanour and alerted the captain as they were getting close to the Atlantic Ocean, Mr Robinson said.
The court heard allegations that Mr Thede squared up to cabin crew, blocked aisles, lifted bags in and out of the overhead lockers, kept going to the toilet and acted in such a way that other passengers felt threatened.
Mr Robinson said the captain took the decision to divert to Belfast because of Mr Thede's "erratic behaviour".
The airline estimates compensation costs could be up to £350,000.
The constable said Mr Thede claimed there was a conspiracy against him and he was being "picked on".
Mr Thede was remanded in custody to appear before the court by video link next week.
The Pew Research Center, which looks at social issues, found that belief in capital punishment was at its lowest for over four decades.
Only about half of Americans (49%) now favour execution for inmates convicted of murder, while 42% oppose it.
Support has dropped by 7% since March 2015, from 56%.
There has been a sizeable slump in public approval for state executions, which peaked during the mid-1990s.
In 1994, eight out of 10 Americans backed the death penalty, and under two in 10 were opposed to it.
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According to the Pew's findings, opposition to the death penalty is at its highest since 1972.
Previous Gallup polls have shown that support fell as low as 42% in 1966, but then rose gradually to hit 80% in 1994.
Since then, it has been gradually declining across almost all demographics.
Pew found that people who identified as Republican were more likely to agree with capital punishment for convicted murderers (72%), while 34% of Democrats shared that view.
Men were more likely to say they favoured the death penalty, at 55%, while 38% oppose it - but for women the number for and against was almost equal - 43% for, and 45% against.
A 57% majority of white people favour the death penalty for murderers (down from 63% last year).
But Black and Hispanic people support it at much lower rates, at 29% and 36% respectively.
Being younger and spending longer in formal education also made respondents less likely to support execution.
Among those aged 18 to 29, the level was 42% in favour, compared to 51% of those 30 and older.
Among Americans with at least a college degree, 43% backed the death penalty, while that rose to 51% for those without a degree.
The researchers surveyed 1,201 adults between 23 August and 23 September, 2016.
The prevailing trend mimics the shift seen across the Atlantic.
In Britain, support for the death penalty dropped below 50% for the first time in 2015, according to the NatCen British Social Attitudes Report.
The survey found 48% were in favour of capital punishment, which was abolished in the UK in the 1960s.
It will display news stories, features, videos and music chosen on the basis of previous searches by the same user.
Users will also be able to click a "follow" button on search results to add topics of interest to their feed.
One analyst said the move would help Google compete with rivals.
"Google has a strong incentive to make search as useful as possible," said Mattia Littunen, a senior research analyst at Enders Analysis.
"Facebook's news feed is one of its main rivals. It is competing with other ways of accessing content."
Google has been trialling a simpler version of its news feed in its smartphone app since December, and its full news feed will be added to its smartphone apps in the US first.
But the company has now confirmed it intends to add the feature to Google.com too.
Google is known for its sparse homepage, which, though mostly white space, has, according to analytics firm Alexa Internet, become the world's most-visited website.
The feed will include news stories from a variety of publishers, to avoid the so-called filter bubble effect, where people follow only content aligned with their pre-existing point of view.
"To provide information from diverse perspectives, news stories may have multiple viewpoints from a variety of sources... and, when available, you'll be able to fact check," the company said in a blog post.
The search giant already offers some context-based information in its smartphone search app in the form of Google Now cards, but discontinued its personalised homepage service iGoogle in 2013.
Items in the new personalised feed can be tapped or clicked to launch a Google search for more information.
"Search ads are more lucrative than in-feed ads such as Facebook's," said Mr Littunen.
"Google's business is based on selling advertising, so this gives them more contact points with consumers."
The company did not divulge whether it would insert advertisements or sponsored posts into the feed, but Mr Littunen suggested the focus of the service was to make Google more useful and drive users to its other services.
"Google has a long term project of anticipating user needs. It's a move to make sure people aren't going elsewhere for information," he told the BBC.
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It is the second time in the event's 155-year history that play will run to Monday, the first being in 1988.
With 40mph gusts of wind, play was suspended at 07:32 BST on Saturday and is expected to resume at 18:00.
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Governing body the R&A tweeted: "The intention is to complete the second round today with R3 to be played on Sunday and the final round on Monday."
Tickets for Saturday are eligible for a 60% refund, while week-long passes remain valid for Monday - where the on-the-day entry fee will be £10 and under-16s will enter for free with an adult.
More than 40 players resumed at 07:00 BST on Saturday after heavy rain on Friday had prevented the completion of round two on the Old Course.
Overnight leader Dustin Johnson of the USA bogeyed one of the two holes he completed to join England's clubhouse leader Danny Willett on nine under par.
World number two Jordan Spieth, who is five under par, four shots off the lead, criticised the decision, saying: "We should never have started."
The 21-year-old Masters and US Open champion was heard making his comment while on the course. The American added two pars to his scorecard before the enforced break.
The R&A says it made the right decision in sending out the players.
"We spent an hour at the far end of the course, before play started, assessing whether the course was playable," said an R&A statement.
"Balls were not moving on the greens and while the conditions were extremely difficult, we considered the golf course to be playable.
"Gusts of wind increased in speed by 10-15% after play resumed. This could not be foreseen at the time that play was restarted and made a material difference to the playability of the golf course."
Other players, including England's Lee Westwood, also complained about the handling of the decision by the R&A.
"Bit of a strange decision here at The Open," tweeted Westwood, who was three under when he came off the 16th hole. "They seemed to stop play out on 11 and allowed the rest of us to carry on playing."
Canada's David Hearn, one of the players on the 11th, added: "More than disappointed in the R&A. Some groups hit only one shot while others played on. It needs to be a fair contest and wasn't this morning."
"This will have massive implications for the players, the fans and broadcasters all around the world," said BBC Sport commentator Jay Townsend, who is a former PGA Tour professional.
"The players are really upset that they were sent out there in what they feel were unplayable conditions.
"But these guys have dealt with these things before and they are programmed to play as and when required.
"Despite not being happy they are mentally geared up to play."
Setting out for the first time detailed plans to deal with the camp, Mr Hollande said migrants would be given up to four months to seek asylum.
He has faced criticism over the squalid conditions in Calais, which he acknowledged were "unacceptable".
His comments came as other EU leaders met in Vienna to discuss the crisis.
The Jungle camp has become a powerful symbol of Europe's failure to cope with the crisis unfolding from Africa and the Middle East.
Half of the camp was dismantled earlier this year, and with immigration likely to be a key issue in next year's French presidential election, Mr Hollande is keen to close the rest.
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Explaining his plans during a visit to a reception centre in Tours, about 150 miles (240km) south-west of Paris, he said reception centres would hold 40 to 50 people for up to four months.
During that time, the migrants can apply for asylum in France. Those who are unsuccessful will be deported.
About 7,000 migrants live in the remaining half of the camp, up from 4,500 in June, according to local authorities. Humanitarian groups put the number closer to 9,000.
"There should be no camp in France," said Mr Hollande, who is expected to visit the site on Monday.
The Jungle has played host to scenes of both squalor and of violence, as migrants attempt to board lorries bound for the UK, clashing with drivers and police in the process.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel travelled to Vienna on Saturday to discuss the migrant crisis with the leaders of countries along Europe's Balkan migrant route.
Mrs Merkel, who suffered an election blow last week brought on in part by her controversial "open-door" policy, met Hungary's premier Victor Orban, Alexis Tsipras of Greece, and Boyko Borisov of Bulgaria.
Mr Orban has been openly critical of Mrs Merkel's approach and taken a hard line against refugees and migrants entering Hungary.
Austrian Chancellor Christian Kern said the aim of the talks was to "accelerate" a solution to the crisis.
"At the moment there is a range of individual measures but no common European line," Mr Kern told the Austrian Kleine Zeitung daily.
EU President Donald Tusk, arriving in Vienna, said that it was necessary "to confirm, politically and in practice, that the western Balkan route of irregular migration is closed for good."
More than 300,000 migrants have crossed the Mediterranean this year, the UN said on Tuesday, with 3,500 deaths recorded so far.
Police Scotland confirmed it had received a report which is understood to be linked to the SNP's Glasgow regional association.
Ms McGarry withdrew from the party whip last November after a first police investigation was launched.
She denies any wrongdoing and her solicitor said she would co-operate with any inquiry.
Ms McGarry was elected an SNP MP for the seat of Glasgow East in May 2015, but she currently sits at Westminster as an independent
The first police investigation was set up to look at allegations of missing donations from Women for Independence, the pro-Scottish independence group the politician founded.
The second investigation is reportedly related to funds said to be missing from the SNP's Glasgow regional association's accounts. Ms McGarry was a one-time convenor of that association.
Police Scotland spokeswoman said: "We can confirm that police have received a report and inquiries are continuing."
Ms McGarry is thought to be on honeymoon after she got married at the weekend.
The MP's solicitor Aamer Anwar said: "I understand that there is a police inquiry but no criminality has been established. Therefore it would be inappropriate to comment further.
"Ms McGarry will co-operate with any inquiry."
An SNP spokesman said: "It would be inappropriate to comment while these matters are being considered."
Joshua James, 23, has been accused of tossing the live animal through a drive-thru window at a Wendy's restaurant.
His mother reportedly said he wanted to play a practical joke on his friend, who worked at the place.
The animal was captured and released back into the wild.
Mr James, from Jupiter, Florida, had found the alligator on the side of a road and lured it into the back of his truck, according to an incident report by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, cited by local broadcaster WPTV.
He then went to the restaurant in Royal Palm Beach, where he placed an order at the drive-thru window, received a drink and threw the 3ft (1m) long animal through the opening, the report said.
The incident happened in October but the suspect has only now been taken into custody.
He also reportedly faces charges of unlawful possession and transportation of an alligator.
His mother, Linda James, told WPTV his action was a "stupid prank".
The TV station posted a photo of the alligator - taken from the incident report - on Twitter.
Stuart Lancaster's side had led 19-9 and 22-12 in the second half against a side plagued by injuries.
But the concession of a series of penalties, many at the breakdown, kept Wales in the game and they fought back.
"England looked so comfortable at one stage, but they seemed to panic when they were near the finish line," said Edwards, 68, who has 53 Wales caps.
"It was probably tension - this is a huge event," he told BBC Radio 5 live's Sportsweek programme.
With three minutes left in the Pool A clash, England chose not to go for a penalty kick that could have drawn the match, with captain Chris Robshaw opting instead for a five-metre line-out which was repelled.
However Edwards defended that decision. "Robshaw had to go with a gut feeling," he said.
Instead, the former Cardiff and Barbarians scrum-half laid the blame for the defeat on England's high penalty count.
"All of a sudden England started to break up and make mistakes," he said. "For me they were transgressing because of pressure and panic."
Edwards also praised Wales for their comeback, describing their victory as "one of their best, maybe greatest ever wins".
Former England defence coach Mike Ford, now in charge at Bath, said England should consider changes to their team for their must-win match against Australia on Saturday.
"The selection this weekend was a team not to lose - I think it's a negative approach," he said.
"Stuart Lancaster has got to pick a team to win against Australia."
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The Pro12 champions take on Munster at Kilmarnock's Rugby Park on Friday after switching the game from Scotstoun, where the pitch is unplayable.
It's the third time this year Glasgow have changed venue for a home fixture.
"Discussions are at an advanced stage and we hope to announce something very soon," said Townsend.
"I'm very confident that we will have an artificial pitch in place at Scotstoun for the start of next season.
"Scotstoun is unplayable and has been for a number of weeks. There is a guarantee when you come to a 3G or 4G pitch that you can play.
"I've been speaking to football managers this week. Football actually want a wetter pitch, they want the ball to move along the pitch quicker.
"Obviously their pitch isn't damaged as much by scrums and heavy people on them.
"We would love to play on grass pitches like a bowling green all year round but that doesn't happen. The alternative for us are 3G pitches."
Mike Hill, from Templeton, Devon, says a "horrendous" smell started coming from the farm last year, which it is claimed has made residents feel ill and caused them to leave their properties.
Authorities are testing air and water near the farm, which houses about 150 cows.
But farmer Winston Reed says he will take action against what he says are "false comments".
Mr Hill says that along with tongue fissures, he has suffered from irritated eyes, coughing and constant thirst.
"You get a really hot, peppery taste in your mouth and you just can't get rid of it, it's in the back of your throat," he said.
Other neighbours have complained of phlegm, high blood pressure, breathing difficulties and retching.
But Mr Reed, who runs Crossparks farm, says the allegations are simply not true.
"None of our cows or staff working at the unit display any of the symptoms alleged to have been caused to the complainants," Mr Reed said.
"I have asked for blood tests to be taken of our cows on site along with veterinary reports, samples to be taken of the slurry, additional odour monitoring to see if indeed this unit is as the allegations portray."
Mr Reed says he has also asked for a breakdown of how much the complaints have "cost the public taxpayer".
Mid Devon District Council's environmental health department confirmed it was investigating the complaints.
"Environmental health are conducting an investigation into complaints of statutory nuisance concerning farm operations at Crossparks and Cleave Farm, Templeton, Tiverton, Devon made by persons living in the surrounding area," a spokesperson said.
"The specific public health concerns raised by residents should be referred to the director of public health for NHS Devon and Devon County Council, who we are continuing to liaise with during the course of our investigation."
"We're a very close family and I just wished he had come to me and said something."
The words of the mother of 17-year-old Daniel Perry, who took his own life after he was apparently blackmailed after befriending someone he thought was a girl of his age online.
In reality, it is thought he was "talking" to an extortion gang.
The apprentice mechanic was told on 15 July to deposit thousands of pounds in to an account or images or video of him would be shared with his family and friends or the public.
Hours later, he was dead.
It is a story that sends shivers down the spine of most parents.
In an interview with the Dunfermline Press, his mother said he had "not being doing anything wrong - just what anyone his age might do", but had been too "embarrassed and horrified" to tell anyone about what had happened.
Three months earlier, it is reported, the teenager had been bullied on the social networking site ask.fm and received messages telling him to kill himself.
Father and co-founder of the Cybersmile website, Dan Raisbeck, says the case is "extremely distressing" and shows the horrific consequences of "online hate".
"For a person to be manipulated in their home and bullied in their own loving home which is supposed to be where you feel safe... if that is undermined, what has a child got?" he said.
"This case is extremely distressing because of the short time span. There seemed to be no signs."
Psychologist Dr Lucy Maddox said for many young people, opening up to parents about something like cyber blackmail would be extremely difficult.
Not commenting on Daniel Perry's case in particular, she said: "Trying to talk to parents, especially if it's about sex, is very difficult, especially if you think of it as something you are ashamed of.
"Shame is a powerful driver not to tell someone something, so telling a parent that you have sent a naked picture of yourself... it's no wonder they don't tell. Sexual shame is a double whammy."
Dr Maddox said teenagers were prone to risky behaviour and were very influenced by their peer group and wanted to fit in, so might get drawn in to sending intimate images of themselves.
"It's very common for young people to encourage each other to send sexual pictures," she said.
"In the short term, the teenager gets a thrill from sending the picture and feeling grown up but they do not see the long-term consequences of that picture being passed on and then feeling very exposed.
For a parent, the thought of a child suffering in silence at the mouse-clicks of bullies while they are just feet away, unaware, is an upsetting idea.
But are there warning signs?
Hannah Smith, 14, who was found hanged at her home in Leicestershire on 2 August, was said to have been bullied online for months.
Following her death her father David found bullying posts on her ask.fm site - but he said there were "no signs Hannah would do this" beforehand.
Mr Raisbeck set up the Cybersmile charity after his 10-year-old son was bullied online while playing a game where competitors team up against each other.
He says there were warning signs in his case.
"There was a real stark change in his demeanour, played out in my living room. I could see he was getting frustrated," he said.
"A lot of abuse and banter goes on in this game. His account was hacked. It got very nasty, out of control.
"The biggest sign for me was the intensity of the emotional response and distress. It's as good as being attacked verbally - as if someone is screaming in your face. It's like they are there in the room with them, with dad, unaware, sitting next to them."
Mr Raisbeck got his son to talk to him about what was going on and told him he should not "bite back" if people attacked him online.
Dr Maddox, a member of the British Psychological Society, says children of the internet age face the threat of bullies reaching them wherever they are.
"Before someone could be bullied at school but could go home and have respite from it, now it can go on for 24 hours," she said.
Some ask why teenagers - or adults - do not log off permanently from sites where they are getting abused.
Dr Maddox says that although staying there might bring "very negative consequences" in the long-term, there could be short-term gains which keep them there.
"It's a hook that keeps people there. If they are getting loads of 'likes' for a picture or even one or two people spurring them on, it can be a powerful hook to stay in," she said.
"They make people feel connected and part of something and that sometimes flips, making them feel much more isolated and that the community is against them.
"That is such a powerful driver for people who feel very despairing."
Lucie Russell, campaigns director at the YoungMinds charity, agrees that young people might stay in an online place where they are getting bullied because they want interaction and attention.
"They feed on each other, young people feed off each other; they want attention," she said.
"Being online means they are getting attention and there is an audience of trillions."
According to a recent report from the NSPCC, almost one in five children who use social networking sites had bad experiences online last year, including bullying, unwanted sexual messages and cyber stalking.
Ms Russell says the media likes to present the situation as one of "goodies and baddies", but that the reality is often more complicated.
"The people doing it [bullying and trolling] can also be victims themselves," she said.
"We say trolls are the baddies but it's more nuanced than this."
Bronagh received support from the NSPCC's ChildLine after she was bullied online when she was 13 and says the person who bullied her went on to suffer too.
In an account she gave through the charity, she described how accepting a casual acquaintance as a contact on a social network led to a stream of attacks.
"He started saying really nasty things about me and about my family. The first time it happened I just logged off, but it kept happening.
"He'd say horrible things about how I looked. He called me fat and ugly... he said I should want to kill myself.
Bronagh said she did not talk to her family about the problem, even though she knew they would be supportive, because the boy was saying nasty things about them. She confided in her friends and one of them challenged the boy online.
"He blamed me. I logged back on and he showed me these red marks on his neck over the webcam, and said that he'd tried to hang himself because of what I'd said about him. Then I started to feel like it was all my fault.
"I brought it to an end by permanently blocking him and I found out he was creeping [another site] to find out about me, so I changed my settings.
"Now I just wish I'd done it sooner - that I'd cut him off straight away and not let him get to me."
Often excluded from the teenage world, what can parents do to help their children?
Lucie Russell from YoungMinds said: "We have no idea what they are doing in their rooms and how many things can you block?
"The answer is not to close these sites down but to help young people develop resilience and understanding of themselves and their needs, and to help them find ways of meeting those needs in a better way."
"The internet is our kids pavement," says Cybersmile co-founder Dan Raisbeck.
"They are learning their social dynamics on the internet and staying abreast of that as a parent is difficult.
"Engaging with a teenager about the colour of their socks can be impossible at times, so prying into their internet habits is going to be difficult, but parents need to engage more with them and support them.
He believes everyone has a responsibility to "get rid of online hate".
"Schools, authorities and the companies themselves have to do their bit and make sure that the message gets across so this behaviour is seen to be wrong and socially unacceptable," he said.
"We need to have a massive campaign showing the real emotional cost of losing someone through this and how it happens.
"I count myself quite lucky that I managed to engage with my kid before it went too far - and that's where parents need to be."
Silva has not fought since losing to Britain's Michael Bisping in February.
Given the late notice, the pair will meet in a three-round, non-title light-heavyweight contest.
Light-heavyweight champion Cormier, 37, was originally scheduled to take on Jones in Las Vegas, but that fight fell through when Jones failed a drugs test.
Brazilian Silva, 41, was the longest reigning champion in UFC history until he lost his middleweight title to Chris Weidman in July 2013.
Jones tested positive in an out-of-competition sample collection by the United States Anti-Doping Authority (Usada) on 16 June.
In a news conference on Thursday, he apologised to Cormier, saying: "I know this fight means a lot to him. And it means a lot to me."
Jones said he had taken the same supplements as he did before previous fights and that anything different was not performance-enhancing.
His manager, Malki Kawa, said they will not name the substance until a B sample is tested by Usada.
"Right now, I'm trying to think of everything I've taken," Jones added. "The whole thing sucks. If I do have to serve two years then I will definitely be back."
The women's bantamweight title fight between Miesha Tate and Amanda Nunes has been promoted to the main event slot at UFC 200.
The heavyweight fight between American Brock Lesnar and New Zealander Mark Hunt will now be the co-main event.
The trunk road drops from 150m (492ft) to 20m (65ft) as it enters a valley at the Berriedale Braes.
There is also a hairpin bend which lorry drivers can have difficulty negotiating.
Rob Gibson, SNP MSP for Caithness, Sutherland and Ross, has welcomed planned improvements at Berriedale.
He said upgrading the stretch of road had been spoken about for 40 years.
"The issue of Berriedale Braes is one that has continually been raised with me," he said.
"I have, along with many others from the county, lobbied the Scottish government and the transport minister over making improvements to the Berriedale Braes."
The MSP added: "Realigning the Berriedale Braes will be a tricky job so it is important that every aspect of the process is carried out rigorously and in great detail."
The A9 is Scotland's longest trunk road.
The Scottish government has committed to upgrading the A9 between Perth and Inverness to dual carriageway.
Transport Scotland said the contract was for ground investigation (GI) work and formed part of the preparations for the upgrade of the Berriedale Braes.
A spokesperson said: "This GI work will include the sinking of boreholes both in soil and rock as well as in situ and laboratory tests, leading to the production of reports which will help inform the work to identify a possible solution to this stretch of the northernmost part of the A9.
"We hope to appoint a contractor for this work in September.
"We are determined to work with our partners to ensure that improvements to this strategic route through the Highlands are progressed as a matter of urgency."
Scotland's Anderson produced a nine-dart finish on the way to whitewashing Jelle Klaasen 6-0 in their semi-final.
Englishman Lewis led Raymond van Barneveld 5-0 at one stage before eventually prevailing 6-3.
This year's final at Alexandra Palace is a repeat of the 2011 decider, which Lewis won 7-5. Both men have lost only two sets in the tournament so far.
Anderson's was the first perfect leg in this year's tournament and the ninth in its history, while he is only the seventh man to achieve the feat.
The nine-darter secured Anderson the first set with a 136 average, while the second seed averaged 110 in storming into a 4-0 lead against his unseeded opponent.
The 45-year-old, from Eyemouth in the Scottish Borders, continued to pummel former BDO world champion Klaasen in the fifth before wrapping things up with a double 20.
Anderson's display will go down as one of the greatest in the tournament's history, while Klaasen will be left to ponder how he lost so emphatically while not playing that badly.
Stoke thrower Lewis made a storming start, winning the first five legs and limiting Van Barneveld to four legs in the first four sets, two of which were won with 161 finishes.
Former PDC world champion Van Barneveld, who recovered from losing the first three sets to beat Michael Smith in the quarter-finals, won the sixth set against Lewis to avert a whitewash.
The 48-year-old Dutchman looked to have squandered a 2-0 lead in the next set but conjured a 134 finish to make it 5-2, before pulling out two more 100-plus finishes to make it 5-3.
However, Lewis, who lost to Van Barneveld in the third round of last year's event, finally extinguished his rival's resistance in the ninth set, sealing the win and a place in his third final with a double nine.
Lewis, 30, won the tournament in 2011 and 2012. If he beats Anderson on Sunday he will be only the second man, after 14-time champion Phil Taylor, to win three PDC world titles.
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Lampard - on loan at City from New York City FC until January - wrote his name into Chelsea folklore with 211 goals in 648 appearances for the Stamford Bridge club.
And he added another dramatic chapter to his illustrious story when he slid home a strike with five minutes left after Andre Schurrle looked to have scored the goal that would have given Chelsea an eight-point advantage over the reigning Premier League champions.
City will feel they deserved a point after battling back into contention following the second-half sending-off of defender Pablo Zabaleta following a tussle with Chelsea striker Diego Costa.
The spotlight, inevitably, will focus on 36-year-old Lampard. The former England international refused to celebrate his goal and looked to be on the verge of tears at the final whistle as he received a standing ovation from Chelsea's fans, who set aside their disappointment to acclaim the player who served them so wonderfully.
Lampard's name was chanted by the travelling support before he was also applauded off by City's followers, grateful for a glimpse of the goalscoring gifts that earned Manuel Pellegrini's side a draw.
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Jose Mourinho's men remain three points clear at the top of the table despite losing their 100% Premier League record - although there will be disappointment at conceding two points so late on against a City side down to 10 mean.
After the extravaganza of Leicester City's 5-3 win against Manchester United, even two teams of this calibre had a tough act to follow and, for long periods, this was a game that failed to live up to its pre-match billing.
Costa was involved in a bruising physical battle with Vincent Kompany but showed once again that he is up for the fight in the Premier League as he had a hand in Schurrle's goal, was involved in Zabaleta's second yellow card and also struck a post with a shot that almost sealed the three points.
Kompany and his new defensive partner Eliaquim Mangala, making his first start following his £32m summer move from Porto, were in imperious mood but Costa's head never dropped and he looks a striker perfectly suited for the Premier League.
The first 45 minutes were a dull war of attrition as City dominated territory and possession - Chelsea responding with the sort of defensive resilience some suggested had been sacrificed with the introduction of the greater flair of Costa and Cesc Fabregas.
City again applied the pressure after the break but, when Chelsea keeper Thibaut Courtois was called into action he answered superbly with a low save from Sergio Aguero on the turn from 12 yards, Ramires crucially sweeping the rebound away from Edin Dzeko as he closed in.
Costa had been in close proximity to City's defence throughout, with several hefty physical exchanges, so it was no surprise when the striker was in the tussle that led to Zabaleta's red card.
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The Argentine was involved in a tangle with the former Atletico Madrid forward and was penalised for a foul, bringing a second yellow card from referee Mike Dean and an avalanche of outrage from the City fans, who gave Zabaleta a standing ovation as he left the field.
Pellegrini introduced Bacary Sagna for Dzeko to add defensive stability in the face of Chelsea's numerical advantage, but it was not long before the away side made it count.
After a sweeping move, Costa passed to Eden Hazard and his cross was met at the far post by substitute Schurrle, who got in ahead of Mangala to score.
The nuisance that is Costa almost made it two with a shot against a post - setting the stage for Lampard's dramatic intervention.
As the outstanding James Milner turned a cross back at the far post, Lampard showed his old instincts to capitalise on Branislav Ivanovic's failure to track him into the area and wrong-foot Courtois with a volley.
There is still something surreal about seeing Lampard in the sky blue of City rather than the royal blue of Chelsea, but the champions were grateful for that as they took a point.
Match ends, Manchester City 1, Chelsea 1.
Second Half ends, Manchester City 1, Chelsea 1.
Attempt missed. Frank Lampard (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by James Milner.
Attempt missed. Didier Drogba (Chelsea) right footed shot from outside the box is too high from a direct free kick.
Foul by Vincent Kompany (Manchester City).
Eden Hazard (Chelsea) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Yaya Touré (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Attempt blocked. Frank Lampard (Manchester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Substitution, Chelsea. Didier Drogba replaces Diego Costa.
Goal! Manchester City 1, Chelsea 1. Frank Lampard (Manchester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by James Milner.
Corner, Manchester City. Conceded by Nemanja Matic.
Attempt missed. David Silva (Manchester City) left footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Jesús Navas.
Bacary Sagna (Manchester City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Diego Costa (Chelsea).
Diego Costa (Chelsea) hits the right post with a left footed shot from the centre of the box. Assisted by Cesc Fàbregas.
Offside, Manchester City. Yaya Touré tries a through ball, but Sergio Agüero is caught offside.
Eliaquim Mangala (Manchester City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Cesc Fàbregas (Chelsea).
Substitution, Manchester City. Frank Lampard replaces Aleksandar Kolarov.
Branislav Ivanovic (Chelsea) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Yaya Touré (Manchester City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Branislav Ivanovic (Chelsea).
Attempt saved. Diego Costa (Chelsea) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Foul by Aleksandar Kolarov (Manchester City).
Eden Hazard (Chelsea) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Substitution, Manchester City. Jesús Navas replaces Fernandinho.
Goal! Manchester City 0, Chelsea 1. André Schürrle (Chelsea) left footed shot from very close range to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Eden Hazard with a cross following a fast break.
Substitution, Manchester City. Bacary Sagna replaces Edin Dzeko.
Corner, Manchester City. Conceded by César Azpilicueta.
Diego Costa (Chelsea) is shown the yellow card.
Second yellow card to Pablo Zabaleta (Manchester City) for a bad foul.
Foul by Pablo Zabaleta (Manchester City).
Diego Costa (Chelsea) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Chelsea. John Obi Mikel replaces Willian.
Substitution, Chelsea. André Schürrle replaces Ramires because of an injury.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Ramires (Chelsea) because of an injury.
Foul by Edin Dzeko (Manchester City).
Ramires (Chelsea) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Cesc Fàbregas (Chelsea) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
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Pullman offered the right to name a character in his new book as a lot in the Authors For Grenfell Tower auction, which raised money for victims.
Teacher James Clements had originally bid £1,500 to name the character after his ex-pupil Nur Huda El-Wahab, 15.
Organisers say 448 people eventually added bids to his to secure the lot.
Mr Clements said he used to teach Nur Huda, who lived on the 21st floor of the west London tower block, where 79 people are feared to have died in the fire on 14 June.
Reacting to the news, Mr Clements said he had made a "speculative bid" to win the lot and that "what has happened since has been truly amazing".
"A huge thanks to everyone who has championed, shared or contributed to our team total," he tweeted.
He also praised Pullman for "offering such a wonderful prize and being such a gentleman throughout".
Pullman - best known for his fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials - said it was "great news", adding: "I look forward to writing about Nur."
He said her character would feature in the second novel of Pullman's Book of Dust series to be published next year.
The first part in the series, La Belle Sauvage, is published in October.
Pullman said he could not guarantee whether the character would be "good, bad, beautiful or otherwise", but it would be "a speaking role with a part to play in the plot".
One of the organisers of the auction, Molly Ker Hawn, praised bidders who won the name for Nur Huda, saying: "I love every one of you."
Organisers said more than £150,000 had been pledged in total in the auction when bidding closed.
More than 700 lots featured on the charity site, including signed books from authors Malorie Blackman and Caitlin Moran, and afternoon tea and a book reading with TV personality and children's author David Walliams at Claridges.
Money from the Authors For Grenfell Tower site will go to the British Red Cross London Fire Relief Fund.
To mark this anniversary, BBC Sport has produced five features, each covering a five-year period during the last quarter of a century of the English top flight.
Each piece contains written insight, a timeline, Mark Lawrenson's team of the era, a tailored tactics board, and a stickers quiz.
Click on the links below:
Part one: A whole new world - 1992-1997
Manchester United largely dominate English football's brave new world, overcoming Eric Cantona's kung-fu antics and the theory that you "can't win anything with kids". Newcastle's Kevin Keegan would "love to beat them" but only Blackburn manage to do so. Jurgen Klinsmann leads the foreign player invasion and dives his way into Tottenham hearts.
Part two: Arsene who? - 1997-2002
Frenchman Arsene Wenger revolutionises Arsenal - who become the first consistent challenger to Manchester United's dominance - and becomes the figurehead for a new professionalism in the English game. Clubs increasingly shop abroad, for better and worse, and Paolo di Canio goes from referee-shoving villain to ball-catching sporting hero.
Part three: The oligarchs - 2002-2007
Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich and self-anointed 'Special One' Jose Mourinho propel Chelsea into the annual title mix, and Arsenal make themselves invincible but have a small issue with a penalty. Wayne Rooney introduces himself to the world and Delia Smith asks the Norwich fans: "Where are you?"
Part four: When the Premier League ruled the world - 2007-2012
English clubs dominate pitches across Europe and television screens across the world, the £50m transfer barrier is broken, Sir Alex Ferguson builds another dominant side but also has to deal with some newly minted "noisy neighbours" and their new superstar Sergio Aguerooooooooo!
Part five: New challenges - 2012-2017
Ferguson bows out in style at Manchester United, who suffer a prolonged hangover, Liverpool's Steven Gerrard has a costly slip-up, Mourinho makes a whistle-stop return to Chelsea before settling at Old Trafford and Leicester City overcome the odds in stunning fashion. With European trophies heading to Spain and Germany, England's big boys make good use of their TV goldmine.
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The current champion jump jockey's trophy is to be retired and given permanently to the 20-time winner.
Northern Irishman McCoy, 40, has two rides at his final fixture - on Mr Mole (15:15 BST) before be bows out aboard Box Office (16:25).
The race has been moved forward from its original scheduled time of 17:35 to allow Channel Four to show it live.
After more than 16,000 rides, 4,300 wins and 1,000 falls, an extraordinary career will come to a close on the final day of the 2014-15 jump racing season.
McCoy will be crowned champion jockey for the 20th consecutive time in front of a sell-out 18,000 crowd.
The champion's trophy was commissioned in 2007 by the then British Horseracing Board and as McCoy has held the title since 1996, he is the only man to have ever lifted it.
McCoy is an avid Arsenal fan and the trophy is expected to be presented to him on Saturday by former Gunners striker Ian Wright.
McCoy does not have a ride in the meeting's feature race - the Bet 365 Gold Cup at 15:50 - but he does have good chances with his two mounts.
It was after he won on Mr Mole at Newbury in February that the rider announced this would be his final season in the saddle.
The seven-year-old horse, trained by Paul Nicholls, was a disappointing eighth in the Queen Mother Champion Chase won by Dodging Bullets at last month's Cheltenham Festival, but won three times earlier in the season.
Rivals include former champion chaser Sprinter Sacre, who is bidding to rediscover his best form after an injury setback.
Box Office, trained by Jonjo O'Neill for owner JP McManus, would be an aptly-named final winner as McCoy has proved a box office draw, with the race brought forward more than an hour so it can be show on Channel Four television.
O'Neill tweeted on Friday: "We have just declared Box Office for Sandownpark tomorrow. This will be AP's last ride for JP and myself. #ThanksAP."
Box Office has run at both Cheltenham and Aintree this season, finishing seventh at both festivals.
McCoy has made no secret of the fact he would like to depart with a winner, ideally trained by O'Neill for his boss McManus.
Father-of-two McCoy admits he has little idea what he will do after retirement, and reluctantly decided to stop riding competitively.
"I love riding, I love my job and like every sportsman I just wished it was never going to happen," he said.
"I've always lived in the fear of carrying on too long, or maybe not being as successful as I was, or maybe not as good as I was.
"I always had it in my head that I wanted to get out while I was champion jockey. I know it's the right decision. I never wanted it to happen that people were thinking I was not as good as I was."
The Premier League club had been confident the Belgium international would sign a new five-year deal thought to be worth around £140,000 a week.
The 23-year-old's agent, Mino Raiola, had said his client was "99.9%" certain to extend his stay at Goodison Park.
However, Lukaku has told the Toffees he currently has no desire to extend a contract that has two years to run.
Lukaku has made no secret of his desire to play in the Champions League and has been linked with a return to former club Chelsea, from whom he joined Everton for £28m in 2014.
Everton's contract offer remains on the table and still hope further negotiations could end in an agreement.
For now, however, Lukaku is not willing to agree terms and the Toffees would demand a fee in excess of £60m for a player who has scored 19 goals this season.
Kelly Webster, 36, and Lauren Thornton, from the Leyland area of Lancashire, were airlifted to Royal Lancaster Infirmary where they both died.
Matthew Etefson, 39, also from Leyland and who owned the vessel which was on Windermere, is seriously ill in hospital after Monday's incident.
Post-mortem examinations are due to be carried out later.
It is understood one theory involves the use of a generator on the boat, which may have been faulty.
Cumbria Police said officers were called to reports that three people on the boat were having serious breathing difficulties.
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A spokeswoman said: "Police are investigating the circumstances of this tragic incident and trying to establish the full facts about what has happened. The coroner has been informed."
The incident, at a jetty near Bowness, was witnessed by Dragon's Den star Duncan Bannatyne, who remarked on the police and ambulance activity to his followers on Twitter.
He later posted a photograph of the scene, saying: "Tragic accident over there I am afraid."
Other eyewitnesses reported seeing firefighters entering the boat wearing breathing masks.
Joshua Kynaston, from Bolton, said: "I was in an ice-cream shop in Bowness when I heard ambulances.
"Shortly after they started racing up and down the road until they stopped right in front of me. The medics jumped out and ran towards the boat.
"The medics jumped aboard the boat and pulled the victims off.
"From where I was, I could partly see past the sheet where the medics were still working hard and dragging defibrillators and other portable medical machinery from the ambulances.
"Someone was taken off in a helicopter. Another person had countless amounts of CPR.
"Some of the firemen started to board the problem ship to search for the leak. They were in full suits with air tanks, not oxygen tanks."
Nigel Wilkinson, from Windermere Lake Cruises, said public cruisers were diverted while the emergency services worked at the scene.
He said police, fire, ambulance, lake wardens, community first responders and the Great North Air Ambulance and the North West Air Ambulance were all involved.
He said there was a feeling of "great sadness" in the area.
Mr Ford was responding in the assembly to a report saying that Maghaberry was in a "state of crisis".
The inspectors' report said that the prison was "unsafe and unstable" for prisoners and staff.
Mr Ford said that the governor and deputy governor were removed when the inspectors gave their initial feedback.
He said they had not been redeployed within the prison service.
Mr Ford said the new governor, Phil Wragg, was bringing "significant improvements in relation to the areas of greatest concern".
He said he was confident the Prison Service would "continue to progress along the difficult path of reform" under the leadership of the Director General, Sue McAllister.
The minister denied accusations from DUP MLAs Edwin Poots and Paul Givan that he was "scapegoating" local prison management.
The report, published last Thursday, was one of the most critical of any prison in the UK.
Nick Hardwick, Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Prisons in England and Wales, said it was the "most dangerous prison" he had ever been in during his time as a chief inspector.
In the wake of the report, Mr Ford said he had no intention of resigning.
A meeting of the rule-making F1 Commission approved plans to adopt a structure to protect drivers from debris, sources at governing body the FIA said.
A new elimination-style qualifying format, with the slowest drivers knocked out in succession, could also be introduced this year.
Details have not been released.
A deadline for rules to make faster cars in 2017 has been delayed until 30 April.
All the changes still need to be rubber-stamped by the final step of the legislative process, the FIA World Council.
The FIA told teams earlier this month that it wanted to introduce a device called a 'halo', which is designed to guard against impacts from large airborne debris.
This came after the Grand Prix Drivers' Association made it clear it felt that it was time for the 'halo' to be introduced after years of research.
The 'halo' has been deemed the best compromise in terms of increasing safety with the fewest side-effects, such as compromised vision or extrication in the event of an accident.
Teams have been analysing how to incorporate the device into a car's design. It will be a standard part, with all terms using the same design.
The device features two arms protruding from behind the cockpit, forming an elliptical shape above the driver's head and supported by a narrow forward strut.
The halo is unlikely to have prevented the injuries suffered by Frenchman Jules Bianchi, who died last July, nine months after his Marussia collided with a recovery vehicle during the 2014 Japanese Grand Prix.
But it might stop incidents such as the one that killed English IndyCar driver Justin Wilson last August. He was struck by debris from an earlier crash.
The idea to change the format of qualifying came from the FIA in an attempt to increase unpredictability at a time when it is felt the teams are so effective at eliminating variables that race weekends can become too formulaic.
It was approved in principle, with the intention of introducing it this year, but the teams have gone away to analyse the potential effects.
It is intended a definitive decision will be made within the next week or so.
F1 bosses have been working for a year on making the cars faster and more dramatic-looking for 2017, in a bid to arrest what is perceived to be waning interest in the sport.
But agreeing the detail of the rules has proved problematic.
However, an FIA source said that the bodywork dimensions for 2017 had been agreed after months of discussions over the degree to which the cars should be speeded up.
Bosses had been working to a deadline of the end of February, after which any change would need unanimous agreement - as dictated by the regulations.
However it was agreed to extend for a further two months the date by which only majority support is needed.
There was also an agreement on rules governing the price and supply of customer engines.
There was no further detail on the plans on Tuesday night - a statement is expected from the FIA on Wednesday morning.
Long a staple in the UK where there are now 70 stores, the designs have been growing in popularity around the world.
There are more than 130 stores outside of the UK, in diverse locations from Spain to China and Thailand.
Last month the brand announced the first stores in India will open for business this Autumn.
And next on the list is Latin America. The firm has hired Michael Engelhaupt from Under Armour International, the American sports clothing and accessories company, to drive the expansion forward.
Mr Engelhaupt was head of franchise international and has previously worked for sports brand Adidas.
The company says strong online orders sparked the move into Latin America.
"Over time we expect to expand across the region but initially we will be focused on Mexico and Chile because of the inward interest in Cath Kidston coming from those two markets," says chief executive Kenny Wilson.
"Michael will be talking to potential franchise partners and, as we have done in other markets, we are looking to do a combination of standalone stores and concessions.
"We did research as we do before deciding to go into any new market and this said that there was a market in Latin America and interest for fun, cheerful, British products like Cath Kidston. We are very confident in the consumer appeal in Latin America for our products," he adds.
Cath Kidston has seen notable overseas growth. Its 2015 full year results showed overall group sales increased by 2.4% to £118.5m, but international retail sales surged by 20.2% hitting £55.3m.
The company is expanding rapidly. Four new stores opened in the UK last year, one in China and 40 franchise stores, including its first Middle East stores.
Franchising has proven a successful tool, particularly so in Japan where double digit sales growth over several years led the company to decide in July 2015 to purchase the Japanese Cath Kidston franchise business of 27 shops back from TSI Holdings subsidiary Sanei International.
The agreement brought the stores under the control of the wholly owned subsidiary, Cath Kidston Japan.
"Japan is our biggest international market and a key part of our strategy to globalise the brand," said Mr Wilson at the time.
The brand's continued success comes in spite of the departure of founder Cath Kidston in November 2014, who retains an 11% stake.
Ms Kidston has credited her country childhood - she grew up in Hampshire - as the inspiration for her English heritage-inspired brand.
She has however admitted that the floral and polka dot patterns are not to everyone's taste, telling Radio 4's Desert Island Discs in 2011: "People either love it and want a little bit of it very much, or want to stab us."
Katrina Rattu, an analyst at Verdict Retail expects the company to continue to flourish.
"Its product offering translates well into diverse markets owing to its strong visual brand identity. Their expansion is based in emerging markets with a growing middle class with a higher disposable income. They are increasingly looking to buy into aspirational brands such as Cath Kidston with strong British values."
The health board confirmed malicious software had been detected in IT systems, causing appointments and procedures to be postponed.
It said it "took immediate action" to put a solution in place and minimise disruption. Patients are asked not to attend hospital unless it is essential.
It is unclear whether the health board was deliberately targeted.
NHS Lanarkshire was one of the worst-hit health authorities in Scotland in the widespread cyber-attacks in May.
However, a spokeswoman for the health board said the current issues were "not on the same scale".
She said a number of appointments and procedures had been postponed as a result of the current issues, but there were "no concerns around emergency treatments".
The board's chief executive Calum Campbell said: "We have detected some incidences of malware and took immediate action to prevent this spreading while we carried out further investigations.
"We are currently putting in place a solution from our IT security provider.
"While the issue is being resolved, our staff have been working hard to minimise the impact on patients and we apologise to anyone who has been affected."
NHS Lanarkshire's hospitals include Monklands, Wishaw General and Hairmyres.
The health board has urged people to consider whether they definitely need emergency care before attending A&E.
Dr Jane Burns, dedical director for the acute division said: "I would ask that patients do not attend our hospitals unless it is essential.
"If you do turn up at A&E and do not require emergency care you may be sent away from the department or you may experience a lengthy wait.
"Emergency care will still be provided for those who do require to be seen."
Manus Deery, 15, was with a group of teenage friends when he was shot in the head by a soldier from a sentry post on the city's walls in May 1972.
The soldier has since died.
The presiding coroner, Mr Justice Adrian Colton, said the teenager's character has been fully vindicated.
Mr Colton also said Mr Deery was not a member of any illegal organisation.
The venue in north London provided education and therapeutic help for vulnerable children.
The band, led by singer Chris Martin, have previously donated an estimated £10m to the charity, which closed down last week amid claims of financial mismanagement and sexual abuse.
Coldplay's manager Phil Harvey said: "It's very early stages."
He added: "We're incredibly proud of Treehouse's work with children in great need over the past six years. We're not going to give up on the centre without looking at all options for the future."
The Treehouse opened in 2009. Its website describes its services as "providing practical and emotional support for exceptionally vulnerable children, their families and young people."
The Kids Company charity closed its doors on Wednesday last week.
It has been beset by problems, including allegations of financial mismanagement and accusations by former staff that the charity failed to deal with allegations of serious incidents.
Kids Company is also being investigated by the Met Police's Sexual Offences, Exploitation and Child Abuse Command.
However, the charity - founded by Camilla Batmanghelidjh - said it would have told police of any allegation it knew about.
It has relied on individual donations and government grants but said last week it closed due to a lack of funding.
Ms Batmanghelidjh has said there was a "malicious discrediting campaign" against the charity,
Day, 28, is world number one and has won seven times in the past 12 months, including the 2015 US PGA Championship.
His main rivals are American duo Dustin Johnson and Jordan Spieth, and Northern Ireland's Rory McIlroy.
"Physically, technically and mentally Day is a little bit better than the other three guys," said Faldo.
McIlroy - the 2014 Open champion - is making his return to the event after an ankle injury prevented him defending the Claret Jug last year.
The 27-year-old has not won a major in two years and fallen to fourth in the world rankings.
"Mentally, Rory runs on emotion, which is great when he's up and you see that spring in his step, but he gets a little deflated if the putter is not working or a few drives are pounded out not in the right place," said Englishman Faldo, 58.
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McIlroy has four major wins to his name, the last of which came in 2014 in the US PGA Championship, the same year that he won The Open and the World Golf Championships.
Since then, he has struggled to challenge consistently, while 22-year-old Spieth has risen to prominence by winning back-to-back majors in 2015, Day has succeeded him as US PGA champion and Johnson has won his first major - the 2016 US Open.
McIlroy said: "My game has been quite consistent - apart from in 2013, when I didn't play well. That is probably the only time in the last six years I have dropped outside the top 10 in the world.
"I am happy with where my game is. I can't worry about other guys. I am confident if I go out and play my best golf I will win more than not.
McIlroy added that Royal Troon is a course where you "have to keep it out of the bunkers", and it was a point underlined during Tuesday's practice round, when he found the sand on the infamous par-three Postage Stamp and needed six shots to get out.
"Hopefully that is the struggles out of the way for that hole," he added.
Australian Day has finished in the top 10 in each of his past five majors, which included his US PGA Championship victory at Whistling Straits last year.
In his quest to win more titles he has sought the advice of friend and 14-time major winner Tiger Woods, who remains sidelined following the back operation he had in September.
"I've learned a lot from him, the mental strength he had, just the will to try and get the job done regardless of how you're hitting the ball," said Day.
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This year, Spieth has won two PGA Tour events, the most of recent of which was the Dean and Deluca Invitational at the end of May, and finished second to Danny Willett at the Masters after throwing away a five-shot lead during the final round.
He came into last year's Open after victory at the John Deere Classic but missed out on a play-off by one stroke having finished the tournament at St Andrews on 14 under.
"This is a very special tournament," said the 22-year-old. "The Claret Jug is something I have now held - I was with Zach [Johnson] the night he won it last year. I crave to have that trophy in my possession at some point.
"I have been here since Saturday and seen the different wind conditions. I love playing links golf. Hopefully, over the next 20 or 30 years, I will show that this style of golf plays to my strengths.
"I believe if I am in contention I can close. The process of getting into contention I am a little more hesitant with.
"Right now, I feel I have to do more work through my swing to get it more compact and ready for this style of golf."
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Gary Player, who won nine majors including three Open Championships, says he only needs 30 minutes with Jordan Spieth to turn him into the best ever player.
"Jordan Spieth has got a big fault in his swing,' said the 80-year-old South African. "He's not finding it and it's so obvious to me what he's doing.
"I'd give anything to spend half an hour with Spieth. If I could spend half an hour with him, he might turn out to be the best player the world has ever known."
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Englishman Willett claimed a shock Masters victory at Augusta in April, capitalising on Spieth's final-round collapse to win by three shots and claim his first major at the age of 28.
"I know I've done it, played well and competed and won against the best guys," said Willett, who tied for 37th place at the US Open in June.
"You try not to have too much expectation on yourself every time you go out because it can be a lonely game when things aren't going your way.
"You can struggle if you keep reminiscing about how well you played a few months ago."
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Justin Rose became the first Englishman to win the US Open in 43 years in 2013 - and it remains the 35-year-old's only major victory.
His best performance at The Open is still the joint fourth he achieved on his first appearance as a 17-year-old amateur at Royal Birkdale, although last year he finished tied for sixth.
"In recent years I've had a few decent looks at The Open," he said. "Last year, nine under par and entering the last round it would have taken a big round to win, but Zach Johnson and Marc Leishman both shot 66.
"I'm gaining more confidence and feeling a lot more confident in The Open. I'd love to lift it more than once - but really you only have to lift it once to feel you've fulfilled your potential."
Todd Hamilton has returned to Royal Troon for the first time since 2004 after deliberately staying away to preserve the memories of his shock Open victory.
The 50-year-old American has played in every Open since, but did not even visit this year's course when the tournament was held at nearby Turnberry in 2009.
"I never have been tempted," said Hamilton. "I'm not superstitious or anything, but I always wanted to have good memories and didn't want to mess it up by coming here and hitting a drive in a bunker where I shouldn't, or three-putting a hole where I shouldn't.
"I don't remember everything that happened, but I remember enough to make it a very memorable and cherished event.
"I would like to have some other good memories this year."
Stockbroker Hargreaves Lansdown was the biggest winner, rising 4%, ahead of financial firm Old Mutual, which gained 3%.
Other big winners included pensions provider Standard Life and wealth manager St James's Place.
The benchmark FTSE 100 index closed on 6,261.19, which was an increase of 0.56% or 34.64 points.
On the currency markets, the pound rose 0.12% against the dollar to $1.4670, but edged lower against the euro to €1.3005.
Hospitality group Whitbread, which had led the list of gainers at the start of trading, later fell back to stand 0.9% lower on the day. A positive trading update had boosted it by 1.8% on Tuesday.
DJI introduced geo-fencing in 2013 - a technology that uses GPS location signals to stop its machines flying close to airports, professional sports events and other restricted zones.
The opt-out allows operators to disable the ban in many, but not all, cases.
The Chinese firm says it will keep a record of those who use the feature.
It suggests the move will make it easier for authorised personnel to carry out inspections and other sanctioned activities in controlled areas.
But one expert questioned the wisdom of the move.
DJI's Geo app is used to control its Phantom and Inspire drones.
If the pilot sends one of the aircraft into a flagged zone, a prompt appears asking them to verify their account and acknowledge what they are doing.
In the past, the only way to achieve this was to request an override from the company or hack the drones' firmware.
"We don't have the ability to verify if someone has authorisation," Brendan Schulman, DJI's legal affairs chief told the BBC.
"Essentially, the principle here is operator responsibility and accountability.
"Just like driving a car, it is up to the operator to be licensed, to have the car registered and insured - the manufacturer of an automobile doesn't decide who gets to drive or not.
"Similarly, we have provided a mechanism for operators to take responsibility and verify their accounts and then go ahead and fly in most of these locations, which [takes into account] the balance between safety and innovation."
To make use of the override, a user must have given DJI their credit card details or a mobile number to act as an ID.
This means the firm can help the authorities track down those who misuse it.
"Our policy is to provide information about our customers only in response to a valid legal request," Mr Schulman said.
"So, in the US it would be a subpoena or a warrant or a court order."
It remains impossible to use the app to avoid geo-fencing over the US capital, Washington DC. DJI has also added new areas that cannot be unlocked including prisons, nuclear power plants and the innermost areas of busy airports.
One drones expert raised concerns, suggesting it should be up to regulators - rather than a manufacturer - to decide who bypasses the no-fly limitation.
"It would probably make more sense that if someone needed to violate geo-fencing rules, it should be done in a more specific controlled manner than a broad way in which pretty much anyone can do it and there's just a record of it," commented Ravi Vaidyanathan, a robotics lecturer at Imperial College London.
Although the UK government has raised the prospect of making geo-fencing mandatory on drones, at present it is not a compulsory feature anywhere in the world.
"Tough penalties are already in place for misuse of drones, including up to five years' imprisonment for endangering an aircraft," said a spokeswoman for the UK's Department of Transport.
"We will be consulting on proposals, including registration and licensing options, before a government strategy is published later this year."
DJI noted that it had allowed some users to beta test its opt-out since December, and was not aware of it causing problems.
"Someone who is going to misuse a drone will purchase another brand or try to disable the systems [anyway]," added Mr Schulman.
"The feature presumes the good faith of responsible operators and that is what we've seen."
Well that's what happens if your birthday is on 29 February - a date which only happens during a leap year.
Every four years February has 29 days instead of 28 and people born on this day are known as 'leaplings.'
Leaplings can choose to celebrate their birthday a day earlier or later on the years when there is not a 29th of February.
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We have leap year literacy, leap year maths, cake and games planned for the day! We have heard the odds of having a leapling teacher and leapling pupil in the same class on a leap year are 1 in 328387!
Miss Braden's class, Edinburgh, Scotland
I celebrate my birthday on the 1st of March even though my birthday is on the 29th of February. Today, I celebrated my birthday with my friends at laser quest and then spent the rest of the day with my two best friends Michael and Kenzie and the rest of the family! It was great to get a day off school and it was very important to me!
Ahron, Glasgow, Scotland
It would be quite upsetting to only celebrate my birthday every four years. I would not like it so I would choose to celebrate on the 1st of March instead.
Lilly-Ann, Portsmouth, England
Two masked men armed with kitchen knives fled with "a few hundred pounds" after threatening staff at Betfred in Old Christchurch Road on Thursday.
It follows raids at Ladbrokes in Seabourne Road on Wednesday and at a Londis store in Boscombe on Monday.
On both of those occasions the masked offender used a baseball bat.
In the Ladbrokes store, the man stole cash from the tills before making off on foot.
At the Londis store, the raider smashed a National Lottery box and fled with scratch cards.
A police spokeswoman said: "At this stage we cannot conclude they are linked but we are keeping an open mind and are investigating all three."
Homes have been flooded and roads shut after the River Eden burst its banks in Appleby. Flooding has also started in Corbridge and Hexham, Northumberland, and Sedbergh, in Cumbria.
Eleven of the severe warnings are for the River Greta in Keswick.
More than 30 other flood warnings are in place in the North East and Cumbria.
Following our live page for the latest updates across the North East and Cumbria.
Forecasters are predicting more rain later and throughout Sunday.
Fire crews are visiting flooded homes in Appleby to check residents are safe.
In Sedbergh, resident Lester Close said the flooding was the highest he had seen in 54 years living there.
He said: "There's just more and more water pouring down the road, it's horrendous all over.
"Not many roads will be passable now."
According to an Environment Agency gauge on the River Kent in Cumbria, the water is 12in (30cm) higher than in 2010, the previous record.
The Environment Agency said about 60 homes in low-lying parts of Corbridge were expected to be flooded with some already affected.
A spokesman said: "If you are caught in a flash flood, get to higher ground. Stay away from floodwater and don't take risks."
He urged people in the affected areas to move their family, pets and valuables to a safe place.
He added: "Heavy rain is currently falling in the Tyne Catchment and will continue throughout Saturday.
"River levels on the River Tyne are rising and are expected to rise through the day."
The spokesman said some homes in Well Bank had already flooded and the agency expected water to reach the top of the floodwall at the Stanners later.
Northumbria Police said they have also received reports of flooding in parts of Hexham.
Supt Geoff Logan said: "We are working closely with the other emergency services and partner agencies to plan and respond to flooding."
Premises along the River Wear in lower Stanhope in Weardale are also being warned of an imminent flood risk.
Warnings are also in place for the River Tees at Hurworth Place, Newbus Grange and Low Dinsdale after a night of heavy rain fall has swollen the river.
Flood gates at Yarm and Croft have been closed this morning.
Flooding has closed the A591 in Cumbria in both directions between Ambleside and Windermere, and the A6 is closed at Plumpton.
Several events have also been cancelled including the Newcastle Christmas Market.
Speaking to those close to him, that journey has been something of a knackering, stomach churning roller coaster.
But now, a possible destination is becoming clearer, in his mind at least. And it's not the one many expected.
First, those stages.
It started, I am told, with despair. The "My God, what have we done?" stage.
Then there was anger. "Well, this is what Leave want, they can sort it out."
Maybe that was an understandable reaction, as it sank in that Britain had voted to overturn a significant chunk of its post-war history despite the economic warnings of one George Osborne.
But, governments are there to do things, not sulk, and Mr Osborne followed anger with work, ringing other G7 and European Union finance ministers on Friday and over the weekend.
He also contacted large investment funds to offer reassurance about the state of the UK economy.
Don't forget, one of his closest friends is Peter Davies, of the hedge fund, Lansdowne Partners.
Finally, this week, came acceptance - and the start of a plan.
This morning on the Today programme, the chancellor told my colleague Nick Robinson that he would not be running for the soon to be vacant post of leader of the Conservative Party and, slightly more importantly, Prime Minister.
Those close to Mr Osborne say that he realises that although he has heavyweight support in the parliamentary party - including Sajid Javid, Amber Rudd, Michael Fallon and Nicky Morgan - he would struggle to convince the more Eurosceptic Conservative party at large that he was the man to "heal" the divisions of the last few months.
But although Mr Osborne has ruled himself out of the present contest, this is no farewell.
As Chancellor of the Exchequer for the last six years, Mr Osborne believes he has waded through some enormously rough waters in an attempt to fix the public finances.
He still has ambitions, couched in his own words as serving his country "right or wrong".
Couched in his allies' words, that can be read as "Don't write me off."
Mr Osborne is 45 years old, still pretty young in Westminster terms.
He still craves the major offices of state - whether that's the Treasury or the Foreign Office.
Many thought - including me, frankly - that Mr Osborne would have to quit if the referendum was lost.
But, a different picture has emerged.
With David Cameron going, as far as some investors are concerned the chancellor is one of the few big beasts left on the "reassurance" ticket.
His approach to cutting the deficit and, ultimately, starting to tackle Britain's substantial debt position has received significant business support.
Those around the chancellor believe any candidate to be the next Prime Minister - whether Theresa May, Boris Johnson (who has lost a lot of pro-EU City support) or another - could see the member for Tatton as useful ballast.
I am sure Mr Osborne did consider quitting after the referendum - a referendum he argued against before the 2015 election as he believed it both let the Labour Party make a "pro-business, pro-EU" argument and one possible outcome was a clear and present danger to the UK economy.
But, as the fog of defeat has cleared, Mr Osborne's mind has cleared.
Not leader, not this time. But this is certainly no farewell.
The strikes follow a statement by Russia's security chief that a bomb brought down a Russian airliner over Egypt last month, killing 224.
Sinai Province, an IS-linked Egyptian group, said it had downed the jet.
Russian officials say the country's air force has flown 2,300 missions over Syria in the past 48 days.
In response to Friday's terror attacks in Paris, which killed 129 people and wounded a further 352, Russian warships have been ordered to work "as allies" with their French counterparts in the Mediterranean.
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Speaking at a security meeting held on Monday night, Russian President Vladimir Putin said the country's air campaign in Syria would intensify.
"The combat work of our aviation in Syria should not only be continued, but it should be intensified to make the criminals understand that vengeance is imminent," he said.
Sinai Province said in a statement that the attack on the Metrojet airliner was a response to Russian air strikes that had killed "hundreds of Muslims" in Syria.
On Tuesday, FSB chief Alexander Bortnikov said that "traces of foreign explosives" were found on the wreckage of the plane. Mr Putin vowed to "find and punish" those behind the attack.
As well as targeting IS, Russian warplanes are supporting Syrian government forces against various rebel groups - a source of tension between Mr Putin and his US and UK counterparts.
France has also vowed to intensify air strikes against IS after Friday's attacks in Paris were linked to the group. At least 129 people were killed in several co-ordinated attacks in the city and a further 352 injured.
Both Russian and US officials have said they will coordinate closely with France to target IS in the wake of the attacks in Paris.
Recent attacks linked to Islamic State
13 Nov - Paris, France Gunmen and suicide bombers kill at least 129 people.
12 Nov - Beirut, Lebanon Suicide bombers kill at least 43 people.
31 Oct - Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt Plane crashes killing all 224 on board. Russia says a bomb caused the crash and an IS affiliate says it was responsible.
10 Oct - Ankara, Turkey Suicide bombers kill 102 people at peace rally. Turkey blames IS, but no group claims the attack.
18 Jul - Khan Bani Saad, Iraq Car bomb kills 120 people.
26 Jun - Sousse, Tunisia Gunman kills 38 people, mostly British tourists.
26 Jun - Kuwait City, Kuwait Suicide attack kills at least 27 people.
22 May - Qatif, Saudi Arabia Two suicide bombs kill at least 21 people.
21 Mar - Sanaa, Yemen Suicide bombings kill at least 137 people.
18 Mar - Tunis, Tunisia Gunmen kill 19 people, mostly foreign tourists.
Correction, 18 November: In an earlier version of this story, we reported that the Russians had launched missiles from a submarine in the Mediterranean. This was based on reports on the Russian media which we now believe to be incorrect.
Winifred Lockhart, 70, grew up in care in the island and moved to the UK in the early 1960s, but returned to give evidence to the care inquiry.
She was first female resident of what was called the Jersey Home for Boys.
Mrs Lockhart said when she tried to speak out to senior staff she would be hit and told to stop making up stories.
She told of her experience of living in care in the island to the Independent Jersey Care Inquiry, which is investigating historical abuse allegations in Jersey's care system.
Mrs Lockhart described being beaten while living with one foster family and made to wash outside while other children used a tin bath inside.
She said she regularly wet the bed, was refused drinks by her foster mother and, on one occasion, was made to sleep on straw in a shed.
Mrs Lockhart said: "She would just stop the drinks, told me I wasn't allowed a drink. I would have one [in the] early morning and that was it."
She described collecting rain in a tin can so she had something to drink.
After suffering from nits and scabies, she was taken from the foster family and sent to the Jersey Home for Girls, the inquiry was told.
After problems at the Jersey Home for Girls, where she said the head of the home regularly beat the children under her care, she was moved to the home later known as Haut de la Garenne.
Mrs Lockhart said after a few months of being in the home she started to hear boys screaming things such as "please leave me alone" in the night.
She was in a room on her own opposite a dormitory for boys aged 13 and 14. She said a number of boys were taken, but one boy in particular seemed to be singled out, the inquiry heard.
Mrs Lockhart said: "I would say to him 'he came and got you again in the night' and he would say: 'Shhh. Don't say anything'."
She said: "This used to go on quite a bit and when I used to tell them in the morning they would say stop making up stories, stop lying and they would hit me then and then they put me under psychiatrists.
"I knew I wasn't dreaming it, I knew I was telling the truth even to this day.
"I would speak to the other boys in the same dormitory and they knew what was happening and could hear.
"They wouldn't intervene because they didn't think they would be believed."
She also described a "kind of dungeon" where the boys were taken as a punishment that was known as being sent "down there".
Mrs Lockhart eventually went to live with her uncle when she was aged about 15 before moving to the UK.
The inquiry continues.
The head of the world animal health organisation (OIE) told BBC News that the invisible killer could be eliminated for one tenth of the cost of treating patients.
The most recent figures suggest around 55,000 people die every year from rabies.
Around 40% of those who are bitten are under 15 years of age.
One of the world's oldest diseases, rabies is the distressing result of exposure to a virus usually transmitted through the saliva of an infected dog or bat.
The virus affects the central nervous system and causes the brain to swell. If it is not treated before it reaches the nerves, it is incurable.
In 1885, Louis Pasteur and Emile Roux famously developed a vaccine which has saved millions of people from the dreaded illness.
This vaccine has been used to help eliminate the disease in many parts of the world, removing it from dogs and other species that can transmit the infection, including foxes.
But the costs of preventing it remain relatively high and this means that in poor parts of Asia, the disease persists.
The victims are often children, who perhaps approach infected dogs without fear or awareness.
As very young victims often aren't able to tell their parents what happened to them, health agencies fear that the actual total of those who die from the disease is much higher than the official figures.
Speaking at the annual congress of the OIE in Paris, Dr Vallat lamented the fact that international investment in eliminating the disease in dogs wasn't forthcoming.
"Even when we demonstrate that the cost of vaccinating dogs is 10% of the cost of treating people bitten by dogs in the world, we are not able to convince all donors of that message," he told BBC News.
He contrasted the lack of investment in tackling rabies with the headlines that have greeted the recent discovery of Mers, the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome.
"Rabies is mainly in a small number of countries, it is not visible. We have up to 70,000 children dying every year in terrible pain, and the media don't take that, they take Mers with 200 very old people dying," he said.
Another cause for concern is that some of the vaccines being used to prevent rabies in dogs and other animals are substandard and can actually make the situation worse.
"You can have very cheap vaccines for rabies, these are live vaccines, if these are not controlled you can infect the animals with the virus," said Dr Vallat.
"Our standard is to use inactive vaccine, the animal makes antibodies on the basis of a non-living virus."
In many parts of the world, including Eastern Europe, the authorities respond to outbreaks of rabies by culling dogs in an area.
Animal welfare campaigners point to examples such as Romania, where the authorities have carried out large scale culls, funded by the EU.
They are concerned that this practice is counter-productive.
"The reaction in Romania when clusters of cases occur is to go out and cull dogs in a kind of knee-jerk way," said Dr Mark Jones from Humane Society International.
"The problem with that is that they are usually carried out in a very inhumane way and you are also disturbing the dog population leading to more interaction between dogs and that can result in you having a higher proportion of animals with rabies within an area than you did before."
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Nanniyode is a manufacturing hub for fireworks.
More than half of the 500 families in the village either own or work in the 100 fireworks manufacturing units situated there.
This would usually be a bustling and busy time in the village. Given that it is the "season of festivals", the demand for fireworks in Kerala this time of the year is traditionally high.
But when we visit Nanniyode, there is nothing there but an uneasy quiet - all the factories are shut.
Work has come to a standstill since Sunday's temple tragedy, and there is a palpable sense of fear.
"Whenever there is any kind of mishap related to fireworks in the state, the police rush to our village, raid workshops and arrest people," Nand Kumar, a factory owner tells the BBC.
Many in the village are worried.
Ramachandran who uses only one name, works at Mr Kumar's factory. "Our work is seasonal, we have to earn enough to last the whole year, but we are now unemployed during this season of festivals," he says, pointing to a closed manufacturing unit.
Nanniyode has an interesting history of fireworks production.
The villagers took to manufacturing them in the 1970s after a few local men received training in the art.
Mr Kumar's grandfather was one of them.
The profession then was particularly lucrative, because temples, who have a long history of using fireworks to mark festivals, had just begun "competing" with one another to see who could put on a more impressive display.
However, Mr Kumar says that it was the "love of the craft" and not business that had attracted his grandfather to the profession.
Fireworks also play an important role in the local beliefs and folklore.
While some believe that gods "like fireworks as a form of worship", others believe that the smoke they generate is "good for respiratory ailments and purifies the environment".
But not all the fireworks manufacturing hubs in Nanniyode are legal - only 18 of the 100 manufacturing units in the village have the requisite government licenses.
These specify guidelines such as chemical usage and the distance units should maintain from residential areas.
Despite the dangers, manufacturing fireworks has been the sole source of income for many here.
Baby E, like many women in Nanniyode, prepares the chemical mix that is used in the fireworks.
It is not considered skilled work and is, therefore, mostly done by the village women.
"My husband fell sick after our wedding, this was the only work I knew," she says.
"It has helped me raise my children, marry them off and allowed me to build this small house."
But Baby E's children do not work in a fireworks unit, and work as daily wage labourers instead.
She is glad, because she believes it is a dangerous job, with a constant risk to life and threat of police action.
Mr Kumar also doesn't want his children to follow in his footsteps, though his reasons are different.
"I have two daughters, and here women do not run such risky businesses. But if I find a conscientious boy I'd be happy to impart my ancestral knowledge to him."
The family said they were "delighted" that their daughter had come home.
They also said they would be taking legal advice, and that serious questions have arisen over the procedures used in the case.
The blonde-haired, blue-eyed girl had been removed by police from her Tallaght home and taken into temporary care.
The family have supported calls from human rights group Pavee Point for an independent inquiry into the investigation.
In a statement issued through their solicitor the family said: "Her removal has been a cause of huge upset to her parents, her brothers and sisters, and the young girl herself.
"They now intend to concentrate on looking after their family and, in particular, in trying to reassure their daughter that she will be left in their care.
"Our clients also wish to say they do not believe that what has happened to their family over the few days should ever have happened.
"They do not accept that this was any proper or sufficient basis to take their daughter away from them.
"They believe that there are very serious questions arising about the procedures used in this case but are going to wait for things to settle down and consider their position and that of their daughter in light of recent events and will be taking legal advice in respect of this."
A 21-year-old sister of the child, who can not be identified for legal reasons, said their mother had not eaten for three days because she was so distraught.
"Everyone was very sad," she said. The sister added she hoped no other family would have to go through a similar ordeal.
Meanwhile, a two-year-old boy from a Roma family who was briefly taken into care in County Westmeath has been reunited with his parents.
The boy was taken from his family on Tuesday in Athlone and returned a day later.
Alan Shatter, the Irish minister for justice, said he will be asking the Garda (Police) Commissioner for a report on the two cases.
A Garda statement said: "Protecting vulnerable children is of paramount importance to An Garda Síochána and we continue to work in partnership with the HSE (Health Service Executive) and other agencies to ensure children's safety.
"An Garda Síochána want to assure the community that we take extremely serious all reports received from members of the public concerning child welfare issues."
The Irish police action took place against the background of international interest in the case of a blonde-haired child being taken from a Roma family in Greece last week.
Greek police are investigating whether the girl had been abducted.
Strutt's Mills in Belper is leaking badly, historian Roger Shelley said.
Amber Valley Borough Council said it was considering a compulsory purchase order to protect the buildings.
Owners First Investment said it had a strategy to turn the mills into a mix of flats and retail space. It said a maintenance programme was ongoing.
Mary Smedley, a trustee of the Strutt's North Mill Trust, said: "They need serious TLC to get them into some sort of state where they are viable for conversion.
"Everybody needs to work together to find the solution for this."
Historian Roger Shelley said: "It's not a surprise to anyone who wanders around the buildings both from the outside and inside - you will be aware that there are window panes missing, downpipes blocked and the roof leaking.
"The damage is on a big scale and the costs are multiplying. Any problems have been building up over a number of years and that means the solutions won't be a quick fix either."
A report from Amber Valley Borough Council said the Grade I listed North Mill and the Grade II listed East Mill both need repairs as they have suffered "significant damage".
Some parts of the two mills remain in good condition and are leased to local businesses.
Jedediah Strutt, considered a "giant of the industrial revolution", built the mills along the River Derwent in the 18th Century.
Belper North Mill, also known as Strutt's North Mill, was given Unesco World Heritage Status in 2001.
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The Wales forward came off the bench after 77 minutes in Saturday's 4-1 win over Juventus in Cardiff as Real Madrid secured a third title in four seasons.
The 27-year-old, who signed a deal until 2022 in October, has been linked with a move away from the Bernabeu.
"We are winning trophies and I am happy. I have signed a long-term contract at Madrid," said Bale.
"My family is happy and I am happy, so yes we will continue what we are doing."
The former Tottenham player joined Real in 2013 for a then world record fee of £85m.
"It's the reason why I came to Real Madrid - to win trophies. We're enjoying winning them at the moment, so we'll continue to do so," Bale added.
"Three Champions Leagues in four seasons isn't too bad.
"I think we can get better. We are still quite young as a whole team and we have a great squad."
Bale was determined to play in the final in his home city despite still being troubled by an ankle injury.
He had surgery in November and suggested that without the Cardiff final in his sights he may have opted for a second operation.
"It's been difficult with my ankle this year," Bale said.
"I obviously came back way too early from my surgery and I suffered a bit.
"We were considering more at one point, but I've worked tirelessly hard to get back and to get ready for this game.
"I need to go on holiday and rest, and come back stronger next season - mainly for my ankle just to get it properly recovered.
"Then I'll obviously do some work in the off-season to get it stronger and ready for next season so I'll be firing on all cylinders."
Bale replaced Karim Benzema with Real leading 3-1 thanks to two Ronaldo goals and a long-range strike from Casemiro.
"I was just happy to get on for the last few minutes," Bale said.
"We just had to go for it. It's always cagey in a final but we're happy with the win.
"To play a final in your home city is incredible, but to win it is even better, a great experience.
"Cardiff has held an incredible event and we've literally not had a problem since we've been here; it's been immaculate.
"I don't think many players have won the Champions League in their home city where they were born, so it's a great memory to have."
Bale became the sixth player to lift the Champions League or European Cup in their home town, and the first since Nicolas Anelka with Real in 2000 in Paris.
The others are Angelo di Livio (Rome 1996), Alex Stepney (London 1968), and Miguel Munoz and Enrique Mateos (both Madrid 1957).
Bale also became the first Welshman to win the trophy three times - he also won it with Real last season and in 2014 - edging ahead of Ian Rush, Ryan Giggs and Joey Jones.
Bale is suspended for Wales' World Cup qualifier in Serbia on 11 June and will rest over the summer in a bid to regain full fitness, having also suffered calf problems along with his ankle injury.
"It's very disappointing to be honest, but I'll be cheering on the boys," Bale added.
"We always stick together, work as a team. We're never scared to battle and fight."
Mr Mold polled 58,175 votes in the final round of counting ahead of Kevin McKeever (49,161, Labour), after UKIP's Sam Watts (27,708) was ruled out following the first round of voting.
Mr Mold replaces fellow Conservative PCC Adam Simmonds on Thursday.
He said: "I may not always be right but it won't be for the want of trying."
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An incident took place on Mulcaster Street around 20:00 GMT on Friday and police have launched an appeal for witnesses.
Brent Bisson, 27, was arrested and has been charged with grave and criminal assault.
He will appear at Jersey Magistrates' Court on Monday.
The building was to be pulled down as part of a redevelopment of the Lawn complex in Lincoln.
Woodside Wildlife Park stepped in to save it and moved it to their site near Langworth.
It will be used as an attraction to house exotic animals, crocodiles and coral reef aquariums.
The conservatory is named after the Lincolnshire botanist who travelled with Captain James Cook on his first voyage to the South Pacific in 1768.
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Park officials said it will tell the story of the voyage and "highlight changes in our planet".
Ben Pascoe, head keeper at the park, said: "We are currently working with London Zoo and Chester Zoo to discuss what will work best inside.
"We are hoping to have some kind of crocodilian and red panda species inside."
The park was home to the oldest tiger in the UK, which died in September aged 22.
Tango moved to Lincolnshire in 2014 after being rescued from a German circus, along with his partner Julia.
The park is also home to white wolves, lemurs, sloths and birds of prey.
The conservatory is due to open at Easter.
It's original home, the Grade II listed Lawn complex, was sold by City of Lincoln Council last year to the Stokes coffee company which plans to open a cafe and museum on the site.
The council has donated a parcel of land at the Lawn to the Sir Joseph Banks Society to build a new conservatory.
That follows an admission by VW that it had found "irregularities" in carbon dioxide emissions levels that could affect 800,000 vehicles.
It came to light as a result of an internal investigation by the firm following the diesel emissions scandal.
The UK said it was "pressing VW to provide urgent clarity".
On Tuesday, the company admitted that an internal investigation had revealed that carbon dioxide emissions and fuel consumption were understated during standards tests on about 800,000 cars.
VW said the issue mainly affected diesel cars.
However, on Wednesday Germany's Transport Minister Alexander Dobrindt told the country's parliament:
"Today we were told that among the affected vehicles are 98,000 petrol vehicles".
Meanwhile the UK's Department for Transport said it "takes the unacceptable actions of Volkswagen extremely seriously."
"We are pressing VW to provide urgent clarity on the situation... This [CO2] development underlines the importance of the government's ongoing investigation to establish the extent to which defeat devices have been used," a spokesperson said.
VW, Skoda, Audi and Seat vehicles could be affected and the company estimates the CO2 problem could cost it about €2bn (£1.4bn).
VW had already set aside €6.7bn (£4.7bn) to meet the cost of the initial emissions scandal.
News of the issue with carbon dioxide emissions sent VW shares down by 5.6% on Wednesday.
The firm's shares have lost about a third of their value since September, when the scandal first broke.
It came to light after the US Environmental Protection Agency found VW software had detected when vehicles were undergoing emissions tests, and altered the way they operated to give more favourable results.
On Monday, US authorities also alleged that VW had fitted nitrogen oxide defeat devices on 3.0 litre diesel engines used in Porsche, Audi and VW vehicles - a claim VW denied.
Porsche also denied the allegations, but its North American division announced it is discontinuing sales of Porsche Cayenne diesel sport utility vehicles until further notice.
The carmaker is recalling 11 million diesel vehicles worldwide that were fitted with the software that circumvented tests for emissions of nitrogen oxide.
That recall is for cars with variants of the EA 189 diesel engine built to the "Euro 5" emissions standard.
Meanwhile. Volkswagen is recalling 92,000 cars in the US over a mechanical problem that could affect vehicles' brakes.
The German carmaker said part of the camshaft could shear off, causing loss of vacuum in the power brakes, which could lengthen stopping distances.
Wednesday's recall includes Beetle, Golf, Jetta and Passat models from 2015 and 2016. The cars have 1.8 litre and 2 litre turbocharged petrol engines.
VW discovered the problem after getting reports of camshaft failures. A fix is expected by the end of March.
The government has carried out a new assessment of the risk they had of becoming infected by wild birds.
The move brings the rules for poultry in higher-risk areas in line with the rest of England.
Normally-free range eggs have had to carry labels making it clear birds have been kept inside for their welfare.
Those stickers will no longer be needed after Thursday.
But once the rules are lifted, all eggs from birds which remain housed are no longer considered to be free range and cannot be labelled as such, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said.
Chief veterinary officer Nigel Gibbens said the decision affected flocks still being housed, or placed under netting, to protect them because they were near lakes or estuaries where wild birds gather.
Poultry and bird keepers in England have to continue to comply with strict biosecurity measures to prevent the spread of bird flu. A ban on poultry fairs and gatherings remains in place.
Prof Gibbens said: "Based on the latest evidence on reduced numbers of migratory and resident aquatic wild birds, we believe that kept birds in the areas we previously designated as higher risk are now at the same level of risk as the rest of England and may now be let outside.
"However, all keepers must still observe strict disease prevention measures to reduce the risk of contamination from the environment, where the virus can survive for several weeks in bird droppings."
Chicken, turkey and duck owners were first told to keep their birds inside - or take steps to separate them from wild birds - in December, as highly pathogenic avian flu H5N8 was circulating in Europe.
Since then, there have been a number of outbreaks of the virus in poultry and wild birds in the UK.
The Scottish government has previously said restrictions on bird keepers in Scotland are staying in place until the end of April.
Measures in Wales had previously been relaxed.
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Alan Melville, who tops UKIP's Lothian list, wants a change of leadership.
The party leader in Scotland, David Coburn, has dismissed the criticism as "a lot of tosh".
West of Scotland candidate Robert Malyn quit on Sunday. Two months ago, 10 senior activists wrote to the party's headquarters demanding a new spokesman in Scotland.
UKIP's leader Nigel Farage said they were "jealous" not to have been selected as candidates.
Now, Alan Melville has echoed their concerns.
He said a leadership change was the "only way to save the party".
Mr Melville added: "The ongoing allegations of personal bias and the bypassing of independent assessment remain extremely damaging to David personally and to the wider party.
"Waffle about 'disappointed candidates' and 'jealousy' do not hold water when you consider the abilities of those candidates not selected when compared to many of those in high position.
"Combined with rumours of deliberate sabotage of 'unfavoured' candidates' campaigns such as the withholding of party campaign materials from 'rebel' branches, including my own Edinburgh branch, there can be no doubt that the party in Scotland stands on the brink of disintegration and all-out civil war.
"This would be a tragedy for UKIP, for the EU-sceptic movement in Scotland, and for the Scottish people.
"Holyrood has almost no proper opposition to the pro-EU position of its party leaders, nor to its nanny-state default bias.
"This has resulted in ever-extending petty - and not so petty - authoritarianism at all levels of government in Scotland, culminating in the appalling Named Person Scheme and in the SNP's stated desire to abolish the ancient principle of corroboration from Scots law.
"A libertarian party such as UKIP would make a powerful and vocal counterweight to the consensus but it now appears that senior elements within the party have placed their own interests above that vital duty."
David Coburn said Mr Melville seemed "bitter and twisted" and questioned his suitability to remain as a candidate.
He told BBC Scotland's Call Kaye programme: "We've got about seven people out of a thousand who are grumpy, who didn't make the grade and didn't get where they wanted.
"There are some people in the party who don't like the party being modernised.
"I am radical. I want to see UKIP in Scotland as a radical party, not a stick-in-the-mud, stodgy sort of affair."
A UKIP spokesman said: "Mr Melville has had months to raise any concerns he may have but he has remained silent until four days before the election.
"I think that's a sign that he is trying his best to damage the party rather than air any genuine concerns, at a time that he should really be telling the public what he can do for them if they elect him.
"He is clearly one of the very small bitter and twisted gang, which is a shame for him, as he will miss out on UKIP moving forward and making the successes we will achieve this year and in future."
Fe benderfynodd yr aelod dros Canol Caerdydd i adael cabinet yr wrthblaid mewn protest yn erbyn penderfyniad yr arweinydd, Jeremy Corbyn, i orfodi ASau Llafur i gefnogi'r mesur i adael yr Undeb Ewropeaidd.
Fe benderfynodd y Goruchaf Lys ddydd Mawrth na all y Llywodraeth weithredu Erthygl 50 o Gytundeb Lisbon heb ganiatâd aelodau seneddol.
Dywedodd Ms Stevens AS wrth arweinydd Jeremy Corbyn ei bod wedi cael ei hannog gan ei hetholwyr yng Nghanol Caerdydd i bleidleisio yn erbyn y mesur, ac felly ei bod yn dadlau yn erbyn gosod chwip y blaid Lafur ar ASau'r blaid wrth bleidleisio ar y ddeddfwriaeth.
Ms Stevens yw'r ail aelod o fainc blaen Llafur i roi'r gorau i'w dyletswyddau oherwydd y bleidlais.
Mae ASau Llafur eraill wedi dweud y byddant yn gweithredu yn erbyn y penderfyniad.
Mewn llythyr at Mr Corbyn, dywedodd Ms Stevens: "Pan fyddaf yn pleidleisio, byddaf yn cynrychioli fy etholwyr, mae llawer iawn ohonynt, gan gynnwys nifer fawr o aelodau'r blaid Lafur a phleidleiswyr eraill, wedi fy annog yn gryf i bleidleisio i'r perwyl hwn."
Dywedodd hefyd fod y Prif Weinidog, Theresa May yn "arwain ein gwlad tuag at allanfa creulon, gan achosi niwed i'r bobl a'r cymunedau rydym yn eu cynrychioli."
Wrth ymateb i ymadawiad Jo Stevens o'r fainc flaen, diolchodd Jeremy Corbyn iddi am ei gwaith fel llefarydd y blaid ar Gymru.
Ychwanegodd: "Mae hi'n gaffaeliad mawr i'r blaid Lafur ac yn llais cryf dros Gymru.
"Rwy'n deall yr anhawsterau y mae Jo ac ASau eraill yn eu cael wrth wynebu mesur Erthygl 50. Mae'n ddealladwy fod rhwygiadau ymysg ASau sydd yn cynrychioli etholaethau oedd wedi pleidleisio'n gryf o blaid aros yn yr Undeb Ewropeaidd.
"Ond mae'n beth cywir i'r blaid Lafur barchu canlyniad y refferendwm ar adael yr Undeb Ewropeaidd.
"Rydym wedi dweud ar hyd y daith na fydd Llafur yn rhwystro'r gwaith o danio Erthygl 50 ac i'r perwyl hwnnw rydym yn gofyn ar holl ASau'r blaid i bleidleisio o blaid y mesur yn ei ail ddarlleniad yr wythnos nesaf.
"Rwy'n dymuno'r gorau i Jo Stevens ac yn edrych ymlaen at gydweithio gyda hi yn y dyfodol", meddai.
The singer, 20, said sorry in a video he released online shortly after appearing on the Ellen DeGeneres Show.
"How I've been acting in the last year, year and a half, is not who I am. I was pretending," he said.
"Often we pretend to be something we are not to cover up for what we are truly feeling inside."
The reason for releasing the video isn't clear but it seems Justin Bieber may have been unhappy with his interview with chat show host Ellen.
During the minute-long apology recorded at home he explains that the live studio audience meant he felt uncomfortable.
"I was afraid of what people are thinking of me right now," he said. "It's been a minute since I have made a public appearance.
"I didn't want to come off arrogant or conceited."
In a tweet after he left the television studio he wrote: "@TheEllenShow. Happy birthday! Sorry I was so nervous."
To which Ellen DeGeneres replied: "You were perfect. Thanks for surprising me!"
Over the last 18 months the 20-year-old Canadian has made headlines for all the wrong reasons.
In June last year he issued an apology after footage of him leaked using the n-word while telling a joke about the Ku Klux Klan.
Justin Bieber was charged with assault and dangerous driving after crashing his quad bike into a minivan near his hometown of Stratford, Ontario.
He's also serving two years probation for throwing eggs at his neighbour's house in LA.
Justin Bieber's last official release was the album, Believe, in June 2012.
Now 20, he's been one of the most photographed and talked about musicians since being discovered by fellow singer Usher at the age of 14.
Many believe his behaviour may be down to the transition he's making musically and in his own personal life.
He's switching from squeaky clean teen pop star to an adult, an issue he addresses in his video.
"Growing up in this business is hard. Growing up in general is hard. I felt awkward up there," he said.
He also says he's much more at home on a stage performing than facing an audience for a television interview.
"I felt people were judging me for what happened in the past. I just want to make the best impression on people, be kind, loving and gently.
"People can call me a softie but that's how my mum raised me."
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Famous for roles from Shakespeare to detective Wallander, he was honoured for services to drama and the community of Northern Ireland.
The 51-year-old, who was born in Belfast, said he felt "humble, elated and incredibly lucky".
Branagh also had a starring role in this summer's Olympics Opening Ceremony.
He played Isambard Kingdom Brunel in the show, which was directed by Danny Boyle.
Speaking after his investiture, he said: "I'm so very pleased this has happened in the year of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, the Olympics and the Paralympics.
"It's been a hell of a year for the UK and I feel very honoured to be a tiny part of this part of it."
Now Sir Kenneth Branagh, he joins the ranks of fellow thespians such as Alec Guinness, Patrick Stewart and Laurence Olivier, who he played in last year's My Week With Marilyn.
Branagh spent his early years in Northern Ireland, where he is now honorary President of NICVA supporting all the organisations in the voluntary and community sector.
He moved to Reading with his family when he was nine, where he first adopted an English accent to avoid bullying.
Celebrating the work he does in his homeland, he said: "It is special because it is to do with my roots in Northern Ireland and to do with a lot of work other people do and I'm happy to be associated with, lots of charitable institutions and real hard work on the part of a lot of people over there.
"I'm pleased the link with Northern Ireland is recognised, I'm very proud of coming from there."
The knighthood comes as press reports suggest Branagh will take on one of the great Shakespearian roles, playing Macbeth for the first time in his career at the Manchester International Festival next summer.
Newcastle City Council is considering enlarging the Blue House roundabout near Gosforth, which would involve laying road on two surrounding moors.
Protesters described the plans as "overkill" and a "monstrosity".
The council said the roundabout was the worst in the city for causing injuries and it had a responsibility to make it safer.
A spokesman said: "Making changes at a location like this inevitably requires difficult decisions."
Henry Gallagher, the Liberal Democrat councillor for East Gosforth on Newcastle City Council, was one of those who organised the protest.
He said: "The strength of feeling against these plans was clear to see and I really hope the council takes notice.
"We accept the roundabout needs improving but this plan is absolute overkill, surely there must be another plan which sits within the footprint of the existing junction.
"This is a popular recreation area and while there would still be some green area left it would be right next to this monstrosity of a junction, we would basically have a motorway on the moor."
The researchers have been studying samples brought up from Vostok - the largest subglacial lake in Antarctica.
Last year, the team drilled through almost 4km (2.34 miles) of ice to reach the lake and retrieve samples.
Vostok is thought to have been cut off from the surface for millions of years.
This has raised the possibility that such isolated bodies of water might host microbial life forms new to science.
"After putting aside all possible elements of contamination, DNA was found that did not coincide with any of the well-known types in the global database," said Sergei Bulat, of the genetics laboratory at the St Petersburg Institute of Nuclear Physics.
"We are calling this life form unclassified and unidentified," he explained.
Dr Bulat added that close attention was focused on one particular form of bacteria whose DNA was less than 86% similar to previously existing forms.
"A level of 90% usually means that the organism is unknown."
However, other researchers said the data needed to be carefully verified by other experts before the claims could be confirmed.
The Vostok drilling project took years to plan and implement. The lake's location in the heart of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet makes it one of the most inhospitable environments on the planet.
It is the place where thermometers recorded the lowest ever temperature on Earth - minus 89C on 21 July 1983.
Vostok Station was set up by the Russians in 1956, and their seismic soundings soon suggested there was an area of liquid underneath all the ice. However, it was only in the 1990s that British scientists, with the help of radar, were able to determine the full extent of the sub-glacial feature.
With an area of 15,000 square km and with depths reaching more than 800m, Lake Vostok is similar in size to Lake Baikal in Siberia or Lake Ontario in North America.
The US recently broke through into another Antarctic lake - Whillans. They have also reported the discovery of microbial life in the lake waters. But Lake Whillans is thought by some to have been less isolated than Vostok.
A British expedition to drill through 3km (1.8 miles) of Antarctic ice into Lake Ellsworth was called off late last year after engineers were unable to join the main borehole with a parallel hole that was to be used to recover drilling water.
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The book, which is used in hundreds of private schools, features a science experiment in which two cats are placed in separate boxes - only one of which has airholes.
Activists argued that it endangered the lives of children and animals.
Many schools have now scrapped the offending page.
The passage in Our Green World: Environment Studies is meant to demonstrate that air is essential for life. It reads: "Put a small kitten in each box. Close the boxes. After some time open the boxes. What do you see? The kitten inside the box without holes has died."
The book's publisher has promised it will not appear in the next edition, according to the Indian Express.
Parvesh Gupta of PP Publications said: "A parent had called us a couple of months ago and asked us to remove the text from the book because it was harmful for children. We recalled books from our distribution channel and will come out with a revised book next year."
Shocked Indians shared their disgust online, saying the book was wholly unsuitable for children.
"Person who wrote such experiment must be put in instead of animal. Fools," wrote a tweeter with the handle Thinking Indian.
"It might be stupid, but they were endangering the lives of the children and animals by citing such an experiment," Vidhi Matta, spokeswoman for the Federation of Indian Animal Protection Organisations, told the AFP news agency.
She admitted she did not know of anyone who had attempted the experiment.
Controversies over Indian textbooks are not uncommon.
A book in the western state of Gujarat made headlines in 2014 for claiming that Japan had dropped nuclear bombs on the US during the Second World War.
Just last week, a row erupted in Maharashtra state over a textbook that said "ugly" and "handicapped" brides had led to a rise in dowries being claimed by the groom's family.
Carnivores have also been a target for bile.
In 2012, a national text for 11-year-old students was discovered that said people who eat meat, "easily cheat, tell lies, forget promises, are dishonest and tell bad words, steal, fight and turn to violence and commit sex crimes".
It is the fallout from a "risk summit" focusing on Worcester Acute Hospitals Trust (WAHT), which according to NHS England is "experiencing difficulties".
"Bed occupancy", the body says, is too high, potentially jeopardising patient safety.
To try to boost the number of available beds, some non-urgent surgery will be delayed.
The BBC understands the trust's Worcestershire Royal Hospital has been running at up to 110% capacity.
NHS England - the body that leads the health service in the country - says the trust is working towards a national aim of 85% bed occupancy.
"This will also help with A&E flow through the hospital," a spokesperson said.
The situation is to be reviewed in mid-January.
"Risk summits" are a formal meeting between local authorities, hospital trusts - the provider organisation - and other health agencies, including NHS England, to identify and mitigate dangers for service users.
Thursday's meeting, NHS England said, was organised to discuss "concerns raised following a recent inspection by the Care Quality Commission" and "ensure that patient safety is maintained".
An NHS England spokesperson said: "It is common, at a risk summit, for health and social care organisations within a health economy to agree actions to assist a trust that is experiencing difficulties.
"To help reduce bed occupancy it is usual for a trust to postpone some non-life threatening elective surgeries. This is what WAHT will be doing."
A spokesperson for WAHT said: "The trust welcomes the support and advice received and will be working to confirm all required actions and improvements are fully implemented."
In a message on TV, they said they held the state broadcasting building, the airport and army barracks after a counter-coup attempt by loyalists of ousted President Amadou Toumani Toure.
However, some gunfire can still be heard in the city. Several people are believed to have been killed.
The junta handed power to an interim government after the March coup.
But the junta - led by Capt Amadou Sanago - is still thought to wield considerable influence in the West African country and opposes plans to send a regional peacekeeping force to the country.
In the TV message broadcast early on Tuesday, the coup leaders said the situation was under control after the clashes with members of the presidential guard and "foreign elements".
Members of the "Red Berets" presidential guards unit earlier reportedly entered the broadcaster's building, which had been controlled by pro-junta forces since the coup.
"These are elements of the presidential guard from the old regime and they're trying to turn things around," junta spokesman Bacary Mariko told the Reuters news agency.
Bamako-based journalist Martin Vogl said the airport and the junta's military base just outside the capital were also attacked.
He says it is not clear where the latest shooting is coming from.
The clashes reportedly came after junta loyalists tried to arrest the head of the presidential guard, whose forces decided to strike first.
One eyewitness told Reuters that the streets of Bamako were deserted. Electricity has been cut in several part of the city.
A spokesman for the regional body, Ecowas, told the BBC he was not surprised by the fighting because the junta was "still meddling" in the affairs of government.
"We urge [the military] to get back to barracks," said Sonny Ugoh.
He said there was "no alternative" to sending troops to Mali but stressed they were to help Mali fight rebels who have seized control of the three northern provinces of Timbuktu, Kidal and Gao - a mostly desert area the size of France.
The rebels are a combination of ethnic Tuareg separatists and Islamists, who want to impose Sharia law across the whole country.
The 22 March coup was led by soldiers who accused former President Toure of failing to combat the insurgency, which took advantage of the unrest to make rapid advances.
Martin Vogl says the coup leaders oppose Ecowas plans for interim President Dioncounda Traore to stay in power for a year while organising elections.
Despite officially handing over power on 12 April, the junta later went on to arrest a number of loyalist to the ousted president, prompting Mr Toure to flee to neighbouring Senegal.
Several others were hurt as thousands of fans danced in the streets and fired into the air in cities and towns.
About 20 people have been arrested, police say. The death was reported in the province of Helmand.
Afghanistan's last-gasp win left them 3-2 up at the end of a five-match series.
The victory in the United Arab Emirates cements their place in the top 10 one-day sides in the world.
In a video message to the nation, President Ashraf Ghani asked people not to celebrate the victory with gunfire.
Kabul's police chief and the head of the Afghan cricket board issued similar appeals.
How dangerous is firing a gun into the air?
"We were resting at night - suddenly we heard frightening firing," the brother of one of the victims said. "There was lots of firing - we wondered whether a coup was taking place.
"One of my brothers was on the third floor, my other brother went upstairs to call him to the ground floor then he was hit in the shoulder."
President Ghani had earlier congratulated the Afghan team, who won by two wickets in the fifth one-day international on Wednesday.
Gulbadin Naib hit an undefeated 82, a career best, to help secure victory.
His partnership with Rashid Khan yielded 85 runs and was central to Afghanistan's success.
"The partnership with Rashid helped and gave me the energy to carry on," Naib said.
Afghan captain Asghar Stanikzai said it was "a phenomenal achievement"
"Afghanistan are known for their ability to bounce back and we showed that today. It's a historic day for us."
Sediq Seddiqi, a spokesman for the ministry of interior, said warnings had been issued two weeks ago not to fire guns in celebration.
"We are working in all the provinces where firing has taken place and we hope that, with the help of the local people, we will identify those individuals," he said.
Carberry, 35, saw a specialist on Tuesday in the hope of being cleared to play for Hampshire in two T20 matches.
The left-hander's present condition is not thought at this stage to relate to a previous diagnosis of blood clots on one of his lungs in November 2010.
Hampshire face Glamorgan and Sussex in the T20 Blast on Thursday and Friday.
Wockhardt, which supplies the NHS with medicines such as insulin, is building a sterile manufacturing and testing facility at its site at Wrexham Industrial Estate.
The Indian company currently employs 380 people in Wrexham.
The announcement comes as Prime Minister Theresa May is on a trade mission to India with UK bosses.
She said: "For the near 400 people who work in the Wrexham manufacturing plant, and indeed the whole town, today's announcement is a huge vote of confidence in the workers and the local economy.
"But I want to see much more investment in Wales.
"And that's why I was so pleased to welcome two Welsh firms to my delegation for the trade trip to India, where they have been able to forge contacts and relationships with the investors of the future."
Wockhardt UK managing director Sirjiwan Singh said the investment "will ensure the global competitiveness of our operations and future manufacturing plans at Wrexham".
The chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, Senator Bob Corker, kicked it off saying of the Iran deal that he started "from a place of deep scepticism" about whether the agreement would achieve the objective of preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. That's on the muted end of the scale.
"It's going to hand a dangerous regime billions of dollars in sanctions relief while paving the way for a nuclear Iran," John Boehner, the speaker of the House, said.
"And this isn't about Democrats or Republicans, it's not a partisan issue at all, it's about right versus wrong.
"If in fact it's as bad a deal as I think it is at this moment, we're going to do everything we can to stop it."
And let's just whizz through some of the other attacks from the Republican presidential hopefuls.
"The Persians are laughing at us" - Donald Trump
"A dangerous, deeply flawed, and short-sighted deal" - Jeb Bush
Obama is "playing a dangerous game with our national security" - Chris Christie
"The president has given concession after concession to a regime that has American blood on its hands" - Marco Rubio.
Get the picture? But you know what has struck me more?
It has been the very muted response from the president's own supporters. There is no cheering, no high-fiving, no whooping or hollering.
Could US Congress torpedo the deal?
This deal may be historic, it may have moved the prospect of a full scale Middle East war further away, it may stop a nuclear arms race in the region, it may put on a new footing the toxic relations between Iran and the United States - but I'm not hearing champagne corks popping. And that MAY be because of my extensive use of the word may.
And it may also be because this is only being described as a "good" deal. Until a few weeks ago President Obama's key adviser on the deal was Dr Philip Gordon. He wrote a thoughtful article for Politico magazine where he said "the perfect is the enemy of the good".
And the deal hammered out exhaustingly in Vienna is not perfect. I've heard others who work for the administration describe how they would sit in the White House and watch the pundits and opponents go on the TV and say "what the president needs to do is get a better deal". And they would sit there - throwing in an expletive or two - and think "no kidding? Why didn't we think of that?"
By which, the pundits meant Iran needed to commit to ending its nuclear ambitions, agree to recognise the state of Israel, vow that it would no longer support Hezbollah, the Syrians or Shia militias, and then let anyone check in at any time to make sure they were being true to the word.
Ideally Iran would be waving a white flag while they walked into the conference room
But in the real world there was never going to be a deal if those were the demands. So what you are left with is an agreement which gives a lot of people - both Republican and Democrat - a lot of concerns, about the ending of the arms embargo on Iran, about how the verification process will work for the UN inspectors, about what happens at the end of the 10 years.
And ultimately the concern that this is a deal which doesn't see Iran's nuclear programme dismantled, it only halts the proliferation. There are myriad questions and entirely legitimate concerns.
And that has left some saying no deal would be better than this. While others say the West should have hung tough for a better deal.
But those sleep-deprived diplomats now wearily making their way home from Vienna after this drafting marathon would no doubt argue they have come with away with the best and only agreement that was available.
The problem is it's a bit like Churchill's maxim about democracy, that it's the worst form of government... except for all the others.
I don't know much about retail, but am guessing it's not much of a sales pitch to say: "Buy this deal, it's the least worst available in the shop."
Politics doesn't do nuance very well. Black and white is a lot easier. The president now has to sell nuance.
The Scottish government could not have put it more simply last week. It is adamant this will not be the return of "high stakes national testing" and that it will not be judging schools and teachers on the results of these assessments in isolation.
The government wants better data to help drive up the performance of children from less well off backgrounds - one of the First Minister's top priorities and an aim few, if indeed any, teachers would not share.
Yet some teachers clearly do not feel reassured.
They fear they will end up teaching children to pass tests and believe it is inevitable that unofficial league tables will be used by some to judge school or council performance.
Until more details of the tests and exactly what information will be publicly available are announced, it is hard to say just how justified the practical concerns of some teachers are.
If the new assessments are simply an adaptation, a standardisation, of the different tests currently used by many councils then some of the worries may be alleviated. Similarly if specific data about individual schools is not published then journalists and others would not be able to produce league tables.
However, some teachers clearly have underlying, principled concerns too. These may be harder to allay.
The stakes are potentially very high. This row could lead to one of the most serious disputes in education since devolution.
It is not sabre-rattling to suggest this could ultimately lead to a boycott of the new assessments although, for now, unions would prefer to reach a deal with the government.
Generally speaking, since devolution the unions and the politicians in charge of Scotland - SNP, Labour and Lib Dem - have had a constructive and positive relationship.
Even the concerns unions and many teachers had about the introduction of the National 4 and 5 qualifications and the changes to Highers have to be seen through that prism. The worries were, ultimately, about their implementation - not the principles involved. All sides wanted to make the changes work.
If the government cannot convince some teachers that the standardised assessments will not amount to the national testing they oppose it could face a real battle.
Yet the SNP is not the only party in favour of a form of national assessment: Labour and the Conservatives back that too.
This story could well run.
The north coast Seahawks have lost just once this season and boss Gary Taylor is upbeat for the fifth-round clash.
"We're top in our division and through to a cup final, so we will go there in good spirits," said Taylor.
"We've worked on a plan, on how to set up and we've nothing to lose, so hopefully we can spring a surprise."
Taylor had spells with Coleraine and Linfield as a striker while there's plenty of Irish Cup experience at the Mullaghacall club.
Assistant manager Anthony Gilmore scored for a losing Carrick Rangers side in the 1995 final while defender John Neill played for Coleraine in the decider 13 years later.
Glenavon will have to keep an eye on winger Ryan Doherty in the Mourneview Park tie.
"I can't understand why Ryan is still with us - he's been superb and we think he can play at a higher level," added Taylor, who has a 21-year association with Portstewart.
"Indeed, we have three or four here who could play at a higher level and the test for them is to prove they can do it on Saturday.
"To get the holders, in the first game of their defence, really is a great game for us.
"We will not go out all guns blazing as we respect Glenavon and they have quality players.
"Portadown scored two late goals to beat us in the Irish Cup a couple of years ago and I hope we give a good account of ourselves again."
There's live coverage of the Irish Cup fifth round on BBC Radio Ulster and the BBC Sport website
A motion has been tabled to Scottish Borders Council seeking the move.
A joint fatal accident inquiry into the deaths and one at the Snowman Rally in Inverness is to be held in July.
Councillor 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.
The inquiry, which will be held in Edinburgh, is due to begin on 17 July.
It 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.
A 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.
She has been asked to "work positively with all relevant parties" to restore the rally as quickly as possible.
The event has not been held on its traditional route since the deaths in 2014 and there are concerns over its long-term future.
They laboured at two runs an over on a slow pitch with Matty Potts claiming two wickets before a late finish.
Earlier, Durham lost five wickets for six runs in the middle of their innings with Marchant de Lange claiming 5-95.
However, a last-wicket stand of 68 between Barry McCarthy (30) and Chris Rushworth (38) took Durham to 402 and maximum batting points.
De Lange's performance was his first five-wicket haul for the county, as Michael Hogan passed 250 first-class wickets for Glamorgan and the returning Graham Wagg took his first wickets of the season.
Glamorgan will have to bat for two sessions to save the game, while Durham need to take wickets on a sluggish surface to earn their first win of the campaign.
Durham captain Paul Collingwood told BBC Newcastle:
"It's disappointing not to get another hundred but I'm delighted with the form, it's nice to feel comfortable and confident you're going to score runs.
"I'm delighted with the total we got on the board, I thought the partnership at the end was superb between Rushy (Chris Rushworth) and Baz McCarthy. It was crucial we got a few more runs on the board so we could put them under pressure.
"Glamorgan are going to make it difficult for us, but they're not getting ahead and that builds pressure in the dressing-room so if we can continue to keep them at two or three an over, it's going to take time to build a big enough lead to defend."
Glamorgan captain Michael Hogan told BBC Wales Sport:
"It's good to tick off little milestones (250 wickets) and I look forward to getting 300 next season hopefully.
"Marchant (de Lange) got his five-for, he bowled a lot of overs on the bounce, and he deserved it, he's been fantastic for us and hopefully many more five-fors to come.
"(The batting approach) is not necessarily about making sure we don't lose, but we need to learn how to play harder cricket, there's been countless times in the last few years where we've rolled over and it's good experience for the younger guys to battle out matches and come away with draws.
They believe Russian intelligence could be behind the hack, which targeted individual reporters, according to Associated Press.
Investigators do not believe the newspaper's whole network was affected, according to the official.
A Times spokeswoman said no internal systems had been affected.
"We have seen no evidence that any of our internal systems, including our systems in the Moscow bureau, have been breached or compromised," she said.
CNN first reported the story and said the intrusions go back months.
It's not clear what the motive is or how many reporters are affected.
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There is a suspicion that the same hackers who recently infiltrated Democratic Party organisations are "probably" responsible, reports ABC News.
In June, hackers breached Democratic National Committee computers and made public embarrassing emails that showed the Democratic leadership favouring then candidate Hillary Clinton ahead of her rival Bernie Sanders.
At the time, US officials said Russian government agencies were behind that hack although Russia denied any involvement. It is still being investigated.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump caused a storm when he appeared to invite Russian hackers to find emails handled by Hillary Clinton when she was secretary of state. He later said he was being sarcastic.
He was referring to emails Mrs Clinton failed to hand over to the FBI as the agency investigated her private email arrangements.
Ruth Appleby was told her daughter died after she gave birth in 1992 but later learnt thousands of Spanish babies were taken and given up for adoption.
Mrs Appleby, from North Yorkshire, had appealed to the EU over the lack of progress in her case.
The EU Committee on Petitions said it would contact the Spanish government.
A spokeswoman for the Parliament said: "The petition will be referred to the committee's new working group on children's rights.
"They also decided to send a letter to the Spanish authorities in order to encourage them to take the next steps."
Mrs Appleby, from Catterick Garrison, gave birth by Caesarean section at a hospital in La Coruna in northern Spain but the following day was told that the child had died.
"I never got to see my baby. We asked many times but we were never allowed to see her."
Spain's 'Niños robados' (stolen children)
When her daughter's remains were exhumed for cremation in 2010 Mrs Appleby said the skeleton she saw in the coffin appeared to be of a much older infant.
The following year she heard about the scandal of stolen babies in Spain and immediately thought there were similarities with her own daughter's case.
"It just started all sorts of doubts," she said. "For 19 years we believed that she had suddenly been taken ill and inexplicably died. It leaves a huge vacuum."
In 2012, she contacted the police in England who referred her case to the Spanish authorities, but she was unhappy with their handling of the case and petitioned the European Parliament.
Her petition was heard alongside similar ones from Spanish nationals.
Ankara is recalling its ambassador and freezing political visits as well as joint military projects, including exercises, Recep Tayyip Erdogan said.
The bill was passed by the French National Assembly on Thursday and is due to go before the Senate next year.
French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe has publicly opposed it.
Under the bill, those publicly denying genocide would face a year in jail and a fine of 45,000 euros (£29,000; $58,000).
Armenians say up to 1.5 million people were killed by the Ottoman Turks in 1915-16.
Ankara says closer to 300,000 people died, and that Turks were also killed as Armenians rose up against the Ottoman Empire when Russian troops invaded eastern Anatolia, now eastern Turkey.
By Hugh SchofieldBBC News, Paris
The Armenia vote has provoked large amounts of sound and fury, but will this bill become law? For the time being the answer is quite clearly No.
The bill is the work of a collection of private members who have large numbers of Armenians in their constituencies, and has the tacit backing of President Sarkozy who on a recent visit to Armenia hinted that France should legislate to make genocide denial illegal.
But everyone else in the French government thinks the bill is a diplomatic train wreck. They most emphatically do not want it to pass.
The bill will start out on a long procedural ramble through the Senate and back again to the Assembly; and then pshut! The lower house is dissolved in February, and it is back to square one.
So why all the fuss?
For electoral reasons it suits the bill's backers to make as much noise as possible, even if they know it has no chance of passing.
The Turks weren't going to take that lying down. And then ministers had to get involved in defence of French interests.
It has all indeed been a diplomatic disaster - all for a piece of law that will probably never even make it onto the statute books.
More than 20 countries have formally recognised the killings as genocide.
According to French news agency AFP, angry crowds in the Turkish capital, Ankara, have been chanting: "We have not committed genocide, we defended the homeland.
"Wait for us France, we will come."
Speaking in Ankara, Mr Erdogan suggested the bill would create lasting damage to relations with France.
"This will open very grave and irreparable wounds," he said.
Mr Erdogan told reporters: "This is politics based on racism, discrimination and xenophobia.
"This is using Turkophobia and Islamophobia to gain votes, and it raises concerns regarding these issues not only in France but all Europe."
He said Ankara would cancel permission for French military planes to land and warships to dock in Turkey as a result of the bill, Reuters news agency reports.
Relations between the two countries are at an all-time low thanks to French President Nicholas Sarkozy's opposition to Turkey's bid for membership of the EU, the BBC's David O'Byrne reports from Istanbul.
The bill's author, Valerie Boyer from France's ruling conservative UMP party, said she was "shocked" at Turkey's intervention.
"My bill doesn't aim at any particular country," she said.
"It is inspired by European law, which says that the people who deny the existence of the genocides must be sanctioned."
Maurice Delighazarian, 75, lost his grandparents in 1915.
"Our ancestors can finally rest in peace," he was quoted as saying by the Associated Press news agency in Paris.
Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian thanked the French parliament, and France's "top leadership" and its people, for the bill.
France had, he said, "once again proved its commitment to universal human values".
But Mr Juppe criticised the proposed law, which follows France's formal recognition of the killings as genocide in 2001. No penalty was attached for denial at the time.
Mr Juppe told reporters it was a critical juncture in the Middle East and he emphasised the role Turkey had been playing in the Arab Spring, as well as the strong economic ties that existed between Turkey and France.
"It [the bill] is useless and counter-productive," he said.
His disapproval appears to be in direct conflict with the tacit support that has been given by President Nicolas Sarkozy to the bill, the BBC's Christian Fraser reports from Paris.
There are some half a million ethnic Armenians living in France and their vote is considered important in next year's presidential election, our correspondent notes.
HMP and YOI Thorn Cross in Warrington, which houses about 380 inmates, was inspected in October last year.
Inspectors found inmates were able to access good education and vocational training opportunities.
Support to help prisoners resettle back into communities was also rated good.
Nearly three-quarters of prisoners were aged 30 or over when it was inspected and the majority were serving sentences of more than four years.
Thorn Cross was given the highest judgement of "good" in four assessment areas: safety, respect, purposeful activity and resettlement.
A report by HM Inspectorate of Prisons also found:
Inspector Peter Clarke made some recommendations including: improving food quality, ensuring prisoners had access to basic items such as cleaning materials, developing the diversity and equality inclusion policy and making sure prisoners' pay did not disadvantage those attending learning courses.
He added: "We concluded our inspection at a time when the prison was about to change governors so faced a time of potential disruption.
"The prison, however, was on a firm footing and well placed for the future. Managers and staff were to be congratulated for their hard work and success."
Josh Cathcart, from Dalgety Bay in Fife, was born with his right arm missing from the elbow down.
He said was "happy" because he used to get "badly bullied" and that he was now enjoying "stacking up blocks, tying a knot, pulling up my trousers".
The i-limb quantum was designed by Touch Bionics, based in Livingston in West Lothian.
Controlled by the wearer's muscle signals and a mobile app, the i-limb quantum is said to be the first prosthetic hand that can change grips with a gesture.
The wearer can activate the desired grip by moving the hand in any of four different directions.
The limb comes in three sizes, the smallest of which fits youngsters like Josh.
Josh said: "I got it put on about two days ago. It feels quite heavy. I can stick my thumb up. I can make a pinch grip, I can get a grip for cutting with a knife.
"I made myself a bagel yesterday. I can open bottles and packets with it, I can stack up blocks and I can build Lego with it."
Parents Clare and James said the new limb allowed Josh to live more independently.
Mrs Cathcart said: "Josh had been getting picked on and became quite withdrawn and upset, so we started looking for something a bit more advanced, something that moved.
"So, we had chats with him and then went on the internet and came across this company.
"He was born missing a hand. At first, I didn't really give it much thought to it, but as time went on I blamed myself for it.
"It gives him his independence, so he can now make his own food and tidy his own room."
Alison Goodwin, prosthetist at Touch Bionics, said: "Josh has spent this week with us being fitted with the Touch Bionics i-limb quantum prosthesis.
"He's the youngest we've fitted so far because of the extra small hand that we now have available, so it's been great to now have the experience this week of fitting the youngest-ever person with the i-limb hand.
"We do fit the hand worldwide but he's the first one that we have fitted here in Scotland, so it's great that he's a local lad.
"It works from electrodes which are positioned on the surface of his skin within the socket of his prosthesis, so this is the custom-made part which is fitted on to his residual limb.
"When he tenses those muscles, the electrodes open and close the hand."
The broadcaster said it had received "a number" of complaints following Week in Week Out's (WIWO) programme "The cost of saving the Welsh language".
Welsh language commissioner Meri Huws has sought an "urgent meeting" with BBC Wales Director Rhodri Talfan Davies.
Ofcom is assessing complaints about the programme on the grounds of "fairness".
Ms Huws, who wants to discuss the content of the programme, has made a similar request to the BBC Trustee for Wales, Elan Closs Stephens.
She told BBC Wales' Newyddion 9 she also wanted to raise "audience feedback" with the broadcaster.
BBC Wales issued an apology before WIWO was broadcast on Tuesday after admitting that data which previewed the programme "wasn't robust".
In the WIWO programme, Torfaen council estimated the potential cost of introducing the Welsh language standards could be £868,000.
The Welsh language society, Cymdeithas yr Iaith, has written to BBC Wales asking for an apology for what it called "prejudicial reporting and factual errors" and called for staff to receive training in Welsh language awareness.
Cymdeithas yr Iaith said: "We believe the programme was one-sided, included a number of inaccuracies, intentionally sought to create tensions between communities in order to get attention, and demonstrated a general bias against the Welsh language.
"When it comes to other equalities issues, the BBC would not have dared put a programme as flawed as this on air.
"We believe these inaccuracies, as well as the obvious bias in the programme, are very serious matters: it should not have been broadcast."
A BBC Wales spokesman said: "We have received a number of complaints about the Week In Week Out investigation, broadcast on Tuesday, May 24, and will deal with those in line with the BBC's complaints procedure.
"The team has a track record of delivering outstanding reports but we recognise that this particular investigation did not sufficiently explore the different viewpoints on the introduction of the new Welsh language standards."
A team of marine biologists from the University of St Andrews studied the vocal signatures of the mammals.
Their findings suggested that dolphins mimic those they are close to and want to be reunited with.
It was already known that dolphins develop their own individual whistle which describes their identity.
The team of Scottish and American scientists analysed recordings from wild and captive dolphins to identify which animals copy one another's signature whistle.
The St Andrews researchers, working with scientists at the Walt Disney World Resort in Florida, found the mimicking was only present in mothers and their offspring, as well as in adult males who copied those they had long-term associations with.
The research involved a group of dolphins in Sarasota Bay, which has been studied since the 1970s. The animals are brought into captivity for medical tests once a year, which allowed the marine biologists to record and study their calls.
Dr Stephanie King, from St Andrews University, said: "Interestingly, this mimicking only occurs in animals who have strong social bonds.
"It also only occurs when they are separated from each other, and this supports the idea that they want to reunite with the other animals.
"The next step is to do some experiments to play back their own calls and whistles to see if they can identify them."
The study also found that dolphins introduce slight changes into copies, avoiding confusion for the listener.
While vocal mimicking is found in other animals like song birds, the team believes dolphin calls offer an insight into the way complex language structures evolve.
Dr King said: "It is something we see in ourselves, but not in other animals.
"This could give us a real insight into how certain traits in language and communication have evolved."
Burgons of Eyemouth has started a consultation process with 32 permanent staff and 49 seasonal workers.
The company's owners said the move was in response to serious financial losses sustained by the business over the past few years.
Local politicians will meet the firm's management on Wednesday to discuss the future of the factory.
In a statement, the company's directors said: "The owners of Burgon have today informed their staff that due to continued losses at the business they are considering closing the Burgon operation at Eyemouth.
"As such, the owners have warned all the employees based at the site that their jobs are at risk of redundancy.
"Employee representatives will be appointed and will work closely with the owners to consider alternatives to redundancy or ways of avoiding redundancies.
"Burgons of Eyemouth was purchased from the previous owners in July 2012.
"Since then, and despite investments of over £500,000, the business has suffered serious financial losses that have been supported by the parent company (The Blue Sea Food Company).
"These losses can no longer be sustained."
They added: "Discussions have already commenced with staff, customers, suppliers, Scottish Enterprise, the local council, Marine Scotland and MSPs, as well as the wider seafood industry, to seek any way of either continuing the business or mitigating job losses."
Conservative MSP for Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire, John Lamont, said: "This is terrible news for staff in the run-up to Christmas.
"It would be a massive blow to families and the local economy to lose such a large and well-established employer.
"There will also be wider implications on the Berwickshire fishing industry if Burgons was to close."
He added: "I know the Scottish government have intervened before in similar circumstances, which is why I have written to the business minister to see what can be done."
SNP MP for Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk, Calum Kerr, said: "This news is a devastating blow to the workers at Burgons and their families and is clearly going to have a negative impact on the economy of Eyemouth and beyond.
"The fact that this dreadfully bad news has come in the run-up to Christmas makes it a particularly difficult time for those involved and I have the greatest sympathy for the situation they now find themselves in.
"I know that the Scottish government, Scottish Enterprise and Scottish Borders Council will all do everything they can to provide support.
"Ministers are already putting a dedicated team in place to provide help which is tailored to the individual needs of those involved."
Troops conducted house-to-house searches for several hours in a neighbourhood of Bangui believed to be a base for attacks against Muslims.
Automatic weapons, grenades, knives and ammunition were confiscated.
More than 250 military personnel were deployed in the disarmament drive.
Source: Index Mundi
The peacekeepers hope to secure the northern district of Boy Rabe.
It is a base for the anti-balaka militia - formed in response to killings by Muslim rebels and now blamed for their own revenge attacks.
The operation was not entirely successful. Some of the militia refused to disarm and one of its top leaders, Patrice Edouard Ngaissona, escaped capture.
The city's chief prosecutor said Mr Ngaissona was "the big fish who had to be detained", according to AFP news agency.
France is deploying a further 400 troops from Chad and Gabon, after French defence minister Jean-Yves le Drian admitted Paris had underestimated the level of violence and hatred in the Central African Republic.
That raises the total troop deployment of CAR's former colonial power, to 2,000.
The French military, which has been in the country since December, is working alongside 5,500 troops from other African countries.
The United Nations refugee agency has described the situation as "a humanitarian catastrophe of unspeakable proportions".
The UN's World Food Programme says that about 1.3 million people - a quarter of the population - are in need of aid.
Tens of thousands of Muslims have fled as Christian militias have stepped up their attacks in recent weeks.
The militias claim to be taking revenge for atrocities committed by Muslim rebels last year.
They accuse their victims of supporting the Muslim rebel group that seized power in March 2013, but which was forced out last month.
Many Muslims have crossed the borders into neighbouring Cameroon and Chad, while thousands more are living in camps inside CAR.
CAR is rich in gold, diamonds and other natural resources but decades of unrest and mismanagement have left most of its people stuck in poverty.
7 October 2016 Last updated at 12:09 BST
West Berkshire Council say parents are not registering their children as eligible for free meals, meaning schools are not able to claim pupil premium funds.
The government introduced universal free school meals in 2015, leading to confusion among parents who now have access to free meals without having to register.
Last year, 52,516 fixed penalties were issued on 11 smart sections, including on stretches of the M1, M25 and M6.
This compared to 2,023 on the same stretches in 2010-11, before they were upgraded to smart motorways - which use the hard shoulder and variable speed limits to control traffic flow.
The government says they are used to improve capacity, not generate revenue.
Smart motorways are operated by Highways England, which uses overhead gantries - also containing speed cameras - to direct traffic into open lanes and change speed limits depending on the volume of traffic.
There are more than 236 miles of smart motorways in England.
A further 200 miles of smart motorways are currently either planned or under construction.
The BBC's One Show asked 12 police forces in England that monitor major stretches of smart motorway, including parts of the M1, M25, M4, M42 and M6, for the total number of speeding tickets and fines collected.
The majority of forces responded, with half supplying directly comparable data, showing that a total of 52,516 tickets had been issued on these stretches in 2014-15, compared to 2,023 in 2010-11.
That meant the revenue going to central government every year increased to more than £1.1m, from £150,600 five years ago.
There is just one stretch of smart motorway in Scotland - on the M9 - which saw the annual number of tickets issued increase from nine to 41 over the four years.
Almost 250 people were caught speeding in the first three days after enforcement was introduced on the M4, near Newport. The system had been introduced in 2011 but was inactive for five years.
On one section of the M1 in Nottinghamshire, police issued 8,489 tickets, amounting to £425,000 of fines, in 2015.
Source: Relevant police forces
Nottingham-based motoring lawyer Paul Wright said he had seen a "deluge" of cases along one stretch of the M1.
He told the BBC: "A cynic might say that it's another way of getting more and more money out of the motorist, over and above what we're paying already.
"And it's an easy way to extract fines from people, because once you're clocked over the limit by the camera, it's very difficult to fight against that."
And the AA told The One Show "questions need to be answered about the money being recouped".
It has also raised safety concerns about drivers having to use emergency refuge areas when the hard shoulder is removed to operate as an extra lane.
AA president Edmund King said more emergency refuges were needed and they should be twice as long, adding: "Only a couple of weeks ago one of our members broke down on a smart motorway. There was a red 'X' up but they still got hit from behind."
With motorway traffic forecast to increase by up to 60% from 2010 rates by 2040, the government is pressing ahead with its £6bn investment in smart motorways.
A spokesman for the Department for Transport said: "Smart motorways smooth traffic flow and cut congestion for millions of motorists, with evidence from trials showing they are just as safe as regular motorways.
"Enforcement is a matter for the police and it is clear that speeding costs lives. However, we have been clear for a number of years that speed cameras should not be used to generate revenue."
Shaun Pidcock, from Highways England - which has published advice for motorists on smart motorways - said they were "the safest motorways on the network".
"We have 100% CCTV coverage and we have people watching over them, making sure they're safe, and we can get people in the traffic office to them far safer and quicker than we can do on normal motorways."
For a full report, watch The One Show on BBC One, at 19:00 GMT on Monday 7 November.
At the European Respiratory Society conference, researchers will suggest this could be due to an absence of protective fatty acids in yoghurt.
The diets of more than 70,000 Danish women were analysed and their children followed until the age of seven.
Asthma UK says pregnant women should follow a balanced diet.
Pregnant women who ate low-fat yoghurt with fruit once a day were found to be 1.6 times more likely to have children who developed asthma by age seven, compared with children of women who did not eat low-fat yoghurt.
The study also found that the children of these women were more likely to have allergic rhinitis (hay fever) and current asthma symptoms.
But the results showed that milk intake during pregnancy was not linked to any increased risk of asthma.
In fact, milk was shown to protect against asthma development.
Ekaterina Maslova, lead study author form the Harvard School of Public Health, who worked with the data at the Statens Serum Institut in Copenhagen, said: "It is a puzzling finding. The absence of fatty acids in low-fat yoghurt may be key to the results.
"The results suggest that fatty acids play an important role or it could be that people who ate this kind of yoghurt had similar lifestyle and dietary patterns, but we cannot make any conclusions at this stage.
"We need to replicate these results in other studies first."
Leanne Metcalf, director of research at Asthma UK, said there is plenty of evidence to suggest that the pre-natal environment can influence a child's health.
"However, the impact of a pregnant woman's diet on her child's health continues to be debated, as it is difficult to assess how particular aspects of a woman's diet during pregnancy are linked to the risk of developing asthma and allergies.
"Eating a healthy, balanced diet at any time, but especially during pregnancy is advisable and we would recommend that pregnant women discuss any drastic changes to their diet with their GP first."
The Hibernian and Dundee United head coaches are, after all, carrying a season's worth of assessments into the Scottish Cup semi-final.
They have both endured prolonged periods of frustration. Alan Stubbs and Mixu Paatelainen have struggled to contain the slumps that have overcome their teams at points this term - and the semi-final comes amid growing concerns.
Paatelainen won only one of his opening 12 games in charge of United after succeeding Jackie McNamara last October.
There was still time to rescue the team's season but the recruitment in January was ineffective. The likes of Guy Demel, Florent Sinama-Pongolle and Gavin Gunning did not deliver the same impact as the signings Jim McIntyre made in January last year before guiding Ross County off the bottom and then to safety.
There has been no sustained revival at United. Sporadic victories in the past three months kept hope alive, but they have won only one of their past five games and still seem the team most likely to slip directly into the Championship by finishing bottom of the Premiership.
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Reaching the Scottish Cup final would be a rare moment of relief from a desperately grim campaign but it will not remove the scrutiny from Paatelainen's work or calm United's troubled spirit.
Gunning left the club abruptly, while nine more players are out of contract in the summer. Others will seek moves if relegation is confirmed.
Paatelainen may want to grapple with the challenge of rebuilding United, and Tannadice chairman Stephen Thompson has said he believes his manager would be the right man to guide the club back.
It would take commanding leadership and a strong sense of responsibility for United to suffer relegation and maintain the status quo, though.
That would apply to Paatelainen, too, since the drop would shrink United's income and leave the club reliant on external investment. Soul-searching awaits and supporters, naturally, are disgruntled at every aspect of the club.
The collapse of Hibs' form has been more dramatic.
From the end of August, the team went 17 games undefeated, with all but two of them victories. Even after the run ended, with a 4-2 defeat by Rangers at Ibrox, it was another 10 matches before they lost again.
Yet since then, Hibs have played another 11 games and won only two of them, culminating in conceding a 2-0 lead to draw 2-2 with Falkirk at Easter Road on Tuesday.
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The tendency has been to identify the loan signing of Anthony Stokes from Celtic as a contributing factor. Certainly, younger players may have become less assertive in the presence of such a high-profile figure, or elements of the team's play may have altered because of Stokes' style.
Yet Stokes cannot be the sole reason, not least because the defence's sudden loss of reliability was often down to individual errors at the back.
During the 17-game unbeaten run earlier this term, Hibs kept 10 clean sheets, but they have now failed to keep any in their past 11 games.
Even so, whatever the causes, they had to be identified and addressed by Stubbs. That has yet to happen decisively.
His reign overall has been positive, with the team performing consistently for long stretches, even if they have fallen short of automatic promotion twice.
If they reach the Scottish Cup final, it will have involved knocking out United as well as Inverness and Hearts, while United were also defeated in the Scottish League Cup, along with Aberdeen and St Johnstone, before defeat by Ross County in the final.
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The general sense, then, is of progress, with Stubbs also leading his side to last season's Scottish Cup semi-final, which they lost to Falkirk.
Failing to win promotion would irk supporters and some are grumbling about decisions made this season, but Stubbs has carried out significant work at Easter Road and could yet deliver a timeless achievement in the Scottish Cup.
Either way, his body of work at Easter Road is impressive enough to ward off doubters. The situation is less clear with Paatelainen at United.
The result comes from stronger sales in the US, together with a weaker yen.
The firm said net income increased from 2.1733 trillion Japanese yen ($18.1bn; £11.7bn), up from 1.8231tn yen a year earlier.
But it said consolidated vehicle sales decreased by 144,169 units during the period, to 8,971,864 vehicles.
Many of Japan's firms - especially those relying on exports, such as Toyota - have benefited from the weakness in the yen, which helps bring down the cost of Japanese goods sold abroad.
It has forecast a net income of 2.25tn yen for the year ending in March 2016, backed by continued strength in the US market.
Toyota's operating income for the year ending in March 2015 was also up by 458.4bn yen during the period, to 2.7505tn yen.
"Operating income improved... due to positive factors such as favourable foreign exchange rates and cost reduction efforts," said the firm's president, Akio Toyoda.
He said those positive factors had "more than offset negative factors" including increased expenses and decreased vehicle sales.
Vehicle sales decreased for the firm in Japan, where a sales tax rise has put consumers off big-ticket items.
But sales in its North American market increased by 185,775 units to 2,715,173 units.
Swansea Bay City Region board chairman Sir Terry Matthews said the standard 35 year lifespan "did not make sense".
He said the UK government subsidy could be equivalent to nuclear energy prices if its lifetime was over 100 years.
Tidal Lagoon Power, the company behind the plan, has said it was confident it could hit a viable price.
Mr Matthews told BBC Wales the strike price could come down from the reported £160 a megawatt hour to nearer £100 - similar to the new nuclear plan proposed for Hinkley Point - if the project was seen as having a longer lifespan.
It comes after Welsh Secretary Stephen Crabb said last week a "big call" was needed on the future of the proposed scheme.
He said the project had a "very large subsidy" and other options need to be looked at to see if they were more affordable.
Prime minister David Cameron also recently said his enthusiasm was cooling due to costs.
Tidal Lagoon Power said: "Tidal lagoons will provide long term security of supply from 120 year British power stations.
"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."
Source: Tidal Lagoon Power Ltd
25 February 2017 Last updated at 14:31 GMT
He was under pressure to clarify the tweeted extracts of his Scottish Labour conference speech in which he attacked "narrow nationalist parties".
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Around the UK many attempts are being made to deliver care in different ways and here are three different approaches to community-based care.
Kathryn Humpston, a local area co-ordinator for Derby City Council, says: "I try to help people help themselves."
One of the people she visits is John, an alcoholic who was in and out of hospital because of his condition. He often spent all his money on alcohol rather than food and Kathryn has to check what is in his larder.
As he only has two tins of beans and some powdered soup in stock, she tops up his supplies, gathered by an informal community food bank operating in the Boulton area of Derby.
Local area co-ordinators were introduced into Derby five years ago, copied from an existing scheme in Western Australia.
The idea is that vulnerable older people could find a lot of the support they need from within their own communities, rather than from council services, their GPs or from hospitals.
Just over half the £500,000 annual costs of the scheme are paid for by the NHS to reduce demand on those services,
The co-ordinators tap into an often hidden network of support from neighbours, friends, family, voluntary groups and churches, who all seem willing to help improve the communities they live in by looking out for people who need help.
"All this costs nothing," says Kathryn.
The 10 co-ordinators working in Derby's inner city have helped about 700 people, all of whom have very complex needs. Only 17 of them have actually gone on to need a taxpayer-funded package of support from social services.
"If those 700 people had just one episode of social care fewer in their lifetime that would be a system saving of some £600,000," explains Mick Burrows of the NHS Southern Derbyshire Clinical Commissioning Group.
Jessy has nothing but praise for her carer after coming home from hospital following a hip replacement operation.
"I wouldn't be here at all if it wasn't for her. I'd probably be still in hospital waiting to get home," she says.
A few years ago she would have been stuck in hospital because there was no provision of social care in the rural area she lives in, south of Loch Ness.
Boleskine Community Care was set up by the local community, who recognised that their older people were having to move away to get help if family members could not help.
It is run by local women who work for Highland Home Carers, an employee-owned company in Inverness. The carers manage themselves and do their own assessments of old people's needs.
In the Scottish Highlands, spending on health and social care is fully integrated, meaning the NHS, rather than local councils, is responsible for providing care at home.
"The way we're funded helps us to give you what you want and gives you more choices," explains carer Julie Russell. "You can choose how you use your hours."
This is because of the Scottish system of Self Directed Support, or personal budgets. Once a person's needs are assessed, they can decide how their care budget is spent. It can lead to some surprising choices.
"We've cleared snow, chopped firewood, helped in the garden, as well as taken people to the GP and all the usual personal care," says Julie.
Angela is very clear about why she agreed to live with Gill.
"When I first saw her I thought she was very nice and I liked even more because she had a horse," Angela explains.
Gill, and her partner Pete, became Shared Lives carers for Angela about six years ago. It is a much greater commitment than the usual caring duties.
Gill and Pete share their home with her and also with Adrian, who moved in with them 14 years ago. Both Adrian and Angela have learning disabilities.
"At first I was a bit scared," says Angela. "But I thought I'll meet her and get to know her. I think it's a great idea. It's nice for families to take people like us in."
Angela and Adrian are among almost 400 people, most of them with learning disabilities, who live with their Shared Lives carers across Lancashire.
"It's the best thing I've ever done," says Gill. "We get more out of it than Adrian and Angela probably."
Carers are paid about £400 a week for each person they look after, which is a saving for the local authority compared to the alternative. For people with learning disabilities who are unable to look after themselves, the alternative would be supported living or a residential care home.
Shared Lives Plus, which oversees the Shared Lives schemes around the country, estimates it saves about £25,000 per person per year. The NHS is currently establishing five Shared Lives schemes to cater for people leaving hospital.
It estimates savings of £130m over the next five years by speeding up hospital discharges using the service.
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The massacre at Camp Speicher, near Tikrit, was carried out by fighters from so-called Islamic State (IS) as it seized territory across northern Iraq.
Outrage over the massacre of the mostly Shia cadets helped mobilise Iraq's Shia militias in the fight against IS.
IS militants released photos and video documenting the massacre in 2014. Mass graves were found a year later.
The graves were discovered when Iraqi government forces recaptured the area.
Islamic State group: The full story
"The executions of 36 convicted over the Speicher crime were carried out this morning in Nasiriyah prison," a spokesman for the governor's office in Dhiqar, the province of which Nasiriyah is the capital, told Agence France-Presse news agency.
Some 400 of the army recruits who died were from Dhiqar province.
The spokesman said that Justice Minister Haidar al-Zamili was present at the executions.
Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi had said after last month's Baghdad bomb blast that killed more than 300 people that he wanted to speed up executions of terrorism convicts.
Those executed on Sunday, all believed to be Iraqi citizens, had been sentenced to death in February.
Some of the defendants said they had not been near Tikrit at the time of the massacre, while others said they had been denied access to lawyers, or had been forced to confess under torture.
Camp Speicher, named after the first US casualty of the 1991 "Desert Storm" Gulf war against Iraq, had been full of Iraqi army recruits.
The camp surrendered after it was surrounded by jihadists.
Among the thousands of captives, Shia men were sorted out, bound and taken away in lorries. They were then forced to lie face down on the ground before being shot dead. Their bodies were dumped in prepared trenches.
The IS group revelled in the atrocity, posting on the internet videos and pictures showing the Shia prisoners being taken away and shot.
Pesach is Passover in Hebrew, which is spoken in Israel and in many Jewish communities around the world
It is one of the most important dates in the Jewish calendar.
This year, it began at sunset on Monday 10 April and will end in the evening on Tuesday 18 April.
At Passover, Jewish people remember a story from a very long time ago.
You can read about the story in the Book of Exodus, Chapter 12 in the Hebrew Bible called the Torah.
Over 3,000 years ago, a group of Jewish people called the Israelites were being kept in slavery by the ruler of Egypt called Pharaoh.
A man called Moses went to see Pharaoh many times to ask him to let them go, but Pharaoh refused.
Moses told him that if he did not release them, God would make terrible things called plagues happen to the Egyptians.
But Pharaoh did not listen, so the plagues came.
These ten plagues included the River Nile turning to blood, frogs covering the land, insect infestations, animals dying, Egyptians getting skin diseases, the sun stopping shining and the first-born child in Egyptian families being killed by an angel.
God is said to have told Moses to tell the Israelites to paint lamb's blood on their doorposts. This way, the angel would know that Jewish people lived there. It would pass over that house and not kill the first-born child.
This is where the name Passover comes from.
For the last plague, even Pharaoh's own son was killed. He summoned Moses and told him to take the Israelites out of Egypt immediately.
Finally, after 200 years of slavery, the Jewish people were free.
The Passover celebrations last for several days.
People clean their houses very carefully, to make sure they get rid of any crumbs of chametz. These are crumbs from food that has been allowed to rise, like normal bread.
Jewish people aren't allowed to eat this during Passover. This is because the Israelites had to leave Egypt so quickly that they did not have time to let their bread rise, so food products that have risen are forbidden during Passover.
At the beginning of Passover in the evening, family and friends will get together for a meal and a special service called a Seder.
There is a special Seder plate which has certain things on it:
Special food is eaten to remember the story.
As Jewish people cannot eat bread that has risen, they eat a special type of flat bread which hasn't risen (known as unleavened bread) called Matzah.
During the meal, the door is also left open for the prophet Elijah, who is an important religious person, as it is believed he will come to announce the coming of the Messiah.
Families also read the Haggadah - a book that tells the Passover story - with songs and blessings. Children will ask questions and everyone will discuss the story.
For Jewish people, Passover is a big celebration of freedom and life.
Emergency services were called to the scene following the incident.
The plane, with 59 passengers on board, ended up leaning on one side with its wing touching the runway.
Flybe said no-one had been injured in the incident which happened at about 17:00 local time (16:00 GMT).
Schiphol Airport tweeted: "The landing gear of a Flybe airplane collapsed during touchdown.
"All passengers are brought to the terminal by bus at the moment.
"No people are injured. Flight operation is up and running again."
Flybe said in a statement: ""Flybe can confirm that there has been an incident involving one of our aircraft, flight no BE1284...We can confirm there are no injuries and all passengers have been bussed to the airport terminal.
"Our primary concern is for the welfare of passengers and crews."
The airline's chief executive Christine Ourmieres-Widener added: "Our highest priority is the safety and well-being of our passengers and crew.
"Our pilots regularly train for situations such as this in simulators at our training academy in Exeter. Our cabin crew are also fully trained to deal with these situations professionally.
"We have sent a specialist team to offer assistance to the investigation and we will now do all we can to understand the cause of this incident"
It was the second incident of the day involving a Flybe aircraft.
Earlier, a Flybe flight from Glasgow to Birmingham was forced to return to Glasgow Airport after a technical fault meant the pilot had to shut down one engine.
A spokesman for Flybe said: "Flybe can confirm that BE783 - Glasgow to Birmingham returned to Glasgow Airport following a technical fault that resulted in the captain electing to shut down the number one engine as a safety precaution.
"The pilot followed all required procedures and the aircraft landed safely without incident."
The plane was met by emergency vehicles when it landed. No-one was injured in the incident.
The 27-year-old was a start-to-finish winner, beating Ian Hutchinson by 31 seconds to take his overall tally of victories to 13.
The Hawk BMW rider set a new race record and set an absolute lap record of 133.962mph on his second lap.
The win means he is now one win behind Hutchinson and Mike Hailwood
He said: "If I knew I was so close to 134mph I would have pushed even harder.
"I was peeved after Wednesday and really wanted this one. It's a fantastic bike and the crowd was massive out on the course.
"I wanted to show the other boys what I was made of today."
Morecambe's John McGuinness was third, 33 seconds behind runner-up Hutchinson, who had clinched a hat-trick for the second year in a row earlier in the week.
Hutchinson said: "It's been a great week, so I can't complain. The Tyco BMW bike was amazing."
McGuinness added: "What can you say? It is a pleasure to be on the podium with two such excellent young riders. I love this place and I already can't wait to get back next year."
Dean Harrison was fourth, Bruce Anstey fifth and Conor Cummins sixth.
The blue riband event of the meeting started three hours later than scheduled after mist on various parts of the circuit caused a series of delays to the schedule for the final day of racing.
As has been the case throughout the practice and race fortnight, Dunlop and Hutchinson set the pace from the start, with Dunlop establishing a narrow 2.8-second lead over his rival at the end of the opening lap thanks to a speed of 133.256mph.
The fastest-ever lap of the Mountain Course helped him to extend his advantage to 9.3 seconds by the end of lap two, and the Ballymoney man maintained a steady pace to repeat his Senior triumph of 2014.
Among the high-profile retirements were Norton rider David Johnson, Gary Johnson and Peter Hickman, who held third place at the end of lap one.
The German was finishing the fastest and he caught Edvald Boasson Hagen on the line but, unusually, neither rider knew if they had won stage seven.
Kittel was eventually awarded the win after several minutes' deliberation.
Britain's Chris Froome retained the overall race lead after a relatively quiet day for the general classification riders.
The three-time Tour champion leads fellow Briton and Team Sky colleague Geraint Thomas by 12 seconds, with Italy's Fabio Aru two seconds further adrift in third.
"There was a lot of talk of crosswinds, so it was a bit of a nervous day and we wanted to be at the front all day in case something happened," said Froome.
"The team kept me safe at the front and fortunately nothing happened. It was a good day to get ticked off."
The threat of crosswinds failed to materialise as the race moved 213.5km from the Champagne region south-east to Burgundy.
A breakaway group of four riders was allowed to build a lead of three minutes, 45 seconds but was eventually caught with six kilometres remaining.
It was then down to the sprinters and Boasson Hagen, who would have been helping lead out Mark Cavendish had the British rider not crashed out on stage four, was expertly set up by his Dimension Data team-mates.
The Norwegian, 30, looked set to win his first Tour stage since winning two in 2011 but was pipped on the line.
Kittel, who also won stages two and six, has now matched Erik Zabel's German record of 12 Tour stage wins.
"I had no clue if I won or not on the finish line," said the Quick-Step Floors rider. "With 150m to go, I just had to pray the door opened for me and I had just enough.
"I am in great shape and super happy the team supported me. It is crazy and celebrating three stage wins is incredible."
Kittel's win earned him 50 points to take the green jersey from French national champion Arnaud Demare, who could only finish 11th.
Britain's Daniel McLay impressed again, finishing in 10th place, but the Fortuneo-Vital Concept rider was unhappy with his finish.
"I made a big error in the finish," he said. "I think I didn't believe in myself and I got stuck freewheeling on Demare's wheel.
"I stuffed it up. I need more confidence. It's up to me to pull my finger out and believe in myself.
"You can see Kittel is a level above but it's not out of this world (to get a stage win)."
With two mountain stages to come on Saturday and Sunday, the latter featuring three of the Tour's six 'hors categorie' climbs, Froome and the riders chasing the overall race victory will come to the fore.
'Hors categorie' climbs are the toughest the riders will face and the term was originally coined for mountain roads where cars were not expected to be able to pass.
Saturday's stage eight is a 187.5km race from Dole to Station des Rousses in the Jura mountains.
Stage seven result:
1. Marcel Kittel (Ger/Quick-Step) 5hrs 03mins 18secs
2. Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor/Dimension Data) Same time
3. Michael Matthews (Aus/Sunweb)
4. Alexander Kristoff (Nor/Katusha)
5. John Degenkolb (Ger/Trek)
6. Dylan Groenewegen (Ned/LottoNL)
7. Ruediger Selig (Ger/Bora)
8. Nacer Bouhanni (Fra/Cofidis)
9. Andre Greipel (Ger/Lotto)
10. Daniel McLay (GB/Fortuneo)
General classification after stage seven:
1. Chris Froome (GB/Team Sky) 28hrs 47mins 50secs
2. Geraint Thomas (GB/Team Sky) +12secs
3. Fabio Aru (Ita/Astana) +14secs
4. Daniel Martin (Ire/Quick-Step) +25secs
5. Richie Porte (Aus/BMC Racing) +39secs
6. Simon Yates (GB/Orica) +43secs
7. Romain Bardet (Fra/AG2R) +47secs
8. Alberto Contador (Spa/Trek) +52secs
9. Nairo Quintana (Col/Movistar) +54secs
10. Rafal Majka (Pol/Bora) +1min 01sec
Local media reports say the 74-year-old was suffering from a trapped nerve and has had back surgery at the Albert Einstein hospital in Sao Paulo.
Pele, a three-time World Cup winner, was treated for a urinary infection eight months ago after having kidney stones removed.
He should be released in the coming days, according to reports.
Mirtes Bogea, a press officer for the Albert Einstein hospital, said she was not allowed to say when Pele was re-admitted or why.
Pele, who was named Fifa's Player of the Century, scored a world record total of 1,281 goals in 1,363 games during his 21-year career, including 77 in 91 appearances for Brazil.
He has only one kidney, having had one removed towards the end of his playing career.
Pele played in 14 games at World Cup finals, scoring 12 goals, and was awarded the Fifa Golden Ball as the best player at the 1970 tournament.
Nadir Ciftci scored early for Celtic but the champions failed to add the goals their dominance deserved.
Motherwell made it more of a contest after the break, although Celtic had two big penalty appeals waved away.
Despite failing to score more goals Celtic deserved victory, as Mark McGhee began his second spell as Motherwell boss with a defeat.
The defending champions go two points clear of Aberdeen, who lost to Ross County on Friday evening and Celtic resume their Europa League campaign in manager Ronny Deila's native Norway against Molde on Thursday.
McGhee's starting line-up was certainly a statement with regulars Keith Lasley, Lionel Ainsworth and Scott McDonald all on the bench.
As for Celtic, Ciftci was handed a chance to shine with Leigh Griffiths on the bench. Captain and midfielder Scott Brown also made the starting XI after recovering from a training ground knock.
The hosts aspired to a 4-3-3 formation, but as Celtic dominated play the formation in reality was more 4-5-1.
It did not long for Celtic to make the breakthrough. Stuart Armstrong and Emilio Izaguirre combined well on the left to set up Kris Commons, and though his shot was parried by Connor Ripley, Ciftci fired in the rebound.
Motherwell struggled to get into the game but did have a spot-kick claim dismissed when Wes Fletcher went down in the box.
Soon after, Commons had a pop from 30 yards, his shot swerving in the air and Ripley tipping the effort just over the bar.
The mercurial Commons would come even closer with a free-kick 20 yards out as his shot came back off the crossbar with Ripley beaten.
Such was the Celtic dominance that one of their centre backs - Tyler Blackett - was able to cross the ball into the box for his central defensive partner Dedryck Boyata - who had joined the attack - but his free header was just wide.
At the start of the second half there were appeals for a Celtic penalty when Brown went down in the box under challenge from Kieran Kennedy, but referee Alan Muir decided the Motherwell defender had made contact with the ball.
At the other end, Efe Ambrose, culpable for the loss of some important goals in recent weeks, almost had another moment to forget as his sliced clearance from a cross went perilously close to finding his own net.
Commons came close again to scoring but fired just wide.
Celtic should have had a spot-kick when the ball struck the arm of Kennedy but there was no whistle from the officials.
Motherwell were offering very little as an attacking threat and yet they almost equalised when Kennedy fired just wide.
They had a big chance following a free-kick when the ball fell to Kennedy in the box, but he failed to control and it ran harmlessly behind for a goal-kick.
Ciftci's replacement Griffiths then stung the palms of Ripley after a turn and shot from the edge of the box. Commons also had a late chance after working his way into the box but was unable to get a clean shot away.
Match ends, Motherwell 0, Celtic 1.
Second Half ends, Motherwell 0, Celtic 1.
Attempt missed. Callum McGregor (Celtic) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Attempt missed. Kris Commons (Celtic) right footed shot from outside the box is too high from a direct free kick.
Kris Commons (Celtic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Stephen McManus (Motherwell).
Kris Commons (Celtic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Stephen McManus (Motherwell).
Lionel Ainsworth (Motherwell) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Emilio Izaguirre (Celtic).
Attempt saved. Kris Commons (Celtic) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt saved. Leigh Griffiths (Celtic) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Foul by Scott Brown (Celtic).
Joe Chalmers (Motherwell) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Scott McDonald (Motherwell) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Efe Ambrose (Celtic) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Scott McDonald (Motherwell).
Substitution, Celtic. Callum McGregor replaces Nir Bitton because of an injury.
Delay in match Nir Bitton (Celtic) because of an injury.
Substitution, Motherwell. Dom Thomas replaces Marvin Johnson.
Foul by Tyler Blackett (Celtic).
Liam Grimshaw (Motherwell) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Efe Ambrose (Celtic).
Marvin Johnson (Motherwell) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Celtic. Gary Mackay-Steven replaces Stuart Armstrong.
Substitution, Motherwell. Scott McDonald replaces Wes Fletcher.
Attempt missed. Scott Brown (Celtic) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right.
Attempt missed. Kieran Kennedy (Motherwell) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Corner, Motherwell. Conceded by Emilio Izaguirre.
Substitution, Celtic. Leigh Griffiths replaces Nadir Ciftci.
Corner, Celtic. Conceded by Kieran Kennedy.
Corner, Celtic. Conceded by Stephen McManus.
Attempt missed. Kris Commons (Celtic) left footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left.
Corner, Motherwell. Conceded by Efe Ambrose.
Substitution, Motherwell. Lionel Ainsworth replaces Louis Moult.
Stuart Armstrong (Celtic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Louis Laing (Motherwell).
Second Half begins Motherwell 0, Celtic 1.
First Half ends, Motherwell 0, Celtic 1.
Attempt missed. Scott Brown (Celtic) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.
The 29-year-old Nigerian, who was released by Sunderland following their relegation from the Premier League, is expected to make his debut for the capital outfit once he regains match fitness.
"We are delighted with the signing of Victor, who played in the Premier League," club manager Gao Hongbo announced at a press conference.
"It's a positive development for our whole club.
"Victor hasn't trained on the pitch since the Premier League season ended, so it may take a while for him to integrate into our team. We have to be patient."
Anichebe joined the Black Cats on a short-term contract as a free agent in September, but his brief spell at the stadium of light was blighted by knee and hamstring injuries.
He scored just three goals in 19 appearances and was not offered a new contract at the end of the season.
The switch to late Ivorian midfielder Cheick Tiote's last club, will see Anichebe play outside England for the first time in his career which started at Everton.
He moved from Lagos to Liverpool at the age of one, scoring 35 goals for Everton and West Brom in 228 appearances.
Although eligible for England, Anichebe opted to represent his country of birth and played his first game for Nigeria in March 2008.
He scored on his debut in a 2-0 win over South Africa to help them reach the 2008 Olympics and was then part of the squad that went on to win silver in Beijing.
After suffering a groin problem on his last appearance for Nigeria in a 2-0 win over Madagascar in 2011, the striker decided to put his international career with the Super Eagles on hold so he can "manage his body accordingly".
The email from her adviser, Sydney Blumenthal, refers to meetings held by the then opposition Conservative Party leader with UUP and DUP politicians.
He writes: "Cameron has intervened, threatening recklessly to destroy a generation of work, in order, potentially, to gain marginal seats in NI in case of a hung parliament."
Thousands more emails from Mrs Clinton's private server while she was US secretary of state have been published.
The memo was written following a session of talks involving then British and Irish prime ministers Gordon Brown and Brian Cowen that would ultimately result in the Hillsborough Castle Agreement in February 2010 and the devolution of justice powers to Stormont.
It referred to secret discussions between the Conservatives with the DUP and UUP at Hatfield House, a stately home in England.
In the May 2010 general election, the Conservatives and Ulster Unionists formed an electoral pact in Northern Ireland, fielding joint candidates under the name Ulster Conservative and Unionist New Force (UCUNF).
BBC Northern Ireland political editor Mark Devenport said the emails were unlikely to affect any relationship between Mr Cameron and Mrs Clinton if she succeeded in her current bid to become US president.
"He would have known that the US State Department would always push for agreement and the emails were probably reflecting what was being briefed by the Labour government at the time," he said.
"The US would always be pushing for the successful conclusion to any talks, and right now, that's where the Conservative government would want them if there was any hiccup in the Northern Ireland political process."
Leah Washington, 17, from Barnsley, South Yorkshire, was one of five people who suffered severe injuries on the Smiler ride on 2 June.
Her brother Luke said she had initially been put in intensive care and relied on machines to help her breathe.
He said the effects of the crash had "not been easy on the family".
Miss Washington's leg was amputated above the left knee and she also suffered a fractured left hand.
Her older brother said her "health and spirits had improved dramatically".
"Yesterday, I walked into the room and she was standing up. It was great," Mr Washington told BBC WM 95.6.
He said that compared to last week, when Ms Washington was taken to hospital for the first time, "it's a world of difference".
"She was heavily sedated. She was in intensive care and the machines were keeping her going," he said.
Miss Washington and three other people were on the front row of a carriage on the ride which hit an empty one, trapping 16 passengers for up to four-and-a-half hours.
All four on the front row suffered severe leg injuries.
Mr Washington said a day after the crash his sister was breathing on her own and had made a "rapid recovery".
"Each day has gone by and she's improved and improved.
"I don't know where she's got this strength from," he said.
One Direction has filmed a video message and offered to meet Miss Washington, who is a big fan.
A campaign to persuade the band to contact her attracted thousands of retweets.
Mr Washington said the band had given his sister "something to look forward to".
"I got to tell Leah and she was over the moon," he said.
"There was a smile on her face and that's all we wanted."
Miss Washington's friend Sara Stuart, one of those who behind the campaign, said the support from people across the country had been "overwhelming".
"It made me so happy that so many people were supporting one of my closest friends," she said.
Ms Stuart described her friend as a "total fan" of One Direction and said staff at the Royal Stoke University Hospital had been "amazing" by putting up posters of the band to help her recover.
Miss Washington's boyfriend Joe Pugh is also at the hospital and being treated for two broken knees and "extensive" hand injuries.
Vicky Balch, 20, from Leyland in Lancashire, has undergone surgery at the same hospital and is in a "serious but stable" condition, according to her family.
Daniel Thorpe, 27, from Buxton, Derbyshire, was treated at University Hospital Coventry for a collapsed lung and a fractured leg. His condition is described as "stable".
Chanda Chauhan, 49, from Wednesbury in the Black Country, who was sitting in the second row of the Smiler, was admitted to Walsall Manor Hospital with internal injuries.
A Health and Safety Executive investigation into the crash is continuing.
Alton Towers reopened to visitors on Monday, although the Smiler ride itself remains closed.
Merlin Entertainments Group, which owns the theme park, said it was the first accident in the company's history and said anyone injured would be compensated.
Lucy Hargreaves, who would be 30 this year, was killed at her house in Lambourne Road, Walton, on 3 August 2005.
The men set fire to the house but her partner and toddler daughter escaped.
Police are searching for suspect Kevin Thomas Parle, 31, who they believe is living in Europe.
He is also wanted over the murder of 16-year-old Liam Kelly, who was murdered in the early hours of 19 June 2004 as he got out of a car in Grafton Street, Dingle.
Ms Hargreaves was lying on the sofa when she was shot, as her partner Gary Campbell and two-year-old daughter slept upstairs.
Detective Superintendent Dave Brunskill said: "Even as a toddler was heard crying upstairs, the offender poured petrol around the living room and hallway and set fire to the house.
"Their callous actions would have claimed the lives of two more people that night had Gary not escaped the flames by jumping with his daughter.
"Eight years on we are determined to bring Lucy Hargreaves' killers to justice.
"Lucy was an innocent victim and this year her family should have been celebrating her 30th birthday with her - instead they have been robbed of a loving mother and daughter.
"It's never too late to come forward with information - we believe someone, somewhere knows what has happened to Lucy and I hope that the passing of time will enable people to search their consciences and find the courage to come forward.
"I'd like to reassure them that there are special measures that can be put in place to protect witnesses in serious cases such as this."
Two men were cleared of Ms Hargreaves' murder in a trial in 2007.
It is clear this May's Northern Ireland Assembly election will mark a generational change in Northern Ireland politics.
A sizeable number of sitting MLAs have decided to step down, others are looking at the possibility of defeat, and some co-optees who have never fought an election are now facing their first trial by ballot box.
Mr McGimpsey's long career exemplifies the transition in Northern Ireland politics.
He hit the headlines in the 1980s for a legal challenge to the Anglo Irish Agreement highlighting the Irish constitution's territorial claim to Northern Ireland.
He was also involved with the Peace Train campaign demanding an end to paramilitary violence.
But as a member of the Unionist Labour group, he harbours hopes that left-right politics will come to dominate, and is proud both of being part of the first Northern Ireland's power-sharing executive after the Good Friday Agreement and his years heading up the Department of Health.
Health funding is likely to be a subject he will continue to be vocal about, even if he no longer sits on the benches at Stormont.
Just as Mr McGimpsey announced his departure, his former party leader Lord Empey floated the kite of a voluntary ban on election posters.
Ian Paisley once told me that if you knocked a voter's door and they did not know who you were when they opened it, you were on to a loser.
That is easy to say if you are a big beast like the late Democratic Unionist Party leader or a well known face like the Alliance Party's Naomi Long, who is hoping to return to the fray in May.
But a ban on election posters is a less attractive option if you are contesting your first election.
Given the number of fresh-faced candidates seeking a place at Stormont, it is hardly likely they will opt for anonymity.
Social media may provide a new way to communicate directly to the voters, but it only reaches a section of the electorate.
Traditional Unionist Voice leader Jim Allister also has a point when he argues that any election poster ban is likely to assist the big established parties and militate against smaller parties, who, by virtue of their fewer seats, will get less time then they would like on TV and radio.
So, I would not bet against Martin McGuinness's prediction on BBC Northern Ireland's The View programme that the chances of a voluntary election poster ban being implemented are "zero".
Perhaps the best option would be to concentrate on enforcing the rules that already exist for removing the posters once the contest is over.
The figures were produced by the doctors' union the BMA, which has had long-standing concerns over NHS 111.
Doctors' leaders say increased referrals mean more pressure on already overstretched GPs and hospitals.
NHS England says the 111 service is meeting increasing demand.
A spokesman said the proportion of referrals to GPs and emergency services had remained steady despite a surge in calls.
But the BMA is concerned that the service is not delivering appropriate advice to some patients and this means some are being incorrectly directed to busy hospitals and GP surgeries.
The BMA looked at the outcomes of calls to NHS 111, which was rolled out in March 2013 to replace the old NHS Direct service.
In its final full year of operation in 2011-12, NHS Direct received 4.4 million calls from patients.
In comparison, calls to NHS 111 increased year-on-year and in 2014 (up to November) it received and responded to more than 15.4 million calls.
Referrals from NHS 111 to A&E increased from just under 400,000 calls in 2013 to over a million in 2014.
Similarly, referrals to GPs went up from just under 3 million to 8 million between 2013 and 2014.
Dr Charlotte Jones, BMA's GP lead on NHS 111, is concerned that the service is not delivering appropriate advice for patients.
"There is no doubt that if a patient needs any form of medical care they should be referred through to an appropriate doctor or nurse, but there are serious doubts as to whether this huge increase in workload is clinically necessary.
"Anecdotally, GPs have reported to the BMA that patients have been referred to them with colds, sore thumbs or other conditions that could have been treated safely by sensible advice over the phone, advising a patient on how to self-care, such as picking up medication from a local pharmacist."
And Dr Mark Porter, of the BMA, says there is an issue with staff who have little or no medical knowledge.
"A fundamental problem with NHS 111 is that it employs non-clinically trained staff who follow a formulaic script rather than using clinical judgement to assess how calls are dealt with.
"Understandably this is likely to lead the call handlers, with limited experience of medicine, to be cautious and refer patients to the NHS when a trained professional could have encouraged them to effectively self-care.
"Key NHS services cannot afford to be taking on unnecessary work when they are struggling to treat the number of patients who do need genuine care.
"It is also an enormous waste of patients' time if they are sent to a GP or A&E when they could have had their issue dealt with during a few minutes on the phone."
An NHS England spokesman said the statistics show there is a massive demand from the public for the 111 service.
"To date, it has coped impressively with this pressure, with the proportion of referrals to GPs and emergency services remaining steady despite the surge in demand.
"Given this popularity, however, we are continuing to look at ways to make the service even more robust including asking GPs to help support call centres and provide patients with the ability to get high quality medical advice as quickly as possible."
Janette Turner, a research fellow for the emergency and immediate care group at the University of Sheffield, said: "We must remember NHS 111 is not the same as NHS Direct and of course call volumes are much higher because 111 has not only replaced NHS Direct, but also GP out of hours services.
"Today's BMA statements are anecdotal and what isn't known is if there was no 111, how many of those people would have actually gone in to their GP, A&E or Walk-In Centres."
Mr Trump will travel overseas in late May before heading to Brussels for a Nato meeting and a G7 summit in Sicily.
The news comes a day after Mr Trump hosted Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas at the White House, where he promised to facilitate a peace deal with Israel.
The trip is meant to signify Mr Trump's tour of capitals of three major monotheistic religions.
"Tolerance is the cornerstone of peace," Mr Trump said on Thursday in a National Day of Prayer address to religious leaders in the White House Rose Garden.
"That is why I am proud to make a major and historic announcement this morning and share with you that my first foreign trip as president will be to Saudi Arabia, then Israel, then the Vatican in Rome."
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With visits planned to Saudi Arabia and Israel, including a meeting with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, Donald Trump is plunging feet-first into the swirling waters of Middle East politics, where US presidents dating back to Harry Truman have struggled to stay afloat.
He thinks he's up to the task. "It's something that I think is, frankly, maybe not as difficult as people have thought over the years," he said of Arab-Israeli negotiations during a White House meeting with Mr Abbas on Wednesday.
The trip could also allow the president to burnish his appeal to US political constituencies, including Jewish and evangelical voters with his Israel stop, and Catholics through his planned audience with Pope Francis at the Vatican. During the Republican presidential primary campaign, Mr Trump accused the pontiff of questioning his faith, which he called "disgraceful".
Foreign trips can often prove a challenge for even the most experienced politician - fraught with diplomatic pitfalls and unintended consequences. Mr Trump, with his propensity for damaging off-script comments and actions, could have opted for a less challenging destination for his first trip abroad.
Instead, he will sink or swim.
Mr Trump hosted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House in February and met Saudi Arabia's powerful Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in March in Washington.
But the president has previously clashed with Pope Francis over his anti-immigration rhetoric during the presidential campaign.
During a visit to Mexico, the pontiff said of Mr Trump: "A person who thinks only about building walls... and not building bridges, is not Christian."
Mr Trump called the pope's remarks "disgraceful", but later walked back his comments, saying the Pope was "misinformed".
But the two appeared to make amends after Mr Trump was elected, when Pope Francis sent him a letter wishing him well.
He told the newly inaugurated president he prayed "that your decisions will be guided by the rich spiritual and ethical values that have shaped the history of the American people and your nation's commitment to the advancement of human dignity and freedom worldwide".
Mr Trump will conclude his first foreign swing abroad with a Nato meeting in Belgium on 25 May and a stop in Sicily for the G7 summit the following day.
The president, who campaigned on an "America First" platform, has avoided travel abroad in his first months in office.
Former President Barack Obama had already taken three foreign trips at this point, visiting a total of nine foreign countries.
A publicist for Thicke's son, singer Robin Thicke, confirmed that the Canadian actor died from a heart attack on Tuesday in Los Angeles.
He was also well known as a TV host and the composer of the theme song to sitcom Diff'rent Strokes.
But Thicke's most famous role was as Dr Jason Seaver in Growing Pains, which aired from 1985 to 1992.
Robin Thicke wrote on Instagram: "He was the best man I ever knew. The best friend I ever had.
"Let's all rejoice and celebrate the joy he brought to every room he was in. We love you Alan Thicke."
Star Trek actor William Shatner led the tributes on Twitter, writing: "Saddened over the loss of my friend Alan. Condolences to his family."
David Hasselhoff wrote: "So sad #AlanThicke always made me laugh we recently worked and laughed together 'live for today it can be gone tomorrow' Goodbye Alan!"
Singer John Legend tweeted: "I grew up watching him and got to know him through Robin. He was always so kind to me. So sad to hear about his passing."
Actress Marlee Matlin posted a recent photograph of her with Thicke, adding: "RIP dear friend and gentleman."
A 2012 tweet from Thicke featuring an anonymous quote about life has been widely shared following the news of his death.
Thicke was born in Ontario, Canada, in 1947. He was nominated for three Emmy Awards for his work in the late 1970s as a writer for Barry Manilow's talk show, and later for a satirical take on the genre in the variety show America 2-Night.
The actor composed TV theme tunes for shows including The Facts of Life and the original theme for The Wheel of Fortu
He also briefly hosted his own talk show in the US called Thicke of the Night, a music and comedy programme which went head-to-head with The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.
It premiered in 1983 but did not last beyond its first nine-month season.
More recently, he made guest appearances on series such as How I Met Your Mother, This is Us and Netflix's Fuller House.
In a 2010 interview, Thicke said he was "proud" of his work on Growing Pains.
"I share the corny family values espoused on that show," he said. "[I'm] happy for the role, both what it stood for and what it did for me and my life and my family and my career.
"It was a great opportunity that made my life good and something that I can show to my 12-year-old now in reruns. Corny and dated as it is, it's still relatable, understandable."
Thicke is survived by his wife Tanya and sons Brennan, Carter and Robin, whose single Blurred Lines was a global hit in 2013.
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The former BBC defence correspondent was deemed unsuitable for an NHS trial and paid $60,000 (£48,000) for a stem cell transplant in Mexico in January.
Wyatt, 49, told BBC Radio 4's PM programme that she was "feeling better than I have done in a long time".
She also spoke of how it had taken 25 years for doctors to diagnose her MS.
About 100,000 people in the UK are affected by MS, which can cause numbness, tingling in the fingers and sufferers may struggle to walk or think clearly.
Wyatt decided to go to a private hospital in Puebla, Mexico, after talking to former patients, who had undergone a course of chemotherapy and transplanting stem cells.
"The chemo was to burn out the old faulty immune system so that you can have your stem cells harvested - and then brought back into the system," she said.
"This helps you to grow a new immune system which I hope will not have the faults of the old one."
She said some of the patients who had had the haematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) treatment had spoken of "near miraculous results".
"People who had been in wheelchairs, or people who had been struggling to walk or to think or to speak clearly had come back after the treatment and, if you were a lay person, you'd say they looked cured, if you were a medic, you'd probably say they were in remission."
"That inspired me to go."
"For me the results have been more gradual and gentle," the former BBC religious affairs correspondent and PM presenter said.
"Three weeks since coming back I am feeling better than I have done for a long time," she added. "The main thing that happened was that the brain fog began to lift."
In MS the protective layer surrounding nerve fibres in the brain and spinal cord - known as myelin - becomes damaged. The immune system mistakenly attacks the myelin, causing scarring or sclerosis.
The damaged myelin disrupts the nerve signals - rather like the short circuit caused by a frayed electrical cable.
If the process of inflammation and scarring is not treated then eventually the condition can cause permanent neurodegeneration.
Wyatt, who first noticed some of the symptoms in 1990, said: "It is a very difficult disease to get diagnosed.
"Because I was a journalist when I went to doctors they said, 'Ah, you've got repetitive strain injury'."
She changed jobs but, following a relapse in 2001, she was given a brain scan and told she might have MS - a diagnosis that was confirmed following more invasive tests such as a spinal tap in 2015.
Wyatt initially tried various drug treatments but as her condition began to deteriorate she began to investigate the stem cell treatment.
"I got in touch with Sheffield who were the British arm of a trial... and they very kindly agreed to see me," she said.
"They did various tests but decided in the end that medically speaking I was not one of the best candidates so they couldn't do it here."
Wyatt said that although UK bodies such as the NHS and watchdog NICE describe the treatment as experimental, about 80% of people who had the treatment responded to some degree and more than 50% saw the progression of their MS halted.
The charity the MS Society says the treatment could have long-term benefits for some people with MS but that larger studies are needed to better understand the impact of this aggressive treatment compared with existing therapies.
Mr Spicer is reportedly stepping down because he is unhappy with President Donald Trump's appointment of a new communications director.
But he told Fox News he had "no regrets" about his six-month stint.
Wall Street financier Anthony Scaramucci has been picked for the role that Mr Spicer had partially filled.
The shake-up at the White House comes amid several investigations into alleged Russian meddling in last year's US presidential election and whether Mr Trump's campaign team colluded with Moscow.
"The president obviously wanted to add to the team, more than anything," Mr Spicer told interviewer Sean Hannity.
"I just thought it was in the best interest of our communications department, of our press organisation, to not have too many cooks in the kitchen.
"Without me in the way, they have a fresh start, so that I'm not lurking over them."
He defended President Trump's agenda, saying it was an honour and a privilege to serve him, and hit out at what he termed "media bias".
He said: "I was increasingly disappointed about the way the media here do their job - or don't do their job."
The 45 year old also said he had told Mr Trump he "would stay on for a few weeks to achieve a smooth transition", and was looking forward to spending more time with his family.
President Trump tweeted: "Sean Spicer is a wonderful person who took tremendous abuse from the Fake News Media - but his future is bright!"
The New York Times reported that Mr Spicer had "vehemently" disagreed with the appointment of Mr Scaramucci, which he believed to be a "major mistake".
Mr Spicer's often chaotic press briefings over the past six months were a cable news hit, but in recent weeks he had withdrawn from appearances in front of the camera.
In an assured debut, he attended Friday afternoon's news conference to announce that Sarah Huckabee Sanders, formerly Mr Spicer's deputy, would step into his shoes.
"I love the president and it's an honour to be here," Mr Scaramucci said, adding: "He is genuinely a wonderful human being."
Mr Scaramucci, who has no previous experience in communications roles, paid tribute to Mr Spicer as "a true American patriot" and "incredibly gracious".
"I hope he goes on to make a tremendous amount of money," he added.
Mr Scaramucci also apologised and said he had been "unexperienced" as he explained his previous criticism of the president.
In an August 2015 interview with Fox Business, he dismissed Mr Trump as a "hack" and "an inherited money dude" with "a big mouth".
Mr Scaramucci is currently senior vice-president of the Export-Import Bank, a US government agency which guarantees loans for foreign buyers of American exports.
A former member of the Trump transition team, he mistakenly suggested to the BBC in January that Elton John would play at the new president's inauguration. The singer promptly denied it.
Life on a White House staff is intense and exhausting.
This administration is under particular pressure, given the ongoing Russia investigation, recent legislative setbacks and a president who can be, shall we say, occasionally off-message. Now cracks in the structure are beginning to show.
Sean Spicer's departure, reportedly because he doesn't want to work for newly named communication director Anthony Scaramucci, represents the most significant shakeup within the administration's senior team to date. It could also be a sign of bigger tremors to come.
Mr Spicer was closely allied with White House chief of staff Reince Priebus, who was his boss last year in the Republican National Committee.
The Trump team has been rife with personal feuds, as various factions vie for a mercurial president's ear. Leaks abound.
The prestige and power of advisers and aides wax and wane. Media reports abound of a White House under siege.
And just a reminder - the Trump presidency is only six months old.
On day one in January, Mr Spicer set the tone of his relationship with the press by bursting into the briefing room to berate journalists for their reporting of crowd numbers at President Trump's inauguration.
His proclivity for gaffes and garbling of his words, as well as making debatable assertions, soon made Mr Spicer a household name.
But he could also be charming and was liked by many among the press corps.
Mr Spicer was lampooned on topical comedy show Saturday Night Live, where Melissa McCarthy played him as a loud-mouthed bully who brandished his lectern at reporters.
Mr Trump noted approvingly in April that Mr Spicer "gets great ratings". A month later, the president said: "He's doing a good job but he gets beat up."
Mr Spicer was roundly mocked after he reportedly hid by a hedgerow on the White House grounds to avoid reporters on the night Mr Trump fired the FBI director in May.
His last on-camera briefing was on 20 June, and there have been few since then.
Members of the media have accused the Trump administration of attempting to kill off the daily news conferences to avoid scrutiny.
Drivers had argued that they should be classed as employees, entitling them to claim expenses and other rights.
The decision to settle will come as a relief to Uber and others in the on-demand economy who use contractors.
But critics will be disappointed the case is not going to trial.
In a blog post, Uber boss Travis Kalanick said he was pleased with the settlement, which means drivers will continue to be independent contractors.
"Drivers value their independence - the freedom to push a button rather than punch a clock, to use Uber and Lyft simultaneously, to drive most of the week or for just a few hours," he said.
But he acknowledged: "We haven't always done a good job working with drivers.
"It's time to change."
Uber has agreed to some changes in its business practices, including a better policy explaining why it was terminating drivers' contracts.
It also said that it would help create a drivers' association in California and Massachusetts - where the actions were brought - that would act in a similar way to a union and be able to bring grievances to management's attention.
Some 450,000 drivers use the Uber app each month in the US, according to Uber.
One of the lawyers for the drivers, Shannon Liss-Riordan, said there would be disappointment that the case was not now going to trial but added that there was a "significant risk of losing" if the case moved forward.
This is partly because a federal appeals court had recently agreed to review an order allowing Uber drivers to sue as a group.
The settlement does not prevent future court, or US labour bodies, classing Uber drivers as employees, Ms Liss-Riordan added.
Out of the $100m proposed payment, $84m will go to drivers in the first instance. Uber has agreed to a second payment of $16m if the firm goes public and its valuation increases one and a half times from its December 2015 valuation within the first year.
The deal must now be approved by US District Judge Edward Chen in San Francisco.
The university currently requires NI students to attain four A-Levels before it will consider their applications.
But from September 2015, TCD will admit some NI students who have taken three A-level exams, provided they achieve a minimum of one A and two B grades.
The move is aimed at doubling the number of NI students entering TCD.
Trinity College's authorities have set an eventual target to admit 300 students from Northern Ireland each year.
Most pupils in Northern Ireland study for three A-levels, whereas pupils in the Republic of Ireland study at least six subjects for their Leaving Certificate exams.
In 2005, a points system was devised to help universities on both sides of the border compare the results of pupils taking the different exams.
However, that meant that many Northern Ireland pupils could not apply for popular courses in the Republic, unless they took four A-levels.
Trinity College's new policy has been welcomed by Northern Ireland's Employment and Learning Minister Stephen Farry and Education Minister John O'Dowd.
Mr Farry said: "Cross-border co-operation and undergraduate mobility between institutions in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland are important from an economic, social and cultural perspective.
"I welcome this announcement by Trinity College Dublin which supports greater cross-border student mobility."
Mr O'Dowd said: "I am pleased that the necessity for applicants from the north to have four A-levels is being relaxed, as this has been one of the main barriers in the past.
"This issue has been raised and discussed at the North South Ministerial Council Education sectoral format on numerous occasions and I welcome the progress that has been made."
"I look forward to similar approaches being taken by the other universities in the south," Mr O'Dowd added.
National Union of Students-Union of Students in Ireland president Rebecca Hall said: "This is very good news and I hope that more initiatives can be put in place by other institutions around the island of Ireland to deliver further cross-border student mobility opportunities."
Trinity College was founded in 1592.
Kite Power Solutions is behind the proposal at West Freugh near Stranraer.
The company has said it could eventually employ up to 500 people by 2025, if the project enters the manufacturing stage.
Dumfries and Galloway Council has approved the research and development bid with a string of conditions.
The planning permission only allows for operation from mid-April to mid-September.
It also stipulates the system cannot be brought into use until a bird monitoring plan is put in place and approved by the council in consultation with Scottish Natural Heritage and RSPB Scotland.
Kite Power Solutions was founded in 2011 in Burnham-on-Crouch in Essex and has been using a site at Bradwell-on-Sea for research and development.
However, it hopes to move its operation to Dumfries and Galloway - initially bringing about 19 jobs.
Its technology sees two kites tethered to spool drums and as they fly they turn the drums to produce electricity.
The company said research and development success was a "crucial step" in achieving its business aspirations.
It has now received the green light to carry out tests on parts of the West Freugh site which has operated as a military base since the 1930s and is currently run by QinetiQ on behalf of the Ministry of Defence (MoD).
The MoD was consulted on the proposals and had no objections.
Former Olympic gold medallist Nova Peris announced on Tuesday that she would not re-contest her Senate seat at the election on 2 July.
At Thursday's emotional new conference, she said the move was for her family.
"Until you are an Indigenous person, do not criticise me for the decisions I've made," she said.
Former prime minister Julia Gillard had parachuted Ms Peris to the top of Labor's Senate ticket in the Northern Territory before the 2013 federal election, replacing 15-year veteran Trish Crossin.
Ms Crossin this week criticised her replacement for quitting so close to the election. The coalition government also accused her of abandoning her constituents.
But Ms Peris defended her decision at an event in Darwin, saying that she "didn't call the election".
"This decision I have made has been on family and I have to look after my children," she said.
She also rejected suggestions that she owed her constituents a better explanation of her reasons for quitting.
"I'm a 45-year-old woman and I'm sure you don't go around every single day time of your life justifying the things you have to do," she said.
"No-one should judge me... It's not easy to wake up every morning and bounce out of bed and pretend that life is fantastic because it isn't."
Opposition leader Bill Shorten accompanied Ms Peris at the event and praised her as a "remarkable Australian" and "great mum".
Reports earlier in the week suggested Ms Peris was in line for a leading role with the Australian Football League.
The senator's family came under intense media scrutiny early this year after her daughter made accusations of domestic violence against her football player boyfriend. The charges were dismissed.
Labor will announce a new candidate soon, with journalist and former Northern Territory minister Malarndirri McCarthy emerging as a frontrunner.
Pre-tax profits at the company rose by nearly a third last year to 2.4bn euros (£2bn), with operating profits up 8.6% to 2.5bn euros.
IAG said the fall in the value of the pound last year cost it 460m euros.
Willie Walsh, IAG's chief executive, said: "It was a good performance in a challenging environment."
He added that IAG had continued to make good progress.
"In 2016, we carried more than 100 million passengers - double the number British Airways and Iberia carried in 2010, a year before IAG was created," he said.
The rise in profits came despite revenues dipping 1.3% to 22.5bn euros, while revenue per passenger fell 5.4%.
The airline group said it intended to carry out a share buyback of 500m euros during the course of 2017.
IAG issued a profit warning after the Brexit referendum in June, and in October it warned that ticket prices might have to rise as a result of sterling's fall.
Airlines normally buy their fuel in dollars, but a sharp drop in fuel costs has helped counter some of the adverse currency fluctuations.
IAG's fuel costs fell by nearly 20% last year. It is also continuing to restructure and cut costs.
The company added that, at current fuel prices and exchange rates, it expected to report an increase in operating profit this year.
IAG is planning to start low-cost transatlantic flights from Barcelona this year to destinations in the US. The Spanish airport is home to IAG's low-cost carrier, Vueling.
It is going head-to-head with budget operators such as Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA, which is expanding.
Parish and town councils say they are forced into pushing up tax bills as they take on more services such as toilets and libraries previously provided by Cornwall Council.
Newquay Town Council has just agreed a 90% increase in its share of the council tax bill which will add about £100 to the average annual bill.
Cornwall Council said nobody was available to comment.
Money paid to Cornwall Council makes up the main part of the council tax bill in the county with additional components from the police and the town or parish council.
Carl Leadbetter, chairman of the finance and policy committee at Newquay Town Council, said the increase would "hurt some people" but was "necessary".
He said: "We need to build resilience against the cuts that are coming in local services from Cornwall Council."
Local authorities such as Cornwall Council can only increase their council tax bills by a maximum of 2% without triggering a referendum but there is no such limit on town and parish councils.
Ross Wallace gave the Owls an early lead with a finish into an empty net from 40 yards after John Ruddy failed to get distance on a clearance.
Jordan Rhodes made it 2-0 with a header from Fernando Forestieri's cross before Cameron Jerome pulled one back only for Morgan Fox to make it 3-1 at the break.
Rhodes headed his second before Forestieri scored a fine free-kick.
The defeat stretched Norwich's winless run to four matches and left them nine points adrift of the play-off places.
The Owls went into the game on the back of two defeats, but took an early lead in unusual circumstances.
Midfielder Sam Hutchinson closed down Ruddy, who had left his area to clear the ball, and the keeper could only find Wallace, who controlled well before showing great technique to find the back of the net from long range.
Norwich gave themselves a lifeline when Jerome pounced after Steve Naismith's initial effort was saved, but Fox's header from Forestieri's near-post corner restored Wednesday's two-goal lead just three minutes later.
Wednesday boss Carlos Carvalhal had backed striker Rhodes to improve after a slow start to his Hillsborough career and the Scotland international proved the Portuguese right with two well executed headers as the hosts cruised to their biggest win of the season.
Sheffield Wednesday boss Carlos Carvalhal:
"My players did fantastic and they did exactly what they must do. It was probably the best performance of the season.
"When we are like this, playing good football, we can achieve more goals and a better performance.
"I had a very good expectation about the game. We played some very good football and put our opponents under pressure for long periods during the game."
Norwich City manger Alex Neil:
"I'm obviously disappointed and frustrated. I think we understood the gravity of the game but ultimately we didn't handle it.
"We gifted two goals to Sheffield Wednesday and then started to play a little bit. If you're going to gift two goals to a team like Sheffield Wednesday, you're going to struggle.
"The lads were disappointed with their performance and they know they should have done better. They know it was unacceptable."
Match ends, Sheffield Wednesday 5, Norwich City 1.
Second Half ends, Sheffield Wednesday 5, Norwich City 1.
Mitchell Dijks (Norwich City) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Fernando Forestieri (Sheffield Wednesday).
Offside, Norwich City. John Ruddy tries a through ball, but Cameron Jerome is caught offside.
Jonny Howson (Norwich City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Josè Semedo (Sheffield Wednesday).
Corner, Sheffield Wednesday. Conceded by Russell Martin.
Foul by Alexander Tettey (Norwich City).
Fernando Forestieri (Sheffield Wednesday) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Josh Murphy (Norwich City) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Sam Winnall (Sheffield Wednesday).
Attempt blocked. Jonny Howson (Norwich City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Mitchell Dijks.
Attempt saved. Josh Murphy (Norwich City) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Alex Pritchard.
Attempt blocked. Jordan Rhodes (Sheffield Wednesday) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Sam Winnall with a headed pass.
Hand ball by Fernando Forestieri (Sheffield Wednesday).
Mitchell Dijks (Norwich City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Callum McManaman (Sheffield Wednesday).
Foul by Ivo Pinto (Norwich City).
Fernando Forestieri (Sheffield Wednesday) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Substitution, Sheffield Wednesday. Callum McManaman replaces Ross Wallace.
Offside, Norwich City. Jonny Howson tries a through ball, but Cameron Jerome is caught offside.
Substitution, Sheffield Wednesday. Josè Semedo replaces Barry Bannan because of an injury.
Josh Murphy (Norwich City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Barry Bannan (Sheffield Wednesday).
Substitution, Norwich City. Alex Pritchard replaces Wes Hoolahan.
Substitution, Norwich City. Josh Murphy replaces Steven Naismith.
Foul by Alexander Tettey (Norwich City).
Fernando Forestieri (Sheffield Wednesday) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Goal! Sheffield Wednesday 5, Norwich City 1. Fernando Forestieri (Sheffield Wednesday) from a free kick with a right footed shot to the top right corner.
Foul by Wes Hoolahan (Norwich City).
Fernando Forestieri (Sheffield Wednesday) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Mitchell Dijks (Norwich City).
Ross Wallace (Sheffield Wednesday) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt blocked. Wes Hoolahan (Norwich City) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Steven Naismith.
Attempt missed. Ryan Bennett (Norwich City) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Wes Hoolahan with a cross following a set piece situation.
Steven Naismith (Norwich City) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by David Jones (Sheffield Wednesday).
Attempt saved. Cameron Jerome (Norwich City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Steven Naismith (Norwich City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
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